Raids, as this author understands them, are the uber-complex end-game missions in Destiny that are supposed to take weeks to conquer. It's no surprise, then, that there's serious online street cred up for grabs if you can come through them in hours – and one The Taken King gang will be lapping up the plaudits today, as they busted through the title's brand new mission in seven hours.
A community manager at Bungie congratulated the first team through on Twitter, with one of the members revealing that he'd put in 50 hours of playtime since Tuesday purely preparing for the mission. We imagine that his training looked like a Rocky gym sequence – except with Pot Noodles, pulled curtains, and pasty skin. Congratulations to all involved – we guess.
[source twitter.com, via vg247.com]
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...50 hours? Well damn. Well done to them, but surely the developers would have seen this coming? You can make something as long and as hard as you want and unless its 5 hours of unskippable cutscenes or scripted sequences, someone will find a way to do it in less than 5 hours.
Although I'm curious if Bungie realises that just because it takes 400 hours to make doesn't mean it takes 400 hours to play :/
@Volcanox It's happened with all of the other Raids, so there's no doubt it was expected. It will keep 'ordinary' players occupied for a while, though.
@get2sammyb ordinary players are just going to look on the internet to find out how the raid can be beat and try to clear it faster.
For some reason I always expect stuff like this in games like this. There's always a dedicated bunch who'll beat the hard stuff easy.
I suspect they were all in the same room with 6 ps4's and tv's - isn't that how the first bunch beat VOG?
@kyleforrester87 They were all separate talking over Skype and streaming on twitch, at one point bungie tweeted out a few of them were neck and neck in the raid without realising they were on the same fireteam haha
@wobrussell Ahhh maybe I saw something else!! Funny though
@BoltedArc The one thing Bungie was smart about was actually making this game accessible for casual/ordinary players. Whether it was intentional or not I'm not sure. Crota's End or Strikes can be soloed, and a person can be carried through any of them without much of an issue. You can even jump in right at the end without contributing much and still get the rewards.
@WanderingBullet most of the parts of Kings Fall need to have at least 4 people playing REALLY well, oryx needs 6 people for the dps. But saying that someone will no doubt find a cheeky way to get around the mechanics eventually
@kyleforrester87 that was the guys doing the kings fall raid, you're probably right about the VoG first clear group
@wobrussell Ah, I see. I didn't purchase TTK but it's still early days and people are still unfamiliar with the mechanics. And yes, I wouldn't be surprise if somebody finds a way to exploit the mechanics before the end of the month.
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