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Threads
Destiny-Crota's End Hard Mode raid - multiple GAF teams racing to be first w/streams!
Destiny |OT15| What Cheese May Come
Videos
Zewone's CE HM clear
Rodiard's CE HM clear
Crota: Nope, motherfucker!
Team Husk CE HM clear
*feel free to post yours. These were just the ones I found while reading up the old thread.
Story Time
So I originally wanted to run Hard Mode when it was live with my reset crew. Begged Fig (a lot) to come but alas, most weren't available during that time. So it was just myself, rodiard, and Fig. Fig bailed out about 6 hours before it went up so I had to scramble around looking for a 6th. I believe Bitsurugi ended up being Fig's replacement.
Anyway, as time drew closer, I went about listening to all kinds music. Had several songs from the Rocky franchise on blast, pumping me up for this run. Went and started up my stream as well as invited the rest of the group to party chat. We all waited at the main screen for the go ahead from Bungie. I had over 300 unique viewers watching my stream, the most I had. I remember that number grew up to nearly 700 as time went by. Though it ended up nosediving to around 120-130 as we kept wiping over at Crota.
Bungie tweets that the gates are open and we all rush in. Everyone quickly joins on me and we set off. We load in and stand on the platform to form the bridge. Once the bridge was full formed, we jump down through the hole. And then the game decides to fuck us over quickly. Rodiard dies upon landing. We could have wiped but we kept on going just to see what the hard mode differences were. We made it to the end but had lost a few people along the way so the few still alive were decimated. We start our real attempt upon reviving and somehow managed to get to the next checkpoint with one guy alive.
The bridge...holy shit, i don't know how we managed to beat this in our first attempt with 3 guys. We didn't cheese it like I'm sure some others did (not referring to GAF). Those fucking boomers man. It wasn't the ogres you had to worry about. It was those damn boomers and they would continue to hunt us during the Crota fight.
We the bridge part done with, we were the first of the GAF teams to make it to Deathsinger. Deathsinger was the easiest encounter of the run as many expected it to be. Problem was just dealing with the ads and waiting for the game to decide that we can finally move on to the Crota phase.
We made it to Crota in roughly 40-45 minutes. We spent over 2 hours on this bastard. We didn't know then what we know now. That strat became known over the next several days after HM was released. We didn't know that the gatekeeper is just there as a big fuck you to everyone who used middle strat in Normal and not for anything else. We didn't know wizards would spawn upon killing the two boomer knights on the Tower. We certainly didn't know Crota would insta-enrage around 15-20% health.
The boomers turned out to be our biggest problem more than anything else in that fight. Folks watching the stream could tell we were getting frustrated. Nothing we did was working. Those fucking boomers just kept screwing shit up. And then it happened. A single bubble placement changed the course of the run. Bitsurugi, tired of the damn knights bombing us, jumps up to left tower and places a blinding bubble down on them bastards. That sword run went flawlessly and we now knew how to deal with the boomers. With 4 Titans on the team, we had no problem alternating bubble droppers.
Each run, we manage to bring Crota closer and closer to defeat. The game then decides to fuck us again by kicking kvozz to orbit when we finally bring Crota down enough to pop Oversoul. Okay, this surprised us big time. We all thought we had hit enraged and kept wondering why the game never notified us that enrage was near. Now knowing that Crota enrages after his health goes down past a certain point, we went off to finish this fight once and for all.
With everyone back on the team, we start our latest attempt. Every thing is going smoothly till the final sword run. Rodiard dies trying to escape after Crota gets up from the first slam. Crota pops his oversoul shit. With our swordbearer dead, someone had to quickly grab the sword. Better than explaining what happened, there's a link to this above. It's the third video link titled Crota: Nope, motherfucker!
After that heartbreaking run, we respawn back in the crystal room. Most of us agreed this would be our final attempt even if we don't succeed in killing him. We do...we fucking succeed in killing him at the cost of our own lives. Rodiard manages to land the final hit just as Oversoul kills us all.
Stream was up for nearly 3 hours and 40 minutes. The first twenty was spent at the main screen while about ten minutes were spent at the Tower after all was said and done taking a group photo.
TEAM HUSK
DGAF was at such a low point during this time though. Probably the lowest ever. Nothing really brought us that low afterwards. So anyone care to share their first CE HM stories?
