Ways I learned to die on Crota's End (flawless) (Destiny)

by Robot Chickens, Friday, January 08, 2016, 19:16 (3336 days ago)

I'll open this with a thank you to the crew who did this. I know that it isn't like we 5-guardianed VoG on hard mode back in the day, but it felt like an accomplishment none-the-less. It was pretty easy overall, but we did figure out some unique ways to die along the way:

• RNG is the Final Boss of Destiny
  That opening drop is a dice-roll that can be frustrating. We had 3 return-to-orbits as a result of this.
  
• The opening bridge you build goes away eventually.
  Having been frustrated by the first death-by-fall, our team wondered whether we actually needed everyone to make the drop. Beard argued we should just send me down for science. I landed at the bottom and all was well. My team huddled around the edge of the diving-hole waiting for a report from me. I started my run through the abyss when I heard everyone on the comms yelling followed by the game informing me all of them had just died (except for Rellekh) as the bridge disintegrated. Scientific inquiry can be deadly.
  
• The abyss-run is super easy, but you can still steal a defeat from the jaws of victory by...
  So I was soloing the pit portion, danced to some rave music (which unoudid pointed out was a good teabagging rhythm) ran into the bright light, and never took my hand off the forward motion control of the stick. Everyone spawned around me at the bridge and I just walked off the ledge and fell onto the ground directly by the annihilator totems, dying on impact. It took me a few seconds even realize what happened as the despair set in.
  
• (non-death learning that occurred) Most technical errors are user-generated.
  I couldn't get my turtle beach headset to send out audio. I could hear everyone, but no one could hear me. I restarted the xbox, traded headsets with rellekh and nothing seemed to work. Our solution was for me to talk loud enough that I would come through Rellekh's headset, who was sitting next to me. We did this for a while until Rellekh looked over and the chest-level audio controller on the headset and said, "is that switched flipped to mute?"

Overall, it only took a few false-starts and then things went smooth as butter. Crota only takes one sword carry and 6 slams nowadays. I almost felt sorry for the poor guy.