With two different groups. The first group consisted entirely of 30s, except for myself, who seemed to have a lot of trouble with basic things like... not getting hit by knights of the ledges... or communicating.

The second group of randoms had communication down pretty well, and we managed to get Crota within a few sword swings of death, but we were unable to get our timing down perfectly and always ended up missing one or two sword phases and hitting the enrage timer, or doing well only to have our swordbearer get overzealous and stay too close to Crota.

The first group was a blind run with nobody taking charge. The second run was half-blind and I ended up taking charge of group direction and callouts since I was pretty familiar with the fight by this point. It helped, but we couldn't quite get it down.

Hoping to finish him off with another random group at some point tomorrow.

i got the hunger of crota, and have been leveling it up. I've noticed that i only get 1 rocket from dropped ammo. If i'm at 0 ammo, then i will pick up 2, but after that i only get 1. So to get the max 4 rockets that i can carry, i need 3 ammo drops. I don't remember truth or other rockets being this way.

Ammo synthesis works just fine though.

There is a glitch wherein the Sword will arbitrarily despawn as soon as the Swordbearer is killed.

There is a glitch where the Sword will prevent guardians from picking it up.

There is a glitch where Crota will get stuck in a pathing loop between two of his 3 standing points.

There is a glitch where Crota will arbitrarily walk or fall off his platform.

There is a glitch where the aerial down-slash attack of the Sword will not damage Crota.

Thanks to netcode issues, Crota will often instagib your Swordbearer despite the Swordbearer being in the clear.

I'm so done with this. I've thrown myself at this for 10+ hours now and come literally within a single sword swing half a dozen times only for the sword to arbitrarily disappear as we run for it the last time, or Crota to reset to a new location with instantly regenerated shields on a much shorter timer than usual. It was super satisfying to walk in there today, clear everything up to Crota with a group of capable, friendly randoms from the internet. And then to start the Crota fight and get him to something like 10-15% on the first attempt. And the second. And the third. But it's okay, we've got the next one! Just kidding, the sword despawns! And on and on and on.

Besides that... is it really that difficult to not die?... In something like 4 hours of Crota yesterday and 4 hours of Crota today, making an exception for total party kills from oversoul or intentional wipe, I died twice. In the meantime, everyone else is eating Knight blasts or walking into Cursed Thralls at least once or twice.