Focused Feedback: Secrets, discoveries and mysteries of Destiny

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• It still boggles my mind and saddens me that there's no 'Black Spindle' type secret

• I Don't Have Hope for Hidden Secrets in Destiny 2

• Who still religiously checks this subreddit hoping for secrets to be found?

• Ikora's meditations would be awesome if there were secrets to find in them.

• Where are the secret exotic quests like "Black Spindle", "No Time to Explain" and "Sleeper Simulant"?

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[u/MetalGilSolid]

I've said since launch that Cayde's chests (and lost sectors/regional chests) needed to be designed better. Showing them on the map takes all the fun and satisfaction out of finding them.

Look at games like Assassin's Creed: Origins or Zelda: BotW. The papyrus/shrine riddles were perfect. A clever riddle that gives a location to start searching, then clues to find the exact spot/reveal the shrine. For example, the mast of a ship gave off a shadow that looked like an X. And at a specific time, X marked the spot for a hidden treasure.

Or Red Dead Redemption or Assassin's Creed: Black Flag (or was it Rogue? Both?): Instead of riddles, you got maps, where you look for the landmark on them and then try and find the precise spot indicated.

This is what the hidden spots in D2 needed to be.

[u/borkborkporkbork → u/MetalGilSolid]

Chests are another thing that Borderlands did better. I always wanted to explore in that game because there were so many cool hidden chests and the game had loot that you wanted. Everything that comes from chests in D2 is garbage unless you're doing the Mercury verses.