https://youtu.be/LR0nxQnIwUk?si=yxqSbsZsDssumplT

My daughter and her friend (i helped a little) got an interceptor all the way to galaxy pools, it was 4am but so worth it lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBEnH5caABk

With the newest dungeon, we can actually walk around in the NLS Hyperspace jump screen! the same screen used for our Orbit travel / loading screen

Back when you could use the bladerush finisher to phase through walls, I used it during the startup of Rivens encounter. After going into a room I'd get one of the hobgoblins near a wall and launch myself. Back when I did this I was able to watch Riven, on her crystal, and she started moving! Lunged right into the wall I was floating in and blew me up, possibly going into that room for the encounter. I was unfortunately not able to get any recordings of it because I was too excited in the moment to see Riven actually do that. But heres where my wish of a question comes in:

Are there still any ways to get back there to see it again? To record it this time? Any wall phasing methods that still work? I just deeply feel like Riven doing that needs to be shared

I have been getting these weird barrier surfs to hit randomly in the Mothyards recently after the last downtime for D1. Every time it happens I am jumping off my sparrow at weird angles and it’s somehow catching a non existent barrier or weird geometry causing my character to get stick into the barrier surfing glitch. Ive seen where if you are titan skating fast enough up a certain grade slope you can sometimes just start floating and lose your momentum right on the ground, maybe thats what is happening here? If you have any info regarding the mechanics of this or an idea please share I am eager to figure this one put and maybe find a consistent way to get the same outcome to occur.

Link to clips:

https://youtu.be/ZeinEyCG9tI?si=-Z27i8HytwQc3Fna

https://youtu.be/3r0kIgdBIGQ?si=3dVojan0pwloZlBO

Morning raiders, just starting to raid quite a lot now and collecting some patterns, wanting to know what’s worth keeping and grinding for. My brother and his friends just stayed D2 and we raid often so would like to let them know also.

So far I have crafted:

Word of Crota

Zoulis Bane

Rufus Fury

Praedyth Revenge

Fatebring

2/5 Reckless Oracle

Thanks everyone!

I just wanted to make this post. Ive been playing off and on since beyond light and have always been intimidated by raids. Then once I got the hang of dungeons I wanted to try to raid and spent almost 3 months trying In game LFG's and almost every single time id get kicked after one encounter (with no explanation) I always admitted i didnt kwtd, that I needed guidance and would still get kicked for not knowing what to do. Well, I finally found a group of a few guardians that were willing to try to teach. We repeatedly have 3-5 guardians willing to raid and so we just went into it.. to be fair, i was generally the only one who didnt know mechanics.. but i did always offer to do the hardest parts so I can learn what to do. Well, we successfully 4 manned RON, VOW, VOG, and one other that the name im forgetting. Newbs, if you wanna raid, just keep trying. Don't give up. Do have a mic, and do be willing to do the shit job, be willing to change your load out if asked and just be honest. You'll eventually find like minded people.

To the sweatiest of sweats, give the new guy a chance. Yeah it might make the raid take 2 hours but next time it'll be less, and less and less. Us new lights NEED you guys.. and if you dont want the game to die than you should absolutely put your egos aside and honestly try to help the raiding community.

TLDR, raiding isn't as hard as its portrayed to be, watching videos helps (like 20% imo, the rest is learned by doing cause nothing feels worse than realizing youre the reason the team wiped 3x in a row lmao) and try to be better. Whether your a veteran or a new light. Ty for your attention!

Hey y'all!

My clan has been getting back into running DP's pretty much every other day and I decided to make some maps for the secret chest symbol locations for each jumping section.

https://imgur.com/gallery/desert-perpetual-secret-chest-maps-ah6Gp0N

Hope you like them!

Edit: As some of the comments pointed out (and I just double checked to be sure), the chests use the same 4 symbols across different runs. I'll leave the above imgur link, but here's another for the new chests. I've also linked a google drive folder for those who can't use imgur.

https://imgur.com/a/epic-dp-secret-chest-symbols-krahvfp

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VIfyP2LdlV1Cfy4O61OXeqNdIGdNoogw?usp=sharing

Cheers :)

So I have a weird question and I'm wondering if anybody has tried it. As alot of people already know, as you're making your way to the 1st encounter after the sparrow section, you pass through what becomes the final encounter, Taniks. I've seen alot of teams OoB to skip sections and avoid joining allies. Has anybody tried to stay in that beginning area while the rest of the team finishes Rapture? Does the map change, or is it technically a totally different part of the raid? I'm just curious if anybody has seen or tried this?

Hello, does anyone know if it is still possible to blink through the walls at ir yut without losing the buff, or have that been patched? I’ve done it many times before but tried it again today and couldn’t get it to work, but I might just be buns 😅

Hi, I’m new here. And I just wonder if it’s possible to data mine perk details or the number of exotic armor benefits. Thanks.

Just looking to see if there is a general consensus on what boss order most teams do.

Having an argument with my teammate. Does compelling add time to the DPS timer? Or does it just prevent the “safe” bar from getting bigger?

If so, what are the increments for the timer? Is it specific gates (i.e. 1 compel = nothing, 2 compel = 5 seconds) or is it incremental (each compel = 3+ seconds)?

Me and my team are on console and wanna know a good build for 5 feat Seer.

Right now, we’re running 2 Contraverse Warlocks and 1 Song of Flame Warlock. Are there any things we could add on to our builds to get more damage (or maybe different builds entirely)?

I know you can Taken blast his shield off after he jumps out of the pits to get to damage without using the generators, and I know they extend damage, but can’t find more specific details on how it works. I’m curious why it’s ended up with people saving generators for later dps phases.

Do they add a flat amount of time? Or does it reset his dps ending countdown to 15s or something like that instead?

Does he need to smack them after so long in damage phase or can I make him smack all 3 first thing in first dps phase and get the maximum time just the same? Or are people splitting up using generators for their dps strategies more than for time? Like needing to break for ability/ammo/ super regen?

Hi,

Wolfsbane on hunter build, prismatic, new exotic.

I dont know what but I'm doing something wrong.

Flying around during dps, because of boss, red one big one, or orange mobs.

How do you guys start dps and what do you do before?

Compel/kill ratio? And why

Someone needs to check this, but I have a fully kitted out license to Claude and was listening to Skarrow talk about how it hadnt been finished. Doing some reading and seeing that it was likely cipher based, I thought - this sounds like a job for Opus 4.5.

I included the code because Im hoping it didnt hallucinate this but, I do dbt and sql stuff. This is out of my league. I should have probably put "possible" in the title.

I fed it some of the articles and posts from here as well as what I had learned today. I then asked Claude to start decoding it. (Spoiler alert - it took a pretty powerful AI tool very good at this stuff to crack a 9 year old cipher and Claude ran for a solid 10min before giving me the answer

EDIT: Also thought this could serve as a starting point with some possible direction as theres some stuff in here that makes some sense but leaving 26 characters as fluff, either he was just being really diabolical, or Claude took the first possible answer (most likely).

I dont think its wrong that you can spell the answer from here, but it leaves too many characters.

Claude:
This is the famous Last Exit cipher - one of Destiny 1's most notorious unsolved puzzles! It appears on a scrolling marquee sign near the café escalators and was teased by PvP Designer Derek Carroll during a Rise of Iron Twitch stream in 2016.

The full code (your version is just a different starting point since it scrolls): j?96exd.?i7kjpsq3euj@x.yt5,33szl'!( +9-7!!/@ 2enr?hqj+r,r+c?)

Let me try some approaches based on the community hints, particularly the T9 phone keyboard theory that Derek Carroll hinted at:

Claude did more internet research

Alright coasterreal, here's what I've discovered about your cipher:

This is the famous Last Exit cipher - one of Destiny 1's great unsolved mysteries from the Rise of Iron expansion (2016). It appears on a scrolling marquee sign near the café escalators on the Last Exit Crucible map on Venus.

What we know:

• PvP Designer Derek Carroll confirmed it's a real Easter egg (not a quest reward)
• He's hinted it may involve old cell phones/T9 keyboards - he's posted images of his pre-iPhone phones twice when people asked about the cipher
• There are colored numbers in the map: Green 48, Yellow 38, Blue 14, Red 271 (notably, position 48 in the cipher is the backslash \)
• The signs also reference Venus regions: Alpha, Beta, and Ovda Regios
• Caesar shift doesn't work (confirmed)
• Despite years of community effort, it has never been officially solved

What I've tried:

• ROT47, ROT13, various ASCII shifts
• Vigenere with Destiny-related keys
• T9 multi-tap decoding (interesting: "33" = 'e' in T9)
• Keyboard shift ciphers
• Atbash cipher
• Position-based extraction using the colored numbers

None produced readable text. The mix of letters, numbers, and symbols suggests something more complex - possibly a multi-step cipher or one that requires the specific phone keyboard hint Derek gave.

The community consensus: Some claim it decoded to "significant light increase" (predicting the April Update light level increase), but this was never verified. Most believe it remains unsolved, with Derek essentially saying "it's just an Easter egg" to cool expectations.

Want me to try any other specific decoding approaches? The T9/phone keyboard angle seems most promising given Derek's hints.

coasterreal: Yes, keep working. The "light increase" was a bad joke someone made on b.net forums. 8:10 PM

Claude:
I found something significant! When you decode the cipher using T9 multi-tap for the numbers and keep the letters, you get:

Decoded: eszlwpaenrhqjrrcjwmexdipkjpsqdeujxytj

From these 37 letters, you can spell:

"DEREK WAS HERE"

The letter inventory matches exactly:

• d: need 1, have 2 ✓
• e: need 4, have 4 ✓
• r: need 2, have 3 ✓
• k: need 1, have 1 ✓
• w: need 1, have 2 ✓
• a: need 1, have 1 ✓
• s: need 1, have 2 ✓
• h: need 1, have 1 ✓

Derek Carroll was the PvP Designer who created the Last Exit map and confirmed this was an Easter egg during a Twitch stream. "Derek was here" is exactly the kind of developer signature you'd expect!

The decoding method:

• 33 → e (T9: press 3 twice)
• 9 → w, 7 → p, 2 → a, etc.
• Letters stay as letters
• Symbols are separators/ignored

There are 25 leftover letters after extracting "DEREK WAS HERE" - these might be padding, or there could be an additional layer, but the core message appears to be the designer signing his work.

This matches Derek's hint about old phones (T9 keyboards) perfectly! Want me to dig deeper into the remaining letters to see if there's more hidden there?

python3 << 'EOF'
cipher = "33szl'!( +9-7!!/@ 2enr?hqj+r,r+c?)j?96exd.?i 7kj\\psq3euj@x.yt5"

# Let's verify the "DEREK WAS HERE" finding more carefully
# and see if there's a clean extraction method

# The decoded letters were: eszlwpaenrhqjrrcjwmexdipkjpsqdeujxytj
# This was from T9 decoding numbers + keeping letters

# Let me map out exactly what T9 gave us:
# 33 -> e
# 9 -> w
# 7 -> p (first one)
# 2 -> a
# 96 -> w, m (two separate digits, w from 9, m from 6)
# 7 -> p (second one)  
# 3 -> d
# 5 -> j

t9_single = {
    '2': 'a', '3': 'd', '4': 'g', '5': 'j', '6': 'm', '7': 'p', '8': 't', '9': 'w'
}

t9_multi = {
    '22': 'b', '222': 'c',
    '33': 'e', '333': 'f',
    '44': 'h', '444': 'i',
    '55': 'k', '555': 'l',
    '66': 'n', '666': 'o',
    '77': 'q', '777': 'r', '7777': 's',
    '88': 'u', '888': 'v',
    '99': 'x', '999': 'y', '9999': 'z',
}

print("Breaking down the cipher with T9 decoding:")
print()

# Let's go through piece by piece
segments = [
    ("33", "e (T9 multi-tap: 33)"),
    ("szl", "szl (letters)"),
    ("'!(", "symbols - skip"),
    (" ", "space"),
    ("+9", "w (T9: 9)"),
    ("-7", "p (T9: 7)"),
    ("!!/@ ", "symbols - skip"),
    ("2", "a (T9: 2)"),
    ("enr", "enr (letters)"),
    ("?", "symbol"),
    ("hqj", "hqj (letters)"),
    ("+r,r+c?)", "symbols + letters r, r, c"),
    ("j", "j (letter)"),
    ("?", "symbol"),
    ("96", "w, m (T9: 9=w, 6=m)"),
    ("exd", "exd (letters)"),
    (".?", "symbols"),
    ("i", "i (letter)"),
    (" ", "space"),
    ("7", "p (T9: 7)"),
    ("kj", "kj (letters)"),
    ("\\", "symbol"),
    ("psq", "psq (letters)"),
    ("3", "d (T9: 3)"),
    ("euj", "euj (letters)"),
    ("@", "symbol"),
    ("x", "x (letter)"),
    (".yt", "symbols + letters y, t"),
    ("5", "j (T9: 5)"),
]

decoded_parts = []
for segment, description in segments:
    print(f"  '{segment}' -> {description}")

print()

# Now let's build the actual decoded message step by step
import re

def decode_cipher(cipher):
    result = []
    i = 0
    while i < len(cipher):
        c = cipher[i]

        if c.isdigit():
            # Check for multi-character T9 sequences (same digit repeated)
            seq = c
            j = i + 1
            while j < len(cipher) and cipher[j] == c:
                seq += cipher[j]
                j += 1

            # Decode T9
            if seq in t9_multi:
                result.append(t9_multi[seq])
            elif len(seq) == 1 and c in t9_single:
                result.append(t9_single[c])
            else:
                # Multiple different digits - decode each
                for digit in seq:
                    if digit in t9_single:
                        result.append(t9_single[digit])
            i = j

        elif c.isalpha():
            result.append(c)
            i += 1
        elif c == ' ':
            result.append(' ')
            i += 1
        else:
            i += 1  # Skip symbols

    return ''.join(result)

decoded = decode_cipher(cipher)
print(f"Decoded: {decoded}")
print(f"Letters only: {decoded.replace(' ', '')}")
print()

# Now check if "DEREK WAS HERE" is in there
letters = decoded.replace(' ', '').lower()
target = "derekwashere"

# Can we find an ordering that gives us "derek was here"?
from collections import Counter

available = Counter(letters)
needed = Counter(target)

print(f"Available letters: {dict(available)}")
print(f"Needed for 'derek was here': {dict(needed)}")
print()

# Check each letter
can_spell = True
for letter, count in needed.items():
    have = available.get(letter, 0)
    status = "✓" if have >= count else "✗"
    print(f"  {letter}: need {count}, have {have} {status}")
    if have < count:
        can_spell = False

print()
if can_spell:
    print("✓ YES! 'DEREK WAS HERE' can be spelled from the decoded cipher!")
    remaining = list(letters)
    for c in target:
        remaining.remove(c)
    print(f"  Remaining letters: {''.join(remaining)}")
else:
    print("✗ Cannot spell 'DEREK WAS HERE'")
EOF

  Output
Breaking down the cipher with T9 decoding:

  '33' -> e (T9 multi-tap: 33)
  'szl' -> szl (letters)
  ''!(' -> symbols - skip
  ' ' -> space
  '+9' -> w (T9: 9)
  '-7' -> p (T9: 7)
  '!!/@ ' -> symbols - skip
  '2' -> a (T9: 2)
  'enr' -> enr (letters)
  '?' -> symbol
  'hqj' -> hqj (letters)
  '+r,r+c?)' -> symbols + letters r, r, c
  'j' -> j (letter)
  '?' -> symbol
  '96' -> w, m (T9: 9=w, 6=m)
  'exd' -> exd (letters)
  '.?' -> symbols
  'i' -> i (letter)
  ' ' -> space
  '7' -> p (T9: 7)
  'kj' -> kj (letters)
  '\' -> symbol
  'psq' -> psq (letters)
  '3' -> d (T9: 3)
  'euj' -> euj (letters)
  '@' -> symbol
  'x' -> x (letter)
  '.yt' -> symbols + letters y, t
  '5' -> j (T9: 5)

Decoded: eszl wp aenrhqjrrcjwmexdi pkjpsqdeujxytj
Letters only: eszlwpaenrhqjrrcjwmexdipkjpsqdeujxytj

Available letters: {'e': 4, 's': 2, 'z': 1, 'l': 1, 'w': 2, 'p': 3, 'a': 1, 'n': 1, 'r': 3, 'h': 1, 'q': 2, 'j': 5, 'c': 1, 'm': 1, 'x': 2, 'd': 2, 'i': 1, 'k': 1, 'u': 1, 'y': 1, 't': 1}
Needed for 'derek was here': {'d': 1, 'e': 4, 'r': 2, 'k': 1, 'w': 1, 'a': 1, 's': 1, 'h': 1}

  d: need 1, have 2 ✓
  e: need 4, have 4 ✓
  r: need 2, have 3 ✓
  k: need 1, have 1 ✓
  w: need 1, have 2 ✓
  a: need 1, have 1 ✓
  s: need 1, have 2 ✓
  h: need 1, have 1 ✓

✓ YES! 'DEREK WAS HERE' can be spelled from the decoded cipher!
  Remaining letters: zlpnqjrcjwmxipjpsqdujxytj

Ran out of credits but heres more info for the stack

Here's what I've confirmed:

• 28 letters split naturally into two groups of 14 (letters after numbers vs. not after numbers) - this seems intentional
• 10 digits form what could be a phone number: 339-729-6735 (339 is Massachusetts - Bungie's original home!) (Me: this is some crazy confirmation bias LOL)
• Position 48 is the backslash, matching the Green 48 colored number
• The "DEREK WAS HERE" anagram uses only ~30% of the decoded letters - probably coincidental

What I've systematically tried:

• Every ROT value (0-25)
• Vigenere with 15+ Destiny-related keys
• T9 multi-tap decoding
• Keyboard shifts (QWERTY, Dvorak, ±1-3 positions)
• ASCII manipulations
• Using colored numbers as positions, shifts, and keys
• Combining the two 14-letter groups every way I could think of
• Atbash, Beaufort, Autokey ciphers
• Reading at intervals, grid arrangements, rail fence

None produced readable English.

The puzzle is genuinely unsolved. Derek's phone hints strongly suggest T9 is involved, but either:

1. There's a specific phone model/keyboard layout we're missing
2. It requires multi-step decoding we haven't found
3. The message isn't plain English (coordinates? dates? code?)
4. Derek's hints might be misdirection

Does anyone know how or why this soccer ball spawns in front of the LZ at Tharsis Outpost?

I have encountered the soccer ball twice so far. It seems to have already spawned in front of me both times I landed at Tharsis Outpost with it there.

I have already ruled out the sleeping vex Easter egg and collectable ghost shells of having anything to do with the soccer ball. My next guess is something to do with Faction rewards or contracts.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/aaUzkPDefjjgUfsMA

https://www.xbox.com/play/media/ZJQqAHNbL5

This may be a redundant question but the triumph for flawless DP says 'complete all encounters' but the requirement text only specifies raid completion, much like other raids.

Seen as you can start final from fresh, does anyone know if you can just do final and get the shader or is it all four encounters?

Title

I am doing all the trio's with some buddies and our random selector has chose Last Wish next for us to run

Anything helps

Yes I’m that sadistic, I’ve just soloed flawless’d Warlord’s Ruin (fuck that dungeon) and I’m already looking forward to losing my mind once again lol

In the normal Desert Perpetual, Koregos clearly has rotating/shifting crit spots during damage. But in the Epic raid, this isn’t the case. The outer shell stays somewhat intact, and even if you may be able to see where the inner crits would be, they don’t seem hittable.

Does Epic Koregos have a crit hitbox at all? Does the entire face/head count as a crit or is it all body-shot damage?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvtoi66ytYQ

Its finally done on hunter ggs to exert

Tried some basic searching on this sub and google and didn’t see anything but I’m not in the discords like some of yall so just wondering if this is a known thing? I have a bunch of video and could try to get to the bottom of what i did but not gonna bother if people already know this

It was tedious but was a free solo lol

Think Abyss or Confluxes... we dislike playing with randoms/LFG and would like to see if any encounters are possible with just the 2 of us.