Destiny 2 players conflicted over Starcrossed Exotic mission fix BungieDestiny 2 fans are conflicted after Bungie patched a method of safety beating the Starcrossed Exotic mission final boss by adding a wall forcing players to enter the arena to deal damage. Alongside Wish Tokens, Season of the Wish also saw the introduction of a new Exotic Mission, Starcrossed. Completing the Starcrossed mission rewards the Wish Keeper bow which is a unique Exotic that has great synergy with various Strand builds. However, players quickly figured out that this mission\u2019s final encounter \u2013 Akardon \u2013 could be exploited by shooting the Hydra boss through a barrier near the entrance with a powerful Exotic like Wish-Ender. This allowed Guardians to avoid the boss entirely and skip most of its mechanics. An initial fix that made the method slightly less reliable was implemented on January 9, but this was easily circumvented. On February 6, Bungie returned this time adding a change that completely ruins the method and it has left the community divided. Starcrossed final boss has been patched Noticing a change to the Starcrossed Exotic mission\u2019s final boss, one Guardian posted on Reddit, \u201cNot sure how long it\u2019s been live but this is Bungies way of \u2018fixing\u2019 the Vex wall that you could shoot through to cheese the Starcrossed boss.\u201d The attached image reveals a newly added wall in place of what used to be a barrier. While the old barrier could be shot through using anti-barrier weapons, this newly added wall is solid forcing Destiny 2 players to enter the arena to deal damage. The most upvoted comment responded, \u201cThis is hilarious though, people were still somehow abusing it so Bungie really just said \u2018nah, f**k you, no more window, do it right’\u201d. Those who supported the change replied, \u201cI mean. It was kind of expected,\u201d and \u201cdestiny 2 players when they have to play the game,\u201d followed by a mocking Fearful Face emoji. While both of these comments received plenty of support, not everyone agreed the patch was needed, \u201cBungie fixing the symptoms and not the cause again. Every time there is an issue with \u2018cheesing\u2019 its because of sh*t encounter design or problems with bugs.\u201d Another like-minded Guardian argued, \u201cIt just goes to show how bad Bungie\u2019s level design is now that the only way they can make an encounter \u2018chellenging\u2019 is to make a boss who does so much damage that he one shots you, and make an encounter room where there is literally no where to hide. I\u2019m so sick of this kind of level design.\u201d With the exploit patched, it is now recommended to stick to the left side of the room using cover and refresh your buff when necessary. Though more difficult, Akardon isn\u2019t too hard with an LFG group meaning most players should still be able to complete Starcrossed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Destiny 2 players conflicted over Starcrossed Exotic mission fix BungieDestiny 2 fans are conflicted after Bungie patched a method of safety beating the Starcrossed Exotic mission final boss by adding a wall forcing players to enter the arena to deal damage. Alongside Wish Tokens, Season of the Wish also saw the introduction of a new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}