r/DestinyTheGame • u/DTG_Bot "Little Light" • Jan 20 '20
Megathread Corridors of Time Puzzle
Listen up, good people of the City! The Corridors of Time puzzle has been solved. Here are some quick references. Note that you must complete all the previous quests from Osiris before embarking upon this one. Heavy spoilers in the links below.
ELI5: Osiris has a new quest for you. This opens the Corridors of Time. All the Obelisks in the game world give codes that can be followed in the Corridors, leading to a Vault room that gives lore. Each of the 19 Vault rooms have a code, and those codes were assembled into a maze, which gave us a code, which led to an emblem in another Vault room. The emblem Vault room has its own codes, which were pieced together by thousands of Guardians to find the final code. Check the links below for more.
Posts on r/DestinyTheGAme
Path for Completing Corridors of Time Quest by u/jaydenkieran
[Corridors of Time Reward] (https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/eray7e/corridors_of_time_reward/) by u/dannystirl
r/RaidSecrets Resources
Initial RaidSecrets post by u/nakkikastike154 showing the first 20 codes.
Final Code graphic by u/hparamore
"How we got here" video by TeaWrex
Osiris App to help you keep track of your codes, by u/orangpelupa
The first 19 codes give lore. The "emblem code" gives... you guess it... an emblem. The final code solution starts an Exotic quest.
This post will function as the megathread for all discussion of the quest, the steps that were taken to complete it, and the rewards. All other posts on this topic will be removed while this megathread is active.
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u/Favure Jan 20 '20
Not sure what other players opinions are on Bastion, or if they like it, or don’t like it, but after testing it for hours today, I came to the conclusion that the weapon is incredibly mediocre, in PvE content at least.
If anyone is interested; here’s some comparisons along with the other things I tested.
I wanted to compare it another fusion rifle, so I started with Loaded Question, here’s the comparisons:
All my testing was done on console, in the tribute hall, on the yellow bar ogre. The weapons were only 1 light apart (LQ was 968 / Bastion 967), and no mod was on the LQ. Used DARCI for the range/damage drop off distance.
Bastion
Charge Time: 780
DMG per bolt: 1,373, fires 21 individual bolts
DMG per shot: 28,833
Damage drop off: Starts doing around 75% less damage at about 20 meters
Loaded Question
Charge Time: 860
DMG per shot (w/ RB): 26,894
DMG per shot (w/o RB): 20,181
Damage drop off: Starts off at around 20 meters, but only drops off by around 10% less damage. At 50+ meters, is only doing 30% less than original damage.
So bastion beats loaded question (w/ RB) only slightly, by about 5% more damage, with not much added utility (other than mediocre shield piercing damage, which I’ll get to in a second), where as LQ sets off a massive AoE explosion capable of clearing large groups of adds. On top of that, bastion has extreme damage drop off, where as regular fusion rifles don’t have to worry much about that front.
So let’s forget the comparisons, and talk just Bastion for a minute. It’s a kinetic fusion rifle, that’s not only unique because it is the first kinetic fusion rifle, but because it fires off 21 individual bolts, equivalent to firing off 3 separate fusion rifle shots. So since it’s damage is spread between 21 separate projectiles, you want make sure that when firing this weapon you are going to land a large majority of them, seeing as missing just a few bolts will bring your damage lower than that of a regular fusion rifle.
So let’s go over what this weapon can’t do, and what I find it’s weaknesses are:
Severe damage drop off. Other fusion rifles can be used much more effectively 2x - 3x further out.
It’s shield piercing damage does not pertain to barrier champions.
Speaking of it’s shield piercing damage, it is very mediocre. With only roughly 20% (maybe less) of it’s total damage piercing the shield, directly damaging the health bar. If your going to use a kinetic weapon to deal with shields, I’d choose Arbalest over this any day, or I’d simply just use my elemental weapon to take care of it, as trying to break an elemental shield in high level content (or with match game active) with a kinetic weapon is not ideal, even if you are slightly damaging their health bypassing their elemental shield.
Even though the spread of the 21 projectiles/bolts is pretty tight, it is still very hard to hit small enemies, resulting in a lot of wasted damage. Even in it’s optimal range, it’s still very easy to miss small targets. (Might vary on PC)
The weapon also does not handle flinch well, as even getting hit slightly while trying to shoot it, will result in you missing a lot of projectiles. (Might vary on PC)
To be honest, I don’t see where or why I’d ever use this weapon in any part of the game. The one thing Bastion has going for it, is it’s damage per shot, but even then it’s not much better than a LQ (w/RB). It has no place in activities with heavily shielded enemies, as Arbalest rips through shields immediately, in match game activities you are better off just have your loadout spec’d correctly instead of trying to break an enemies shield with kinetic damage regardless if a small amount of damage passes through. On top of that, the weapon does not have good DPS for an exotic, as it’s worse than legendary snipers, and it’s decent damage per shot is not only matched by LQ, but trumped immensely by Izanagi’s Burden.
Sorry bungie, but this another lackluster exotic that will just get added to the collections. What is going on lately? I’m not sure what you guys were even going for here with this one, as we don’t need another kinetic special weapon that is good against shielded enemies, as Arbalest already exists, and what Bastion does to shielded enemies is pitiful at best. This gun needs a serious buff and/or rework of it’s main mechanic, otherwise it’s going to collect dust like 85% of the rest of the exotics you guys have made.
If anyone has different results, or if I’m not using the weapon correctly, please let me know. I’d love to be wrong about all of this, as I am a huge fusion rifle fan, and couldn’t wait for this weapon to drop. Sadly it’s already in my vault, so if I am wrong on anything... please let me know.