I've been following your guides all the way back to Forsaken. So well thought out and easy to follow. Attention to detail with no assumptions is so critical to effective guides. You've nailed that for years.
I super duper appreciate your comment. Even when certain videos aren't getting a lot of views, it's stuff like this that keeps me going. Glad I could be of help all these years.
I can’t believe there’s only 114 likes for this video. This video is easily probably the best explanation I’ve watched on how to do these encounters. Really good work.
Appreciate guides like this for timegated content instead of having to sift through 3 weeks of padded weekly guide videos. Maybe I can get this done in betwene feeding cycles for my newborn before the season ends :P
Same, it smooths out the experience grinding these missions greatly. The chapters allow you to take each step in bitesize chunks and allow you to go to exactly what part you need to.
Never come across your channel till now, but just wanted to say this is a phenomenal guide, every step is here and clearly articulated too, not all use the chapter feature either when its so useful for guides like this, so I am always appreciative of when people do make use of the feature to its full effect. I have replayed this video many times for each step, going back and forth between different times in the video. So I just wanna say thank you for making this, it was very useful, bigger youtubers often brush over things, have too many quick cuts or don't explain things clearly at each step, so a guide like this is is welcome sight.
@@NinjaPups No problem man, its the least I can do for such a high quality and effort video, that helped make the experience, smooth quick and straight to the point for me, no fluff. The only critique I have, if any, is maybe work on the thumbnail game a little more to better grab attention, or maybe I'm just over analysing and talking out my ass, idk haha. Anyway, I hope you keep up the good work and that my comment can be the reminder, that extra effort and care doesn't go unnoticed.
Agree with everyone, this IS the most informative and easiest guide to follow compared with every other guide on RUclips. Fantastic work and really appreciated here, will be my first port of call when looking for guides and explanations. And just subscribed 😀
Pups thank you very much for this video! I didn't do week 2 of this quest and playing catch up. Very confused on how it works but not anymore with this video!
Great guide man! You always put so much effort into your vids and I just wanna say it really is appreciated. Especially with a mission as convoluted as this one! 😅 Cheers mate
Dude! this guide is top notch. So much effort put into this, clear, concise and straight to the point. I thank you profusely for your effort sir. Liked and subbed cheers.
Hey Man, thanks for this video, I got about 3.5 minutes in and I am enjoying your pacing, tone of voice and gameplay. Information you provided is super helpful. I had been putting this mission off cuz I wanted my partner to catch up so we could do it together, its past week 3 and she still hasn't caught up so i guess i'm going in alone :P not having to do multiple runs on legend is so nice, thanks for pointing that out. I hope your video gets more views and likes man!
Dude thank you so much for the kind words. I really put so much time into this video, more than I probably needed to, but I’m glad that it shows and people are finding it useful. Also, your story is relatable haha. Good luck on your solo run!
@@NinjaPups the little boxes at the top that show the reward and the name like command frame 1 2 are so helpful no other videos had it and were so confusing in multiple ways. i subscribed and will watch all your videos now
The quest itself would be fine if it werent so buggy. They turned off darkness in Normal mode; I think thats a great idea. I die to a dodge into a cyclops blast and respawn in the Transit Nexus. How do you fix one softlock (i assume they fixed it) only to introduce another one? I love this game, but damn!
Bruh thank you so much for your vid. Definitely the best one out there. Sadly I’m only getting subsistence with all of the other intrinsic upgrades. Destabilizing I can always use since I only play hunter and onslaught doesn’t impress me. So at least I can get that out of the way and not worry anymore lol
So I loaded it on both difficulties an that thing that's in the purple room isn't spawning in for me to do the puzzles what do I do? Am I gonna have to do all this again on a different character?
This mission is insanely buggy. I've done the whole story but only completed the first catalyst, so I went back to figure out destabalizing and the Secret Chest 4 just entirely broke. The first room I did was the "wrong" room. I placed the access node on the slot where the white box was at, not going to that white box. For some reason, the 3 cubes still spawned, so I didnt realize I had done something wrong yet. They didnt have a white box indicating the right one, so I shot one at random, and it said it was correct. Next phase, the room with the white box is the room I went to the first time, so cubes wont spawn now. The white box is there to indicate the right cube, but there's no actual cubes alongside it. Softlocked, tried everything. Gotta reset
@@NinjaPups Hey thanks man, sorry I was kinda just venting that into the ether haha. Luckily for me this guide sorted everything out for me, thanks so much for it
I think you can collect all of the Vex Countermand collectibles once you have unlocked the second (week 2) variant of the mission because one of them is located inside the maze puzzle. But until you unlock that puzzle, you cannot get them all. As for the vex anomalies can only be collected once you have the epilogue quest.
So I have a bit of an issue with secret chest 6 and I've been trying to figure out why to no avail. When I take the portal on the left to the beginning area, that Vex Conflux is not there for me and I cannot figure out why. It's frustrating since I have all the other Command Frames, but I'm missing Command Frame IV.
That is really annoying. Two questions: 1. Have you completed the main story quest “a rising chorus” up until step 19? 2. Someone else mentioned in another comment that they went through and completed the specimen quests they hadn’t started and that fixed it for them. I did not have to do this, but maybe that could help fix it. If you figure out what the issue was, please let me know.
In the video I explain what is required in order to unlock some of the later puzzles, such as reaching a certain step on the main story quest. So no, probably not
No. I was able to do week 2 immediately after week 1. But like I explained in the video, you will need to do the main story quest up until step 13 in order for the week 2 stuff to spawn. If it still doesn't work after that, I would make sure you've already completed it on expert once and have picked up the second banshee quest after completing the first one.
No you do not. As for your other comment, you could probably do all of the catalysts and intrinsic perks in one run, but you need to run it a minimum of 3 times for the main story quest anyway. And you need to do the main story quest to unlock the puzzles. So you can’t just run it once and be done sadly.
Great video but think the vex jungle construct is bugged. No red keys or vex to get them from. Very frustrating spending all this time just to find out it's bugged.
One possibility is that you may not have progressed far enough in the main story quest to unlock that puzzle. What step are you on when trying to do it? Because in the video I explained that you need to be step 13 to do the week 2 puzzles and step 19 to do the week 3 puzzles.
@@NinjaPups Thx for the reply. I think you're right. I'm behind in the story line. I got the choir of one and 1st 3 intrinsic traits and was hoping for the 4th. I don't have specimen 008 yet nor any catalyst. I did run the mission again and was able to complete the vex jungle construct as it shows in the video except I didn't get the 4th trait. I tried the mission on expert. How in the world is anyone able to get out of the wall of death. I die almost immediately. I'll probably need help in the team finder.
I watched a guide on unlocking the chests so Ive got all the ones in the default mission how to you get the "special" versions like "Encore: Upheaval" do you need to beat the regular one in expert mode? I dont have anyone to play with so ive been avoiding the slog of trying to beat it solo underleveled and without a good build cause you cant really do endgame activities without a fireteam so I cant get a lot of good armor and weapons
Im having problems with week 2 and week 3, im thinking bc im doing them all the same week (technically week 4 of exotic mission) but yeah, dont know if anyone is having the same problem
What’s the issue? If the vex spires/puzzles are not available, in the video I explained you need to progress your main story quest to specific steps to be able to do them. This is because you unlock new versions of the missions containing new puzzles
@@NinjaPups oh okay, I did get to step 28 or NES0007 experiment progress like you said but I guess it went right over my head if you talked more about continuing the main quest to unlock the 2nd and 3rd week catalyst quests, I do have the mission for the second catalyst but the portals are not opening so I thought it was bugged, maybe I was not paying much attention, thanks for the response tho!!
Is the first chest right after the jumping puzzle still there? I've done Encore on normal difficulty, unlocked the pattern and got the quest from Banshee and there's no conflux in the room shown at 3:32. I've tried this multiple times on normal and advanced difficulty and still no conflux. Do you have to complete the mission on expert difficulty before the chests are available?
That's very weird. We completed Encore on normal and then i loaded it up on expert and the conflux spawned immediately, but I had not yet completed it on Expert so that shouldn't be a requirement. I know for a fact that it can spawn on Normal because I helped my friend do it on Normal later on. So I'm pretty confused as well why it wouldn't work for you. See if it starts spawning after completing Encore on Expert (thankfully you only have to do expert once forever) and let me know if it fixes it for you, unless you are able to find the answer somewhere else. D:
@@NinjaPups I've completed A Rising Chorus Acts I & II but have several unfinished quests from Act III including Specimen ID NES007 and NES008. Would that explain it? I also play solo but didn't think that would matter.
@@NinjaPups After finishing the quests for NES003, NES006 and NES007 I went back to Encore and was able to get the first two chests as shown in the video. Great guide by the way!
Doing all of this is an extreme slog. Having to play this mission over and over and over is mind numbing, and bad game design. That said this is a fantastic guide.
wait what about the vex nodes (diamond shaped) in the sky throught the entire mission? i destroyed about 19 or 20 of them throught the entire mission and nothing happened at the end
@@NinjaPups didn’t seem to be one when you teleport back to the starting area. It was my first time doing it, maybe it doesn’t spawn a portal or I just couldn’t find it
Well since the intrinsic perks do not require a run on expert, I’m guessing technically you could unlock the mags for crafting (by unlocking command frame 4) without doing it. But that’s just a guess since I haven’t tried it
For some reason the second spire does not spawn for me to get Command Frame IV, I have II and III but whenever i go back to the room only the one for the first starts. Is there something else I need to do or something I'm doing wrong?
Hmmm. Have you progressed your main story quest far enough? That is required to unlock all of the puzzles. You will need to get to step 19 on “a rising chorus” in order to access the final set of puzzles. If that doesn’t work, you can try completing the NES00 quests that you haven’t completed as someone said that fixed it for them. I’m not really sure otherwise as it can get a bit confusing with the order you can do things in this mission. Let me know if you figure it out
If you’ve progressed your main story quest enough, the only other fix I’ve heard is to compete the NES00 side quests. Someone reported they completed all the available ones they had and it fixed it for them
I have collected all of the secret chests but I only have the first catalyst. I completed the secret puzzles that should have dropped the second and third catalyst but I only got the triumphs.
Are you saying you didn't have the vex spire in the middle of that room with all of the radiolite specimen? Make sure you have at least gotten to step 19 in the main story quest (A rising chorus) and that you have activated the vex spire at the beginning of the mission (the transit nexus.) If you've done both of those, all of the spires should spawn allowing you to activate all of the portals. If neither of those things fix it, I might need some more info to help you.
@@NinjaPups so i have to complete up to step 19 in the quest "a rising chorus act 3" right? I just checked and I'm only at step 17, let me try again after I finish step 19, thank you
That is correct. If you don't reach that step, the next set of spires won't spawn. This is because when you reach steps 13, and 19, it unlocks new versions of the exotic missions which contain the new spires/puzzles. Let me know if you have any other issues!
Hey man I'm trying to follow teh guide atm but ive done it on normal and I can't get the catalyst quests and finished the seasonal stuff I know it's a new season so maybe I've to do I again this season?
The only other thing I’ve heard is someone said they had to complete some of those specimen quests from that season in order to gain access to the puzzles but I can’t verify since I did not have to do it myself. Alternatively you can try running encore on expert once and see if that fixes your problem, since you have to run it once for the banshee quests anyway and the completion is tracked retroactively so you don’t have to pick up the banshee quests to get progress on them.
Did you progress your main story quest enough? I explained in this video that you need to progress the main story quest "A Rising Chorus" to certain steps in order to gain access to the next puzzles.
@@NinjaPups Ive done Act 3. Im only missing one chest and it could possibly be the side quest for encore. The only missing chest im looking for is the maze area.
It is the crimson shell from the old crimson days event. They don’t run it anymore so I’m not sure there’s a way to get it anymore. Maybe it’s in the bright engrams or something but idk. I got it like 5 years ago
7:12 i was doing the chests for the first time last night and i got bunch of other chests but not this one 😂 and when i went in this one it was the other chest thats a little ahead in the video with the minotaur
I got confused with the first time you go to that nexus portal place and when you go there before the end, I did it right this time... But I also have to get the catalyst chests again... Oh well 😂
That’s weird. What I did is run the mission on normal and then after I got the gun, I picked up the banshee quest and then did a run on expert where I did the week 1 puzzles including the transit nexus. Afterwards, I went back in on normal to do the week 2 puzzles. And then I helped my friend do the week 1 puzzles on normal on the next run. You could try doing the expert run and see if that unlocks the ability to do the puzzles on normal. But I don’t know why you’d have to do that, unless it’s just coded like that. The only other thing I could think that might fix it is just progressing your main story quest until it tells you to go back into the mission.
So…the “open the first secret chest” was FN bullshit😤. Long story short : You need to complete Expert Encore at any point. Can go into normal and get the secret chest - however, the quest should say the 3 secret chests to get the catalyst!!! You have to get all 3, In a row, on same run!!! Even in you got the first, if you don’t get all 3 in one run you need to get ALL in a row or the next won’t be available… Such Crap!!
By the second chest do you mean 2/7 as listed in the video or the actual second catalyst chest that is referenced in the banshee quest which is chest 5/7 in the video?
@@NinjaPups apologies I got confused between the general secret chests and the Catalyst chests, it all made sense in the end, got the episode title, catalysts and exotic ship because of this video, thank you for all the help 🫡
This is one of the most annoying quest ever is not backwards compatible. Give me something you need to do something else. If you go ahead you sometime you can go back or is everywhere. Thanks for your video.😊😊
Yeah it’s a bit crazy how many times you have to run the mission and how many roadblocks are in the way from just being able to get everything done at once like some of the other missions. You are welcome though!
its a good guide but everything is out of order and i had to jump around to properly follow it. in short this isn't really your fault but more of a major design flaw in regards to this mission and how horrendous and criminal it is that we are essentially forced to play this thing half a dozen times for arbitrary reasons.
I completely agree with you. I considered re-ordering it but if you’re just following the main story quest, the order in the guide is exactly as you’d do it which is really dumb. It should be like star crossed where you can just load up the mission once and do everything in one go if you waited until everything is out.
Words can't describe how much I fucking HATE this bullshit exotic crafting system HOW IN THE FUCK DO I HAVE EVERYTHING EXCEPT FOR DESTABILIZING ROUNDS AND ONSLAUGHT REFIT? HOW MANY FUCKING TIMES DO I NEED TO REDO THE SAME FUCKING SHIT ?
I've had three separate people suggest this video to me to help me figure out why I still don't have the catalyst. Appreciate how straight up it is.
That’s makes me feel honored. If you have any questions, feel free to ask and I’ll do my best to figure it out with you!
I've been following your guides all the way back to Forsaken. So well thought out and easy to follow. Attention to detail with no assumptions is so critical to effective guides. You've nailed that for years.
I super duper appreciate your comment. Even when certain videos aren't getting a lot of views, it's stuff like this that keeps me going. Glad I could be of help all these years.
I can’t believe there’s only 114 likes for this video. This video is easily probably the best explanation I’ve watched on how to do these encounters. Really good work.
Thank you! That means a lot to me
Agreed, completely.
One of the only guides that shows a mini map of the portal layouts thanks for that
Appreciate guides like this for timegated content instead of having to sift through 3 weeks of padded weekly guide videos. Maybe I can get this done in betwene feeding cycles for my newborn before the season ends :P
Bro for some reason the side chest room is locked I did everything far as side quest in stuff can you help me out?
Same, it smooths out the experience grinding these missions greatly. The chapters allow you to take each step in bitesize chunks and allow you to go to exactly what part you need to.
Get breast feeding while you play....!!
@@Mark_106 wrong parent :P
Never come across your channel till now, but just wanted to say this is a phenomenal guide, every step is here and clearly articulated too, not all use the chapter feature either when its so useful for guides like this, so I am always appreciative of when people do make use of the feature to its full effect. I have replayed this video many times for each step, going back and forth between different times in the video. So I just wanna say thank you for making this, it was very useful, bigger youtubers often brush over things, have too many quick cuts or don't explain things clearly at each step, so a guide like this is is welcome sight.
Aww man that's awesome to hear. I'm glad I could make it easy for you :)
@@NinjaPups No problem man, its the least I can do for such a high quality and effort video, that helped make the experience, smooth quick and straight to the point for me, no fluff. The only critique I have, if any, is maybe work on the thumbnail game a little more to better grab attention, or maybe I'm just over analysing and talking out my ass, idk haha. Anyway, I hope you keep up the good work and that my comment can be the reminder, that extra effort and care doesn't go unnoticed.
Agree with everyone, this IS the most informative and easiest guide to follow compared with every other guide on RUclips. Fantastic work and really appreciated here, will be my first port of call when looking for guides and explanations. And just subscribed 😀
Ahh thank you so much 🙏
You’re my go-to guy for walkthroughs. Appreciate you man
😄 thank you!
Pups thank you very much for this video! I didn't do week 2 of this quest and playing catch up. Very confused on how it works but not anymore with this video!
You got it! Hopefully you're able to get everything no problem :)
Great guide man! You always put so much effort into your vids and I just wanna say it really is appreciated. Especially with a mission as convoluted as this one! 😅 Cheers mate
Thank you for the nice comment 😊 Hope it helps you get everything done!
Man listen I seen so many guides and I felt so slow until I watched yours. By far the simplest and easiest guide. I thank God for you!! 😂❤
Happy to help, much love! ❤️
yo didn't know you are back at making content, I'm very happy a high quality guide maker is back
This is a very well-done guide. You have definitely gained a subscription sir. Thank you for all your hard work.
Thank you, I’m glad you noticed all of the effort I put in! :)
Was doing this last night solo. I wish i watched this ahead of time. Great review and guide
Thank you! 🙏
Dude! this guide is top notch. So much effort put into this, clear, concise and straight to the point. I thank you profusely for your effort sir. Liked and subbed cheers.
Wow thank you a lot! 😊 I’m glad you noticed how much went into it!
Hey Man, thanks for this video, I got about 3.5 minutes in and I am enjoying your pacing, tone of voice and gameplay. Information you provided is super helpful. I had been putting this mission off cuz I wanted my partner to catch up so we could do it together, its past week 3 and she still hasn't caught up so i guess i'm going in alone :P not having to do multiple runs on legend is so nice, thanks for pointing that out. I hope your video gets more views and likes man!
Dude thank you so much for the kind words. I really put so much time into this video, more than I probably needed to, but I’m glad that it shows and people are finding it useful.
Also, your story is relatable haha. Good luck on your solo run!
Thank you for uploading this video and helping out the community 🙏🏾
The best video guide for Encore out there 🙌
Thank you! :)
Very thorough walk-thru...thanks!
Your guides are just so well thought out and comprehensive. Best out there by far. Thank you bud❤
☺️ thank you so much!
Just wanted to say thx you very much. Dis guide was VERY SIMPLE and STRAIGHT FORWATD to follow and understand.
Glad it was helpful, thanks for watching :)
This is the best guide on Destiny 2.
yeah holy crap that's complex, I'm glad to have a video
This has been one of the clearest and most helpful vids I have seen. Thank you and God bless ❤
Much love! ❤️ Thanks for watching!
I did this mission 100 times and it never worked until this video much love
❤️ happy I could help
@@NinjaPups I kept on thinking first chest was the actual first chest
Cheers for this mate, appreciated.
Sure thing!
Fantastic guide, thank you!
Awesome guide. First time watching and now a subscriber to your channel.
I appreciate it! :) Hopefully you enjoy the videos!
watched 2 other videos and this one by far the best
Thank you for the nice comment :)
@@NinjaPups the little boxes at the top that show the reward and the name like command frame 1 2 are so helpful no other videos had it and were so confusing in multiple ways. i subscribed and will watch all your videos now
The quest itself would be fine if it werent so buggy. They turned off darkness in Normal mode; I think thats a great idea. I die to a dodge into a cyclops blast and respawn in the Transit Nexus. How do you fix one softlock (i assume they fixed it) only to introduce another one? I love this game, but damn!
Just happened to me two runs in a row. Dead serious.
Just found you and this guide is perfect!
😎 glad I could help!
Bruh thank you so much for your vid. Definitely the best one out there. Sadly I’m only getting subsistence with all of the other intrinsic upgrades. Destabilizing I can always use since I only play hunter and onslaught doesn’t impress me. So at least I can get that out of the way and not worry anymore lol
Really appreciate the kind words. And yeah I’m in the same boat since I mostly play hunter these days!
Thank you for your time and effort making good quality guide
Helped heaps thank you
Another great guide
Amazing video, thanks so much!.. Subbed!
Thank you!! 😊
So I loaded it on both difficulties an that thing that's in the purple room isn't spawning in for me to do the puzzles what do I do? Am I gonna have to do all this again on a different character?
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Very nicely done. Great explanation, very easy to follow. Thank you for posting. Let me hit that subscribe button.
Much love bro, thanks for the nice comment!
Amazing guide!! Thanks for all your hard work 🙂
Thank you so much for the nice comment! :)
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Great video as always !
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Great vid. Thanks.
This mission is insanely buggy. I've done the whole story but only completed the first catalyst, so I went back to figure out destabalizing and the Secret Chest 4 just entirely broke.
The first room I did was the "wrong" room. I placed the access node on the slot where the white box was at, not going to that white box. For some reason, the 3 cubes still spawned, so I didnt realize I had done something wrong yet. They didnt have a white box indicating the right one, so I shot one at random, and it said it was correct. Next phase, the room with the white box is the room I went to the first time, so cubes wont spawn now. The white box is there to indicate the right cube, but there's no actual cubes alongside it. Softlocked, tried everything. Gotta reset
That’s very strange… sorry to hear that. Not much of a surprise considering it’s bungie but hopefully you don’t run into any issues going forward
@@NinjaPups Hey thanks man, sorry I was kinda just venting that into the ether haha. Luckily for me this guide sorted everything out for me, thanks so much for it
Can the secrets and collectables be completed on any part of the encore mission or is it specific to a named section?
I think you can collect all of the Vex Countermand collectibles once you have unlocked the second (week 2) variant of the mission because one of them is located inside the maze puzzle. But until you unlock that puzzle, you cannot get them all.
As for the vex anomalies can only be collected once you have the epilogue quest.
Great guide.
Thank you :)
Can I unlock all the upgrades and catalysts in one run?
I hope so. Mission is so boring for me
If you run it on the Coda version.
@@hadincooper2118how to get coda version cause it doesn’t show as coda for me ??
@@Cordam. you have to progress the seasonal mission, you get coda at step 19
@@P0tatoThief556 thank you 🙏
So I have a bit of an issue with secret chest 6 and I've been trying to figure out why to no avail. When I take the portal on the left to the beginning area, that Vex Conflux is not there for me and I cannot figure out why. It's frustrating since I have all the other Command Frames, but I'm missing Command Frame IV.
That is really annoying. Two questions:
1. Have you completed the main story quest “a rising chorus” up until step 19?
2. Someone else mentioned in another comment that they went through and completed the specimen quests they hadn’t started and that fixed it for them. I did not have to do this, but maybe that could help fix it.
If you figure out what the issue was, please let me know.
can this be done when doing the mission for the very first time?
In the video I explain what is required in order to unlock some of the later puzzles, such as reaching a certain step on the main story quest. So no, probably not
Thanks!❤
Much love ❤️ Thank you for watching and for supporting me :)
Do i have to wait until tomorrow for week 2 catalyst if i got week 1 yesterday?
No. I was able to do week 2 immediately after week 1. But like I explained in the video, you will need to do the main story quest up until step 13 in order for the week 2 stuff to spawn. If it still doesn't work after that, I would make sure you've already completed it on expert once and have picked up the second banshee quest after completing the first one.
Do I need to complete the Noos8 an 9 to get the upgrades and catalysts ?
No you do not. As for your other comment, you could probably do all of the catalysts and intrinsic perks in one run, but you need to run it a minimum of 3 times for the main story quest anyway. And you need to do the main story quest to unlock the puzzles. So you can’t just run it once and be done sadly.
@@NinjaPups oh ok thank you so much probably gonna try collecting all things in one run
Great video but think the vex jungle construct is bugged. No red keys or vex to get them from. Very frustrating spending all this time just to find out it's bugged.
One possibility is that you may not have progressed far enough in the main story quest to unlock that puzzle. What step are you on when trying to do it? Because in the video I explained that you need to be step 13 to do the week 2 puzzles and step 19 to do the week 3 puzzles.
@@NinjaPups Thx for the reply. I think you're right. I'm behind in the story line. I got the choir of one and 1st 3 intrinsic traits and was hoping for the 4th. I don't have specimen 008 yet nor any catalyst. I did run the mission again and was able to complete the vex jungle construct as it shows in the video except I didn't get the 4th trait. I tried the mission on expert. How in the world is anyone able to get out of the wall of death. I die almost immediately. I'll probably need help in the team finder.
I watched a guide on unlocking the chests so Ive got all the ones in the default mission how to you get the "special" versions like "Encore: Upheaval" do you need to beat the regular one in expert mode? I dont have anyone to play with so ive been avoiding the slog of trying to beat it solo underleveled and without a good build cause you cant really do endgame activities without a fireteam so I cant get a lot of good armor and weapons
I pretty much answered all of your questions in the video. If you want you can put the video on 2x speed to get through it faster.
Im having problems with week 2 and week 3, im thinking bc im doing them all the same week (technically week 4 of exotic mission) but yeah, dont know if anyone is having the same problem
What’s the issue? If the vex spires/puzzles are not available, in the video I explained you need to progress your main story quest to specific steps to be able to do them. This is because you unlock new versions of the missions containing new puzzles
@@NinjaPups oh okay, I did get to step 28 or NES0007 experiment progress like you said but I guess it went right over my head if you talked more about continuing the main quest to unlock the 2nd and 3rd week catalyst quests, I do have the mission for the second catalyst but the portals are not opening so I thought it was bugged, maybe I was not paying much attention, thanks for the response tho!!
Is the first chest right after the jumping puzzle still there? I've done Encore on normal difficulty, unlocked the pattern and got the quest from Banshee and there's no conflux in the room shown at 3:32. I've tried this multiple times on normal and advanced difficulty and still no conflux. Do you have to complete the mission on expert difficulty before the chests are available?
That's very weird. We completed Encore on normal and then i loaded it up on expert and the conflux spawned immediately, but I had not yet completed it on Expert so that shouldn't be a requirement. I know for a fact that it can spawn on Normal because I helped my friend do it on Normal later on.
So I'm pretty confused as well why it wouldn't work for you. See if it starts spawning after completing Encore on Expert (thankfully you only have to do expert once forever) and let me know if it fixes it for you, unless you are able to find the answer somewhere else. D:
@@NinjaPups I've completed A Rising Chorus Acts I & II but have several unfinished quests from Act III including Specimen ID NES007 and NES008. Would that explain it? I also play solo but didn't think that would matter.
@@NinjaPups After finishing the quests for NES003, NES006 and NES007 I went back to Encore and was able to get the first two chests as shown in the video. Great guide by the way!
Interesting. That might explain some of the problems people had. Thank you for letting me know, I’ll have to add that as a note in the description!
Chest number 6 do i need to wait until next week or i can find the spire if I played solo?
You can do it solo. You might have to reach step 19 on the main story quest like i showed for it to spawn though.
Doing all of this is an extreme slog. Having to play this mission over and over and over is mind numbing, and bad game design. That said this is a fantastic guide.
wait what about the vex nodes (diamond shaped) in the sky throught the entire mission? i destroyed about 19 or 20 of them throught the entire mission and nothing happened at the end
Destroying a vex node with stun any vex nearby. That’s all it does lol
Where do you go after getting the second chest? The way is blocked off
Anytime you teleport into one of the secret chest puzzle areas, you can just take the same teleporter you came in through back to the nexus.
@@NinjaPups couldn’t see a teleporter in the opening area after teleporting there from the nexus
@@NinjaPups didn’t seem to be one when you teleport back to the starting area. It was my first time doing it, maybe it doesn’t spawn a portal or I just couldn’t find it
Does this have to be on expert to get the mag perks?
Well since the intrinsic perks do not require a run on expert, I’m guessing technically you could unlock the mags for crafting (by unlocking command frame 4) without doing it. But that’s just a guess since I haven’t tried it
I need to go through the first initial mission, I'm very lost can't get it to work and Zero guides to show how
Do you mean the initial encore mission or the initial story mission for the episode?
For some reason the second spire does not spawn for me to get Command Frame IV, I have II and III but whenever i go back to the room only the one for the first starts. Is there something else I need to do or something I'm doing wrong?
Hmmm. Have you progressed your main story quest far enough? That is required to unlock all of the puzzles. You will need to get to step 19 on “a rising chorus” in order to access the final set of puzzles. If that doesn’t work, you can try completing the NES00 quests that you haven’t completed as someone said that fixed it for them.
I’m not really sure otherwise as it can get a bit confusing with the order you can do things in this mission. Let me know if you figure it out
It’s not timed, unless you want the secret emblem triumph
Yes I covered that in the video.
When going into the room with the 5 crystals there's a giant robot in the middle. Had no clue what to do.
I explained it in the video ?
@@NinjaPups Probably. I was going through it bits at a time.
For some reason I can’t see any of the spires, I’ve done it on expert so I don’t know why
If you’ve progressed your main story quest enough, the only other fix I’ve heard is to compete the NES00 side quests. Someone reported they completed all the available ones they had and it fixed it for them
@@NinjaPups damn alright thanks man, really great video btw
How did you get overload on the auto rifle. In the transient whisper part ?
overload auto rifles is an artifact perk this season if i recall correctly
I have choir upheaval and it says 2nd secret chest opened I've opened some already now but I don't have it done
I suggest watching the video the full way through to understand it better. I explained your problem in the video! :D
I have collected all of the secret chests but I only have the first catalyst. I completed the secret puzzles that should have dropped the second and third catalyst but I only got the triumphs.
In the video I explained that you need to complete the 3 banshee choir quests as that is what actually drops the catalyst.
@@NinjaPupsok thanks, guess I missed that
i did exactly as you did but at 17:55 i didnt have the column to activate the portal to the third secret chest
Are you saying you didn't have the vex spire in the middle of that room with all of the radiolite specimen? Make sure you have at least gotten to step 19 in the main story quest (A rising chorus) and that you have activated the vex spire at the beginning of the mission (the transit nexus.) If you've done both of those, all of the spires should spawn allowing you to activate all of the portals. If neither of those things fix it, I might need some more info to help you.
@@NinjaPups so i have to complete up to step 19 in the quest "a rising chorus act 3" right?
I just checked and I'm only at step 17, let me try again after I finish step 19, thank you
That is correct. If you don't reach that step, the next set of spires won't spawn.
This is because when you reach steps 13, and 19, it unlocks new versions of the exotic missions which contain the new spires/puzzles.
Let me know if you have any other issues!
God bless bro.
🤝 you got it my dude
Hey man I'm trying to follow teh guide atm but ive done it on normal and I can't get the catalyst quests and finished the seasonal stuff I know it's a new season so maybe I've to do I again this season?
That’s very weird… you said you finished the seasonal stuff? Like as in you completed the main story quest “a rising chorus” already?
@@NinjaPups yes I've it ll finished checked abandoned quests aswell
The only other thing I’ve heard is someone said they had to complete some of those specimen quests from that season in order to gain access to the puzzles but I can’t verify since I did not have to do it myself. Alternatively you can try running encore on expert once and see if that fixes your problem, since you have to run it once for the banshee quests anyway and the completion is tracked retroactively so you don’t have to pick up the banshee quests to get progress on them.
@@NinjaPups perfect thanks ill give it ago and let you know how it goes
Tried to do upheaval so many damn times and it won't let me get the second chest completed... why is this?!
Did you progress your main story quest enough? I explained in this video that you need to progress the main story quest "A Rising Chorus" to certain steps in order to gain access to the next puzzles.
@@NinjaPups Ive done Act 3. Im only missing one chest and it could possibly be the side quest for encore. The only missing chest im looking for is the maze area.
Let's gooo
I can't do the first puzzle, why? I have the gun already and the quest
What first puzzle are you referring to? Do you mean the nexus transit or the first secret quest referenced in the banshee quest?
@@NinjaPups the first spire.. it's not showing up for me either.. completed it on expert.. I have the gun. no spire
what ghost is that and how do you get it¿
It is the crimson shell from the old crimson days event. They don’t run it anymore so I’m not sure there’s a way to get it anymore. Maybe it’s in the bright engrams or something but idk. I got it like 5 years ago
7:12 i was doing the chests for the first time last night and i got bunch of other chests but not this one 😂 and when i went in this one it was the other chest thats a little ahead in the video with the minotaur
😭😭😭 wtf
I got confused with the first time you go to that nexus portal place and when you go there before the end, I did it right this time... But I also have to get the catalyst chests again... Oh well 😂
Oh I didn't have to get em again awesome lol Banshee had them waiting for me when I turned in that first quest 😂😂😂
27:18 wow that looks amazing
The side quest chest room is locked for me
i have the gun but when I went back to unlock transit nexus, it is not there. no cubes to interact with. am I missing something?
That’s weird. What I did is run the mission on normal and then after I got the gun, I picked up the banshee quest and then did a run on expert where I did the week 1 puzzles including the transit nexus. Afterwards, I went back in on normal to do the week 2 puzzles. And then I helped my friend do the week 1 puzzles on normal on the next run.
You could try doing the expert run and see if that unlocks the ability to do the puzzles on normal. But I don’t know why you’d have to do that, unless it’s just coded like that. The only other thing I could think that might fix it is just progressing your main story quest until it tells you to go back into the mission.
@@NinjaPups yeah im having the same issue ive loaded both legend and normal
Try progressing the main story quest until it tells you to run the mission again and see if that fixes anything.
@@NinjaPups it did thanks
Cause i did the steps and its only showing me week one stuff
So…the “open the first secret chest” was FN bullshit😤.
Long story short :
You need to complete Expert Encore at any point.
Can go into normal and get the secret chest - however, the quest should say the 3 secret chests to get the catalyst!!!
You have to get all 3, In a row, on same run!!!
Even in you got the first, if you don’t get all 3 in one run you need to get ALL in a row or the next won’t be available…
Such Crap!!
Opened the second chest but the quest didn’t progress anybody else had this issue?
By the second chest do you mean 2/7 as listed in the video or the actual second catalyst chest that is referenced in the banshee quest which is chest 5/7 in the video?
@@NinjaPups apologies I got confused between the general secret chests and the Catalyst chests, it all made sense in the end, got the episode title, catalysts and exotic ship because of this video, thank you for all the help 🫡
Oh awesome. Glad I could help!
Great guide but curse bungie for forcing me to replay this mission this many times
This is one of the most annoying quest ever is not backwards compatible. Give me something you need to do something else. If you go ahead you sometime you can go back or is everywhere. Thanks for your video.😊😊
Yeah it’s a bit crazy how many times you have to run the mission and how many roadblocks are in the way from just being able to get everything done at once like some of the other missions. You are welcome though!
ok basically act 1 and 2 is required.
nevermind then...
This chest quest is bugged asf smh
To have to repeat this boring dunge…err exotic mission of ver and over is an awful excuse for “content”.
its a good guide but everything is out of order and i had to jump around to properly follow it. in short this isn't really your fault but more of a major design flaw in regards to this mission and how horrendous and criminal it is that we are essentially forced to play this thing half a dozen times for arbitrary reasons.
I completely agree with you. I considered re-ordering it but if you’re just following the main story quest, the order in the guide is exactly as you’d do it which is really dumb. It should be like star crossed where you can just load up the mission once and do everything in one go if you waited until everything is out.
Words can't describe how much I fucking HATE this bullshit exotic crafting system
HOW IN THE FUCK DO I HAVE EVERYTHING EXCEPT FOR DESTABILIZING ROUNDS AND ONSLAUGHT REFIT?
HOW MANY FUCKING TIMES DO I NEED TO REDO THE SAME FUCKING SHIT ?
garbage mission , garbage puzzles. bungie once again deliver a terrible exotic mission.