14 DAY TRIAL // Destiny has proved to be a pretty popular game, surprising nobody, given the cartloads of money used to push the game everywhere, including massive billboards in some of the world’s most well-known landmarks.
Developer Bungie has revealed that, a month after launch, the sci-fi online multiplayer first-person shooter is still being played by 3.2 million gamers daily, for an average duration of around three hours, even on week days.
In addition to this, the company has also shown that the Vault of Glass, Destiny’s first raid, and the most challenging experience the game currently has to offer, has been completed by around half a million players.
The most difficult content in the game so far
The bar for entry is set pretty high to begin with, as you need to put together a team of six friends, each of them level 26 or higher, just to gain access to the thing.
That, however, didn’t stop close to 2 million gamers from attempting to clear the raid on normal difficulty, as Bungie has revealed to Kotaku.
Of the 2 million gamers eligible and brave enough to tackle the game’s most difficult content so far, a number of 472k managed to actually finish the thing.
Out of those 472k brave souls, a number of 202k re-entered the Vault of Glass on its level 30 difficulty setting, much harder than the normal experience, and a precious few, little over 36k gamers, managed to beat it.
Even more impressive feats
Managing to complete the raid and take down its last boss, Atheon, Time’s Conflux, is no small feat. Managing to pull it off on its level 30 setting is even more impressive. But some Destiny players decided to take things further.
After the first team of adventurers finished the raid a mere 11 hours after its gates opened to the public, many others opted to up the ante, and after getting familiar with the particularities of each area and how to tackle fights best, a team of three people successfully completed it.
What’s more, after that daring stunt, a team of just two players managed to finish the Vault of Glass. While they did have some help from a third member in a section that requires three people in order to be able to progress further, it’s an astounding display of skill.
There were, of course, others who chose to stray from the straight and narrow and glitched the final boss in order to shoot it down in under two minutes, but let’s not let that tarnish the achievements of the ones who dedicated countless hours to mastering the encounter.