Bungie removed the Terminal Overload chest farm from Destiny 2: Bright, making it harder for the average player to quickly gain reputation and loot. Whether it’s an honest trick or an exhaustive exploit, the community is vacillating.
For the dumb who don’t know, after the Terminal Overload event is complete, you can repeatedly loot one of the two bonus chests by quickly leaving the area and riding back. Every time you do this, the chest will be filled with new gear for you to grab.
The reaction from the online community was as you’d expect: sadness, frustration and, ultimately, acceptance of the farm’s departure. There are also those who consider themselves lucky and have outsourced the 50 chests needed to unlock rare badges, which suddenly become more suitable for timely collection.
Not that this should be a surprise! What has been going on for nearly two months is clearly not intentional. Weird why it took so long to fix, because people who really wanted to abuse this chest farm exploit have now definitely gone in and gotten everything they wanted out of it.
An interesting consequence of the fix is how it will affect the prevalence of terminal overload events! A lot of players will keep re-queuing over and over just to catch a chance at the end of terminal overload so that they can quickly grab 3-4 chests in a matter of minutes.
With the exploit gone, will these players stop doing it altogether, or will they finally give in and help for a longer period of time with less in return? My money is on the former.
For more Destiny 2: Lightfall articles, check out our article on the recent hotfix that finally fixes one of Lightfall’s biggest problems, and Bungie’s admission that it “missed the game” in Destiny 2: Lightfall Target”.
