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00:00:00 – 00:25:41
The video provides an extensive guide to the "Into the Light" game mode called Onslaught, focusing on its gameplay mechanics, strategies for success, and optimal team coordination. Onslaught, a challenging wave-based horde mode, features varying difficulties and strategic elements like managing the Advanced Defense Unit (ADU) and utilizing scrap for upgrading defenses. The video emphasizes the importance of communication, strategic resource management, and flexible loadouts, especially when transitioning between waves and boss fights. Key strategies include effective ammo management, specific weapon loadouts for different game phases, and handling unique challenges and boss mechanics that progressively increase in difficulty. Throughout, players must complete various quests and achieve attunement for better weapon drops, enhancing their gameplay experience. The video encourages viewers to engage in weekly updates and prepare for significant rewards at higher difficulty levels, particularly wave 50 on Legend difficulty. The speaker also invites viewers to participate in build battles, optimizing their strategies for peak performance.
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In this part of the video, the speaker discusses the “Into the Light” game mode called Onslaught, which is a wave-based horde mode that presents a significant challenge, especially on Legend difficulty. They provide a detailed guide on getting started with the mode, including how to unlock the Legend version, obtain and attune weapons, target farm loot, and secure curated rolls. The segment also highlights the flexibility of the game mode, allowing players to swap classes before boss fights. Initially, players are introduced through a cutscene and then guided by Shacks in the Hall of Champions. Players receive a seven-step quest called Feats of Bravery requiring a power level of 1810. However, new players can use the “Gift of the Thunder Gods” to quickly gear up. The second quest step involves defending the last city in Onslaught, with bounties available from Shacks and RSI 9940 for extra rewards. Two Onslaught modes are highlighted: a matchmade playlist ending at wave 10 and a more time-intensive, matchmade mode extending to wave 50.
00:03:00
In this segment, the video discusses the intricacies and strategies for tackling different modes and difficulties in a new game feature called Onslaught. It takes between 45 minutes to an hour to complete, with increasing difficulty as players progress through waves. The power level is fixed at 1,600 but drops every 10 waves, making enemies tougher. Various map options are available, including Midtown, Moth Yards, and Voso, each requiring different strategies depending on their layout. In Legend difficulty, power starts higher but decreases faster with unique weekly bosses appearing at wave 50, providing double rewards compared to the standard mode. The segment also delves into the importance of appropriate team setups to counter different champion types and explains the core gameplay mechanics, which involve defending an Advanced Defense Unit (ADU) from waves of Fallen and Hive enemies. The ADU’s health can be regenerated using batteries from high-health targets, adding a layer of strategy to the gameplay.
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In this segment of the video, the speaker discusses strategies for dealing with the Adu battery and explains the mechanics of gathering and using scrap in the game mode Onslaught. If the Adu’s health is full, throwing the battery grants triple the amount of scrap, which is the in-game currency used for purchasing and upgrading defenses. It’s noted that picking up a battery during a super drains the super ability. Scrap is accumulated by eliminating enemies, starting at 2,000 scrap, which players can use to buy defenses like decoys, turrets, and trip wires before certain waves.
The video emphasizes the importance of communication among teammates to manage scrap efficiently, ensuring upgrades are purchased within the limited time frame available before waves. Each defense can be upgraded twice, with escalated scrap costs, to become more effective and resilient. The speaker highlights that upgraded defenses are visibly and functionally superior, such as decoys evolving to more advanced versions, culminating in a powerful form. Coordinating and communicating the team’s scrap resources optimally is integral to success in the game.
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In this segment of the video, the speaker discusses the progression through waves in a game, mentioning bonus challenges that appear on the screen. These challenges can include destroying splinters, speed challenges, collecting relics, and securing capture points. Completing these challenges rewards players with an ammo box, bonus scrap, a Trophy of Bravery token, and Shacks reputation.
At the sixth wave, a portal opens to a pyramid ship where players must defeat the witness’s forces and spark holders to collect and dunk a spark, which will eliminate enemies and the boss. The speaker highlights the advantage of having an invisible Hunter to easily complete this task.
Additionally, augments sometimes appear during waves, adding objectives that must be completed to finish the wave, especially on Legend difficulty where failure to complete timed objectives results in the team’s death.
Finally, the speaker mentions a rare secret encounter called Heat Wave, which can randomly appear after every full set of ten waves and involves multiple tormentors. Killing tormentors grants a Trophy of Bravery. The speaker advises using precision-based weapons to deal with tormentors effectively, sharing personal success with Levan’s Breath with the Catalyst.
00:12:00
In this segment of the video, the speaker provides several tips to optimize gameplay. Key points include:
1. **Heavy Ammo Crates**: Loot them considerately, and inform teammates so they can also pick up the ammo before the timer expires.
2. **Ammo Management**: Avoid picking up all ammo before heading to the boss through the portal. Save it for after returning from the boss fight for efficient ammo use.
3. **Loadout Strategy**: Maintain an add-clear loadout for Onslaught but switch to a DPS-focused loadout for the boss fights. Examples include swapping to Well of Radiance for damage buffs or Lin’s Breath for power.
4. **Upgrade Strategy**: Initially, conserve scrap and prioritize upgrading turrets as they provide essential defense and can be further upgraded with trip wires and decoys. Coordination with teammates on spending scrap is crucial.
5. **Location and Turrets**: Be prepared for either staying in the same location or moving after every 10 waves and a boss fight. Upgrades in a stationary location can be continuously advantageous.
Finally, the segment transitions to discussing bosses and rewards, emphasizing that boss mechanics aren’t overly complex.
00:15:00
In this part of the video, the speaker discusses a gameplay strategy for tackling boss rooms in a particular game mode. The key actions include dropping a well Radiance and a tether, using high precision damage weapons, and managing reinforcements effectively using the orus Rick tether. They highlight the importance of handling mechanics like standing in Darkness poles and capturing points for extra damage and reinforcement turrets.
The strategy consistently used involved a specific sequence of actions, such as deploying supers and precision damage to efficiently kill the boss. At the end of each boss wave, a chest spawns, offering various rewards. Reaching wave 50 on Legend difficulty grants substantial rewards, reminiscent of the “coil” activity. Additionally, after completing the first match of Onslaught, players progress through a quest involving interactions with Lord Shacks and collecting trophy tokens. Completing weapon quests from ride 9940 is recommended, especially focusing on playing Onslaught for easier completion of related objectives.
00:18:00
In this part of the video, the speaker explains the concept of attunement and its benefits, such as increasing the chances of specific weapon drops by about 50%. They describe the quest requirements and process to achieve attunement, emphasizing the need to complete initial quests which unlock this feature. The speaker also discusses curated and shiny versions of weapons, noting that shiny versions are rare, visually distinct, and possess double traits that can lead to highly desirable rolls. They provide an example using the weapon Recluse and outline the specific steps needed to attune it, including rapidly defeating enemies with submachine guns.
00:21:00
In this part of the video, the speaker discusses various weapon challenges and quests in a game, emphasizing the completion of objectives using specific types of weapons such as sniper rifles, swords, scout rifles, and heavy ammo grenade launchers to gain progress and rewards. The speaker mentions the “Hung Jury” and curious weapon trait combinations, the usefulness of the “Edge Transit” launcher, and strategies for farming weapons by completing attunements. Additionally, the segment covers the acquisition of armor sets through leveling up and earning specific keys and trophies, explaining the detailed reward track involving rare items and a special “super black key Alpha” needed for a unique shader.
00:24:00
In this segment of the video, the host emphasizes the importance of completing all quests, noting that two more quests will unlock each week until April 30th. They explain a small time gate of 3 weeks but assure viewers it is shorter than the original time gates. The host announces upcoming build battles on their channel, inviting viewers to share and recommend builds for the Onslaught game mode, especially at Legend difficulty. Key advice includes being flexible with builds, swapping to surge mods during damage phases, and focusing on precision damage to defeat tormentors, which spawn randomly during the activity.