‘Starcrossed’ Unique mission and secret chest location in Future 2

The “Starcrossed” mission is new to Future 2: Season of the Want. It operates equally to the “Avalon” mission from earlier this yr and “Operation: Seraph Defend” from Season of the Seraph in that they’re temporary asides that supply a robust weapon and a few secrets and techniques to uncover every week.

In “Starcrossed,” you’ll enterprise into the Black Backyard with Riven and Crow to tackle a military of Vex. Your reward? The brand new Strand Unique bow: Want-Keeper — which is ready to deploy a Suspending lure after getting sufficient kills or precision hits.

On this Future 2 information, we’ll stroll you thru the best way to full the Starcrossed mission and discover its secret chest.

How you can beat the ‘Starcrossed’ Unique mission in Future 2

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“Starcrossed” is, basically, only a straight line with a number of stops alongside it, so this information will focus much less on the place to go and extra on how the mission’s three major mechanics work: Sire’s Obligation, Dam’s Present, and Topped by Dragons. Let’s break it down.

Sire’s Obligation

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Your first huge mechanic, which you get simply earlier than the primary main encounter, is a buff known as Sire’s Obligation. You will get it from standing in a blue pool that seems in some flowers by a locked gate. It lasts eternally whilst you’re standing within the pool, however solely lasts 45 seconds as soon as you allow.

Sire’s Obligation permits you to harm Stubborn enemies and permits you to see the Final Want symbols. Use the buff to defeat the primary Stubborn Phalanx and open the door.

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You’ll put Sire’s Obligation to sensible use within the first encounter. Get the buff from one of many swimming pools and look to the gate on the finish of the sector. You’ll see three symbols in a random order. You’ll have to verify the order your self each time, however for the sake of this information, let’s use this order for instance: Dragon, Fish, Chicken.

Now, along with your buff (be certain to resume it for those who run out of time), run across the area and search for Stubborn Phalanx enemies. There are three of them, every residing below one of many three symbols you noticed on the door. Defeat them within the order of the mixture on the door (Dragon, Fish, Chicken, for this instance) and also you’ll open the best way. Defeat them within the fallacious order, they usually’ll all respawn.

Dam’s Present

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Dam’s Present is the second mechanic on this mission, and comes from a crimson puddle that comes from sure flower patches. It lasts for a similar period of time as Sire’s Obligation.

Dam’s Present permits you to stroll into the orange mist, which you’ll encounter for the primary time simply forward of the primary crimson flower patch. With out Dam’s Present, you’ll take harm contained in the mist and get the Unwelcome debuff, which can ultimately kill you. Nonetheless, you’re secure within the mist so long as you preserve Dam’s Present.

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After you run by means of the preliminary mist, you’ll want to make use of Dam’s Present to finish the second encounter. You’ll discover a crimson puddle in a small area and three passageways coated in orange mist: left, proper, and center. Use Dam’s Present to stroll every of those paths and shortly kill the Gatekeeper Wyvern’s inside. As soon as the Wyvern is lifeless, a protect will disappear over a Vex node, which you’ll work together with.

Repeat this course of till you’ve killed three Gatekeeper Wyverns and interacted with all three nodes within the area to finish the problem.

Topped by Dragons

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On the finish of the mission, you’ll want to mix these two buffs collectively. Once you enter the subsequent area, head to the left to get Sire’s Obligation and to the appropriate to get Dam’s Present. After you have them each, the buff will remodel right into a single buff: Topped by Dragons.

Whilst you have Topped by Dragons, you’ll be capable to see symbols, harm Stubborn enemies, and traverse the orange mist. Operating by means of both buff will renew Topped by Dragons again to 45 seconds.

With Topped by Dragons in hand, look to the large door within the heart of the room to get your lock mixture. Then, run across the room and kill the Stubborn enemies within the right order. There’s one Stubborn enemy in the principle room, and one in every of the sector’s two wings. With a view to get to the wings, you’ll have to traverse orange mist, so ensure you by no means lose Topped by Dragons.

How you can beat Akardon, Pitiless Thoughts, in Future 2

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When you open the door, proceed all the way down to the ultimate boss, which is an enormous Vex Hydra: Akardon, Pitiless Thoughts. You possibly can harm the boss from the beginning of the battle so long as you’ve gotten Topped by Dragons. Nonetheless, you should have a a lot simpler time killing the boss for those who take away its rotating protect, which tends to dam a number of incoming harm for those who don’t time your photographs effectively.

To do that, use Topped by Dragons to kill each of the Pitiless Attendant Phalanx enemies within the room with the Hydra. As soon as they’re each lifeless, the boss will lose its protect and begin spawning Taken enemies. Kill it shortly after which proceed into the treasure room to complete the mission.

Future 2 ‘Starcrossed’ secret chest location

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Once you first begin “Starcrossed,” you’ll be in an space with a giant chasm, and might want to leap throughout some plant leaves. The primary a part of this space is pretty open, however you’ll ultimately want to show proper and stroll throughout an enormous tree department, which can lead you to a slender opening and the remainder of the mission.

When you flip and hit that huge tree department, cease. As a substitute of continuous alongside, look down and round you. You’ll discover an edge that leads right into a small alcove.

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Head down into this small space and also you’ll discover a Dreaming Metropolis chest nuzzled in opposition to the wall. Open it for a Season of the Timeless weapon.

In case you’re fighting this chest, I like to recommend placing the Wombo Detector Ghost Shell mod on, which can assist you to detect close by treasure chests and sources.