Destiny 2 Deep Dive secrets and how it works
Every hidden triumph so far in the new seasonal activity.
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TheDestiny 2 Deep Diveactivity is filled with secrets. Similar to Avalon last season, and Seraph Station the season before, it looks like we’ll be spending a lot of time here puzzling out these hidden triumphs over the coming weeks. There are three sections to the Deep Dive activity: Twilight, Midnight, and Abyss, and two of them are currently playable.
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Aquarium Vivarium
During the Deep Dive activity there are plants you can find and collect to place in your aquarium back in the HELM. There are two plants to grab as part of initial Twilight section. These are:
After the Twilight section of the Deep Dive, you’ll arrive at the first encounter. You’ll need to successfully complete this to open a door and gain access to the Midnight section where there are two more plants to grab:
After you complete the Midnight encounter successfully, you can move onto the last section of Abyss Depth. There are two final plants to grab here:
How to activate Pressure Trials
Though not a secret as such, you may have noticed the activity description and its triumphs mention Pressure Trials that you can activate to gain extra rewards, but it’s not especially clear how to do that.To activate a Pressure Trial you need to find Toland—a glowing spirit of Taken essence—in the first encounter and activate him to “invoke the darkness.”
Unless you’re soloing Deep Dive this can be a little tricky to do, sinceall fireteam members have to invoke the darkness for the Pressure Trial to activate. Toland isn’t too hard to find, though, and is usually tucked away in a corner or under a platform and appears as soon as you start the encounter.
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Once the trial is active, you have todestroy floating blightsorstand on glowing pressure blights, and you’ll receive the message “Darkness invoked” and get a little bit of dialogue from Xivu Arath when done. Now, you just need to complete the regular encounter as fast as you can to trigger the Pressure Trial. It’s worth noting that if you fail a Pressure Trial, you fail the entire encounter, and so don’t gain access to the Midnight section of the Deep Dive. If you are successful, though, it increases your rewards by two tiers instead of just one.
In the subsequent Midnight and Abyss encounters of the Deep Dive, you activate the Pressure Trial in exactly the same way; find Toland, invoke the darkness, destroy the blights, complete the regular encounter. If you do every Pressure Trial and beat the final boss, you’ll unlock the Dive Station seasonal bonus for that heavy ammo crate.
How to get Deep Dive Keys
Similar to the Defiant Keys from last season,Deep Dive Keysprovide extra rewards at the end of a Deep Dive, though they shouldn’t be confused with Salvage Keys which are specific to that activity instead. Here are the different ways you can get them:
Once all Deep Dive bosses are available to defeat, you’ll also be able to unlock the Deep Sea Locksmith seasonal bonus, which gives you a chance at getting a Deep Dive Key whenever you use a Salvage Key.
Sean’s first PC games were Full Throttle and Total Annihilation and his taste has stayed much the same since. When not scouring games for secrets or bashing his head against puzzles, you’ll find him revisiting old Total War campaigns, agonizing over his Destiny 2 fit, or still trying to finish the Horus Heresy. Sean has also written for EDGE, Eurogamer, PCGamesN, Wireframe, EGMNOW, and Inverse.
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