The launch of Echoes Act 3 has added new gear to Destiny 2, including a new Exotic weapon called Chorus of One. To get it, you’ll need to complete a new Exotic mission as part of Act 3’s story, which will unlock the ability to craft the Void auto rifle and adjust its perks. That’ll require multiple completions of the mission, Encore: Overture, over multiple weeks, however.
The Exotic mission has just launched, and we’re working to bring you everything you need to know about Chorus of One: How to get it, where to find the secrets within the Exotic mission that will unlock its best perks, and what to focus on for Chorus of One god rolls.
How To Get Chorus Of One
The good news is that there are no secret prerequisite to unlock the Encore: Overture mission. If you’re caught up on the story of Echoes, you should be able to start Act 3 immediately. The third act begins with a cutscene that gives a better sense of the motivations of villain Maya Sundaresh. When it’s over, head to the HELM and talk to Failsafe.
With new marching orders that are the same as the old marching orders–stop Maya and her plan to take over the entire solar system–your first stop in Act 3’s story will be the Exotic mission. You can launch Encore: Overture from the Director map for the HELM.
Complete the mission and you’ll get both Choir of One and the pattern for crafting it. Like other craftable Exotic weapons, you’ll then need to unlock its three Exotic Catalysts and the ability to change its barrel, magazine, and stock. To do that, you’ll have to venture back into the Exotic mission at least once more to uncover all its secrets.
How To Unlock Choir Of One’s Exotic Catalysts
As with other craftable Exotics, earning the gun’s different Exotic Catalysts requires you to complete its Exotic mission on the Master difficulty level, while also finding hidden chests found within the mission. There are seven total chests hidden in the mission, but it seems that not all of them are available this week. Expect all the secrets to appear in the mission, and therefore all of the Catalysts, to appear within Encore: Overture during the coming weeks as Act 3’s story plays out.
You can add three big perks to Choir of One with its additional catalysts:
- Subsistence
- Destabilizing Rounds
- Onslaught
Each catalyst appears to be tied to an Exotic quest, likely given from Failsafe. According to the Subsistence Catalyst on Choir of One, to unlock it, you need to complete a quest Choir: Eternal. To do that, you have to find the first secret chest in the mission, unlock it, and then complete the entire mission on Master difficulty. Despite having finished Encore: Overture, I haven’t received that quest yet, which might suggest that it’s not available this week.
How To Unlock Choir Of One’s Weapon Frames
Also tied to the hidden chests are three additional weapon frames for Choir of One, and each unlocks the ability to change its barrel, magazine, and stock. You can get the first of those frames now on either the normal or Master difficulty levels for Encore: Overture. Only Command Frame II is currently available, with Command Frame III and Command Frame IV unlocking in later weeks.
To get those frames, you need to track down the hidden chests within Encore: Overture, which don’t appear until after your first trip through the mission. Once you’ve completed it, you can head back in to find several new Vex confluxes, those white columns, that you can activate a certain points to unlock puzzles that lead to hidden chests. We’ve got more details on the hidden chests below.
How To Get Started The Encore: Overture Exotic Mission
Once you’re in Encore: Overture, finding your way can be a little difficult. You’re looking for a ramp on the right side of the first arena that will take you up along the right side of the area.
At the top of the ramp, when you can’t go any higher, look off the side to the ground below. You should see a big white stone ball with a hole in it. That’s your path.
How To Find Encore: Overture Hidden Chests
The hidden chests in Encore: Overture won’t appear the first time you go through the mission. However, you also need to find a key quest item as you make your way through the mission in order to complete the first part of Echoes Act 3’s story. Finding that key item unlocks the Nessus Specimen 007 quest with Failsafe, which you need to complete in order to unlock new elements in Encore: Overture to find the hidden chests.
Where To Find Specimen 007
As you make your way through Encore: Overture, you’ll eventually reach Maya Sundaresh’s lab, which you’ll know from the bodies of Exos and a giant Exo head as you enter. When you get there, you should see a meter on your screen marked Proximity Sensor–the sensor Failsafe uses to help you find specimens when you’re wandering Nessus. Look for a body lying on the ground on the left side of the hallway near the entrance to find the Specimen item you’re searching for. You’ll know you’ve found it when you start to hear an audio log from Maya Sundaresh documenting one of her experiments.
Complete Nessus Specimen 007
Head back to Failsafe after completing Encore: Overture and continue the Act 3 story until you get the Nessus Specimen 007 quest. It’s not particularly difficult to complete, but can be a bit on the time-consuming side. The first step requires you to kill 100 Vex enemies with Solar damage, which you can do quickly in either an Echoes activity, like Breach Executable, or in Nessus Lost Sectors such as The Orrery, located in The Artifact area.
After getting your pile of Vex kills, you’ll be tasked with collecting Vex data and defeating Vex bosses. These two objectives are achievable pretty quickly in Breach Executable events; you’ll probably complete both in a single event, and definitely within two.
Next, you’ll need to knock out rapid kills on Vex enemies. Again, Breach Executable is a pretty easy way to get this done, since there are a ton of Vex enemies for you to fight throughout the event. We cleared this requirement in one Breach Executable event. The Orrery is another good alternative to find a lot of Vex grouped together so you can kill them quickly and easily.
With all those steps done, return to Failsafe to complete the Specimen 007 quest, which will earn you a new upgrade for the episode, unlocking a new “hub” within Encore: Overture. You’ll need that access to find the first batch of hidden chests in the Exotic quest.
Hidden Chest 1: Ancillary Transit Hub
Make your way through Encore: Overture until you reach the point where you ride the two hammer-like blocks that drop from above, taking you into some tight tunnels in the walls. The path forward is lit and purple, and when you drop down, you’ll see a message on your screen saying that MSund12 is connecting to your network. From here on, you’ll see messages from Maya Sundaresh commenting on your progress through the mission.
The path forward is lit in blue, but if you look to the left, you’ll see a smaller opening in the wall, marked by a blinking light. If you go through that passage on the left, you’ll enter a round room with several inactive Vex portals and a white Vex conflux in the center. Activating the conflux activates the Ancillary Transit Hub and gives you a puzzle to solve, but it’s a pretty simple one.
Look for four Vex cubes to appear in the center of the room. You need to shoot and destroy these in a specific order, but it’s easy to see–just look for a smaller, brighter cube to appear beneath the cube you need to shoot. Once you’ve shot all four cubes in order, four more cubes will appear around the edge of the room, one in front of each Vex portal (including one behind you). Again, the brighter cubes will appear near the cube you need to shoot, dictating the order. Zap all four of these cubes and a chest will appear in the center of the room.
Hidden Chest 2: Back Outside
Keep moving through the level. Ahead you’ll find the first puzzle in which you use Vex Modules to manipulate the level. The first puzzle eventually lets you cross a big chasm. Keep moving until you run into Vex fighting Shadow Legion enemies in a big, wide-open room, immediately after the room with the large columns that house platforms covered with plants.
Clear this room out and kill the enemies, and you’ll finally get hold of a yellow Partition module, dropped by a Minotaur. When you plug it in at the back of the room, the wall will disappear to open the way forward. Just beyond that, you’ll enter a room with a Planetary Piston, which you can use to get Radiolite. There will also be another Vex conflux in the center of the room. Activating it opens the portal to your right.
Go through the portal and you’ll return to the Ancillary Transit Hub, where another portal will be open and waiting for you. Travel through it and you’ll find yourself back at the start of the level, in the outdoor area where you had to climb up the ramp to jump into that big white stone ball. Head toward the cliff ahead of you and find a Vex conflux. When you activate it, a short timer will appear on your screen. You need to find several Vex plates hidden on walls and shoot them before the timer runs out.
The plates aren’t too hard to find, but you need to be speedy in getting around this large, wide-open area in order to be successful. When standing near the conflux, look for hazy white lines emanating out in different directions. These are energy connections to the plates and you can follow them to find the objects you need to shoot. Note that the energy line that looks like it goes toward that free-standing column in the middle of the area actually goes past it, with the plate you’re looking for being on the pile of cubic stones behind.
With all the plates cleared, a chest will appear where the conflux was, which will reward you with Command Frame II for Chorus of One.
Hidden Chest 3: Aberrant Code Containment
The last conflux appears in Maya’s lab, right before you enter the boss room. Again, it’s directly in the center of the path, so you can’t miss it. Use it to activate a Vex portal and return to Ancillary Transit, then enter another portal that’ll take you to Aberrant Code Containment.
Here, you’ll find five inactive Vex portals and two blue Access Vex modules, which you can use to activate the portals. If you plug one in, you’ll see that the portal creates a white line of energy to one of the orange diamonds over the other portals. This line indicates where the portal will take you, as there’s a second floor to this room above that’s segmented into five areas.
If you go through the Vex portal, you’ll see what you’re up against. On the second floor, each portal empties out into one of the five chambers above, and in each chamber is a pink Data pod, as you’ll have seen in the Breach Executable and Enigma Protocol activities. You need to get to each of the five chambers and destroy each Data pod to complete the puzzle. There are some wrinkles, though: First, there’s a line of energy running between the Data pods, and some of them are shielded. You need to destroy the Data pods in a particular order to drop the shields, starting with the two that are at either end of the line and moving inward.
Second, once you destroy a Data pod, a timer will start on the connected pods. If you don’t destroy the next pod in the sequence before the timer runs out, it’ll repair the next pod in the line, undoing your work.
The puzzle isn’t particularly difficult, but you do need to be quick about it and pay attention to each portal’s destination when you open it to make sure you’re going to the right places. After all five data pods are destroyed, the chest will spawn in the middle of the room.
Stay tuned for additional updates to this guide as we uncover all there is to know about Encore: Overture and Chorus of One.
