Community Focus – TheGrreatGatsby

Gatsby: Hi! My name is TheGrreatGatsby, but some of you may know me as "Frostbyte3" on Twitch. I don't stream that often, but when I do, it's something that's epic and cool. I'm just your average 18-year-old kid from Brooklyn, New York who struggles with SAT's, college applications, and homework during the day. In my spare time, I'm a Guardian of the City. That may sound a little corny, but it means a lot to me. I'm someone who likes to help out in the community. Being someone who knows how hard it can be to find random people and do well with them, I like to balance the scale. There's nothing that means more to me than doing something like helping a dad and his son finally get to the Lighthouse and hearing them scream with joy over the mic, or helping a few people finally get the elusive Black Spindle they've tried hours upon hours for, or solo the nightfall for a kinderguardian. For me, no 320 loot can compare to that feeling. Other than that, I'm just your average Destiny player, with over 1000 hours logged. I'm also a filthy casual. (Some people think that I main a Warlock.... I actually main a Hunter #HunterMasterRace.)

Gatsby: You can find me on Xbox One, with the Gamertag "TheGrreatGatsby", on YouTube with the username "The Great Gatsby" and on Twitch with the username "Frostbyte3" or "TheGrreatGatsby". And yes, I watched the movie and loved the book. :)

Gatsby: Solo'ing Oryx was a million times harder than it appeared in the video. It took weeks of planning by some of the smartest people I've ever known. The outcome was, well, unexpected. The idea first came after watching the World First 2-Man Oryx video. Textbook_1987, ADeathCard, and ShootForCookies, and I all joined a party where we decided the next great challenge should be figuring out a way to Solo Oryx. Obviously, at first, we were totally stumped. How were we gonna stun this guy? How were we gonna get 16 blights detonated in 5 rounds? How were we gonna have enough ammo to damage Ogres? How were we gonna have self-revive every single round fast enough? How were we going to get past Shade? What's going to happen during final stand? With all these obstacles, we thought it was impossible - until I figured out a 300+ Sleeper Simulant could stun Oryx with 3 shots to the face. That’s the spark that lit the fire. Shout out to Oryx for helping me out near the end and despawning all those adds.

Gatsby: As I said before, the people who helped create this strategy are some of the smartest and most skilled players I've ever had the honor of playing with. Every single person I mention below contributed to something, in some way. So here goes.

• Figuring out how to Stun Oryx and where to stand when Stunning him: Me (TheGrreatGatsby)
  
• Figuring out how to damage Ogres and where to stand while damaging them: Everyone
  
• Figuring out how to get 2 Ogres from one side come over to the other side, making it possible to get more than 2 bombs in one round: ADeathCard, Ehroar, CommanderCuesta, Textbook_1987, sc_slayerage
  
• Figuring out that during the aerial bomb phase, damaging the boomer Knights results in Super energy at the end of the phase: ADeathCard, ComanderCuesta, Ehroar, Me, Textbook_1987
  
• Figuring out how to cheese Shade : ADeathCard
  
• Figuring out that you have to kill the Shade instead of cheese it, for final stand, since when you cheese the Shade the big black blight stays in the front of the platform the whole time so there is no way to damage Oryx's chest during final stand: Me, Textbook_1987
  
• Figuring out that using a weapon with surplus in the beginning results in more ammo per brick from Thralls: CommanderCuesta
  
• Figuring out how to manipulate and control the vessel, which is the thing that stopped this from being soloed for a long time: Me
  
• Now that the secret vessel trick has been revealed to the world, I expect a lot more people are going to be soloing this. That’s all right with me.
  

Gatsby: A lot of people motivated me in the beginning. There were times I just wanted to give up and throw my controller out the window, but there was one guy always there telling me I could do this. His name is Textbook_1987.

Gatsby: Since you ask, yes I do. I plan on soloing Oryx on Hard Mode wearing tight red and blue spandex whilst hanging upside down from my ceiling eating Honey Nut Cheerios, all the while counting from 1 to 777 and sacrificing my Fatebringer (which I still have by the way) to the almighty RNGesus.