We stopped soon after we got to the mace wielding zamboni. We'll start there tonight, looking for a way past it and heading down...
Also, please no spoilers for the rest of the raid in this thread. =)

He specifically requested that people don't spoil the remainder of the raid, including the zombie encounter. That post had a spoiler regarding the zamboni encounter. I was simply trying to keep our blind group untainted for the event tonight.

I forgot you said that's where you stopped. Sorry!!!

No problem, I didn't see much & I'll keep my mouth shut about what I did see. :)

In some ways, I actually feel sorry for these people - because the joy of discovery after banging your head against a wall is way the hell better than just being right all the time.

Believe me, we more than made up for it with all the head banging on Aksis round two…

I wasn't really aiming this at you. (I actually felt like you were trying to be helpful earlier when you said you'd figured out the monitors from the death screen, you just presented it in a tone-deaf way that came off as pretty insulting.) I was more thinking of the guys who finished the raid within 2 hours of it becoming available - people like that. For them, there's a joy in being first, sure - but once you've been first, what's left? I mean... there's clearly no discovery available, because those guys had to nail everything near the first time out - and if you can do that in a raid, you can do that in EVERYTHING in Destiny. I'd be bored, if I were them.

No way I'd go for world's first. We had a great time exploring and looking for chests and clusters and things. Taking in the environment was super fun, since this raid ends up having a lot of atmosphere and scenery.

When we got to the seige engine I gave Kermit a hard time for always going the wrong way when he picked up the parts. He was going right (when facing the engine) while the rest of us went left. Kermit was getting mad at himself for going the wrong way too until INSANEdrive asked if the beams on the right would be quicker. None of us had noticed them. Turns out that the way Kermit was accidentally going was way quicker than the way we were telling him to go.

In some ways, I actually feel sorry for these people - because the joy of discovery after banging your head against a wall is way the hell better than just being right all the time.

Believe me, we more than made up for it with all the head banging on Aksis round two…

I wasn't really aiming this at you. (I actually felt like you were trying to be helpful earlier when you said you'd figured out the monitors from the death screen, you just presented it in a tone-deaf way that came off as pretty insulting.) I was more thinking of the guys who finished the raid within 2 hours of it becoming available - people like that. For them, there's a joy in being first, sure - but once you've been first, what's left? I mean... there's clearly no discovery available, because those guys had to nail everything near the first time out - and if you can do that in a raid, you can do that in EVERYTHING in Destiny. I'd be bored, if I were them.

In some ways, I actually feel sorry for these people - because the joy of discovery after banging your head against a wall is way the hell better than just being right all the time.

Believe me, we more than made up for it with all the head banging on Aksis round two…

I'm still gonna enjoy getting the mechanics down, though.

And man we have a lot of work to go there :)
I'm still working on my counting for example.

We found out about the monitors by accident because I wiffed my charge really badly.

We figured it out very quickly by simply looking at the score screen.

We had noticed them on the score screen early on, but that got put on the backburner while we figured out other mechanics. Then we kinda forgot about them. After figuring out the rest of the mechanics I re-noticed the monitors column on the score screen and started paying attention to them.

My first raid group figured out the screens almost instantly, but we banged our heads against the encounter for almost 2 solid hours without even noticing the safe rooms on the sides lol

Munky eventually broke down and told us about them XD

That's funny. We noticed the safe rooms relatively soon. It's fun hearing the different ways people come up with to defeat the encounters and what aspects they've struggled with.

That's the most fascinating part of blind raiding, to me - we all have to end up at the same place, in the end (well, close to the same place - Golgoroth proved that even after techniques were well-known, there might be multiple techniques to solving the problem), but each blind group is made up of 6 individuals who all bring their own way of thinking to the table. I LOVE that something that was totally obvious to one group made another group struggle for a while, while that second group had no problems at all with a second mechanic that stumped the first one.

And I love that Xenos found the way of interacting with the monitors by screwing up something else we already knew how to do. Lots of good discoveries in history were mistakes (penicillin, crazy glue) - blind raids allow people to suggest all manner of idiotic ideas, because some percentage of them turn out to be exactly what was needed.

There are definitely people (or groups of people) who never struggle with any of this stuff - they can walk into a new situation, size it up immediately, and just get to work on the mechanics, because the implementation is obvious to them. In some ways, I actually feel sorry for these people - because the joy of discovery after banging your head against a wall is way the hell better than just being right all the time.

I'm still gonna enjoy getting the mechanics down, though.

We found out about the monitors by accident because I wiffed my charge really badly.

We figured it out very quickly by simply looking at the score screen.

We had noticed them on the score screen early on, but that got put on the backburner while we figured out other mechanics. Then we kinda forgot about them. After figuring out the rest of the mechanics I re-noticed the monitors column on the score screen and started paying attention to them.

My first raid group figured out the screens almost instantly, but we banged our heads against the encounter for almost 2 solid hours without even noticing the safe rooms on the sides lol

Munky eventually broke down and told us about them XD

That's funny. We noticed the safe rooms relatively soon. It's fun hearing the different ways people come up with to defeat the encounters and what aspects they've struggled with.