I remember my first time playing the mission. I was having a great time up until that point, playing it with my wife who has recently gotten back into the game. As soon as I saw “surrender weapons” I stopped laughing. I told my wife to shut the fuck up so I could focus on what unholy shit was happening before my eyes. Was this a visual bug? Surely Bungie is not going to make me violate the Geneva Conventions, the thing I have based my entire life around since I first learned about them? So I waited. My wife started to say something and I screamed at her to stop making noise. I kept waiting. The prompt wasn’t going away. What do I do? I reasoned it must be a joke, a ploy, because there was no way Bungie was seriously making me commit a war crime.


I held F to surrender my weapons. Ten seconds later the prompt to accept my weapons transmat showed up. My wife was now audibly crying so I removed her from my fireteam and yelled at her while she sat next to me on the couch to clear the room. I was shaking with anger. I grabbed my controller and threw it at the wall. I started to scream, and in doing so a small amount of feces escaped from my anus. I could feel urine leaking down my leg but I didn’t care, I had entered a primal state of being where only two things mattered: Surviving. I spent the next four hours screaming in my office, barely even noticing my wife’s mother showing up to grab her suitcase and take her somewhere else. I didn’t care. Bungie did this.


14 hours after committing a war crime, I finished the mission and uninstalled. Fuck you Bungie.