Destiny 2’s new Encore Exotic quest brings a handful of secret chests alongside its new auto rifle, Choir of One. These chests make the new weapon more powerful either by improving its intrinsic or granting you catalysts.
Choir of One’s unique effect causes it to use Special ammo, but it deals a good deal of damage with great ammo economy. The weapon feels incredible to use, and even better if you can equip one of its three catalysts to make it even stronger.
To unlock those catalysts, however, you must open some secret chests throughout the Encore: Overture mission. Here’s where you can find their locations in Destiny 2.
How to unlock secret chests in Encore: Overture in Destiny 2
You must first finish the Specimen ID:NES007 quest before hunting the secret chests in Encore: Overture. You can complete the mission at any time, but the confluxes needed for the puzzles will not appear until you wrap up that quest.
As a short checklist, getting the catalyst and opening the secret chests requires you to:
- Pick up the CHOIR: ETERNAL quest from Banshee-44 before opening secret chests.
- Complete Specimen ID: NES007 before you can solve the puzzles leading to the chests.
- Open the corresponding chest after obtaining the CHOIR: ETERNAL quest.
- Complete Encore: Overture on Expert at any time when you have Banshee’s quest in your log.
- We finished the activity on Expert before opening the secret chests, then did an all-secrets run on Normal and still got the catalyst since we had Choir: Eternal in our log before attempting it on a higher difficulty.
All secret chest locations in Encore: Overture in Destiny 2
Here are all the secret chests in Encore: Overture, which we found thanks to 360GameTV.
| Chest and location | Where to find? | Reward | Solution |
| First secret chest (Nexus) | In the area after the first major jumping puzzle (Nexus), head left instead of right | Triumph | Shoot the large cube that has a small cube below it |
| Second secret chest (Planetary Core) | After the puzzle with the Partition module, in the area with the first Planetary Piston | Intrinsic Upgrade (Commander Frame II) |
Follow the beams of light from the Conflux and shoot five Vex devices. |
| Third secret chest (Ishtar Research Facility) |
The lab on the Ishtar Research Facility, where you hear Maya experimenting with Chioma Esi | Catalyst (Subsistence Refit) |
Use the portals to reach certain nodes on the floor above you and destroy them. Each portal has a line connecting you to where it leads. |
All secret chest puzzle solutions in Encore: Overture in Destiny 2
The first secret chest is simple. To get past the first major jumping puzzle, you must drop down a shaft with purple light and reach an area called the Nexus. Go to the side path on the left and interact with the Conflux. It spawns a series of cubes, and all you must do is shoot the one with a smaller square underneath it.
The second secret chest in Encore: Overture appears in the same area as the first Planetary Assimilation Pylon, after the puzzle with the Partition buff. Interact with the conflux to lead you back to the entrance, where you must interact with another Vex Conflux to trigger a mini-event.
This puzzle is like the Vex Conflux hidden events in Neomuna. Look for the beams of light coming from the zone, then shoot down the five Vex nodes in the area. We’ve compiled their locations here.
Though you can find it with a glance at the Ishtar Collective laboratory, the third puzzle in Encore: Overture is the trickiest. Go through the first portal after opening the Conflux and take another portal to reach the right area. You must use the teleporters in the room to reach the upper level and destroy some nodes.
The key is each portal has a line above it, which points to where it leads you. In our experience, we tried to find the right nodes to destroy, follow the line that stems from them, and enter that matching portal to break them. This did the trick for us, which gave us the Subsistence Refit catalyst for Choir of One.
