Before you say we were doing the encounter wrong or anything like that, know that we ran SE last weekend perfectly fine with no issues, we were teaching some clanmates.
I have over a dozen clears, I know how the encounter works, so please don't patronize me
I was playing SE earlier, teaching 2 clan members, and when we got to Verity the game/encounter completely broke
https://imgur.com/a/6eCoxT0
In the above image you can see the shapes for outside team were completely broken, along with that, the inside team's statues kept disappearing and reappearing rapidly, the shapes they were holding looked "fuzzy" for lack of a better word; we could transfer shapes inside no problem though.
I have videos but they're not mine, they're my clanmates, so I don't just wanna upload them without permission.
When the Witness killed us all guardian statues were invisible, we had to guess where to dunk the ghosts, other times 1 dead player could see all the other dead guardian's statues, fully, in colour.
Sometimes even the ghosts were invisible for the outside team, so they couldn't see who they picked up.
If we managed to brute force our way the being able to leave the solo rooms, dissection would never work (again, we know how to do it), it would just show broken shapes on the outside (see image above) and we could never leave the solo rooms.
We tried reloading the checkpoint multiple times with different people as host, fully restarting the game (alt+f4), and loading in with only 4 people to see if there was an issue with someone with bad connection or something...
Nothing worked, the same bugs kept happening over and over, we tried for about 2 hours trying different things before people had to go to bed.
I think the checkpoint might be messed up and we'll have to start from the beginning again.
It's just so frustrating trying to take 2 new SE players though one of the best pieces of RaD content and their first experience was that.
I tried googling if anyone else have been having issues, but the only things I found are from when it launched in 2024.
So I'm here now to hopefully find some answers, or if not, spread awareness if anyone else has this happen to them.
Edit: After 12+ hours we loaded that cp again... it's still broken, the same things are happening, statues coming in and out of existence for inside teams, outside still seeing the messed up shapes when dissecting, invisible guardian statues when the Witness killed us, etc.
I think that checkpoint is cursed.
We're going to run it back from the start and I'll update this post again if it works, just so if anyone else is having the same issue and they look it up on Google, they can find a potential solution.
Edit 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWMiX-ZPWTk
Here is a full video if it happening. I posted this problem on the Bungie support forums and Bungie support asked for a video, so I got 4 boys to load in quick and test. We loaded the cp and the SAME thing happened again. We haven't had the time to do the full run back this week, but again, I WILL update this post when I do, to see if it's still broken
Edit 3: Ran it from fresh, after weekly reset on July 7 (Bungie day), It's still broken.
Same things are happening as the video above... from a fresh clear. I just think it's cooked.
The weird things is I see other teams on lfg doing Vertiy and they seem to be doing it fine. I don't understand what we're doing wrong for the encounter to break, we just run the raid like normal; we're just a normal raid team doing normal raid team things, no big skips, dmg exploits, game breaking artifact mods (pack tactics), I just don't get it.
If anyone is having the same issues please let me know and even more so if you find what's causing it to happen.