: - it's not as complicated as we're making it out to be
: The last one has been proven to a very small degree-- "Lord Zedd"
: said he had it work with the first crystal cluster destroyed in his video
: (that was caught in a grenade blast) destroyed last, and that's what I did
: and it worked for me. I think either they're grouped in some way in the
: code, and you just have to destroy certain groups-- or part of them--
: before other ones, maybe not even the whole group, or it's overkill and it
: only depends on some of these crystal clusters.

Sorry for the bump, but I came across my old files on this and decided to look this thread up again. I was the guy who backed up Zedd before he released his tutorial, as I had gotten the egg to appear myself after he mentioned it existed. Since I had managed to get it, and since I thought the crystal order did not matter, I mistakenly assumed people would be able to figure it out. Here's why.

From the code, it appeared to be grouped like you said, which is why I acted like it should be easy to figure out (I thought it really was). Basically, the code checks 5 crystals at a time, and if they are destroyed, it checks the next 5 etc., and if all of them were destroyed before moving on to the next area the egg would be active. But for some reason, only doing it in the order they are listed in the object index works (which is where my confusion came from, because when I triggered the egg the first time, I followed the index to find their x/y/z coordinates, so I killed them in the correct order while thinking any order would work). Now, doing them in the indexed order also clears them one 'row' at a time, so that each set of 5 was completed sequentially, but I tried doing them out of order while still clearing each row sequentially (ie. destroying all but one in each group, then destroying the last 7 in order) and the egg didn't trigger even though that is essentially what doing them in the indexed order does (one or two left in each row, then each row ends up cleared in order by the end of it).

I think this egg was bugged, and was intended to be activated upon nothing more than the crystals all being dead.

Here is the script snippet if you are interested. How I see it is that the script activates the egg if all the crystals have been destroyed before the next campaign section has loaded (should not be possible until you exit the cave past the terminal, to the area with the destroyed warthog). It checks the first line for either A. the first 5 crystals being destroyed or B. the next area loaded, then it moves on to the next line. Once it reaches the bottom, it activates the egg as long as the next campaign segment is not loaded.