Just an hour before the daily reset, Bungie released a new look at the upcoming Festival of the Lost event for Destiny 2. The trailer showcases a returning activity, decorated Tower spaces, and many of the delightful goodies players will be able to earn.
Festival of the Lost is Destiny 2's annual Halloween event. It usually accompanies the launch of a major expansion, but since Beyond Light has been delayed significantly, Festival of the Lost 2020 will take place inside Season of Arrivals. As a result of this unusual arrangement, the event will begin sooner than expected, on October 6, and conclude on November 3, a week before the new expansion goes live.
The premise of the event is that while the Tower celebrates the legacy of those lost in wars, Mercury's Infinite Forest starts to hum with dark apparitions. Now dubbed the Haunted Forest, Guardians are sent to sweep it clean of any nightmares, rewarding them with cosmetics, triumphs, and gear. Veteran fans will be familiar with how the event functions, but there could always be surprises that Bungie is hiding. The main attraction, the Haunted Forest, will once again be a timed and procedurally generated mission. The more branches a team can clear within the allocated time, the better the rewards.
Players will be able to unlock old and new masks based on their favorite characters which replace the helmet item when equipped. The two previously available weapons, Horror Story and Braytech Werewolf, will both make a comeback with brand new perks added to their random perk pools. Eververse will once again sell highly thematic cosmetics from emotes to the previously leaked folktale inspired armor sets.
To some, these offerings may be disappointing since this song and dance is becoming quite familiar. The year of Shadowkeep has clearly been an adjustment period for Bungie as a good portion of the content from the past year has been based on previous entries. On the bright side, Beyond Light seems like it will freshen the Destiny experience dramatically. Even the introduction of the Destiny Content Vault alone could be an indication that there will be less reused content in the future.
Since Halloween is taking place inside Season of Arrivals, the event embraces the sinister atmosphere of the pyramid ships hanging over the Solar System. It does indeed give a more tangible horror theme to this year's festivity, but it remains to be seen whether this will be reflected in the lore that usually accompanies events like this.
Destiny 2 is available now for PC, PS4, Stadia, and Xbox One, with PS5 and Xbox Series X versions in development.
Source: Bungie