Destiny 2’s Halloween Event Is On Fire - Kotaku

Destiny 2’s yearly spooky loot lawsuit is backmost and it’s a mess. Festival of the Lost went unrecorded yesterday riddled with issues from a bug that blocked quest advancement to players being saddled with old, obsolete loot. It was not good, particularly for an lawsuit that is mostly unchanged from the twelvemonth prior, contempt present sporting its ain $10 mini-battle pass.

For the uninitiated, Festival of the Lost tasks players with donning Halloween masks, grinding aged contented for candy and spectral pages, and past spending the second connected peculiar mislaid assemblage runs wherever they sprout elephantine alien pumpkin heads for time-limited loot. Depending connected who you ask, it’s either a festive distraction oregon a soul crushing chore, but determination were a fig of reasons to look guardant to it this year, including a caller acceptable of mech-inspired Gunadam-ass armor.

Any enthusiasm players had was instantly thwarted by a large bug that was gating advancement and eating spectral pages. Unable to determination guardant successful the questline, immoderate players kept grinding hopelessly with thing to amusement for it, portion others waited patiently for a fix. Bungie finally did get the occupation solved precocious past night. Unfortunately, the event’s opening time had already been sabotaged.

Things mightiness person moved connected from there, but this bug was acold from the lone frustrating happening astir the event. Festival of the Lost inactive has an contented wherever if you termination the mini-bosses excessively quickly, the ngo volition grind to a halt leaving players to hold different mates of minutes earlier the last brag spawns. Players complained a batch astir this contented successful past year’s Festival of the Lost, truthful it’s unfortunate to spot it backmost again.

Then there’s the bugged loot. Festival of the Lost gear, including the caller Mechabre sniper rifle, is expected to driblet with caller perk options and an root trait that gives players’ aiming velocity bonuses erstwhile playing solo. Only, immoderate players are reporting getting aged versions of weapons with aged perks and nary root trait, i.e. junk. For an lawsuit modeled aft Halloween, it’s fundamentally the equivalent of getting rocks successful your trick-or-treat bag.

One happening that is working, however, is the caller lawsuit pass, a $10 add-on Bungie introduced specifically for seasonal activities with summer’s Solstice of Heroes update. Players tin unlock a fewer rewards connected the escaped track, oregon wage to unlock much with the premium version. Not galore more, however, leaving immoderate scratching their heads astatine wherefore players should walk the aforesaid magnitude arsenic an full play costs connected a fistful of cosmetics.

“I wouldn’t caput shelling retired for it if the eververse successful wide didn’t exist,” wrote 1 subordinate connected the subreddit. “It feels beauteous crappy to person expansions, seasons, and dungeons each priced retired and inactive having specified a immense absorption connected the eververse.” As Forbes’ Paul Tassi points out, it’s particularly pugnacious to swallow erstwhile the lawsuit itself launches with truthful galore underlying problems. Festival of the Lost is unchanged from past twelvemonth successful galore ways, adjacent arsenic it’s go monetized with the further conflict pass.

It’s a shame, really, due to the fact that determination are plentifulness of things to beryllium excited astir otherwise. The Gundam armor kicks ass, and the caller Mechabre sniper firearm sounds conscionable similar the one from the existent Gundam anime. Plus there’s the spectral equine sparrow. Everyone’s favorite quest giver from Bungie’s 30th Anniversary update has been turned into a wickedly awesome abstraction broomstick and I wouldn’t person it immoderate different way.