After a number of years of plundering Lost Sectors to kill pumpkin-headed bosses, Destiny 2 gamers may have some new spooky actions to finish when this 12 months’s Festival of the Lost rolls round.
Bungie talked about a number of adjustments coming to Destiny’s yearly Halloween occasion throughout its livestream detailing the upcoming Renegades enlargement. Alongside the yearly drops of themed beauty armor and particular weapons, builders talked about each a brand new six-player PvE exercise and a three-player PvP exercise.
The six-player exercise known as Haunted Altars, and based on Destiny design lead Clayton Kisko, it sees the Headless Ones–huge Halloween-themed boss monsters who sport pumpkins the place their heads used to be–finally escaping from the Lost Sectors the place they have been holed up for earlier festivals. As for the PvP exercise, it is known as Crimson Rumble. Bungie did not present any particulars as to what the actions will really be, however they need to shake up the components of raiding Lost Sectors, which has been the mainstay exercise since again earlier than the discharge of the Past Gentle enlargement.
This 12 months additionally sees the return of “hocus-focusing,” which lets you decide the loot you will obtain throughout the occasion. You will want Eerie Engrams, which drop from Festival actions, and Sweet, the foreign money you will get all through the Festival of the Lost interval. Hocus-focusing lets you obtain particular weapons from the Festival loot pool, or to seize Unique gear, so long as you’ve the Sweet to pay for it.
Alongside a number of new particulars about Destiny 2’s Halloween celebration, Bungie additionally confirmed off this 12 months’s Festival of the Lost beauty armor ornaments, that are themed round pop-culture killers. Gamers voted between armor units themed on Slashers and Specters again in January, but it surely appears as if Bungie mixed components of each teams into the ultimate armor set.
Hunters can seize armor themed across the look of a ghostly bride (which additionally blends in among the Ghost Face-esque look impressed by the slasher from the Scream films); Titans get a glance impressed by hockey mask-wearing assassin Jason Vorhees of Friday the thirteenth; and Warlocks can gown up as a creature akin to the web’s favourite tall spindly faceless child-stalker, the Slenderman.
As normal, these armor ornaments might be accessible by the Eververse Retailer for Silver, Destiny 2’s premium currency–so do not anticipate to earn them by gameplay.
Bungie ran down a number of particulars about Renegades throughout the livestream, in addition to adjustments it is making to Destiny 2’s loot and Energy grind, based mostly on participant suggestions.