Summary
- Bungie's new Destiny 2 trailer reveals the exciting new modes, gear, and rewards in the upcoming Festival of the Lost event starting on October 17.
- The Festival of the Lost event introduces a new resource called Eerie Engrams that can instantly reward players with gear or be focused at Eva Levante for legendary weapons or exotic gear. Players can also earn a rare Memento drop during the event.
- The trailer showcases the Creepy Crawlies themed armor set, voted on by the community, which transforms the three classes into different forms of beetles and spiders. Cosmetics, emotes, and new masks, including one of the raid boss Rhulk, are also highlighted in the trailer.
Bungie's latest Destiny 2 trailer reveals the new modes, gear, and rewards that players can experience when Festival of the Lost arrives on October 17. The Halloween inspired event original began as a limited time seasonal activity for Destiny in 2015 with players collecting candy from vendors, collecting masks representing various NPCs, and earning loot from Mystery Bags, Consumables, and of course, premium Eververse store items. Since then, the event has continued to evolve, becoming a much bigger activity in Destiny 2 through adding more content, rewards, and activities like Haunted Lost Sectors.
In fact, the same can be said for this year's version of Festival of the Lost, which continues to expand upon the seasonal event. Bungie recently outlined a number of these changes including a Legendary version of Haunted Lost Sectors, giving players the ability to earn more rewards for overcoming a greater challenge. In addition, the Festival of the Lost event features a rare Memento drop along with using a new resource called Eerie Engrams which can either instantly reward players with gear or can be used to focus them at Eva Levante for some legendary weapons or exotic gear.
While Festival of the Lost is slated to begin later today after the Destiny 2 reset, Bungie released a new trailer showcasing the seasonal activity as well as some of the gear that can be earned. As players learned earlier this year, the themed armor set for Festival of the Lost is called Creepy Crawlies, which was voted on by the community, turning the three classes into various forms of beetles and spiders. Naturally, cosmetics are going to be a big part of the 3-week event and the trailer goes to great length to show some of them off including emotes and a few of the new masks for this year including one of the raid boss Rhulk.
The Destiny 2 trailer also shows off the Legendary Lost Sector activities where masked players can earn candy by defeating enemies and have a chance at more rewards, including Eerie Engrams, for beating them. While last year's Mechabre Sniper Rifle returns alongside the Jurassic Green Pulse Rifle and Horror Story Auto Rifle, this year's newest weapon is a heavy grenade launcher called Acosmic which seems to almost have a black hole void explosion effect once the grenades detonate.
Exotic gear is also a big highlight for players during this year's Festival of the Lost in Destiny 2. The Eerie Engrams will be more valuable than ever thanks to the ability to focus them into exotic armor ranging from the first years of Destiny 2 all the way to the Witch Queen expansion. Bungie has also made it, so players can focus these engrams into exotic gear that even hasn't been collected yet, giving players another way to obtain newer exotic armor without having to grind Legendary or Master Lost Sectors.
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