The Festival of the Lost, traditional Halloween event 2021 from Destiny 2, is approaching quickly. However, until now Bungie has revealed only minimal information for the community. This year there was no cool trailer beforehand and hardly any pictures of the announced armors or weapons. MeinMMO reveals everything that is known so far.
This event is about: The Festival of the Lost is the Destiny version of Halloween. The event takes place annually in the fall and has been celebrated every year since Destiny 1.
Players love the spooky event:
- In the Tower, the meeting point of Destiny 2, atmospheric candles, pumpkins, and costumes ensure that everyone gets into the right spooky mood.
- There are a lot of candies to earn, which can be exchanged for spooky cosmetics and weapons during the festivities.
- In 2021, players were even allowed to choose the Festival armor set themselves.
This is the event period: The Festival of the Lost takes place from October 12 to November 2, 2021. Start and end are each together with the Weekly Reset, Tuesdays at 7:00 PM.
Are there any participation requirements? No, the Festival of the Lost can be celebrated by all players. That means, whether you own every add-on and a season pass or are a Guardian with the Free-to-Play version Destiny 2: New Light – all rewards and activities are freely accessible.
This is your contact person: Eva Levante, the Space Grandma of Destiny 2, will be your contact person for all Festival Bounties again this year.
- She provides you with quests and bounties
- Eva distributes the “Festival of the Lost” event rewards
- Visit her to receive items or exchange candies for rewards
Players are wondering why Bungie has revealed something about the event so late: Last year there was already a cool trailer and concrete information beforehand. That made everyone curious about the Halloween event. However, 2021 is different. Players are wondering why Bungie is keeping quiet for so long.
There was also no proper roadmap for the Season of the Lost, and now the details of the event are missing in advance. Is there perhaps still a surprise waiting for us?
Players selected their Halloween Festival armor in 2021
Bungie had left the choice to the players. They could vote in March 2021 via a survey which of the two presented armor concept arts they liked more. The Dino setting won back then. This was then officially announced as a universal ornament for the Festival of the Lost 2021.
This makes it especially exciting: Exactly because the players actively participated in the appearance of the new Halloween set in 2021, it is all the more exciting. The players only knew roughly how the armor would look this year. Bungie kept everything a secret until shortly before the event start on October 12 and only then showed pictures of the finished armors.
The concept art of the dinos has been implemented very accurately:
In the finished armors, one can see that many details have flowed into the finished armor design just as the first concept art had shown.
- The Hunter is the sleek Velociraptor, agile, nimble, and fierce.
- The Warlock is a Triceratops, which takes its enemies by the horns
- The Titan gets the dangerous T-Rex. Any similarities with short-range melee attacks of the Titan and T-Rex arms are purely coincidental.
What will the armor ornaments cost?: Each set costs either 6,000 Glamour Dust or 1,500 Silver.
Then comes the official Halloween trailer: On October 12, 2021, at 7 PM, during the weekly reset, Bungie will show the trailer for the Festival of the Lost in-game.
Bungie also published further information about the Halloween event 2021, one hour before the event starts, on bungie.net to prepare the Guardians for the event.
Check out the spooky trailer here:
This is new at the Festival of the Lost 2021:
Apart from the known details about the Festival of the Lost,
- Event-specific Triumphs: The Festival of the Lost 2021 offers new Triumphs that can only be completed during the event and
- Event-specific bounties: Eva’s bounties grant Glamour Dust, XP, Glimmer, and candies. The tasks follow the well-known schema of weekly, daily, and additional bounties.
- Event-specific lore: A new book full of unforgettable characters and heroic deeds
will also change a bit during the Halloween event 2021.
- The Haunted Forest is no longer the event activity: Since Mercury, along with the Infinite Forest, has been vaulted, it is no longer available for the event. Bungie has replaced the known Haunted Forest activity with “Haunted Sectors”.
Your task is to uncover all dark secrets:
- An Exo and a Vex spirit have fused into something new
- a Guardian on Nessus is being hunted because someone is after their spirit
- and headless beings are lurking through the dark chasms of the Moon
These rewards the Halloween event 2021 brings
As always, you can earn rewards during the Festival of the Lost in the following ways.
- From Eva and at the end of a Haunted Sector activity.
- Additionally, you can treat yourself to numerous event items in the Eververse, including the Calaveras Ghost Shell or a cool Sparrow in spider design.
- At Eva, you can also complete event-specific Triumphs that grant you various cosmetics.
This is the Festival weapon 2021:
This year, as a reward, there are not only reheated Halloween weapons like the automatic rifles “Spooky Story” and “Braytech Werewolf.” Bungie has reintroduced a pulse rifle called “Prehistoric Green” in a fancy Dino-shed look. It strongly resembles the Pulse Rifle “Tannen Green”.
This is also interesting: Destiny 2 celebrates in 2021 under the motto “Dia de los Muertos”. To this end, an event reward was presented in more detail in the This Week at Bungie Blog from October 7, 2021. The ghost shell “Calaveras” features a typical Dia de los Muertos design and was designed by artist Luis Yépez, also a Destiny 2 player.
I was contacted by people at Bungie who knew my Trixels Series, and they asked me if I would like to contribute something to the Festival of the Lost with my design work. I believe I didn’t hesitate for a second – OF COURSE I WANT TO DO THIS!
Luis Yépez
Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is one of the most important holidays in Mexico. There, one commemorates the deceased and remembers them. Bungie emphasizes that diversity and representation are important not only in the world of Destiny 2 but also in the community.
The Calaveras Ghost Shell will be available when the Festival of the Lost starts on October 12 at 7 PM. You can either purchase the ghost shell for silver or glamour dust. There will also be other cool cosmetics to grab, like a Sparrow, a ghost shell, and a new ship.
These festival masks can be earned at Eva in 2021:
- Eramis Mask
- Goose Moon Mask
- Care Robot Mask
- Taniks Mask
- Pyramid Mask
- Ada1 Mask
These festival masks are available for silver:
- Penguin Mask
- Shadow Titan Mask
- Partner Mask
- Spider Mask
For 1200 Glamour Dust, this week the Omnigoul Mask is also available in the Eververse.
This year, it will definitely be exciting to see what the new Haunted Sectors have to offer the players. Overall, fresh wind has come into the event. How do you find the new pulse rifle with its dino look and the new cosmetics?
P.S.: 10 out of 10 space dentists recommend handing out candy instead of eating it.
