Destiny 2’s Festival Of The Lost Offers Superblack Shader And A New Way To Get Exotic Class Items
Destiny 2’s next seasonal celebration, the Halloween-themed Festival of the Lost, will offer new ways to get some highly sought-after rewards. The annual event is bringing a means to get its best piece of armor, the ability-combining Exotic class item, that allows you to skip the (excellent, but potentially arduous) two-player Dual Destiny mission. The Festival of the Lost will also see the return of Superblack, an all-black cosmetic shader players haven’t been able to get in the game since the launch of the Final Shape expansion.
Bungie laid out the details for how to get both rewards in its latest This Week in Destiny blog post, where it also provided a bunch of information about the Festival of the Lost event, which launches on October 29. During the Festival, players can earn an event-specific currency–candy, because it’s Halloween–that can be spent with Eva, the vendor for holiday events. With 2,500 candy and one of the Festival’s specific gear drops, an Eerie Engram, you can buy an Exotic class item directly from Eva.
Currently, players need to complete Dual Destiny, a two-player story mission, located in the Pale Heart of the Traveler location that was added with The Final Shape. It’s one of Bungie’s best missions, in fact, but some players have struggled with or complained about its requirements. Dual Destiny can’t be completed alone, and because it requires a lot of communication and teamwork in the same way Destiny 2’s raids and dungeons do, the mission doesn’t support matchmaking. Thus, if you don’t have a good teammate with whom you can communicate to complete the mission with, you can’t unlock the Exotic class item.