Destiny 2 News

Destiny 2's Festival of the Lost returns once again but this year, things are a little bit different. There's some spooky new loot to get your hands on, of course, but you won't just be blitzing your way through the Haunted Forest as usual. The event begins at the Destiny 2 weekly reset later today, but as Bungie has been surprisingly tight-lipped this year, details are a bit thin on the ground. With that in mind let's take a look at everything we know about the Festival of the Lost 2021...
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Bungie have announced plans to remove the Forsaken expansion's story campaign from Destiny 2, shuffling it into the Destiny Content Vault along with the Tangled Shore location. The Dreaming City will stay, thankfully, and Bungie also plan to pull some old content back out of the Vault. Before Forsaken vanishes in February, it will become free for all players from December. And hey, Battlegrounds mode is becoming a regular fixture!

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Bungie has offered an update on its unpopular plan to gradually vault old Destiny 2 content to make room for the new. Next on the chopping block is the game's beloved Forsaken expansion.

The developer announced that the Forsaken campaign and The Tangled Shore destination will enter the Destiny Content Vault (DCV) on February 22, the launch day of the game's next expansion: The Witch Queen. This also includes all of the Year 4 seasonal content, including The Presage and Harbinger Exotic missions.

The Dreaming City, however, will continue to be available as a destination. Not everything in Year 4 will be going away, you'll still be able to jump into The Proving Grounds strike, The Warden of Nothing strike, as well as The Battlegrounds activities. Bungie is also combining Battlegrounds with strikes in the new Vanguard Operations playlist, which will be available for free to all players on February 22.

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This week at Bungie, preparations for Festival of the Lost begin!

Welcome back to another weekly installment of the TWAB. There’s been quite a bit going on, hasn’t there? We’ve got teatime with Savathûn. Trails to trek in the Shattered Realm. Astrals to align in Astral Alignment. Fikrul and his hoard of mini-Screebs also kicked off our Seasonal offering of Grandmaster Nightfalls with The Hallowed Lair. Maybe you’re simply looking for some sweet loot, decoding Umbral Engrams for the perfect double-double perk roll on the Stasis Fractethyst Shotgun. If you took a couple weeks off, no better time to catch up!

Outside of gameplay, we’ve also provided an update on our plans for the Destiny Content Vault. Haven’t read it yet? Here are some of the bigger notes:

• The Tangled Shore, the Forsaken campaign, and Year 4 Seasonal content will be entering the DCV in February 2022.
  
• Starting on December 7, the Forsaken campaign will be free to play until it enters the DCV.
  
• Some activities, like the Dreaming City destination and Battlegrounds, will be retained.
  

Head over to the Destiny Content Vault Update article for the full write up.

Looking back to Season of the Lost, we have some content on the horizon. Next week, there will be some challenge to embrace within the Shattered Realm. It may be dangerous to go alone, so you might want to call up a friend for some assistance.



Festival of the Lost is also making its debut! While we don’t have a full reveal just yet, we do have an awesome Ghost Shell preview below, accompanied with an interview with its artist.

The Destiny Content Vault, launched in 2020 with the Beyond Light expansion, is a place where Bungie can store "less actively played" destinations and activities. According to the studio, the Vault is necessary so that it can add new content without making the game unmanageably bloated. When the Vault first went live at the start of Destiny 2 Year 4, Bungie moved Mars, Io, Titan, Mercury, the Leviathan, and pretty much all their associated content went into it. Today we learned that in February 2022, when Year 5 gets underway, the Forsaken campaign and Tangled Shore destination will also be added to the vault. Which is to effectively say deleted from the game. The Dreaming City location, thankfully, is being spared for now...
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