While Destiny 2 may have done some things right with this year’s Festival of the Lost Halloween event, the game’s main activity appears to be fairly problematic. Specifically, the Legend Haunted Lost Sectors have made a return from last year’s Festival of the Lost and some of the community is well and truly fed up with them already.
Legend Haunted Lost Sectors are, essentially, just what it says on the tin: a heavily souped-up version of the regular Lost Sector missions with a bit of Halloween pizzaz plastered on top. They wouldn’t even be particularly offensive as a side activity to accompany a full-fledged Festival of the Lost event, but Bungie instead introduced them as a replacement to the Haunted Forest, which veteran players may remember. As it now stands, Legend Haunted Lost Sectors are being described as “tedious and unfun” by players.
On top of this active and lengthy Reddit critique of Destiny 2‘s premiere FOTL activity, many other members of the community have been posting their own takes on the situation. Arcturus1800, for example, points out that the activity is strangely punishing and difficult, and that the players simply don’t care enough to put on the appropriate anti-Champion mods. It doesn’t help, either, that the “rewards are garbage,” as they put it. “Legend Haunted Sectors are far too difficult for something that should be a holiday event to be relatively casually played, rewards are terrible and the people playing them also make it infuriating to run them,” Arcturus1800 concluded. Many of their thoughts are echoed in Spicy_Godrolls’ own featured thread, of course.
The really interesting bits, though, come from some of the older threads posted on the r/destinythegame subreddit. Notably, this year’s
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