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.
Destiny 2’s Haunted Lost Sectors don’t work, it seems
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 Festival of the Lost is more-or-less functionally the same as it was last year, and users reported “grueling multi-day grinds,” back then as well, saying that they will “never do [them] again.”
It is, perhaps, telling that Reddit user FarGrape1953 posted a month ago expecting these very same issues to crop up over the course of 2023’s Festival of the Lost, calling for the return of the Haunted Forest. Many of the comments responding to their thread shared these sentiments.
In other words, the community believed well ahead of time that the Festival of the Lost would end up being unenjoyable in some respects, and Bungie ended up being entirely predictable in this respect. As we mentioned at the start, though, the new Exotic focusing feature is a bit of a silver lining, but it doesn’t seem to be enough to keep players entertained as the event keeps on going.
