Patch Notessss!! This week, we've got Festival of the Lost, and boy is the drip immaculate.

We looked at all the reset changes and also some of the changes Bungie made for Update 9.1.5.2.

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Patch Notes 4:32

Destiny 2 Team Tweet 6:09

Festival of the Lost 2025 7:13

Eververse Store / FOTL Drip 15:26

Eva Levante Quest

These patch notes and live commentary cover significant updates to Destiny 2, including system changes, gameplay balance, bug fixes, and the launch of the Festival of the Lost 2025 event. The notes also include live reactions to new event rewards, Eververse offerings, and changes to event activities.

Power Levels and Cores Changes

• Unstable cores are no longer granted when dismantling gear, ending the previous method of core acquisition.

• Enhancement cores now cost 5,000 glimmer each, impacting all power levels.

• The recent mass grant of unstable cores was a temporary experience, intended to give players a brief sense of abundance before being removed.

Exotic and Legendary Equipment Fixes

• Stronghold exotic armor now correctly provides Infinite Guard and Max Guard Resistance with Ergo Summon.

• The Enhanced Controlled Burst weapon perk now properly increases duration over the base perk.

• Vortex Grenades have been fixed to pull larger enemies as intended, rather than pushing them away.

Ability Balancing Updates

• Titan Prismatic Shiver Strike melee now refunds 80% energy in PvE and 40% in PvP when missing a target, correcting the previous 80% refund in all modes.

• Hunter Solar "On Your Mark" aspect now has no cooldown for building stacks in PvE. Precision hand cannon hits grant two stacks, and reaching 10 stacks with a precision hit or final blow refreshes the buff.

• Warlock Void Vortex Grenades now function as intended with large enemies, ensuring proper pull effects.

Activities and Matchmaking

• Challenge modifiers have been removed from matchmaking playlists, streamlining activity entry and reducing complexity.

• The Heliostat Pinnacle Op now displays barrier champions at higher difficulties, improving clarity for players.

• Fixed issues with dungeon revive token skulls, ensuring only one option appears per layer.

• Loot from the Contest of Eldritch Pinnacle Op now goes directly to the Postmaster as intended.

• Triumphs have been updated, and boss targeting errors in Desert Perpetual activities have been resolved, preventing multiple bosses from targeting the fireteam simultaneously.

Event: Festival of the Lost 2025

• New event weapons, including a bow and SMG, are available, along with festival masks and player-voted universal armor ornaments.

• Haunted Altars and Red Rumble activities have launched, offering new rewards and gameplay experiences.

• Event mask upgrades provide buffs such as weakening pulse, overshield, and devour when picking up candy.

• Bright Dust can be used to purchase event armor sets and masks, with refunds issued for previous overpayments on armor ornaments during Ash and Iron week one.

• The cap for Eerie Engram bonuses from portal activities has been raised to 99,999, effectively removing limits and making treats widely accessible.

• Event rewards, including weapons, masks, and armor, can be earned through various activities, and the event pass offers additional cosmetics and gear.

Eververse and Cosmetic Offerings

• Festival armor sets for all classes are available for both Silver and Bright Dust, allowing players to choose their preferred currency.

• New and returning masks, ships, and shaders are available in the Eververse store, including a spicy ramen mask and the Ghastly Fright Skimmer Pack with RGB lighting effects.

• All previous Festival of the Lost armor sets are now purchasable with Bright Dust, giving players access to a wide range of cosmetics.

• Live reactions highlight the strong visual design of the Hunter set, with praise for its appearance and shader compatibility.

• The featured skimmer vehicle includes animated RGB lighting that changes while boosting, adding a unique cosmetic effect.

Decisions

• Eerie Engram Cap Increase: The cap for event bonus engrams has been set to 99,999, removing practical limits and allowing players to earn as many as they want during the event.

• Bright Dust Refunds: Players who overpaid for event armor ornaments during Ash and Iron week one will receive refunds of 300 to 600 Bright Dust via special deliveries, with additional refunds for those who purchased three or more ornaments.

Action Items

• All Players: Check your Bright Dust balance for possible refunds if you purchased event ornaments during Ash and Iron week one.

• All Players: Visit the Event Home or Eva Levante in the Tower to start Festival of the Lost 2025 activities and claim event rewards, including new weapons, masks, and armor sets.

• All Players: Explore the Eververse store for new and returning cosmetics, and consider using Bright Dust instead of Silver to maximize value.

Recommendations / Advice

• Use Bright Dust rather than Silver to purchase event armor and cosmetics whenever possible to conserve premium currency.

• Be mindful of Bright Dust spending, as the event offers a large variety of rewards and cosmetics that can quickly deplete your balance.

• Take advantage of the increased Eerie Engram cap to maximize event rewards across all activities.

• Check out the new event pass and activity upgrades for additional buffs and cosmetic items.

Questions / Follow-Ups

• It remains unclear if Bungie will implement increased or unlimited vault space in the future.

• There is an open question about whether future updates will allow players to shoot their own detain at Hydra, as this remains unchanged.

Patch notes! power levels additionally unstable cores will no longer be granted with dismantling gear wow i was certain that bungee was gonna find a way to still get the reach around on us you know what i mean in the most unpleasant of ways but that's incredible one enhancement core 5 000 glimmer all power levels what was the point of the 777 777 unstable cores that i got last week to make you feel special For just a moment. For just a moment. Before they took it away, they showed us what it would have been like to feel, I guess, unstable core rich. But that's fine.

We'll go back to this. All right. Exotic Armor. Strongholds. Fixed an issue where Stronghold wasn't providing Ergo Summon with Infinite Guard and Max Guard Resistance.

Okay. Weapons. Weapon perks.

Fixed an issue. When enhanced controlled burst wasn't gaining improved duration over the base perk. All right. Abilities.

Titan. Prismatic. Shiver Strike melee. Prismatic Shiver Strike now refunds 80% when not hitting a target in PvE and 40% in PvP as intended.

What was it doing before? Wasn't Shiver Strike Titans like able to fly or something? Weren't you guys like flying? It was 80% across the board. Well, can you still fly?

It got... Oh, you got your melee back every time you miss though. Yeah, yeah.

I have not played with Shiver Strike, no. All right, Hunter, Solar, on your mark aspect. Removed cooldown on building on your mark stacks at PvE.

Precision hand cannon hits now grants two stacks of on your mark. Precision hits and final blows at 10 stacks now refresh on your mark. Nice, nice. Warlock, Void, Vortex Grenades. Fixing issue where Vortex Grenades is pushing some larger enemy types instead of pulling them.

Yep. It was actually repelling enemies for some reason. Activities portal.

Remove challenging or challenge modifiers from matchmaking. Elemental hunger. Volatile shields. Match game.

Lightning crystals. Cosmic superconductors. Acid acid.

Slow and small. Energy drain. Haze. Anti-search. Hot damn.

Is Bungie simplifying the portal even further here? Are they? Honest?

Are they taking... Did they watch Esoteric's video? Where they are simplifying it.

Streamlining it. Slapping matchmaking on... Not everything yet.

But... Going that route. Only in matchmaking though. Oh yeah, only from modifiers from matchmaking.

Gotcha, gotcha. I'm gonna be honest, I've actually been just loading up in the matchmaking playlist over and over just because it's easy, man. Easy to just jump in with some people without having to go through Fireteam Finder or even a simple team.

The Heliostat Pinnacle Op now probably shows that barrier champions will be in the activity at higher difficulties. Because if you were breaking Vex Crystals in the Heliostat mission, would not grant Wolf's Bane intrinsics to all players in the Fireteam. Okay, a couple weeks late, but all right. Fixed an issue where some dungeon layers may have multiple options for limited revive token skulls. Fixed an issue where loots from the Contest of Eldritch Pinnacle Op would go directly to the Postmaster.

I, the Desert Perpetual, updated the Network Technician Triumph to accurately reflect the completed state of the Altars and Almanac quests. In the Desert Perpetual base, an epic version of Agrios prevented timing cases where alignment could cause multiple bosses to target the the fire team with variable elimination. Is there still not a change where you could shoot your own detain at Hydra? Can you still not shoot your own detain? I think it's a tenant at this point.

That's just brutal though. You know what I mean? That's a tenant.

I'm not saying it's not a tenant. I'm just saying it's brutal. All right, General. A refund of 300 to 600 Bright Dust is now available on special deliveries for players who overpaid when acquiring one or two pieces of Bright Dust armor ornaments, respectively, during week one of Ash and Iron. Players who purchase three or more ornaments will also receive an additional separate refund directly to their Bright Dust balance for the remaining Bright Dust owed.

Now, maybe this bright dust may not mean that much to you, but keep in mind, guys, we've got Festival today. We're going to jump and take a look at the armor. And yes, you should be able to buy armor with bright dust.

The Hunter change is very strong, by the way. Yeah. That's right.

This On Your Mark aspect. Remove cooldown on building On Your Mark stacks of PvE. Precision Hand Cannons hits now. Grant two stacks of On Your Mark. Precision hits and final blows at 10 stacks.

Now refresh On Your Mark. Mm-hmm. What do y'all think is going to be the best for this?

A gape? And Gate might be firing with this, huh? We'll be taking a look. Mods, put me back in the Destiny 2 directory.

Let me take a look at this. This is the tweet you guys were referring to for us to check out. So from DMD right here.

While drafting these last-minute best of the lost columns of the team, a horrible, not serious draft was written to make people cringe. Yo, fam. How you doing? We've got some hella exciting news today.

No cap. Six sevens of rewards. We hope you like the skippity of the loss.

We like to have fun here. My lord. All right, so right here from the Destiny 2 team. Fest of the Lost begins today.

We have one quick update regarding rewards before our spooky event kicks off. Last week, we noted that players could earn... up to two bonus eerie engrams per day from portal activities.

To get more treats in your hands, we're increasing the cap. We initially thought 777 would be a good target, but landed upon 99,999. Effectively, no cap, no tricks, just treats.

Completing portal activities has a high chance to treat you to Fest with the Lost bonus engrams spread around and earnable in other portal activities. While the best way to get the themed loot and additional bonus drops would be through haunted altars or Red Rumble, we wanted to make sure players could partake in Fest with the Lost goodies no matter what activity they choose to engage with within the portal. See you soon.

Hope you're hungry for some candy. All right. i hope it's good man do that with vault space you cowards actually actually that would be so nice imagine let me just let me just say this and bundy gave us unlimited vaults i'm not saying i've been let everything slide of course not but i would probably put up with a lot of if i can keep literally everything in the game you know what i mean all right halloween is now live let's jump into the game all right let's check it out armor Oh, here we go. Fest of the Lost 2025 is upon us. Ready yourselves, guardians.

The headless ones await. Collect rewards like the new bow, submachine gun, festival mask, and more. Player voted universal arm ornaments are available in Eververse.

Play the new haunted altars. I know I'm blocking that right now. And upgrade your mask to earn even more rewards.

Oh shit. Start the fun by visiting Eva Levante in the tower or by opening the event home in the portal. To the portal everyone, to the portal. Look at this.

You don't even have to go see grandma. We're still gonna go see her. I don't give a damn. Okay, so essentially it's running the same event tab that we've seen in the past, right? Here we go.

Vest of the Lost Haunted Altars of Sorrow. We're going to go jump into that. We also have Red Rumble, where you'll be facing off against other players.

Let's see. Still got the same event tokens, which are probably going to be pretty useless. There is the shotgun, the SMG. We should be getting tier fives right out the gate.

And then we have these right here. These upgrades. Okay.

Pick up a piece of candy generates a weakening pulse. Pick up a piece of candy grants an overshield. Picking up a piece of candy grants devour.

Hot damn. That's pretty far. Let's take a look real quick.

I know most of you just want to see what the armor looks like. Here it is, guys. Here it is. That's the...

This is the warlock armor. I know I'm blocking it right now. Look at that. Master.

Look at that. My head. Guys. Just that alone.

That alone is pretty good. Hold up. Hold up.

Keep in mind, it says 1,500 silver. But if you come over here, you can buy it from Bright Dust, everyone. Look at this.

And so make sure you pick up your free silver that you just saw me pick up. And then go pick up your free armor or your armor set from Bright Dust. Hold on. Let me go to the tower real quick. Let me get this from my postmaster.

All right. Let's see what else is in the store. Oh, we have a spicy ramen mask for silver. All right.

It's kind of good. That's kind of good. That's not bad.

All right. And, okay, we got a number of different masks you can get. This one's for glimmer. Wow. All right.

I'll take it. You've got shaders, too. Let me, hold on. Let me get the new armor on, and then we'll see how this shades.

We have a ship. Oh my god, wait a minute. Hold up. Is this a new one? Ghastly Knights?

Give me just a second. Let me load up real quick. Alright, everything's spookified. Alright, hold on. Let me go through.

Let me get the, um... Let me put the ornaments on. Chad, let me put this drip on real quick. Hold up.

Oh, that does not look good, dude. Oh my lord. That does not look good.

Oh my lord. I know I got a funky shader on right now guys. I know I got a... Look at that though. Look at it.

Look at it. Okay, let me see what the new shaders look like that you can buy from the store. So you go to the store. You've got the shader package. Festival of the Lost 2025 shaders.

Alright. I don't know. I think that first one looks pretty good.

I'm liking the gold on it. Clean. Let me see what the other shaders look like on this thing.

Hold on. Alright, super black. I'm feeling like a taken enemy right now.

Oh, this is animated too. That's moving. That looks good, dude. Hold up.

That looks good. Can we see? I'm going to go. Yeah, we're going to go get on all the characters in just a second.

Dude, I like this. I like this. Armor looks good.

Now, hold on. Let me see what else is in the Eververse store today. For Bride Dust, you can pick up this ship if you want.

You also have a Cade mask you can get. Some of the old Festival of the Lost stuff. So the Skitter Skitter Scare.

I don't know. It's not previewing for me. A Good Boy mask. All right. They're just handing out masks.

Don't. Be very careful, guys. Look what's happening.

My Bright Dust reserves are being depleted. Be very careful. All right.

Then we come here. Let's take a look at this. So you can get this right here. The Ghastly Fright Skimmer Pack.

This comes with the ship, the ghost... And a new skimmer dude, which honestly looks so f*cking fire. God dawg, just hold up. It won't let me color it. And it lights up!

hold on let me take a look let me take a look at the damn shader it's got yeah i don't really care for the shader chat we're just gonna buy it for uh for science i want you to know that okay that's 1200 versus 2500 i don't care about the um i don't care about the the ship or the i don't think i care about the ship is there anything crazy happening no i don't think i care about the ship now this is why destiny is in such a bad state I don't wanna hear this shit first thing y'all ask me every single week. Hey, what's in the Everest store? I don't wanna hear this. I don't wanna hear- I DON'T WANNA HEAR ONE BIT!

For science, I'm buying this so that you guys know whether you should buy it that's it that's that simple i'm gonna i'm just gonna test it out i'm gonna test it out i'm gonna take it for a spin see how it dries if it doesn't drive good obviously i'm gonna tell you not to buy it hold on let me get that rgb in here i mean where's where's uh let's get that photo finish in here let's see if the let's see if the lighting changes oh my god it does Alright, so while you're sitting there boosting, you've got RGB lighting. And it'll be changing the entire time. At least till you run, I guess.

Alright, look. I know we've shown a lot of Warlock shit. And then anything else to purchase, kind of whatever.

You do have access to the old armor sets. That, yes, you can buy with Brite Dust. But, man.

I mean, they look okay. They do. I think that one looks pretty good.

That one looks really good. But the current set just looks good. Matter of fact, every old set of armor you can buy with Brightus.

That's good. That's really good. I do like that shader, man. We may have to get the shader. I don't know.

We may have to pick that up. All right, let me go get on my Hunter real quick. All right, so before we take a look, though, at the Hunter armor, I'm being told that the Festival of Loss event pass is really good. So, Ghost Projection.

Okay. A Ghost Shell. The Weapon. The Bow. Candy Bone.

Oh, it still keeps going. Hold up. The Ship.

One of the Prometheus. Shotgun. And then at rank 30 is a Shader.

Hold up. Hold up. Let me get this armor set real quick.

Hold on. Let's see why we got to see it right. All right. Hold on. Let me buy this armor set.

This is what we think is the sexiest armor set in the game. I hate that hunters are the ones that get this armor set, but it is what it is. It does look good though, man.

God, that looks creepy though, man. Look at that. Oh my God. Poo poo? Y'all don't like this?

Hunters, what's wrong with y'all? This is the best damn looking armor set I've ever seen made for you f**ks. Oh my lord.

Let me see what it would look like with the fully upgraded path. Hold on. This is the max rank reward.

Let me look better with the weapons. I think just the armor set on its own, man, with the current line of shaders we got looks the best. I mean, I think this looks fantastic. I feel like red's the way to go, man.

Like red and white, for sure. I like that. Just that little bit of red. You know what I mean? Just a little bit of paint.

A bit of red there at the end. Oh my god. Is that it?

Oh my lord. It's pulsing. It's pulsing right now.

Look at the flowers. That shit's pulsing. Oh, that's so good. That's so fucking nice. That's the one, dude.

That's the one. No, no, no. That one looks mean.

It's just like a little bit of faint here. A little faint here. That's the one right here. All right. Looks pretty damn good to me, dude.

I don't play Hunter much, but we may have to play Hunter for these next few weeks. That's fire. One of the best looking armor sets.

All right. Let me get out. Let me get a look at Titan real quick. I think I'm out of money. I think this next set we'll have to buy for silver.

I don't... I have just enough, fellas. I have 6,107.

Yeah. I am completely bright dust broke. We have nothing. I mean, like, we can't buy anything else after this point. Hopefully, money keeps giving us free shit.

All right, hold on. Let's take a look here. Yeah, Scarlet Similus doesn't look nearly as good.

I mean, it looks pretty good how it flashes on the... See how it flashes on it? I would say for, in my opinion, Hunter has the best looking set. Warlock, second best. And the Titans.

And I'll only bring this up. I mean, again, it just comes down to whatever player, whatever character you play the most. I like that.

I would definitely pick up that Hunter set. That Hunter set looks good. All right, guys, we're going to go play the activity now.

Uh, um let me go pick up let me go get back on on warlock and then i'm gonna go pick up the uh the quest here from i need to pick up i don't even know if i need to pick up anything from eva all right let's see eva's eyes twinkle she gives you a warm smile there you are she reaches behind her picking up a mask i made this just for you i patterned from similar one that maria had when she was little her head was a bit smaller though she chuckles finally we'll try it on Wait, hold up. So this shows the rewards. We can then also gunner exotic focusing. Are we going to be able to...

Holy shit! So for candy, you will be able to focus exotics of your choice. And so it's just like Ada, except this requires just candy.

On top of the rewards you get from eerie weapon ignorance, which by the way, I guess this includes everything, includes the bows, the shotgun, the new SMG, and... submersion, the combat crossbow that so many people are still missing. We'll take a look at it.

We'll see how often this actually drops for us. Slap that like button like your mama told you, right?