Destiny 2: Festival of the Lost 2025 brings more than recycled Lost Sectors this time. Guardians can look forward to new activities, updated loot, and a fresh set of rewards. This year, Eva Levante is once again the heart of the Tower celebration, handing out bounties and offering upgrades that make candy farming more rewarding. The event hub remains accessible through the in-game event tab, following Bungie’s seasonal layout used across other annual events.
The core currency stays the same—candy—but the way it’s used has evolved. By wearing a Festival mask, players earn candy from almost every activity. The haunted mask system now adds active buffs on pickup, including a weakening pulse, overshield, or devour effect, offering small but meaningful gameplay boosts.
How to Start and Farm Candy Fast
To begin Destiny 2: Festival of the Lost, visit Eva Levante in the Tower. Equip the event mask she gives you and start playing any activity to earn candy. Portal activities are the most rewarding, but Eva’s bounties also speed up progress. Haunted trees around the Tower—near Eva and Ikora Rey—offer free candy pickups for an easy start.
Traditional candy farms like Nightfalls and EDZ heroic public events still work great, yielding up to 600 candy per run. Bungie also confirmed that the eerie engram cap has been removed, allowing Guardians to earn unlimited bonus drops from portal activities. This change finally gives players the freedom to farm as much as they want, across any mode they enjoy.
Haunted Altars and Red Rum(ble) Activities
Two new modes headline this year’s Destiny 2: Festival of the Lost. The first, Haunted Altars, is a six-player cooperative event set on the Moon that mixes Altars of Sorrow with Onslaught mechanics. Players defend zones, build turrets, fend off waves, and collect candy before facing a powerful boss.
The second mode, Red Rum(ble), is a special version of the free-for-all Crucible mode. It introduces Headless Ones as roaming targets, rewarding explosive pumpkins and special powerups. This PvP variant adds chaos and humor to the event, keeping both PvE and PvP players engaged throughout the month-long celebration.
New Weapons, Armor, and Cosmetics
Festival of the Lost 2025 introduces three main weapons: the Gunburn kinetic SMG with Bewildering Burst and Kinetic Tremors; the Hushed Whisper strand bow featuring Slice and Tear and Aggregate Charge; and the returning Arcane Embrace shotgun. All can drop from eerie engrams or be purchased with candy through Eva’s event shop.
Armor designs this year fully embrace horror movie themes. Titans get a Jason Voorhees-inspired look, Hunters wear a ghostly Spectre mask reminiscent of Scream, and Warlocks channel a Slender Man aesthetic. New collectible masks include Failsafe, Orin, and some eerie Kepler fungal variants.
Eververse also brings a fresh lineup of spooky cosmetics, shaders, and emotes for Guardians wanting to go all-in on Halloween style.
What Makes This Year’s Festival Special
Destiny 2: Festival of the Lost 2025 adds real variety to the annual Halloween event, offering new reasons to jump back in. Unlimited eerie engrams, candy-based buffs, and multiple playable modes ensure there’s something for everyone. Whether tackling Haunted Altars with fireteams or jumping into chaotic Red Rum(ble) matches, Guardians can earn rewards faster and more enjoyably this year.
