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Destiny 2’s Halloween Event Is On Fire & Players Are Losing It
Destiny 2’s annual spooky loot event is back and it’s a mess. Festival of the Lost went live yesterday riddled with issues from a bug that blocked quest progress to players being saddled with old, obsolete loot. It was not good, especially for an event that is mostly unchanged from the year prior, despite now sporting its own $10 mini-battle pass.
For the uninitiated, Festival of the Lost tasks players with donning Halloween masks, grinding old content for candy and spectral pages, and then spending the latter on special lost sector runs where they shoot giant alien pumpkin heads for time-limited loot. Depending on who you ask, it’s either a festive distraction or a soul crushing chore, but there were a number of reasons to look forward to it this year, including a new set of mech-inspired Gunadam-ass armor.
Any enthusiasm players had was immediately thwarted by a major bug that was gating progress and eating spectral pages. Unable to move forward in the questline, some players kept grinding hopelessly with nothing to show for it, while others waited patiently for a fix. Bungie finally did get the problem solved late last night. Unfortunately, the event’s opening day had already been sabotaged.
Things might have moved on from there, but this bug was far from the only frustrating thing about the event. Festival of the Lost still has an issue where if you kill the mini-bosses too quickly, the mission will grind to a halt leaving players to wait another couple of minutes before the final boss spawns. Players complained a lot about this issue in last year’s Festival of the Lost, so it’s unfortunate to see it back again.
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Then there’s the bugged loot. Festival of the Lost gear, including the new Mechabre sniper rifle, is supposed to drop with new perk options and an origin trait that gives players’ aiming speed bonuses when playing solo. Only, some players are reporting getting old versions of weapons with old perks and no origin trait, i.e. junk. For an event modeled after Halloween, it’s essentially the equivalent of getting rocks in your trick-or-treat bag.
One thing that is working, however, is the new event pass, a $10 add-on Bungie introduced specifically for seasonal activities with summer’s Solstice of Heroes update. Players can unlock a few rewards on the free track, or pay to unlock more with the premium version. Not many more, however, leaving some scratching their heads at why players should spend the same amount as an entire season costs on a handful of cosmetics.
“I wouldn’t mind shelling out for it if the eververse in general didn’t exist,” wrote one player on the subreddit. “It feels pretty crappy to have expansions, seasons, and dungeons all priced out and still having such a huge focus on the eververse.” As Forbes’ Paul Tassi points out, it’s especially tough to swallow when the event itself launches with so many underlying problems. Festival of the Lost is unchanged from last year in many ways, even as it’s become monetized with the additional battle pass.
It’s a shame, really, because there are plenty of things to be excited about otherwise. The Gundam armor kicks ass, and the new Mechabre sniper rifle sounds just like the one from the actual Gundam anime. Plus there’s the spectral horse sparrow. Everyone’s favorite quest giver from Bungie’s 30th Anniversary update has been turned into a wickedly awesome space broomstick and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Destiny 2 Goes Full Anime With Haunted Gundam Armor
Destiny 2’s big spooky event is just around the corner, and Bungie finally teased the new mech-inspired armor players will be chasing. Some people get Ultraman vibes. Others see Power Rangers. But I’m getting a big dose of Gundam, and I’m super pumped about it.
Festival of the Lost goes live on October 18, and while Bungie hasn’t revealed the full details on how this year’s version will work, it traditionally revolves around wearing masks, shooting haunted enemies, and collecting the space candy that falls out to trade in for festive goodies. Last year’s theme was dinosaurs, and it was…fine! This year, players voted for either mechs or monsters, and naturally mechs won (monsters, meanwhile, lost for the second year in a row).
The Gundam-ass armor will be available throughout Festival of the Lost. Hunters look cool, but the mech-theme clearly plays best with the bulky Titan aesthetic, so I will be dusting mine off after a couple seasons in storage. The event will also add a sniper rifle with a new origin perk called Search Party that buff’s aim and movement speed when you’re solo. There’s even a new Rhulk mask so everyone can dress up as their favorite Witness Disciple.
In the meantime, Bungie also announced some big and small changes coming to the rest of Destiny 2. Next week’s mid-season update will re-balance a bunch of weapons, including buffs to auto rifles and some very minor nerfs to a few other weapons like scout rifles. The Rangefinder perk is also getting tweaked and will see 20 percent less bonus aim-assist at long distances, while powerful exotics Jade Rabbit and No Time To Explain see their aim-assist reduced as well.
More importantly, Bungie revealed a big rework of its currency economy that will come in Season 19. Planetary Materials are going away and heroic public events will be the new hotspot for farming Glimmer. The idea is to reduce some of the noise on the inventory screen and make Destiny 2 more approachable for newcomers. While it’s the right move, I still think a much deeper overhaul is needed. Glimmer is also pretty useless at this point.
Yes, it’s required for certain gear upgrades and can also buy extra bounties to farm XP quicker, but it basically feels completely tangential to the rest of the experience, unlike Legendary Shards which are currently being depleted at alarming rates thanks to the expensive seasonal Umbral Engram focusing loop. Lightfall, and whatever other big changes it brings to Destiny 2, can’t come soon enough. For now, it’s almost Gundam time.
Bandai Namco Announces Switch Demo For SD Gundam Battle Alliance
Update [Sat 23rd Jul, 2022 02:45 BST]: It seems this demo has already gone live on the Japanese Switch eShop. Provided you have access to a Nintendo account in this region, you can download it right now and play it with English subtitles. Enjoy!
Original article [Fri 22nd Jul, 2022 01:55 BST]: Following on from the news in May that SD Gundam Battle Alliance would be receiving a worldwide release for Switch on 25th August 2022, Bandai Namco has now announced a free demo. It’s releasing on 28th/29th July, but the Switch version will follow at a later date.
This demo will allow players to try out ‘Directory 1: Mission “Tekkadan”!’ and players will also be able to transfer across the demo’s save data to the full version of the game when it is released.
Here’s a bit about what to expect from this upcoming release, along with the original release date announcement trailer:
“After strange incidents known as “Breaks” occur across the Gundam universe, it’s your job to find out what’s going on and restore the proper timeline. You’ll do this by leading three mobile suits into battle – with this entry featuring over 20 different mobile suit Gundam series. There’ll also be the ability to battle alongside friends in online co-op multiplayer.”
Will you be giving this demo a go? Leave a comment down below.
SD Gundam Battle Alliance launches August 25
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The game will be available in $59.99 standard and $84.99 Deluxe editions. The latter includes a Season Pass, an early unlock for the Gundam unit Command Gundam, and all pre-order bonuses.
Pre-order bonuses include:
- “SD Gundam World Sangoku Soketsuden Pack” – Includes Liu Bei Unicorn, Sun Quan Astray, and Cao Cao Wing.
- “ Mobile [1,862 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/mobile”>Mobile Suit Launch Support: Start Dash Pack” – Includes 5,000 Capital Ticket x1, expansion part Char Aznable’s Mask (infighter / all-rounder / Shooter [3,138 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/genres/shooter”>shooter), and early unlocks for the Gundam units Knight Gundam and Musha Gundam.
Here is an overview of the game, via Bandai Namco:
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Key Features
- A Battle Alliance to Correct a False World – The story takes place in G: Universe, a world where Gundam canon twists and turns in ways no one can predict. To correct this world’s distorted history, the player leads a 3-unit squadron consisting of Mobile Suits and pilots from across Gundam history—a true Battle Alliance. What awaits beyond false history?…
- Combo Action with Stunning Visuals and Dynamic Animation – Indulge in a wide array of Mobile Suit weaponry to crush many foes with! Control Mobile Suits portrayed with realistic weathering that showcases them as weapons of war as they tear across the battlefield with dynamic animations.
- Strange Phenomena known as Breaks are Twisting Legendary Moments from Gundam history, and You’re in Charge to Fix Them – Experience [201 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/companies/experience”>Experience Gundam history’s most famous scenes as you develop new Mobile Suits to add to your arsenal. Gather Capital and expansion parts to transform your favorite machine into the ultimate Mobile Suit.
- Tackle Missions with Friends in Multiplayer [34 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/genres/multiplayer”>Multiplayer – Launch into battle with two partners to back you up. In multiplayer, you can play through the game with up to two other players in a three-person team. Enjoy this new SD Gundam action RPG solo, or with friends.
Featured Series
- Mobile Suit Gundam
- Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team
- Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt
- Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory
- Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
- Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack Beltorchika’s Children
- Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
- Mobile Suit Gundam F91
- Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam
- Mobile Suit V Gundam
- Mobile Fighter G Gundam
- Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
- After War Gundam X
- Turn A Gundam
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED VS Astray
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
- Mobile Suit Gundam 00
- Mobile Suit Gundam 00 The Movie -Awakening of the Trailblazer-
- Reconguista in G
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
- Musha Knight Command: SD Gundam Scramble
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Rare Gundam Graphics Cards Wasted On Crypto Mining
I can’t explain it. I can’t justify it. But I do get Gundam fans’ strange attachment to the special-edition GeForce RTX 3080 Gundam graphics cards. They’re beefy but elegant and come in a sleek titanium white. They’re also next to impossible to find, which is why some people might be crestfallen to see them put to work anonymously mining crypto currency.
As first reported by VideoCardz, the expensive GPUs were recently spotted at the Nguyenconpc PC shop in Vietnam being packed in cases like sardines, presumably to be resold as custom crypto mining rigs. Announced last year, Asus’ RTX 3080 Gundam cards are pure fan service, with extremely limited quantities pushing them to resale for $2,000-$3,000 on places like eBay. (The most basic RTX 3080 models have an MSRP of $699, though of course you won’t find them for that little these days.)
The Gundam-edition 3080s don’t have special souped-up specs, but these cards are especially attractive to miners since they were created before Nvidia started artificially limited cards’ mining performance. That’s a bummer for the Gundam fans who would love to get their hands on these great-looking GPUs but now probably won’t get the chance.
While pandemic-related supply chain issues and the crypto boom have put a lot of pressure on the graphics card market over the last year, both of those factors are slowly subsiding. Nvidia, for example, has made moves to silo its crypto mining customers from general PC gaming enthusiasts and reduce the effectiveness of mining with its newest cards. Meanwhile, certain crypto currencies, Ethereum ostensibly being one, are set to move to a much less power-intensive mining system later this year.
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While those changes are good for the environment and for people trying to build or upgrade their gaming PCs, it’s probably too late for this current, limited round of Gundam 3080 GPUs. Of course, it’s not like there’s a shortage of white paint and Gundam decals in the world, so hopefully Asus gets the message and decides to bring back the Gundam RTX line in a much more plentiful fashion at some future date.