Getting your hands on the horror story during Festival of the Lost 2020 has changed dramatically, so get ready to do some serious work. The good news for people who already have the weapon unlocked from the latest Festival of the Lost is that you can pick it up straight out of your collection. He will have a cap of 1360 Power, which makes him relevant for many seasons.
For everyone else, you'll be using caches that you can open in the Haunted Forest that can drop off random versions of the Horror Story.
How to get the Horror Story Auto Rifle
You will need to visit Eva in the courtyard and buy her a festival mask in the form of the masquerade mask. This item only costs you 100 Glimmer. Once you have it, you will need to go visit the spider. He'll need you to play a game of Crucible, a Gambit Match, or a Strike to earn an Encryption Decoder. After that, you will be able to make your first descent into the haunted forest. Just open your manager, click on the tower, and there will be a new blue node that you can use to access it.
The main task to get the horror story this time is not to manage the haunted forest at all. Each run ends with the possibility of opening five caches, as long as you have encryption decoders. The grind comes from trying to knock them down in the first place. Gambit Match, Crucible Match, Strikes, Heroic Daily Missions, and Nightfalls can all drop them, and you can get them as random drops around the world as well.
The problem is that the dropout rate is currently very low and it takes a long time to grind them down. At the moment, we don't really have a solution for this. Running the fastest activity you can find is the way to go, with some players claiming they can drop patrols, while we've had some success with the Heroic Daily Missions. Just keep crashing into the game and then completing the Haunted Forest races to open the caches, and hopefully you get lucky.
