Paying for season passes and expansions in Destiny 2 has traditionally earned you a nice piece of gear right out of the gate: an Exotic weapon. These unique guns always have strange properties and usually mince up enemies without issue. Among the preorder bonuses for the new Witch Queen expansion was Osteo Striga, an Exotic submachine gun. However, unlike Grand Overture, the Exotic machine gun you get with the season pass for the Season of the Risen that unlocks as soon as you start playing, you might be wondering how you actually get Osteo Striga. Turns out, it's not awarded to you immediately upon jumping into the game.

Osteo Striga requires you to take some steps to earn it, and the game doesn't do much to tell you where your SMG is or how to get it. In fact, you'll play the entire Witch Queen campaign before you get any information about Osteo Striga, and you'll need to understand something about the new weapon crafting system in order to get it. You're going to want this gun, however--it's excellent. Here's everything you need to know about how to get Osteo Striga.

How to unlock Osteo Striga

First, Osteo Striga is currently only available to players who buy the Deluxe Edition of The Witch Queen, so if you purchased the standard edition of the game, you can't access it right now. That could change in the future, but it's unclear how or when the gun will become available for all players.

In order to get hold of Osteo Striga, you'll first need to complete The Witch Queen's story campaign. That can be an investment in and of itself, as the campaign is pretty long, especially if you play it on Legendary difficulty. Expect to invest some time in uncovering the secrets of Savathun's throne world.

Osteo Striga is basically an SMG version of Thorn, sending waves of poison through the enemies you kill with it.

Finishing the story campaign doesn't earn you the gun, however--it only unlocks the Osteo Striga pattern to craft at the Relic, in the new social space called the Enclave. Once you've completed the final mission, called "The Ritual," you'll return to the Enclave for a short denouement. At that point, check the Triumphs screen, under the Patterns and Catalysts tab, to find and unlock Osteo Striga's pattern.

Head to the Relic and hit the Shape button, then go down to SMGs on the Primary gun tab to find Osteo Striga. Your options will initially be pretty limited for what perks you can add to the gun. You'll also notice that you won't be able to craft its Exotic catalyst just yet. Once you've locked in the gun, hit Finalize Shape to craft it. You might need crafting materials to make that happen, but you can get them easily enough by completing the few short missions that introduce you to crafting as part of the campaign. Anything you come up short on can be purchased from Rahool or Banshee-44 in the Tower.

Using the crafting system means you can customize and upgrade Osteo Striga over time, but you'll need to level up the gun by using it in order to do so.

What Osteo Striga does

If you're familiar with Thorn, the deadly Hive hand cannon, you have a sense of what Osteo Striga is like. The SMG fires objects that look like thorns instead of bullets, and those thorns track their targets. Kill an enemy with Osteo Striga or hit them with a number of precision shots and you'll trigger a burst of poison that infects both the enemy you shot and any opponents in the immediate vicinity, dealing them damage over time. The gun can be devastating against crowds, blasting multiple enemies with poison at a time, even if you don't manage to kill any of them.

How to unlock Osteo Striga's Exotic catalyst

The best upgrade you can get for Osteo Striga is its Exotic catalyst, which significantly amps up its reload speed and automatically refills the magazine as you get kills with the gun's poison effect. In order to unlock it, however, you'll need to put some work in with Osteo Striga, pushing the gun up to Level 10. To do that, you just need to play with it; you'll level up all your crafted guns by using them in activities, and the more enemies you kill, the faster they'll advance. Leveling up guns is how you unlock the ability to "reshape" them with better perks, so keep your favorites in the rotation to make them better more quickly.

You'll need to level up Osteo Striga to unlock the ability to craft the Exotic catalyst.

Once Osteo Striga is up to Level 10, you can return to the Relic and reshape it to add the catalyst. It requires 140 Ruinous Element, 2,000 Neutral Element, and 3 Ascendant Alloy to craft. The first two currencies you should come by fairly easily by using weapons with Deepsight Resonance and dismantling Deepsight weapons you don't want. Ascendant Alloy is tougher to earn, but if you need to, you can purchase it from Rahool or Banshee.

We've got plenty more Witch Queen coverage coming your way. Check out our full rundown of all gear you can earn from the Season of the Risen, plus our guide to leveling up to 1560 quickly, five things you should do first in Destiny 2: The Witch Queen, how to get the Exotic Catalyst for Grand Overture, and where to find Faction Chests.

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The first major patch for Sony's Horizon Forbidden West is out now on PS4 and PS5. It fixes a series of issues and crashes that fans have reported to the team since launch last week.

Image oversharpening in HDR mode has been fixed with this update, while another issue involving some settlements streaming into the game and then out has been addressed. Patch 1.05 also fixes a flickering issue with the HUD and it addresses bugs where Aloy, NPCs, and enemies could become stuck in the world geometry. The update also fixes an issue that could cause NPCs to gather in large groups in one place at night, as if they had insomnia, Guerrilla said in a humorously written post.

There are fixes for quests, too, including for an issue in The Eye of the Earth where Aloy could fall out of world if the cinematic was skipped. In the Cradle of Echoes quest, Varl could wander off, but that's now been fixed, while the Sea of Sands quest has been fixed to address issues with grapple points.

The patch doesn't fix every problem, however, as Guerrilla Games also published a list of known issues that includes graphical issues involving "shimmering, sharpening, and screen saturation" in some situations. Players have also reported a progression-blocker issue with the Reach for the Stars quest, while Aloy's outfit can appear as blurry in Photo Mode.

You can see the full 1.05 patch notes and known issues below. And for more, check out GameSpot's Horizon Forbidden West review and what other critics think.

KNOWN ISSUES

We are currently looking into several issues reported by the community:

• The team is investigating with high priority, several graphical issues reported by players regarding shimmering, sharpening and screen saturation when moving the camera.
• Some players are experiencing an issue with infinite loading screens when attempting to load into Melee Pits.
• Some players are experiencing an issue where Aloy’s outfit appears blurry in Photo Mode.
• Some players are experiencing an issue in main quest ‘Reach for the Stars’ where Aloy can’t interact with a machine carcass, blocking progression.

FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS

Main Quests

• Fixed an issue in main quest ‘Reach for the Stars’ where reloading a certain auto-save after completing the first quest could block progression.
• Fixed an issue during interlude ‘The Eye of the Earth’ where Aloy could fall out of the world after skipping a cinematic.
• Fixed an issue in main quest ‘Cradle of Echoes’ where Varl would wander off on a reload from save.
• Fixed an issue in main quest ‘The Sea of Sands’ affecting several grapple points.

Side Quests and Errands

• Fixed an issue in side quest ‘Blood Choke’ where Atekka would appear to fall out of the sky.
• Fixed a progression issue in side quest ‘In The Fog’ related to fast travel during the quest.
• Fixed an issue in errand quest ‘Night of Lights’ where a pullable box could get stuck and block the quest progression.

World activities

• Fixed an issue where Relic Ruin: The Daunt could not be started in certain circumstances.
• Fixed an issue in salvage contract The Greenswell: Plowhorn and the Plants where an optional objective could not be completed if the required item was sent to the player stash.
• A rogue Tallneck near The Stand of the Sentinels that would sometimes change the direction of its route has been disciplined.

Gameplay fixes

• The Second Chance skill should now work correctly.
• Fixed an issue where the camera had an unintended position when using certain weapon techniques.

General fixes

• Image oversharpening in HDR mode has been corrected.
• Fixed an issue where some settlements would stream in, then stream out in certain circumstances.
• Fixed an issue where the HUD would flicker when the player performs a loot action.
• Fixed an issue where rapidly opening and closing the map could cause graphical anomalies.
• Fixed an issue where Aloy's animation would sometimes jitter rapidly when climbing after picking up a plant has been fixed.
• Fixed a global issue where the direction of Aloy's gaze, or that of certain NPCs, was incorrect.
• Fixed several instances where Aloy, NPCs or enemies could get stuck in geometry.
• Fixed an issue where roads and icons on the map would sometimes appear with a delay.
• Fixed several streaming issues and unintended loading screens.
• NPCs that seemed to suffer from insomnia and would gather in large groups at night in settlements should act more naturally now.
• Petra will no longer teleport into her seat inside the Chainscrape brewery if followed immediately after the initial conversation with her.

Crash fixes

• Fixed several crashes.

Other

• Various performance improvements.
• Various other minor fixes and cosmetic improvements.

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