· Updated 30 October 2026 · 3 min read · Build 56578 · Commit fe7a3e146b
Tower North is no longer empty, and two of its vendors now open their screens on PC through emulation. Executor Hideo and Eva Levante show their stock and prices, and the Guardian can stay in the Tower for as long as it is played.
What's new
• Vendor screens open for the first time. At Executor Hideo, Approach brings up the New Monarchy allegiance offer, then his reputation, material exchange, rank reward and stock-refresh timer.
• Eva Levante, the Guardian Outfitter, shows her full stock: 18 emblems, 6 shaders and 4 ornaments. Each item lists its rarity, level requirement and price, such as a shader for 2,250 Glimmer at level 20.
• Tower North is populated. All 20 of its characters appeared in their authored places, including civilians on the walkways, Patches 99-40 the Research Assistant, and Xûr at his door.
• The Tower now loads as the city’s social space, with its own menus and its Armsday objective to speak to Banshee-44, instead of standing in for a story mission.
• The Guardian stayed in Tower North for almost two hours. With all input stopped, the game sent the Guardian to orbit after exactly 15 minutes, as it normally does.
How it works
Until now the Tower ran in place of the next story mission, which loads the story menus and has no vendor screens. When the Tower was offered as its own activity, the game refused it for a missing permission. Its rule turned out to be that two unlock flags must be clear, and the server had been setting both since early October. With those flags no longer sent, the game accepts the Tower as a social space and its vendors respond.
The earlier returns to orbit came from the game’s own idle timer, which counts button presses as well as movement. Tower North’s characters are placed by the game’s own content, while the server now says how many of each group to show. That number, including Xûr being present at all, is the project’s reconstruction rather than the original servers’ weekly schedule.
Still in progress
• Buying is not possible yet. Characters have no Glimmer or other currency, so the game refuses a purchase before asking the server.
• Patches 99-40’s Research Assistant screen opens but stays on its loading indicator. Banshee-44 and the other vendors have not been reached or tested.
• The story scene between A Guardian Rises and the Tower is still skipped, and Continue still goes to the Tower instead of the next story mission.
• The Tower’s plaza and hangar areas are still empty, and the end-of-mission figures are still test values.
What's next
• Give characters currency, then make a first purchase and receive the item.
• Find what the Research Assistant’s screen is waiting for, and reach Banshee-44.
• Restore the scripted first Tower visit and the story scene before it.
Changes in this update
• The Tower as a social space, the idle timer, its characters and a test setting for activities (fe7a3e14, 243a9c5b, ebaeab77, 197aa82f, e4cce90f, cffbeecf).
• Item stats from the game’s own level curves (f7f2166b).
• Community contributions: the project’s first, with tests for loot, matchmaking, characters and notifications, and Windows test runs (e2abc7b3, 20de721f, facbebcc, 167febf7, e58c9d24, 94d486cd).
• Contributor tools: pull request checks and labels, a conventions check, a shared folder setting and a shorter contributing guide (6688ed4e, dd2799af, 35ba54b0, 036f6a35, 5ebc598f, c185f2c8, 71ebfd32, ab18afbd, 8d05c30d, 9080d539, ce3d3e50, 77c968dc).
About this update
The pictures come from two test runs on PS4 build 56578 through emulation: a walk through the populated Tower North, and the two vendor screens. The two-hour stay and the refused purchase come from the project’s test reports rather than the footage. This is experimental preservation work, not a playable release.
