It’s been an exciting horror-filled first week of TF2’s 2012 Spectral Halloween Special. Ghosts, zombies, cursed souls and balloons are just a sample—not only of the game play but the hats. Including different qualities, there were more than one hundred different items introduced to the Mann-Conomy for the event. You’ve only got a week left, so let’s get started so you can get your fair share of items!
Boss Hat
Like a Boss
This years TF2 Scream Fortress event boss is the wizard Merasmus. The Soldier’s room mate is here to take revenge. He may be here to exterminate everyone Soldier knows, but you can fight back—and if you can take him down and brave Skull Island, Merasmus’ hat—The Skull Island Topper—is yours.
Just like previous years, the Halloween boss is not going down one-on-one. When Merasmus shows up in this year’s Halloween map—Ghost Fort—it takes both teams cooperating to even have a chance at killing him in the given ninety seconds. Even then, killing him does not get you the hat. When Merasmus dies he is replaced by a large book called “The Bombinomicon” for a short time. Any players that jump into the book are teleported to Skull Island, where they can enter the giant skull and jump into the talking Skull Island Topper to earn the A Lovely Vacation Spot necromannchievement and be awarded The Skull Island Topper the next time they collect drops.
Crate, Eerie
New Eerie keys are for sale in the Mann-co Store, and crates are dropping to go with them. Crate series 50 has been skipped, assigning the Eerie crates series 51. The new holiday crate brings twenty-two community-made hats, misc items and even a multi-class weapon. Some items will be wearable year-round while the majority of them have the Halloween restriction. All of these items acquired out of Eerie crates are Haunted quality except for the typical 1% chance at an unusual in which would have one of five new unusual effects; Knifestorm, Misty Skull, Harvest Moon, It’s A Secret To Everybody, and Stormy 13th Hour. The description on the Eerie crates indicate that if not opened by November 8th, they will disappear.
Big ol’ Cursed Pile of Voodoo
For the duration of the Halloween event, along with the normal drops, players have a chance of being awarded random Voodoo-Cursed Items. There are seven different random items; crazy stuff like a Voodoo-Cursed Novelty Bass. Any seven of the cursed items can be crafted together to create a Pile Of Curses. Similar to the Pile Of Ash from the Pyromania update, the Piles are free to open without a key.
Players can “Reach In” to a Pile Of Curses from their backpack to pull out a Voodoo Cursed Soul. Cursed Souls are new misc items for each class that, when equipped, visually turn players into zombies. There is a chance that there will be an Eerie Crate or Spell awarded with the Voodoo Cursed Soul and a smaller chance that the Soul will be Haunted. As with the crates, all Voodoo items and Pile of Curses will vanish at the end of the event on or after November 8th. All souls will remain, but with the Halloween restriction.
Crazy Random Giant Gifts
For one more week while playing on Ghost Fort, random gifts will appear for players. In years past, one gift would appear and players that found it and touched it before it disappeared had a chance at a random item. This year there are player-specific gifts, and only the particular player can grab theirs when it comes up. Running into the gift will award the player some Halloween loot next time they die. They might receive a handful of Voodoo Cursed Items, an uncraftable version of a community-created Halloween item, or a Halloween Spell.
Halloween spells are tools that you can apply to a hat, misc or weapon that then make spooky things happen when they are equipped. The twenty-six different spells include: a spell for each class that changes their voice in-game, seven spells that make the player leave behind spooky footprints of different colors, five spells that change the color of a hat or misc item, and four weapon-specific spells that change the look of grenades, rockets and fire. Lastly there is an exorcism spell that can be applied to any weapon that can do damage and makes little ghost animations come up from players killed by it. All spells and effects will only last for the duration of this year’s Halloween event.
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Ghostly Gibus
The Ghastly Gibus received its upgrade as expected. This year the new Ghostly style was added to each existing Gibus. The Ghostly style is a plain Ghastly Gibus with a small ghost popping out of the top.
Small change
- All Haunted items have their own color now, instead of being the same color as unusual items.
- An issue that did not allow Sniper Rifles to detonate Pumpkin bombs and damage bosses has been fixed.
- A pumpkin icon was added to backpack images of items that can be worn only on Halloween.
- A Balloonicorn icon was added to backpack images of cosmetic items that can only be seen in Pyrovision.
- A bug with the War Pig’s team colors has been fixed.
- The maximum file size for the Workshop has been increased to 100 MB.
Question of the week
What do you think of this years event? Have you found any cool items? What is your favorite Halloween load out?
This is Digi signing off. Keep on grabbing those items and I’ll see you next week right here on The Drop Reset Report.
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