Spectral Halloween Special

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The Fourth Annual Spectral Halloween Special is an upcoming major update.

One of the released features will be Wave 666, a modified version of Mann vs Machine pits the player against zombie reskins of robots, another — Merasmus the Magician as a ghost-boss of new KotH map, which name remains unmentioned.

Timeline

On October 23, 2012, the head of the Spy portrait on the TF2 Official Blog was changed to resemble a skull. Clicking on the skull led to a hidden page, with a newspaper page titled "The Teufort Reader". The bottom of the newspaper is ripped, showing two cards with odd symbols.

The following day, a comic titled Doom-Mates was released. The comic details Merasmus' return home from his weekend at WizardCon, and his growing resentment towards the Soldier.

The next day, a page was posted that announced the event begins the following day, October 26th, and gave a link to the update page with all the info. It announced a new Mann vs. Machine mission called "Wave 666", where instead of fighting robots, the players fight zombies, and a new Halloween King of the Hill match (on koth_lakeside_event[1]) with Merasmus (with the Bombinomicon) as the boss. It added two new achievements and introduced Magic Spells, which players can cast on other items in their backpack to give their items new effects, from shifting paint colors to flaming footsteps. Additionally, the Gift Drop system will be different  –  last year, gifts spawned publicly and could be claimed by whoever arrived there first, while this year, players will receive private gift spawns that they can grab at their leisure.

Trivia

  • In the introduction of zombies on the Scream Fortress page, a Soldier can be seen in the background bearing the same hole in his chest as in Meet The Pyro.
  • The Heavy in the same image has a chest wound in the same place as his surgery in Meet the Medic.
  • The Pyro in the introduction of zombies appears to have a Last Breath on.
  • The picture teaser for Wave 666 appears to be Coal Town at night.

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