Team Fortress 2 Halloween Special

[Hectic Glenn]

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[br]Sorry for being late to the party, but in case you didn't already know there has been a lovely Halloween themed Team Fortress 2 update! This update includes:

• Brand new King of the Hill map - koth_harvest_event
• 5 New achievements specific to Harvest
• 2 New hats: The Mildly Disturbing Halloween Mask & Ghostly Gibus

The new hats can be obtained by playing the halloween update on the new map and obtaining 2 of the new achievements, so get playing, it ends on the 2nd November![br]Also look out for the new Michael Jackson thriller taunt. See the Halloween Special update here.

 

[Marler]

An epic update. Got both the hat and mask Can't wait to see what they do for Christmas!

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Only played it a single session, got the hats, but the map's pretty fun, especially with the ghost interrupting fights.

 

[TwwIX]

Have they increased the drop rate for all hats?

 

[Marler]

people were saying they had during the 2 hour price reduction last night

 

[chimpmunk]

Have they increased the drop rate for all hats?

I played for the first time in a week yesterday and got 3 hats in half an hour. And everyone in the server too was getting hats, it was just crazy.

 

[Eejit]

amagad - [caps]it really is turning into a mmorpg!![/caps]

 

[chimpmunk]

Do we get to keep the hats past nov. 2 or what?

 

[Marler]

apparently not the Mildly Disturbing Halloween Mask but we do get to keep the Ghostly Gibus. That's what I've heard anyway

 

[Operational]

Fantastic update. I always liked Harvest and the Halloween version is just so much fun with the exploding pumpkins and the Ghost.

Here are a couple of hidden links:
http://www.teamfortress.com/pumpkinpatch/the_last_will_and_testament_of_Zepheniah_Mann/
http://www.teamfortress.com/pumpkinpatch/family_portrait/

I played for the first time in a week yesterday and got 3 hats in half an hour. And everyone in the server too was getting hats, it was just crazy.

I'm not sure how attached you should get to those hats, last time there was a hat-spree it was due to a bug and Valve removed the hats gained out of it.

 

[Lobster]

I love the family portrait, Red and Blue the two fueding sons, the announcer is the mother, Saxton Hale standing nearby holding a rifle and a blade, (The Rifle and Sword teases from the previous update spring to mind), also the guy standing out of shot looks like the VIP again.

 

[Marler]

the dog looks sad as it wasn't accepted by valve

 

[MJ12]

Did anyone notice TF2 was only $2.50 for 2 hours yesterday?

 

[Marler]

Yeah only found out about it afterwards. Shame as my brother wants in and it would have been an awesome price to get it for

 

[PriNcE oF SpAcE]

I get serious framerate issues on the new map... I like the ghost though

 

[Uriel]

I motherfreaking love Valve.

 

[<RJMC>]

I cant conect to steam

 

[Mr-Fusion]

update dod:s valve you money whores

 

[Marler]

Can't believe there was another price reduction. Damn sleep!

 

[ríomhaire]

Haha. Valve confirmed the announcer! Those fan drawings were spot on, but now it's official.

 

[Adabiviak]

I think I landed in a few of these maps that were tweaked to be achievement servers? After 30 seconds of being burned by a circle of pyros in the spawn point with instant respawn, I thought there was a bug, when several of them were like that. I finally got to a functioning map. I love the theme (ghost, exploding pumpkins, etc.), but wish they had implemented it in an existing map. By the time this is over, I'll just have got the nuances down of the map and how to deal with the ghost. Unless you were a pyro, soldier, or heavy, you got torn up pretty quick.

...or was this just a flood of rookies? Maybe it's just me.

 

[Fiberawptic]

Will the map be removed after Nov 2? because its amazing. Hope they keep that version, and cant wait to see what map they change for christmas.

 

[tschumann]

Haha. Valve confirmed the announcer! Those fan drawings were spot on, but now it's official.

I thought the woman in the familt portrait looked familiar. I guess that explains it.

 

[RecentFuture]

I get serious framerate issues on the new map... I like the ghost though

I've been getting terrible a terrible frame rate with the map also. Sometimes it plays well, sometimes it doesn't, so created a local server to see if it was my connection, but had the same issue. All other maps play fine.

Great map though! Very fun to play! :E

 

[Lizardizzle]

argh, why must I be grounded!!!

 

[urbanx]

does anyone know if we get to keep the hats after the 2nd of november?