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Beginning today and running through November 11th, the fifth annual Scream Fortress Halloween Special is now live. The update brings with it the Payload Race variation map "Helltower", Spell Books, 100+ new community-made items, eight new Helltower-themed achievements, and The Witching Hour.
The new "Helltower" map is a Halloween-themed version of the Hightower map and draws its unique brand of terror from the "depressing terror of a retirement home." In it, all players are able to equip a new spell book item in order to pick up and cast various spells, which manifest as unique abilities such as meteors, magical blasts, bat swarms, and more. To win the game, teams must escort the corpse of the opposing team's leader to the top of the tower, thereby sending them to hell.
Players can get more powerful spells by reaching the Haunted Tower in the center of the map, which must be reached via a bridge which appears during The Witching Hour. Once inside the Haunted Tower, players will be teleported back to their spawn room, where they will receive spells such as skeleton minions, gravity wells, and MONOCULUS, which is a temporarily helpful version of 2011’s Scream Fortress boss. When a round ends, all players are sent to Hell for a deathmatch. Surviving the round and reaching the new skull island will reward the player with a new "Unfilled Fancy Spellbook". Dying in hell temporarily turns the player into a controllable ghost until the conclusion of the round.
The update takes place sometime after the initial events of Mann vs. Machine following the deaths of brothers Blutarch and Redmond, the owners of BLU and RED, respectively. As shown in the recently released "Grave Matters" comic, both brothers believe they can beat the other by sending their sibling to hell first, thereby inheriting the Gravel Pits from their father Zepheniah, who also appears as a ghost watching over the battle from the Haunted Tower.
To read more about this year’s Scream Fortress event, head on over to the official announcement blog post on the Team Fortress blog, as well as the official update page.
The new "Helltower" map is a Halloween-themed version of the Hightower map and draws its unique brand of terror from the "depressing terror of a retirement home." In it, all players are able to equip a new spell book item in order to pick up and cast various spells, which manifest as unique abilities such as meteors, magical blasts, bat swarms, and more. To win the game, teams must escort the corpse of the opposing team's leader to the top of the tower, thereby sending them to hell.
Players can get more powerful spells by reaching the Haunted Tower in the center of the map, which must be reached via a bridge which appears during The Witching Hour. Once inside the Haunted Tower, players will be teleported back to their spawn room, where they will receive spells such as skeleton minions, gravity wells, and MONOCULUS, which is a temporarily helpful version of 2011’s Scream Fortress boss. When a round ends, all players are sent to Hell for a deathmatch. Surviving the round and reaching the new skull island will reward the player with a new "Unfilled Fancy Spellbook". Dying in hell temporarily turns the player into a controllable ghost until the conclusion of the round.
The update takes place sometime after the initial events of Mann vs. Machine following the deaths of brothers Blutarch and Redmond, the owners of BLU and RED, respectively. As shown in the recently released "Grave Matters" comic, both brothers believe they can beat the other by sending their sibling to hell first, thereby inheriting the Gravel Pits from their father Zepheniah, who also appears as a ghost watching over the battle from the Haunted Tower.
To read more about this year’s Scream Fortress event, head on over to the official announcement blog post on the Team Fortress blog, as well as the official update page.
