Team Fortress 2 Halloween Update is live

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Zombies massacre Mann vs. Machine, magician curses Control Point

The baby boomers have It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. We have the Scream Fortress Halloween update for Team Fortress 2, and Valve is keeping the tradition undead this year with its fourth annual freaky holiday extravaganza.

Or should we say, Mann Vs. Zombie?! Yes, we should, since the new Wave 666 mission for MvM's Coal Town map pits the mercenaries against one wave of more than 800 zombified mercs instead of the usual staggered hordes of robots. Control point players, meanwhile, will find themselves cursed (or potentially blessed) by Merasmus' Wheel of Fate spells whenever they capture a point.

All players will be able to get the usual load of Halloweeny kit, including shifting paint colors, ghostly companions, and flaming footsteps, as well as two exclusive achievements. The event runs from today through November 8.

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Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.