The factor about particular Halloween game modes is that they’re enjoyable for a spherical or two, then the novelty wears off. The factor about Team Fortress 2‘s Halloween mode is that there are 18 of them.
Ok, so solely 5 of these are new – however you may also play the 13 earlier Halloween occasions, which might be sufficient to final you all yr if the occasion didn’t finish on November 14th. Valve have turned to their neighborhood for the brand new stuff in Scream Fortress X (not a intercourse factor), introducing 5 maps with their very own game modes. I’ve spent the morning fuelling ghost ships, resurrecting corpses and working away from skeletons.
It is scorching messy nonsense and I’ve loved myself significantly.
I have a tendency to leap on any excuse to revisit TF2, so all they actually wanted to do was put the Spy in a foolish costume and plop some pumpkins round every map. I’ve tried three of the 5 new modes, and so they’re all a lot greater than that.
They’re not finely crafted, ultra-honed aggressive multiplayer Esport-aspiring arenas. They’re daft playgrounds the place you possibly can squat by a pumpkin and it would flip right into a skeleton and whack you. At one level, a portal sucked me right into a nether dimension the place I needed to platform on some pots.
If you haven’t tried the older modes, these are value trying out too. If reminiscence serves, a few of them begin off as normal-ish matches in spooked up locales, however then midway via a headless horseman/cosmic eyeball/dirty wizard seems and also you group as much as vanquish it. Or you simply maintain preventing one another whereas the eyeball goes about its enterprise.
I’m not going to spoil any extra of the surprises, as a result of that’s the actual pleasure of this. Just dip your hand within the bag and see what bites you.
There’s additionally an avalanche of cosmetics, once more principally from the neighborhood, who positive do a variety of Valve’s work for them. I’ll depart you to examine these on the update page, although I’ll stick a GIF right here of the unhappy Soul Gargoyle everybody will get that cheers up as you do Halloween issues. Its penultimate degree of happiness is “Australian”.
Let’s faux I made that huge to spook you fairly than as a result of I tousled the Gifcam settings. Or possibly Gifcam is haunted. Yes, that.
