Halloween events 2012 - TF2

I gotta be honest, I don't care about TF2's Halloween events. The main reason being most Halloween items are Halloween/full moon restricted anyway, so why bother?

Maps

Anyway, this time around there's 2 event maps.

Ghost Fort (koth_lakeside_event)

The real event map is a King of the Hill Lakeside. It's actually fun as when a team captures a point a "wheel of fate" deals a random "curse" to all players. Most classes have new lines for this and the boss that spawns every 3mins, Merasmus, had some really funny lines. 

It's a shame that he's incredibly hard and will not get even under 50% health if both teams aren't fully cooperating and using tons of snipers.

If you do kill him and get to Skull Island, you unlock the Skull Island Topper:

 

Fucking charming.

Also, There's presents that can spawn on the map for Halloween swag, but i hear that it's player specific, as in only u see them and can pick them up.

Coaltown Event (mvm_coaltown_event)

This is where the zombies come in, They simply replace the robots on a huge giant single wave. There are no specific achievements for this map and really nothing to earn. It's just for the lulz and braggin rights.

This wave is incredibly hard, I've never even gotten through 25% of it so i don't think i can say too much about it aside from it's really really really hard.

Items

I... can't even pretend to care for most of it...

Ok, so there's these random voodoo items that players get as drops (Voodoo-Cursed Old Boot, Voodoo-Cursed Skeleton, Yadda yadda yadda...). When you get 7 you can craft them into a pile and then open it. You get a Voodoo Cursed Zombie Soul, it's a halloween restricted item that makes you look like a zombie.

Also small chance to get a shitty non craftable Halloween cosmetic item and magic potions that I can't really find any info on it only because I haven't looked.



Obviously I care about those deeply.

There's also eerie crates, I'd show you what's in them but I traded mine away like they were covered in plagued urine.

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In short, the maps are ok.