Ghost Town

Ghost Town
Basic Information
Variants:	Coal Town
Developer(s):	Unknown
Map Info
Environment:	Desert
Setting:	Night
Hazards:	Pitfall
Map Photos
Map Overview

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Your robot attackers have been replaced by a single apocalyptic wave of zombies! How many zombies? How does 666 sound, fear friends? Because it sounds like a candy-ass pile of crap to us! 666 is where we started. But where we ended was MORE THAN EIGHT HUNDRED! — Spectral Halloween Special update page

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Ghost Town has multiple variations, including Coal Town.

Ghost Town (originally released as Coaltown Event) is a map that was released on October 26, 2012, as part of the Spectral Halloween Special update. It is designed for the game mode Mann vs. Machine. Ghost Town is a Halloween version of Coal Town at night, with pumpkins, gravestones, and other Halloween-themed objects scattered around. It is unique in that all robots on the map are reskinned to look like zombies, though this is purely cosmetic. The map contains only 1 mission: the Nightmare mission Caliginous Caper. As it is not playable in Mann Up mode, there is no reward for completing this mission.

Strategy

See Community Ghost Town strategy

Gallery

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  The Upgrade Station as it appears in Ghost Town

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  The Defender's Base

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  The middle area

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  The left lane

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  The right lane

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  The bot spawn area

Update history

October 26, 2012 Patch (Spectral Halloween Special)

• Added Ghost Town to the game.
• Added mission Calignious Caper.

July 10, 2013 Patch

• Renamed mvm_coaltown_event to mvm_ghost_town to fix a problem with voting for challenges in MvM when on Coal Town.

October 21, 2016 Patch (Scream Fortress 2016)

• Fixed Mann vs. Machine zombies not using the correct skin in Ghost Town outside of the Halloween event.

October 25, 2016 Patch

• Updated mvm_ghost_town to fix error models in the spawn rooms

November 10, 2016 Patch

• Updated mvm_ghost_town to fix the cube maps.

Bugs

• When playing with minimal HUD, the bar on the top will not display correctly.
• Some of the zombie reskins encountered on this map do not have an animation for jumping into the bomb hatch; as a result, they appear to simply vanish when the wave is failed.
• When Halloween mode is disabled, the zombies will appear as humans.
• Sentry Busters will spawn with Demoman's zombified upper arms levitating at their sides, and Spine-Chilling Skull hats on their invisible heads when Halloween mode is activated.
  • This can also happen to the Critical Demoknights, appearing to have a Sentry Buster model, but can't explode and attacks normally.
• At the robot's left drop point, knocking them back may cause them to become stuck in the ground and therefore invulnerable.

Trivia

• There is a medkit and an ammobox that are unreachable without cheats.
• There is a second version of Caliginous Caper available for this map that does not contain zombies, has slightly different robots, and ends early before every bot is dead.

External links

• Spectral Halloween Special Update page