Haunted Halloween Gift
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| Pickup Type: | Halloween Masks or Halloween Costumes | |
| “ | Danke schön, na na, Danke schön.
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— The Medic, on receiving gifts.
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The Haunted Halloween Gift is a special pickup which is spawned during the Annual Scream Fortress Halloween Update in Mann Manor and Eyeaduct. It appears as a large, lime-green gift box with a bright orange ribbon. The player who collects the gift box on Mann Manor will receive a random Halloween Mask; upon collecting all nine, one can craft the Saxton Hale Mask. On Eyeaduct, the player who collects the gift box will receive a random halloween-themed costume piece instead. If the gift box was collected in the Underworld, the costume piece will be in Haunted quality.
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Spawning
The Haunted Halloween Gift will spawn at one of many predetermined locations on both Mann Manor and Eyeaduct. Gift spawning is timed in 5 minute intervals, with the gift appearing 5 minutes into the round or 5 minutes after the last gift was claimed. An alert will be sent to all players when it appears in the map. The gift is translucent for the first few seconds after it spawns and cannot be picked up; this allows other players to move or kill anyone waiting for it to solidify. If more than one player is touching the gift when it solidifies then the recipient of the gift is randomly selected. Another alert will be sent to all players once the gift is collected along with a cheering sound clip and balloons.
Ten player connections to the server are required (meaning players who are on a team, in spectator, or actively joining the server) for the gift to drop; additionally, servers must be registered with TF2 Quickplay on Steam, to prevent cheating or farming to gain items. The total player count only includes actual Steam clients, not bots or the replay user.
Contents
The Haunted Halloween Gift can contain a number of different class-specific items, depending on which map spawns it. Mann Manor spawns gifts that contain 1 of 9 Halloween Masks, while Eyeaduct gifts contain 1 of 27 costume parts. In addition, a gift found in the Eyeaduct Underworld will be of the Haunted quality.
Spawn locations
Mann Manor
Eyeaduct
Audio cues
These audio cues are heard, along with a notification, when the Haunted Halloween Gift spawns or is found by a player.
Gallery
Haunted Halloween Gift in Mann Manor
Haunted Halloween Gift in Eyeaduct's Underworld
Message that appears when Halloween Gift spawns
Message that appears when somebody finds a Halloween Gift
Related achievements
Ghostchievements
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Masked Mann Collect a Soul Gargoyle in Mann Manor. |
Update history
October 27, 2010 Patch (Scream Fortress Update)
- The Haunted Halloween Gift was added to the game.
- Fixed spectators collecting the Haunted Halloween Gift in Mann Manor.
- Fixed players who are spectating teammates being able to collect the Haunted Halloween Gift in Mann Manor.
Bugs
- A gift may appear in an unreachable corridor near the first control point on Mann Manor that does't allow players to pick up it. In this situation gift remains unfound until map changes on the server.
- A player who finds a gift in the underworld in Eyeaduct who subsequently dies of attrition damage will not receive the gift. This can be avoided by jumping into the fog and triggering a fall death instead.
- Collecting your first gift on Eyeaduct will still earn you the achievement Masked Mann.
- Gifts and their particles will not appear in a Replay recording, resulting that players who gathers around the gift will be seen as a group of players who pushes each other for something that does not exist.
Trivia
- If the Haunted Halloween Gift spawns seconds before the round ends and nobody collects it before the teams switch sides, the gift will remain in place during the change.
- It is possible to collect the gift during Humiliation or while being Stunned by the Ghost.
- A different alert shows up when the gift spawns in Eyeaduct's underworld: "The Haunted Halloween Gift has spawned somewhere below..."
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