Team Fortress 2 Halloween special adds game's first boss

"Horseless, Headless Horsemann" I see what you did there Valve.

What!?!

I guess it goes without saying that it won't be appearing on PC.

Gift wrapping items was of course a Christmas update that leaked early..

Hey that's pretty cool!!

I played a lot of this map last night and it's loads of fun. The game got really chaotic every time the Horsemann appeared and he'd start lopping off torsos left and right. Temporary alliances would be formed to take it down before we'd go right back to killing each other. Of course, things got problematic when MULTIPLE Horsemenn appeared.

PROTIP: Sorry Spies, your Dead Ringer is useless against the Horseless Headless Horsemann. Don't even try it.

Wait, hold on... they're going to have an NPC that runs around the map with no alliance to either team, just killing whoever it sees?

That is awesome!

should have been the Homeless, Horseless, Headless, Horseman.
sooooooo has TF2 been officially declared an MMORPGFPS yet?

I'm confused. I thought this was TEAM fortress. If HE's not on their team and he's not on my team, what team is he on? And is he a team of one? And If the other team lands the killing blow, do they win? Or do we just go back to fighting each other?

HELP ME GABE NEWELL! YOUR STAFF HAS RAPED MY MIND!

This is the kind of community commitment I like to see. Valve never tries to push you to their next high-profile multi-player release by letting the last one go stale.

Even Guild Wars still gets decked out for the holidays. Do a lot of other games do this sort of thing?

I get that Valve is first and foremost a PC company, and they're going to support that platform primarily, but gottdamn, TF2 on the consoles was abandoned like a fat prom date who had been dumped for a good looking lady. 0 updates. 0 love.

Does a headshot kill the Horseless, Headless Horseman?

It's the vengeful spirit of the 10th class!

In spite of a few glitched achievements that I have had to get multiple times now and an insane amount of lag when the Horsemann appears, the new Halloween pack is awesome. The addition of a common enemy with a mountain of health and an insta-kill axe throws a whole new dynamic into the game (not to mention something to shoot other than the opposite team). Plus, it is truly brilliant the first time you see him rise up out of one of the control points and start rampaging around the map.

Actually it's not the first boss. It may be the first official one but I'm very sure it's based off the Saxton Hale mod. In it 1 player becomes Saxton Hale with a ton of hp, able to quickly jump around the map, and yell a taunt that suddenly incapacitates players. Something also to mention about this headless horseless horsemann thing is that you get a hat and haunted scrap metal for being the person to land the killing blow (thats what the ghostd achievement is). You might need to use a melee weapon to get the hat, I'm not sure i got it hitting him with the axetinguisher. The hat is his head and expires after halloween, but the metal can be crafted into a halloween hat or weapon that will stay. Anyway the point is you can still kill each other and fight for/defend the point. You don't HAVE to fight him, but the reason people make momentary alliances is twofold: They want the achievement/hat more than they want to win the round and he will kill you. He is fast and can kill anything in one blow and if you ignore him he may still come for you.

I really like the map myself. The fact you can just about see Redmond sitting at his "eternal" machine is bloody cool.

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I'll buy ten!

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Whatever happened to thanks giving?