Halloween Is Coming To ‘Call Of Duty: Warzone’ With Zombies Royale, Free Rewards And Much More

Halloween is coming to Call Of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare in The Haunting Of Verdansk event which starts tonight at 11pm PT and runs through November 3rd.

This year’s Halloween event is actually pretty awesome sounding, with new game modes, Item Shop bundles, a Trick-or-Treat rewards system and cool stuff like Night Mode in Warzone and Zombies Royale. Also a fully automatic shotgun, the JAK-12, which apparently packs “enough firepower to pulverize an entire enemy squad into head cheese.”

Here’s the full roadmap:

In Zombies Royale, players won’t go to the Gulag when eliminated. Instead, they’ll turn into a zombie with super speed and thermal vision. When players die, they drop a syringe, and if a zombie picks up two of these, they can redeploy into the map.

Zombies Royale will take place at night, but there will also be normal Night Mode for battle royale. Infinity Ward recommends using thermal optics on weapons for this mode, and equipping the Cold-Blooded perk to avoid thermal detection.

New store bundles include Leatherface as part of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre bundle and Billy the Puppet in the SAW bundle. There’s also the Dr Karlov bundle. He’s apparently a local Verdansk legend, though I think they’re playing off of Boris Karloff here. I’m not sure.

I’ll be honest, when I first read Activision’s blog post announcing this event, it made it sound like Leatherface and other horror characters would actually be out in Verdansk hunting players as AI enemies. Read for yourself:

“As Halloween draws near, a squad of operators drops in for what seems to be a normal infiltration into Verdansk… though there’s been back-channel chatter about some unexplained and odd occurrences across the remote areas of the map. Operators have been briefed about reports concerning a serial killer who wears his victim’s faces on his own. There’s scattered intel about strange sounds emanating from various locations within the warzone; and not least the piercing, creepy laugher of a ventriloquist doll….

“It isn’t long before hell breaks loose: One by one, the squad is brutally picked off until there is just one survivor, who after a confrontation with Verdansk’s own urban legend, vows to return under the cover of night and avenge his brothers in arms.”

This sure sounds like players are being hunted by these horror movie villains. Alas, it’s too good to be true, and all three are just Operator Bundles. Maybe next year.

Meanwhile, you can earn free rewards from Trick or Treat boxes you find on the map that include weapon blueprints and other treats as well as tricks—we don’t know what but Activision describes them as “brief scares” so prepare yourself.

In Modern Warfare we’ll get new modes like Snipers Only, a special Juggernaut “Onslaught-er” mode where teams fight to control Juggernauts duked out with pumpkin heads, and a new “Gunfright” mode.

Here’s the trailer:

That’s actually a damn good trailer. I love the Soundgarden cover. And it’s genuinely frightening.

The Haunting Of Verdansk Halloween event starts tonight at 11pm PT and runs through November 3rd. The Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War beta is ongoing, running an extra 24 hours until tomorrow morning at 10 am PT.

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