Update 1.30 – Halloween 2026

Halloween Showdown 2026

Halloween Showdown 2026 is a three-week event built around community cooperation. Inspired by last year’s celebration, each week brings a new pair of shared goals, presented as a fight between two characters, with separate rewards for each side. Everyone’s contributions count toward the weekly totals, so work together to unlock the rewards – and choose which character you want to back.

Villedor is dressed for the occasion, with Día de los Muertos decorations across the open world and a traditional Halloween look in Tower Raid. Special Halloween-themed enemies appear in both areas throughout the event and drop Halloween Candies, which you can spend at Baka’s Event Shop. 

Each week, featured enemies also begin appearing in encounters and remain afterward; while they’re the week’s targets, defeating them in the open world earns you Showdown Candies. You can find more Showdown Candies in Halloween Chests – 40 during the day or 80 at night – and spend them at Baka’s to support either side of the weekly matchup.

When a community goal is reached, every player who contributed at least 10 Showdown Candies to it receives the weapon reward in-game. Both weapon rewards can be unlocked if the community reaches both goals. At the end of the week, the character with the most contributed candies wins the vote, and their charm can be claimed through Pilgrim Outpost! Moreover, after donating 10 Showdown Candies to one of the factions, you receive an immediate reward of 500 Halloween Candies in-game just for participating. This applies separately to each goal, meaning you can earn a total of 1,000 Halloween Candies each week!

Game Updates

Aside from all the news from Update 1.30 above, we’ve also introduced the following fixes and improvements to the game:

Gameplay

• Updated the Intro video and Skip Prologue video to match the visuals and quality of the game’s graphical improvements. Adjusted narration to better introduce the world, with more natural VO
• Fixed the issue with Old World Money sharing the same slot as «Pistol Weaponry Kit»
• Fixed an issue in TPP mode where shots sometimes did not land where the crosshair is pointing
• Fixed the issue with missing truck curtains near chests, making some encounters’ ambush easily noticeable

Technical

• Fixed various crashes related to Intel XeSS
• Fixed the issue with performance dropping to 8 FPS if VSync is enabled with XeSS
• Fixed the issue with game audio sometimes cutting out after around 10 minutes of gameplay
• Fixed an issue where accessing the store sometimes softlocked the player in the Inventory Menu while onboarding tutorials were active
• Fixed the issues with NPCs sometimes clipping through geometry
• Fixed the issue with heavy flickering that sometimes happened when FSR Frame Gen was enabled
• Added some missing store assets and translations