Ah yes, it's almost Halloween, and that means your favorite online games are decorating for the occasion. Nexon is certainly going all out, especially with Combat Arms. Dungeon Fighter Online, Mabinogi, and MapleStory are all getting some holiday goodies and quests, which are suitable for RPG-esque games.
In DFO, gamers can expect a series of new Halloween quests in the open beta, in which Seria, everyone's favorite NPC, sends you on a journey in search of her missing gifts and candies. Oh, and on Saturday, october 31, players who deplete all their 156 Fatigue Points will be added into a drawing for five DFO figurines.
Mabinogi will be visited by zombies, which players will have to fend off. Aside from this challenge, players can also work toward getting a flying Broom Pet or skeleton costume card. MapleStory, another old favorite, is also joining in the festivities with a special Haunted House II storyline quest. It picks up from the 2007 Halloween questline, so long-time players may be particularly interested. Oh, and costumes, yes lots of costumes from the item shop.
And Combat Arms? I'd say that game got the coolest Halloween special: Quarantine Mode. At the start of a game in the new mode, one or more players will be randomly selected to be an Infected, whose goal is to infect all the human players in the map. Human players must survive against the spreading infection by wiping out all the Infected or just saying alive until time is up.
The physiological stress and fatigue caused by the ongoing war has left soldiers deserting in droves and showing a lack of respect for their superior officers. In a controversial step to boost mercenary morale, high ranking officers authorized development of a stamina drug using a promising new organic sample. When the final product was being prepared for mass production, the first and only surviving test subject had an abnormal and untested dosage enter their bloodstream. The cause of the accident has yet to be determined, but shortly thereafter, the local security response team sent transmissions warning of a severe physical threat and potential outbreak situation. Before the transmissions were abruptly terminated, they alluded to the remainder of the drug sample left intact in the research center. The research center has been shut down by the Automatic Quarantine System, and an infiltration mission by Special Forces has been called upon in order to retrieve the drug sample.
Nexon released a cinematic trailer introducing the new mode, which you can watch below. Aside from the new mode, Combat Arms will also be getting a coffin backpack, sickle melee weapons, pumpkin head and Infected masks, all available via the Black market.
Source:Press release
Section:PC Games
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