Halloween 2026: Apocalypse 15/10 - 3/11 UTC

[MattScott]

Hello everyone,

 

Halloween is back, and this year it's the end of the world!

 

Halloween 2026: Apocalypse runs from October 15 to November 3 (UTC). For the whole event, every player gets Premium for free. No codes, nothing to claim. Log in and it's on.

 

This year we have a couple new tricks and a couple new treats up our sleeve including a reworked version of our classic Infection mini-game called Four Horsemen, 2 new Glow in the Dark weapon skins, and over 6000 Joker Tickets to earn as rewards.

 

You can read the full details here:  https://www.gamersfirst.com/apb/news/2026/10/14/halloween-2026-apocalypse

 

Thanks, Matt

[purpleHorizons]

What exactly should a long-term veteran player be hopeful for from your administration at this point?
Event rehashes, redundant skins, trivial amounts of JT's considering the fact someone has to play the game in the state it's in right now.
Absolutely no substantial balancing decisions are being done and there's no hope of good decisions happening to the game any time soon.

On a positive note:
I hope that the new launcher boots on Enterprise-base variants of Windows now.

Edited October 14 by purpleHorizons

[Victoria97]

u couldn't give one single new backpack right? 1 new clothing..? in 1 year of preparing for this event. Very disappointing. 

[MACKxBOLAN]

Surprised to see him post. So I see some effort to improve the event for those interested. 

 No I don't see anything of interest as far as buying. You don't have a Western Holster or a full size pick up truck. 

Not interested in Buying due to bad customer service in discord and within the game. 

Rules are not equally enforced within the game as they are in discord, So I claim Bias. 

Your Sliver of an anticheat needs work, even your hackers agree, you would have to ban 90% 

of NA if you enforced any rules or anticheat in NA.

You need to regain the respect of Legit players and make advertising efforts to draw them back in.

Otherwise this event is simply giving Halloween candy to the mass of hackers you let terrorize Legit players. 

Just as in Discord, they harrass the legit. So until that discord has been liberated of corrupt admins and a useful 

anticheat has been installed and Used, I have no money for you nor support for your firm. 

 

[purpleHorizons]

I'm amazed at whoever decided to "design" (re-use) this Halloween for the... 8th time now? Likely a much larger value of rehashes.
What's also amazing is that we have.....
4 pumpkin hunting events.
4.
4 times the same bullshoot.
 

And to pair it off, someone decided to RANDOMIZE the spawn points and hunt 600 pumpkins...
And the best part – spend 10-15 minutes chasing a guy in a dump truck with a teammate who has kevlar 3 with a blowtorch.

Bravo LO, amazing design of the event and extreme care for your loyal customer base keeping this sinking ship alive.

I really want to know what the person who let this event pass was smoking.

Even reworking RIOT & incorporating that was a better idea than this bullshoot.

Users in this community are sick & tired of the same mission & event format for 14 years now.

EDIT:
Of course, the forums are once again being foresaken... Updates are being gatekept behind the cage of Discord's information prison.
 

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[22:47] MattPScott: 
We are actually working on a "rolling" restart system that automatically restarts empty servers, and then collapses populations down to newly restarted servers during down time so we can reboot/patch those.

My plan is to clear Halloween and then reschedule the AMA for only one game at a time. In theory that could be this weekend, and I'll post AMA answers I already organized ahead of that.

Green Pumpkins - new daily design:

Each district (Financial, Waterfront) has about 1,000 green pumpkin spawn spots in total

The spots will be split into a fixed order for the whole event. Every day at 00:00 UTC, 50 new ones open per district.

That's 100 new pumpkins a day (50 Financial + 50 Waterfront).

A pumpkin only spawns once during the whole event and once you've destroyed it, never comes back for you, so no double credit.

The pumpkins you haven't collected don't go away each day.

Missed a day? You can catch up. Unclaimed pumpkins from earlier days stay available.

The Infected Pumpkin Hunter role (600 pumpkins) takes about 6 days of daily play.

By about day 20 every spawn spot in both districts is open.

 

Edited October 15 by purpleHorizons

[cowhorseman]

So two questions. 1 how do those of us that can not play every single day get the green pumpkins? can we get it over several weeks or is it a 1 week GFY kinda event? and two why did you add another event that requires you to live. you ever play one of these right? right? max server or not your A going to get swarmed or B a cheater is going to pop you with an HVR at 90. there basically impossible to get,

[BlatMan]

I like the new launcher. I'm glad you stepped away from .net. It's difficult to keep track of which versions you have installed, and sometimes they conflict with each other. 

 

If you own the "Key to the City Pack", do you automatically get the Halloween symbols? It says "All fonts, symbols, and decals unlocked" on the store page of that pack. I'm guessing the answer is no, but that needs to be clarified on the store page if so.

[MACKxBOLAN]

I have to come clean and admit, I might be possibly 'having fun' playing the event. 

I'm not much for events outside of mission dist. So I'm not able to compare this event 

with prior ones of halloween as far as whats new or old, All I know is i get to Haul Patootie

 around district, with a line of other players racing like Mad Max, smashing n burning.

So I am willing to give LO a break as far as spending, but will still blame them for bias. 

Additionally I will say, any friendly fire will be answered in kind, in missions or event. 

Event lets friendlys shoot your vehicle, dont kill ya but it takes you out of the current chase, 

cuz they afraid Ol Mack is gonna make a kill, I don't wanna kill nobody, i just wanna Drive 

n Haul Patootie. Best part is there are no threats in event, no damage to threat or coming up. 

Worst part is the hud display across the top does block your view some, even with lowered hud size.  

[cowhorseman]

22 hours ago, BlatMan said:

I like the new launcher. I'm glad you stepped away from .net. It's difficult to keep track of which versions you have installed, and sometimes they conflict with each other. 

 

If you own the "Key to the City Pack", do you automatically get the Halloween symbols? It says "All fonts, symbols, and decals unlocked" on the store page of that pack. I'm guessing the answer is no, but that needs to be clarified on the store page if so.

Every single page is unlocked. you can make anything you can think of. also includes all emotes

[FuzzyBunny]

is anyone else not hearing the pumpkins? I ran across several by sight but never heard a red or green one. 

[MACKxBOLAN]

10 hours ago, FuzzyBunny said:

is anyone else not hearing the pumpkins?

Yes I am also Not hearing them, which is the best thing because they are annoying especially in mission area's. 

 I thought LO removed the sounds, as opposed to it being a glitch. 

 Not just the pumpkin laugh its that bass background sound that bothers your battle senses in combat, 

or is so much louder than the environment you need to adjust your volume.

[MidnightQ]

14 hours ago, MACKxBOLAN said:

Yes I am also Not hearing them, which is the best thing because they are annoying especially in mission area's. 

 I thought LO removed the sounds, as opposed to it being a glitch. 

 Not just the pumpkin laugh its that bass background sound that bothers your battle senses in combat, 

or is so much louder than the environment you need to adjust your volume.

Frosi said they are aware of it they gonna fix it. without the sound its much harder to farm and longer

[Darkzero3802]

You guys gave this event only 2 weeks when the population is dead. You maby get an hr or 2 a day to actually play the event otherwise nobody is playing it. This event should of started afew weeks ago and ran all oct long. You then brought about green pumpkins when nobody liked chasing the ones we had to begin with, its tedious and not very fun. Then you make it 600 pumpkins in order to get the skin. Who thought this would be a good idea?

[FuzzyBunnySlippers]

you do know why the green pumpkins are broken...  

 

[Westford]

I too missed the Pumpkins "cackling" as you got near..

I did want to give a Big Thumbs up to the new Launcher.
Nicely done.
Very fast.. and the player pop display is a nice added feature.

 

 

[cowhorseman]

If your going to add so many green pumpkinss why didn't you make a repeating quest at the end of it. Something like 50 greens is worth 100 JT something small but makes it worth more then small cash and standing.