Halloween 2026 in Escape from Tarkov

I’ve been an avid Tarkov player for many years now. Ever since the 1.0 release the developers organise various in-game events, of which Halloween 2026 event is the most recent. The event started on the 29th of October 2026 and is basically a variant of zombie apocalypse. An unknown virus has escaped underground TerraGroup facility (The Lab) and is decimating Tarkov population, turning NPCs into blood-thirsty (or maybe brain-hungry?) monsters. Players receive a set of ephemeral, event-related tasks focusing on containing the spread of the virus and keeping the zombies at bay. While zombies can spawn on any map, two special variants of zombie-infested maps were prepared: the Factory and the Lab. Both maps are crawling with zombies (plus we get an Infected Tagilla on Factory, brandishing a scythe instead of his casual sledgehammer). Event task line forks into two separate ways of dealing with the sudden epidemic. We can side with Therapist or Skier, of which both have their own ways of…

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