Halloween 2026: Apocalypse

Hi 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.

Here's what's waiting for you.

1. The Four Horsemen

If you played Halloween on or before 2023, you know the Headless Horseman. The rules are simple. Destroy pumpkins around the district until someone earns the curse and becomes the Horseman. The Horseman then hunts everyone else, and every player they take down rises as a Henchman in their army. Henchmen hunt with the Horseman and keep converting survivors. If you're still a survivor, your job is to stay away from the Horseman and its ever-growing army of murder pumpkins until time runs out. Kill the Horseman and the curse passes to you.

This year the Horseman has three brothers. Every match is one of four versions, picked at random, so you never know which one is coming. Each has its own Horseman, and the rules shift with it:

• Night of Death. The classic hunt, the way you remember it. Once the Army outnumbers the survivors, the survivors start showing up on the map and an 8 minute countdown begins.
• Night of War. Everything happens faster. The Army takes over sooner, survivors are pinged on the map every 6 seconds, and the final countdown is cut to 4 minutes. Survivors get a bigger reward for fighting back: killing the Horseman is worth 5x the score.
• Night of Famine. No resupply. Not from vending machines, ammo depots, vehicles, Field Suppliers or deployables. What you bring is what you have. Famine nights also run longer, at up to 40 minutes. The Army can't take over in the first 5 minutes, and survivors are pinged less often.
• Night of Pestilence. The plague spreads. Survivor pings stay on the map longer, the final countdown is 6 minutes, and there's no easy way out: a survivor who kills themselves joins the Army.

The Four Horsemen run in the Dynamic Event districts in Financial and Waterfront, and a match needs at least two players to start.

Four Horsemen 2026 role

Complete matches on any of the four versions to level the role. Every rank pays out Joker Tickets.

• Rank 1 (1 match): 150 JT
• Rank 2 (3 matches): "Saddle Sore" title + 150 JT
• Rank 3 (5 matches): Halloween Costume symbol pack + 200 JT
• Rank 4 (8 matches): "Night Rider" title + 200 JT
• Rank 5 (12 matches): Pumpkin Backpack + 250 JT
• Rank 6 (16 matches): "Herald of the End" title + 250 JT
• Rank 7 (20 matches): Epidemic logo symbol pack + 300 JT
• Rank 8 (25 matches): Apocalypse weapon skin + "The Fifth Horseman" title + 400 JT

Four Horsemen achievements

• Pale Rider: become a Horseman. Title + 500 JT
• Plague Bearer: convert 25 survivors. Title + 500 JT
• Unhorsed: kill 100 infected as a survivor. Title + 500 JT
• End Times: survive a match without being converted. Title + 500 JT
• Full Stable: complete at least one match of each of the four nights. Title + 250 JT

That's 9 new titles and over 4,000 Joker Tickets from the Horsemen alone.

2. Infected Pumpkins

Green, glowing and spreading. Infected Pumpkins are hidden around San Paro in Financial and Waterfront Mission districts. A fresh set appears every day, and it's the same set for every player. Once you destroy one, it's gone for you until the next day's set arrives, so check back daily.

Infected Pumpkin Hunter role

• Rank 1 (25 pumpkins): 100 JT
• Rank 2 (60): "Disinfected" title + 100 JT
• Rank 3 (100): 150 JT
• Rank 4 (145): Glow in the Dark (White) weapon skin + "Decontaminator" title + 150 JT
• Rank 5 (195): Devil Wings + 250 JT
• Rank 6 (255): "Antidote" title + 250 JT
• Rank 7 (320): 300 JT
• Rank 8 (400): "Plague Doctor" title + 300 JT
• Rank 9 (490): 400 JT
• Rank 10 (600): Widow weapon skin + "The Cure" title + 500 JT

3. Red Pumpkins

The Red Pumpkins are back too. There are 100 of them hidden throughout Financial and Waterfront Mission districts, and they don't respawn. Find them all.

Red Pumpkin Exterminator role

• 50 pumpkins: Occult Symbol pack + 50 JT
• 100 pumpkins: Occult Pants + 100 JT

4. Two new weapon skins

This year's headline rewards are two brand new weapon skins. Both work on every weapon that can take the classic Halloween skins.

Apocalypse, the top reward for the Four Horsemen 2026 role. It's a chroma green, glow-in-the-dark skin with a slow pulse and a skull mark, built for the end of the world.

Widow, the top reward for the Infected Pumpkin Hunter role.

5. Halloween sales

• Almost everything on ARMAS is an extra 15% off for the event, on top of your Premium discount. With free Premium, that's 35% off for everyone. Premium itself isn't discounted.
• All the Halloween items are back on ARMAS, including the Halloween 2019 and Halloween Classics bundles, the Halloween symbol sheets, and the Epidemic, Asylum, Pumpkin, Ghost, Bats, Butcher and Occult weapon skins.
• The Pack of Revelations Pass is 45% off in the Premium Vault. If the Four Horsemen are your thing, this is the pack. You get the IO Growl (account bound) with Death, War, Famine, Pestilence and Apocalypse kits. You also get the five Revelations weapons, the S-247 'Oblivion', SG-21 'Strife', AR-97 'Misery', H-9 'Curse' and R-2 'Harbinger', plus the Four Horsemen clothing.

Pack of Revelations Pass: https://www.gamersfirst.com/marketplace/ingame/product_details.php?storetype=g1c&gameID=20&catID=65&subcatID=152&productId=3819

6. A new launcher

If the launcher looked different when you started it today, that's because it is. We rebuilt it from scratch:

• Nothing extra to install. It runs on Windows 10 and 11 without .NET, Visual C++ or WebView2 installs.
• Faster patching. Files download and apply several at a time instead of one after another.
• Repair game files is one click from the main screen.
• Seven languages: English, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. The language you pick also sets the game's language.
• News up front. The latest news is the big banner, and every news card opens its article.
• Players online. The footer shows how many players are on in NA and EU, and clicking it opens the server status page.

If something looks wrong or a patch misbehaves, please tell us and include the launcher log.

That's Halloween. Pick a side, see which version you get, and don't kill yourself on a Pestilence night.

Thanks, Matt

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