Halloween 2023, part 2
“Halloween 2023, part 2” — Escape from Tarkov event, 30 October 2023. The Cultist ritual takes place on every map except Factory and the Lab. Find and kill the wandering Zryachiy and every extract but one is locked, that one gets a longer timer, night falls on the map, and a ritual begins, run by…
30 October 2023
Game changes
- The Cultist ritual takes place on every map except Factory and the Lab.
- Find and kill the wandering Zryachiy and every extract but one is locked, that one gets a longer timer, night falls on the map, and a ritual begins, run by six priests of the ritual cult. It lasts 6 minutes 30 seconds.
- The ritual site is marked by a ritual circle and a blue beam of light going up into the sky. There are several possible sites.
- Killing every priest of the ritual cult stops the ritual.
- Once the ritual completes, Vengeful Zryachiy appears with a greatly increased health pool and starts hunting players.
- Zryachiy drops a bottle of Tarkovskaya vodka or Fierce Hatchling moonshine to players who approach him.
- Killing Zryachiy or Vengeful Zryachiy will not decode your Digital secure DSP radio transmitter if you carry one.
- All weapons jam near Vengeful Zryachiy, except the PPSh-41 submachine gun, the MTs-255-12 shotgun, revolvers, mounted weapons, underbarrel grenade launchers and frag grenades.