Build 26308360

BIRDS OF WAR: HALLOWEEN UPDATE 🎃

A new bird, three new maps, a Trick or Treat candy event, 80+ Halloween cosmetics, and much more..

HIGHLIGHTS

• New bird: the Vulture

• 3 new maps: Inversion, Birdcage and Cavern (Halloween)

• Wing of the Hill returns on Inversion

• Trick or Treat candy event with a Candy Shop and leaderboard

• Top 5 on the Candy Leaderboard win the Pumpkin King Crow

• Zombie skin bundle for all 11 birds

• 80+ new Halloween cosmetics

• Every bird is now unlocked from level 1

• Double XP weekend

• A free Pumpkin Egg Crate just for logging in

• 40% off for a limited time

New Bird: Vulture

A scavenger that poisons the air, feeds on the fallen and hides behind a cage of bones.

Hook and Rip (LMB)

• A two-part strike. The Hook hits instantly and the Rip follows 0.4 seconds later.

• Hook deals 25 damage and Rip deals 45.

Bone Shield (Q)

• Gain a 50-point bone shield for 5 seconds.

• When it breaks or expires, the bones shatter outward for 50 damage.

• Ignite: damaging enemies with Rancid Breath builds Ignite charge. Cast Bone Shield at full charge and the bones catch fire. When they shatter, they set your nearby gas alight for 40 fire damage.

Rancid Breath (RMB)

• Hold to spray toxic gas from a fuel tank.

• Enemies inside take 16 damage every 0.5 seconds and receive 35% less healing.

• Gas lingers for 3.5 seconds after you stop.

• Dash through your own gas to carry it as a toxic trail.

Leftovers (Passive)

• Collect scraps from nearby enemy deaths to restore 12% health and gain 15% speed for 3 seconds.

• Each scrap also refills 10% of your breath fuel.

• A new Leftovers meter under your health bar tracks nearby scraps.

Vulture skins

• Grim Reaper, Mummy, Explorer, Zero Kelvin and Sunflash.

• Army Vulture is the Vulture mastery reward.

Halloween Event: Trick or Treat

Candy

• Kills and egg captures drop candy.

• Killing a bird steals 25% of the candy it’s holding.

• The player holding the most candy becomes the Candy King. Everyone sees their crown through walls, and killing them spills 40% of their candy.

• Candy you hold at the end of a match is banked. Winning adds a bonus 10 Candy.

• Candy drops in matchmade matches only.

Free Login Gift

• Log in during the event to claim a free Pumpkin Egg Crate.

Candy Leaderboard

• The top 5 players when the event ends win the Pumpkin King Crow skin, the Iced Pumpkin King Crow Pendant and the Iced Jack-o’-Lantern Chain.

• Tied for 5th? Everyone tied wins.

Halloween Tab

• A new HALLOWEEN tab holds the Candy Shop, Pumpkin Egg Crates, the Candy Leaderboard and a How to Earn guide.

Candy Shop

• Spend Candy on exclusive items: Skeleton Paint Crow, the Possessed emote, the Blood Mist wing trail, the Iced Pumpkin Jack Grill Pendant, the Iced Cauldron Pendant, the Bone and Iced Peppermint chains, the Candy Corn and Jack-o’-Lantern egg skins, and the Jack-o’-Lantern Forge banner.

Pumpkin Egg Crate

• 75 Candy per crate, with OPEN 5 available.

• Odds are shown in game: 32% Common, 44% Rare, 20% Epic, 4% Legendary.

• Duplicates refund Candy.

Dates

• The event runs until the end of 12 November (UTC). The Candy Shop stays open until 15 November.

Maps

New Map: Inversion (Wing of the Hill)

• Wing of the Hill returns on a map with two roofs.

• Two mirrored floors with a flip plane between them. Cross the plane and your view flips, so you can fight on the ceiling.

• Available in Quick Play votes, Training and Custom Games.

New Map: Birdcage

• Now in Quick Play map votes for Egg Conquest, King of the Hill and Domination.

Halloween Maps

• Vietnam and Cavern load their Halloween versions in matchmaking during the event.

• Halloween maps have spider webs. Fly into one and you’re slowed for 2 seconds.

• Halloween maps come up in map votes more often during the event.

Cosmetics

Skins

• Zombie skins for all 11 birds.

• Skeleton Paint Crow, Jigsaw Toucan, Hockey Mask Pigeon and Bog Wraith Shoebill.

• Five new Vulture skins plus the Army Vulture mastery skin.

Zombie Pack (Steam)

• All 11 Zombie skins, the Iced Rotten Eye Chain, the Zombie Crow Pendant and the Resurrection Pendant.

More Halloween cosmetics

• New chains, pendants, egg skins, wing trails, emotes, sprays, banners and the Cobweb frame.

• New emotes: Graveyard Shift, Cauldron, Ghost Chase, Spider Walk, Pumpkin Head, Possessed and Put ’Em in the Coffin.

• New wing trails: Candy Corn, Pumpkin Ember, Ghost Drift, Witchfire, Cobweb and Blood Mist.

• Halloween banners and sprays.

Golden Egg Crate

• Added the Bird Cage and Bleeding Heart pendants and the DNA Chain as crate-only Legendaries.

Gameplay and Quality of Life

• Every bird is now unlocked from level 1. Seagull, Eagle and Owl no longer need levels 5, 13 and 22.

• New Loadout: a locker grid of everything you have equipped. Pick each slot inline, preview locked items, and changes save as soon as you click.

• New crate screen: category rows, OPEN 5, clear drop rates and a better opening reel.

Look and Sound

• A Halloween night main menu, new loading screens and spooky music.

• A refreshed in-match HUD, scoreboard, ESC menu, settings and post-match screen (now showing VICTORY, DEFEAT or your placement).

• A refreshed PLAY page, friends and party windows, and Nest pages.

• Better controller navigation, including Report and Block on controller.

If anyone is experiencing crashes or any other issues, please reach out to support and we'll investigate. Thanks!