It looks like the annual Halloween event in Escape From Tarkov has started a little earlier than usual this year, with some spooky new enemies popping up in the game and a brand-new quest to take them out.
Almost every year there is some kind of Halloween event in Escape From Tarkov, which usually features some pumpkin shaped loot containers and Tagilla upgrading his hammer to a scythe among other things. While neither of these have appeared so far this year, there is a new addition that is spooky enough to get people thinking the Halloween event is already here.
Tarkov players were given a new quest line, that features three new quests to complete. The most interesting is tilted The Graven Image, and tasks you with killing three new bosses, known as the Oni, the Harbinger and the Ghost. These new bosses seem to be tied to the cultists somehow, but there isn’t all that much info on who they are or what they are doing.
To complete the quest you need to kill them all, and reports are suggesting they are most commonly found in the fortress area on Customs, as well as other areas that The Goons can spawn in. They appear to have similar AI to the Goons, but they have unique models and some players have reported that they can spawn alongside other bosses such as the Goons.
The other quests in the event, titled Night of the Cult and Until Dawn, just task you with killing normal cultists, who seem to have an increased spawn rate and can now be found on Streets Of Tarkov and Lighthouse.
The quests offer some solid rewards, including marked room keys which can bring in a lot of cash if you get lucky, so the quests are worth doing, even if the XP and cash rewards themselves are a little lacking compared to some other event quests that have messed up the progression of this wipe considerably.
It’s not the most imaginative set of quests in the world, and not quite what we have come to expect from the Halloween event, so there is a good chance that this is either unrelated to the spooky holiday, or just the first part of an event that will continue to play out over the coming weeks. Hopefully we’ll get something a little more fun when the holiday does roll around, likely the return of the pumpkins and the other usual changes.
