Borderlands 3’s free Halloween event starts today

A series that has elysian as much cosplay arsenic Borderlands has can't just jump Hallowe'en, and surely, Borderlands 3's Blinking Harvest event has returned this year to offer vault hunters the chance to pursue some spooky rewards. Crimson Glean kicks hit today, Oct 8, and runs through Nov 5.

Maurice, the semi-couthie lizard who lives on base the Sanctuary Terzetto, bequeath make you a new mission if you talk with him during the Bloody Harvest upshot. Your job is to collect 'hecktoplasm' from the ghosts that will appear when you take down haunted enemies. You'll be able to spot them from the Green River gleaming they emit, and they're scattered all end-to-end the different destinations in the FPS game.

Once you accept a convinced amount of hecktoplasm collected, drumhead back to Maurice, who will open up a portal that leads directly to Heck, which is where you'll hunt Captain Haunt. While you're in there, you'll be able to percolate loot scaled to your level, and some (in reality, countenance's face IT, most) of those weapons will take in the Little terror effect connected.

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Basically, if you played Bloody Harvest last year, you'll know what to await this twelvemonth. Kill enemies, point to Maurice, persist the Captain Haunt map, win cash and prizes. Assembling hecktoplasm happens beautiful much naturally as you play the rest of the game, so you don't have to worry about pausing whatever other activity you're employed on to do it.

You can earn additional rewards for completing the Bloody Harvesting challenge multiple times. Here's what you stand to win:

4 Challenges Completed – 'A Shrinking Feeling' arm trinket
8 Challenges Realized – 'Substance from Beyond' ECHO Gimmick skin
12 Challenges Completed – 'Haunted Look' shared Vault Hunter pare
15 Challenges Completed – 'Porphyrophobia' artillery hide

These challenges can be a bit annoying when they increase the difficulty of standard enemies throughout the relief of the game, sol remember you potty opt in and out of them by flipping a exchange in the options menu.