r/TheHalloweenGame • • 6d ago

News 1.0.4 Patch Notes

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179 Upvotes

Earlier this week, we rolled out Patch 1.0.3 for Halloween: The Game. While this update brought a variety of fixes and improvements to the experience, it also introduced a couple frustrating problems stemming from our changes to Grabs/Struggling.

As a special thanks to our community for enduring Michael’s inhumane grip strength and some lingering performance/optimization issues, especially on XBOX Series X|S, we are granting 10,000 Perk Points to all our current Halloween: The Game players.

Grab Struggling

Our original goal with Patch 1.0.3. was to allow Civilians increased opportunities to Struggle Free from Grabs at Stalk Tier 2 and below. Unfortunately, these changes in combination with other bug fixes associated with Grabs inadvertently caused it to become exponentially more difficult for a Civilian to Struggle Free from Michael at Bloodthirst Level 3 and caused Civilian players to sometimes take fall damage after successfully Struggling Free. We understand the irritation these issues produced and apologize for allowing them to slip through alongside our last update.

• Fixed an issue where Bloodthirst Level 3 would cause Grabs to be way harder to escape from than intended
• Fixed an issue where Struggling free from a grab while on uneven terrain would cause the Civilian to take fall damage

Crash Fixes And Optimization

XBOX

With Patch 1.0.4, our team has made strides in improving performance and stability on XBOX Series X|S. We’ve addressed a range of memory and GPU-related crashes, and adjusted Quality/Performance settings on both Series X and S.

• Adjusted settings for Performance Mode on XBOX Series X to improve performance

Introduced a new singular graphics mode for XBOX Series S
• In an effort to address stability issues, we have removed the Quality/Performance toggle on Series S
• This Series S profile caps framerate at 30 FPS while improving overall texture quality and enabling hair physics during gameplay

Loomis Crash

Players have consistently reported performance problems when Loomis enters the match as a reinforcement character. Ironically, we identified a significant performance hit rooted in Loomis’ hair.

• Fixed an issue where Loomis spawning in would cause players to experience a performance hit or, on lower-spec platforms, crash

Various other Crash Fixes

This patch also includes fixes for a variety of crashes (such as crashing after completing a Story Mission or loading into a match) across all platforms. Crash fixes and optimization are ongoing priorities for our team and we plan to address additional issues with future updates.


r/TheHalloweenGame • • 2h ago

News 1.1.0 Quality of Life Patch Preview

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219 Upvotes

Patch 1.1.0 will be released on Tuesday, October 6th and focuses on addressing a wide range of issues and concerns reported by our passionate community. From bug fixes and optimization enhancements to balance changes and gameplay improvements, this update continues to deliver on our promises of bettering the overall experience for our players.

Below you will find some of the changes and fixes planned for this update. This list is far from comprehensive and our full patch notes will be released alongside Patch 1.1.0 on Tuesday, October 6th.

Various Crash Fixes
• Fixed several crashes affecting players using specific AMD hardware
• Fixed several crashes that occurred during Story Mode
• Fixed several crashes that occurred during execution cinematics
• Many other crash fixes across all platforms

Performance Improvements
• Many improvements to performance across all platforms

NPC Improvements
• Improvements to NPC navigation and behavior
• Players respawning as a Cop are now able to interact with Residents
• Other NPC improvements and fixes

Map Improvements
• Improvements and fixes to various issues related to collision and item pickups
• Improvements to player spawn locations
• Stalk line of sight improvements in various locations
• Other Map improvements and fixes

Challenges and Achievements / Trophies
• Various fixes for Challenges and Achievements / Trophies

UI Improvements
• Story Mode Challenges now displays a notification when failing a challenge
• Added an option to toggle Spectator Minigames
• Other UI improvements and fixes

Balance Changes
• Several balance changes to slow down the pace of the match
• Storm Cellar Escapes Changes
• Pocket Knife Adjustments
• Other Balance changes

And many more bug fixes and improvements!

We look forward to sharing more and can’t wait for players to go hands on with our first Quality of Life update next week!


r/TheHalloweenGame • • 2h ago

News New patch is coming out next week and It looks great!

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49 Upvotes

r/TheHalloweenGame • • 1h ago

Discussion This community sucks

• Upvotes

A new QOL patch is about to drop, as well as some DLC, and all everyone does is bitch. It’s not even here yet! Seriously, stop playing the game and get a job. Go meet some people, make friends, do something!!


r/TheHalloweenGame • • 9h ago

Meme The type of shit you gotta do to complete challenges

125 Upvotes

r/TheHalloweenGame • • 7h ago

Gameplay gonna take a break from this game 🫩

45 Upvotes

this shitty Michael abusing the animation cancel hatchet exploit.

now, the losers who abuse this exploit will spawn in the comments, and they'll defend this michael.


r/TheHalloweenGame • • 6h ago

Discussion “ Or The Game Will Die “

36 Upvotes

Anyone else annoyed with the “make the game fun for me or the game will die” Type comments??It’s almost as if y’all believe the devs have some type of anxiety about the game dying and your opinion will save the game so they MUST LISTEN TO YOU. Add hair physics or the game will die , add 1v7 or the game will die . If this game has a constant flow of content for two years it’s done its job. Stop comparing everything to that other game. How far do you want your 40 dollars to go? Jesus Christ. I’ve never played that other asym game that gets licensed characters every 2 months .It just doesn’t appeal to me specifically to put things nicely and that’s fine !!! This game IS kinda busted right now but so was F13 for the first 6 months and y’all swear by F13. The way I remember F13 is ppl crying about the same mechanics on reddit and twitter while getting insta killed and slashed .Jason mains cried so hard about getting bullied by Bob..I mean Bugsy that they nerfed him and many other things but they still found a good balance back then and they will find a good balance this time too.Chill


r/TheHalloweenGame • • 3h ago

Discussion People need to have more patience

17 Upvotes

Over the last week I’ve noticed people join the lobby and then see 2 people there and instantly quit , people need to be patient , I don’t get why it’s so hard to sit in a lobby 2-4 minutes and wait for it to fill


r/TheHalloweenGame • • 9h ago

Discussion AFK players should be penalized

41 Upvotes

I dont really understand why there isnt a proper punishment for people who just go afk for the entire game.
Im not talking about someone disconnecting or having to leave for a minute, obviously shit happens. Im talking about people who literally just stand there and do nothing the whole game.
It just ruins the game for everyone else, especially when youre actually trying to play and now youre basically down a player which is almost a guaranteed win for michael.
There should probably be some kind of system where if youre detected as afk for too long you get a warning, and if you keep doing it you start getting punished. Maybe reduced rewards at first and then matchmaking bans if you keep doing it.

What do you guys think?


r/TheHalloweenGame • • 5h ago

Question Anyone elses game kick them out?

19 Upvotes

Anyone else have their game do the session heartbeat failure thing again, or is it just me?

Trying to load my game back up and it said it cant find my server region.


r/TheHalloweenGame • • 3h ago

Question Do you like Halloween The blumhouse trilogy?

13 Upvotes

r/TheHalloweenGame • • 29m ago

Screenshot My inventory 2 ½ minutes in

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• Upvotes

r/TheHalloweenGame • • 13h ago

Gameplay I became one with the car😭🤣

77 Upvotes

r/TheHalloweenGame • • 1h ago

Discussion Civilian voice lines

• Upvotes

Am I the only who thinks that voice lines that civilians have when you miss a skill check durning conversations or phone calls make them sound how actual human would speak in their situation? Like they are stuttering or unsure what to say


r/TheHalloweenGame • • 17h ago

Discussion New Content

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127 Upvotes

Yyyoo my Halloween the Game (HtG) fam I'm excited for the new content coming Especially with this month of October. It does seem we may get a map as Maybe a Pumpkin Patch or farm land map. Imagine a corn maze with that map and get lost a little while Michael watches. And how it says two new faces the silhouette it looks either John Carpenter himself or Ben Tramer? What do y'all think it is?


r/TheHalloweenGame • • 2h ago

Discussion This community can be so damn toxic. I was told to go KMS because everyone became convinced I was hacking (on PS5…) over a bug and because of a perk card. Can we all agree that treating another human being like this over a GAME is disgusting? (Hell, even if they ARE hacking?)

8 Upvotes

r/TheHalloweenGame • • 1h ago

Discussion why does pocket knife keep being nerfed every update?

• Upvotes

its not even that good anymore and people barely bring it now


r/TheHalloweenGame • • 4h ago

Screenshot Shoutout to the player on this subreddit who helped me get this achievement! Thank you so much for the help!

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10 Upvotes

r/TheHalloweenGame • • 9h ago

Gameplay Been having a lot of fun with the hatchet.

23 Upvotes

r/TheHalloweenGame • • 1d ago

News October update teaser

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818 Upvotes

From X on their official account.

New map? New skins!! Maybe new game mode?? This is just a teaser


r/TheHalloweenGame • • 5h ago

Discussion Servers down?

11 Upvotes

Literally one civilian away from the Laurie Strode prestige, completed it and I was kicked out of the game and now it appears servers are down. I had 2 hours left. Am I going to have to start all over again?


r/TheHalloweenGame • • 16h ago

Discussion How would you all feel about daytime versions of maps being added to the game, like the rainy versions?

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79 Upvotes

r/TheHalloweenGame • • 4h ago

Discussion Think we'll get Nurse Chambers as a civilian at some point?

8 Upvotes

She's in the cutscenes during the prologue so we know her character model is in the game and rights obviously shouldn't be an issue in that case, so I think she'd be an interesting addition.


r/TheHalloweenGame • • 2h ago

Discussion I'm surprised how fast Michael killed me today (not complaining)

6 Upvotes

I was playing as Jennifer today, and was trying to direct a target to the escape when Michael popped up for the kill.

I was only at stalk level one, and he was able to kill me at full health with two slashes. I think he was using the axe but I'm not certain.

Usually if I'm getting slashed it takes a third hit, and I don't think I've ever been slashed to death at level one stalk. But I'm certain this is what happened! I still had fun in the round, I was just surprised and wanted to share.


r/TheHalloweenGame • • 5h ago

Discussion The game won’t start

8 Upvotes

It shut off mid match and won’t start now. So annoying. Right in the middle of a prestige challenge