New Halloween trial (question)

Thanks

Managed to track down the hidden Boss (Black Whip) but no sign of any hidden EB. Rumour in global channels said you had to kill a lot of zombies at the end, either to meet an additional hidden quota or force a specific zombie spawn, but we never managed to get enough. If anyone knows anything else, would love to hear.

Additional neat thing:

After you encounter the Dr for the first time, all the people queuing inside and outside the mansion are dead, the wolves are running free, and all the barkers and Mr Mausoleum are gone.

I am confused about the reuse of Azuria's model on the cynical woman though.

Question about the "Tricked Out" badge: Anybody know if the permanent costume powers work for it? I have a couple, so if they work I don't have to Trick or Treat on my badger (since he has all the badges for ToTing already).

Got all three badges on the first try with minutes to spare because of this thread.

Thanks for the tips!

Didn't read all the posts but what really increased the spawns for me was a combo of a few things:

#1: knock abomination down to 5%-10% range first, since he has 0 regen.

#2: move in groups of two as it seems to be more efficient as to number players vs spawns triggered and less zombies get a chance to wander off as with moving in singles.

#3: try to move not much faster then lv1 base run speed as you seem to need to stay in an area for so much time to trigger a spawn and it seems to not care how many you trigger in a set amount of time.


For the one where this all came together my 4 person team got it down to 5% by 9:00(3 minutes) which I would say is at best a bit above average since I have been part of taking it down in 1-1.5 minute range a few times. The moving around at a slow run part worked so well that in the scrapper pair that the first time not planning for the resulting #'s we covered 1/4 the graveyard and then notice we spawned 28 zombies on the way. From then on we went to shorter bursts so the zombies ran off less.

The blaster/defender pair did just as well killing but had a few close calls whenever the abomination gave them a big hello. We ended up with 92 by the 6:00 minute mark but then had an extra minute with the last 7 cause the spawn speed suddenly dropped off then stopped and had to find a few already out and moving. We finished before it hit 4:30 after knocking the last few points off big ugly. Our main problem with speed was the constant interruptions of big ugly and zombies deciding to run off when they spawned.

Or.. whenever you do the Halloween Trial, the reward table has "5 Treats". Clicking on that usually gives at least one Temp Costume. Then use that to run the Trial again for the other rewards and badges.

I noticed that if you go to the back of the mansion in the starting area (before going inside) after a minute a wolf walks out the back and if you click it, it says out loud "Nice day, isn't it?" or something like that as it walks into the war wall in the back and vanishes. He doesn't reappear that I saw.

Dunno if that's a bug or something significant.