Halloween pumpkin

Halloween pumpkin
Pickup Type:	Crit boost

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Ahh, so filling! Hahaha! Click to listen — The Heavy on crit-boosting candy

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The Halloween pumpkin is a pickup item unique to the Harvest Event, Mann Manor, and Eyeaduct. It appears as a small, hollowed out pumpkin filled with two chocolate bars and candy corn, which have a random chance of dropping from a killed player. When dropped from a killed player, they will rotate, glow, and hover in the same manner as a Health pack or Ammo kit. The pumpkins only drop when the Halloween event is active.

When picked up, it grants 3.2 seconds of crit boost to the player who picked it up. There is nothing to prevent a player collecting the pumpkin of a fallen teammate. Players who collect 20 of them during the annual Halloween event will complete the Candy Coroner achievement, unlocking the Mildly Disturbing Halloween Mask.

Strategy

• The Scout is the best class to play when aiming to collect pumpkins, as the Scout is faster and will cover areas faster, having a significantly better chance of beating other players to pumpkins.
• Close range classes such as the Pyro and Spy are able to pick up their own pumpkins shortly after killing their targets. This is because they are closer to their targets than longer range classes, such as the Sniper.
• If the pumpkin is collected as the Demoman, one can use the critical boost to their advantage and pepper an area being defended with critical stickybombs.
• If the player picks up a Halloween pumpkin as the Heavy, the player should not waste time winding up the Minigun (unless the weapon equipped in the primary slot is the Tomislav, which requires no wind-up time), and instead switch to their Shotgun if the player has one, in order to make good use of the critical hits that the player is granted.
• Since candy drops sparsely, a player killing someone and hoping for a Crit boost is not an advisable strategy for fending off a push.
• When playing as the Sniper, if the player sees the pumpkin far away from themselves, the player is unadvised to collect it. A better strategy is to scope in on that area in order to try and catch someone on the enemy team in his/her sights while trying to get the pumpkin.
• As the Spy, the player is advised to ignore the pumpkin and continue with their normal strategy rather than to collect it and make themselves known to the enemy team. However, if an enemy already knows the player is there and has the opportunity to collect the pumpkin of their latest victim, it may be then advisable to take the pumpkin simply so the enemy does not get it and chase the player.

Related achievements

Scarechievements

Candy Coroner Collect 20 Halloween pumpkins from dead players to unlock a hat. Reward: Mildly Disturbing Halloween Mask