It seems just yesterday we were spamming "༼ つ _ ༽つ GIFF DIRETIDE", but this year will not require organised riots on social media, instead Valve has delivered us Haunted Colosseum, a new custom-game just in time for Halloween! The game is based around the capturing of five "Control Points", and the longer one has been captured one the more points your team collects. Great Behemoths can also be summoned to fight alongside you.
In order to collect the control point simply walk over it. If your team controls 3 control points or more at any one time then your score will increase more rapidly, with 5,000 points marking the end of the game.
In tribute to the halloween theme of the game you can also lay traps which include; Spike traps, fire traps, venom traps and a swinging pendulum. Certain traps activate regardless of who stepped on them, which could make for some rather entertaining team killing.
Much like in Diretide in 2013 when you hit Roshan he dropped candy, fallen heroes in Haunted Colosseum drop treats, which can be used to restore health, mana or reward you with gold to buy items for your heroes.
If the description is anything to by, it would seem this is perhaps a catch-up mechanic to avoid heavily one sided matches.
"If your enemy scores 1,000 points they will trigger a Milestone, causing powerful Behemoths to appear to defend you. Behemoths are immune to Magical Damage, and have True Sight."
Although the mode looks intriguing and at least themed for the occasion, there is no mention in the official announcement of victories in-game leading to rewards such as in-game cosmetics or items. In other words it seems there may be no items drops.
Although we wouldn't be surprised to see if Valve roll out a tweak to the Fall Major Compendium in honour of the release of the Haunted Colosseum, perhaps allowing Compendium Coins to be used on Colosseum matches or some form of reward for Compendium owners.
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