To celebrate Halloween and TU5, Epic have announced that they are holding a double XP weekend. Well that is from Thursday to Monday, so I suspect it has something to do with public holidays in the US. Whatever the reason, that is four day and nights to double-up. You will receive double XP in competitive multiplayer and Horde as well as a team winning bonus.
Rod Fergusson from the Epic’s Official Forum’s also said “Beyond that though we wanted to mess with the waves in Horde to try and make it appropriately ‘scary’ for Halloween. So while Butchers seemed on target for the theme, they didn’t provide enough umph to make it scary. So we thought, what if any of the many Boomers could attack on any wave and when possible, a full Boomer squad consisting of Grinders, Butchers, Flame Boomers and regular Boomshot Boomers could appear and attack all at once. And of course waves 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 would be nothing but wave after wave of Boomers. For those of you scoring from home, you may notice that I didn’t mention the Maulers (aka the Boomers with exploding flail and shield). That’s because for this event we’re pulling them out. We figured what is the fun of having a massive Boomer onslaught when you can just plant a shield to block them off. So unless the shield is part of the map, you’re on your own!”
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