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Halloween: The Game
Patch Notes 1.0.4
Sep 26, 2026 · Steam update tracked by Buffs & Bugs
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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. 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. 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
What officially changed
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. 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. 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
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