“A cool night sky falls upon Auraxis, dark and heavy. The ground beneath you begins to till and toil, as if shivering with anticipation. Is it a sign? Has the ancient Vanu technology beneath the planet sprung to life once again? Or is it something more sinister...”

— Nanite of the Living Dead 6 Publicity Blurb

The Nanite of the Living Dead is a recurring annual event in Planetside 2. It typically starts mid-October each year, and lasts until early November. The event tasks players with numerous Halloween-themed event directives, such as killing players while wearing horror-themed cosmetics, and using halloween-themed weaponry to get kills.

In addition, numerous Space Pumpkins will appear sparingly throughout every continent that can be destroyed for seasonal rewards and Certs.

The event also brings halloween-themed equipment with it, like the factional knife reskin The Slasher, as well as unique directive rewards including exclusive Titles and cosmetics.

This event allows players to equip limited seasonal cosmetics and enables the Experience Boost effect found on Halloween Helmets.

The current Nanite of the Living Dead, "Nanite of the Living Dead 6: Revenge of the Unsown", started on Wednesday, October 16th, 2019, and is set to conclude at 11:59 PM PT on Friday, November 8th, 2019.

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Halloween Event Weapons Edit

Ectoblaster Originally pitched as a research tool to measure Anomaly variance, the Ectoblaster releases a barrage of plasma before overheating. Users are cautioned not to cross the streams.

Limited event item. Costs Cert Cost: N/A DC Cost: N/A General Info Empire: Can Use: Weapon Type: Pistols Fire Rate: 270 RPM Muzzle Velocity: 150m/s Effective Range: Short Fire Modes: Semi-Automatic Headshot Multiplier: 1.5x Damage [?] Max Damage: 125 Min Damage: 125 Max Indirect Damage: 25 before 1m Min Indirect Damage: 10 after 2m Heat Reload Stats [?] Heat Recovery: N/A Heat Recovery Delay: N/A Overheat Penalty: N/A Ammunition Magazine Size: 19 Ammunition Pool: Heat per Shot: 100 Heat Capacity: 1999 Accuracy Hip Crouch Still: 1 Move: 1.25 Stand Still: 1.5 Move: 1.75 Bloom per Shot: 0 Recoil [?] Vertical: 0.75 Horizontal, Min/Max: 0.1/0.2 Horizontal Tolerance: 0.6 Angle Min/Max: 10°/10° Bias: ← = → Recoil Decrease: 15 First Shot Recoil Multiplier: 1.5x Data Sources Census API source: ? Note: Only available during Nanite of the Living Dead event.

NS CandyCannon 3000 Originally designed as an office toy for long-range candy corn delivery, Nanite Systems' Indar office branch quickly went out of business after the public experienced firsthand the folly of firing the world's hardest substance out of a 'toy' gun.

Costs Cert Cost: 1000 DC Cost: 699 General Info Empire: Can Use: Weapon Type: Pistols Fire Rate: 200 RPM Muzzle Velocity: 100m/s Effective Range: Short Fire Modes: Single Shot Damage [?] Max Damage: 300 before 10m Min Damage: 150 after 50m Reload Speed Short Reload: 2.5s Long Reload: 2.5s Ammunition Magazine Size: 3 Ammunition Pool: 27 Accuracy Hip Crouch Still: 1 Move: 1.5 Stand Still: 1 Move: 1.5 Bloom per Shot: 0.28 Data Sources Census API source: ? Note: Only available during Nanite of the Living Dead event.

The Slasher Simple stainless steel knives haven't gone out of style as a weapon of choice for the discerning space psycho. Despite using millenia-old technology, contemporary body armor hasn't solved the problem of 'getting stabbed.'

Costs Cert Cost: 1000 DC Cost: 699 General Info Empire: Can Use: Weapon Type: Melee Weapons Fire Rate: 63 RPM Effective Range: Melee Fire Modes: Quick Melee

Melee Headshot Multiplier: 1.5x Damage [?] Max Damage: 500 Min Damage: 500 Data Sources Census API source: ? Note: Only available during Nanite of the Living Dead event.

Halloween Event Cosmetics Edit

Nanite of the Living Dead cosmetic items, including those that do not provide any experience boosting effects, can only be equipped during a Halloween Holiday Event. They are not usable outside of these periods, and simply cannot be chosen in a loadout.

Previously, Space Pumpkin Seeds were a unique currency used to purchase various cosmetics for this event, but as of the 2019 Nanite of the Living Dead, these cosmetics can be randomly acquired when destroying Space Pumpkins or through purchase.

Infantry Edit

Vehicles Edit

Directives Edit

Halloween III Rank Requirements Rewards Novice

Complete 3 objectives 75 Hallow Hunter Earn Hallow Ribbons by killing targets with Halloween Weapons. 4 Supernatural Savior Receive Savior bonus. 1 Necromancer Earn revive experience with a Halloween mask equipped. 15 Pumpking Slayer Seek and destroy the elusive Galact-O-Lantern. 1 Toil and Trouble Earn resupply experience with a Halloween mask equipped. 50 Witchign Hour Gain shared experience while in a vehicle with another player. 25 Adept

Complete 3 objectives 100 ,

Ectoblaster Hallow Hunter Earn Hallow Ribbons by killing targets with Halloween Weapons. 40 Supernatural Savior Receive Savior bonus. 5 Necromancer Earn revive experience with a Halloween mask equipped. 150 Pumpking Slayer Seek and destroy the elusive Galact-O-Lantern. 1 Toil and Trouble Earn resupply experience with a Halloween mask equipped. 500 Witchign Hour Gain shared experience while in a vehicle with another player. 50 Expert

Complete 4 objectives 200 ,

Halloween V Profile Banner Hallow Hunter Earn Hallow Ribbons by killing targets with Halloween Weapons. 120 Supernatural Savior Receive Savior bonus. 15 Necromancer Earn revive experience with a Halloween mask equipped. 450 Pumpking Slayer Seek and destroy the elusive Galact-O-Lantern. 1 Toil and Trouble Earn resupply experience with a Halloween mask equipped. 1500 Witchign Hour Gain shared experience while in a vehicle with another player. 100 Master

Complete 4 objectives 400 ,

LB00 Python AP Hallow Hunter Earn Hallow Ribbons by killing targets with Halloween Weapons. 400 Supernatural Savior Receive Savior bonus. 45 Necromancer Earn revive experience with a Halloween mask equipped. 750 Pumpking Slayer Seek and destroy the elusive Galact-O-Lantern. 1 Toil and Trouble Earn resupply experience with a Halloween mask equipped. 2500 Witchign Hour Gain shared experience while in a vehicle with another player. 200

Pumpkins Edit

The primary objective for players during the Nanite of the Living Dead event is to locate and destroy pumpkins. There are two types of pumpkins; the Space Pumpkin, the common pumpkin that rewards a small amount of seeds and XP, and the Galact-O-Pumpkin, an exceedingly rare pumpkin that rewards a large amount of seeds and XP, and is an objective for the event directive.

Seeds Edit

Space Pumpkin Seeds (SPS) are used to purchase various Halloween-themed cosmetics, and are earned primarily through the eradication of pumpkins across Auraxis.

You will gain between 1-10 Seeds for destroying a Space Pumpkin and anywhere from 15 to 55 seeds for destroying a Galact-O-Lantern.

Spawn Schedule Edit

In the 2016 Nanite of the Living Dead event, Pumpkins only spawned during a special alert. As of the 2017 event, Halloweens now spawn constantly, approximately between 3 and 10 minutes since their last destruction. If there is no Galact-O-Lantern on that continent then one will also respawn at a random time, though this delay is a lot longer than a Space Pumpkin's respawn time.

Hunting Tips Edit

Search near civilized areas, such as buildings and the out-skirts of bases, as well as near the roads that follow lattice lines.

Each continent has approximately 600 random spawn locations, but only around 100 Space Pumpkins can spawn at any given time, and only a single Galact-O-Pumpkin will exist per continent.

Keep changing locations, but don't forget to re-check where you've been!

Pumpkins will spawn in slightly random offsets from their spawning origin, this means they will occasionally be set in strange places, like on trees!

General Locations Edit

Pumpkins tend to spawn in the same, pre-determined areas constantly. However, they can spawn slightly off-set from these locations, so take a quick sweep before dismissing an area as one which has no pumpkin.

Gallery Edit

Trivia Edit