ZwiftHQ likes to have a little fun on certain holidays – especially Halloween, Christmas, and April Fools’. For past Halloweens we earned costumes with Pace Partners in 2020, earned dino costumes in 2019, rode bone bikes and swapped heads in 2018, and looked like witches and monsters in 2017.
Last night some new Pace Partners went live for Halloween. It’s a very similar setup to what we did in 2020, albiet with a couple of new costumes and easier-to-follow pacing.
Welcome Carly Cyclosaurus and Mecha Masher to the game, and welcome back Darwin Dino!
Carly Cyclosaurus Mecha Masher 
Darwin Dino
How It Works
Each of the three costumes comes in multiple pieces. To unlock each piece, ride near the Pace Partner in the same way you would the “normal” Pace Partners in the Drops Multiplier game. It looks like it takes about 15 minutes to unlock each costume piece.
Click the Pace Partners box to see a list of available Pace Partners Choose one of the Halloween-themed Partners Start riding! It takes a while to unlock each piece…
Unlocked costume pieces will be remembered, so when you join that Pace Partner again on a separate ride you won’t be starting from zero. The pieces seem to only be visible when you’re close enough to the Pace Partner. So we assume that once the special Pace Partners are taken offline (November 1st?) your unlocked costume pieces will no longer be accessible.
The Pace Partners aren’t hammering out the watts, so everyone should be able to find a Halloween Partner they can hang with. Currently the three pace partners are riding at the following paces:
- Carly Cyclosaurus (2.5 w/kg, 165W)
- Darwin Dino (1.2wkg, 80W)
- Mecha Masher (1.3wkg, 100W)
Questions or Comments?
Did you unlock a full costume yet? It’s no easy task! Share your thoughts below…
After Halloween can we use this costume pieces?
Doubtful. Our guess is they’ll go away, like past years.
It appears as if you don’t even get to keep the costume for free riding if you manually turn away from the Bot or otherwise get out of the Pacers’ draft. So it’s only shown when in reach of the pace partner. Pity if this is the intended action rather than me hitting a glitch.
I can imagine a substantial change in pack dynamics with a full squad of these leading you out!
Yep, did Carly Cyclosaurus today, took an hour to complete at 2.5 Wkg on Road to Ruins.
Look aa bit like Mr Blobby. 😁
I yyour not from UK, you might have to Google him. 👍😜
Accidentally discovered this last night – earlier than i recall in past years. Functionality looks to be improved from last year too. Being dropped at 80% of earning a costume piece is rage inducing.
15mins for each of the 4 carly clothes seems about right. An hour to get fully dressed is what i got last night.
Also – might be my imagination but riding right ontop of the character seemed to slightly speed up the counter.
These w/kg separations hurt my soul. I am hoping they are wrong.
Any chance this is a first step toward 5 pace partners at nicely-spaced intervals? As in https://rpubs.com/phiggins/776623
I want to start as the dino I earned and turn into a martian working the next level….
If you don’t join from the startup menu it doesn’t seem to work.
It takes about 1 hour for the full costume.
It would be great if:
1. Once you unlocked a costume completely, you could take it anywhere.
2. If your costumes were saved year to year so that next year you could pull out your old costume when the event went live and use it again.
Sooooo…basically if you don’t ride with a pace partner, you don’t get a costume? Awesome! Great Halloween special! How dumb!
Major bug with new release – you lose all other riders in a race. Looks like an WiFi internet loss (but have wired and internet was fine). Happened to me 18km into 69km race so very lonely hour. After finishing the race all riders in Watopia reappeared and lots of other riders reporting the same thing. Urgently needs to be fixed.
Me too, after 10 minutes with Dino I was riding alone on the road. Bt, wifi and internet were fine. Using Apple TV, never had any issue before.