Evil Tread: From Rust 'Til Dawn

***"Evil Tread: From Rust 'Til Dawn gets that feeling too. We are but playerzzz and all the world izzz a stage."***

**SPOILER ALERT!**

This article contains Story information (most likely a brand-new Spotlight Mission), and if you haven't played it, reading ahead will spoil your enjoyment of Evil Tread: From Rust 'Til Dawn. If you haven't played it yet, **go back now.**

    **Evil Tread: From Rust 'Til Dawn**  is a mini Spotlight Mission featuring Arcee, Blaster and Mirage that ran from October 17th until October 31st, 10am PT.

From November 1 to 4, 12-hour Evil Tread Missions were available and awarded Hallowed Crystals and Shards.

## Synopsis

*Grisly ghouls from every tomb are closing in to seal your doom... Something strange has been awakened in New Quintessa and it is manifesting with new Buffs, Nodes, and THE ROLLING DEAD!*

*Zombies have been awakened and it's up to Arcee, Blaster and Mirage to see if they can undo the evil that has been released in this special Mini-Mission: EVIL TREAD: FROM RUST 'TIL DAWN!*

*This special Mini Mission will be live on October 17th at 10am PT until October 31st at 10am PT.*

## Overview

### Mods

* **Hunger** - This Bot slowly loses health, but gains health whenever it does damage.
	+ No way to prevent this except possibly for Repair Block, but the health gain is very negligible.
* **Revive** - Bot has a chance to revive, purify all debuffs and heal every time it is defeated. (Reduced chance to revive each time it is defeated.)
	+ Watch the health bar. The lower it gets per revive the less chance the Bot has to revive.
* **Critical Weakness** - Bot suffers -40~55% Armor Break from Critical Hits, but gains 40~50% Armor Up against non-Critical hits.
	+ Scouts and Crit-lovers are particularly useful.
* **Burn It** - High chance to revive, unless it is on fire.
	+ Use Grimlock or Ironhide, as they are the most reliable, and see an affected Bot burn to the ground with little chance to come back.

### Mission 1

Hunger

* Ultra Magnus
* Waspinator
* Grindor
* Hound
* DOTM Bumblebee
* Kickback

### Mission 2

Revive

* Barricade
* ROTF Megatron
* Soundwave
* Bonecrusher
* Tactician Sharkticon
* Cyclonus

### Mission 3

Critical Weakness, Burn It

* Hot Rod
* Dinobot
* Optimus Primal
* Shockwave
* Mixmaster
* Nemesis Prime

### Mission 4

* Jazz
* Ramjet
* Wheeljack
* Scorponok
* Megatron
* Bludgeon (not infected, instead has Target Vitals, Life Transfer, and Enhanced Bleed)

## Rewards

* 2-Star - Total rewards: T1 Alpha Spark x1, T2 Basic Spark x2, Preimum Bot Crystals x5
	+ Mission 1 - T1 Alpha Essence x500, T2 Basic Essence x75
	+ Mission 2 - T1 Alpha Essence x750, T2 Basic Essence x175
	+ Mission 3 - T1 Alpha Essence x1000, T2 Basic Essence x250
	+ Mission 4 - T1 Alpha Essence x2750, T2 Basic Essence x500
	+ Chapter Complete - T1 Alpha Essence x5000, T2 Basic Spark x1, Premium bot Crystals x5

* 3-Star - Total rewards: T1 Alpha Spark x4, T3 Basic Spark x1
	+ Mission 1 - T1 Alpha Essence x2000, T3 Basic Essence x500
	+ Mission 2 - T1 Alpha Essence x4000, T3 Basic Essence x750
	+ Mission 3 - T1 Alpha Essence x6000, T3 Basic Essence x1000
	+ Mission 4 - T1 Alpha Essence x8000, T3 Basic Essence x2750
	+ Chapter Complete - T1 Alpha Spark x2, T3 Basic Essence x5000

* 4-Star - Total rewards: T2 Alpha Spark x2, T3 Basic Spark x4
	+ Mission 1 - T2 Alpha Essence x500, T3 Basic Essence x2000
	+ Mission 2 - T2 Alpha Essence x1500, T3 Basic Essence x4000
	+ Mission 3 - T2 Alpha Essence x3000, T3 Basic Essence x6000
	+ Mission 4 - T2 Alpha Essence x5000, T3 Basic Essence x8000
	+ Chapter Complete - T2 Alpha Spark x1, T3 Basic Sparks x2

* 5-Star - Total rewards: T3 Alpha Spark x1 and x500 Essence, T4 Basic Spark x1
	+ Mission 1 - T3 Alpha Essence x500, T4 Basic Essence x500
	+ Mission 2 - T3 Alpha Essence x1000, T4 Basic Essence x750
	+ Mission 3 - T3 Alpha Essence x2000, T4 Basic Essence x1000
	+ Mission 4 - T3 Alpha Essence x4000, T4 Basic Essence x2750
	+ Chapter Complete - T3 Alpha Essence x7500, T4 Basic Fragments x5000

## Transcript

### Mission 1 - BITE

Part 1

* Arcee: *Blaster, I've been told that there's a strange signal emitting from here.*
* Blaster: *I'm here to hear! Even brought along Mirage to see if he can see what we can't!*
* Mirage: *Making things vanish is more my speed...but I do spot come code wavelengths floating about. Perhaps we can scan them.*
* Balster: *Won't take me but a tick to tune it in! 01001110 01101001 01100011 01101011 01100101 01101100.*
* Mirage: *Just reading out any code you find now? Earth reference table has that as Atomic Number 28. Nothing fancy. I'm a fan of 79 or 45 myself.*
* Arcee: *Guys! Something is wrong. A massive energy pulse just went through this area.*
* Kickback: *Autobot scum-scum. I hunger for fresh metal-metal! Face my mighty new friends-friends!*

Part 2

* Kickback: *Think you can just leave Kickback behind-behind? I am mighty-mighty!*
* Arcee: *Something is corrupting him. Readings off him and all the bots have been...strange.*
* Blaster: *It's like all these creeps caught a nasty bug that's uglier than old hop-long here.*
* Kickback: *New power is inside me-me. Need to spread it-it. NEED TO FEED-FEED!*
* Mirage: *It's not enough for these brutish Bots to be rotten inside, now they've gone viral?*
* Arcee: *I don't want to consider what this world will look like if the virus takes over, lets shut him down and see how far this has spread!*

### Mission 2 - CONTAMINATION

Part 1

* Arcee: *These opponents seem different...hollow...Their optics are on but the lights behind them are so troubling.*
* Mirage: *It's getting real "Night of the Living Dead Battery" around here.*
* Blaster: *There's dark doings gettin' done that's for sure. It's getting complex just to shut these folks down.*
* Arcee: *But shut them down we must, there's too much weirdness going on here lately. I just want one less mystery.*
* Mirage: *Ask and you shall receive. A series of expert thrashings coming up!*

Part 2

* Cyclonus: *Halt, a reformatting is in progress. A glorious refragmation of code...and I must thank you for it.*
* Arcee: *A "thank you" from you sends a creep along my chassis. What are you talking about?*
* Cyclonus: *The binary code you carelessly transmitted, every byte was dripping with hidden purpose. Elemental instructions have begun seeping into fallen Bots!*
* Mirage: *See what you've done Blaster? You uploaded without a virus scan! You voided every warranty on the books!*
* Blaster: *I read things out loud! I'm a public speaker not a public silencer!*
* Cyclonus: *I have been remade before, my weaker form fell and this form rose. I am eager to see what will rise next.*
* Arcee: *So what you're saying is you've been destroyed before. Time to give you a reminder.*

### Mission 3 - INFECTION

Part 1

* Arcee: *I have a question I don't think I want the answer to.*
* Mirage: *How can the Decepti-creeps have bad breath when they don't have digestive systems? Like...are they doing it on purpose? To be more evil?*
* Arcee: *...no....something more relevant to our situation. Why have none of us turned?*
* Nemesis Prime: *Because you have yet to cease your functions...but that shall soon be remedied by the ghoulish grouping you now face.*
* Blaster: *You wish, Imposter Prime! We're gonna thrash this crew then we're coming for you!*

Part 2

* Nemesis Prime: *Every step you take on this world, you spread corruption. You break realities. You are a walking infection.*
* Mirage: *You forgot handsome and talented. We're the whole package Mr. Tall, Dark and Deadly.*
* Nemesis Prime: *I see I mus fight you on your own terms, I shall allow this plague into my circuitry to strike you down.*
* Arcee: *If you wanna' get the sniffles before we kick your tailpipe, by all means breathe it in your pathetic shadow of a Prime.*
* Nemesis Prime: *You shall not live to regret those words.*

### Mission 4 - OUTBREAK

Part 1

* Blaster: *I hate to say it, because it ain't on the level...but this all stinks of dark magic.*
* Mirage: *"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" a quote from Earth author Arthur C. Clarke. Some would call us rather magical. I know I do.*
* Arcee: *Prose aside, Blaster's not wrong. This coding is beyond anything I've seen.*
* Bludgeon: *Beyond anything ANY Bot has seen! You wouldn't believe what sins I had to commit to bringing my plan to fruition.*
* Arcee: *How does any of this follow your strict code of Metallikato, Bludgeon?*
* Bludgeon: *I wish to find the ultimate opponent, one that cannot fall to my blade seems worthy indeed.*
* Blaster: *Well we're gonna mow down a few if your zombie-bots and we'll show you who's not failing!*

Part 2

* Bludgeon: *I found the codes. They were bound in the panels of fallen Bots, inked in their oil, a cursed drive of forbidden knowledge...*
* *It had to be read by one "pure of spark and clear of intention". I assumed this meant empty headed and without drive. I was apparently correct.*
* Blaster: *Started kinda' complementary then took a sharp turn there.*
* Mirage: *Hold on I have try something...KLAATU BARADA NIKTO!*
* Bludgeon: *What gibberish are you spouting? Are you so brain-dead the code is taking you already?*
* Mirage: *More Earth pop-culture references. Was worth a shot.*
* Arcee: *It was a spoken "spell". It's just code. There must be a revert state, an anti-virus, a cure!*
* Bludgeon: *They obey my will, perhaps they shall crumble if I fail. But it matters not...you're ALL going to die down here.*

## Trivia

* The title is a double-whammy reference to the classic horror movies Evil Dead and From Dusk 'Til Dawn, respectively.

## External links

1. ↑  Special Mission: From Rust 'Til Dawn on the Transformers: Forged to Fight Forums

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