Team Fortress 2 'Uber Update' this Thursday
Valve has dropped details on what it calls the "biggest, most ambitious update" in the history of Team Fortress 2, as well as hints on the next "Meet the" short.
On Thursday, Valve will launch the "biggest, most ambitious update" in the history of its online multiplayer shooter, Team Fortress 2. To prepare for the aptly named "Uber Update," the dev revealed a few choice pieces of information and stealthily teased a special reward for the update's launch.
When the Uber Update arrives on June 23, Valve says it will release a new "Meet the" short for one of the remaining two classes. The company was quick to drop a few subtle hints regarding who would be featured in the video. According to Valve, two major clues for the video are: "It's NOT the Pyro" and "It's the MEDIC."
Shacknews has contacted Valve to confirm our suspicions that the video will revolve around the Pyro*. We just have a feeling we can't shake.
Valve also revealed Team Fortress 2 will be free to play for all users all week, starting now.
The first details on additions in the Uber Update revealed a Mob world theme is coming to Team Fortress 2. "To make sure everything was as accurate as possible, we went deep undercover at the most Italian place we could find, The Olive Garden," the recently redesigned blog notes. We couldn't think of a better place and certainly hope they tried the authentic Italian bread-sticks.
In the update the Heavy will gain access to three new weapons: a minigun with 75% faster, silent spin-up time and 20% slower firing speed dubbed the 'Tomislav'; a shotgun named 'The Family Business' with 40%+ clip size and 15%- damage; and 50% faster, 60% weaker brass knuckles called 'The Eviction Notice.' The Spy nets a 20%+ damage revolver called 'The Enforcer' with 0.5 second increase to cloak; a 30%+ cloak on kill with -25 max health knife dubbed 'The Big Earner'; and a flower ability called 'The Made Man.'
Also on tap for the update is a new Payload map called 'Barn Blitz,' featuring "one outdoor and three indoor capture points (including a final indoor capture point)." Check out the update poster art for more details.
*Yes, I'm aware it's not the Pyro.
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Valve has dropped details on what it calls the "biggest, most ambitious update" in the history of Team Fortress 2, as well as hints on the next "Meet the" short.-
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Well, okay, it wasn't THE free DLC; I stand corrected.
http://www.shacknews.com/article/68948/portal-2-hydra-specific-dlc
"Rock Paper Shotgun reports that those who bought a Razer Hydra motion controller built for the game can now get 10 levels of motion-centered Portal 2 DLC."-
When they were showing that off at PAX or CES or whatever it was, the Razor guys were saying that yeah they had some unique Portal 2 levels that specifically took advantage of that hardware and wouldn't be playable without it. The levels weren't even made by Valve afaik.
The free DLC and challenge map stuff Valve announced after Portal 2 shipped is totally different.
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I'm guessing it'll have more than 5 class updates. Polycount was five I think. I think Engy (tesla pack, look at the logo) and Medic are a given at least. Who knows what else besides the 2 that are already announced. There's been rumors of more boss fighting stuff like the halloween update, but I don't know if that will really happen.
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Sweet. Not that I'm looking forward to seeing more heavies and spies around, those happen to be the two classes I dislike playing against, but it's always nice to get an update. I'm guessing the hats and stuff keep on producing them dollars, and that's only a good thing, as I find TF2 quite a fine example on how DLC can be put into a multiplayer game without significantly hurting the game play.
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Fuck yes, bring it on!
Thanks to Valve, TF2 has been the longest running mulitplayer FPS game for me since like Quake 2 back in the day. Most games I'll play for a couple months then grow tired of them, regardless of how many maps they come out with. TF2 is a whole different beast, and has almost hit MMO levels of updates to the core game. -
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