When’s the Pyro update? When’s the Pyro update? When’s the Pyro update? Okay, okay, we’ll tell you. It’s Thursday! (19th). When’s Meet The Sniper released? When’s Meet The Sniper released? When’s Meet The Sniper released? TUESDAY! (At 11am PDT/7pm GMT, to be specific).
This will lead into another of Valve’s free Team Fortress 2 weekends, so even the most unsure can check out the Pyro’s three unlockable weapons and 35 new achievements (if they play fast enough). Also in the update are two user-created TF2 maps, which Valve say is to, “highlight the great work being done in the community and distribute those works to all TF2 players.”
TF2 goes free at 11am PDT (7pm GMT) on Friday, and will stay that way until you run out of weekend. This should give everyone, even the cheapskates and paupers, a chance to find out what the other non-unlockable chances to the Pyro will be. Speculate below.
Meanwhile, I can promise Meet The Sniper is worth looking forward to, even if you were a weensy bit disappointed by the last two (although being disappointed by Meet The Scout’s Boinking makes you very stupid). It’s the best of the lot, with a peculiarly subtle depth of backstory, and some of the biggest laughs.
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Re: Pyro points for damage – I’d love that. I always consider (and indeed, play) the Pyro class as an anti-medic. I’m the guy following the frontline making sure nobody functions at peak efficiency by making them hurt. Lots.
Exactly the same running and hiding to avoid dying applies as with a good healing Medic, too.
If you’re taking down a lot of medics with the pyro you’re playing some desperately poor medics (no real surprise of course). All the medic has to do to beat the pyro, time after time, is backpedal while firing. With the blut out now I’ve very rarely been killed by a pyro unless I chose to continue healing and my buddy has been too rubbish to deal with the pyro themself. Eventually pyros will cotton on that they’ve got to switch to the shotty to stand a chance but until then the medic is the second best pyro killer after the soldier.
Clarification time: Anti-Medic as in doing very similar things a Medic would do, only to the other team. I should have been clearer above, but I believe many of the skills a good Medic needs are useful to a Pyro.
Hopefully these updates will remind many people that they have secondary weapons for a reason, as it did with many Medics. Scouts and Pyros, I’m looking at you.
Well I never mechspartan2….
Anyway back to the insane rush of disruptive behaviour that always brings a sweet sweet smile and the cry of “f**king pyros’s” from the enemy team, I just can’t wait. Woop woop. I’d love to get points for 1st or 2nd degree burns as well as the charred corpses.
once again, I find the pyro a very useful class.
It is screwed against soldiers, basically.
But it is actually great against heavies. You just have to ambush them and circle strafe around’em with the flamethrower.
The pyro is basically an ambush class. I think most people have problems with the pyro because they are always charging frontally. You must hold your fire until you are near the enemy, and retreat if they have already spotted you (using pyro speed advantage against most classes).
I really liked the medic achievement affair. Sure, there were plenty of bad medics clogging up teams for a little while. But I really think that in the end, more medics were really what was needed–and that’s what we got. No one was being a medic, and now the problem is that sometimes I decide I shouldn’t be a medic because my team already has too many. Awesome. The same is likely true of the poor, oft-maligned pyro. Here is my concern: what about when the sniper and spy updates come out? There are already a vast excess of people who play those classes, compared to what any given team needs. Thoughts?
My thoughts are: Fuck snipers.
sry for blowing up guys, just saying a bad pyro is terrible and if they dont know the map they are useless because a good player playing many other classes can take a pyro, expecially scout, soldier, demo, a good quick scoping sniper can as well, oh and as a engi i cna normally beat a pyro one on one with pistol and shottie. but yeah im glad the update is coming which shows valve is going to have them all out with in 6 or 8 months. i am msot looking forward to soldier and sniper ones. guy search wonderwall tf2 soldier on youtube, his friend who is almsot as good tutors me in tf2 :P, but srsly great vid.
I quite often play pyro, partly because there’s often a gap in the team for a one and also because I really enjoy sneaking up behind a group of enemies who are planning a big rush and setting them all on fire.
Trouble is, fun as that is, I rarely kill more than one or two, and I almost always die (but then I am pretty rubbish). I do struggle to get more than a 1:1 k:d ratio with the pyro, which is completely at odds with the amount of fun I’m having, and I’d like to be both enjoying myself, and effective.
Or maybe I’m just looking forward to that pyro shaped hole being filled in any teams I play so I can go be a bastard of a sniper with a clean conscience :)
Is it Thursday yet?
I don’t want to wait, i want it to be Thursday today..
Man, playing a heavy when everyone else is playing pyro is gonna be great. And no, circle strafing doesn’t work very often, not against me anyway :P.
I play a lot of pyro and I still have problems with solo medics occasionally, if I don’t catch them by surprise. A medic alone is more dangerous to me than a medic who’s sticking to a heavy. :P
And demomen just piss me off in general. There are some servers where snipers are limited or entirely disabled on the OrangeX maps and the like… I’d like to see what happens on some maps without demomen. :)
I don’t know what the hell you guys are talking about, I always play as a pyro and I always do very well against most classes. The only ones I have problems with are soldiers and demomen. Also, in my opinion, the pyro is more of an anti-spy class. I usually do a spy check with my flame thrower and if there is a spy, I catch them. Every time I play as a spy, I end up avoiding enemy pyros like the plague.
umm to the above posts pyro is not underpowered i can climb the scoreboard easy with him just takes practice. and also i find heavys incredibly easy to kill jsut run circles around them.
Last exam: Thursday morning
Pyro update: Thursday evening
I think Valve likes me.
7:05 pm … no video on steam website…
Bated breath.
Guess that time was actually in VST (valve standard time). I think it’ll translate to 11:59 PST :D.
F5
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OUT OUT here you go http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=app&AppId=5051&cc=US
Up now!
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Oh sure Valve can get Bone Episodes 1 and 2 Trailers up there but not that damn Sniper video on schedule
I agree with RPS (how couldn’t I?), one of the best yet.
But then that gets said about all of the videos, so maybe I should just agree each is better than the last, or that they’re all just epic.
*ignore me. Didn’t see the new post, silly RSS feed*
Here you can see one of the new weapons, taken from the meet the sniper video
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9us0jxKTuFc
@MarvintheParanoidAndroid:
“Last exam: Thursday morning
Pyro update: Thursday evening”
Same here. We are trully blessed.
Valve accidently released a zip with the pictures and names of all of the achievements, shacknews has the shots:
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53196
http://www.steampowered.com/pyro/?pw=presspreview
yay,,
Well, it’s Thursday and it’s still not here.
Damn to bad they didn’t give exact hour.
Well, just because it’s not up right now doesn’t mean it won’t be up later. Besides, its 6:15 AM PST. VALVe isn’t really open until it’s open.
WHHHHHENNNNNNNNNNNNN!
at least I used only 1 exclamation mark.
Tick Tock Tick Tock
The pyro updates it hasn’t been released at 7pm GMT.
WHEN???????????????????????
I’ve been cheacking every hour since 1 a.m.
WHEN IS IT COMING? ITS ALMOST 4 PM.. AND ITS THURSDAY
PYRO UPDATE WHERE ARE YOU!?!?!
PYRO KILLED THE SPY!
pyro updated how do i get it
wth i bet they will wait to like 4 am gmt and it ll be too late