The TF2 Classless Update is now live. A rather pleasant surprise bunch of new bits and bobs appeared out of nowhere, and three days in seems ready to be rolled out. So now new hats, the new King Of The Hill game mode, and a bundle of new maps are yours to enjoy. In fact, there’s a ton of new tweaks and content to be found within.
EDIT: All the hats in a splendid pickyture too.
Tonight a new incarnation of Sawmill is announced as the third official CTF map. Which is my favourite mode, so GOOD. It joins the brand new King Of The Hill map koth_Viaduct (along with reworked ye olde maps koth_Nucleus and koth_Sawmill) in the new bundle. There’s also new community maps CP_Yukon and Arena_Offblast. And there’s much more to pour over, including perhaps most notably a 10 second team-wide critboost for capturing the flag. Check out the full long list here. Then immediately tell the internet of your rage about the reloading changes or similar.
Now go get some hats.
EDIT: Courtesy of our friends at PCG, all the hats!
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A very nice update. But my conspiradar is picking up a sneak soldier update today…
Damn, the TF2 team are amazing.
HATS!!!!!!!!!!!!
That heavy hat, not the уша́нка (can’t remember the English name), is that a reference to firefly by any chance?
Is that Jaynes hat from Firefly for the heavy?
Damn! Beaten to it while I was typing.
Ushanka is the English word. And I think it must be Firefly reference nice!
Just had a quick gander on a koth map with my engie, pistol change is very good, and the koth mode itself is fun.
Fun times on Turbine:
Standing with 6 critting players in front of the enemy spawn
That beard appears to have a camera in it…
…<3 hmmmmm, want…
Camera beard.
CAMERA BEARD.
I LOVE YOU VALVE
I WANT HAT
http://tf2wiki.net/wiki/Tough_guy%27s_tuque
Ushanka? Hmm, I think everyone in the world just calls it “the Russian bear hat”
I’ve never called it that in my life but still..
Back to the actual game, I’ve just played KotH for a while. Jesus its bad. The maps look gorgeous but I just don’t see the fun in a tiny map like that. Its just a spawn kill fest
Wasn’t the medal only available at some ridiculous time in the morning? Cheers Valve.
I’m not sure about the medals, they’re rather confusing.
My FPS also has seemed to dropped dramatically… especially on KoTH.
There’s a soldier update coming! It isn’t certain, but I’d bet my bottom dollar on it! There’s talk about this on the official forums as well.
Yeah, the medal came out and went out while I was asleep. This is blatant, er… racism? on behalf of Valve.
As a Pyro, the fact one of the new hats is one of his gloves makes me most happy, oh Gabe! I forgive you for Episode Three’s silence.
Janes Hat, YES FRAK YES!
the update is pure win best bit is the round lost animations where you run about in 3rd person flailing your arms. The sandman changes are welcome by most (even some of its users) as is the FAN nerf, although the fan is now UP to the scattergun without its magic knockback, not really a huge issue.
only bad thing (other than the whole inspect item thing and set up for WOTF2) is the 10 second kritz wft, why? thsi will ruin turbine.
KOTH is pure win, really like the fact that they have a whole bunch of arena maps to coonvert and the fact that it always ends up in the announcer going “overtime….overtime,overtime..overtime”
I doubt I’ll ever get a hat drop. Can Valve reward skill not luck?
As someone that plays medic, the inability to spot a spy with a Blutsauger is crap. Spys are already overpowered and now medics cant spy check as easily, its all on pyro.
Concept, I’m also getting a lot of slowdown on the koth maps. Whacking all my graphical settings to the minimum hasn’t made a difference.
Now, if anyone other than those who run the fake idle program could get a hat, it would be swell.
My impressions:
“OVERTIME!”
thumb-sucking scout!
“How did you just find 6 items?”
Could someone explain the overtime thing to me ?
When one team is at 0:00 and the point is being capped/decapped (I don’t remember which) the announcer will scream “OVERTIME! OVERTIME! OVERTIME! OVERTIME! OVERTIME! OVERTIME! OVERTIME! OVERTIME! OVERTIME! OVERTIME! OVERTIME! OVERTIME! OVERTIME!”…
…you get the picture.
Overtime!
Maybe now that there are a bunch of hats, they can try actually giving them out to people.
You know, us people who actually play the game a moderate amount and don’t use fake idle servers.
@Polysynchronicity
This is a beautiful thing and should never be removed.
It’s a bloody Jayne-hat for the Heavy! That’s the best thing about this update.
As a Pyro, the fact one of the new hats is one of his gloves makes me most happy
I haven’t seen it in action, but I’m pretty sure this was meant to make the the pyro look like a chicken when combined with his loss animation.
@Oak – he won’t look anything like a penguin though.
I need the pyro-as-chicken hat and the Jayne hat.
The camera beard is something of beauty.
I wish they’d do something to imrpove the overall atmosphere of the game.. a thread I reade had some good ideas… like the signs flashing like they did in spy video.
Also, soldier update is definitely next. After all those blogs ‘written’ by the Soldier, this is a cert
The only real negative I can think of is on pipeline, where they made it so that if a team wins both earlier rounds, their cart starts halfway up the final ramp. It makes the most interesting part of the map horribly unbalanced in favor of what’s probably a better team, and also cuts even shorter the most interesting part of the map. Normally you don’t get a lot of time to play on it anyway, now you get zero time.