I’m dragged out of the joy of having a pet which I’ve trained to summon other pets in Torchlight by the B who informs me there’s been a stealth Halloween Team Fortress 2 update. Which is a fairly urgent thing to post anyway, made more so by news of a two-hour sale of TF2 for 2.49 (either dollars, euros or pounds). I stress, for two hours, which ends at 2pm PST. So imagine Valve returning from lunch to press a big red bargain-destroying button. Really, while I suspect most RPSites will have it already, at that price you may consider buying ‘em for friends for Christmas or something. Oh – the Halloween patch. Includes seasonal achievements, a new map and explosive pumpkins. No, really.
Oh yes. If you’re really in the mood for rushing, the first 10,319 people to go here get a free hat. Rush.
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You mean, if I made a copy of the map and changed the name they would still be able to delete it? Doubt that very much. They won't be able to stop people from playing the map after the event, as well as them having no reason to stop it.
Played for a little longer this evening and got the last achievement. Pity it doesn't unlock anything extra. My only problem with the update is that there appears to be a huge hit on frame rate when the map is reloaded or a new server playing the same map is joined. Had this happen yesterday and today, as well as seeing a thread on the Steam forums complaining about it. Sure there will be a fix on Monday for this though, even if the event is about to end.
Anybody else having trouble with the achievements registering? This morning I got 3 of the Halloween achievements but didn’t get the hats associated with them. Later when I rebooted the game the achievements were gone, but the ones I got yesterday were still in my list.