By Alec Meer on May 6th, 2010 at 11:30 pm.
It is Team Fortress news so we must post it because it is Team Fortress news, even in the face of our great despair about what the morrow may bring for the UK. Valve’s monopoly on patch-centric gossip remains extraordinary, the presentation alone ensuring gents like us are duty-bound to cover it. This time, it’s a teaser for the long-awaited Engineer update…
(Bigger version here).
Which tells us precisely nothing. OR DOES IT?
Our arch-nemeses PC Gamer think otherwise. They’ve been through the video to a near-psychotic degree, identifying what they reckon are clues. Robot arms! Flamethrowers! Robots! Mysterious domes! Red lights!
Could just be incidental clutter, but big bastard teasers like Valve don’t tend to put stuff like this out without hiding an Easter Egg or two. So, what do you think we’re in for?
OMG finally! I stopped playing Engineer because it was too repetitive. This could open up a whole new world.
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I’m betting on either the blowtorch/welder or mallet being something. Can’t wait!
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Robots would be very nice indeed, I’d actually play as an Engineer again, then. >.>
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I want to see a welding torch as a melee weapon.
Less damage and slower repair, but sets dudes on fire and will repair faster if concentrated longer.
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Would be ironic if engineers made better Pyros than Pyros do now.
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Could there perhaps be a clue in the final caption? ‘It’s your turn now?’
Maybe there’ll be player input in this update, like us voting for player craftin ideas, or fighting over which unlock we prefer (like with the demo/soldier wars).
Anyway.. interest piqued….
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“Now it’s your turn?”
Could this be implying that the player will be given some level of design customization?
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Oh god mix and match sentry gun? Hmmmmm
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Retrothink: This may all just mean that Engineer is going to have community weapons like the other classes.
Which of course means the Engineer update is coming with it.
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Should I get TF2? I have been very tempted recently and there seems to be a fair few NZ servers which is good.
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Yes. Same to anyone else who asks.
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Absolutely not. Valve is certain to release a sale with the engineer update, so you should hold out until then and swing a discount.
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Dude, when you become good at TF2 and you’re having one of those streaks where no one can beat you… there’s nothing quite like it in the whole gaming world- that mix of triumph and comedy causes a very peculiar elating sensation… quite addictive, FYI.
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And don’t be too worried about being late to the party. I bought my copy a good year or two after release and had no problems fitting in. Most classes are easy to pick up and play and the community is generally pretty decent.
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Honestly, Team Fortress 2 is the best time I’ve had on multiplayer. Like 1nightstand said, the mixture of comedy with some of the most well balanced, satisfying gameplay I’ve experienced is uniquely rewarding, and the community is as strong as ever.
I got tired of Counter Strike because of all the hyper-accurate twitch players who became unstoppable because they had the best mouses or had played way, way too long. TF2’s weapons are far less (impossibly, like TF2) accurate, and the classes and gameplay balance each other superbly. The different characters create very distinct styles of play, and you never stop trying new stuff or settling on one class or style of play.
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I can’t get TF2 to work :’(
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Oh?
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possibly not related to this post, but when I opened it a popup ad for http://www.celebgossip.net tried to open.
I really hope it’s not something you wanted to happen.
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Same thing happened to over here. =\ Confused the heck out’f me.
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only tf2 can save us from the torries:P
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Grrrmbllllrrrr. Hffffpppp mrrrsssfffr hudda-hudda.
(“Oh, so he’s the one who replaced my barely functioning flamethrower with a tabasco spray can.”)
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I have no doubt that this will be a good one and a “meet the medic” video would be nice too.
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Look at the background. you see a blueprint with every flash. I think that’s the clue
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Anyone else notice the George W. Bush Texas “heheheheheh!” laugh? Awesome. Maybe one of his new creations will be called The Decider.
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Of course The Decider has a laser, as it randomly decides who lives and who gets lasered dead.
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No one at PC Gamer or here noticed he MALLET he was holding? NEW MELEE WEAPON? I think so…
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No Ven noticed the COMMENTS about the MALLET?
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I scent a topical update. An Iron Man style suit with slow recharging battery and Crysis style powers?
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OR, sentries that can be upgraded with any weapons picked up as a ‘bolt ons’.
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I’m just hoping I learn to play spy again, before this update comes out.
Oh, and the “Hehehe” makes me laugh every time I see this.
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He solves practical problems.
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I’m banking on some sort of re-deployable turret, an automated repair dispenser and a jump-pad instead of a teleporter.
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What’s TF2?
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I can’t get TF2 to work :’(
I don’t think you should be playing this at work ;>}
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Ahem.
I SPY VITH MY LITTLE EYE!
Lol, everyone is looking way to deep for clues, pay attention to how he wacks the *thing* with the */hammer\*, it seems that he is upgrading something.
Long(ish) story short: New melee weapon, The Hammer.
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I think that the bigger question, which is not being asked, is if one of the upgrades allows the sentry guns to talk. Like, when someone pops in and out of it’s periphery, it could say something like, oh I don’t know…. how about “Are you still there?” and when they come back in view “I see you” and scream when attacked, and maybe even forgive you when you blow them up.
What? It could happen.
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God, I adore the TF2 team. At this point they are like an indie…. But with, you know, lots of money. Having something like ten total employees working on the game. Pretty epic. Their writer/writers is/are fantastic, always.
Just, overall, this game has got to be the best value for my money ever. I’ve been playing since December of ’07 and I have yet to stop for more then a month or so, just because all of the new free toys keep bringing me back. I really wish other developers would look at this, see the ridiculous sales spikes that occur every time they release an update, then try to do the same thing.
I like free updates.
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Yes, I love TF2 too, but have only had it 2-3 weeks. I was instantly in love with the game and would probably be a dedicated Engineer if a good update is released. And Twigg, spider mines? Hardly mines if they can RUN and TAKE THE FLAG, they would be more like scout bots or something
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If the bots actually tried to take the flag instead of just being highly mobile d-bags, that would make them better than scouts.
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Oh! Oh! Maybe the flamethrower parts are foreshadowing “Meet the Pyro”! That would be awesome.
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ENGONEER IS BUILDING IRONMAN
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But he’s not IN A CAVE. WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS.
So I guess he’s not as good as Tony Stark. Probably.
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How do you know that’s NOT a cave?
And he does regularly build from scraps.
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About damn time. Engineering’s been a pain since the Direct Hit came out.
Cautious optimism: On
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I love playing Engi, but nearly all updates were a stealth nerf. Pyros suddenly push you away from your point, burn you from afar, kritzkrieg soldiers one shoot you, direct hit kills you and your sentry, scouts go invulnerable, spies snipe you or slowly sneak up and decloak when you can’t see them.
Overall i’m not very satisfied with the amount of projectile spam. It wasn’t like that in vanilla. :(
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hurp durp. mallet. new melee? SEEN THE HOMEWRECKER? the pyro has it, and it’s shit.
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That’s true! you could be building a completely new sentry over and over and over!
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It’s quite obviously a remote controlled sentry gun with either mechanical spider legs or a Wacky Races style “two big wheels, 2 small wheels” setup.
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[Heavy] Engineer is credit to team! [/Heavy]
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I wonder how much the Engie’s VA actually got paid for that. Or was he just given a bag of grapes or something?
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MINES!! …. GIMME MINES!!!!!!
I WANT MINES!
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SPIDER MINES, THAT CAN WALK, AND WITH A REMOTE CAMERA, THAT CAN TAKE THE FLAG!.. and RUN!
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And can detonate remotely, and fix dispensers, and….and….*passes out*
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Forget the mines, I want to see a turret on wheels that can patrol bases like a bomb disposal robot that disposes of you instead.
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What about a mechanical MULE that can spawn a energo field that stop all range weapons, so only mele weapons work?
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And then the M.U.L.E.s can plant themselves on the ground and turn into factories that produce metal! But you’ve gotta watch out for market crashes.
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@Tei: MINES THAT CAN TALK
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Whatever they do it has to put a speaker in it that plays hehehe.wav right before it kills you.
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The hammer is most likely the PDQ; a weapon that allows for much faster deployment, at the cost of not being able to upgrade the buildings.
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“Most likely” based on what evidence?
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I know this is not the time ore the place (but ive been up for 12 hours drinking) i can’t belive the lib dems did so badly! we got destroyed in reading and thats a uni town
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Forget right and left. We have to move forward!.
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GOTTA MOVE THAT GEAR UP!
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Oh at long last! Yippie-Ki-Yay-Ki-Oh!
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Tesla turrets!
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@Mario Figueiredo: que vergonha pá!
I’ve been having a ton of fun lately, put my soldier aside and started playing more as a medic, TF2 just seems to get better and better, even if they nerfed pyros. *sadface*
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Remote drone plz.
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The engie doesn’t need any wrench update as they always crit me everytime.
Srsly, spies need moar love.
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You guys…what if the recent bug that allowed people to build infinite turrets…WASN’T A BUG?
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Nah, they wouldn’t do that. Would just wreck the game.
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What about a “Inviso Hoover” that make you invisible *wen no one is looking at you* ?
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Okay I’ll hang out for a discount.
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Replay fail to myself.
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I love playing engie, so I’m looking forward to seeing what they come up with.
On the other hand, I’m very much not looking forward to going back to the way things were before any class updates had come out, where at least four people would decide to go engie EVEN IF YOUR TEAM WAS ON OFFENCE.
Do the right thing, folks – pick the class your team actually needs more of.
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What about a jelly cube that eat people?
That will totally be a surprise for these ninja scout & spy guys.
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backpack sentry like a mech dude thing would be cool but personally id be happy with a bucket of paint to dump on the floor to spot spy footprints….
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Hey, that’s a great idea.
Or something anti-spy, anyway. It’s distinctly unfair that you can backstab an engie STANDING NEXT TO HIS SENTRY and then still get a sapper on there before it blasts you. What chance does that give to the class that has to spend half his time looking directly at the building he’s hitting with a wrench?
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Stop! HAMMER time!
The new close combat weapon is the hammer.
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Source?
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Yes, I imagine it will still run on Source.
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Well, strictly speaking, Hammer doesn’t run in Source – you have to load the engine up separately to test levels out.
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“even in the face of our great despair about what the morrow may bring for the UK”
People don’t come here for incisive left wing political commentary they come here for games journalism, so how about you have the good grace to keep your political view to yourself?
People like you love to crow about democracy until people vote conservative and then suddenly they’re all morons. Hypocrisy from lefties? QUELLE SURPRISE!!!
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At first I was like:
“so how about you have the good grace to keep your political view to yourself?”
But then I was like:
“Hypocrisy from lefties? QUELLE SURPRISE!!!”
No AIM internet politics discussion in our TF2 awesomeness threads plz.
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Actually, I’m quite interested to know what they meant by that.
Could be fear of a conservative government, but could also be fear of a crippled patchwork-quilt of a government.
And anyway, frickin’ relax, man. It’s only a blog.
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I think they can write what they like.
You seem to be arguing that no negative or positive opinion on any election is legitimate, because it’s a separate moral judgement from the correctness of democracy. If so, the only thing anyone could then say would be “in this election, the electorate voted, hooray” which is a bit of a tautology.
Of course in a democracy people have individual & party preferences, and feel strongly for them, whether or not the electorate are morons, and whether or not democracy itself is effective*. Despite your implication that righties don’t “crow” about democracy, I think acknowledging democratic choice is perfectly compatible with caring about the government we all live under, and that’s something everyone except the BNP accepts.
*FPTP facepalm, etc.
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@ andrew
“so how about you have the good grace to keep your political view to yourself?”
This isn’t your blog. You probably don’t even pay for it via a subscripion. If you don’t like it then don’t read it. Simple.
Personally I like the fact that this site belongs to four specific individuals who have their own personal opinions about things, not some faceless corporation. People who are just guests here are allowed to make political comments so why shouldn’t the people who actually *own* this site make political comments?
Or are you some kind of crypto-communist who doesn’t believe in ownership?
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Has anyone played Evil Genius?
I’d love it if the Engineer could build Traps/Switches like the ones in that game. They are mostly useless, but very funny to watch. Would also add a great RTS element to each map.
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Playing it right now, and yes they are useless.
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Personal wishlist for engineer:
Placing dispenser next to turret will auto fix turret, but slower than using the wrench, and at the cost of the dispenser’s metal stock.
Wrenchonette – Wrench bayonette added to shottie, alternate attack repairs and smacks in spies*.
New level three turret – instead of rockets, adds a spy detecting pulse to the level three turret, pulses once every 15 seconds but in a very small radius around the turret.
Teleporters upgraded with Portal technology – see through to where you want to go! Marvel as you can only see a bricks because the engineer ONCE AGAIN made the exit facing a fucking wall.
* The only time you melee with a wrench is to twat a spy, don’t deny it.
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I’ve gotten great pleasure from going “battle engy” and killing snipers with my wrench.
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It’s going to be awesome.
All the servers will be filled with engineers and buildings for me to sap. Yep, going to be a lot of fun. Unless he has new ANTI-SPY stuff, in which case I will be sad ;(
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i see a mallet blow torch and parts of an adriod the blue print on wall of an arm the head with 1 glowing eye in the back ground yeah engis gna build android awsome
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What about a small jumping pad?
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He tried to build one, but he gave it an AI and it developed self esteem issues.
It kept saying that everyone was always stepping on it.
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Engineer has indeed been a pain in the ass to play since the Direct Hit was released, and I do believe that in the back of the video is a poster of a soldier. Now if you look at the blueprint, not far from the soldier poster, you’ll see a robot arm.
What I’m getting as it that it might be some sort of device to catch rockets (and possibly grenades?), grabbing them and sending them back. If anything, it might be a device of it’s own, or simply an attachment to one of you’re already built structures.
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Only DRM will save us from the torrents.
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Tf2 is not tf2 now its an bad edition of what tf2 was before all those stupid updates which i never liked and i will never like in future cause they unbalanced ALWAYS the games Which by they way is very unfriendly to new players and this crap panishing idlers was a mistake only for one reason
WHY YOU PUSH PLAYERS TO SPENT THEIR PRECIUS LIFE TIME TO GET STUFF ON FPS GAMES IT SUPPOSED TO HAVE IT ALL ALONG ITS NOT RPG ITS action mutiplayer FPS and VALVE rAPED FPS with this stupid game spending time for a fps games for …HATS!! go blow a goat!!!!!
By the way dear VALVe and Steam team ….FUCK you ALL!!
============================================== I always want to say that cause you SUCK!!!
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So many expletives and no punctuation.
Anyways, gaming companies are the best target for emotional response. Who cares about Sudan, or black tides in american shores. Give it all to gaming companies. Those jerks.
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Hammer ->
+ faster deploying and repairing
- Can’t upgrade buildings
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In your own way you’ve illustrated perfectly the flaw in Valve’s plan with implementing unlockables and collectible items into a multi-player FPS – obsessive weirdo’s who think getting a hat or a slightly different weapon is the most important thing in the world, and if they can’t get them through idling in servers it’s because Valve have personally screwed them over.
They always threaten to quit playing TF2, but strangely they never seem to…
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Sorry, that was supposed to be a reply to Tf2isdying a few posts above, but apparently I’ve been neglecting my prayer duty. Oh heavenly gods of the reply button, please forgiveth me etc etc…
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I dunno. I quit playing TF2. Whilst I’m not being incoherently ranty about it, a lot of the reason was that I was sick of all the change and the simplicity of the original game being slowly lost.
So.
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Mistabashi wasn’t talking about people who just don’t like the change – he’s talking about the people (kids? OCD maniacs?) who go ballistic everytime Valve comes up with a new item that is not accessible to them for some reason (like the recent service medal or the soldier’s limited edition medal). They are a very loud group and they go very predictably ballistic over every such move by Valve, and you’ll find that they’re very often part of the same groups who complain about every other thing in the game (even every free update). They’re just very bitter human beings.
The best moment was with the Halo hat. Servers full of people with “not healing halos” in their names…hilarious.
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Maybe a smoke machine and he’s been building it in Iceland. In his volcano lair!!!!!!!
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I would love to see the following implemented (knowing that it is to late but what the heck)..
1. More Choice. Build 3 level 1 sentries / dispensers instead of 1 level 3. Or build 1 level 1 and 1 level 2 sentry / dispenser instead of a level 3 one.
2. Walking dispenser. Make it robotlike following the engineer or another player wherever they go.
3. Traps. Ability to build traps like a net that catch the opposite team but no teleporter or dispenser
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If you look at the blueprints in the back while hes using the blowtorch, you can see an image of an ARM! I hope the Robots are coming! hahaha.
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*Sigh*
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Superfliing Stratofortress ( like modern warfare AC 130 )
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I’m rather scared. When the Sniper vs. Spy update came out, there were more arrows flying around than there were in the battle of Agincourt. If half the people now decide to play Engineer, I think I’ll need to stay away from the game for a while for it to cool down.
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Perhaps the ability to customise your buildings like you can your loadout, with different parts, interchangeable weapons for the sentry, different accessories for the dispenser, etc? Perhaps even the ability to craft new custom weapons for yourself and other classes?
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OMG… maybe we can craft and design our own sentries and buildings…
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A zombie!.. made of medic+scout+engi bodyparts !!!
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can’t have meet the medic… voice actor quit… =[
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Googling that gives conflicting answers, but I would assume most Voice Actors are employed on a freelance basis anyway, so they don’t work for Valve, they just get hired when they’re needed. So not sure how he could quit as such and more not accept an offer to do some more work for Valve. (Checking his IMDB profile he’s done voices for many other games that aren’t Valve both before and after TF2)
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Tom Francis suggested a dummy dispenser – it would look real to enemies, but to teammates it would be a cardboard mockup stuffed with dynamite. Sapping it would cause a massive explosion.
I don’t how useful it would be after everyone got wise, but the idea fills me with delight.
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Honestly, Team Fortress 2 is the best time I’ve had on multiplayer. Like 1nightstand said, the mixture of comedy with some of the most well balanced, satisfying gameplay I’ve experienced is uniquely rewarding, and the community is as strong as ever.
I got tired of Counter Strike because of all the hyper-accurate twitch players who became unstoppable because they had the best mouses or had played way, way too long. TF2′s weapons are far less (impossibly, like TF2) accurate, and the classes and gameplay balance each other superbly. The different characters create very distinct styles of play, and you never stop trying new stuff or settling on one class or style of play.
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WTF??? if theres a robot or a drone? how do you control it? or how does it move? i really cant see a robot in TF2 as it would be SERIOUSLY hard to code into the game and a pain in the back-side for players to hide and some how control there flame throwing, mallet retard robot.
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ROFL
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There appear to be new, unannounced (?) weapons – I just got a sledgehammer for the Pyro (the Homewrecker).
Heh. The captcha is “TUUF”. You have to be, to hoist da Homewrecker.
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I should probably point out – from the looks of it, this is part of the Engy upgrade – the Pyro’s new sledgehammer destroys sappers.
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Not really ‘unannounced’. Showed up in the update notes when it was first introduced, a few weeks ago. Sorry.
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OMG this is it! follow the lnk to see MORE!!
http://www.teamfortress.com.br/engineerupdate/day01.html
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I… It… grrrr…
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you guys are right i see the blue prints for sure i KNOW i saw a screwdriver looking object. AND FOR SURE A BLOWTORCH BLUEPRINT SWEET :D
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What about a Trap Cow!?. I looks like a normal cow, and goes mooooo, but If you try to milk it, ….IT EXPLODE!
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Do you remember them hiring DOTA’s Ice Frog?
Can you imagine a tower defense game in first person?
Would you like to play against a backdrop of endless drones streaming towards a maze of defense structures?
I’m not so sure myself.
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But I’m sure willing to try it out! With the way Valve playtests everything to death, whatever comes out would be a product of intense scrutiny.
Also, I want there to be robot versions of the nine classes to symbolize bots, mobile sentries that have treads, propellers or legs, and of course, giant robots with the engie operating it from where the head is supposed to be.
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A sexy women!!, If you get near it, she will kiss you and ask for a long commitment!
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Tei, you are getting too worked up about this.
Email Robin instead.
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I wish for it to be something comedic, something that might not necessarily help me play but makes me laugh instead.
or a tesla dome shield, that will also do :3
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I was thinking along those lines too, maybe like a holographic engie generated by a sentry. If a spy tries to back-stab him they is a brief animation and “uh-oh” from the spy as he stumbles through the hologram. Probably wouldn’t be very effective, but I’d like to see the spy take a little tumble. :P
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i see a metal arm and a hand in the blueprint
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I think he’ll be able to replace one of his weapons with his guitar. Maybe the guitar will render all surrounding devices immune to sap but you’re required to keep playing.
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I think the minefield idea is not the Valve’style. It would be too frustrating for others which is what they keep in mind, according to walwe that”s the reason why there are no grenades in TF.
“Build It, They Will come” maybe some engineering boost like superdispenser that can be only placed on CP to encourage teamates to care more about the CPs? Or… Oh no! It sounds like the update will replace the teleporter and whole team will have to walk by foot! :)
The Mothership thingie would be sweet. And maybe it’s not that far from true, IMO the Engie Update will bring something that would make Engie class more effective on offensive maps somehow. As someone mentioned already too many Engies may be frustrating for Blues sometimes when the players defend instead of attacking, this might bring some ballance… :)
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The welder you see is designed with a pretty distinctive sillouete(sorry I can’t spell) and has a light which would make it easy to identify on the battlefield, all other tf2 weapons have been designed with this in mind sooo…. But maybe I’m crazy.
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Anyone ever notice the PROPANE TANK near the sentry like tubes sticking out on the table?
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TF2 = the best mutliplayer game you will ever play, so yes
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Dude… its not portal…
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Maybe there will be a nail gun which will replace the pistol..? Would be interesting.. ;)
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Please refrain from not using proper Punctation on this blog. If you do not, Heavy weapons guy will kill you: WITH THE SANDVICH.
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That told me absolutely nothing. we didn’t even get a quick glimpse!
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it would be cool if the engie could set a camera up (on the wall) and show it in the top of the screen, then when the enemys come, it would turn red and he could say it to the rest of the team.
eks. (red alert! the blu team is under the bridge, soon they will be at the inteligence we need some heavys down!)
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engies should be able to build sentries which take the traits of the classes. a heavy sentry would have slow turning and low range but lots of ammo and hp.
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when you see that wood plank move by before you see the engie you see a metal skull
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well clearly there is a hammer. MYSTERY SOLVED! the engineer update will consist of a hammer
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You guys are all wrong… Its gonna be a VICE BENCH TRAP!! Enemy runs over it and it locks on their ankle!!!
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This is what I noticed:
-In the very first second you see the dispencer like thing in the backround. Looks similar to a new item valve talked about on the tf2 website that they planned not to use that would repair buildings
-the robotic arm on the blueprint(obviously)
-A flamethrower tank
-There is a cord in the very beginning the could be from the guitar and is plugged into something between two boxes above it.
-THE HAMMER. as people have been saying, new melee weapon?
-I can’t quite read the poster in the backround, if anyone can, what does it say?
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I forgot, at the very end in the bottom right corner sitting in the back of the room, there is a metal helmet like thing with a glowing red dot in the center… any ideas?
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argh I’m soo happy!
and I don’t know about you but I think it’d be pretty cool to have a turret on wheels. it wouldn’t be as strong but it’d be so much fun
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Would that hammer be the “B.F.H.” that is so often referred to by maintenance people?
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If you pause at the right moment you can see that the blueprint behind the engineer is a robot arm…
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its about time
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I noticed something similar to a radar dish in the first couple seconds of the video. A spy detector perhaps?
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That radar dash is on top of the repair node, a failed building idea that valve tested but they decided not to use, it is similar to a dispencer in shape. There is a post about it on the tf2 website.
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First Traps are useless but other you unlocked later on if well combined can be very lethal
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i think its a suit if u look at the background u can see the the blue prints shaped like and arm and its not a hammer
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I noticed a lot of things and have many theories, I’ll try not to go into details about the obvious, so here they be:
-hammer or welder. new melee wep?
-In the first seconds you can see the repair node in the backround, which valve said on the tf2 blog they would not put in the game.
-also in the first second is the guitar from meet the engineer, and above it between two boxes in the hotrod hat.
-the poster in the background is the winner from the propaganda contest. It says something along the lines “give em the boot, right in the fruit” I can’t quite remember.
-On the blueprint is the robotic arm, as everbody know, BUT WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW is that to left of the arm on the blueprint is a robotic leg. You can see most of it if you pause the video at exactly the right time. It is also visible in a recreation of the blueprint that someone. check out tf2 wiki to see it.
-In front of the engie is a flamethrower. I don’t think this is going to be part of a firespitting building or robot (though that would be good for spy detection) but it is a hint that meet the pyro is coming!
-After the camer stops panning, you can see two helmet like objects in the bottom right corner, each with one glowing red dot in the center. One looks like a rectangle, but on closer inspection it actually isn’t, it is just in front of a box or something.
-at around 8 secs there is the metal dome object thing right infrom of the camera. another robot helmet?
-AND THE THE FOR THE GRAND FANALY(I spelled fanaly wrong, didn’t I) is what I think is the one observation that has gone overlooked: right before the camera stop panning, you catch a glimps of a red toolbox, with the number 24 written on it in yellow. last time I checked, the engie’s toolbox did not have that written on it in-game. I think that it could be a clue to the release date. May 24th? in 24 days after the video? though it doesn’t seem like valve to set an exact date for something, but who knows
Overall: robots, the number 24, and hammer + welder. can’t wait, go Valve!
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sorry about all the typos in my above post, I was typing fast. You get the gist anyways.
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:O You’ve never seen TF2 before? I actually feel sorry for you right now.
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ENgie update =
New shotgun
Power glove which deploys mini sentrys
Radar to guide turret shoot dem spys
wrench like the tribalmans shiv bleed!
oh and golden wrench for those 100 who crafted it
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