By Alec Meer on June 10th, 2010 at 10:26 pm.
Valve! They’ve done it again! You’re going to like this comic about the launch of Fortified Team Two for Mac. You’re going to like it a lot. Unless you’re one of those people.
Which people? I ain’t telling. This place has their curvy stink all over them.
(Is that the first time we’ve seen Saxton Hale interacting with our brave teamsters, incidentally?Tell me, nerds. TELL ME.)
Also! Also! There’s a new offline training mode, featuring bots! And anyone playing TF2 on Mac before Monday gets free in-game iPod headphones! And there’s a new video, including a glimpse of the Engineer with a scoped shotgun! I’ve put a picture of the latter, which is possibly teasing the long-awaited engie update, below. Froth away, frothers.
You’d better all call it the SniSho, or I’ll be very cross.
10/06/2010 at 22:27 Frozenbyte says:
But still no engineer update in sight… Also yes, it is the first time Saxton Hale has interacted with our brave teamsters.
10/06/2010 at 22:30 Shadowmancer says:
Didn’t you see the new shotgun the Engie has in the video?
10/06/2010 at 22:36 Davie says:
It looked amazing. I predict Engie Update within the month.
10/06/2010 at 22:36 jonfitt says:
Damn, how can I log in on a Mac before the 14th to get those headphones?
I need to find a soulless automaton and borrow their Mac.
10/06/2010 at 22:42 bleeters says:
SNIPER SHOTGUN.
It’s so ingenius, it just might work.
11/06/2010 at 09:47 Antlia says:
Honestly I think that shotgun is just a tease. They wouldn’t give a sniper shotgun to engie, would they?
11/06/2010 at 10:57 tomeoftom says:
SniSho? As if. It’s either the Snotgun or the Shopper, and that’s that.
11/06/2010 at 13:21 Senethro says:
I don’t think its a scope, I think its a Laser Aiming Module. Someone dug up a laser related sentry death icon added in a recent update.
So, a sentry that you can aim maybe?
12/06/2010 at 08:50 remover says:
it’s a steam gauge
10/06/2010 at 22:36 Schmung says:
I don’t even like playing TF2, but I crave these updates. Valve do this stuff better than anyone. Genuinely laughed a number of times reading that.
12/06/2010 at 15:02 Eamo says:
The real question is whether or not it is worth doing a 9 gig download onto my macbook of a game I will never play on that machine just to get a set of in-game earbuds :P
10/06/2010 at 22:39 subedii says:
I’m not sure Valve could get any better at this than they already are.
11/06/2010 at 02:40 TeeJay says:
Now, if they could just integrate a football world cup BBC iPlayer picture-in-picture TV stream at the top right hand corner, a Spotify plug-in and a nice sound mixer, we’ll be able to multi-task some one-eyed-casual-couch-potato footie watching with a cool kwaito-electro-pop sound-track and some multi-player blasting.
Oh yeah, and beer obv.
10/06/2010 at 22:47 gryffinp says:
Scoped shotgun. Engie has clearly been playing Borderlands.
11/06/2010 at 15:33 jonfitt says:
Perhaps it also fires rockets?
10/06/2010 at 22:48 solipsistnation says:
Is that Michael Avon Oeming on the art there?
10/06/2010 at 22:54 solipsistnation says:
…it is, and how did I miss that he was doing these? Cool.
10/06/2010 at 22:49 Pesforozo says:
A training mode is an excellent addition. In my mind, pretty much the only thing that needed adding.
I’ve not played for a few months now, but TF2 remains the classiest act around.
10/06/2010 at 22:53 Rosti says:
Ahem:
Do you see yourself blubbering uncontrollably, surrounded by a ring of battle-hardened veterans who ridicule you for the slightest misstep? THIS WILL HAPPEN AND THEY ARE RIGHT TO TAUNT YOU.
Oh Valve, I could never hate you. ::Swoon::
10/06/2010 at 22:55 pkt-zer0 says:
It’s not a sniper shotgun, notice the antenna. Forum speculation suggests that it’s the Morgan community suggestion, which is a shotgun that can also be deployed as a sentry that sticks to walls.
11/06/2010 at 16:34 Koozer says:
LAPTOP GUN.
My favourite weapon in Perfect Dark.
10/06/2010 at 22:57 Uhm says:
Saxton Hale wants to buy Aperture Science!
Also, his chest hair is in the shape of Australia! Details.
11/06/2010 at 00:13 Dozer says:
THAT IS THE MOST AMUSING THING I’VE SEEN ALL WEEK and I’ve just been to a dinner party where a friend of mine randomly invited a couple of 60-year-old strangers who live on a houseboat
10/06/2010 at 22:58 Web Cole says:
Hehehe, lovin’ it :D
10/06/2010 at 23:05 Mr_Day says:
I would dearly love it if someone playing on a Mac had the shiny versions of the weapons instead of the usual models.
Also, the shovel should be on fire at all times. All times.
10/06/2010 at 23:06 Carra says:
Incredible what mileage Valve manages to get from a single game.
10/06/2010 at 23:13 Jugglenaut says:
totally excited about that new shotty for the engie in the video. All else is meh.
11/06/2010 at 08:28 Edgar the Peaceful says:
Have you no soul!?
10/06/2010 at 23:15 caged_devil says:
I thought I was the only one! It doesn’t look like a scope at all. If anything it reminds me of the modified shotgun in Bioshock as it’s sitting in a similar spot. Though if it were to take cues from borderlands I’d still be waiting with mad anticipation for the Engy update.
10/06/2010 at 23:18 Matzerath says:
Bot mode! Color me amazed!
10/06/2010 at 23:25 westyfield says:
*Swoon*
Oh Valve, I love you.
The “admit one: gun show” explosion will be reused by me a great deal, oh yes.
10/06/2010 at 23:35 RedFred says:
So the chance of a lowered price for TF2 when the update drops is still pretty high?
10/06/2010 at 23:43 Andy says:
It’s 50% off this week, only 7 english pounds
10/06/2010 at 23:48 Thants says:
It’s having a free weekend too.
11/06/2010 at 03:22 RedFred says:
Oh. My. GAWD!
:D
10/06/2010 at 23:42 Rinox says:
PROPERTY DAMAGE!
11/06/2010 at 09:52 sfury says:
BRAVE PRESS!
10/06/2010 at 23:48 Thants says:
The website says available on the Mac now but the store says coming soon. Why must you taunt me, Valve?
11/06/2010 at 01:32 Thants says:
Oh, it’s there now. Ignore me.
11/06/2010 at 00:13 Metalfish says:
A while ago I suggested to Valve via email (the slightly stupid idea) that the new engineer building should be a rocket launching pod that was directed by a laser sight attached to a 2 round shotgun. Of course this is a complete coincidence, but I’m still slightly smug about the potential of having an identical idea to the team.
Of course I didn’t use my steam name so even if they did use my idea and acknowledge it I wouldn’t get a shiny community weapon anyway.
I look forward to the next update in any case.
11/06/2010 at 00:20 Wallace says:
Brilliance.
11/06/2010 at 00:28 Chiburger says:
I’m liking it. Except for the complete tripe of a menu redesign. Way too many buttons. Is it because Mac’s can’t right click? How do they play then?
11/06/2010 at 00:37 malkav11 says:
Macs have been able to right click for eons.
11/06/2010 at 02:21 DarkNoghri says:
I’ve been reading about how bad the new menus are, but the one screenshot I saw looked so horrible I thought it had to be a shop. Can someone post a picture? I don’t want to re-install just for this.
11/06/2010 at 04:38 elyscape says:
The new menus.
11/06/2010 at 04:55 Polysynchronicity says:
The new menus would be fine if they didn’t obscure the goddamn art, which is designed for menus on the left!
11/06/2010 at 08:19 DarkNoghri says:
Aggh, it wasn’t a shop.
What on earth was wrong with clear text descriptions that didn’t cover up half the screen?
11/06/2010 at 00:29 Will Tomas says:
The press release for the training mode is absolute genius. I love it, it cracked me up good and proper.
11/06/2010 at 00:43 airtekh says:
LOL @ the soldier choosing a hat to wear in the background of the video.
Only Valve does stuff like this, and that’s why I love them.
11/06/2010 at 02:53 DerangedStoat says:
haha yeah, after reading the text to the earbud page about hats, seeing the soldier standing over a crate of them in the background of the movie left me in hysterics.
11/06/2010 at 11:50 Rosti says:
@airtekh – Heh! This little trailer has far too much incidental detail to be the product of any sane company. F’rex, the BLU team are standing outside “JOBBS Orchard”…
11/06/2010 at 00:45 Patrick says:
Entertaining comic with some great structuring (id, ego, super-ego all present) but it came off that the comic’s purpose wasn’t to entertain parsay, but to advertise the flexibility of the “mac” and all its wonderful little gadgets (there is one for everyone, even the soldier). This comic was complete with a Mac logo yet there was no valve, tf2, hl2, steam or anything PC GAME related anywhere (besides the 3 stooges).
Yes entertaining, but obviously co-opting tf2 into a consumerist paradise (hell).
11/06/2010 at 00:55 Thants says:
Clearly this was all a ploy to advertise Apple’s new firewire pig-roaster. Or, alternately, just a fun way of promoting TF2 being released for Macs.
There was nothing PC game related, other then it being about 3 PC game characters?
11/06/2010 at 01:50 Phasma Felis says:
Uh huh. Because all the other comics have constantly name-dropped Valve, Steam, Team Fortress, and Half-Life (what?). I liked the one where Saxton Hale just talked about his Steam achievements for twelve pages.
I swear, some people just can’t stand anyone liking something they don’t like.
11/06/2010 at 08:29 admanb says:
Patrick, you are insane.
I don’t mean that in the nicest way possible.
11/06/2010 at 08:31 Edgar the Peaceful says:
I really don’t mean this is an arsey way:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_se
I used to write ‘Praisie’ for précis.
11/06/2010 at 16:22 Arthur Barnhouse says:
They’re launching the game for Mac. Were you expecting a comic where the heavy pisses in Steve Job’s mouth? Yes, the purpose was to say nice things about Macs, in a funny and silly way meant to be entertaining to non-mac users as well. It isn’t required that they do hard hitting satire.
11/06/2010 at 00:55 DollarOfReactivity says:
Again, love this. And I don’t even like comics (sorry Kieron) or play TF2. Except maybe now I’ll try the practice mode. Only the bots will know my shame.
11/06/2010 at 01:13 lizardizzle says:
it’s probably not a scope. Looks like a mounted flare gun to me. DISCUSS.
11/06/2010 at 11:15 jon_hill987 says:
It is probably not a scope as the barrel of the shotgun is not long enough for it to be worth having a scope, the spread would be too high.
11/06/2010 at 11:38 bleeters says:
We’re talking about a world where throwing a bottle of urine at your opponents is a viable tactic. Speak not of trivial plausabilities!
11/06/2010 at 15:23 Nick says:
Not to mention shotguns can fire slugs.
11/06/2010 at 01:47 Phasma Felis says:
Uh huh. Because all the other comics have constantly name-dropped Valve, Steam, Team Fortress, and Half-Life (what?). I liked the one where Saxton Hale just talked about his Steam achievements for twelve pages.
I swear, some people just can’t stand anyone liking something they don’t like.
11/06/2010 at 01:54 Vanderdecken says:
Is that the sleeve of a black turtleneck being rolled up in the last panel of the comic?
11/06/2010 at 01:56 Urthman says:
If the night sky of Portal 2 has no moon, it is proof that TF2 is in the same universe as Portal and GLaDOS is The Announcer.
WATCH THE SKIES!
11/06/2010 at 05:39 Psychopomp says:
Except, the night sky in TF2 has three moons.
11/06/2010 at 02:23 DarkNoghri says:
I love the Sniper’s total look of disgust near the start of the vid.
11/06/2010 at 02:40 Nimic says:
I have literally no idea what went on in that comic.
11/06/2010 at 02:54 Merzbau says:
Here’s hoping we can snatch the earbuds right off their smug, fancy little heads with a timely domination, like with the Halloween top hat.
11/06/2010 at 03:27 mcnostril says:
So Macs are the blue team.
PCs are the red team.
They get fancy earbuds, meanwhile our spies had sex with their mothers.
I think we win.
12/06/2010 at 10:50 DJ Phantoon says:
Note that the RED team always wins against the BLU team in their videos.
11/06/2010 at 03:57 malkav11 says:
I love that comic. I love it so much. I love every tiniest panel of it.
11/06/2010 at 04:05 Afro says:
“America’s #1 war-themed hat simulator”, it’s just so awesome!
11/06/2010 at 08:11 Kerosiinipelle says:
Best description of TF2 ever.
11/06/2010 at 04:14 JAMESATRON says:
I love the irony of jonfitt’s comment. I presume he calls us soulless automotons because of the rather weak argument that mac fans are fad followers while he froths at the mouth for a piece of iPod digital memorabilia. how astutely pathetic.
11/06/2010 at 05:02 Mad Doc MacRae says:
I would kill a man in cold blood for Valve.
Double so if I got an exclusive hat for it.
11/06/2010 at 06:14 WocHie says:
THATS NOT A SCOPE ON THAT SHOTGUN! IS EVERYONE BLIND??
11/06/2010 at 06:21 Namos says:
Well, the shovel just might, seeing as it is in line for a rebalance (utter garbage compared to the equalizer).
11/06/2010 at 07:21 Tei says:
The thing on the shotgun can be a “detector”. Maybe it able to detect spys. So a engineer with this tool can reveal spys from distance.
11/06/2010 at 07:51 Tom OBedlam says:
Fuck thats funny.
11/06/2010 at 07:54 Passive Engie says:
Thats not a scope at all! those a remote thing on one end and the other end has no hole to see out of!
12/06/2010 at 18:49 Chalkster says:
This man speaks truth.
11/06/2010 at 08:10 Kerosiinipelle says:
BRAVE PRESS!
11/06/2010 at 08:33 Mappy says:
My theory is that shotgun has an antenna that can detect the position of enemy sentries, which would give a reason to get into the action and not sit on their own sentry. Engineers don’t need more protection against spies, since that would just lead to longer matches.
11/06/2010 at 08:36 Schaulustiger says:
I have nothing valuable to say except that I’m laughing my ass off at work right now. This is so funny and entertaining, it makes every other company’s PR attempts look plain stupid.
11/06/2010 at 08:38 VashPL says:
That’s interesting… Pyro really IS female? O.o
http://yfrog.com/mkpyrofemalej
11/06/2010 at 11:36 bleeters says:
Oh lord, the disturbing-deviant-art-picture ratio is going to spiral out of control.
12/06/2010 at 10:15 Phydaux says:
It changes between saying him and her.
11/06/2010 at 09:39 Inigo says:
@VashPL
From what I hear, the pronoun changes at random whenever you start the game
11/06/2010 at 09:55 sfury says:
Is he gonna battle Steve Jobs in the next issue? I CAN HARDLY WAIT!!!
zewy
11/06/2010 at 16:04 JellyfishGreen says:
11/06/2010 at 16:11 JellyfishGreen says:
(Let’s try that again – I imploded.)
BACKSTAGE FURY PUNCH!
Once, I harboured a dream of taking over the world with small, well-engineered household appliances, that were so tempting people would pay you to invade their homes.
Funny how life works out.
11/06/2010 at 09:56 TheBlackBandit says:
I love Valve. I love them.
11/06/2010 at 09:59 Anonymous Cowardly Engineering Sniper says:
If they do give the engineer a sniper shotgun, I’m never going to play any other class than the engineer. Ever.
Time to solve some practical problems! ^_^
11/06/2010 at 10:01 Anonymous Cowardly Engineering Sniper says:
Actually, I think it’s not a sniper shotgun, but a target locator/tagger that’ll boost the sniper’s damage. or something.
11/06/2010 at 10:30 I don't remember says:
Have you noticed how much anti authority the soldier is?
He doesn’t even like being said what is going to like. He was hostile towards the announcer after she ordered him around in the other comic, which also mentioned a brawl against the police.
It’s kinda funny considering how much martial he pretends to behave
11/06/2010 at 15:51 Fumarole says:
Obviously you’ve never met someone of Chief Master Sergeant or equivalent rank.
11/06/2010 at 15:59 JellyfishGreen says:
Sergeants in the thick of war have a problem with following, or hearing, orders that will get them killed.
11/06/2010 at 10:42 JoeDuck says:
I’d love it if the Maccers get some kind of exclusive skin or hat, maybe an apple logo somewhere…
Of couse, if that were the case, I’d have to stop playing as a pyro and use the sniper instead.
11/06/2010 at 11:36 Inigo says:
They get earphones.
11/06/2010 at 13:28 JoeDuck says:
You are right, they do!
11/06/2010 at 11:51 Malibu Stacey says:
Borrowing a MacBook from the office this weekend so I can install TF2 just to get the earbuds.
Yes I’m that shallow (it’s downloading as I type this on said MacBook while still being in the office).
11/06/2010 at 11:58 l1ddl3monkey says:
PC related gaming.
PC.
PC.
Apple? Will RPS be doing XBox next, that’s a PC in all but name after all. Sigh… Curse you Steve Jobs, it looks like your Orwellian marketed tide of cheap plastic shit and the lock into being forever Apple that buying so much as one of those devices forces upon people is destined to impose itself upon all the things I hold dear, even RPS…
11/06/2010 at 12:04 jon_hill987 says:
To be fair they never said Windows gaming. PC’s can run any OS they like as long as they are personal computers. It was Apple that decided the term PC meant Windows with their stupid misleading adverts, not Rock Paper Shotgun.
11/06/2010 at 12:28 Mario Figueiredo says:
Nevermind that many other companies have ported their games to Mac. Who cares, right? They aren’t worth one line in RPS. Bunch of lame stupid tiny weenie companies. They suck! Valve rox! I love Valve, etc.
Ah, Valve groupies. They see a dildo even on news about Mac. That’s how pathetic they gets. And then… hey, let’s just throw in a screenshot with the fat fella with a shotgun so no one can say we did a piece just for Mac on RPS.
Well…
11/06/2010 at 12:33 Malibu Stacey says:
Exactly. Every single mac I’ve ever seen anyone using has Windows installed on it in some manner anyway (either using Bootcamp for dual booting or a virtual machine) including the one I’m typing on right now.
I know of a couple of people who use Windows 7 as their primary OS on MacBook Pro’s. Lets not start a whole us vs them argument even if it is a cornerstone of the Apple marketing team vision.
11/06/2010 at 13:30 l1ddl3monkey says:
@ Mario: WTF? Valve groupie? What? I think you’ve misread a comment and then taken it upon yourself to berate me for something I didn’t say.
I don’t play TF2 (don’t like it) and Steam for me is a necessity as I’m in the ED DoD league. Aside from that I love a bit of Half Life (but have lost interest in Ep3 or HL3 or whatever they’ll flog out of their tired old IP next), but who owns a PC and doesn’t like Half Life?
My lament is that Apple and all it’s horrific satanic marketing and the sneaky ways it ties you into it’s platform for life (just like Steam which you erroneously think I love so much) has found a valid “in” to my beloved RPS.
In future can I suggest you comment on what I’ve written as opposed to what the voices told you I meant.
@Jon_Hill and Malibu Stacey: I like Apple’s OS, I like Apple’s tech. I don’t like APPLE as a company but that doesn’t mean they don’t make good stuff. Actually to be technically correct: I don’t like Apple’s MARKETING or it’s business model. But I don’t feel any need to do the whole “Us vs Them” thing. Actually I think it was Apple that started the whole “PC vs Mac” bullshit with their stupid adverts. Case in point.
11/06/2010 at 13:42 malkav11 says:
There have been PC snobs badmouthing the Mac as long as there’s been a Mac. The Apple ads just returned fire.
11/06/2010 at 15:55 Fumarole says:
Indeed monkey, marios’s comment says quite a lot about him.
11/06/2010 at 12:30 snipershtogun says:
There is sniper shotgun already in bad company 2 and its very very good.
11/06/2010 at 12:49 Shadowcat says:
Um, why is the shovel on fire? That made no sense.
I do have to hand it to Valve — their advertising is clever and entertaining — however I’m finding it a bit tiresome that RPS seems to make a drool-filled news story out of every advert they put together? (or at least enough of their adverts to give that impression — Valve simply don’t seem to release enough games to warrant the sheer amount of coverage they get).
11/06/2010 at 12:59 Malibu Stacey says:
People in getting excited about stuff they like shock.
RPS isn’t the BBC, they can cover whatever they like whenever they like as often as like. That’s one of the things which makes this place so good.
11/06/2010 at 13:11 Rinox says:
Fact of the matter is that apart from Valve’s work, most games advertising is dreadfully generic and riskfree marketing claptrap. This is closer to art than marketing, in more ways than one. I’m sure RPS would be covering continuous newsreels from other companies/games just as much if they were half as entertaining as this.
11/06/2010 at 15:29 Nick says:
Its just because they get big fat bribes from Valve, obv.
11/06/2010 at 15:57 Fumarole says:
Not to mention those golden TF2 hats, of course.
11/06/2010 at 17:21 Dominic White says:
Even if TF2 as a game didn’t exist, I’d still read these comics, because they’re funny, clever and just plain addictive. Complaining because they come from Valve is just insane. When any other developer/publisher starts doing free marketing that would be good enough to buy as a seperate product, then you’ll have a point, however tenuous.
12/06/2010 at 10:21 Phydaux says:
Why is the shovel on fire? Because that is how you can tell that it is on. Did you even read the comic?
11/06/2010 at 12:52 Monchberter says:
I’m betting it’s a sensor / laser pointer so that the engineer can manually aim his sentry.
11/06/2010 at 13:12 Severian says:
“It looks like some kinda hospital for fruit!”
11/06/2010 at 13:20 Tei says:
Maybe the shotgun shots nano-healing pellets that repair turrets from long distances.
11/06/2010 at 13:58 jayrodathome says:
I figured the same thing. that it’s a guiding system for something. It doesn’t really look like a scope as much as it does a red dot system.
11/06/2010 at 14:02 Sobric says:
The only thing worse than Valve fanoyism is the snarly, cynical, pretentious and condescending anti-Valveism that crops up as a response.
Two sides, same coin. But at least fanboys have something positive to say.
11/06/2010 at 15:02 Mario Figueiredo says:
>> But at least fanboys have something positive to say.
Except when they are talking about anti-valvism
11/06/2010 at 15:38 Sobric says:
Ahh, and there it is.
I was expecting one of either 2 replies:
Either a rabid Valve-fan trying to start a pile-on,
or
An accusation of fanboyism. However backhanded.
Thanks Mario.
11/06/2010 at 15:59 Mario Figueiredo says:
You surely know how it is, don’t you? You said yourself you were expecting it. There’s no middle ground in this war between valve lovers and valve haters. Everything revolves around hating or loving. Valve. There’s no between, etc.
You sure have a point there. But you are wrong.
11/06/2010 at 16:13 Sobric says:
Hmm no. No that’s not my point.
My point is that the comments on this thread are, on the whole, the middle ground. There is expression of like for Valve, yes, but it’s not of the ilk that comes out of the Steam forums. Consider them more as votes of appreciation for Vavle’s marketing style, which is suitably humerous to impress. It’s not the slavering adoration of a “fanboy”.
On the other hand, you seem to be donning the mantle of the anti-valve in this thread, and in the other recent Portal thread, painting everyone else as a fanboy. It’s the sort of reactionary, knee-jerk that really gets to me on RPS precisely because it’s so unwarranted. For example, monkey’s post above is regarding RPS covering Macs, and tries to raise issues with that. You try to derail it, and shoe-horn in Valve/Anti-Valve sentiment.
Basically, let up a bit.
11/06/2010 at 14:02 bill says:
I’ve been waiting for bots in TF2 ever since I got the Orange Box.
I AM A COWARD. But there is a solution!
Now I will head over to Offline Practice Mode to square off against their state-of-the-art bots.
Human teammates might judge me, but will these soulless automatons? YES. They’re not blind. But they ARE mute, so my incompetence is a secret they will take to their grave.
PS/ I love valve.
11/06/2010 at 14:16 Stitched says:
A “Think Bullets” t-shirt would be FAB, Valve! Get on it!
11/06/2010 at 18:21 Malibu Stacey says:
I’d buy two, one for myself, one for girlfriend-o-tron.
DO IT VALVe. YOU KNOW IT SHALL BE HENCEFORTH!
11/06/2010 at 15:39 Tei says:
“Think bullets”
What about a shotgun that shot smart bullets with heatseekers-heads?
11/06/2010 at 16:16 Daniel Rivas says:
Oh. Auto-aim.
11/06/2010 at 18:26 Malibu Stacey says:
I was thinking more of the Hivehand from HL/HLDM.
12/06/2010 at 10:59 DJ Phantoon says:
Man, and I thought the new Engineer item would be STIMs for his Sentry.
Y’know, Surface To Idiot Missiles. Targets Backburner Pyros, FaN Scouts, and Blutsauger Medics with deadly homing accuracy.
(Blutsauger included because if you’re shooting needles, you’re not building Ubercharge nor are you healing anyone. Your innate health regen is better, especially in close quarters combat. The other two are completely self explanatory.)
11/06/2010 at 16:41 Epic says:
That’s no scope!
check out the antena on the back, it’s probably some sort of laser
11/06/2010 at 19:01 Raisinbran says:
If PC’s are red and Macs are Blu, does this mean GNU/Linux is spectator?
11/06/2010 at 21:46 Kevbo says:
Awesome comic!
I like the idea of a red dot scope that allows you to aim the sentry gun where ever you point the red dot. I haven’t played TF2 for awhile but its about time I get back into it for a bit. I can still remember reading about the game before it came out and foaming at the mouth for it. Then I played it for a year straight and got my fix, time to get addicted again :)
12/06/2010 at 00:27 Lizzz says:
You know im sure its not actually going to be a SCOPED shotgun, just a precision one. I mean, when they put a scope on the direct hit, you couldn’t look through it, could you? It was just on there to indicate *precision*
12/06/2010 at 00:43 rb says:
thats not a scope, telling by the steampunk brass, a gastank, possible incinerating enemys (antispy?) or increasing damage through higher projectile velocity.
12/06/2010 at 02:33 LionsPhil says:
So, how many people noticed that the opening shot of a WINDOW is gently tinted in the corners to be red, green, yellow, and blue before the sniper pans sideways to the apple?
12/06/2010 at 11:00 DJ Phantoon says:
Gently? I thought it was really obvious.
12/06/2010 at 04:04 Shadowcat says:
Yeah, I guess so. The frustrating thing is that there was actually a significant piece of news there — single player TF2 — which, while still highlighted in the blurb, was somehow bumped from being the headline of the piece in favour of the raving about how Valve have “done it again!” with another comic strip. One would like to think that the adverts aren’t actually more important than the games.
(OTOH, unless the bots are rather better at their jobs than their L4D2 counterparts, it mightn’t be as big a story as I was imagining…)
12/06/2010 at 04:05 Shadowcat says:
Damn you, reply button.
12/06/2010 at 04:24 Mario Figueiredo says:
Alec usually does a lot better than this. But truth be told I do largely ignore all ads/commercials/marketing efforts from companies (neither I’m very appreciative of these badly drawn comic strips, btw). So I do tend to downplay the Valve advertisement. Neither I understand very well where all the hoopla comes from. It seems somewhere in this planet it makes sense to advertise the advertisements.
Me? I’m more interested in their games. Which, unfortunately for me, means that for the past 3 years Valve have given me shit. Being that I have no interest in co-op games.
12/06/2010 at 11:03 DJ Phantoon says:
So basically you hate other people because we can have fun with other people rather than hiding, Mario?
Your depressive angle isn’t appreciated. And it’s unbecoming.
I’m going to continue having fun playing games with other humans.
You can do whatever it is you do.
12/06/2010 at 12:15 Mario Figueiredo says:
Hate other people, hiding, unbecoming, depressive. You charted some scary psychological profile there. And I thought we were talking about video games. And then the “hate” word again. I could say I hate the “hate” word. What’s with the “hate” word, anyways? Do you people believe that just because someone doesn’t like something, they immediately hate it? Can’t you see how immature that really is?
Anyways, don’t worry. The immaturity and insult did work for you and a few others. I’m actually tired of it. Been taking this nonsense for a while now. It’s either have the same opinion has everyone, or be the constant target of this type of behavior. I prefer to talk with people who actually like to debate.
12/06/2010 at 07:33 Dreamhacker says:
Never have played it never will. So yeah, I guess I am one of those people.
13/06/2010 at 10:03 trgf250 says:
I like Valve.
I belive Valve that can make good games
13/06/2010 at 12:36 Furah says:
A solid slug shotgun perhaps?
24/06/2010 at 04:30 zooter says:
How ironic; that you know terms like id, ego, and super-ego, but can’t seem to figure out that pesky per se.