Team Fortress 2 took center stage at a Valve-sponsored pizza party in San Francisco last night. Well, to be precise, the team-based shooter's new Goldrush map and unlockable Medic weapons took center stage, and the pizza provided just the right ambiance. ShackNews got their pizza-stained hands on the new offerings, and also had a chance to talk with Valve's Robin Walker about plans for unlockable weapons for the other classes (they should be coming "faster"), difficulty in balancing new weapons (there's a "trade-off"), and plans for other news maps with the Payload gameplay like Goldrush ("you have a moving fortress"). The medic is the first class to get the new weapons – unlock a series of class-based achievements to earn each of the three new toys, including the Blutsaugher ("a new syringe gun" that draws health from enemies), the Critzcrieg (a "new medigun" that switches up the ubercharge), and the Ubersaw (melee attacks charge your medigun). The update should hit sometime in April; still no word on whether any TF2 downloadable content will make it to the consoles.
Read – Valve Reveals Final Team Fortress 2 Medic Weapons
Read – Robin Walker on New TF2 Content, Future Maps, and Awesomeball
Read – Team Fortress 2 Goldrush and Unlockable Weapon Hands-on Impressions
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See what I did there?
Better luck ne... wait don't try ever again.
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: D
I'll buy either a 360 or PS3 next month, my bro wants the PS3 because of MGS4 and some other exclusives, also had only Playstation consoles. The 360 is tempting because of the better multiplat games.
I'm still a MS Windows fan though. : )
Sony has made many mistakes but the PS3 is improving, I wanna root for you PS3, go go!
If it comes out later this month, I doubt anyone will be playing with GTA4 projected to sell better then Halo3 and make like 600 million dollars the first weekend.
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So are there new achievements to unlock the weapons or are they unlocked with current achievements?
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I suppose those Syringes must be infected with AIDS.
PS:A gun that steal health from enemies + a self healing class = NERF TEH MEDIC RANT!
Beware all those who attend Steam Forums!
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That being said, I feel for the other classes in the game that have to wait for their upgrades. It's gonna really suck if each classes upgradeables take as long to get into the game as the medics has. How long has it been since they announced this? It's probably been a few months at least, and if it takes this long for each one of the other classes upgradables to be finished, I don't think there'll be many people still around by the time the last ones are in.
They are definitely on the right track, TF2 is one hell of a fun shooter and all it's lacking, IMO, is some kind of progression ala BF2, CoD4 etc. They just need to get it done faster so there are still people to play the content when they get it in game.
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"... plans for unlockable weapons for the other classes (they should be coming "faster") ..."
No, it's not going to take as long for the others.
Hell, I enjoy TF2 so much, I would even pay expansion pack prices for a complete weapon upgrade system delivered in a (somewhat) timely manner.
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Adding new content might get some people to come back and play a few more rounds, but if the new content is flawed it'll get more people to leave the game pretty quick...
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http://www.gametrailers.com/player/32875.html
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1up to you my friend.
What you know the scout knows Karate.
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:)
*Crickets.
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Critzcrieg sounds interesting.
Ubersaw FTW.
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