Rumor: Valve hinting at 10th Team Fortress 2 class in Left 4 Dead

by Griffin McElroy { Nov 15th 2008 at 5:00PM }

The image you see above is a screengrab from the Left 4 Dead demo, featuring a box of delicious "Chocobites" cereal -- the back of which details the prize buried deep within the box's chocolatey bounty: an 8-inch action figure of one of the nine classes in Team Fortress 2. We'd -- wait a second. If there are nine classes in TF2, why does the box tell the discerning Chocobites consumer to collect all ten of the figures?

Could it be Valve's peculiar way of hinting at the upcoming addition of a 10th class to their popular cartoony run-and-gunner? It's entirely possible -- series co-creator Robin Walker has hinted at such additions in the past. However, it could be a hint that Valve is working on some much-requested Team Fortress 2 figurines -- or, though slightly more unlikely, that the PC gaming juggernaut is about to enter the booming breakfast cereal industry. Hopefully, we'll hear more on this in Valve's next weekly news update.

Tags: chocobites, demo, left-4-dead, rumor, team-fortress-2

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

eastman @ Nov 15th 2008 5:08PM

Could be the civilian from the original team fortress.

eastman @ Nov 15th 2008 5:08PM

Or rather the 'V.I.P.'

Jakka ( The Order of Haters of Balance) @ Nov 15th 2008 5:21PM

It's either Train God,Crab Spy or The Announcer.

Meet the Announcer:

http://buttfacemakani.livejournal.com/301005.html

Neowyrm @ Nov 15th 2008 5:57PM

eastman, is your name a MST3K reference?

Erarg @ Nov 15th 2008 5:09PM

There's also a breen face on the newspaper.

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_ZDVqiq2mUZU/SRYn4_vsP4I/AAAAAAAAAQw/-qH0JXIgjZc/s512/l4d_dem_hospital01_apartment0001.jpg

V @ Nov 15th 2008 5:20PM

There's also The Orange Box Juice -billboard in the subway.

Jakka ( The Order of Haters of Balance) @ Nov 15th 2008 5:26PM

What's a subway? You mean "that place that always spawns either a witch,tank or both" and "that place me and my friends really grew to hate when playing on Expert"?

L4D ftw!

Shignami @ Nov 15th 2008 6:03PM

Theres "Scout!" brand cleaner in the apartment as well.

I'm sure there's a ton of these references in the game we don't know about

DBuck_Eye @ Nov 15th 2008 5:32PM

If it is a new class, it will obviously be a zombie class. That's the one major thing TF2 has been missing since day 1.

Haggard @ Nov 15th 2008 5:38PM

Well, they certainly have a sense of humour.

AlphaOneZero @ Nov 15th 2008 5:47PM

mmmmmmmmmmmm, Valve-o-bites

now with more steamy goodness

beware: may contain crowbar, people with headcrab allergies should avoid

The Dark Wayne @ Nov 15th 2008 5:47PM

Even valve can't compete with blueberry muffin tops!

Stagmo @ Nov 15th 2008 5:50PM

Hate to burst your bubble, but it could EASILY be the sandvich as a figurine, meaning still 9 classes, just 10 collectibles.

justin b. @ Nov 15th 2008 8:19PM

Bingo, there it is. I agree wholeheartedly, it is most definitely the sandvich.

guidedbyvoip @ Nov 16th 2008 6:47PM

My sentiments exactly.

MBO @ Nov 15th 2008 6:04PM

it looks more like 6" then 8"

zuburi @ Nov 15th 2008 6:45PM

That's what she said.

...

:(

JAY JAY @ Nov 15th 2008 6:11PM

A Joke?

Meta @ Nov 15th 2008 6:24PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dddAi8FF3F4

Tom18230 @ Nov 15th 2008 8:29PM

I hope it's a support class...an assassin. Cross between a spy and a scout.

The Dark Wayne @ Nov 15th 2008 8:58PM

uhh, the sniper?

jynxycat @ Nov 15th 2008 7:09PM

It's clearly the Sandvich.

AMike @ Nov 15th 2008 7:49PM

That's my guess too.

Mitsuo @ Nov 15th 2008 11:38PM

if that's you Jinxy....nice shoes. =X

And I vote for a sentry that automatically shoots Nerf darts at people.

sherman @ Nov 15th 2008 8:20PM

sentry gun?

mundox @ Nov 15th 2008 8:04PM

10 fugurines, maybe there's one for the sentry =/

karmaghost @ Nov 15th 2008 8:44PM

Exactly.

grex9101 @ Nov 15th 2008 8:05PM

WHERE is the promised DLC for the 360 godammit?
There's hardly anyone left for gods sakes, community has all but disappeared.

(and yes I am aware it's on the pc too, but I don't care)

Nikonov @ Nov 15th 2008 10:50PM

Does anyone even care about the console versions? I mean, other than the poor saps who bought them?

Vinces @ Nov 15th 2008 9:01PM

Looks to me like it says "Collect all 18" meaning that there would be 9 Blue and 9 Red team figurines.

zuburi @ Nov 15th 2008 9:27PM

:O

All this commenting would be for naught!

Vinces @ Nov 15th 2008 9:31PM

If we want to definitively find out if it says 10 or 18 then the people who found the box or who know where it is can increase the resolution on it by hitting ‘~’ (tilde) to activate the console and enter ‘mat_picmip -3′ to activate the ‘Ultra High’ setting. You can go lower than -3 if your hardware can handle it.