Team Fortress News Roundup:
Valve has released a new update for Team Fortress 2, now available on Steam. Included is the addition of Bill's hat (from the original L4D), an in-game item exclusive for players who pre-order Left 4 Dead 2.
Gamervision writes:
Quietly and quickly Valve ran a ridiculous sale of Team Fortress 2 yesterday for the low low price of $2.49. This sale only lasted a few hours and by the time I heard about the sale there was only about 45 minutes left in the sale. But after the sale Valve released a Halloween styled update for the game.
VALVe has once again hidden many a secret in their latest update.
Valve has released the latest Team Fortress 2 update, now available on Steam.The patch adds several Halloween themed additions including a new map, hats, achievements, ghosts and exploding pumpkins.
If you don't yet have the awesome piece of multi-player class-based action that is Valve's Team Fortress 2, now is your perfect time to get in on the action; the game has been discounted to a mere £2.49 on Steam, meaning you can buy and enjoy the game immediately for less cash than a meal at McDonald's.
The good ol' folks at Valve have wrapped up work on Left 4 Dead 2, which means that the TF2 team are back in action, and today they're blogging about some of the models seen in their Meet the Sniper video. You can see pictures of all of these models (or "assets") at the blog here.
Valve has released a sizable update for Team Fortress 2, adding a list of fixes, tweaks and improvements to the game. Highlights include the addition of the "+quickswitch" command and getting bonus points for healing a teammate with a dropped sandvich.
Team Fortress 2 fan and Icrontic member Quady the Turnip decided to actually manufacture the "SIGNED BY SAXTON HALE" rubber stamp that was used on TF2 Blog recently.
A day or two ago, fake TF2 update fliers circulated various Team Fortress 2 forums including the official Steam Forums, and Facepunch Studios. Nothing too out of the ordinary, aside from the fact that this update includes a weaponized dog. Forum goers as usual brushed it off as another fake, and for good reason.
As if Valve wasn't tightly connected to their community before, the new blog update adds official 'Super Manly' avatars for everyone after the avatar spread throughout Team Fortress 2 forums.
Valve has released a sizable update for their well maintained FPS Team Fortress 2. Changes include Backpack improvement (support for 100 slots), lots of sandvich adjustments and tons of other fixes.
Luke Plunkett of Kotaku writes:
IncGamers gives an in-depth report on the community uproar that has resulted from Valve's decision to remove Team Fortress 2 items earned through using an external idling program, while rewarding players who did not use the program with a halo-shaped hat.
We thought you might be interested in seeing some of the "behind the scenes" work that goes on in Team Fortress 2. The process usually starts with a team discussion: This helps us determine the goals of the map we're going to build. In this case, we wanted a game mode that had an intense, centralized experience with quick player turnaround. We liked some of the facets of Arena mode, but it was clear that many players don't like to wait for the next round to play.
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