Thread: TF2 Blog: Wave goodbye to yer head, wanker

Wave goodbye to yer head, wanker

Wave goodbye to yer head, wanker
April 2, 2009 - Greg Cherlin


It's been a couple of weeks since we posted, so we thought it'd be good to do some housekeeping. The next class pack will focus on the Sniper. It's actually shaping up to be the largest TF2 update yet, with multiple new maps and a bunch of gameplay tweaks. In addition, we've got another update in the works that should be done before the Sniper, and that one will include some new content for all classes.

The XBox 360 update is still being worked on. If you're wondering what's taking so long, since the content is "done" on the PC already, it's mostly been around fitting it all onto the XBox. The original version of TF2 in the Orange Box was very close to the XBox's memory limit, and all the additional TF2 content we've produced has pushed well beyond it. We've found a couple of nifty ways to get back a bunch of that memory, but it's turned out to be a lot of work, and that's what most of our time is being spent on. In the meantime, we're going to get a code update out to address the server cheating that's going on.

Like many other folks online, the TF2 team has been loving the Top 10 TF2 Plays of the Week videos that Push Gaming has been doing. If you haven't seen them yet, you can catch week 1, and week 2. We're hoping for a third one soon, but we can't really complain. If we were doing them ourselves, you'd probably see the third one sometime next year. While waiting though, you can check out the exploits of some of the Sniper's countrymen in the second frag video of Aussie clan Mad Dogz

http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=2394

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by shoi

the sentence containing "biggest update yet" scares me

doubt the game mechanics change much. think biggest just means a lot of maps and probably a new gametype to go along with the sniper unlocks.

But Spy gets mini-updates with every patch though.

Yeah, spies and engies have both gotten mini-updates, so they'll be farther down the line probably. Though considering how they said spy was the class whose tactics are becoming old the fastest (which is the reason for all the mini-updates), I'd actually think he'll be if not 1 then 2 after the sniper.

Cool vid they had a link to, sooo many air-shots, they make it looks easy...

I wonder if that sniper preview was actually serious after all...