Team Fortress 2 Information Revealed

Hell yeah... VALVE, if you are listening...

SPAZZBALL with GRAV GUN as the only way to manipulate the goal ball....

You can thank me later...

I'm not talking about "Push" from TFC either!

CS doesn't have classes, and that's an incredibly poor analogy for that fact alone... he should have simply said "Any game where there are only three weapons worth using is fucking pointless and weak" and they then should have jettisoned Gooseman into deep space for his crimes against humanity.

I'm not too sure about the unified grenade change as I actually remembered it to be a balancing situation... most classes had secondary specialized grenades and all but the scout had no primary grenades... (he had caltrops in their stead)... they could pull it of successfully if they do something interesting but if they simply modify damage values or scale I would find it to be a silly reduction. On the same hand the Demo and HW had primary nades and more powerful/spammy MIRVS, so it will be interesting to see if they simply remove primary nades alltogether and leave them with specialized versions only... which I imagine Valve would do, as they are cheap like that.

Can you imagine running soldier duels with an inventory full of nail grenades? Fucking laughable...

Healing Ray? Wtf is that? Also, how on earth was the "infection" and "healing" mechanic of the original TF's Medic melee attack "broken" or incomplete? It worked perfectly and made the Medic an even more suitable offensive support class than his super nailgun and conc's allowed him to be...

I do like how they all have distinct melee weapons now, but if they aren't functionally disparate and are simply superficial viewmodel changes that would be rather dissapointing.

Also, the spy used to have a tranquilizer gun.... if the revolver is simply damaged based I'm going to be real dissapointed... if you were a good spy you could pretty much fuck everyone up by tranq'ing them over and over as you circle strafe raped them with your shotties...

"Maps & Gameplay
* Apart from 2Fort, there'll be a remake of Well."

Only two maps? And these two maps? I've been playing those two maps since QWTF.
At least make something like 32smooth or bam4 or even canalzon :(

this will be mine, oh yes, it will be mine. With all this extra content, and TF2, and my new rig, i think i am ready to give the half life 2 universe a second try. Was I the only one that thought the core adventure of Half Life 2 was far less original than that of HL1? It just got to me that in a "realistic" setting, so many creatures looked exactly the same with little to no variation for long spells. Did the head crabs eat a whole slew of identical looking people or something? I will give it another go though when this pack is released...

If they did manage to allow PC, 360 and PS3 players to play online together, the console players would be getting their asses handed to them by PC gamers. There's no way a thumbstick could compete with a mouse.
Not that that bothers me, PC gaming is my home.

This may be my liberal education talking but...

The only black guy gets a broken bottle for a melee weapon?

What does that have to do with explosives and demolition?

"Where's the difference between me choosing a M16 or an AK-47 rifle?", asks Robin Walker.

Uhh, usually in that case you're playing on two different teams. That's the difference.

I don't understand how they can remove the standard grenades from everyone, saying they unify the different classes too much, but then nearly every class has a shotgun.

The only info that matters is friggin release date...this game was announced how many years ago???

When is this coming out??

Suddenly, PC gaming doesn't seem dead anymore.

Owners of multicore processors will get additional, undisclosed, graphics details.

THANK YOU, VALVE! Friggin awesome news.

Hrm, kind of sad that the medic gets a Bonesaw though. I loved infecting Snipers on 2fort4 with the syringe.

Maybe the "healing ray" will poison the other team?

Scout should have a Grappling Hook

They should call it Team Fortress Forever! and bundle it with Duke Nukem Forever for the win!

I like how all the classes have different melee weapons :)

In other exciting news Valve releases eve more info on TF2!

1: The game can be played on the internet
2: It will support mouse and keyboard
3: There will be sounds in the game
4: You can jump
5: You can hit the tab key to bring up the player list

more great info coming soon!


;)

It's clearly a nailgun the Scout is holding in the trailer. Is that what they mean by "pistol"?

I guess it might have been changed for the final version.

So Valve received my letters, great!

Two words...

FUCKING AWESOME!

can't wait...

The ammo dispenser will make a comeback as well.

hell yes.

detdisp

an AXE as a melee weapon again!

Exiciting news, I like how each class has an appropriate melee weapon reflecting who they are. Yes, Serpico74 pointing out the Bone Saw as a menacing though. I wonder if they will actually have animations like those that would be found in perhaps Riddick or The Darkness, where the melee weapon actually connects instead of the body just flying away without a mark on them.. "Hey! He flew 50 feet when I swung.. he MUST be dead!"

*sigh*

Where has Next-Gen taken us again?

Hey good job steve, you're really on the ball here.