Team Fortress 2 Pyro Update Coming This Thursday; Free Weekend Kicks Off Friday

I think the best thing they could do is make the fuel tank on the pyro's back explode when struck by a bullet or be ruptured by close vicinity explosions from a rocket or sticky grenade. Especially if the pyro has 3 or 4 teammates surrounding him...

Now that'd be a fun achievement:
Scorch thine Team - Your fuel tank sets fire to and kills 3 of your teammates after being ruptured by enemy fire.

p.s.
All you pyros can diaf >:(

Well i read through a bunch of posts about this game on this site, and i love TF2, i think it is one of the most unique and fun games that i have played in a long time. And i have played CS since beta 4, dod, all source games, i'm just giving you my credentials on what makes a fun/good game.

Things that make the game lame:
1. No respawn time. If you don't have respawn time it just makes the game a death match, and there are better games to play than this for that. And makes you get bored of the game really fast.
2. My friend turned me onto scripts for this game, an do they make a huge difference the funness. For instance, when im a medic i dont have to hold down the mouse button to heal people. when i have the healing gun out it auto heals who ever im aimed at, i just have to click the button to change target if needs be.
The Q button switches between primary weapon and secondary weapon only.
my soilder auto reloads his rocket launcher, do we really have to push a button to reload, ghey
my soider jump ducks fires with right mouse button
my spy changes to a different class every time i stab automatically
my demoman auto reloads/ rightmouse button pipe jumps auto
my engi auto pulls out his build items with numbers and bangs away until built,

These are just a few examples that make this game more enjoyable for me, and i think should be standard options for everybody.
this would really make the game better and doesn't affect game play.

3. Achievements are LAME to unlock weapons. its not very fun to sit in the stupid achievement boxes. to get really lame goals accomplished. One person suggested to use points to unlock weapons. I like that Idea.

Other thoughts
1. make a freeze character

2. make an adrenalin character


TF2 has a great foundation, but they can do so much to improve this game and really make it long lasting, i could even see this game as a fun RPG/mmo/fps type game. and even someday a virtual reality game.

And as for people saying that we shouldn't say anything because it is free... is recockulas. Good ideas are good ideas, and everything should be taken into consideration to make anything better.

Outstanding! This game like just totally ROCKS the house dawg! Word.

JT
http://www.FireMe.To/udi

I was hoping they wouldn't go with the stupid achievement unlock for this. I like achievements, but not to unlock something. It's really hurting the game IMO.

I'm burning with desire for this new update. Signed, [Pyro SpecOps] Mr. Arcelor

Aaron, you forgot something from this news post that was mentioned in the press release.

interesting. any word on what the other unlockable weapons or class changes are?

The release is in three days and we don't have a list of the class changes, achievements, or unlockables?

Ugh. Still can't wait though.

Hopefully the handy little .exe I have will unlock these new ones just as it did the medic ones.

grinding !=fun

OH GAWD JUST TELL US WHAT THE CHANGES ARE!!!11!@#%

I dont get why having a free weekend at the same time as you ruin gameplay for a few weeks is a good idea.

Everyone left playing the game will be either playing pyro, or on fire. Totally not a fun time to play, and your trying to say "hey, look at the game. Isn't this something you want to pay money for?"

and Meet the Sniper, right?

Methinks this "change to the pyro class" is the addition of an incendiary grenade....

"...the Pyro update will also include "significant changes" to the core class which will be enacted regardless of whether players have the new weapons. "

The pyro went through a sex change. You heard it here first. It's getting more and more ambiguous.

I like the unlocks and the achievements. What I don't like is releasing all the achievements for one class at a time. It's ridiculous: it ends up filling the servers with a glut of one class (medics, and now pyros), leading to crappy gameplay and achievement box servers. And who can blame anyone for that? Because there are no achievements for any other class, you basically feel like if you don't play the ONE class, that you're wasting time racking up important stats.

I understand that balancing the unlocks takes time and design. But surely they could release all the achievements for EVERY class right now and then add the unlocks in later for anyone that's gotten enough in a particular class to qualify.

Sigh.

CRAP. still 3 more unlocks on the medic stuff. haha

Can someone post a list of shack servers again? For some reason I just have Dallas and the euro server on my favorites list now.

I wonder if they are going to announce the achievements and the rest of the changes before release date like they did with the medic, or if they're going to spring us with a surprise on the release date instead.

OH GOD YES. YOU WILL BE SET ON FIRE AND I WILL PEE ON YOU ALL.

Of course they release it the day I go out of town.

Wait this week? Did I travel into the future or something? What year is it?

Bwahhaha. You will all BURN.

That, or I'll be back here whining about the changes.

friday night

pyroachievements.bsp

24/7 5 servers running that.

They'll be announcing the Pyro achievement tomorrow as well.

Looking forward to this.

And I'd just started playing again... I guess I'll wait a few more weeks until every server isn't filled with 983645843 people making every game ridiculously boring trying to get their shit unlocked

All servers will be on fire for weeks.