TF2's Heavy Class Next to Get Achievements, Unlockable Weaponry

Heavy is my main class, I love him. So much personality.

It's a shame that every server I hit has teams that consist of six medics and 26 pyros, I uninstalled last night, maybe I'll try it out again after these changes hit.

Ok here are my ideas.

melee = Brass knuckes
secondary = some type of bullet proof helmet. something to make him sprint but not fire weapon
primary = tripod set up to shoot more accurately, but cant move

i could forsee a trampoline to jump on too

I think the heavy is pretty balanced already, i dont know what they can do to make him not over the top, just speed really

I think we're all missing a very important question: Which character video is next?

I'm hoping for the Pyro.

Replacement for Sasha:

A gun that can create a force field while not firing - firing the gun would 'charge' a battery (maybe the barrel spinning would generate electricity or something -could add a cool visual effect ala kritzkrieg). You would have to keep the barrel spinning (moving slow) to keep the force field activated. I don't know how large the bubble would be, but not very large. Would it only be frontal, frontal + sides, all around, exposed only on the top (so scouts can jump on top of heavy and kill him?)? Still not sure. The graphic effect would have to be light to not kill everyone FPS if multiple heavys are present.

Would it be instant, or take time to deploy?

The force field would block the medigun ray, and firing the gun would remove overhealing at a constant rate - so those heavy's would be more useful, but less with a medic. I'm still not sure if this is a big enough drawback.

It would allow the heavy to strategically retreat from the midst of a battle. Some other applications include 'tanking' a sentry gun fire while others damage it, blocking a corridor from enemy fire while teammates retreat, occupying a control point while waiting for the cavalry, protecting others from a uber if there's a narrow enough corridor, keeping intelligence safe while it lies on the ground.

The field effect wouldn't last more than 5-10 seconds.

I think it feels the 'Heavy' character, as its role is to take damage while keeping control of an area with fire.

I also think that a leaked pic from a new gun (http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/743/1214920677372ko7.jpg) would fit pretty well. Maybe slower fire rate than the current sasha, but more concentrated.

i still never play spy, ever.

They need to try and fix the core mechanics.

Its all well and good unbalancing a class every other month for a week or so, but when the core gameplay is so devoid of anything fun it needs more attention.

The game still has stalemate/sudden death itis. Respawn timers are still a rediculous mechanic when you think about other ways to solve the problem. The capture system is utterly devoid of variety (even goldrush suffers. Its just a moving CP that suffers with the same issues the static CP's do) and is partly to blame for the molasses many games devolve into. Random crits are still the most retarded feature of any FPS I have ever seen.

TFC got many things wrong, but the base mechanics of how the game played out was done right.

The main problem with the heavy is that while he can usually take out any enemy at close to medium range, he is sometimes very wounded afterward, especially if he barely survived a fight with a pyro and is on fire. So he's sometimes only good for one fight unless he has a medic healing him.

Therefore, the heavy's upgrade should be a way to heal himself. This could be accomplished by a) trading ammo for health, b) "health box" find skill, like the barbarian's find potion skill in Diablo 2 where he has a chance to find health packs in enemy corpses, c) doing something else that heals him where he can't attack at the same time. Maybe causing health packs to respawn faster, or dispensers to heal faster.

Seeing what they've done with the other 2 classes I gotta say I'm scared how much their gonna fuck up this game with their reliance on crits. They need to be using way less, but no doubt the Heavy upgrade will be something equally as dumb as what the Pyro got. Haven't played yet with the update today, but I really loathe that Pyro now. The alt-fire on the flamethrower was a cool addition, but fuck the backburner. I realize the class was broken, but the solution to fixing shit in this game shouldn't be more crits and where's the trade off? I mean at least when you use the Kritzkrieg you can't do an uber, but with the backburner there's really no trade off besides not being able to use the air compression and whoop-ti-fucking-do. On top of that they get more health? Lame. Don't really want to argue logic about TF2, but how does a weapon give you more health?

Reading the blog, one of the questions asks how they can improve the heavy when he doesn't have a medic. Fuck that. He shouldn't be improved in that way. That should be the downfall of the heavy. He's a fierce motherfucker when he's got a medic, when the medic dies he should be kind of SOL. That's why he's more tactical and he needs to pay attention and protect his medic. He shouldn't be walking out into major open spaces where he or his medic can be picked off by a sniper and he should be communicating with the rest of his team to keep the spies off his back. Sometimes I think Valve forgets this game is supposed to be about teamwork even though its in the name of the game. :(

More fun for the terribads this game is catering to. Enjoy.

I love playing the Heavy on offense in Goldrush, in the opening stages of each part of the map, even without a medic. Once the any defensive sentries near the spawn are cleared, you can get right next to the cart and pretty much fire continuously, since it refreshes your ammo. It helps the momentum on the push to the first CP.

Usually after the cart has past the first checkpoint, I'll switch to soldier or some other class, though.

How on earth did they decide that HEAVY was the class that needs to be enhanced next? Sheesh. What a joke.

Mmm. It feels soooo good when its 'your' class that gets the revamp.

Thank god, wouldn't want them to fix the Soldier and Demoman, two classes who are fundamentally broken now due to recent ammo and splash damage nerfs along with the pyro changes.

they should just give the alternative weapons with the patch. having to unlock them subconsciously tells most of the players that it's the better option. especially if you use flavor text that calls the old thing a level 1 medigun vs. a level 5 wtfever

where the hell is the engy shit? >:(

Oh goody gumdrops, servers full of heavies. It's going to be a glorious day to be a sniper when this patch comes out.

Hey guys, what ever happened to the Meet the Scout video? http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52313

It's gone off Fileshack now.

does anyone have that drawing of the cartoon heavy with the medic on his back saying "I am giant!"?