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Snipers Get Next Team Fortress 2 Class Upgrade, Looking to be 'Largest TF2 Update Yet'
by Chris Faylor, Apr 02, 2009 4:27pm PDTAfter yesterday's pissy tease, Valve today confirmed that, yes, the Sniper will be the next Team Fortress 2 class to receive unlockable items and class-specific achievements.
"It's actually shaping up to be the largest TF2 update yet, with multiple new maps and a bunch of gameplay tweaks," wrote Greg Cherlin on Valve's Team Fortress blog.
"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," he added.
And while the Xbox 360 version of the colorful multiplayer shooter has still yet to receive any of the free content updates that PC gamers are enjoying, Cherlin noted that the studio is still working to bring that content to owners of Microsoft's console.
His explanation for the holdup?
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.
As previously reported, the PlayStation 3 edition of TF2 will not be receiving any of the content updates as Valve does not have any PS3 programmers in-house--EA UK was responsible for porting The Orange Box to PS3, and has since moved on.
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Anyone have a website link to a page with config settings to push TF2's graphics / visuals to the absolute max?
or is what you can config in the GUI the max i'll get?...
Runnin SLI x2 Overclocked GTX 260's and everything max'd just wondering if i can do more
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You Call That A Knife? - Kill a Spy with your Kukri.
Lazenby was Underated - Shoot a Spy in the back with your Sniper Rifle.
Crocodile Dundee: 2, You: 0 - Headshot the same player twice within 30 seconds.
The Lesser of Two Weevils - Seek refuge in water after a Pyro has hit you with his Flare Gun.
Overkill - Kill a medic with a fully charge headshot.
Mad Max - Get revenge on an enemy Sniper.
On yer bike - Cause an attacking Scout whom you have dealt damage to, to retreat at least 100m away.
Australian Owned - Lead the scoring after both teams have played deference and attack on a payload map.
Aerial Ping Pong - Kill an enemy with your Sniper Rifle who is in mid-air.
King of the Mountain - Make the majority of Control Point captures during a single round of a Control Point map.
A Country Practice - Kill a player playing as Medic twice in a row where neither life sees him deploy an Uber Charge.
A Beautiful Mind: Make 3 headshots in a row.
I dunno... ideas?
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Sniper is most definately not credit to team.
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And he's really fucking annoying in the hands of a good player.
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When i hear a heavy using Natascha i just laugh..its like..yah buddy your gonna die before me in head to head so dont bother trying to kill me just try run. the idea of the slow is good but the damage reduction just makes it a fun server pick only.
Sandvich or only weapon he can use to chase fleeing players..hmmm i don't know what they were thinking on this one, a heavy with out a medic is easy fodder for anyone that's experienced with the game..i dont think i have ever used Sandvich and i mean EVER.
Boxing gloves...good upgrade but not worth a wank. upgrade the slowest moving classes melee. unless your fighting a guy who just droped food on his keyboard and his GPU has locked up they are crap. even when you get the drop on someone once they move you cant catch them. (not to mention the proc, hmm minigun spin up time = way to many sec lost on proc)
rant over.
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Having lots of snipers is probably going to be more detrimental to the experience than having lots of pyros or heavies or medics was.
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I hope they're bringing back grenades.
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I've tried adjusting all of my settings (e.g. rate, cl_cmdrate, and cl_updaterate). Most of the time the server limits them to 30000, 66, and 66 respectively.
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Also, the pissy teaser link is broken.
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:D
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Incoming 2 months of me rage quitting 5 minutes in.
Why the fuck would valve do this!?!? Sniper is the least broken class in the game, and the most annoying.
Just sayin'. :-)
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Any guesses? I'll say May....
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http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19554806
To be honest I'm glad they're getting it out of the way. I'm fairly terrified of how the servers are going to be with 5 Snipers per team. Hopefully they don't do Spy next or I may either quit the game (I'm kidding) or hang myself (not as kidding.)
Good thing they seem like they're putting in a bunch of content to distract me this time!
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