This time with a little help from the Polycount community.
Valvestill isn't done with Team Fortress 2. Having now completed an update for each class in the team-based shooter, it's now poised to release a grander update that adds in item-trading, more weapons and hats, and even a new game mode to the PC version of the game.
According to PC Gamer, said new items will come from the Polycount contest, which was a competition Valve set up challenging the Polycount community to come up with themed sets for each class in the game. The submissions were evidently creative enough to be dropped in the game proper, and as you'll notice come next month when this patch hits, the items' attributes will be up to snuff with the developer's own stuff in the game.
"…We definitely have lowballed those in the past, in that we’ve chosen something that’s more underpowered than overpowered, because we can just make it a little better later," Valve's Robin Walker explained to PC Gamer. "The Polycount items have had a lot more time on them as a whole, so, we’re doing more interesting stuff there than in general we have with the other items.”
The Saharan Spy. Walker said a special "surprise" pack from the Polycount contest would be included in the update as well. He didn't tease the nature of this surprise, nor did he have much to share about the new game mode. Walker said Valve would start talking about it when Valve figures out how to talk about it.
Fair enough. I figure the least we can do to reimburse Valve for all the free content we've devoured is by being patient for a few more weeks.
This is the sort of thing that annoys me about these news articles, this one is several days old (with the "newest" information) and even older with the general information. A few hours late is fine, not several days, at that point it's not news.
@Little_Socrates: I can't wait for brand new content to breathe new life into this class based FPS and keep it fun popular years after its been released; and the best part is it's all free! :D
" People need to calm down. From what I understand, these weapons are just funny looking skins for existing items (ie. The Scout gets a bottle of milk that seems to do exactly the same thing as Bonk!). I highly doubt that they will have any different attributes or stats. "
Nope ... it's not only skins. At least some of the items will have stats (at least the rocket launcher and the sniper rifle ... probably all of them will.@Foil1212 said:
" This is what made Team Fortress 2 extremely convoluted and almost unplayable to me. The crafting system, needing to play for long periods of time to MAYBE get the weapon you want. Whatever, I guess they're just pandering to the people who actually play a lot... "
Nobody crafts weapons ... the stuff you really "need" (ie the regular class weapons) you get either way random or with achievements. The other stuff you cant get with achievements will most likely drop if you actually play the game. If you play 2 hours a month you don't really need most of the stuff. The only real purpose for crafting is getting hats ... and those are just decoration. If you play a lot you get more random drops so you probably have all the weapons already and can craft for hats ... but thats kind of the point right? You play more you get more.
@ProjektGill: Someone has probably already called you on this but duder, the only weapons that don't have unique stats are those from the Sam & Max tie-in content.
Also, if you read Brad's post, you'd have noticed that Valve specifically said they're taking extra time working out stats for these items.
" This is what made Team Fortress 2 extremely convoluted and almost unplayable to me. The crafting system, needing to play for long periods of time to MAYBE get the weapon you want. Whatever, I guess they're just pandering to the people who actually play a lot... "
Item drop system's been revamped, and milestones (certain amount of class based achievements) now give you the basic weapons for the class of your choice.
Here is hoping we get "meet the medic" and "meet the pryo" videos. Loved those takes on the different classes in the game, especially the sniper video.
I'm still yet to buy the orange box for this. I was unsure about getting it but my free copy of portal has convinced me that I need to get it eventually!
It won't, not enough memory. Unless they find a magical way to get it to work it won't. TF2 is not made for controllers anyway, I can't imagine how that even works. I love BC2 on my 360 but I could never play such a frantic shooter on it.
@Chavtheworld: no, i meant TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDDDDDDDDDDDING it is for excitement not for being grammatically correct.
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