OK, the wait is finally over. The Team Fortress 2 “Spy/Sniper Update” is available for download via Steam. According to Shacknews, this signals the true beginning of the extended weekend deal -- the one that allows everyone to join in on the Team Fortress 2 fun for free over the next few days.
In addition to whipping out a truly massive patch (the notes are available on the official Steam Web site), Valve also took the time to slash the Team Fortress 2 retail price (via Steam) by 50 percent.
Not bad at all, eh?
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8:25 PM on 05.21.2009
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Anyhow, I got it and I am very pleased :D
But will it change anything?
Not really.
10/10.
"Spies can now use enemy teleporters"
"Spies disguised as medics now have an Ubercharge: line in their disguise target info"
"Spies outward facing "disguise health" now matches their disguise target when they first apply the disguise"
"Spies can now pick up health kits for their "disguise health", even when uninjured"
It's always a good day to play Pyro.
Great update though...finally the more downtrodden classes get some power.
I'm a film maker. A mac is far from essential.
Anyone can get an item at any time, and that includes spectators, even before a match begins. It doesn't matter if you're playing a different class, you can obtain any item for any class at any moment.
What blows is that, even if you want a specific item, achievements don't let you earn them through hardwork anymore. You can only get them randomly... which could theoretically never happen in your lifetime (complete conjecture)!!!
I will wait until my brother, an avowed TF2 addict, gives me the skinny tomorrow.
You do know that imovie (or whatever it's called) is available on windows? I'm not sure how much it costs, but do what I did and just torrent it, you aready have a copy you paid for, it seems. Seek it out. :)
Personally I use avid, easier to run on a windows PC and, IMHO, less of a fustrating professional editing software to learn. imovie just annoys me half the time.
Also, yes, as the fine people mentioned above me, it's pyro time!
That's the impression I get from the Update News, however. It may seem random because the gameplay is so fast we don't really pay attention to what weapons we're looting.
Also, pyro is a female. Booyah.
What's the point of the achievements if they aren't tied to anything? Now I have no incentive to try to get any of them.
TF2 is still a great game - I do enjoy the new Sniper weapons and most of the new Spy items (except that the dead ringer isn't very useful to me). But why ON EARTH would valve allow you to unlock weapons that...... you've already unlocked? Why do I need THREE flare guns? I don't need three flare guns, and now I have to go delete them whenever these duplicate weapons pop up. Could it have been that hard to program it so that it only allowed weapons you DON'T have pop up or be found?
Hopefully Valve will fix this. And perhaps, hopefull they will also fix the ability for the Spy's ambassador to SHOOT THROUGH THE GRATING BEFORE THE START OF THE ROUND!
At this point - the only issue I really have is the new way to unlock weapons. Provided that valve go back to the old way, everything's fine.