Valve has been releasing information about the newest update for Team Fortress 2 in a trickle. On Tuesday, it was revealed that the latest batch of content would not be featuring a class update. Hence the name, "The Classless Update." Instead, we're getting hats! Oh, and a pretty nifty-sounding community map.
Then, Valve posted again on Wednesday with with the announcement of a King of the Hill gametype being added to the game and three maps to support the mode. In the mode, teams will compete to keep control of a point for a sum total of three minutes. If the point is captured by the opponent, your timer freezes until you regain control.
On the page with the update information, there are navigation arrows for traveling between the two days' info. But the second day has an inactive arrow pointing forward. Sounds like Valve isn't done yet. Hopefully there will be another announcement today!
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2:00 AM on 08.13.2009
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Bitch at MS not Valve. If MS would stop being so fucking greedy and forcing Valve to charge for the updates the 360 version would be on par with the pc version. But as it stands it looks like Valve would rather you guys not get anything rather than charge you for it.
::crickets::
WHY IS IT SO HARD TO SAY IF YOU ARE WORKING ON IT OR NOT?!?
Sorry but i dont have a supreme PC to play tf2. I can only play it on the 360...and i love playing it on there.And i wish we could have the updates like our PC counterpart has...It's just that its been promised for more than 2 years that something will go on the consoles and nothing happened. I'm kinda peeved that Valve just wont straight out say that they wont support us And tell us to stick around, its coming "soon".
Also how dare you call xbox players greedy....we pay for our content...you guys either get it free or torrent it. :/
Also, we get stuff for free because we've had it for years like that. You get charged for it because MS can control the content like that (or "Because they can."). And I'm not even going to touch torrenting. Avoiding that fire...
Ah, the i have no good PC to play it argument. TF2 is not a demanding game, you can't just throw in the "not good PC" argument in every conversation, that tells us that you have absolutely no clue about what is demanding, and what is not.
"It's just that its been promised for more than 2 years that something will go on the consoles and nothing happened. I'm kinda peeved that Valve just wont straight out say that they wont support us And tell us to stick around, its coming "soon". "
RockStar promised us downloadable content last year.(source: http://pc.ign.com/articles/934/934268p1.html)
"Rockstar Games rewards loyal, paying customers and will offer incentives and downloadable content that will only be available to registered users of the game, running non-hacked copies, via Rockstar Games Social Club."
We haven't heard anything about that content. You get my point?When will they tell us that it is in the works?
"Also how dare you call xbox players greedy....we pay for our content...you guys either get it free or torrent it. :/"
Last time i checked all major DLC's cost me money.....Fallout, etc.....
Not all PC DLC is free.
Just valve is best known for it.
Microsoft negotiate with companies to obtain DLC exclusivity for a limited period because they are competing with Sony and want to gain an edge to make their product more desirable.
This isn't done in the interest of the XBox 360 owner however. In fact, despite owning a 360, I would personally want DLC for my favourite games to be made as widely available as possible so that this encourages interest in the product and keeps my favourite developers in business.
You may think what you want, but your fellow Xbox 360 owners made me think this way. How many times i was laughed at while playing on XBL. If you think my "greedy little bastard" sentence is childish, you should have seen what those console players threw at me while in a conversation.
You think my view is childish because i say what i experienced? Fair enough.
I didn't want to offend any right-minded Xbox users, but i'be had it with the "PC won't get DLC because it's sh!t" type of Xbot remarks. I meant those greedy bastards.
Great job valve.
Also, EVERY TF2 post leads to xbox players and pc players getting in an argument about content... sigh.
Thank you for sharing. You may be interested in fucking right off......
Well, I'm happy. But I can't help but feel that the gravy train will come to an end one day. And then it'll be another long wait for TF3.
Not entirely true. Valve has said that they're still working on the 360 DLC. It's not necessarily Microsoft's fault, this time. At this point, Valve is probably going to wait until all the class updates have been released. This, of course, means that we'll probably get stuck with a $20 DLC pack that's probably bigger than the original game itself.
Also if Valve ever puts out updates for the 360 version, they will probably also sell it as a standalone retail product that has all the updates in it as well. It would be sort of weird to do a massive content update for something that only exists as 1/5 games on a compilation package on the platform, and why they HAVE supported L4D on par with the PC version.
It's called boring...
As for the Classless update.
Hells yeah that shit is fun mate.
...for now...
True it's not all but pay DLC has an extremely high percentage of failure on the PC unless it's an expansion pack of some sort. While Valve is notorious for giving free DLC (hell if you owned the original box copy of HL1 and put it on steam you got Opposing Force & Blue Shift no charge!), we also have to remember that even the infamous EA gave tons of free DLC to the PC Battlefield series. Hell Battlefield Vietnam got a Battlefield 1943-esque DLC for free.
We PC gamers do often get free DLC but I don't want to spin it like we're the favored children. Free DLC is on PC because it's incredibly stupid to start charging a toll on an open system.
Face-stabs are more of a latency issue than a hit box issue, from what I've heard.
The FaN one-shotting though... It's weird. I can never kill anyone with that thing even with two-shots, and I can be directly staring at their faces.
The FaN frequently one-shots me as a regular class, and two-shots me as a heavy. Bloody annoying. And yes, facestabs are latency problems. Although I've seen someone backstab a sniper with the Razorback on before. Very strange.
King of the Hill is a defensive game mode. What does the Demoman exceed at? Defense. "Classless" update? Well, as drunk as the Demoman is, I would say he has none.
Oh Valve, you trolls you.