A Heavy Update Created 15 years ago2008-08-12 16:26:47 UTC by Luke

The only one I'm questioning is Konspicious Konsumption - "Eat 100 sandviches." but for all we know they could be updating a taunt to match the Meet the Scout video.

Actual Heavy medkits would be baaaad.

a taunt?

Great, i have nothing better to do than sit there and taunt 100 times.

well those rumors have been really accurate so far - but if there was a sandvich i think it'd only be able to be eaten by the heavy, not dropped for other classes.

/agree

surely valve wouldn't discard the unique class roles that has made TF2 better than the other games out there.

I still think the idea of Heavy healing himself is rather dull, the Medic/Heavy dynamic is what makes both classes so important.

You're right, I think I read that all wrong.

I had the idea that the enemy would drop a sandwich and you would pick it up to eat it. I's not that at all.

http://steamgames.com/tf2/heavy/arena.htm

Can't say I'm excited about this new game mode at all. I'll probably play it a few times, if at all.

You'd never be able to pull of this Arena mode in a pub at all. It'd be impossible.

Indeed. this looks like a fail on valve's part. Hunted would've been a much better mode. I know I would've it enjoyed much more.

Edit:

Can't wait for this huge update, regardless. I'm really liking where TF2 has been going thus far, and there's no way (ok, a small chance, anyways) they can screw stuff up.

You sure you didnt jinx something there luke? Ok, so maybe they didnt screw up, but i dont think anything is any better.

Yah, I probably did ruin it a little ;(

Lumberyard, finally some green! They shot with the Pyro looks quite nice.

As for the Arena mode.. I wasn't expecting too much when they said it'd have 5 maps, something small with rehashed maps. The fact that two of them are even new is.. suprising, even if one looks exactly the same as always.

You'd never be able to pull of this Arena mode in a pub at all. It'd be impossible.

Find better servers then

I've pulled off some epic tactics with pubbers before.

don't dis it till you try it

unless you're me. i can judge everything by a first impression! my first impression of this is: TF2 content yay!!

but seriously, this arena mode is mostly intended for the competitive part of TF2, but i'm sure that pubbers will enjoy playing it too.

hahahahahahah, sandviches are awesome.

They're actually useful too in a completely balanced way

http://steamgames.com/tf2/heavy/sandvich.htm

GAAH MY SPINE

Medics are still usefull too.

The 4 second timing added with the time it takes to spin up the minigun makes it inconvenient to do in mid-fight, where medics are used in the first place.

The sandviches just help out the heavys who's medics have been killed, or the heavys that are taking the defensive stand where the medics dont hang around anyway.

purple

SAMMICH!

Balls, the "Steam server is too busy to handle my request."

AKA I dan't get the update yet.

Sandvich video was awesome, though.

Downloading here. Will try tomorow. ;o

5% every 2 minutes at 150 kb/s. It'll be done in about 35 minutes

Not even connecting for me...Oh well Now it has. 78%

TF2 stopped working, I can't join any servers.
Mjeh

Well. Looks like the time for bot farming has come around again.

Meet the Sandvich? They haven't even made Meet the Spy yet. =[

i'm at uni so i have to wait another 10 hours before i can try the new update, but then again nobody plays any games before 6pm anyway. (10am now)

I love the new arena gameplay. Suits my pyro stalking very well because the levels are small and it's easy to find victims!

Heavy has some hard achievements...But most come from just playing for 2 hours. I saw someone with the sandwich already >_>

I hate arena so far. It's really boring.

Heavy's are insane, as you'd expect. It's a lot of fun.

Heavy has some hard achievements...But most come from just playing for 2 hours. I saw someone with the sandwich already >_>

Again: bot farming
I got the 22 for KGB in about 20 minutes.

Arena pretty much blows IMO. It really isn't very fun at all, and makes too many classes useless because of the map layouts and sheer nature of the gameplay. But I don't like the idea of competitive TF2 to begin with. I like the game to just be fun, not all about being the best. To each his own, though. I'll just stay out of arena servers.

Faster kritzkrieg is nice. I thought it was fine before, but now people might pick it up and actually learn how to use it properly because god save me if I see another person that treats it like an uber.

Not feeling Natascha too much. It might be early to make this call, but after playing Arena, payload on offense and defense, and 2fort with it, I just think the gun is just bad. Speaking very generally, its not effective at killing by your lonesome, but also not effective at slowing people down enough, or long enough, for teammates to kill them. But its also borderline spammy, so the slow effect can't be improved without turning it into a spam gun that nobody likes.
Still would have prefered an alternate weapon that dishes out the same amount of damage in a different way(again with the slug gun).

I still think the idea that its a sandwich of all things is incredibly stupid, but it plays great ingame regardless. I like being able to heal myself-- I hate that I'm healing myself with a damn sandwich.
Edit: Strike that. Its nigh impossibly to kill a heavy with afterburn now, and 240 hp per 8 seconds makes him the generally the fastest healer in the game, even with medkits on the map for others. Especially on sudden death.

I like everything about the KGB. Nothing more to say on that except that they're ridiculously big. Lawl.

First impresions, at least. I try not to be too much of a whiner.
EDIT: Blast, a long post. Sorry.

VALVE OMNOMNOM

hooray for updatesThis is starting to get really annoying to play, especially when only you and one other guy are classes other than Heavy on a team of 10.

HAHAHA, awesome screenie.

best time to play as pyro EVER. (except maybe for spy update time :P)and a log of the most epic rush i've ever done is here. thanks to trapt too, for timely uber and keeping me alive

Hmmm, heavys everywhere and not a medic in sight. Time to dust off the old sniper rifle then.

Time to dust off the old sniper rifle then.

Hah yeah, I got owned so many times by this single sniper >_> so I changed to Scout (the only one) and jumped through the windows and practically used the baseball bat on everyone, running into them so it was hard to hit me...Pure ownage ;D

Dratted work D:

I wanna be at home playing TF2

Well do you fancy playing tonight? We can find an empty server or something That goes for anyone.

I wouldn't mind getting my ass kicked a bit.

Alrighty. What's a good time for you all? I mean what time would 18:00 be in your time zone?

18:00

19:00, if that's GMT.

I mean I usually have dinner around 5-6 so gaming before is silly as I end up having to leave so I think maybe 18:30 GMT. That'll be 19:30 for Killa.

Anyone else wanna come?

Arena mode is shit lol

Cool, I'm in.

Ok in 30 mins then. Madcow, me, Livewire and Masta Killa will play. ANYONE ELSE? IT'LL BE FUN!

Ill come

Theres a whole lot of you i still have to add to steam list.

I'll add you on Steam just to see what my ping is gonna be.

If it's bearable I'll join.

Alrighty. 20 mins to go. Just gonna eat some desert ;O

Madcow, Luke, Habboi, ATDestroy, Livewire, Masta Killa so far. 6 for even teams ;O

I'm coming in. Just need to update. Don't play TF2 as much as I should

Well that was pretty fun. Should do it again sometime. But with more members and our own PRIVATE server.

Yeah...I got raped...

My FPS is appalling in TF2