It's been a couple of weeks since we posted, so we thought it'd be good to do some housekeeping. The next class pack will focus on the Sniper. It's actually shaping up to be the largest TF2 update yet, with multiple new maps and a bunch of gameplay tweaks. In addition, 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.

The XBox 360 update is still being worked on. If you're wondering what's taking so long, since the content is "done" on the PC already, it's mostly been around fitting it all onto the XBox. 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.

Like many other folks online, the TF2 team has been loving the Top 10 TF2 Plays of the Week videos that Push Gaming has been doing. If you haven't seen them yet, you can catch week 1, and week 2. We're hoping for a third one soon, but we can't really complain. If we were doing them ourselves, you'd probably see the third one sometime next year. While waiting though, you can check out the exploits of some of the Sniper's countrymen in the second frag video of Aussie clan Mad Dogz.


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If u recieve a chat invite talking about view your account ranking at steamcommuinty.somthing in order to take a look at your kills and ranking it is just nothin more than a hack trying to get your account so be aware for the chat invite it isn't wat it seems.

message looks like this:

Go to steamcommunities.tk login and to the right side it shows all your kills in total from the past couple of years!! and even an overall ranking of your account.

The sandman as we all know is a wepon for long range however so is the pistol which many forget is very useful and takes alot of damage but the sandman will stun the player only in the head so be very accurate. The stun however will only be temporary and by the time u reach the person stunned he will already be back to normal and not to metion it takes away the abillity to double jump which is the main reason people find the scout to be like a pest jumping from wall to wall landing on people's head.

As for the bat it doesn't take as much damage as the sandman but makes up for it with speed and u get the double jump and really no accuracy is needed to in order to use it and jumping on people's heads is always fun while smashing thier brains out.



In conclusion the bat hands down beats the sandman.

Steam News
Official Steam time: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 7:38 pmTeam Fortress 2 Update Released
February 24, 2009, 7:10 pm - Valve - Product Update
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

New features


Added The Force-A-Nature, The Sandman, and Bonk!

Added 35 new Scout achievements

Added crit boosted on/off sound effects

Added new sounds for upgraded teleporters

Added new sound for a fully charged medic dying

Add bonus points section to scores

Scouts earn a bonus point for killing Medics who are actively healing a target

Added several new speech concepts, mostly hooked up to new Scout lines

Added new "Remember last weapon between lives" option to the Multiplayer Advanced dialog

Spies can now control which weapon the enemy team sees them holding. Hitting the "last disguise" key while disguised updates the disguise to show the Spy's currently held weapon

Added several new Arena mode announcer speech events.

Added "First Blood" to Arena mode

Removed 2x item respawn times in arena

Changed backstab handling to fix facestabs

Spies disguised as enemy team can now see player IDs for enemies


New maps

Added community maps: cp_egypt, arena_watchtower, and cp_junction

Updated cp_fastlane with Arttu's new version


Mapmaker requests

Added new input for forward speed modifier to FuncTrainTrain

Added TeleportToPathTrack input to func_tracktrain


Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where players would sometimes gib from non-gib damage kills

Fixed stat screen showing an entry for a class called "map."

Fixed item model panels not using team skins


- Fixed obscure bug where spectators were able to carry the flag

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The order of the guns will be force of nature then sandman then energy drink and yes it is finally out!