Team Fortress 2 : Demoman vs Soldier update

spindoctor · Dec 11, 2009, 12:26 AM

new double class update for team fortress 2 coming up

there's not much information about it yet, but the individual pages for both classes are up

http://www.teamfortress.com/demomanupdate/

http://www.teamfortress.com/soldierupdate/

it seems that valve will be tracking kills made by soldiers and demomen against each other over the next week and the side that gets a higher tally will get an extra weapon unlock when the update goes out.

and in case you missed it, this is how it all started

http://www.teamfortress.com/war/administrator/

Starion15 · Dec 11, 2009, 12:43 AM

Beat me to it!

Onward fellow Demomen, onward!

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{0}Salamander{0} · Dec 11, 2009, 03:44 AM

So I guess engineer is last then? Or is there another class which hasn't been done?

spindoctor · Dec 11, 2009, 04:19 AM

yea, the engineer is last. although, engineer is the most played class, and i believe their aim with these updates (at least at the beginning) was to help out the classes that weren't played as much.

SH3200 · Dec 11, 2009, 08:15 AM

demo man is gonna win by a looooong shot cus of the 24/7 dustbowl servers and how imbalanced crit demo is on defense for final cap......

YellowBeard · Dec 11, 2009, 08:30 AM

There's something bigger going on with the whole friendship thing as well.

RedQueen · Dec 11, 2009, 12:10 PM

This week is going to be Critfest. Entire team of demos and Solders along with a couple of good medics.

I'm on Solders Side!

Kraven · Dec 11, 2009, 12:28 PM

I thought engineer was already updated, dispenser has 3 levels, teleport has 3 levels. When game came out you could only make basic dispenser and basic teleport i thought.

mbeeston · Dec 11, 2009, 12:57 PM

Go Soldier!

spindoctor · Dec 11, 2009, 01:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kraven

I thought engineer was already updated, dispenser has 3 levels, teleport has 3 levels. When game came out you could only make basic dispenser and basic teleport i thought.

yea, that was a small update they did for a few classes. the proper class update with new weapons and achievements is still left.

and yea, go demos!

sittal · Dec 11, 2009, 01:20 PM

horray, nothing but ****ing demo spam everywhere.

mbeeston · Dec 11, 2009, 01:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sittal

horray, nothing but ****ing demo spam everywhere.

and thats differnt form now how?

Ristogod · Dec 11, 2009, 01:26 PM

God I hate demos. It's already the most over powered class in the game for anyone that can keep low enough pings.

spindoctor · Dec 11, 2009, 04:05 PM

first set of stats on 'the war'

http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=3230

looks like the soldiers are doing better

Cartigan · Dec 11, 2009, 05:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spindoctor

first set of stats on 'the war'

http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=3230

looks like the soldiers are doing better

They have reliable splash damage.

Martin3 · Dec 11, 2009, 07:21 PM

Me an my pyro are gonna have some deflection fun with all the new demo and soldiers running around.

Bring it on!

Cordl3ssPen · Dec 11, 2009, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by YellowBeard

There's something bigger going on with the whole friendship thing as well.

I take it you didn't read the comic? I thought the comic summed up the new announcer sounds pretty well.

P.S. - Only demos and soldier's hear those new sound files.

YellowBeard · Dec 11, 2009, 11:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cordl3ssPen

P.S. - Only demos and soldier's hear those new sound files.

Haven't played in like a month. Sooo.... yeah. lol

Thought it was gonna be a sweet new map/playtype.

spindoctor · Dec 12, 2009, 12:24 AM

the war continues

http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=3233

and in case you're too lazy to read the blog post, they're also holding a contest to design the best war propaganda poster. winner gets a custom hat named after him

http://www.teamfortress.com/propaganda/

really funny stuff

Phrygian · Dec 12, 2009, 03:59 AM

Valve always brings out the good stuff.

spindoctor · Dec 13, 2009, 03:05 AM

today's update...

looks like the soldiers are increasing their lead. i don't see the demomen coming back from behind now, but who knows...

http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=3235

they also announced that crafting will finally be implemented

http://www.teamfortress.com/crafting/

and finally, a comic featuring saxton hale

http://www.teamfortress.com/war/saxtonhale/

edit - there's even a hidden link on page 5 of the comic. can't make any sense of it though. maybe it's related to the new blueprints we might be getting?

edit 2 - some very nice propaganda posters created by the community here - http://picasaweb.google.com/mymixfix...agandaPosters#

Cartigan · Dec 13, 2009, 09:55 AM

Crafting, wtf.

Chubz · Dec 13, 2009, 10:41 AM

Team Fortress 2 is becoming . . wow.

This game is like a snowball rolling down the hill, only rather than a snowball, it's a big ball of multiplayer first person shooter goodness.

Crafting, are you serious? As if this game could possibly get any better, they add even more depth to it. It's almost turning into some sort of a wicked MMORPG/FPS hybrid. I've just never seen anything quite like this before. We're literally seeing the ongoing major evolution of an already couple-year-old video game before our eyes.

Kraven · Dec 13, 2009, 12:10 PM

Ye crafting is a big turn off for me, bad enough having multiple items appear on screen like an annoying pop up advert. But looks like engineer is getting update so i'm excited for that at least.

spindoctor · Dec 13, 2009, 12:34 PM

i don't think crafting will be a bad idea. they obviously can't let players craft any item that doesn't already exist in the game... otherwise you'd have people running around with unbalanced weapons and what not. it will probably be limited to hats and maybe cosmetic changes to existing weapons. and we can get rid of the extra junk in the backpacks.

the_mup · Dec 13, 2009, 12:40 PM

I would expect the soldiers to win because they can long range spam. Plus, I think more people play demo, which could have a reverse effect as there are more of them to kill than soldiers.

Martin3 · Dec 13, 2009, 01:09 PM

I figured Demos would win because of sticky spam. I don't play demo often but most of my high scores are on demo because of the chance of taking out 3-4 guys at time is pretty high with well placed stickies.

Servers I've been on so far soldiers pretty much dominated.

SteadVéx · Dec 13, 2009, 02:51 PM

can't help but feel gutted about discarding all the weapons I already had...

it looks like its just way of combining the stuff you don't want into weapons you can get away just haven't unlocked yet, so you can turn all those natasahs into the cross bow, if you haven't got it yet....

how long this war thing go on for anyway?

Hatecrime69 · Dec 14, 2009, 02:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sittal

horray, nothing but ****ing demo spam everywhere.

Quote:

Originally Posted by mbeeston

and thats differnt form now how?

instead of 3, maybe 4 demos spamming on a team there's like 6 on each team

game i played last night ended up with 5 demos in the top 5, and that wasn't all the demos on my team

in other news: you can forget about playing engineer right now too

Starion15 · Dec 14, 2009, 03:08 AM

My regular server has, thank God, instituted class limits on Soldiers and Demo's for the time being.

Also, does no-one else think that the Crafting blurb was complete for-fun stuff? It sounds too silly to me. Actually, I'm half starting to wonder if this is really going to be the Engineer update.

Valve is crazy like that sometimes.

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Dec 11, 2009, 03:44 AM	#3
{0}Salamander{0} Radeon Man Returneth Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: B'ham/London - UK Posts: 2,656	So I guess engineer is last then? Or is there another class which hasn't been done? __________________ Why doesn't batman dance anymore?

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Dec 11, 2009, 08:15 AM	#5
SH3200 Radeon HD 5770 Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Somewhere out there? Posts: 224	demo man is gonna win by a looooong shot cus of the 24/7 dustbowl servers and how imbalanced crit demo is on defense for final cap......

Dec 11, 2009, 08:30 AM	#6
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Dec 11, 2009, 12:10 PM	#7
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Dec 11, 2009, 12:28 PM	#8
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Dec 13, 2009, 02:51 PM	#28
SteadVéx Rage3D Veteran Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 2,406	can't help but feel gutted about discarding all the weapons I already had... it looks like its just way of combining the stuff you don't want into weapons you can get away just haven't unlocked yet, so you can turn all those natasahs into the cross bow, if you haven't got it yet.... how long this war thing go on for anyway?

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