May 1, 2009, 2:41 pm - Valve

Icarus

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Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Team Fortress 2

* Updated cp_egypt with changes based on player feedback, added additional health/ammo and updated routes
* Additional character loadout menu changes to support future features
 

Brandished

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Heh, just saw this in the Steam forums when I went to see what the update was about. Check out the bottom of the "tf_english.txt" file in the "team fortress 2 content.gcf" (it's under "root > tf > resource")

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//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// TF2 MMO
"TF_MMO_LFG"		"Looking For Group"
"TF_MMO_Quest1"		"You must kill %s1 %s2 to complete this quest."			
"TF_MMO_Monster1"	"Boars"
"TF_MMO_Monster2"	"Rats"
"TF_MMO_Monster3"	"Bats"
"TF_MMO_Monster4"	"Wolves"
"TF_MMO_Monster5"	"Spiders"

April 1st was a month ago, Valve...
 
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Exactly. So this is no joke.

EDIT: Commence blog update
 

Icarus

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Changes to Egypt, form what I can observe

1-1
More cover for defenders
Reoriented RED spawns to face the faster exit
Longer cap time

1-2
Boxes and barrels to prevent red engies from building near spawn
Removed staircase to the backend for RED

2-1
Added new spawn exit for BLU
Added new ramp for BLU
Added new metal for BLU

2-2
Removed barrier that shielded teh point from BLU
Added one-way door near the point
Removed fencing that shielded RED spawn
Ramp that leads to RED spawn

Stage 3
Added one way door on the leftmost exit (BLU orientation)
 

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Heh, just saw this in the Steam forums when I went to see what the update was about. Check out the bottom of the "tf_english.txt" file in the "team fortress 2 content.gcf" (it's under "root > tf > resource")

Code:
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// TF2 MMO
"TF_MMO_LFG"		"Looking For Group"
"TF_MMO_Quest1"		"You must kill %s1 %s2 to complete this quest."			
"TF_MMO_Monster1"	"Boars"
"TF_MMO_Monster2"	"Rats"
"TF_MMO_Monster3"	"Bats"
"TF_MMO_Monster4"	"Wolves"
"TF_MMO_Monster5"	"Spiders"

April 1st was a month ago, Valve...

Haha, Valve is never on time.

But that is 100% a joke. They're just putting this in to make us laugh or make us worry.


Gonna have to take a look at egypt soon.
 
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Changes to Egypt, form what I can observe

1-1
More cover for defenders
Reoriented RED spawns to face the faster exit
Longer cap time

1-2
Boxes and barrels to prevent red engies from building near spawn
Removed staircase to the backend for RED

2-1
Added new spawn exit for BLU
Added new ramp for BLU
Added new metal for BLU

2-2
Removed barrier that shielded teh point from BLU
Added one-way door near the point
Removed fencing that shielded RED spawn
Ramp that leads to RED spawn

Stage 3
Added one way door on the leftmost exit (BLU orientation)
So Egypt is playable now? :unsure:
 

Icarus

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It is. and what is this? Oh my god... it's the mystical THIRD STAGE ZOMG NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A MYTH
 

Rexy

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It is. and what is this? Oh my god... it's the mystical THIRD STAGE ZOMG NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A MYTH

Cmon Ic, that's a little unfair don't you think? Especially since I've yet to see the 4th stage of the map...
 

Ida

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Those Egypt changes are interesting. I've always wanted to like that map, but it's just no fun. Maybe this will help.
 

Shadow Monkey

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Heh, just saw this in the Steam forums when I went to see what the update was about. Check out the bottom of the "tf_english.txt" file in the "team fortress 2 content.gcf" (it's under "root > tf > resource")

Code:
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// TF2 MMO
"TF_MMO_LFG"		"Looking For Group"
"TF_MMO_Quest1"		"You must kill %s1 %s2 to complete this quest."			
"TF_MMO_Monster1"	"Boars"
"TF_MMO_Monster2"	"Rats"
"TF_MMO_Monster3"	"Bats"
"TF_MMO_Monster4"	"Wolves"
"TF_MMO_Monster5"	"Spiders"

April 1st was a month ago, Valve...


:lol::lol::lol:

Valve is so cool.....great ideas.....thanks Valve I laughed so hard :thumbup:
 

grazr

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Did Valve take control of Egypt then? I.E. presumably they made these changes rather than the original map author.

I'm not overly sold on Egypt as a working map, hopefully these changes do improve it but it seemed rather large and open which always had me.. incapable of immersing myself in the gameplay.
 

Nineaxis

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Did Valve take control of Egypt then? I.E. presumably they made these changes rather than the original map author.

I'm not overly sold on Egypt as a working map, hopefully these changes do improve it but it seemed rather large and open which always had me.. incapable of immersing myself in the gameplay.

The original author made the changes. I playtested a beta of the new version on a server a while ago, he was in there collecting feedback before sending it to VALVe.
 

uma plata

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My bet is Valve looked at their first round of stats on Egypt, saw 90% wins on defense, and decided something needed to change pronto
 

Icarus

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Once again, Valve had little part in the Egypt update. It was done entirely by Heyo himself.