A Heavy Update 8/19/08

[bOse]

Awesome , can't wait !

 

[TheDarkerSideofYourShadow]

The names are AWESOME. Got a good laugh out of most of them

 

[grazr]

the fists and class is slow enough making it almost impossible to punch someone you havn't cornered. I don't see much happening with it. We shall see.

 

[laghlagh]

read what I just wrote. You can see exactly what the achievements entail by just viewing the images. Just doesnt have exact numbers.

Listen to this man.

 

[Ida]

read what I just wrote. You can see exactly what the achievements entail by just viewing the images. Just doesnt have exact numbers.

If that post was for me, I'll have you know that our posts were one minute apart, so at that time I couldn't read it because it wasn't posted yet.

I wonder what this tf_heavy_eat_sandwiches is. I guess he can't do the "air gun" taunt with his gloves on, so maybe they'll give him a new taunt involving eating a sandwich. In that case, maybe the achievement is to kill a Scout and then do this hypothetical new taunt right afterwards or something.

 

[Laz]

there is another achievement for deathcamshot of you taunting.
the one you are talking about will most certainly entail eating sandviches. My guess it that it will be the shotgun replacement, perhaps one hand holds a shotgun (less accurate, slower rate of fire) other hand a sandvich. secondary fires immobilizes you for a few seconds while eating your sandvich or something along those lines.

 

[Ida]

I really don't like the idea of a sandwich/sandvich weapon. TF2 is silly, but...not THAT silly.

 

[FaTony]

I, as Russian, say that those names are very stupid and not creative. Valve's just using popular Soviet Russian stuff. Valve is losing creativity. 4 example, all medic achs were not about German stuff, they were neutral and, because of this, funny 4 all. Now this just a discrimination.


And why there's no ach about Vodka and Russian Bear?

 

[drp]

I, as Russian, say that those names are very stupid and not creative. Valve's just using popular Soviet Russian stuff. Valve is losing creativity. 4 example, all medic achs were not about German stuff, they were neutral and, because of this, funny 4 all. Now this just a discrimination.


And why there's no ach about Vodka and Russian Bear?

lol @ discrimination

 

[FaTony]

Valve is just taunting at Russian history and culture.

 

[drp]

Valve is just taunting at Russian history and culture.

well yea. to a native russian, those would seem dumb and exaggerated. but someone living in the US or any other country not being russia, it sounds 'witty'. i guess you can say valve are playing to the stereotypes.

which isnt exactly 'discrimination'.

 

[Guyovick]

What is this "grind"?

Over at ShackNews they have a list of the achievement name and descriptive file names of the icons. Does anybody know what this "grind" is? Is it a new game type? Is it refering to the cart?

Soviet Union - heavy_assist_heavy_grind
Supreme Soviet - heavy_receive_uber_grind
Kollectivization - heavy_assist_grind

 

[Ida]

Wow, I didn't know there were more of these "grind" things, I just noticed it in heavy_assist_grind and I thought it would basically mean "get a crapload of assists lol".

Maybe it has something to do with one of the other Heavy weapons. Perhaps they'll have some kind of funtion that would let you...uh..."grind", whatever that would mean..

 

[Vander]

I think it means you have to get 50 of a certain something. Or 20, or whatever. Kinda like grinding in a MMO, doing things over and over repeatedly.

 

[Hawk]

I, as Russian, say that those names are very stupid and not creative. Valve's just using popular Soviet Russian stuff. Valve is losing creativity. 4 example, all medic achs were not about German stuff, they were neutral and, because of this, funny 4 all. Now this just a discrimination.


And why there's no ach about Vodka and Russian Bear?

Don't worry, as soon as an American class gets his update, we'll have stuff like "Hands off my Cheeseburger" and "Reaganomics".

 

[Altaco]

For comparison, the name for the medic's 1,000,000 healing was tf_medic_heal_grind.

There's also one called tf_heavy_eat_sandwiches.

Wut.

 

[Hawk]

Badwater Basin!
http://steamgames.com/tf2/heavy/badwater.htm

It looks like this is not the new environment, but it IS the highly anticipated new payload map. It's much wider-open and less dependent on chokepoints, and it's a one-round map.

I look forward to this. Goldrush is a fun map but it's really hampered by a few hard-to-pass chokepoints.

 

[Jazz]

This new map really made me feel relieved that Valve was going to use more wide open spaces. Now I don't feel like I need to make my payload map so compact.

 

[Ida]

Is it just me, or is Badwater Basin (awesome name!) a bit bland? I guess it's because it's supposed to be more out-in-the-nature, but still, some of it, especially the buildings, isn't really what I'd expect from Valve.

Don't get me wrong, though, I can't wait. I am definitely excited.

EDIT: Also, I noticed that their update calls the teams "Red" and "Blu". I am very offended. >:|

^That was a joke.

 

[oxy]

I too noticed that the map was under-detailed. Maybe these are early screens. I can't imagine Valve putting out "low quality" content.