The dog update is "real"

[The Political Gamer]

http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=2851

 

[Radaka]

I wouldn't be surprised actually haha.

 

[x14u2cx]

Oh god i hope not

 

[nik]

Its not real i dont beleieve it odont care its not real its not real its a bad dream its a bad dream its a bad dream

 

[Dr. Spud]

Yeah seriously. That dog update thing was neat in a "I'm-glad-this-isn't-real" kind of way.

 

[Radaka]

I must be the only person that would like this

Don't flame me, it's just an opinion.

 

[strangemodule]

It'd be funny to see as a "trial" update, see if people generally like it, and if the majority of people like it, they keep it.

 

[LordNor]

this looks...weird

 

[Darth Cyrax]

What about this

First off, a quick update on where we are with the character model and animation sources. After we got over our excitement of releasing them, we ran into a couple of problems:

* All the character modelers & animators are incredibly busy working on L4D2.

From the last blog entry. unless we've been lied to, there's no way they could make the dog+weapon models right now.

 

[Gerbil]

This might work if it's a new game mode or something.

Oh what am I saying.

 

[Jimmy]

Id hate this. I'll cry if they release dogs as the 10th class.

 

[Darth Cyrax]

Nevermind. Stupid Steam Forums.

 

[pl]

Read.
http://twitter.com/ValveNews/status/4144024662
(found on steam forums)

I originally saw the message on TF2.com as a joke anyway - it was obvious

 

[Jack Riguel]

I wish I never saw this. I will cry every time I play TF2 and see that I cannot maul scouts as a dog with a rocket pack on my back.

 

[Terr]

Translation from Valve: "We know. We've seen it. STFU."

 

[zpqrei]

Translation from Valve: "We know. We've seen it. STFU."

This.

 

[JoshuaC]

Read.
http://twitter.com/ValveNews/status/4144024662
(found on steam forums)

ValveNews was outed as a fake account long ago.

 

[NovaSilisko]

The plot thickens.

 

[eerieone]

/facepalm for unproportionally big characters relative to the environment

 

[Ida]

Well, the Valve modelers and animators would be too busy at the moment, but consider this...

I look forward to [V] WORKING WITH YOU IN THE FUTURE

Could this mean the original modeler would get to make the model for them?

Stupid speculation aside, this whole thing is pretty scary. The fact that they're posting it on the blog means they've definitely contacted the guy and worked out something, so... whether we like it or not, there's going to be something Guard Dog-related in the game.
EDIT: Well, ok, maybe not guaranteed, it might be a joke that the dog creator guy is playing along on, I just think it's likely.

I think it sounds like a neat idea for a class, even though this brings bad memories from the COD4 campaign. Killing dogs is so horrible. :<