A Huge Team Fortress 2 update is coming next week!

I pretty much want Valve to have my children at this point. Here's the announcement, fresh off Steam:

"Early next week, we'll be shipping a new (huge!) update for Team Fortress 2. In addition to three unlockable weapons and thirty-five achievements for the Heavy, we've got a new game mode with five new arenas, a new Payload map focusing on more open spaces than Goldrush, and another popular community-made map. Check out this site for details."

I feel so spoiled. My two favorite clas*ses are getting updates back to back. The Heavy is already freaking strong though, so hopefully this update won't cause massive amounts of whining like the Pyro update did. If it does then cry some more! You've all met Sasha, now meet Natascha:

"The unlockable for the Heaviest pugilists out there is the K.G.B. Any time a Heavy kills an enemy with the K.G.B he receives five seconds of guaranteed critical hits. This crit-boost can be used to punch and kill further enemies, extending the boost time. Alternatively, the Heavy can switch to another weapon and use the boost to take out an enemy at range. The Heavy's slow movement speed, and the K.G.B's slower swing speed, make it a risky prospect."

The two new maps also sound awesome. Annnnd some new achievements:

Spyalectical Materialism:Kill or assist in killing 10 cloaked spies.

Permanent Revolution:Kill 5 enemies without spinning down your gun

Heavy Industry:Fire $200,000 worth of minigun rounds in a single life.

Communist Mani-Fisto:Kill an enemy with a critical punch.

Redistribution of Health:Heal 1000 damage with med-kits in a single life.

Rationing:Kill an enemy with your shotgun while you're out of minigun ammo.

Vanguard Party:Be the first on your team to start capturing a control point in a round.

Pushkin the Kart:Get 50 caps on payload maps.

Marxman:Kill 10 enemies in mid-air with the minigun.

Gorky Parked:Kill 25 enemies while you're standing on a control point you own.

Purge:Kill 15 enemies capturing a control point you own.

Lenin A Hand:Help 5 teammates get revenge on their nemeses.

Five Second Plan:Kill an enemy in the first 5 seconds after you exit a teleporter.

Photostroika:Provide an enemy with a freezecam shot of you taunting while invulnerable.

Konspicuous Konsumption:Eat 100 sandviches.

Don't Touch Sandvich:Kill 50 scouts using Natascha.

Borscht Belt:Kill 10 heavies with The K.G.B.

Iron Kurtain:Take 1000 points of damage in a single life.

Party Loyalty:Kill 50 enemies within 3 seconds of them attacking your Medic.

Division of Labor:Kill 20 enemies with a Medic assisting you, where neither of you die.

Red Oktoberfest:Earn a domination for a Medic who's healing you.

Show Trial:Kill an enemy with a taunt.

Crime and Punishment:Kill 10 enemies carrying your intelligence."

Struggle:Work with a friendly Medic to kill an enemy Heavy & Medic pair.

Soviet Block :While invulnerable and on defense, block an invulnerable enemy Heavy's movement.

Stalin the Kart:Block the enemy from moving the payload cart 25 times.

Supreme Soviet:Get ubered 50 times.

Factory Worker:Kill 20 enemies while being recharged by a dispenser.

Soviet Union:Get 25 enemy kills where you either assist or are assisted by another Heavy.

Own the Means of Production:Remove 20 stickybombs by killing the Demomen who produced them

Krazy Ivan:Kill 100 enemies while both you and your victim are underwater.

Rasputin:In a single life, get shot, burned, bludgeoned, and receive explosive damage. lol

Icing on the Cake:Get 20 kills on players that you're dominating.

Crock Block:Survive a direct hit from a critical rocket.

Kollectivization:Get 1000 assists.

Well considering these updates were supposed to come out on the PC (as far as the achievements) in the first 3 weeks of the games life, I'm sure that the extra time spent on working on these things means that it was re-assuring a launch to the 360 as well.

That could be my only assumption as to why it took them so long, or they just possibly wanted to see how the game would do without the achievements.

Rasputin:In a single life, get shot, burned, bludgeoned, and receive explosive damage.

:lol:

It's definitely exciting to finally see a regular stream of updates. So far, I'm kind of disappointed with the unlockable weapons - Kritzkrieg is basically useless, Shotgun > Flaregun, and I even went back the the regular Flamethrower after Valve decided to nerf the 50 HP bonus off the Backburner.

I've been playing with the Heavy a lot lately, but perhaps it'd be a good idea to play some Spy when this update hits. :twisted:

A new game mode and a new Payload map? Yes, please.

It's definitely exciting to finally see a regular stream of updates. So far, I'm kind of disappointed with the unlockable weapons - Kritzkrieg is basically useless, Shotgun > Flaregun, and I even went back the the regular Flamethrower after Valve decided to nerf the 50 HP bonus off the Backburner.

I've been playing with the Heavy a lot lately, but perhaps it'd be a good idea to play some Spy when this update hits. :twisted:

A new game mode and a new Payload map? Yes, please.

UpInFlames

Damn.... im gonna get Orange Box as soon as I canWhiteTigerX

It's going to be a good time to be a medic when this update rolls in.

(More capture the flag maps please. :))

(More capture the flag maps please. :))Dutch_Mix

I don't know why, but Valve isn't really setting the world on fire with their CTF maps. 2fort is barely ok, and Well CTF is a disaster. Happily, there's stellar user-created CTF maps like Turbine, Mach4 and Chaos.