Yeah, aside from the obligatory do 1 million of something.

you can reflect shit as a pyro? news to me

Hopefully I won't have to play 30+ hours to get all these achievements like I had to do with the medic.
Finally soldiers won't have such a huge advantage against pyros now, or at least I hope. The reflecting thing sounds neat.

Looking at the achievemnts I'd say it takes about 5 hours to get most of these. Like if you really try, since these are really easy AND iirc you only need like 25 to unlock all 3 because its like 15 -> 20 -> 25 or so I have heard maybe this is just bullshit.

You could prolly get 10 of them in a single game and other 10 on a 2 player server with a friend. The medic achievements were bullshit since almost half of them required an ubercharge which is tedious to get as is while playing carefully enough not to lose or waste it.

EDIT:
Like seriously, most of these are about IGNITING something NOT KILLING.

- Ignite 5 enemies with intel, EASY
- Ignite 10 cloaked spies, PRETTY EASY TOO
- Ignite 10 zooming snipers, EASY
- Ignite 3 medics who have 100% charge, SUPER EASY
- Ignite Medic+Unit healed by the medic

And the list goes on, all you need to do for most of these is wave your flamer around like a maniac and you will most likely add up to a lot of the achievements. And these are mostly all pretty routine things too unlike with Medic where you need to kill 20 guys with a heavy, like come on who is capable of this if there is a single spy or sniper in the game.

The update is out.

I will let you all know how many Pyros are on my team when I get back.

Wow, remarkably easy to get them. Me and a friend got all 3 within 1 1/2 hours, just by ourselves on a server I hosted.

And holy shit, pyros do some insane damage now. Critting from behind makes you better than a spy for ambushes. And you can two shot a heavy getting medic healed with the new axe. The medic will be so stunned, you can axe him too before he realizes his heavy is dust.

I got two of mine within a few matches on a pub. It wasn't too bad.

The flare gun isn't that good. It's great for annoying snipers and engineers, but that's about it. The shotgun is much more reliable in combat. I haven't tried the new flamethrower weapon really. It seems to be the better weapon though, from what I can tell. I like the extra boost in HP, and getting crits from behind is really helpful against heavies.

Did anybody run into some bugs on the new maps? I wasn't able to respawn on one of them, and I know it wasn't me because our whole team couldn't either.

If turbine being an ugly piece of shit is a bug then yeah I've run into one. They really should have used Mach4 instead.

I don't like either of the new maps. fastlane isn't good enough for a capture map, and turbine feels like it's trying to be 2fort. Mach4 was a decent one, I see lots of people playing on that one.
I finally got the Axtinguisher as well. It isn't nearly as good as the backburner, but it's a good replacement for the regular axe. The backburner is probably the most powerful weapon in the game now, IMO.

... Speaking of spies, they should make a new sapper that reverses the friend/foe of the engineer buildings (it wouldn't even unbalance the game too much since engineers can self-destruct their constructions).

That would be pretty overpowering. All the spy would have to do is put the sapper on the turret and it would almost instantly turn to the engy trying to heal it, or the engy would instantly destroy it himself. Either outcome is of great benefit to the spy. I think something more reasonable would be a sapper that saps twice as fast, but only has half the hit points.

all i know about spy is the achievements are gonna be retarded and its gonna be really hard to balance them

ahahaha yes exactly

Is anybody interested in a tf2 Sunday tomorrow with me and Neo? Hopefully the pyro insanity will have died down by then, but it could still be fun!

I would if TF2 wasn't dead.

Why the fuck didn't they use Convoy as a COMMUNITY MAP or w/e? That's a really fun map! Maybe it's a little too PRO SNIPER but they could've rebalanced it a bit or something, I dunno.

Yea these new achievements are really easy and we were able to get 20+ achievements in like 40 minutes on a 2 player server.

Also I'm up for some TF2 just about anytime. The Pyro madness is toned down by the free weekend players too. Like, you got these new players coming in to play so they don't care about getting achievements but rather trying out the game and all the classes.

About the new weapons, I find the Ax to be completely useless if someone else doesn't set people on fire, its really stupid to use the axe AFTER you have set someone on fire since instead of axing them after they burn you might just finish the job with the flamer for faster, more reliable results.

They really slacked off with the appearances of the Backburner or whatever the fuck its called, its like hte flamer, except there is this hood on the end and there is no way to tell if someone has a flamer or a burner on them.

the flare gun is just awesome even if it sucks in every way.