oh hey I also meant to ask: is there an IRC channel for this? Sare mentioned #tf2 but I guess it's gone... is #netplay the appropriate one or what? or maybe just stick to the group chat in Steam I guess...

No clue.

http://www.teamfortress.com/ shows some pics.

In other news:

I usually just ask around in #gamingw if anyone is up for some gaymes.

As far as a date, I haven't heard anything about the Heavy update, other than Valve is looking for ways to make him more reliable without a medic backing him up.

I've heard rumors about the Hunted (or whatever it was called) game mode coming with the update (protect/escort) the civilian character.  And really any type of new texture will be a nice change of pace.

ps the Heavy update is coming the 19th.

It contains the 3 heavy weapons, 1 new environment with 5 new maps, 35 new achievements for the heavy, a new payload map, and cp_steel is the community map.

w00t.

whoa 5 maps, definitely gonna be playing that all week

ya 5 maps with the new environment, it's 6 brand new ones total, 7 with the community map.

and you can expect a rush of maps for the new environment by the community too you can bet.

its about time, I just wish they'd show either the weapons or achievements in todays or tomorrows LOL DAILY SECRET.

I bet the new environment is something as dull as the current one.

white sand

Morrowind rock/volcano barrens.



EDIT:
is there a specific time they usually reveal their DAILY SECRAT LOLOLOLOLL???
theres only been one now sure, but like if anyone knows any better I'd like to know so I know when to expect something new.

No clue!

But here is an unconfirmed stuff leaked by a betatester supposedly

1. A new minigun that does -25% damage and -50% run speed on whoever it hits.
2. A sandwich you can taunt with to get 100 hp
3. Boxing gloves that never crit unless you have killed someone the last 5-10 seconds, then they always crit.

New gamemode is called Arena, it's 5v5 deathmatch with one life. Kind of like sudden death. New maps are being worked on also remakes of granary well and maybe more?

Well it looks like that is correct:
http://steamgames.com/tf2/heavy/kgb.htm

Of note, there is a Sandwich achievement, so it very well looks like that is the correct items.

is the 360 version getting any of these updates? i really really like to play this game and it sucks that you can't do nearly as much on the xbox version cos i can't really run it on my laptop.

Those gloves aren't very useful in that the crit time is too slow to use it with the minigun since you need to change weapons and ready the gun so that leaves the shotgun crits and 5 seconds -weaponchangetime worth of shotgun crits is like 2 shotgun shots.

And by the time you kill someone with the gloves you are prolly either dead or near dead unless you camp some corner where noone looks at.

BUT if you actually ignore the guns and go 100% with punches then its really great since after the first kill the kills start flowing in with crit punches which do like 150 damage or more. The heavy tanks enough to actually being able to have a few successful punching sprees. I should know, I've done this a dozen of times with like 500 punch kills in a few weeks time. This was before the upgrades.


Or does the crit reward stack? If so then its useful with the guns.

It stacks so if you kill 3 people with the gloves you get 15 seconds of crit time, yes.

Well not exactly since you most likely won't be able to kill 3 guys instantenously thus the crit reward is exhausted a few seconds between kills but I'd figure you can get like 10+ seconds pretty easily.

is the 360 version getting any of these updates? i really really like to play this game and it sucks that you can't do nearly as much on the xbox version cos i can't really run it on my laptop.

Valve may be planning an update for 360 once all the classes have been completed, but they don't plan on doing any updates anytime soon for xbox. In fact, may of the early PC bugs are still present in xbox tf2 like turrets through walls, medic jumping, invisible spy stabbing, infinite uber, etc.

well what i wanted was at the end of all this ironing out and minor updates they just released a big pack on xbox live with all of it in it. i hope they do go ahead and do that.