TF2 Thread, now featuring HALLOWEEN!

[IllegallySane]

I don't know how or why, but I somehow suddenly understand how to rocket jump. Soldier just got WAY more fun now. No more walking slowly. Properly shoot rocket at feet, fly across a large gap. Now I just gotta learn how to chain rocket jump and airstrafe. Like THIS guy:




It feels good to finish a round with a Buff Banner cap.

[Steveio]

So, there was a patch today. It added a bunch of ridiculous "useless" items, like Goldfish and Pocket Lint.

Mysterious.

[Kirov]

I've not played TF2 for months but I may have to idle a bit to get these new items, since it says they are used for crafting on the wiki.

All the conspiracy theorists are out in force. 6/22 Meet the Pyro / Mann Vs Machine Update. We’ll see I guess.

[Steveio]

This event is really intriguing.


The day after the items were added, Valve patched in some data that made wearing Eliminating the Impossible set cause the items to display fragments of a Sherlock Holmes quote.

The next day, they made Banana Peels "craftable", which made the game display some code, which was later revealed to produce a picture of QR codes. These codes, when translated, produced pieces of a picture of a (tran)script involving Saxton Hale.

Then they posted a Blog Post about the creation of weapons with commentary from a Community Modeler. Apparently, this new weapon is going to be involved in an upcoming update...

[Kirov]

It's like Portal 2 all over again. Maybe we'll have to buy a bunch of indie games.

[Steveio]

More stuff thrown into the fire: Adult Swim and Valve team up for TF2-related something-or-other

[IllegallySane]

OH god, Adult Swim and TF2? Not sure how to feel about this.

[Kirov]

The Pyro has taken over the wiki

http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Main_Page

Also Valve's economist Hatconomist has made his first post.

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/econo...ess-2-economy/

[IllegallySane]

The Pyro has taken over the wiki

http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Main_Page

This is delicious. Screengrabbed for future generations.

[Steveio]

I'll just leave this here...

http://www.teamfortress.com/pyromania/

[Corn]

FINALLY.

AFTER ALL OF THESE YEARS.

WE MAY/MAY NOT DISCOVER IF THE PYRO IS A GUY OR A GIRL.

[Untradeable]

FINALLY.

AFTER ALL OF THESE YEARS.

WE MAY/MAY NOT DISCOVER IF THE PYRO IS A GUY OR A GIRL.

THE ULTIMATE TWIST:

THE PYRO IS /* Gordon Freeman after Half-Life 3. The entire TF2 Universe is the post-Half-Life universe after what transpires after HL3. */

[Malthe]

THE ULTIMATE TWIST:

THE PYRO IS***Hidden content cannot be quoted.***

Well, an FYI: TF2 is a comic or TV-series, can't remember which, in the half life universe. Portal happens in the same universe as well.

[IllegallySane]

FINALLY.

AFTER ALL OF THESE YEARS.

WE MAY/MAY NOT DISCOVER IF THE PYRO IS A GUY OR A GIRL.

HAVEN'T WE ESTABLISHED THIS BY NOW? PYRO IS CLEARLY A ROBOT, OR ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

[Jon]

Finally. I may play a bit whenever this drops.

[Kirov]

A Doomsday game mode. Sounds like it is a mix between CTF and KOTH. Deliver the fuel to the rocket then hold that point till it launches?

Looking forward to trying it out.

[Shidoshi]

OOOOoo, new game mode. Might have to try that out.

[ChaosCorpse]

I stand among those who believe the gender of the pyro will never be revealed. They said something to that a while back in an interview where they roughly said that "certain things we've taken too long to answer now have their own subculture and it would be hard/wrong to actually answer them at this point".

As for my explanation; the Pyro will be a being without gender. I'm going with an elder god sort of thing. Explains a lot in my book.

Beyond that, I'm not even going to try figuring things out since they've gone all ARG again. Granted, I was reading a bit of stuff the other day and saw that Monkey right before this popped up; so I might have a slightly better understanding of things this time around.

[Untradeable]

Pyro is Poopy Joe evolved via Space radiation and traveled back in time.

[Steveio]

I don't know if anyone's noticed, but a bit ago, they added easter eggs to the mini-site.

There's a Banana Peel on the main page that leads to the QR code transcript (plus photos and an additional page)
Clicking on the photo of Poopy Joe on the Doomsday page links to a Poopy Joe wallpaper. Similarly, the Mann Co. Monkeynautics image now leads to a Monkeynautics wallpaper. Semi-related, they also released a Meet the Pyro wallpaper, featuring that image of the Pyro burning houses down with the lemons, which can be found on the Blog's Art page.