 Valve, creators of award-winning games and leading technologies, today
announced the unveiling of details for the largest update ever produced for Team
Fortress 2, the multiplayer action game that recently topped PC Gamer UK's "Top
100" list.
Beginning today gamers may find details of "The Heavy" Update
being disclosed via http://steamgames.com/tf2/heavy/. The site will reveal new
information and screenshots each day, as well as a special installment to the
"Meet the Team" series of video shorts.
"The Heavy" update is the largest
update to Team Fortress 2 since it was first released as part of The Orange Box
last October. In addition to offering new unlockable weapons, achievements, "The
Heavy" update also includes a brand new gameplay mode and a number of new
maps.
The rollout culminates next Tuesday, August 19 when the update will be
made available to all owners of Team Fortress 2.
To give all gamers a
chance to check out the new gameplay introduced in "The Heavy" update, Valve
will be running a Team Fortress 2 Free Weekend via Steam, a leading online
platform for the delivery and management of PC games. The Free Weekend is open
to gamers the world over and scheduled to begin Friday, August 22 at 11 am
PDT.
For more information, please visit http://teamfortress.com/
Incoming Heavy!August 11, 2008 - Robin Walker
We've been a little quiet for the last week as we've put the finishing
touches on the Heavy update. We thought the Pyro pack was the biggest
we'd be doing for a while, due to the large changes to the Pyro, but
the Heavy update has turned out to be even bigger. In addition to the
three unlockable weapons and thirty-five achievements for the Heavy,
we've got a new game mode with five new arenas for it, a new Payload
map focusing on more open spaces than Goldrush, and another popular
community-made map. Throughout the rest of the week we'll be giving you
the details on all this, and if all goes well, you'll have your hands
on it shortly afterwards.
The community-made map included in the Heavy update is cp_steel, by
Jamie 'Fishbus' Manson. After the Pyro update we received a lot of
email telling us how wrong we were in our choices, and cp_steel was an
easy next choice due to the way it dominated the suggestions. If you're
firing up your email right now to tell us that we never get anything
right, please include suggestions of what map(s) we should be looking
at next.
We'll be updating A Heavy Update site with more info daily. Stay tuned!
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