The Team Fortress 2 Blog
has real details on the next
Team Fortress 2 update, which will indeed
update the Sniper class in Valve's teamplay shooter, as indicated in
yesterday's April Fools'
update. Word is:
It's been a couple of weeks since we posted, so we
thought it'd be good to do some housekeeping. The next class pack will focus on
the Sniper. It's actually shaping up to be the largest TF2 update yet, with
multiple new maps and a bunch of gameplay tweaks. In addition, we've got another
update in the works that should be done before the Sniper, and that one will
include some new content for all classes.
The XBox 360 update is still being worked on. If you're wondering what's taking
so long, since the content is "done" on the PC already, it's mostly been around
fitting it all onto the XBox. The original version of TF2 in the Orange Box was
very close to the XBox's memory limit, and all the additional TF2 content we've
produced has pushed well beyond it. We've found a couple of nifty ways to get
back a bunch of that memory, but it's turned out to be a lot of work, and that's
what most of our time is being spent on. In the meantime, we're going to get a
code update out to address the server cheating that's going on.
Like many other folks online, the TF2 team has been loving the Top 10 TF2 Plays
of the Week videos that Push Gaming has been doing. If you haven't seen them
yet, you can catch week 1,
and week 2.
We're hoping for a third one soon, but we can't really complain. If we were
doing them ourselves, you'd probably see the third one sometime next year. While
waiting though, you can check out the exploits of some of the Sniper's
countrymen in the second frag video of Aussie clan
Mad Dogz.