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Team Fortress 2 Jungle Inferno Short
- Thread starter Sponge
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Great to see an official Saxton Hale model, I remember playing modded Saxton Hale mode years ago, from what I remember it was pretty fun. Pyro with a jetpack is really strange, I wonder how it'll work. I wonder if they planned to release this on this last week on the 10th for the 10th anniversary
Pretty sure they wrote this.
Valve works on these things for ages, I know, I'm kidding.
There's no new material in this, though, just jokes Jay and Erik have done before, and better.
SoulUnison
Banned
Wow, I was really starting to think they'd squeezed as much out of TF2 as they were going to bother to.
Also, weird timing - is this going to take the place of a Halloween event this year?
I can't really imagine them doing two events/updates in fairly rapid succession.
With the apparent addition of the jetpack, I now ship Pyro and Pharah for crazy inter-franchise mischief.
Also, weird timing - is this going to take the place of a Halloween event this year?
I can't really imagine them doing two events/updates in fairly rapid succession.
With the apparent addition of the jetpack, I now ship Pyro and Pharah for crazy inter-franchise mischief.
torre_avenue
Banned
SAXTON HALE!
The only thing more surprising than that is...
A NEW PAYLOAD RACE MAP?
What the hell, who even plays plr anymore.
The only thing more surprising than that is...
A NEW PAYLOAD RACE MAP?
What the hell, who even plays plr anymore.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
That was like the first thing I noticed, and figured that's why Spy didn't have a witty retort or why nobody else said anything.
Random Human
They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
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SoulUnison
Banned
Payload and Payload Race have always low-key been the best gamemodes - that's why Overwatch pretty much lifted Payload wholesale.
The Omega Man
Member
I might need to reinstall TF2, Dat Saxton Hale, it's finally made!!!
Captain Fun
Neo Member
I'd honestly be fine with them not doing a Halloween update this year. Last one was... eh.
Since this is day one of the update, I imagine the next few days will outline new weapons and Pyro changes. The update sounds a lot bigger than I thought.
Hightower has consistently been one of the most popular and favorite pub maps since it's first release.
I personally don't like it but it's easy to see why they would create another one.
SoundPulse
Banned
Should have just given the Detonator back its beta jump height, Volvo.
SoulUnison
Banned
I don't -get- Hightower. People don't actually -play- it.
It's like they treat TF2-Hightower as some kind of interactive chat room with a minor competitive shooter element.
If you actually try to capture the point people (on your own team, even) will scream angrily at you.
RandomExpletive
Member
Payload is the goat no question but you get outta here with this PLR love. Was fun the week it came out, and that was pretty much it
Random Human
They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
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Gentleman Jack
Member
Payload Race is basically Team Deathmatch, so there's some fun to be had in that mode.
Lightning_Roller
Banned
Looks like it's time to jump back into TF2. Is the matchmaking still swamp ass??
A lot of people love Payload, but hate Payload Race. I love both, personally. I have only played on Payload servers for years at this point though.
I've played Bannana Bay before, I think it's going to be nearly as popular as Hightower with the community.
The Omega Man
Member
suddenlyissoon
Member
I miss TF but I just can't do it anymore. I really wish they would do a TFC2.
SoundPulse
Banned
Outside of tdm_hightower and tdm_spookytower, Payload Race doesn't have any maps that people remember or care about. In fact, it has four total maps officially, and no one's going to be able to draw you a map of plr_nightfall.
Payload itself has a bunch, including the best map in the entire game, Badwater. Honestly, the only problem with Payload is related to how it works in 6s. It could be fixed, but yeah.
Payload itself has a bunch, including the best map in the entire game, Badwater. Honestly, the only problem with Payload is related to how it works in 6s. It could be fixed, but yeah.
I should be excited, but I've been burned by too many TF2 updates to have any high expectations now, especially after the Matchmaking update turned out to be a huge dumpster fire. Fingers crossed, but I probably won't be jumping back into TF2 unless something really blows me away.
SinCityAssassin
Member
Jetpack for Pyro? You have my interest.
Random Human
They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
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SoundPulse
Banned
Well, kinda-sorta? This is the first major update in about ten months.
human onion
Banned
Goddamn, a fucking TF2 update. Something about them will always excite me.
I thought that was MARIO_KART or cyberpunk
Dreams-Visions
Member
OH MY GOD YUES
Taco_Human
Member
So excited, sad to hear no new voice lines but yeah game's been out forever.
balladofwindfishes
Member
Engineer's voice actor is retired
Demoman and Heavy's voice actor is very, very old, possibly retired. He's also getting kind of weak at doing the voices.
Soldier's voice actor is old, possibly retired. Rumors he had some health issues.
Scout's actor is young and always available for voice lines
Spy and Pyro's actor is usually around for voice lines, don't know what's up with this update
Medic's voice actor is usually too busy to do much
Such is the problems of having a voice cast for a game that is updated for 10 years. They get old, or they get better gigs.
Love that the crater that Saxton Hale left behind is shaped like the continent of Australia.
Are soundalikes out of the question, specifically for the retired actors?
Are soundalikes out of the question, specifically for the retired actors?
GoldandBlue
Member
Nolan North actually did the Engineer's voice for the Expiration Date short.
balladofwindfishes
Member
Nolan North does a decent Grant Goodeve impression. Grant Goodeve's retirement status has always been up in the air, but it's mostly assumed he's retired. He could come back, who knows.
I'm mostly concerned about Gary Shwartz. Dude is really old. He hasn't voiced a character other than Demo/Heavy in 4 years. Those lines in the last few years were not good.
Dennis Bateman seems to love voicing the Spy, but hasn't done any other work in 3 years. He technically voices Pyro as well, but that role is very easily replaced.
I forgot about John Patrick Lowrie (Sniper). Tbh, that may have been him as Saxton. He's always around, Sniper usually gets a lot of lines
Nathan Vetterlein is always around for lines, evident by Scout being the only one with new lines in the trailer. He'll be voicing Scout long after the original actors are replaced. He loves the gig as well.
Rick May hasn't voiced anyone other than Soldier in a decade. Rumors were that Soldier was starting to hurt his voice, and he may have some medical issues, but nothing was ever confirmed. For his age, I have to say, Rick May (jeez the rhymes), is still very good at voicing Soldier
Robin Atkin Downes' career took off post Medic, and Medic hardly every gets lines. I think Medic would be really hard to replace, Downes has a unique way of doing him. TF2 fans have kind of just settled with the fact that Medic will never really have a ton of lines.
Ellen McLain probably doesn't need to do anything with TF2 anymore unless they make some new crazy game mode that requires specific new lines. They could also set it up to have Ashly Burch's character (Miss Pauling) be the announcer for that mode if they needed to (as she has for past updates).
Nolan North voices random NPCs and Engineer sometimes, and he's obviously always around for a gig.
breadtruck
Member
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This is me right now. After all the lore it has come out it's impossible to imagine Spy and Scout together without the regular kind of banter. Now I just need that last comic so I can officially get closure to this franchise and Valve in general. The short was good, I guess? Didn't do anything for me, honestly. But I'm glad it exists at least.
papertoonz
Member
as cool as it is to see a new tf2 update with the info rolling out over a few days again i really wish it was the heavy who won that event and was getting new items
i like pyro as much as the next guy but the heavy could really use more new stuff that the pyro
i like pyro as much as the next guy but the heavy could really use more new stuff that the pyro
This was one aspect of TF2 I used to love. I used to go on idle and trade servers just to hang out and chat and meet people. I met a lot of good friends on Steam that way. It does suck when people try to do that kind of stuff on normal servers though
One of the TF2 developers Dave Riller did an interview back in Feburary where he talked about what would be in this update, some of the stuff that's confirmed to be in it include a new set of Pyro weapons (one of which appears to be a jet pack based on the short film), new weapon reblances based around high level/competitive feedback, a new "Choose Your Own Adventure" campaign system and an upgraded competitive matchmaking mode that will have placement matches and an ELO ranking system.
Hightower is secretly (except it's not a secret at all) a tdm map. That's part of the reason highertower is appealing, it's hightower but you won't cap even if you try.
I have a friend that runs a hightower server with the carts removed and it's pretty well populated at night. People love Hightower TDM.