TF2 Pyro Update Coming Soon Along with Meet the Sniper
By Chris on Monday, June 9th, 2008 at 2:49 PM PST In Computer, Game Companies, Game Platforms, Games, Valve
The new unlockable weapons and achievements for the Medic in Team Fortress 2 — as great an idea as they were — ended up being a pretty big mess. Suddenly, mountains of servers were locked and running a specially-designed map to make farming the achievements as easy as possible. The games that were open were littered with people who either hadn’t a clue as to how the class should be played or had a single goal (a specific achievement) on their minds.
I’m clearly not the only one who’d like to see Valve handle the next big release differently. That’s at least hinted at in last week’s Steam update news, which confirmed the news that the Pyro would be the next to get the unlockable weapon treatment.
We’ve almost completely wrapped up the next big release for Team Fortress 2, which will focus on the Pyro class, along with the Meet the Sniper movie. We’ve spent time looking at how the recent Medic release went, and have rolled feedback from that release into the new item designs for the Pyro and into the design of the achievements required to unlock those items.
One of the new unlockable weapons, the Axtinguisher, is an axe that does half-damage to enemies if they’re not on fire, but if they have caught fire, you’re guaranteed a critical hit. I don’t know how practical that is, because if you’re so close to the enemy, why not just keep spamming your flamethrower?
Unlike the Medic update, Valve intends to make “some significant changes” to Pyros, whether or not you unlock the new weapons. We’ve got that to look forward to, as well as the next “Meet the…” video, which will star the Sniper.
I couldn’t agree more on the medics. One other thing that annoyed me is when people played medic a lot and really well way before the achievements where even out I loved seeing morons go “omg I wounder why your a medic now” yes that’s it group the people who love and can play the class well together with the noob medics.. I just the other day got the Kritsgreg finally, funny how long it takes to get the new unlockables when your not in a clan… I am not going to even bother getting the other achievements because some of the achievements are impossible for me to get. I also which I could have picked which weapons I got first, I for wanted to get Kritsgreg first, the new bone saw and then the new gun as I like healing more then killing on the medic… you know what the class is actually there for?
The only way I can think of now about keeping this from happening to they pyro being spammed by people who have no idea how to play it is to release more the just one class at a time new achievements.
The problem with releasing more than one at a time becomes an issue of not being able to properly balance test the new stuff with the mass audience.