The Next TF2 Update Isn't (Just) From Valve

Tasty happening the heels of the TF2 Engineer update comes a new slew of items – only these babies weren't designed by Valve.

Valve is good at many, many things – only if you had to choice one single affair that the PC developer was best at, it would belik be "taking good ideas from its community." Counter-Strike became a game in its own letter-perfect, Hepatic portal vein was originally developed by students, and more of the maps and items presently in Team Fort 2 were designed by the players.

Well, with the long-awaited Applied scientist Update at last over and done with, the next turn of unlocks will be yet another community-inspired batch. It's kinda community-glorious, in any event – information technology's the result of a contest held by Valve and "videogame art resource &adenylic acid; residential area" site Polycount. Artists were pleased to come up with a "set" of items for one of the game's nine character classes, and five winners would have their sets added to the game.

As to be likely, the winning entries were all pretty awesome. The Soldier gets a worrying-tariff "Tank Buster" launcher and radio gang (on the nose what use the radio will have clay to be seen). The speedy little Talent scout gets a 50's-milkman-themed outfit with the "Short Stop," a pistol that fires four rounds at once. While the Pyro's "Petrol station Attendant" set seems mostly cosmetic – as does the Spy's "Saharan Stag" Egyptian film noir rig – the Sniper seems to be acquiring a tranquilizer gun called the "Sydney Sleeper."

Every last in all, there's some selfsame nifty stuff coming from Polycount and Valve. Yet the retiring Pyro and Spy packs won't barely be enhancive: In a post on the TF2 blog, it was announced that the team would follow working to "attach gameplay attributes (probably of a game destroying nature) to these items." So feel free to wildly speculate about what they'll all do for now.

In the meantime, I'm going to be alternating between drooling over that beautiful new Spy tongue and trying to unlock that damned Wrangler along the Engineer.

(Polycount, via TF2 Blog)

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