No New Team Fortress 2 Updates Until 2009

[shimrra]

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Valve's class-based multiplayer shooter Team Fortress 2 won't receive its next major update until next year, marketing VP Doug Lombardi has informed Shacknews.

"Well, it won't be this year," said Lombardi when asked about the next update. "But we're going to keep evolving TF2. Once Left 4 Dead wraps, you'll hear us clamoring more about [the next TF2 update]."

Lombardi made the statement after speaking on the impending release of Left 4 Dead (PC, 360), which saw contributions from numerous Team Fortress 2 team members as development of the cooperative zombie-killing shooter entered the final stages.

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Since TF2's arrival last year, Valve has provided numerous free updates to owners of the PC version, adding new modes and maps along with class-specific achievements and unlockables for the Medic, Pyro and Heavy classes. The studio has pledged that all of the title's nine classes will eventually be updated with new weaponry.

The marketing VP also reiterated that bringing the existing Team Fortress 2 updates to Xbox 360 is "definitely in the plan," though no timeline was offered as to its release.

Link (http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/55364)

[Blue Heeler]

booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[Mule Juice]

Minor update coming this week. Scout announced as next class update.

http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=2096



We've been pretty quiet lately, but thankfully, that's about to end. In the next few days we'll have an update out that has a couple of new features for the Engineer and Spy, and a variety of other smaller fixes.



> Teleporters will be upgradeable to level 3. As the teleporter is upgraded, the cooldown will decrease.

> Dispensers will be upgradeable to level 3. They will heal faster and generate metal faster as they are upgraded.

> Spies will be able to recharge their cloaking ability by picking up ammo off of the ground.

> We've made a bunch of minor changes by adding particle systems and upgrading the HUD to show things like deaths by critical hits, players that are overhealed, and giving more information to medics when people are calling for them.

These are just to work on some class balance and depth issues that we've seen in the wild with these two classes, but aren't meant to replace their entire class packs. They will be getting more attention further down the road.

http://www.teamfortress.com/images/posts/scout1.jpg

While that's in testing, we're off working on several things that folks have been emailing us about, so we thought it'd be good to provide some detail:



> The next class pack will be the Scout. One of the main goals we're focusing on for him has been to provide tools that make him useful in maps like Dustbowl & Goldrush. If you have any ideas for what you think would work well, post them over on the Team Fortress 2 Forum and we'll take a look.

> We are actively working on a massive XBox 360 update, which will include pretty much everything we've shipped on the PC in the last year. We'll provide you with a rough date when we have one.

> We're also working on bringing over a variety of engine improvements from Left 4 Dead into the TF2 engine, but it won't be a wholesale replacement of the engine. This means we'll get some of L4D's performance improvements, like the better multicore support, but not all of them. For example, we can't bring over some improvements without dropping support for DX8, which we're not prepared to do.

[transit grinder]

Well...it is less than a month until 2009.

[Blue Heeler]

Thanks for the new info, it gives me a chance to say "Gabe Newell is a Developer Hacking Douche"