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Team Fortress 2 gets Scout update and 50% discount
Additionally Valve announced that the game will be getting a 50 percent price cut, as it did with Left 4 Dead recently, to renew interest in the game and bring in some new players. The sale will run until later today and sees the popular multiplayer shooter drop down to a mere $10 – it is definitely worth the purchase. A full list with details of the update can be found after the jump.
New features
* Added The Force-A-Nature, The Sandman, and Bonk!
* Added 35 new Scout achievements
* Added crit boosted on/off sound effects
* Added new sounds for upgraded teleporters
* Added new sound for a fully charged medic dying
* Add bonus points section to scores
o Scouts earn a bonus point for killing Medics who are actively healing a target
* Added several new speech concepts, mostly hooked up to new Scout lines
* Added new "Remember last weapon between lives" option to the Multiplayer Advanced dialog
* Spies can now control which weapon the enemy team sees them holding. Hitting the "last disguise" key while disguised updates the disguise to show the Spy's currently held weapon
* Added several new Arena mode announcer speech events.
* Added "First Blood" to Arena mode
* Removed 2x item respawn times in arena
* Changed backstab handling to fix facestabs
* Spies disguised as enemy team can now see player IDs for enemies
New maps
* Added community maps: cp_egypt, arena_watchtower, and cp_junction
* Updated cp_fastlane with Arttu's new version
Mapmaker requests
* Added new input for forward speed modifier to FuncTrainTrain
* Added TeleportToPathTrack input to func_tracktrain
Bugfixes
* Fixed a bug where players would sometimes gib from non-gib damage kills
* Fixed stat screen showing an entry for a class called "map."
* Fixed item model panels not using team skins
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User Comments (7)
Post a comment| fwilliams on February 27, 2009 3:09 PM | Is there a Linux Version yet!
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| Shorty7598 on February 27, 2009 6:49 PM | Article says Valve did a 50% price cut on Team Fortress 2,
it's like a mere 10 bucks. ok I went to the Steam Valve webiste and I'm not seeing a price cut. I see $19.99, basically 20 bucks. What happened to the discount?
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| Warbarz on February 28, 2009 11:10 AM | It was a weekend deal, thing is, i never saw the deal, been
watching for it for 2 weeks. I regularly use STEAMPOWERED,
and have had my eye out for it since i heard about the deal,
was going to get extra copies for friends when they come
over. To bad its all hype and they just want people to pay
the full price of 20.00. Might i remind everyone that for 10
more, you can get the full orangebox with several other
games. 20$ is a bit high for tf2 alone, Though, tf2, being
online, must be purchased, probably part of valves strategy
to grease some more bills from their customers.
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| seanp789 on February 28, 2009 11:13 AM | Confirmed, there is no discount. The weekend deal is on
Lost Planet.
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| Shorty7598 on February 28, 2009 7:01 PM | Thanks. Well it's not TF2, but for $4.99 I will take Lost
Planet. It would be nice to see TF2 for 4.99 ::dreaming::
I'm sure.
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| JosVilches on February 28, 2009 7:49 PM | The article says "The sale will run until later today."
Perhaps it was my mistake not to specify I was referring to
Friday (the day the article was published). Anyway, the TF2
sale is over now but Lost Planet for $4.99 seems like a good
buy too.
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| eafshar on March 1, 2009 3:13 PM | valve definitely doesn't disappoint with tf2 and all its
updates
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