Team Fortress 2's Tenth Class Is Dead

Quietly and quickly Valve ran a ridiculous sale of Team Fortress 2 yesterday for the low low price of $2.49. This sale only lasted a few hours and by the time I heard about the sale there was only about 45 minutes left in the sale. But after the sale Valve released a Halloween styled update for the game.

This new patch contained a time sensitive set of achievements and a limited time only new map. These new achievements will only work from now thru November 2 and can only be locked in the new Harvest. The new Harvest map is a Halloween themed King of Hill Map littered with exploding pumpkins, wandering ghosts and a clue that the rumored tenth class is in fact dead.

[toaster]

Oh well. Time to get achievements.

[rawrockkillz]

RIP beloved tenth class.

[frostypants]

Unless they're just being super-clever and the 10th class is undead or something. Unlikely though.

[tdrules]

i'd rather have nine classes and perfect balance (:

[PS3 Masta]

its hardley perfecly balanced, kz2 and unchaterted 2 are beter balanced

[Pandamobile]

Lol, wow. This coming from a guy that's obviously never played TF2 in his life.

[thor]

TF2 is not balanced for small games, but neither is any game really (some classes become redundant always). In big games it is balanced but chaotic and becomes a big mess (not that fun).

On this news I decided to re-download TF2 and I must say it's quite fun, but having just played Quake Live I will say this:
- Movement is too slow
- Movement feels weird now I can't strafe jump and bound around
- Jumping is very weird, especially the double jump and I always end up going in the wrong direction
- The soldier's rocket is hard to use (I'm getting better) and the rocket jump I just can't get the hang of having come off Quake Live where's it's perfect
- In general feels less precise than QL like I am spraying and praying - might be the animations and SFX for firing weapons.

[frostypants]

@3.1: Uncharted 2 is an unfair comparison...it has no classes. Everyone starts with the same loadout (other than perks), but it's a great game nonetheless. Bad comparison though. Killzone 2 is pretty well balanced, but no better than TF2.

From a pure gameplay perspective, I frankly think Quake 2 kills all of them. Call me old school...

[Pandamobile]

I love Valve's sense of humour :)

[PS3 Masta]

its not funny atall....

[Pandamobile]

Someone's butthurt that they get no PS3 love from Valve :)

[toaster]

So true.. so true. Sony missed out on Half life 2, hl2 ep.1, hl2 ep2, team fortress 2, portal.

And one of the greatest gaming deals in video game history: The Orange Box. Too bad for Sony...

Atleast I have my trusty PC.

[Pandamobile]

Well, Sony did have all the crappy third party ports of the Half-Life series.

[PS3 Masta]

euhe did you even play it?? the PS3 version was best graphic,, it sucks any way .......

[Pandamobile]

Oh god you're a bigger idiot than I thought.

[y0haN]

HAVING JUST ENTERED THIS THREAD I MUST SAY PANDA IS LOOKING A BIT TROLLED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

[Pandamobile]

NO YOHAN, YOU ARE THE TROLL OMFG.

[frostypants]

Have Half Life 2 on my PC. Sorry, it's grossly overrated crap. TF2 is fun though.

@4.5: No, the PC had the best HL2 graphics BY FAR...but again...lame discussion. Overrated game. Everyone knows it, but no one has the cajones to admit it.

[y0haN]

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