Incoming Heavy!!!

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Incoming Heavy!
August 11, 2008 - Robin Walker

We've been a little quiet for the last week as we've put the finishing touches on the Heavy update. We thought the Pyro pack was the biggest we'd be doing for a while, due to the large changes to the Pyro, but the Heavy update has turned out to be even bigger. In addition to the three unlockable weapons and thirty-five achievements for the Heavy, we've got a new game mode with five new maps for it, a new Payload map focusing on more open spaces than Goldrush, and another popular community-made map. Throughout the rest of the week we'll be giving you the details on all this, and if all goes well, you'll have your hands on it shortly afterwards.

The community-made map included in the Heavy update is cp_steel, by Jamie 'Fishbus' Manson. After the Pyro update we received a lot of email telling us how wrong we were in our choices, and cp_steel was an easy next choice due to the way it dominated the suggestions. If you're firing up your email right now to tell us that we never get anything right, please include suggestions of what map(s) we should be looking at next.

We'll be updating A Heavy Update site with more info daily. Stay tuned!

http://steamgames.com/tf2/heavy/images/bg_home_day1.jpg

Update-8/13/08
KGB Gloves
http://steamgames.com/tf2/heavy/images/02_header.jpg

Cp_Steel details
http://steamgames.com/tf2/heavy/cp_steel.htm

"NEW MAP" Badwater basin
http://steamgames.com/tf2/heavy/badwater.htm

hot

WHEN?!

Time to start backstabbing some slow moving targets :ninja

DO SVIDANIYA!

A good thing. Heavies got really gimped when they updated pyro's.

ДО СВИДАНИЯ!

I hope one of the new weapons also lets the heavy wear a little hat.

I like steel, it's just confusing as FUCK and a large learning curve in regards to the map layout.

Here's goes my favorite class down the drain.

I am fairly positive I have not completed even a single achievement tree (and I play a lot).

Just never bothered to 'try' all the silly achievements. (Kill someone who is taunting you while 3 medics are fully charged with critskrieg near you just as you crit kill 4 pyros as a bird flies overhead on the 3rd Sunday of an even numbered year)

Granted some of the medic ones were pretty stupid, but I think I had the 3rd pyro unlock within about 4 game hours of regular play, spent over a few days. And I played a pyro often anyway.

Finishing people off with the shotgun after you torch them and they run? Killing spies that are sapping friendly sentries? Granted out of 35 there are probably about 10 really stupid ones, but you don't need them so who cares? The rest are just playing more or less normally.

The new gloves sound gay. I don't think you could combo a KGB kill, then switch to the minigun for crits. I guess we'll have to wait and see what weapon they get as a primary (maybe a flak cannon :lol:)

Thats sounds good to me in Overtime, the best ive ever done was punch and kill 7 guys on the bridge in a huge rush, withthese gloves its gonna make KO'ing someone quick and easy.

except these swing slower, and you're going to have to kill someone with them before you're going to have that 5 seconds of crit. :ugh:

shouldve got brass knuckles instead.

eh gloves are a little more humorous

new map link *Bump

new minigun

Team Fortress 2 - A Heavy Update (http://steamgames.com/tf2/heavy/natascha.htm)

WTF -25% damage is gay,supposed to make stronger.

I wish it were 50%. the heavy is going to be sick with that gun... depending on how much speed it will take off. does anyone know this???