Team Fortress 2 - EPIC Updates Coming!
August 13, 2008 by Raj
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If you thought the Pyro update was exhausting, wait till the Heavy update gets here. Not only will you get 3 new weapons and 35 new achievements but also a NEW gameplay mode with 5 maps, a NEW Payload map and a custom community map. All we can say is Hell yeah!
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 arenas 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.
Make sure to check out the Heavy Update site as well.
I Am Alive - Announced
July 12, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Corporate, Development, E3 2008, Genre, Horror, Miscellaneous, Newsbits
Ubisoft played smarts with Assassin’s Creed, hype a title with a pretty face next to it and you’re sure to get attention even if the game itself was mediocre. Putting that aside, Ubisoft (or Jade Raymond) has announced their latest project; I Am Alive. Even though the title is NOT being developed by Ubisoft, it’s a project of Jade Raymond. Her involvement in the title is unknown at this point, though we’d reckon it’s limited to giving to 1,000 interviews and doing PR work. More details in E3 2008.
Set after an earthquake hits Chicago, I Am Alive is being labelled a “survival game”, with a few major differences from the typical “survival-horror” titles we’ve been seeing waves of recently. You won’t be trapped in the dark, beating up masses of scary things with great big weapons - instead, it’s more like a first-person adventure title, with a low emphasis on weapons.
Crysis Wars Unveiled
July 11, 2008 by Raj
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According to EA Store, Crysis: Warhead will also contain Crysis Wars. A new multiplayer component that comes with new vehicles/weapons and gameplay modes. Would Crysis Wars/Warhead suffer the same piss-poor after-sales support that Crysis did? Only time will tell.
- Pulse-racing new installment from 2007’s PC Game of the Year*: Play as Sergeant Sykes and experience a whole new side of the battle. A standard combat mission behind enemy lines becomes critical when you discover your enemies have captured something of vital importance to the ensuing war. It’s down to you to retrieve the cargo, at any cost.
- More explosive and dynamic minute to minute game play: new customizable weapons, new vehicles, new photorealistic locations to explore, and a fully interactive war zone to dominate.
- Enhanced human and alien AI: Intelligent enemies, bigger challenges, and all-new ally squad support.
- Includes Crysis Wars®, an expanded new multiplayer experience with new online modes and 21 maps including seven all-new maps to battle it out against other players.
- Crysis Warhead is a standalone release and does not require ownership of Crysis to play.
Pyro Unlocks/Achievements Detailed
June 18, 2008 by Raj
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Shacknews has the full scoop on the upcoming Pyro achievements/unlocks. Pyro will be getting three new weapons; Flare Gun, Backburner and Axtinguisher. As with medic achievements, you’ll unlock them as you complete 12/24/35 achievements.
Check out the weapon details below:
Flare Gun:
This’ll be the first unlock (after you complete 12 achievements) and is able to light people on fire from a great distance. However, it’ll require steady aim.
The first Pyro unlockable is The Flare Gun, which replaces the shotgun. It allows the Pyro to ignite an enemy at long range, but does require careful aim on their part. It’s particularly useful for causing havoc on Snipers and Engineers who want to keep their distance. Read more
Postal 2: Share The Pain Full Free Multiplayer
May 25, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Client, Corporate, Development, Downloads, First Person Shooter, Genre, Miscellaneous, NewsbitsÂ
Running With Scissors, the developers of Postal games franchise, have released Postal 2: Share The Pain’s multiplayer counterpart as a free addon. The multiplayer features 14 multiplayer maps, 25 playable characters, 11 crazy weapons and 4 different gametypes. The game weighs 597MB can be downloaded from. Read more
Robin Walker Talks Team Fortress 2
May 5, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Corporate, Development, Digital Distribution, Downloads, First Person Shooter, Genre, Patches, Steam
G4TV’s X-Play did a video interview of Valve’s Robin Walker. Robin Walker, the designer and programmer of Team Fortress 2, talks about the Goldrush map as well as upcoming achievements/unlocks for other classes. According to Walker, other classes will get the achievements and unlockable weapons “in the next few months”. Read more
Team Fortress 2 - Perma-uber exploit fixed
May 5, 2008 by Raj
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Valve has released an update for Team Fortress 2. The update fixes the perma-uber exploit.
Team Fortress 2
- Fixed unlimited UberCharge exploit
- Fixed charge effect getting stuck on the Kritzkrieg when changing class/weapons
Update 6/5/2008: Various players have reported the exploit still works.
Team Fortress 2 gets a slight update
May 3, 2008 by Raj
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Valve has released a small update for Team Fortress 2. Restart your Steam client to begin updating.
Team Fortress 2
- Fixed Kritzkrieg client crash in particle system
- Fixed Milestone 2 and Milestone 3 achievements being given at the incorrect times
- Fixed exploit where players could drop weapons onto the ground for other players to pickup
Team Fortress 2 - Mega Update Coming Next Week
April 25, 2008 by Raj
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Using their Steam news section, VALVe has confirmed the update is due next week.
A major update for TF2 is due next week, adding an all new map, Goldrush, and new achievement-based weapons for the Medic. Pick up TF2 here and get ready.
Garry’s Mod Update Released
March 31, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Digital Distribution, Downloads, Patches, Steam
Updates to Garry’s Mod have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Garry’s Mod
- Fingerposer now works with TF2 models
- Improved fingerposer UI accuracy
- Added GUI Skin chooser
- Added content mount chooser
- Added code to fix TF2 turrets spawning with unusable physics object
- Restricted content mounted by default
- Various player model fixes (Thanks to Nickolas George)
- Removed unused, exploitable commands (spectate etc)
- NPC Turrets now spawn facing away from you
- Separated lamps and lights from undo and limits
- Added Shield icon to Admin Only entities
- Added ‘description’ popups to context menu fields
- Fixed maxplayers not changing when starting a listen server after playing single player
- Fixed Barnacle crash
- Fixed Metropolice crash
- Fixed rare startup crash due to localization
- Fixed player spawned vehicle count being wrong
- Fixed some attributes not changing when clicking a light
- Fixed numberwang not working if textarea had key focus
- Fixed Lua error when putting an invalid number into numberwang
- Fixed crash when physgunning weapons into players
- Added lua_reloadents (for lua coders, to reload all Lua entities)
- Added some missing TF2 map icons (Thanks Namelezz)
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