Following a two year hiatus since the last Team Fortress 2 “Meet the Team” video, Valve unleashes “Meet the Medic”, an introduction to the man behind the Übercharge. It was worth the wait.
There are sneak peeks at some of the new content promised in this week’s “Über Update” amidst this insane medical action drama, an update that goes live today. It wraps with the news that Valve is making Team Fortress 2 a free to play game going forward.
Gordon
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 11:42 AMawesome.
Dissection
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 11:48 AMThat was DEFINITELY worth the wait!!
Trjn
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 11:51 AMBRB, reinstalling TF2.
Virus__
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 11:54 AMMakes me want to play now, but current computer can’t handle games :(
Melol
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 12:03 PMThis game has LOW system requirements. You might just wanna check it out
Virus__
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 5:54 PMI can’t even run Magicka D: But reinstalling would require something like 2.5GB in updates. Damn it Valve <_<
GamerLuke
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 11:57 AMThat video was amazing.
Will be downloading this when I get home.
Chuloopa
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 12:15 PMThat was… GLORIOUS!!!
Shinkada
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 12:22 PMSo wait.
The Mann Co store was secretly just phase one of a stealth conversion to microtransactions?
Wow. If it was anyone else but Valve they’d get slammed for this.
bazuden
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 12:30 PMThey’ve been talking about using this business model for ages.
Jordaan Mylonas
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 12:52 PMslammed for what? Giving away a free game with the ability to find for free all of the stuff they sell?
RichardH
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 12:59 PMI can’t see how they’d get slammed for this. It’s for a game that is getting long in the tooth, has been re-sold in various bundles over the years and now is going to be free for everyone to play, with the transactions probably just making enough for server maintenance.
Hell I was more pissed when they released the store without making the whole game free to play. It just smacked of double dipping. But then, I like many others, had already bought the game long before then.
John
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 12:31 PMNever thought I’d be saying that it’d be worth the wait, considering the timeframe, but it’s times like these that I know I made the right choice with both my main FPS and my main class.
Humor-wise, animation-wise, just the sheer (and I’m sorry I’m using the term here but I can’t think of another word right now) awesomeness-wise, this thing exceeds my expectations and then some.
Free-to-Play doesn’t concern me, but I do hope that people who paid for it get some kind of benefit. Playing the game by itself is a benefit, but it’d be kinda cool, you know?
Also where are the beta medic weps dammit.
And hey, the BLU Heavy didn’t die this time!
ShiggyNinty
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 12:31 PMDear god that was worth the wait.
Doraiya
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 12:33 PMCan’t.
Handle… the? Pure! Awesome…
Bish
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 12:34 PMJudging by the rising quality of their Meet The Team shorts, I expect Meet the Pyro to be the most glorious thing on the internet, ever.
Trjn
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 1:14 PMI now want Meet the Pyro to simply be a ten second clip of the Pyro waving at the camera with a muffled “hello!”
Dissection
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 12:43 PMHmm, the Quick-Fix is very OP. I can see that getting nerfed real quick.
bazuden
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 2:00 PMIts got no over-heal!
Just take out the medic first, and the rest will fall.
Dissection
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 2:40 PMDude, no overheal is not exactly much of a negative when you have 40% extra heal rate, 25% faster uber chargerate, the ubercharge bonus of 300%healing and immunity to movement impairing (read; turrets) and being able to move as fast as your target.
Medic w/ Quick Fix + Scout = CTF rape
tokyodove
Sunday, June 26, 2011 at 4:12 AMpersonally i find this weapon severely lacking… underpowered if anything
This Guy
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 12:47 PMPeople who already own the game receive a hat. No surprises there.
…
I love Valve (l)
Dissection
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 2:49 PMLink?
bazuden
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 1:09 PMI wanna play TF2 now!! Stupid work :(
Gumby
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 1:31 PMEven if we have to wait while, Valve sure does deliver.
Marathon
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 2:34 PMAbsolutely awesome. Please make a full TF2 movie. :P
Sarah
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 4:31 PMA TF movie would be awesome.
Chris
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 6:59 PMJust need to have one done about The Pyro now…
Freyr
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 8:31 PMI’m a little disappointed, because I love the medic so much. I thought there would be more purity of awesomeness :(
tsengan
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 9:19 PMDoves. Awesome.
Riverbob
Monday, June 27, 2011 at 11:43 PMAs a die-hard Medic player, I was thoroughly impressed by this.