For a while now WETA has peddled its own intellectual property (created by WETA’s Greg Broadmore), that of Dr. Grordbort, seller of old-timey ray guns for combat against old-timey aliens.
That universe, previously restricted to comics and high-priced collectibles, is now part of Team Fortress 2, a variety of items now available including a pair of guns, a pith helmet and a beard/pipe combo.
That explains the rockets! oh, and there’s also a new comic, available at the link below.
Dr. Grordbort + TF2 [Team Fortress 2]
Mic
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 4:23 PMThe comic shows only one of the 3 rockets that popped up in various maps. Current theory is that there’ll be a couple more discoveries to come.
bobsquiggles
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 6:28 PMYAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!
watsonega
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 6:48 PMthe weapons are annoying as hell. Not because everyone has one but because they are very overpowered, make annoying noises, dont fit into the style of TF2, litter the screen with annoying (and recyled;HL2) effects.
I love TF2 alot. Its my go-to. My sure thing. But its iritating now. Its not going to be a fad like everyone going enigie for the engie update. The weapons get kills/ results. balance is gone :(
Mike
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 7:33 PMLasers for the soldier. Really?
From the TF2 “make items for TF2″ page:
>>>Keeping the visual style consistent is important, in that we don’t want anything out of theme or out of date. TF is a stylized world set some time in the 50′s. Nothing modern, visually hyper-realistic, or overly “cartoony.”<<<
Yep.
Yam
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 8:55 AMSO I as a Soli now get to blast peoploe with deadly Lasers…
Cool
I wonder what else these lovely rockets will bring.
(Come on Robots for Engie )
monkeyd_93
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 11:01 AMthe cow mangler 5000 is so overpowered it aint funny
ba!
Monday, July 25, 2011 at 11:59 AMyeha man,
And I mean shit.
This could have been for Engine aleast! He didn’t even get anything for UBER…and they’re lazer guns?! why the hell does the Solider have them. They look amazing but are stupid.
Humanthehuman
Sunday, July 24, 2011 at 9:41 PMANYONE WHO USES LASERS IS A GINGER.