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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.
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I can’t even run Magicka D: But reinstalling would require something like 2.5GB in updates. Damn it Valve <_<
So 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.
slammed for what? Giving away a free game with the ability to find for free all of the stuff they sell?
I 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.
Never 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!
Judging 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.
I now want Meet the Pyro to simply be a ten second clip of the Pyro waving at the camera with a muffled “hello!”
Dude, 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
People who already own the game receive a hat. No surprises there.
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I love Valve (l)
I’m a little disappointed, because I love the medic so much. I thought there would be more purity of awesomeness 🙁
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