Update: The date has been set as May 22st 2009 (U.S. PST) and The Meet The Spy video has found its way online.

Valve, those teasy mcteasers, have sent through word the next Class Update for Team Fortress 2 is coming soon. Well, actually it'll be made available in the "next few coming days" (no actual date has been set yet), but you can hit up their Sniper Update specific site until the update's actual release.

Like prior TF2 Class updates, the Sniper will deliver new Achievements, maps and unlockable weapons free of charge to all owners of Team Fortress 2 for the PC.

Hit this link to be escorted to the new countdown site, and stay tuned, because a "free weekend" will be coming soon too, according to our Valve sources.

the new unlockable is a bow and arrow, bit weird.

hmmm, dont know if i'll be a fan of that.

Not a fan of the sandman either.

Thats Gold. You're gonna see heavy weapons guys running around looking like porcupines. Wonder if they'll let you pin someone to wall while they're alive.

ive died like once or twice by being stunned by the sandman, its a piece of s***. The only thing its good for is stunning medics who are ubered and it drops the uber from their target

Mass, it seems it will do just that, look here... http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=2499

Wonder if you can still shoot while pinned to a wall.

robin said that its only the ragdolls that get pinned to walls etc. so if you get pinned it means you died.

looks awesome

Yeah, I think it's more like a "fatality" kind of thing, where if the arrow does enough damage to kill you it'll pin you to the wall.

Yeah the intro for the huntsman made it sound like a sandman sort of thing, but it's not.

its like the crossbow from hl2

woot new payload map and arena maps look awsome

New payload looks f***ing awesome!

Bring it on.

I was waiting for that map to come out with the scout update... but it never did :(

They just threw it in the background to tease us.

http://www.teamfortress.com/scoutupdate/images/03_background.jpg

hah yeah i remember that, everyone pretty much knew what the map was all about.

da y 2 is up

2 way payload and cpl of new maps.. looking good

looks like that map ^^ is coming with the sniper update. Looks like fun :D

New unlock

It's a back shield that electrocutes anyone that stabs it.

no more free kills for spies :(

what, a lvl 3 sg, dispenser, exit c/w a engineer not easy enough for you?

I think the new shield is a 1 time per death type thing. If it wasn't it'd just be flat out OP toward spies and no other class. Mabye it won't even kill them outright and just take off half hp or something

it should absorb the crit part of the backburner too :( f*** that noise

the way its worded it looks like it will just stop the spies long enough so you can turn around and kill them.

if you were a competent spy you would just deliver 3 revolver shots into the snipers back thats using the shield.

the shield might work well with snipers on the front line using the huntsman

and face stabs -_-

What do you sacrifice for the shield? Secondary or melee? And yes the shield can only survive one stab, and does not kill the spy - only disables his knife for a bit (and gives some damage). Not that great really.

im guessing secondary

I'd say you'd lose your knife actually, judging from the fact this shield would likely be worn on the back of the sniper and that the knife pouch currently holds that position. At least it looks like a knife pouch.

Sure, the added weight of the redesigned Razorback’ll slow you down a little.

So you'll be walking around at soldier speed?

Wonder if you get full speed back if a spy stab/shatters it.

click on the medic configuration, what is up with the "head" slot? any word? =p

------------------------------------ ???

WTF??

SPY UPDATE???

har har FEIGN DEATH is back

There is also a more permanent cloak the regenerates when you stand still.

Actually I can't tell wtf this is.

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yeah wtf?

"surprise" ?

Double update? w00t?

Cause the spy needed more easy ways to kill people! A good spy can already pretty much walk around and kill whoever he likes, this will just make it worse.

guess it's pyro time when this is released, this is gonna be fun

haha awsome. two class update woot

Gentlemen...

http://tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:98_7nhYm4Tz6SM:http://lolblog.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/gentlemen.jpg

^^

hah, awesome pic.

f*** YES. Spy update is what ive been waiting for to get back in this game. Sniper should be kinda fun aswell. Scout was bleh.

Hahaha its gonna be carnage, everyone will be a spy or sniper. So im going pyro .

ahha crackaveli you've got the right idea. I usually wait till everyone's over farming for the new stuff and then go for it.

Meet the spy video leaked. f***ing funny s*** :D

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/70742/157512-original.mp4
slightly better quality, if you're into that kinda thing

pretty funny

Ahahaha, that was the best meet the video ive seen so far. God valve are such good animators.

That was an awesome one

f*** i love valve.

Woohoo!

scouts mother = new class?

it wasnt really leaked. valve put it on their youtube channel then took it off. guess someone saved it before they did.

f***ing awesome vid.

best god damn game ever.

that.

was

awesome!

they just keep getting better

scouts mother = new class?

I wouldn't put it past Valve to pull an awesome Samus Aran style reveal that the Pyro is not only female, but scout's mother as well.

that was an awesome little clip;

That was awesome.

Throwing Sappers new weapon unlock?

Dazhel:
http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/2179/117161pyrorule63teamfor.jpg

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Throwing Sappers new weapon unlock?

f*** yeh, if thats what it is.

I reckon... especially if they slide like in the vid.

Imagine the chaos, it would work quite well. The instant reaction now once something is sapped is all players around the SG start spamming like mofo's instantly killing the spy.

/throw sapper
/everyone goes crazy looking for spy

I still love the "StabSap" combo. Feels so rewarding.

That meet the spy video was freaking GREAT!

I was totally thinking it was the blue spy too, so good ending! :)

haha fireblood do you play a soldier?

^ Mainly medic to be honest, but 2nd longest played is Soldier.
I suck at games now days :(
Plus havn't played TF2 for around 4 months and only played like...20 hours all up.

So TF2 is worth getting? I remember the days of team fortress... good times.

So TF2 is worth getting? I remember the days of team fortress... good times.

TF2 is one of the greatest multiplayer games ever created, I would drop $100 on it easy, for the current price it's absolutely criminal not to buy it.

Plus havn't played TF2 for around 4 months and only played like...20 hours all up.

Need to crank those hours.

I got an epic 101 teleports in one life yesterday, ruined my beautiful demoman stats... now my graph looks s***ty.

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/9592/statsf.jpg

how the f*** did you get that many teleports? was the other team too stupid to blow it up?

My most teleports is 101 too!

58 kills in one life?! That's freaking INSANE, I think the best I have got is like....6? mainly cus i play too much 2fort with 36 players and get smashed.

58 points not kills. On some servers you get points for doing f*** all. Also, stupid spies can give you a lot of points with repeated sappers.

I win

http://upshizzle.com/gallery/albums/October_2008/2win.jpg

that is a f***ing awesome video

shame you wont pull your head out of your ass and play it, trog

second that, wru trog

f*** this thread, every time i refresh the page i see Sniper update availa

Then i mouse over it and i am disappointed every time.

second that, wru trog

I find it boring :(

how the f*** did you get that many teleports? was the other team too stupid to blow it up?

32 player badwater, offence, tele entrance @ point 2 (spawn after you cap point 3).

Set it up instantly, stayed up for 10+ minutes, ONLY engi on a 16 player team... just cranking them through, non-stop.

People underestimate how damaging sapping entrances at spawn is :D

People underestimate how damaging sapping entrances at spawn is :D

Zactly, this is on the shortlist of c***ish but otherwise awesome spy tactics.

Hmm, I can either stab maybe one or two heavy/soldiers before getting pummelled by sentries OR I could sneak around to the base and cause everyone spawning an additional 15-20 seconds of walking time to the front line... (maybe get a stab in on the poor engie trying to recover)

OR I could sneak around to the base and cause everyone spawning an additional 15-20 seconds of walking time to the front line...

The priceless part of this is the distraction. you have 5 players running around spawn looking for you while your team is capping / defending.

32 player badwater, offence, tele entrance @ point 2 (spawn after you cap point 3).

and exactly how I got my 101 too haha

f*** this thread, every time i refresh the page i see Sniper update availa

Then i mouse over it and i am disappointed every time.

There ya go. Fixed it just for you! (and cause that was bugging me too)

Haha cheers.

It doesn't take a spy to own the tele entrance. On a few maps I can make it all the way to the spawn as Pyro if lucky. When you're a pyro and you can get behind the front line you can really ruin a few spawn waves for the other team.

Anyone been reading the tf2 blog http://www.teamfortress.com/ ? lol

lmao, they've gone mad.

new revolver for spy. called the ambassador

A good spy is gonna be unstoppable now with all the updates, thinking the might make the the spy a bit to powerful in the right hands.

Yes yes yes, that revolver is what I will use. I already try to outsnipe snipers with the existing revolver. Doesn't work very well once they know you're trying to do that though, and it does take quite a few shots because of the accuracy. This might just give me the edge and I'll finally enjoy maps like 'Well'.

A good spy is gonna be unstoppable now with all the updates, thinking the might make the the spy a bit to powerful in the right hands.

He's only powerful on pub because people don't spy check enough.

There's a few players on node 14 that ONLY spy check, it's literally impossible to do any sort of damage. This one guy plays scout and spends the entire game running circles behind heavies/cart/engis and shooting every single player non-stop.

I sometimes play pyro and do the same thing if the team has 2-3 spies that are doing lots of damage.

More mics would solve the problem too.

On the subject of teleports. I never actually realised HOW useful they were.

Most maps they save the player 15 seconds or so, big maps sometimes 30 seconds.

1 player (out of 16 in my case), with a lvl 3 tele running non-stop is the same as the other 15 players having 15-30 seconds cut off their respawn time.

eg. No tele, GR stage 3 offence. 45 - 50 seconds, essentially your spawn timer is now 60-80 seconds every death, MASSIVE influence.

Which is why I RAGE when people run over my lvl 3 tele because people are lining up. It takes 50 seconds to run, or under 5 seconds to wait... do the maths dips***s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Another good thing to do with teles (which I've been doing a fair bit lately) is if you run out of your spawn and see a few teles lying around that aren't upgraded, is to run back into spawn, change to engy, upgrade them, then change back to your preferred class. Saves the engies time and metal, and gets the whole team to the frontlines faster.

Another good thing to do with teles (which I've been doing a fair bit lately) is if you run out of your spawn and see a few teles lying around that aren't upgraded, is to run back into spawn, change to engy, upgrade them, then change back to your preferred class. Saves the engies time and metal, and gets the whole team to the frontlines faster.

Yep. It PISSES me off when you see 3 people lining up on a lvl 1 tele. They could jump into spawn, change to engi, get it upgraded to lvl 3 and teleport through well before the lvl 1 would have kicked in.

Same with spy sapping at spawn. If the tele is sapped, don't stand on it looking at die? WTF? Change to engi and repair it. I often see 5+ people run over a sapped tele at spawn, makes no sense at all.

If you're a class that doesn't need to setup straight away on defence (engis, meds and heavies have to run forward), upgrade the teles to lvl 3 at the start and you can still run up to the gates well before they open.

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pyro for every first wave on offense, engineer for all thereafter.
engineer for every first wave of defense, and pyro for all thereafter.
It pisses me off when you see dicks setting up turrets at the 5th cap point on badwater, when the game has just started (extreme example, but it happens).