Team Fortress 2 Classless Update: Now With Hats!

Andy Chalk

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Team Fortress 2 Classless Update: Now With Hats!


Team Fortress 2 [http://www.valvesoftware.com/], a new add-on for the online FPS featuring a brand-new map and some very sexy hats.

With the unpleasantness of jarate [http://www.teamfortress.com/sniper_vs_spy/day07_english.htm] finally receding into a mercifully-distant memory, Valve has decided to once again remind people that it is staffed largely by people who aren't quite right in the head. The best way to do that? Hats! 18 of them in fact, representing an impressive collection of headgear that's both attractive and practical.

"In wartime, hats were a useful way of conferring rank, and ensuring that casualties were confined to the lower classes," Valve noted in its announcement of the update. "During peacetime, hats have been instrumental for men to let the non-hatted know just who is wearing the hat around here."

And what's the point of having a new hat if you don't have somewhere new to show it off? Thus we have Arena Offblast, "a fast-paced, high-altitude community map set in a top secret missile silo wedged into the top of a hollowed-out mountain" that's also included with the update. The map features open paths carved into the mountainside and the whole thing is set atop a sheer cliff, providing players with plenty of opportunities to stumble to humiliating, self-inflicted deaths.

There's also a tantalizing possibility that there will be more: The First Ever Classless Update - 100 Percent Free! - is, like the teamfortress.com/classless [http://www.teamfortress.com/sniper_vs_spy/day01_english.htm].

Thanks to VyperX [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/view/VyperX] for the heads-up.


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ben---neb

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I remain, as ever, addicted to Team Fortress 2. And I still have no hats.
 

Swaki

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thats the status in it, when im playing i only heal those who wear hats.

first you get the hats then you get the heal THEN you get the über
 

throwitinthetrash

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Screw it, once this is out, I'm idling until I have everything.
Probably about 80~ hours since the update came out and not one hat.

Edit: On a more related note, the Engineer's ten-gallon hat will go well with the Hank Hillgineer mod
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=927403
 

Markness

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http://www.teamfortress.com/classless/hidden/barbary/
http://www.teamfortress.com/classless/hidden/advertisement/
http://www.teamfortress.com/classless/hidden/enigmatical/

Valve is such a bunch of trolls?

10 internets and a cookie to anyone who can decipher these.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=936160
^the full steam thread for those interested.
 

Sir Ollie

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bowler hat, bowler hat, bowler hat, bowler hat, bowler hat, bowler hat, Huzzah!

I hope they're easy to get.
 

DeadlyYellow

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I think the best part of that ad is the little background of two sophisticated looking gents, one wearing three top hats stacked upon themselves.
 

Pielikey

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I hope they add item trading, as I'd gladly give away my scout helmet for a viking helmet.
 

Doug

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ben---neb said:
I remain, as ever, addicted to Team Fortress 2. And I still have no hats.
*dons a hat* Now you see who is wearing the hat and who is not!