New Team Fortress 2 Co-Op Mode Unites Red and Blu

[gigastar]

My Sentry will certainly be raking up kills tomorrow!

As if you thought Valve didnt think of that, theres a non-class robot specifically designed to kill sentries that get too much action.

That's why the Engineer has a shotgun and a pistol.

Well of course at this point we have no clue how killable the sentry busters actually are, but the bestiary page Valve provided states that they take a moment to start up, meaning you get a chance to pick up your dispenser and run the fuck away.

 

[Evil Smurf]

1. Why no sniper in the video?
2. I can't wait to get into it tonight!
3. HATSHATSHATS

 

[SnakeoilSage]

*Sniff* That was beautiful.

And scary. Because I had a dream this very thing happened.

 

[MrBenSampson]

I always thought it would be cool to play through the L4D series as the TF2 cast. This sounds like a similar idea, and it could be a lot of fun. I'd like to play as the Heavy or Pyro, but I get the feeling that my buddies will need me to be a Medic.

I was playing on a low population server one day, and I built a sentry that got over 60 kills against bots, in less than ten minutes. I hope Valve upgraded the AI, or this will be laughable.

 

[Irridium]

I don't really care for Horde-type modes. But Valve sure as hell knows how to make a trailer.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

I want to remind everybody I opened an Escapist Group for easy party finding, updates, and possible strategies. You can find it here [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/Mann-Vs-Machine].

 

[DustyDrB]

An invite to our new robot friends:

[HEADING=2]Burn with me![/HEADING]

Yeah, I feel gratuitous amounts of TF2 time tomorrow. Oh, wait...that's not different than most days.
Oh well...even more gratuitousness!!!!!

 

[kortin]

Yeah...how dull.

Didn't like it in Black Ops, don't want it in TF2. Enjoy.

 

[royohz]

Are the medic needles armour piercing? Otherwise I don't see how that would be effective against the metal plated robots!

Let's just say they're filled with ANTI-ANTI-RUST solvents and water!

I'm super [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QepX2ONn7xQ?t=15s] hyped about this! And I love Valve's ARGs, it's all eally exciting. Unfortunately, I won't be able to play much.

 

[shadowstriker86]

i noticed there are no spy bots and robots arent immune to backstabs. I'll be raking up so many kills with my quacking knife and dead hooker lol

 

[ThriKreen]

The Escapist community also has 3 TF2 servers (UK, N.America East Coast, N.America West Coast) that will definitely get updated for this mode.

 

[gibboss28]

I think it's time I got back into TF2. Haven't played properly in over a year so I'm gonna be rusty as fuck but still.....HORDE MODE! Although I was hoping that they would've had 24 players working together, 12 Red, 12 Blu against a metric fuckton of bots rather than just 5 players.

I know it goes without saying, but good things come to those who wait...the modders will probably be all over this shit.

 

[DustyDrB]

The Escapist community also has 3 TF2 servers (UK, N.America East Coast, N.America West Coast) that will definitely get updated for this mode.

Are the American ones active? I checked one out at like 8PM on a weekend once. I was the only one on. I'm in a clan, so I'll be playing with those guys and gals 99% of the time. But I'd like jump in against some other Escapists from time to time.

 

[gigastar]

My Sentry will certainly be raking up kills tomorrow!

As if you thought Valve didnt think of that, theres a non-class robot specifically designed to kill sentries that get too much action.

That's why the Engineer has a shotgun and a pistol.

Well of course at this point we have no clue how killable the sentry busters actually are, but the bestiary page Valve provided states that they take a moment to start up, meaning you get a chance to pick up your dispenser and run the fuck away.

So basically the answer is to put a teleport far enough in front of your sentry that it takes the damage with no splash hitting your sentry.

Its not called a "sentry buster" for nothing, it supposedly ignores the other biuldings and goes right for the death-spitting hell machine that the sentry is.

Not saying we probably wont be able to break the things pathfinding, but this being Valve they have probably gave it some dirty tricks to allow it to reach sentries quicker.

 

[gigastar]

The Escapist community also has 3 TF2 servers (UK, N.America East Coast, N.America West Coast) that will definitely get updated for this mode.

Would you happen to have the server IP addresses or are they posted somewhere on the site?

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

1. Why no sniper in the video?

The Spy and the Pyro are missing as well. Sniper and Spy I could understand (they're not really "kitted out" to be shown in a toe-to-toe battle), but the Pyro?

 

[kortin]

What in the bloody hell are you talking about?

It's Black Ops Zombies with robots instead of zombies.