Team Fortress 2 Gets Halloween Update, First Boss Enemy

[therandombear]

The Mountain Lab map was also added if you want to edit that in Tito!

Hold the fucking phone, what about Saxton Hale?

Covered last month - http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.234329-Team-Fortress-2-Mod-Pits-Entire-Team-Against-a-Single-Australian

Your server is empty, this disappointments me as I wanted to show off my shiny new pumpkin head!

server emptied quite fast when we couldn't extend the Mann Manor map anymore, we were up to 28 extensions

More tomorrow though

 

[therandombear]

Is this for the Xbox 360 too?

PC only, never been a update for the xbox/PS3 version.

 

[Sevre]

server emptied quite fast when we couldn't extend the Mann Manor map anymore, we were up to 28 extensions

More tomorrow though

Can't we get Craig to set it to Mann Manor only for a while? It'll give me the chance to get the other achievements too, while dropping sentries on my Escapist friends.

 

[Jumplion]

Its great. I have one particular great story on the Escapist UK server.

In this map drops random gifts. They drop very infrequently, and drop in random areas. And since the map is a CP map, there are times when it drops in your area, the enemies, and in-between. And couple in the Horsemann with lots of speed, many people chose the Scout as their class.

Well I was a humble Engineer, and I moved up my sentry to near the next cap point after we heroically took the first one. As I plopped down my beefy level 3 sentry on the ground, the gift appeared right in front of me. The enemy also saw it as well, but my mighty sentry was able to keep the squishy Scouts at bay, allowing my manly Engineer self to walk on up and grab it without a hitch.

It was fun time.

Meanie, one of those scouts were me D:

Oh shush, I remember you getting 2 gifts in a row.

What are these "gifts?

And damnit, I really don't want to have to craft 9 hats just to craft them all together to get the Saxton hat, as awesome as the Saxton hat is, it's way too much metal...

I always seem to get confused whenever TF2 gets a major update, I can never keep track of what the achievements are or what maps are added or what new weapons do what.

 

[therandombear]

server emptied quite fast when we couldn't extend the Mann Manor map anymore, we were up to 28 extensions

More tomorrow though

Can't we get Craig to set it to Mann Manor only for a while? It'll give me the chance to get the other achievements too, while dropping sentries on my Escapist friends.

No idea what frosty's been doing today, but we had some of the other admins to "force" change map, since the Mann Manor map isn't in the "nominate" list, which is odd, since mountain lab is on the list, but not this =/
Neither is the harvest event map with the ghost either, just the normal day version.

 

[Sevre]

server emptied quite fast when we couldn't extend the Mann Manor map anymore, we were up to 28 extensions

More tomorrow though

Can't we get Craig to set it to Mann Manor only for a while? It'll give me the chance to get the other achievements too, while dropping sentries on my Escapist friends.

No idea what frosty's been doing today, but we had some of the other admins to "force" change map, since the Mann Manor map isn't in the "nominate" list, which is odd, since mountain lab is on the list, but not this =/
Neither is the harvest event map with the ghost either, just the normal day version.

If only I had learned about this sooner when Kross was around....but I was playing 2fort *hangs head in shame*

 

[therandombear]

le snip

the gifts randomly spawn somewhere on the manor map, 15 different spots, and inside is a mask, one with each class on them, you can craft all 9 into 1 Saxton Hale mask, doesn't cost metal.

 

[Jumplion]

le snip

the gifts randomly spawn somewhere on the manor map, 15 different spots, and inside is a mask, one with each class on them, you can craft all 9 into 1 Saxton Hale mask, doesn't cost metal.

Good, good...

Now I just need to find them >_<

On the plus side, I got the hat you get for killing the HHH. I feel special :3

 

[therandombear]

le snip

the gifts randomly spawn somewhere on the manor map, 15 different spots, and inside is a mask, one with each class on them, you can craft all 9 into 1 Saxton Hale mask, doesn't cost metal.

Good, good...

Now I just need to find them >_<

On the plus side, I got the hat you get for killing the HHH. I feel special :3

Yup, nothing more special then the hat everyones got, pumpkin hat is the new gibus xD

Btw, if you want to craft the new halloween hats, it does cost a lot of metal, Haunted metal which you get for doing the Gore achievement, and 4 refined metal to randomly craft 1 of the halloween hats.

Or you can craft a axe, 2 refined, scullcutter and a haunted metal. Which is just a reskin for the eyelander...with only the negative bonuses>.<

 

[Jumplion]

le snip

the gifts randomly spawn somewhere on the manor map, 15 different spots, and inside is a mask, one with each class on them, you can craft all 9 into 1 Saxton Hale mask, doesn't cost metal.

Good, good...

Now I just need to find them >_<

On the plus side, I got the hat you get for killing the HHH. I feel special :3

Yup, nothing more special then the hat everyones got, pumpkin hat is the new gibus xD

Btw, if you want to craft the new halloween hats, it does cost a lot of metal, Haunted metal which you get for doing the Gore achievement, and 4 refined metal to randomly craft 1 of the halloween hats.

Or you can craft a axe, 2 refined, scullcutter and a haunted metal. Which is just a reskin for the eyelander...with only the negative bonuses>.<

It sucks how you can only get 1 haunted metal, so I'm going to use it for the hats. Could you trade haunted metal?

 

[therandombear]

another le snip

the haunted metal can be traded if it's wrapped in gift paper xD

 

[Fr]anc[is]

Has anyone tried creating their own server and just waiting for all the presents and the chance to solo the boss?

 

[BenzSmoke]

Is this for the Xbox 360 too?

Nope, because Microsoft doesn't allow updates the size of the ones for TF2 to be distributed for free. Makes me sad. :-(

 

[Yureina]

I had some fun with it today. But now I want to get the special masks that randomly spawn on that map.

 

[lumenadducere]

I quite enjoyed TF2 as a very well balanced, class-based shooter, with a huge helping of humour. As a wannabe MMORPG, with loot and grinding though... I'm not too sure...

I see this a lot, and I still don't get it. The "loot" isn't important and you're just as capable and good with the default items. And there's no grinding, either, unless you just have to have the other items, in which case you can try and get achievements but it's pretty unimportant. Or unless you for some reason are referring to hats, which are for the most part just cosmetic and don't impact gameplay. And even the new ones that are part of a "set" are still unimportant. A lot of people made a big deal about the new sniper set, but they really haven't changed much and I'm already seeing people go back to the regular rifle.

As for the "boss" it mostly just adds an obstacle in the map, as it only focuses on one person at a time and that can be traded between players. It's a really fun addition and I think it's made the game more enjoyable.

 

[Notthatbright]

My biggest pet peeve is the difficulty in finding and acquiring gifts for the Sackston Hale achievement. The Boss enemy was appropriately difficult, and with a bit of luck and timing, easily taken down.

Getting gifts is an exercise in futility. Not only do you need to be in the right place at the right time, you need to be there before anyone else, and will have to fight your teammates in a pushing battle to grab.

I don't begrudge the gifts themselves. But making it an achievement and a hat to get all 9 is making my play experience rather crappy.

 

[Gasaraki]

Damn my boss obsession! I'm actually tempted to get a gold membership now so I can fight that guy.

The update is only on PC

 

[mikemart]

Damn my boss obsession! I'm actually tempted to get a gold membership now so I can fight that guy.

wait.. gold membership for what?

 

[ShakerSilver]

Ooooh that looks like fun. I'll just open up Steam and - huh? Why am I not getting the update yet?

What is this I don't even!?