Engy Update Discussion!

[crazydog]

The official site is up! Discuss here!
http://www.teamfortress.com/engineerupdate/

Edit: Lulz. Apparently the TF2 community has brought down the TF2 site.

Edit2: Here's the page for those that can't load the site.

The wrench log page thingy implies there's gonna be 100 golden wrenches dropped. 25 already have been.

Default page:
http://lookpic.com/d2/i2/821/1nt8t1BC.jpeg

Page with new shotgun info:
http://lookpic.com/d2/i2/2579/0k5sTyw7.jpeg

[Giant Flying Head]

Not dropped, crafted!

Twenty-five of the people who wisely chose to stay home and craft items, on the other hand, now have shiny new ultra-rare golden wrenches that they can keep.

That new shotgun is the shit! Me likey!

[crazydog]

There is a random chance of getting one every time you craft anything, which is why they disabled crafting better metal back to worse metal.

I crafted everything I could and didn't get it!

Again valve is rewarding people who don't play very often, as they will get a TON of drops, while the people who play often have probably already reached their cap, and can't get any more items to craft this week. Yay!

[crazydog]

HaHA! I was right!!!...sort of

Well, maybe the shotgun didn't do this, but I was right that SOMETHING would!

http://www.teamfortress.com/engineerupdate/

"The Wrangler" lets engineers aim their sentry gun! Boo-yah!

The sentry won't aim by itself, but takes 66% less damage (holy poop! That's a lot!), and it shoots bullets 2x faster, and missiles a bit faster at level 3.

And if you put the wrangler away, the sentry won't do nuthin for 3 seconds.

Also, new payload map!

And finally, Valve, with their infinite compassion, has increased the weekly drop limit for this week! Yay!

[Frag_68]

Yet a hat eludes me...

[skrizach]

Ugh I just need more items so I can get more metal.  I've already got my medic token.  The best thing would be as I craft a new medic hat I also get a golden wrench.  A man can dream.
Also, HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEW PAYLOAD MAP IT LOOK AWESOME!

[Lyriq]

That new map looks great. It's about time we got a Valve created payload map that wasn't PLR...

[Crimshadow]

It would be cool if when you use the wrangler, you snap to a first person view from the sentry gun...like the old defend the beach games or other shooters. Leaving the engy vulnerable, Although 10-1 this turns into a situation where two engies take a choke point and just spam a single direction for a whole round. with increased bullet and missle fire rates....it would be almost unstoppable(the second engy repairing and reloading the sentry)

[skrizach]

Oh I agree Lyriq.  I am a payload fan all the way, and yet I hate PLR maps.  When they released the info about Frontier Justice I was pumped(lol) because I thought maybe they were going to turn Frontier into an official map.

[Crimshadow]

AHHHH look at the bottom...from the watchmaker, another different wrench...but I want a golden wrench!!! I will be so sad...

Never-the-less...New Wrench!!! looks very aggresive...wonder what it does?

[Crimshadow]

The new map, hightower, is a payload race map. Look at the pic on the website now...there is both a red and a blu turn in, each destroys a red or blu radar dish.

Sorry to burst bubbles, its what I do.

-Crim

[Mustard]

I like PLR, I think they're fun. Why do others hate them so much?

[crazydog]

Some people say that they stalemate a lot (even though I don't see that often). I like them too.

I wish the elevators at the end of this new map would be interesting, but they're going to be JUST like the last hill on pipeline.

[Frag_68]

Don't know if this means anything, but I just found this:

http://www.teamfortress.com/engineerupdate/handyman/

[crazydog]

Yeah, that showed up recently. I'm guessing another wrench replacement.

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