Medic/Goldrush update finally out, and also free TF2!!!

[Pooky]

The Team Fortress 2: Gold Rush Update (http://www.steamgames.com/goldrush) is now available, free to owners of Team Fortress 2 via Steam. The Gold Rush Update introduces the new Gold Rush map and Payload gameplay style, the first set of unlockable weapons, and a new set of achievements for the Medic.

In other TF2 news, a worldwide Team Fortress 2 Free Weekend (http://www.steamgames.com/goldrush) will begin Friday at noon PDT, and will include access to the new content released today in the TF2: Gold Rush Update. Using the functionality made available through Steam and Steamworks, all of the files needed to join the Free Weekend are available for pre-loading now.

The Free Weekend is open to players around the world, and there is no obligation to purchase to participate; all that is needed is a Steam account to join.

To start pre-loading everything you need to play on Friday and learn more about Team Fortress 2, please visit www.steamgames.com/goldrush (http://www.steamgames.com/goldrush)


Source. (http://www.steamgames.com/goldrush)

[itszutak]

YES

[Sever]

Everything is pretty epic. I haven't seen any users of the new weapons yet (only played on one server so far, and they had a 1 Medic per team cap - how homosexual), but I was able to confirm that the stat-based achievements are retroactive - if you've healed over 7k or 10k as a Medic, you only need to go in-game and heal someone to unlock those achievements. Also, Gold Rush is pretty awesome. its like Dust Bowl, but not as confined at some parts, more segmented and tight at others, and easily three times the playable area. Many parts can be easily traced back to Dust Bowl (the bridge before area 2 cap b, the tunnel under the last bridge at area 3 cap c, etc.), but overall, everything is quite new and innovative. I participated in some matches where the offense won, and some where they lost, and I can say that everything looks close enough to balanced for both RED and BLU. Happy gaming!

[Pooky]

Some of the achievements are retroactive anyway. And goldrush is pretty awesome, but I thought it was a little odd that in the server I was in there were like 8 medics all getting achievements like crazy and yet no one had any of the new weapons, not even the new syringe gun :S

[n00b1n8R]

How big a DL is this update?
I don't want to have to wait for hours to play D:

[StankBacon]

my server is updated, and anyone is welcome to play on it.

if you want admin, pm me and we can work something out.

[MNC]

Alright, I'm loving Goldrush, but console commands can unlock all the weapons. Hope they fix it without nullifying legit achievements.

[OmegaDragon]

Made another patch, don't know what they are going to do with all the poeple who used said command...

[Pooky]

my server is updated, and anyone is welcome to play on it.

if you want admin, pm me and we can work something out.

lol, I kept trying to get you to do that last night when it would have gotten you some traffic, but you weren't there D:


How big a DL is this update?
I don't want to have to wait for hours to play D:

It's pretty huge, took me about 10 minutes to update.

[n00b1n8R]

Only took me an hour. :downs:

Played a few games last night (screenies coming when I can get back on that comp) with mixed success. got about 7 achievments (including the heal 5K in a life which I'd allready done :v: )

Luckilly I didn't use the cheat (though many were) since the new patch this morning resets the achievments of anybody who had got 100% (Like anybody had legitimately done that anyway :p)

[Pooky]

nah but I've seen a couple medics running around with ubersaws and myself I've got the buttseeker and critzkreig

[n00b1n8R]

My first game:
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l183/n00b1n8R/pl_goldrush0000.jpg

Those blues never pay attention to spys:
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l183/n00b1n8R/pl_goldrush0001.jpg

Playing with a clan mate (leader):
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l183/n00b1n8R/pl_goldrush0003.jpg

Easy doing the power-slide:
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l183/n00b1n8R/pl_goldrush0004.jpg

Beating my engy record. :o
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l183/n00b1n8R/pl_goldrush0005.jpg

Random Winnage:
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l183/n00b1n8R/pl_goldrush0006.jpg

Didn't die once that round either. :awesome:
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l183/n00b1n8R/pl_goldrush0008.jpg

Last screenie I got before tf2 shat it's self (had a feeling it would..):
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l183/n00b1n8R/pl_goldrush0007.jpg

[Bodzilla]

:D

i was struggling to play a game without being bogged down in medics. There where Hundreds on my team.

Quite rediculous

[Pooky]

Wrong thread n00b? :p

[Sever]

Wrong thread n00b? :pThere is no such thing as a 'wrong thread' when it comes to TF2 ownange.

[n00b1n8R]

Wrong thread n00b? :p
stoofoo their all goldrush related. :embarrassed:

[Sever]

Even if they weren't related, TF2 ownage awesomeness is so... awesome... that it surpasses the normal posting guidelines. Next thing you know, you'll be seeing TF2 being discussed in the Crysis and Unreal forums, then after that, it'll be seen in Site Feedback and the Studio, and finally posted as news events.

Also, I'm loving Gold Rush - It has so much more vertical and dynamic gameplay than any other TF2 map thus far.

[Bodzilla]

i prefer dustbowl. Goldrush is just not totally wicked awesome for spies.

like the places at the last CP where the snipers are up on that rail and you cant get up to stab them. not to mention the tight areas with little or no alternatives for a team to sneak a person in. It't not spy friendly. It's a very sniper friendly map if you actually think about it, and i think that kind of degrades the very point of the map and it's co-release with the medics.

[Pooky]

i prefer dustbowl. Goldrush is just not totally wicked awesome for spies.

Are you kidding? Goldrush owns for spies... just get yourself behind the cart and stab away.

[Bodzilla]

the bottle necks :U

[n00b1n8R]

the bottle necks :U
Just wait for the cart to pass you, or go when your team has cleared out the enemy temporarily (and hide in a blindspot further back and wait).

[Syuusuke]

Alright, I'll be dling this today and playing tomorrow, who wants to give me a tutorial =D

[n00b1n8R]

I should be available.

Actually, why don't we all get online some time tomorrow and play together (and get that fucking "friends like these" achievement >:U!).

[Bodzilla]

I'm patient ok >:U
i wanna stab now >:U

[MNC]

just get in a random server and ask alot of people to add you.

[n00b1n8R]

Not happening.
I HATE friend-clutter.

[OmegaDragon]

the only thing that is stopping me from the ubersaw is the 1 mil health point gathered. it about halfway by now :gonk:
also the 10 friend thing and the housecall.