06.24.08 2:35PM Team Fortress 2 Scout Update Coming Next Thursday
shacknews.com — Valve has announced that the Scout class update for its online multiplayer shooter Team Fortress 2 will be released next Thursday. To celebrate the update, the company is also doing another free TF2 Weekend, starting the following friday, as done with the Medic and Pyro updates. Much of the community is pleased at just how quickly this update is coming out. Now on to the changes/additions:
The first unlockable replaces the Scout's secondary weapon of the pistol. The new radar gun works by holding down your primary fire key, which will show a small green health bar of enemies within the cone shaped region, this radar can also pick up cloaked or disguised spies, but the radar only lasts for 3 seconds.
The second unlockable weapon will be the new primary weapon, the super shotgun. With double the damage of the original scattergun, players will truly need to make every shot count for this weapon to be effective.
The third unlockable will bring a sort of nostalgia to children of the 80's, with the scout toting a hockey stick and hockey mask (ala Casey Jones from TMNT), like the super shotgun, this weapon deals much heavier damage than the (Bonk!) Bat but attacks much slower.
During the interview with Doug Lombardi, Developer of Team Fortress 2, Doug had the following to say about the future and past updates.
DOUG: The medic was the most dramatic overhaul, just in terms of looking at his gameplay. People who played the medic in the old days will find a lot of variance when they play the new medic. The demo guy is somewhere we can really play with physics. The engineer is another one. Some of the guys have really simple, classic roles, the Heavy being one of them and the Scout being another. There's not really a lot with the Heavy you can change. He's got a big bad gun, he's slow, but he can take a lot of damage. The Scout was headed toward a simpler route as well, being the nasty gnat he is, so we kind of made him a bit more deadlier with a bit more patience, scoping out your terrain first, then attacking in kind. In fact, the original model for the radar gun, many of you have seen in videos prior to the release of TF2, where the scout runs by a sentry with the radar gun in hand. It was always an idea for us, but given no other weapon like this existed, it was hard to implement what is actually more of a personal sonar than a team "radar"."
tl;dr:
Scout is next, first unlock is an radar gun that replaces pistol, shows health bars from everyone in his area, also detects spies. Second is a scattergun unlock that has more power, third one is bat unlock that also deals more power but attacks slower.
Didn't except this to happen.
ENGINEER/HEAVY/PYRO TIEM!
I think it's fake though, but we'll see.
