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mauve
11-22-2013, 04:14 PM
*endless screaming*

I just checked out the official blog (http://www.teamfortress.com/twocities/rottenburg/). We've got new content incoming for Mann vs. Machine, plus a community map being inducted into the Hall of Official TF2 Maps and a new animated short! YAY NEW ANIMATED SHORT!
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This update looks to be very Medic-centered, which is nice as you tend to see fewer Medics in MvM. His two main upgrades, demonstrated in the animated short, are a Ghostbusters-esque device called the Reanimator which will apparently let a Medic bring a player back from the dead without waiting for spawn or paying out, and a shield which deflects robot attacks. He also gets Mad Milk syringes for his syringe gun. This'll be great, since, as earlier mentioned, Medics in MvM are rare. On the other hand, PREPARE FOR THE MEDIC SPAM!

In terms of new maps, it looks like MvM will be getting two: Mannhattan (an East Coast city themed map) and Rottenburg (previewed in the above short, supposedly the Medic's hometown. Yay more TF2 world-building!). The community map, Snakewater, is going to be a regular CP map, not of the MvM variety.

There's also a Solder MvM upgrade and a whole slew of achievements being released. YAY TF2!


IN OTHER NEWS, Valve has apparently contacted James McVinnie, who's working on that amazing End of the Line short, asking him to design an official TF2 update to coincide with the release of the final product. I AM SO EXCITED FOR ALL OF THESE THINGS.
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Shyria Dracnoir
11-22-2013, 04:38 PM
I am reposting this from the Steam Game Nights thread.

Part 1 of a new MvM-centric TF2 update dropped today. (http://www.teamfortress.com/twocities/mannhattan/) Below is a dramatization of my reaction.

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc230/Shyria_Dracnoir/11_20_2013_1_zps1f8767f4.png

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc230/Shyria_Dracnoir/11_20_2013_4_zpsf054a787.png

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc230/Shyria_Dracnoir/11_20_2013_2_zps940d2a9b.png

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc230/Shyria_Dracnoir/11_20_2013_3_zps88e613f9.png

Doc ock rokc
11-24-2013, 01:38 AM
Ha McVee already was preparing the assets for a map since he was making the damn video.

the bastard is like a modern day Xanatos

Shyria Dracnoir
11-26-2013, 04:37 PM
I had originally gotten a shotgun fabricator, but I swapped it to a friend who was going to use it a heckuva lot more than me.

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc230/Shyria_Dracnoir/2013-11-26_00009_zps48ad901e.jpg

According to this, I still need to find:


11 Money Furnaces
3 Taunt Processors
3 Humor Suppression Pumps

I am a rat in a box.

Arhra
11-27-2013, 07:32 AM
and a shield which deflects robot attacks.
Also it disintegrates robots!

Mannhattan was amazing. Having to cover the control points as well makes things interesting.

rpgdemon
11-27-2013, 12:46 PM
I finished Mannhattan with my roommates, it was a pretty fun MvM mode! Though, somehow it felt anticlimactic when we won. I was surprised that it was over, and expected a longer wave.