Flare gun > shotgun. But that's another topic, lol.

I was saying shotgun is useful for getting to your firing point incase someone shocks you you don;t have to spin up.

The heavy seems like its gonna be reasonbly cool...

I wouldn't want to embarrass my medic and use the shotgun

If it keeps you both alive, I'm sure your Medic will not be embarrassed... in certain situations the shotgun is a good weapon for Heavy to use, such as shooting at Snipers (the spinup from the minigun would take too long and he would be headshotted before he can start firing) and as an alternative for when you run out of ammo for the minigun. It is also useful as a weapon that you can use to deal with enemies whilst you are running to a control point- you stay at Heavy speed and don't slow down to kill a Spy or something like that...

I knew that you would appear as soon as I mentioned the word 'medic'

Lmao. He is everywhere spreading his medical knowledge xD

Thursdays little package!

Sounds good to me. Choke points in Goldrush are very annoying, some skilled red demos and well placed sentrys usually prevent blue from winning. This could be a nice map to play. Can't wait to find out.

It's just a single stage, which should be interesting.

Lots of use of vertical space is interesting. Not so good for pyros, though, but the wide open spaces can be good for pyros when played right (lots of different ways to play).

Looks good, but will need to play to find out!

Thats sounds pretty cool and at the same time reasonably challenging to play which is cool..

I like vertical space.

I like maps that are good for sentries and sniping xP

I hate snipers, lol. Actually, depending on how much vertical this map has, pyros could like it (hiding below the sentry out of its sight).

Pyros are annoying.. They really need to fix the ability to stick your flamethrower though a wall and burn something on the other side

I hate pyros the most cause their over used noob machines.

It is slightly bugged, but it's more a corner than an entire wall (unless it's a grated wall).

Just annoying having your sentry destroyed from a noobish pyro by burning the floor below you..

Presenting... Natascha http://www.steampowered.com/tf2/heavy/natascha.htm

Natascha is obviously from the name the alternative to Sasha. She now has the ability to make people slow down when they are hit, but cannot kill them off as quickly. Now this sounds interesting, and to me more likely to be used as I hardly ever get heavy kills, but we'll have to see, maybe some more coordinated attacks based around the heavy coming soon then with people and the heavy?

That looks awesome ^^

Shame I'd rather stick with Sasha tho... I dont find the speed a problem with the Heavy, its the soldier that the speed annoys me xD

EDIT: Looking at both of the images... where the hell is the trigger for the gun? O.o

the gun is obviously fired from sheer will power dhr?

Anyway that seems like quite a nifty little gun.. But it also seems like its going to be a come pain in the effing arse for every other class to deal with. Makes it bloody hard for a pyro to just rush it and burn it to death..

Though i think it will mostly be more helpful for defending than attacking.. Not gonna do shit to a sentry or anything like that..

I believe the trigger involves pulling the handle on the top or something.

Looks like a very good gun. A couple of these could bring a rush to a halt, which would be useful.

Doesn't really affect pyros as you should avoid getting hit before you light them up if you want a chance anyway.

My scouting days are over.

The rumors were true!

Sounds intresting, yet scary. This will cause a lot of hastle and annoyance for certain classes.

Imagine a team of heavies and medics. One slowing the enemys down and the other just cutting through them like butter. This is going to be an intresting update.

Oh and by the way. The achievements have been updated.

Hmm the achievements are interesting

Isnt division of labor exactly the opposite of one of the medic achievements?

Also more taunt killing?

Indeed it is, a reverse to 'Big Pharma'. This time you get to do the fun part though!

Hmm, that Heavy taunt kill will be... interesting. It should have range opposed to the pyros, and works quicker IIRC.

The "don't touch sandwhich" achievement specifies Natasha... Maybe the new minigun has a different taunt?

To be honest i think that is going to be a pain to most classes... Its really to screw up any kind of evasive movement..