He has a 512 IIRC...

ok thats just terrible..

Valve time strikes again!

http://steamgames.com/tf2/heavy/



Thanks Goz for the heads up xP

Lumber yard looks absolutely phenomenal.

I concur, the new art style for the open green areas looks awesome!

I'm also looking forward to this new 'arena' style game-mode.

I concur also.

I don't think the 'Arena Mode' is going to be something played often on public servers, but I think its going to be huge on the competitive scene of TF2.

This is very interesting.

It seems it takes the form of extended sudden death as it says when a whole team is dead (paraphrased).

The new art style looks amazing!

Wow...

What an amazing mode Arena will be! I think its more "Stay Alive or you lose" sort of game. From what I can tell, people start with 3/5 lives, ech time they get killed one drops off, until they can play no longer.

Suicidal players wont have any place in Arena I love the alpine setting too. I think its about time TF2 went on holiday from the desert!

This update gets better and better ;D

Yeah, a number of lies may make more sense. Maybe the team has a total amount of lives that go down when people die/respawn, and when it gets to 0 you can't respawn any more (a bit like BF's system). This would definitely make it a team mode.

You're right about the suicidal thing, I'm stuffed then

Medics and engineers will be very useful, though.

Ah, a team total makes more sense....

Would be in synch with the more of a warfront sort of game. SW BattleGrounds used a similar system of starting with 200 "Reinforcements". When that got to 0, the team lost....

SW:BF (Battlegrounds was an RTS, wasn't it? ) copied BattleField gameplay nearly completely. I thought it was a mod when I first saw it ^^

But yeah, it would make it more team based than individual lives. It means one loose wheel costs the whole team dearly. It looks like the centre point is the endgame, though, meaning that you have to stop it being captured, even if it costs you lives.

I read it and see more, all spawn and respawn as normal, first team to not have anyone outside of the arena (think like the ring in melee_ringking) then they lose. Spawn timer could determine the winner here...

Ahh, so each map will have an arena area, that you have to have atleast one person in? That would make sense. Could be hard to win in some cases, so they added the control point.

We'll just have to wait and see.

Kind of like a fight club, with a big fight cage. Not that I get involved with such things.

This is mostly confusing, but if its capping a control point a team of scouts will probably = win

But what i dont get though is if this is melee combat or actualy guns, cause if your using guns seems like its going to be dominated by medics healing heavys and soldiers

It is guns, and it's a lot bigger than ringking. I have a feeling an arena would be something like the 2fort central area or a stage of dustbowl (not both caps, just 1).

Mreh seems a bit silly to me at the moment.. But we shall see how it turns out.

Oops, yeah meant Battle Front

I think its just going to be a total amount of lives for the team That makes alot more sense than what Si said

That kinda sucks though, the team with less surviving power/ more suicidal people probably lose

MEET THE SANDVICH

http://www.steamgames.com/tf2/heavy/sandvich.htm

I think that's the point. You have to consider killing and surviving.

Today!

"Meet the Sandvich"

Recovers 120HP
No ammo (infinite supply)
Takes 4 seconds to eat
Vulnerable during this time (stops moving?)
Makes lots of noise
Replaces shotgun (duh)

Oh, and the title is deliberate;

Clicky

Watched it now - ROFL

xD

Awesome video, and a good item... But im still wary of the 4 second eating time....

I don't see that as a problem

30HP/s is faster than a medic on a <10s wound. You're not meant to be able to switch weapon and recover all your health in an instant, just hide somewhere and take your time to recover. Moving time is the heavy's downfall.