Major Update Speculation V35 - A Distinctive Lack of Communication - Games

[B]PREVIOUSLY, on MAJOR UPDATE SPECULATION[/B] (as of July 12th)[B]:[/B] Scream Fortress VIII is out. You can check that out [url=http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=25023]here.[/url] Otherwise, not much has happened, besides many smaller updates to the matchmaking and casual systems, as they slowly turn it into something that's at least a little fun. The comic will probably be out before this thread is over, unless the Pyro Update happens first, which was revealed to be coming soon in their annual "What We're Up To" blog post, this year's edition being found [url=http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=24805]here.[/url] [U][B]Archive:[/B][/U] [B][URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1115659"]V1: The Original[/URL] [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1160261"]V2: Revenge of the Tobor[/URL] [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1187592"]V3: Tonight's the Night, forever and always[/URL] [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1192424"]V4: Tonight's the Night for QR Codes[/URL] [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1193608"]V5: Somewhere over the rainbow[/URL] [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1200947"]V6: Going South of Houston, Baby! [/URL] [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1204832"]V7: Who's Ned?[/URL] [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1205459"]V8: Rise of the Machines![/URL] [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1215851"]V9: Really Spooky Halloween Edition [/URL] [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1221466"]V10: This Week Is The Week[/URL] [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1233679"]V11: speculation has long since retired[/URL] [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1242525"]V12: Layoffs Edition[/URL] [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1250046"]V13: The Final Frontier[/URL] [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1251615"]V14: Roman Numerals are the Best Edition[/URL] [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1253356"]V15: Apocalypse Now! (In a few weeks)[/URL] [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1254987"]V16: The Monoculus RIFT Well Spun Hat Promo Edition[/URL] [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1258305"]V17: She's Only 17[/URL] [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1258305"]V18: New world order[/URL] [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1259849"]V19: Official Sponsor of the Winky Smiley[/URL] [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1261765"]V20: ScoRes and Pipes[/URL] [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1262766"]V21: Delays For Most[/URL] [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1265932"]V22: Steampipe For Reals This Time[/URL] [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1266816"]V23: the mind of the subject will desperately struggle to create speculation where none exists[/URL] [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1398764"]V24: An Eloquent Absence of Germane Spectulation[/URL] [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1446193"]V25: Featuring 60% less Bonus Ducks[/URL] [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1469584"]V26: Much Ado About Nothing[/URL][/B] [B][URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1476897"]V27: The Day MUS Stood Still[/URL] [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1486039"]V28: The Speculation Zone[/URL] [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1488921"]V29: Matchmade in Helltower[/URL] [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1497826"]V30: cp_orange_x3 confirmed![/URL] [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1508954"]V31: Gamechanging Edition[/URL] [URL="https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1522469"]V32: Like General Chat, but at least twice as neato[/URL] [URL="https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1525626"]V33: Tomorrow For Sure[/URL] [URL="https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1526635"]V34: Whose War is it Anyway?[/URL] [/B]

I wonder what will happen with comp now that turbine is in the mix

New thread smell.

Some of the old crates with killstreak kits are giving out the glitched ones From reddit: [url]https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/58pgh4/glitched_killstreak_kits_are_back_hurry_and_get/[/url]

terrifying lack of images or at least a banner in that first post

good title

Re-posting since it's the last post: [b]I just rendered a video of all the new effects. Here:[/b] [video=youtube;rymC7ziQ-hg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rymC7ziQ-hg&feature=youtu.be[/video]

[QUOTE=Hell-met;51240814]terrifying lack of images or at least a banner in that first post[/QUOTE] I'm not a graphic designer. If you have any recommendations for good images go ahead and post them and I'll add them to the OP

[QUOTE=quake84;51240822]Re-posting since it's the last post: [b]I just rendered a video of all the new effects. Here:[/b] [video=youtube;rymC7ziQ-hg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rymC7ziQ-hg&feature=youtu.be[/video][/QUOTE] That shooting star effect... *unzips wallet*

Its good to see that truce is still a broken mess and they havent even fixed it from last year.

Steam API down again Guess they are fixing the glitch with the Killstreak Kits

wow wonder how long they spent on this gorgeous splash art [IMG]https://i.gyazo.com/fa3ba56d4d328272f714038f73ad017e.png[/IMG]

is it possible to do the contracts on none valve servers? i hate this

Hold on I just realized. The odds of an unusual are doubled. But the normal chance for that is 1/100 [B] So congratulations, you now have a 2% chance of getting an unusual[/B]. Whoopty doo.

3 new FUCKING MAPS? HOLY SHIT! What's wrong with this update? The content is really good actually. Taunts, Cosmetic, Unusual effect, Maps.. Just like most Halloween. What is the problem? Yeah, some of the cosmetics are just not very halloween-y but i guess it's like that now since 2015 they just add the coolest cosmetic without any regards to their themes but it still doesn't remove the fact that they looks nice and good on the character.

How optimistic are our young maidens for the Pyro Update to release before Smissmas?

It's sad that yet more item sets have been split up.

[QUOTE=Fluury;51240877]How optimistic are our young maidens for the Pyro Update to release before Smissmas?[/QUOTE] Even more Pyro themed tiered hats? Can't fucking wait

[QUOTE=Fluury;51240877]How optimistic are our young maidens for the Pyro Update to release before Smissmas?[/QUOTE]It'll come when it'll come and it'll come when I'm occupied with Pokemon Sun

[QUOTE=K4ZMA;51240892]It'll come when it'll come and it'll come when I'm occupied with Pokemon Sun[/QUOTE] Pretty impressive that you'll still be playing pokemon sun next year.

HO wait.. you don't even have a chance to get those new halloween item.. wtf valve.. welps.. halloween used to be an event where everyone could get their own little spooky cosmetics.. Seems like this isn't the case for this year, you'll have to PAY like every other cosmetic in this games. Ah, well, we still got good maps anyway.

[QUOTE=Makzu;51240863]Hold on I just realized. The odds of an unusual are doubled. But the normal chance for that is 1/100 So congratulations, you now have a 2% chance of getting an unusual. Whoopty doo.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/159580/what-are-my-chances-at-uncrating-an-unusual"]Actually, evidence indicates that unusual chances are even lower than one percent.[/URL] So instead of a 2% chance, it's more likely we're actually closer to 1/100 now than we were before.

Most of the new halloween cosmetics are meh. I mean, a turkey beanie? Really, that's what you went with. Over abundance of "cute" plushie type of hats like the one we got as the disgaea promo. The Spy set looks pretty interesting. 80% of others look kinda meh as I said. 3 NEW MAPS! Tell me if they do anything that the other halloween maps don't do. I'll consider them then. Also a huge chance for unusuals now. Maybe I'll open a few cases. [I]I won't actually open any cases, it's not fucking worth it, because as I mentioned before the new hats aren't that great, plus getting lucky isn't a thing I do[/I]

Also, I'm pretty upset we only have 3 maps (compared to Halloween 2015's 4, 5 if you count Mannpower Hellfire) and [URL="http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=782407483"]Slasher[/URL] (one of the best-looking ones) didn't get in. Now, the main argument against Slasher getting in would probably be late submission. After all, it's only been about 5 days since the map was submitted to the workshop. Even so, Valve didn't give an early blog post with a submission deadline this month like they did last year. I feel like this is a huge contributing factor as to why Slasher wasn't completed in time to be considered, and that bothers me quite a bit. It's like they forgot about Halloween entirely this year until a week ago, at which point they were like "oh yeah right shit we gotta ship halloween lol".

I recently tried unboxing 13 all-class crates. The results: 13 shit hats, 0 unusuals, 0 unusualifiers, 0 stranges, 0 things worth my FUCKING TIME. Im taking a break before I get angrier at all the shit that's going on.

I just want them to add the regular versions of the maps after this is done (with regular Moonshine and Millstone, too!), please.

[QUOTE=Gunsexual;51240951]Most of the new halloween cosmetics are meh. I mean, a turkey beanie? Really, that's what you went with. Over abundance of "cute" plushie type of hats like the one we got as the disgaea promo. The Spy set looks pretty interesting. 80% of others look kinda meh as I said. 3 NEW MAPS! Tell me if they do anything that the other halloween maps don't do. I'll consider them then. Also a huge chance for unusuals now. Maybe I'll open a few cases. [I]I won't actually open any cases, it's not fucking worth it, because as I mentioned before the new hats aren't that great, plus getting lucky isn't a thing I do[/I][/QUOTE] Plus holy shit how that Pyroland mask for the pyro as highest tier cosmetic you can get in that box is completely HORRENDOUS to watch. One more item to add to the "Breaking Artstyle item" list.

For anyone interested I did a dump of the classes, datamaps and netprops. [url]http://invalidvertex.com/dump_tf2.html[/url]

I just made 6 euros by selling a case. It's way more worth to sell them then to open them even with an increased unusual chance, atleast for today and tommorow.

My expectations were already really low, because giving us OK hats is like the least they could do. If they're going to give us this garbage, then they might aswell employ hobos from the streets to push updates.