Major Update Speculation Thread V4: Tonight's the Night For QR Codes - Games

So would it be fair to expect multiple summer updates, or can we expect more notable updates throughout the year besides Saxxies/Summer Sale/Manniversary/Halloween/Australian Xmas 2012 later on? EDIT: Ronin agrees, that's a good sign of things to come at least.

My guess is Summer Sale update will be combined with the start of the Summer Olympics Since Adult Swim just aired a rerun King of the Hill about olympic torch running. Either that or I'm completely full of shit

Wait so I'm a little out of the loop at the moment, is there something relevant going on with Adult Swim like RIGHT NOW? I know about the whole partnership thing and the newsletter but I'm asking if right now there's TF2-related shit to be featured on Adult Swim.

Oh no I can see it now. Halloween 2012. The map is called 'Tombsday'. And it's haunted by Poopy Joe's ghost.

[QUOTE=HazardousMatt;36491506]My guess is Summer Sale update will be combined with the start of the Summer Olympics Since Adult Swim just aired a rerun King of the Hill about olympic torch running. Either that or I'm completely full of shit[/QUOTE] Or it could be about the actual Olympics, which are coming up.

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;36491284]Man, we have been speculating robots for years. Kind of feels weird we may be days away from having them in-game[/QUOTE] Play the German version, where EVERYONE is a robot.

[QUOTE=mooman1080;36491521]Or it could be about the actual Olympics, which are coming up.[/QUOTE] Hah, he thinks that The Olympics hold a candle to the release of Meet the Pyro. Silly boy, the entire earth is watching Valve right now. Nobody cares about The Olympics. /sarcasm

[QUOTE=Roninsmastermix;36491415]one thing i can say. valve wont put all their eggs in this basket. Saxxy probably wont be in this one and even the tobor could be scratch at the last moment. That capacitor is your ONLY solid link for that tobor stuff in this update. Even that can be just a hint of another update down the road.[/QUOTE] It just seems weird that they would do an entire week of an ARG for hype, then this week of really high quality (visually) teasers for only a couple of item sets and 2 maps. They're hyping this even harder than the Uber update, but so far the content seems to be less than the Uber Update. By this time UU we had a new map and two sets. By tomorrow we would have 5 sets confirmed + a new feature for the targe. Right now we have a paragraph and a vague image of the map that looks like Dustbowl with less props. And a few story elements, half of which was released last week anyway.

you know what i think? Valve will lay the ground work for on DAY 3 for that tobor thing and could be hinted in the MtP vid. (thats why we say that Dont Click this before watching the MtP text spoiler) Then we get another dedicated update for the tobor. It was always a mystery to me how all of this is going to be connected when spacemonkeyrace + pyro update was already a stretch. Putting in the Tobor in this update would be too convoluted a plot. I say its a classic comic book style cliffhanger to have us coming back in a few months.

But they added MvM stuff to the code :(

Wait, what's Ronin's link with Valve and Team Fortress 2? Sorry if it's a dumb question.

I'm not gonna tell people to stop speculating in a speculation thread, because that would make me worse than Hitler. However, I would contain your "disappointment" with today's content. Personally, if the update is even to par with the Uber Update, I'll literally stop playing TF2 altogether, because that would mean Valve dropped the ball on the heads of every member of the Team Fortress 2 community. But I have more faith in Valve than that. I always have. They aren't the type to hit or miss. They're the type to hit 90% of the time and if they miss, make it look like they hit by reassuring the community with extra shit. I don't sense a miss. This is too much work for something meager.

i wonder if we'll get any deleted scenes like meet the medic did

[QUOTE=Roninsmastermix;36491559]you know what i think? Valve will lay the ground work for on DAY 3 for that tobor thing and could be hinted in the MtP vid. (thats why we say that Dont Click this before watching the MtP text spoiler) Then we get another dedicated update for the tobor. It was always a mystery to me how all of this is going to be connected when spacemonkeyrace + pyro update was already a stretch. Putting in the Tobor in this update would be too convoluted a plot. I say its a classic comic book style cliffhanger to have us coming back in a few months.[/QUOTE] I gotta agree. That text leak makes me think that something really important or big happens in MtP related to the new mode and they don't want people to see it without watching MtP first. I trust valve, they've been linking tobor, Mvm and the pyro together with teasers for months now. This is happening.

[QUOTE=Rayss;36491581]I'm not gonna tell people to stop speculating in a speculation thread, because that would make me worse than Hitler. However, I would contain your "disappointment" with today's content. Personally, if the update is even to par with the Uber Update, I'll literally stop playing TF2 altogether, because that would mean Valve dropped the ball on the heads of every member of the Team Fortress 2 community. But I have more faith in Valve than that. I always have. They aren't the type to hit or miss. They're the type to hit 90% of the time and if they miss, make it look like they hit by reassuring the community with extra shit. I don't sense a miss. This is too much work for something meager.[/QUOTE] They [i]did[/i] bounce back from the Scout update with the Spy v Sniper update, one of my personal favorites.

[QUOTE=FLUDDGadd;36491582]i wonder if we'll get any deleted scenes like meet the medic did[/QUOTE] I doubt it, they went through alot of iterations for meet the medic but they knew for a while what they were doing for meet the pyro.

[QUOTE=goluffy;36491576]Wait, what's Ronin's link with Valve and Team Fortress 2? Sorry if it's a dumb question.[/QUOTE] EDIT: Wrong quote, fixed it. He contributes to TF2 by creating several of the user created hats and weapons. Evidently, from the tone of his posts, Valve also communicates with him and some of the other major community contributors about details for future TF2 updates but I don't know for sure.

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;36491546]It just seems weird that they would do an entire week of an ARG for hype, then this week of really high quality (visually) teasers for only a couple of item sets and 2 maps. They're hyping this even harder than the Uber update, but so far the content seems to be less than the Uber Update. By this time UU we had a new map and two sets. By tomorrow we would have 5 sets confirmed + a new feature for the targe. Right now we have a paragraph and a vague image of the map that looks like Dustbowl with less props. And a few story elements, half of which was released last week anyway.[/QUOTE] Remember, Valve started to put some "young" items a few weeks ago and there have been numerous contributors that were contacted months ago about items and sets and never heard from them again. I wouldnt be surprised if we get a set of items per class tomorrow. Then a the big pyro reveal on day 3 or 4. There's still that last panel above the banana on the update page that is a possible hint of a 4th day.

Remember when they added code related to a tank? Well you all got screwed because it was a [B]TANK OF GAS[/B]

A set a class tomorrow? That would be intense. But that's going from 0 to 60 in one day, I don't know, that's a big jump in content from one day to another.

I had a feeling they would have to release two to three major updates with all of these WIP projects they have for TF2. The only issue that still stands though is that we won’t be waiting another 7 months for the next major update.

I booted up The Ball from last years Potato ARG, and was greeted with two things in the first five minutes of the game. [IMG]http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/558693454583214669/432DA03799E6DBE2E3517251D406FD8E4F29059F/[/IMG] [IMG]http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/558693454583211878/B442CC6F77248011CFBEEE21CDD6DC4B26343F1B/[/IMG] Meet The Ball confirmed.

how about this. remember that uber update introduced the free to play system that was relatively out of the blue for when it was leaked and announced. Maybe that last panel below is another thing that we can do with TF2 that may even have something to do with the TOBOR mystery without going through a fourth day.

Even the bomb cart is excited for this new update [video=youtube;eaO9KddWt8g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaO9KddWt8g[/video]

sorry for bumbling in this but what the hell is TOBOR and SOHO?

[QUOTE=goon165;36491659]sorry for bumbling in this but what the hell is TOBOR and SOHO?[/QUOTE] TOBOR is ROBOT backwards honestly whats so complicated about that

[QUOTE=Roninsmastermix;36491641]how about this. remember that uber update introduced the free to play system that was relatively out of the blue for when it was leaked and announced. Maybe that last panel below is another thing that we can do with TF2 that may even have something to do with the TOBOR mystery without going through a fourth day.[/QUOTE] What if the 4th thing is the release of custom stats, and the random crap items are the items you plug into weapons to give them their stats?

[QUOTE=Roninsmastermix;36491641]how about this. remember that uber update introduced the free to play system that was relatively out of the blue for when it was leaked and announced. Maybe that last panel below is another thing that we can do with TF2 that may even have something to do with the TOBOR mystery without going through a fourth day.[/QUOTE] That's what I thought in the first place. Although Maruhai pointed the fact that "if it's on the update page, it's going to be important for the players". MvM will be announced tomorrow. You will all remember me as the prophet. pls

i have faith with the TF2 team. Based on theyre feedback and speed with our past items, they can churn out and test items and stats real quick. It took them more than 6 months to get this update done, it can't be just 2 sets tomorrow. If i get 3 sets tomorrow, i'll be happy even if none of them were made by me.

I think Valve has over encumbered themselves. They used the words massive and rediculously large to hype this update, and that was in Febuary, 4 months ago. They created an ARG, teamed up with Adult Swim, created a multi-day update, and strongly hinted at SFM being released and MvM. There's no way they could fail here. They have everything ready. Because if they didn't have everything ready, it would be over. This is Meet the Pyro, the update that's been waited on for 2 and a half fucking years. They won't let themselves fail here. This is like TF2's final hour, the final chance to appeal to the community before it's smooth sailing, pretty much. They know that there's never gonna be another update like this one, because this concludes the class-based stories. They picked Pyro for a reason, because of his extremely condensed character. They faced themselves with the task of having people identify with a character who's race/gender will never be revealed and speaks in muffles. I don't think that all this buildup is for a couple new maps and maybe some dinky hats. I think there's gonna be something for everyone that not only boosts the appeal of TF2, but totally revolutionizes the Valve crowd (ahem, Source. Fucking. Film. Maker.)