Major Update Speculation Thread V3: Tonight's the Night, forever and always

[sasurai]

[QUOTE=Constructor;36332420]It's 2 AM here, is it worth staying up?[/QUOTE]

I mean, it's not like there are any tell tale signs anything is coming tonight.. you can probably go to sleep....

[ned_ballad]

[QUOTE=Constructor;36332420]It's 2 AM here, is it worth staying up?[/QUOTE]

It's hard to tell.

Weta posted about the sets to their fans just 18 hours ago. So...

[alpha00zero]

[QUOTE=Scarabix;36332279]I never see the claimheadsmore used.[/QUOTE]

I use it.

I found out that I rarely get melee kills with the Eyelander, so I never get enough heads for it to be effective in my loadout. And that extra charge is helpful to trick into a false hope of escape.

Now I want a Strange Claid to go with my S. Targe.

But I have to agree, it does feel weird sometimes. If the only upside is extra .5 sec of charge, I feel like the Claid should be able to retain remaining charge if you cancel it (like when the Uber Update hit. You could cancel it and it would start charge up where it left off.) or probably give it a faster charge rate.

Dunno. I love the weapon model but the stats could need a little something else. Just a small pinch.

[Fat White Lump]

[QUOTE=Constructor;36332420]It's 2 AM here, is it worth staying up?[/QUOTE]

I'm no ned but I'm pretty sure the most we'll get is a new misc item.

[SeventeenDicks]

[QUOTE=mixshifter;36332432]why are people saying there are more saxxies than golden wrenches, i know a lot of people deleted their wrenches but there's no way more than 90 of them did!!![/QUOTE]

[url]http://stats.tf/item/423/The_Saxxy[/url]
[url]http://stats.tf/item/169/The_Golden_Wrench[/url]

according to this website there is 27 saxxys and 44 golden wrenches

[Hogofwar]

is there ever any telltale signs for a weekly update except for the announcement email?

[theharribokid]

So has there been any significant come about since that Psyke and Cuntsman thing in the thread? I'm sick of reading 30 pages of nothing to find out actual TF2 info

[wickedplayer494]

[QUOTE=SeventeenDicks;36332454][url]http://stats.tf/item/423/The_Saxxy[/url]
[url]http://stats.tf/item/169/The_Golden_Wrench[/url]

according to this website there is 27 saxxys and 44 golden wrenches[/QUOTE]

stats.tf relies on packs analyzed with backpack.tf, of which some haven't been, so that's a false figure

[editline]14th June 2012[/editline]

[QUOTE=hogofwar;36332467]is there ever any telltale signs for a weekly update except for the announcement email?[/QUOTE]

It being a Thursday or whatever day Valve is doing them in the future

[ned_ballad]

[QUOTE=theharribokid;36332470]So has there been any significant come about since that Psyke and Cuntsman thing in the thread? I'm sick of reading 30 pages of nothing to find out actual TF2 info[/QUOTE]

Weta posted this 18 hours ago on their Facebook
"The Man of Science and Rocketboy sets have been revealed in Team Fortress 2's Steam Workshop - hop, skip and jump over to peruse, vote and comment."

but other than that, and it being thursday... no, nothing.

[mixshifter]

[QUOTE=SeventeenDicks;36332454][url]http://stats.tf/item/423/The_Saxxy[/url]
[url]http://stats.tf/item/169/The_Golden_Wrench[/url]

according to this website there is 27 saxxys and 44 golden wrenches[/QUOTE]
There's gotta be at least 6 golden wrench owners with private backpacks. No way over half the wrench receivers deleted theirs.

[PyroCraz3d]

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;36332437]It's hard to tell.

Weta posted about the sets to their fans just 18 hours ago. So...[/QUOTE]

Is there an actual link to the workshop items? Seems like it's for medic or engie, and scout.

[Hogofwar]

[QUOTE=SeventeenDicks;36332454][url]http://stats.tf/item/423/The_Saxxy[/url]
[url]http://stats.tf/item/169/The_Golden_Wrench[/url]

according to this website there is 27 saxxys and 44 golden wrenches[/QUOTE]

With its still lowish backpack count it could be inaccurate.

[ned_ballad]

[QUOTE=hogofwar;36332467]is there ever any telltale signs for a weekly update except for the announcement email?[/QUOTE]

they don't do it often, but sometimes the schema rolls out up to like an hour before an update.

[noodleboy347]

We should have daily updates in the OP

[eightDash]

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;36332398]depends entirely on the game[/QUOTE]

So I assume I'm good with SMNC

[ned_ballad]

[QUOTE=PyroCraz3d;36332490]Is there an actual link to the workshop items? Seems like it's for medic or engie, and scout.[/QUOTE]

yes, they shared a link.
[url]http://www.facebook.com/DrGrordborts[/url]

[Hogofwar]

[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;36332477]stats.tf relies on packs analyzed with backpack.tf, of which some haven't been, so that's a false figure

[editline]14th June 2012[/editline]

It being a Thursday or whatever day Valve is doing them in the future[/QUOTE]

stats.tf also uses a friends chain (start with one person, check friends, check friends of friends and so on.

[editline]15th June 2012[/editline]

)

[wickedplayer494]

[QUOTE=hogofwar;36332534]stats.tf also uses a friends chain (start with one person, check friends, check friends of friends and so on.

[editline]15th June 2012[/editline]

)[/QUOTE]

Source on that claim? Even then, chains will end or just repeat backpacks already analyzed.

[alpha00zero]

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;36332529]yes, they shared a link.
[url]http://www.facebook.com/DrGrordborts[/url][/QUOTE]

I just noticed something in the Medic's lenses.

There is an zoomed in eye in one of the lenses. (Probably two)

I didn't notice it in the Workshop images.

[Hogofwar]

[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;36332602]Source on that claim? Even then, chains will end or just repeat backpacks already analyzed.[/QUOTE]

I can't cite a source right now, I just talk to the creator of the website fairly oftenish.

as for repeat backpacks I think it just ignores people it already has in its DB.

It is also limited by the steam API unfortunately otherwise the data gathering would be much quicker.

[Jetamo]

I just thought of something. Ned said that the predicted-date of the 300th update would be the 5th of July.

You know what else happened on that week? The Engineer Update in 2010(on July 8th, to be precise).

[Hogofwar]

seems there is anniversary of something tf2 every week.

[noodleboy347]

There's always these guesses that updates will come out on an anniversary of something, has that ever actually happened? (besides Manniversary, obviously)

[ned_ballad]

[QUOTE=Jetamo;36332683]I just thought of something. Ned said that the predicted-date of the 300th update would be the 5th of July.

You know what else happened on that week? The Engineer Update in 2010(on July 8th, to be precise).[/QUOTE]

The summer update was also July 1st last year.

...ermm
But I don't think we'll have to wait that long. That's a really long time away for Valve to be adding so much base coding and strings to the game and schema.

[Croshi]

[QUOTE=noodleboy347;36332712]There's always these guesses that updates will come out on an anniversary of something, has that ever actually happened? (besides Manniversary, obviously)[/QUOTE]

Manniversary didn't even come out on the anniversary. It was late. The only ones that have are Halloween and Christmas (and by the day of week in relation to the holiday, not actual date because Calendars are weird)

[Grimhound]

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;36332529]yes, they shared a link.
[url]http://www.facebook.com/DrGrordborts[/url][/QUOTE]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/z1GPl.png[/img]

[madsser]

BOOM:

[url]http://steamgames.com/tf2/pyro/[/url]

[Croshi]

[QUOTE=madsser;36332746]BOOM:

[url]http://steamgames.com/tf2/pyro/[/url][/QUOTE]

what about it

[ned_ballad]

Item server down?

[madsser]

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;36332756]Item server down?[/QUOTE]

not for me