Major Update Speculation: V8: Rise of the Machines! - Games

I have two horses in this race (Owl and Candles) so I'm hoping they accept lots of items :P [QUOTE=NeoDement;37739855] also if they add too many the game will look notably worse, like with some of the more blatantly festive xmas items (candy cane, santa hat, elf outfit, I'm looking at you (no offense to any of them))[/QUOTE] would you believe of your list only the Elf Outfit is community made. Valve did the other two to themselves :x

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;37739818]they're not going to pull another year of 3 hats and 2 reskins. This year's ramp up is the same as last year's christmas, which had a nice amount of content. And there's no reason they couldn't go even above last year's christmas, especially if we don't get weapons with stats.[/QUOTE] Pretty sure they'll add about the same amount of items as the last year's Christmas and pack all that into a crate. That's pretty much how Valve has been keeping the money flow lately (and it works). Plus, it's pretty spiffy for our esteemed item contributors to get more Self-Made Keys.

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;37739862]I have two horses in this race (Owl and Candles) so I'm hoping they accept lots of items :P would you believe of your list only the Elf Outfit is community made. Valve did the other two to themselves :x[/QUOTE] No I don't think they did, I remember seeing the candy cane on polycount edit: not sure????

[QUOTE=lilguy;37739880]Pretty sure they'll add about the same amount of items as the last year's Christmas and pack all that into a crate. That's pretty much how Valve has been keeping the money flow lately (and it works). Plus, it's pretty spiffy for our esteemed item contributors to get more Self-Made Keys.[/QUOTE] without weapons to balance, they'd probably be able to make two crates Maybe a "Trick" crate of half the items and a "Treat" crate with the other half. If they accept like 20 items, having them all in one crate would be kind of dumb financially, so having two crates would be the best route for a large number of accepted items.

[QUOTE=HazzaHardie;37739782]is update tonight pretty much confirmed?[/QUOTE] High chance.

[QUOTE=NeoDement;37739889]No I don't think they did, I remember seeing the candy cane on polycount edit: not sure????[/QUOTE] nobody has a self made Candy Cane, it's Valve made: [url]http://stats.tf/item/317/The_Candy_Cane[/url]

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;37739862]I have two horses in this race (Owl and Candles) so I'm hoping they accept lots of items :P would you believe of your list only the Elf Outfit is community made. Valve did the other two to themselves :x[/QUOTE] I'm really hoping for pogo's clown set. Not just because it's one of my fetishes though

i hope the hypothetical update tonight wont just make the crates and keys time out and make the fall stuff droppable and make the new promos.

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;37739132]I wonder if the Dota 2 SUPER HUGE MEGA COSMETIC UPDATE (+ Meepo) will come first or the TF2 update with the promos (and probably lots of fixes for the Fall items + other things) will come first. Either way, I think tonight is probably the night for a small content patch, if even just for those new promos on the off chance they hit milestone one over the weekend.[/QUOTE] Wasn't meepo added yesterday?

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;37739895]without weapons to balance, they'd probably be able to make two crates Maybe a "Trick" crate of half the items and a "Treat" crate with the other half. If they accept like 20 items, having them all in one crate would be kind of dumb financially, so having two crates would be the best route for a large number of accepted items.[/QUOTE] Which... Is pretty much exactly what they're going to do. We can taste it coming.

[QUOTE=lilguy;37740119]Which... Is pretty much exactly what they're going to do. We can taste it coming.[/QUOTE] But the question is, will the Halloween update be a trick or treat? [sp]I'm willing to bet it's a trick update, because I have no faith in Halloween updates, anymore.[/sp]

[QUOTE=1112e;37740108]Wasn't meepo added yesterday?[/QUOTE] 5 times over, yes

[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;37740214]5 times over, yes[/QUOTE] Only to the test client

whats meepo?

[QUOTE=HazzaHardie;37740429]whats meepo?[/QUOTE] A hero for Dotes 2

A hero with quite a few scout lines

I'm honestly hoping They implement Psyke's halloween light weapons. Because there's a high possibility they'll make update specific crates, I can hope they don't do the festive weapons again and make the halloween light weapons both strange and normal and only just have strange. ...But then those strange would explode in price and would get expensive anyhow, so I'm screwed either way!

L4D2 just updated...weird.

[QUOTE=Totenkreuz;37740828]L4D2 just updated...weird.[/QUOTE] [url=http://store.steampowered.com/news/8911/]I see zero things pointing to anything hidden[/url]

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;37738360]because it is source: Quantum Conundrum Devs[/QUOTE] Technically, I believe it's just one all-class item, with the suggestion being a badge.

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;37737892]60 dollars for a PC game is a tragedy[/QUOTE] This costs $80 in Australia, you have no right to complain. :colbert:

Too bad Scarabix isn't here, Castle Crasher's comes out in a week [url]http://store.steampowered.com/app/204360/[/url] I wonder if we'll see a promo added tonight

Nothing on the main Dota 2 client front just yet

Doubt we would get Castle Crashers promos at this point, but I'd [I]love[/I] to be wrong.

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;37741599]Too bad Scarabix isn't here, Castle Crasher's comes out in a week [url]http://store.steampowered.com/app/204360/[/url] I wonder if we'll see a promo added tonight[/QUOTE] Castle Crashers on Steam? On my birthday? [b]They are so kind~.[/b]

No email yet concerns me

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;37741850]No email yet concerns me[/QUOTE] It's not *too* terribly late yet. No email past 6 PST is worrying

Fall Crates disappear tomorrow, guys.

I thought they were already gone?

nope, they added a notification in-game yesterday that says they will be disappearing sometime on the 21st though honestly i can't say if mine have disappeared yet since i haven't logged in since then