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

"we're TEAM FORTRESS" but they're team fortress after the first team fortress (classic) so really they're... team fortress 2

I wonder if the TFC medic might have some involvement atleast in the debt the administrator wants to settle

"We're Team Fortress" and then there is little blu engi sitting somewhere alone with the [I]sometimes, sometimes not dead[/I] admin

[QUOTE=Der dasMann;51655945]"We're Team Fortress" and then there is little blu engi sitting somewhere alone with the [I]sometimes, sometimes not dead[/I] admin[/QUOTE] I have to say, given the number of engineers I would catch building level 3 sentries at spawn, that is an accurate group shot relative to what I catch in gameplay. (Non-playables notwithstanding.)

[QUOTE=HiddenShadow;51655642][t]https://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/thumb/c/c5/TheNakedandtheDead253.png/800px-TheNakedandtheDead253.png?t=20170111043519[/t] vanguard ˈvanɡɑːd/ noun a group of people leading the way in[B] new developments or ideas.[/B] like portals? Citadel [t]http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/half-life/images/7/7b/Citadel_from_Canals.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/270?cb=20090125042316&path-prefix=en[/t] Echelon Echelon may refer to: A level or rank in an organization, profession, or society ??? i doubt they were references to Ellens other works with Valve but it would be a nice touch if it was[/QUOTE] At first I thought they were making reference to some UGC or Highlander teams for some reason.

[QUOTE=HiddenShadow;51655193][t]http://i.imgur.com/HBk0DJE.png[/t] i forgot how amazing the faces were[/QUOTE] you forgot the best ones [T]http://puu.sh/tiXCK/c6c01b0a1d.png[/T][T]http://puu.sh/tiXCG/b7ebd05974.png[/T][T]https://puu.sh/tiqMf/dbd9a7611b.png[/T][T]https://puu.sh/tiXBS/d49944a769.png[/T] [T]https://puu.sh/tiqv6/ab11118916.png[/T][T]https://puu.sh/tiqvn/1b7bfaeac2.png[/T]

Scout was born in 1945 I haven't seen anyone post it yet so I figured Also his name is Jeremy so Scout- Jeremy Soldier- Jane? Doe Pyro- Who knows (Probably Some Girl Name) Demo- Tavish Finnegan Degroot Heavy- Misha Engineer- Dell Conagher Medic- Last Name Ludwig Sniper- Mundy Spy- Unknown

With the fate of TFC Engi unknown and this image : [t]https://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/4/47/Engineer_child_photo.png?t=20111123145019[/t] makes me wonder if something will happen in the conclusion

[QUOTE=HiddenShadow;51656051]With the fate of TFC Engi unknown and this image : [t]https://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/4/47/Engineer_child_photo.png?t=20111123145019[/t] makes me wonder if something will happen in the conclusion[/QUOTE] Perhaps the reason why the Team Fortress engineer is blue in the comics?

If they ever give Pyro a name it better be a name like Sam or Alex, which could be for guys or girls

Still bummed that the only thing to come from the original team was the sniper rifle

Since 2017 will mark the 10th birthday of TF2, think we'll get something special?

Funny how there's more character development in one comic for TF2 than there was in all the videos and other shit Blizzard has done for Overwatch

[QUOTE=Fluury;51656483]Since 2017 will mark the 10th birthday of TF2, think we'll get something special?[/QUOTE] One can only hope. Hopefully they at least remember to enable birthday mode on its birthday this year.

[QUOTE=Mio Akiyama;51656484]Funny how there's more character development in one comic for TF2 than there was in all the videos and other shit Blizzard has done for Overwatch[/QUOTE] Its a difference in focus. Tf2 is about humor and whacky antics Overwatch is about representation.

[QUOTE=Mio Akiyama;51656484]Funny how there's more character development in one comic for TF2 than there was in all the videos and other shit Blizzard has done for Overwatch[/QUOTE] Blizzard makes archetypes, not characters. They could never make anything nearly as endearing as TF2 and it's amazing story.

I just want an assault cannon

Every important character thus far and what they're (presumably) doing and what they're known for, (possibly) living characters in [b]bold[/b]: [b]19th century Mann/Darling family:[/b] Zepheniah Mann - dead (exotic disease, intending to expand his arms business), CEO of proto-mann co Silas Mann - dead, guarding mann manor from mercenaries posthumously, Zepheniah's brother William Darling (Bette's father) - dead Bette Mann - dead (giving birth to Redmond, Blutarch and Gray) [b]Gravel Wars Mann/Darling generation:[/b] Blutarch Mann - dead (stabbed by Gray), in hell (pushed into by RED TF), tried to take over Redmond's land using TF mercs Redmond Mann - dead (stabbed by Gray)(also in hell? or a ghost or what), tried to take over Blutarch's land using TF mercs Gray Mann - dead (disconnected from life extender by TFC Heavy), tried to take over Mann Co using his robot army and later succeeded using Olivia, intended to extract australium for his life extender from Australians' bodies [b]Olivia Mann - unknown, CEO of Gray Mann Co[/b] [b]Charles Darling - alive at his residence, president of Darling Zoos, needs australium for his dying animals, willing to help Hale take Mann Co back in exchange for australium[/b] [b]Administrator branch/TF Industries:[/b] Elizabeth - dead (presumably Helen under a different name), Zepheniah's maidservant who inherited all his money and australium Emily - dead (presumably Helen under a different name), supplying Radigan Conagher with australium, convincing him to build a life extender for Redmond, greatly prolonging gravel wars [b]Helen/Administrator - alive, mysteriously gathered almost all australium on Earth, has an hour to settle an old debt before dying, kept the fires of the Gravel Wars conflict stoked[/b] [b]Miss Pauling - alive at Gray's base, sent on an australium retrieval mission by the Administrator, failed to gather any[/b] Poopy Joe - dead (having his rocket's australium fuel stolen by the Administrator), was to be the first American monkeynaut The Director - dead (shot by Miss Pauling), filmed TF mercenaries for Administrator [b]Hale Family/Modern Mann Co:[/b] Barnabus Hale - dead, CEO of Mann Co Bilious Hale - dead, CEO of Mann Co [b]Saxton Hale - alive at Gray's base, sent on an australium retrieval mission by Charles Darling in exchange for his help taking Mann Co back, failed to gather any australium[/b] [b]Margaret - alive at Gray's base, employed by Charles Darling, not keen of Hale's plan of taking over Mann Co, has common history with Hale[/b] [b]Jerry - alive at Gray's base, provided he survived the robots, Hale's plane pilot[/b] [b]Mr. Bidwell - unknown, Hale's loyal assistant[/b] [b]Mr. Reddy - unknown, other Hale's assistant[/b] [b]Modern Team Fortress:[/b] [b]TF RED team - alive, under Miss Pauling's command for no particular reason[/b] TF BLU team - dead (trapped in hell) [b]TF BLU Engineer (Dell Conagher) - alive, maintaining Administrator's life extender[/b] [b]TF RED Engineer - alive/unknown? present shaved in Naked and the Dead cover together with bearded Dell[/b] (this is super confusing - [url=https://twitter.com/jaypinkerton/status/650160651503988736]Jay Pinkerton says clones don't exist in comics and shorts[/url], which perfectly contradicts most comics and shorts) [b]TF family members/friends/pets/weapons:[/b] [b]Scout's mom - alive, has common history with Spy[/b] Demoman's dad - dead [b]Demoman's mom - alive, happy her son got a job (even though it's up in the air whether he gets paid)[/b] [b]Eyelander - undead spirit, last seen looking after Pyro's puppy in a car in Teufort, likes to take heads[/b] Sniper's adoptive parents - dead, Australian rural folk [b]Lar-Nah (Sniper's mom) - in space with the last australium in existence[/b] [b]Bill-Bel (Sniper's dad) - alive, escaped NZ with TF's submarine, proposed building a dome around NZ and sinking it to the ocean floor, later proposed moving NZ to space, indirectly caused its demise when baby Sniper rode his rocket out to Australia[/b] Radigan Conagher (Engineer's grandfather) - dead (confirmed buried), invented life extenders, gunslinger, southern hospitality using australium from Emily Heavy's father - dead (executed by soviet govt), counter-revolutionary [b]Heavy's mother - alive, somewhere in America?[/b] [b]Bronislava (Heavy's sister) - alive in Paris, sightseeing, defended self against Soviets in Heavy's absence[/b] [b]Yana (Heavy's sister) - alive in New York, sightseeing, defended self against Soviets in Heavy's absence[/b] [b]Zhanna (Heavy's sister) - alive at Gray's base, Soldier's girlfriend, defended self against Soviets in Heavy's absence[/b] [b]Archimedes (pigeon) - alive at Gray's base, Medic's pet[/b] [b]Team Fortress Classic:[/b] TFC Scout - dead (drenched in gasoline and burned by Pyro), defending Gray's base TFC Soldier - dead (drenched in gasoline and burned by Pyro), defending Gray's base TFC Pyro - dead (killed by her own napalm grenade by Zhanna), torturing Soldier TFC Demoman - dead (strangled with Spy's shackles), bringing TFC Spy a phone TFC Heavy - dead (rapid aging after australium rush), defending Gray's base, getting revenge for his men, trying to secure life extending technology mostly for himself [b]TFC Engineer (Engineer's father) - alive at Gray's base[/b] [b]TFC Medic - unknown[/b] TFC Sniper - dead (countersniped by Sniper), defending Gray's base [b]TFC Spy - dead (neck snapped by Soldier)(note that TFC Spies can fake death in-game), extracting information about administrator's whereabouts from Miss Pauling[/b] [b]Other teams:[/b] Original BLU team - dead, employed by Blutarch Mann/employed by Administrator/her lineage Team Citadel - dead (killed off by TFC), employed by Administrator/her lineage Team Vanguard - dead (killed off by TFC), employed by Administrator/her lineage Team Echelon - dead (killed off by TFC), employed by Administrator/her lineage Gray's robot army - destroyed (by TF and Hale), defending Gray's base [b]Teufort:[/b] [b]Mike the Mayor - learning about Teufort in Teufort library, making horrible decisions[/b] [b]Little Jack - alive in Teufort, is ok with having killed a man at his age on Christmas[/b] [b]Other:[/b] [b]Australians - weak and dumb due to australium depletion, used to be scientific and cultural powerhouse of the planet[/b] Old Nick - dead (stabbed in the neck with an icicle by little Jack), trying to abduct naughty children for his south pole arms workshop [b]Merasmus - immortal, captured by police for questioning after being set up for murder of Tom Jones by Miss Pauling, enjoyed his life without Soldier for a roommate[/b] Tom Jones - dead (neck snapped by Soldier), lived with Merasmus There are some others (like Administrator's TV screen guys, George Washington etc.) that popped up once and/or didn't play much of a role, so I didn't include them. It's still possible they'll return and make a mess though, with these writers all bets are off.

[QUOTE=AkujiTheSniper;51656315]If they ever give Pyro a name it better be a name like Sam or Alex, which could be for guys or girls[/QUOTE] Or you know, Robin.

[QUOTE=GladoSC;51656636]Or you know, Robin.[/QUOTE] Or Taylor

[QUOTE=GladoSC;51656636]Or you know, Robin.[/QUOTE] Pyro confirmed to be Robin Walker in disguise

saxton and maggie were beyond forgettable. I know people are happy with this issue but there's alot of flaws in my opinion. well no need to be a party popper.

I have no reason to doubt that Elizabeth, Emily, and Helen are all the same person.

For a while, I thought Ms Pauling was going to be a clone of the Administrator who will take over for her when she passes. Clone maybe not, but I wouldn't be surprised if she did take over for the Administrator after she does die.

[QUOTE=gigazelle;51656722]I have no reason to doubt that Elizabeth, Emily, and Helen are all the same person.[/QUOTE] Counterpoint could be that life extenders didn't exist before Radigan Conagher, therefore Elizabeth couldn't use one. Let's not forget he built three extenders, and we still don't know who used the third one. Could be Gray, but I think he was a intelligent enough to design one on his own, besides I don't think it was in his interest to expose himself to Radigan or Emily. It's entirely possible Emily used the third one after Elizabeth's death and later changed names to Helen.

oh my god the barely two sentence blog post with the over 400 day late comic lmao

[QUOTE=Mio Akiyama;51656484]Funny how there's more character development in one comic for TF2 than there was in all the videos and other shit Blizzard has done for Overwatch[/QUOTE] Blizzard just seems to be obsessed with CONSTANTLY forcing the story into the gameplay, through maps, dialogue, etc., without giving much thought to actual character development. They're trying to force the lore waaay too much.

(In reply to drury) TJ got his neck snapped in heaven too, so either he's double dead, or he's gonna have the greatest comeback tour ever. Tfc spy is most likely dead, as when tfc heavy is called while he was yelling at the medic, he is told that three people were killed. Where is it canon that blu team is in helltower hell? Fred is not necessarily the guy in the engy update picture. Nor is the engineer pictured necessarily dells father. I would like to also rescind my statement on conager's hands. Closer inspection reveals that in most panels in which his right hand is visible, the arm appears to have a faint line drawn across it, possibly indicating that he is using a life-like prosthetic arm.

[QUOTE=Kitt Stargaze;51656781]For a while, I thought Ms Pauling was going to be a clone of the Administrator who will take over for her when she passes. Clone maybe not, but I wouldn't be surprised if she did take over for the Administrator after she does die.[/QUOTE] why would she need to though? the gravel war is effectively over, the robot war is over, all that's left is helen's grudge and then the canon is effectively done with unless something new is brought to the table

[QUOTE=chandlerj333;51656861]Where is it canon that blu team is in helltower hell?[/QUOTE] It's an asspull for the most part, a popular theory for why MvM has only RED mercs, seeing as chronologically it happened right after. People like it because it fills some plot holes without making too many assumptions. [editline]12th January 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=gigazelle;51656722]I have no reason to doubt that Elizabeth, Emily, and Helen are all the same person.[/QUOTE] Also another thing: Elizabeth looked like this upon inheriting australium (unknown substance at the time): [img]https://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/d/d9/Elizabeth.png?t=20110422220347[/img] [url=http://i.imgur.com/HS85yPE.png]Administrator's childhood memories of australium[/url] contradict that, unless she visited an australium pit ~50 years before inheriting it. Which is possible, but...