Final Major Update Speculation V37 - This is the last MUS thread. Speculate in General Chat. - Games

[QUOTE=Upgrade;52378808]It's unlikely that Valve will announce a major update on the Fourth of July. It falls on a Tuesday this year and implies a 4-day long-weekend from work. Which is why that maintenance patch on July 4th that one year was so unexpected.[/QUOTE] Valve learned a valuable lesson with Gun Mettle: Don't release a major update 2 days before a major US holiday.

Anyone think [URL="http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=454133929&searchtext=upward"]Abandoned Upward[/URL] could make it in to the jungle update as a sort of reskin map like the Halloween maps?

[QUOTE=housejojo06;52379355]Anyone think [URL="http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=454133929&searchtext=upward"]Abandoned Upward[/URL] could make it in to the jungle update as a sort of reskin map like the Halloween maps?[/QUOTE] That map is legitimately one of [B]the[/B] worst FPS performances on a map I think I've played in TF2, and I have a pretty decent set up. It's also really particle heavy with some of the locations (the games), and has some incredibly "why would you even do this" map decisions (The trees and unnecessary amount of clutter/bridges especially) If Valve brought that in as a legit map, reskin or not, the toasters of TF2 would probably burst into flames.

isnt this one with the random out of place crystals all over the caves? this map is only good for sfm/gmod shots rather than a playable map

[QUOTE=housejojo06;52379355]Anyone think [URL="http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=454133929&searchtext=upward"]Abandoned Upward[/URL] could make it in to the jungle update as a sort of reskin map like the Halloween maps?[/QUOTE] While this map is a personal favorite of mine, it does have some optimizaiton issues. [editline]19th June 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Fluury;52379002]Why so? They don't have to leave 4 weeks between the Post. Now if we aren't getting it this week, then we should start worrying/wondering if it aint happening.[/QUOTE] I'd honestly say next week or the first week of july for the post, and then the week after for the update.

[QUOTE=chandlerj333;52379335]How long have the bots not shown up in the training mode?[/QUOTE] Less than a month, for sure. Source: Me, having coerced my girlfriend into playing TF2 a few weeks back.

Probably the update will come this thursday or friday with blog post wednesday. If not then next week, with blog post tuesday then layered update wednesday and thursday. [I]If im wrong i will eat food[/I]

[QUOTE=housejojo06;52379355]Anyone think [URL="http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=454133929&searchtext=upward"]Abandoned Upward[/URL] could make it in to the jungle update as a sort of reskin map like the Halloween maps?[/QUOTE] Reskins are fine for Halloween but I want new maps for regular major updates (and it seems like the TF2 team does as well since 2Fort Invasion was very much the exception to the new map rule)

[QUOTE=108r5memerz;52379643]Probably the update will come this thursday or friday with blog post wednesday. If not then next week, with blog post tuesday then layered update wednesday and thursday. [I]If im wrong i will eat food[/I][/QUOTE] this has been said every week

"Tonights the Night"

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/8o2H0fV.jpg[/IMG] It will be July, not happening this month

[QUOTE=Zadrave;52380045]this has been said every week[/QUOTE] Don't you like tradition?

That's because we are actually getting awfully close. This and next week is quite literally not likely to be the night, though, but then again valve time works in mysterious ways.

The tf team is caught in a time loop that extends when anyone correctly guesses the release date of the update.

The update is going to come out next hour I know it guys look at the evidence.

If the jungle update is going to ship alongside the pyro update then will the heavy update have a theme too like the pyro has with the jungle?

The Gulag update

New MvM content would be amazing, but I don't think so. My gut feeling says they will remove random crits though.

[QUOTE=ComodoreBluth;52376147]I thought of an interesting quality of life improvement idea for the medic and I wanted to see what everyone thinks. My thought would be double tapping E while playing Medic causes the medic to yell out voice lines like "Over here" or "I'll heal you" and a healing icon pointing to the medic appears for all nearby teammates. Maybe if you have your crosshair over a specific player the medic could even have class specific voicelines calling out that character for healing. Obviously you wouldn't want the call to be seen by all friendly players, but it would be a good way to being able to get the attention of nearby friendly players.[/QUOTE] Or simply pressing E makes you yell the standard "MEDIC!" except everyone can see the bubble. No need to overcomplicate things. A spotting system similar to games like War Thunder would be nice too. Perhaps a "watch out!" command that when used on an enemy, shows an icon above their head to the whole team. Useful when there's snipers, or a general threat like an uber or whatever. Generally taking a look at what the most common comms are in competitive and looking into ways to implement them into the actual game with simple button presses is worth considering.

[QUOTE=Slurg;52380420]The tf team is caught in a time loop that extends when anyone correctly guesses the release date of the update.[/QUOTE] the time loop closes once UberMunchkin guesses it right, otherwise it will extend endlessy

Hey, if the pyro update is using a jungle theme, of course trying to take advantage of all the great contributions from mayann, would it be possible that the heavy update would have a community based WWI/II theme to take advantage of all the frontline contributions?

[QUOTE=rolfum;52381047]Hey, if the pyro update is using a jungle theme, of course trying to take advantage of all the great contributions from mayann, would it be possible that the heavy update would have a community based WWI/II theme to take advantage of all the frontline contributions?[/QUOTE] I would be pretty shocked if the TF2 team doesn't make the Frontline/War theme update eventually given the positive reception to it (even the Youtube Gaming twitter account tweeted out the trailer for the update). If the heavy update is planned for this Christmas I don't know if they would do 2 themed major updates in a year or if we'll see it sometime next year. I would honestly love it if the TF2 team has the Frontline team make an official SFM for Frontline if it goes official like EotL and the Invasion video. It's obviously different now with the new way they handle community updates but why not have some of the talented members of the community make SFM videos for you? I know there was a SFM in the works for the Mayann update by the Winglet, I wonder what ever happened with that? It would be a pretty great surprise if we got both the Valve video and the Mayann video for the Pyro/Jungle update. The Winglet is someone I've been hoping would get a EotL style official video for some now now.

[quote]I know there was a SFM in the works for the Mayann update by the Winglet, I wonder what ever happened with that? It would be a pretty great surprise if we got both the Valve video and the Mayann video for the Pyro/Jungle update. The Winglet is someone I've been hoping would get a EotL style official video for some now now.[/QUOTE] inb4 it turns out the "new sfm short" was just Winglet's Mayann SFM project [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Inb4 meme reply" - Craptasket))[/highlight]

[QUOTE=Chuggoth;52380595]MvM update with WW2 assets where heavy goes back in time to save his father from bolshevicks.[/QUOTE] I want this so much it hurts

Valve has never released a major update during the Summer Sale, I wouldn't get your hopes up for anything earlier than July 6th, as Bluth said.

[QUOTE=Scott713;52381385]Valve has never released a major update during the Summer Sale, I wouldn't get your hopes up for anything earlier than July 6th, as Bluth said.[/QUOTE] Love and war released 18th june 2014, the summer sale started on the 19th. Tomorrow is still possible, since this years sale (according from STS leak) starts on the 22nd. I don't expect them to do a 4 day thing out the update, they've moved passed that. They'll dump everything on one single day.

[QUOTE=Scott713;52381385]Valve has never released a major update during the Summer Sale, I wouldn't get your hopes up for anything earlier than July 6th, as Bluth said.[/QUOTE] They did ^^ Summer Update 2013 July 10 - Steam Sale July 11-July 23 Love and War June 18 - Steam Sale June 19-June 30

[QUOTE=Doodle966;52381529]They did ^^ Summer Update 2013 July 10 - Steam Sale July 11-July 23 Love and War June 18 - Steam Sale June 19-June 30[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Ponken;52381487]Love and war released 18th june 2014, the summer sale started on the 19th. Tomorrow is still possible, since this years sale (according from STS leak) starts on the 22nd. I don't expect them to do a 4 day thing out the update, they've moved passed that. They'll dump everything on one single day.[/QUOTE] Yes but remember that we haven't even gotten the balance blogpost yet, which they would likely give us around a week after to critique on it before the update hits

Pretty sure no balance blog post is coming, same as with the assets not coming. Things change.

[QUOTE=CoolJosh3k;52381577]Pretty sure no balance blog post is coming, same as with the assets not coming. Things change.[/QUOTE] This is like the 15th time I have seen someone say this on this forum. I know that it is looking unlikely now but this is different then assets. This is how the actual game will play and valve can't just not give us that blog post after they told the community because this is one of their high points for their update that they are taking community feedback first hand rather then through a popular name in the community. But maybe I'm optimistic here but shouldn't we be with what we were promised.