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

[QUOTE=agrastiOs;52423870] Also, take a look at this: [url]https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/6ks9ys/some_things_to_notice_about_the_servers_being_down/[/url][/QUOTE] Now that shit is actually kind of weird and might be a good indicator of it happening sooner than we think. It's true that the pyroland servers have been active for a while, however these might be another new batch of them, otherwise there would be data on them, no? 4th July pyro update with Pyrotechnics? :thinking:

The World 11 could refer to world 1-1. The line could be missing because some systems like reddit do not allow those in urls between numbers. Happened with [URL="https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/6kiw40/all_community_made_jungle_maps_listed_pick_46/"]this topic i posted while ago[/URL] where 4-6 turned to 46.

[QUOTE=ics;52423931]The World 11 could refer to world 1-1. The line could be missing because some systems like reddit do not allow those in urls between numbers. Happened with [URL="https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/6kiw40/all_community_made_jungle_maps_listed_pick_46/"]this topic i posted while ago[/URL] where 4-6 turned to 46.[/QUOTE] I think it works just fine in server browser unless that's a typo on their end. Edit: Made a quick test [img]http://i.imgur.com/9UFEwoa.png[/img]

Yeah but what does World 11 mean?

Then this week is really the week.

[QUOTE=Fluury;52423967]Yeah but what does World 11 mean?[/QUOTE] I guess we have to wait til the update blog post.

[QUOTE=Fluury;52423967]Yeah but what does World 11 mean?[/QUOTE] World 11 for 11th July release?

Today's the 2nd anniversary of Gun Mettle. Time flies quick. I wish I could go back 2 years ago because I started TF2 back in January 2015 so Gun Mettle was the first big update I experienced. Seeing all of those weapon changes and new taunts for the first time got me excited, especially as someone still relatively new to TF2. I hope the Pyro update can help bring back that spark from 2015.

[QUOTE=Infernox-;52424150]Today's the 2nd anniversary of Gun Mettle. Time flies quick. I wish I could go back 2 years ago because I started TF2 back in January 2015 so Gun Mettle was the first big update I experienced. Seeing all of those weapon changes and new taunts for the first time got me excited, especially as someone still relatively new to TF2. I hope the Pyro update can help bring back that spark from 2015.[/QUOTE] As someone who's been playing since 2007 I think you got a top tier first update, due to the excellent rebalances, new features and the first new maps in some time. To me Gun Mettle was one of the best TF2 updates in years and honesty I was starting to wonder if TF2 was dying (at least gameplay wise) because the past few years had few maps, questionable rebalances and as many cosmetics as Valve could shove into updates and Gun Mettle felt like Valve was directly addressing my concerns with an update. The Spy v Sniper and War update were both really great as well since they were both 7+ day updates and the hype just built up more and more. I remember with the spiper v spy on one of the days people would sometimes see a decloaking spy when refrshing the page and there was so much excitement about it maybe being a spy update too. I really hope that the Pyro update is multi day too (maybe one day for each weapon with the other features/maps/etc being included on those pages) to build up hype in the same way though of course it won't be 7 days. The other really great one was the engineer update due to the whole golden wrench thing.

The biggest problem with mym pub changes is that they couldn't decide if they wanted it to be a serious, actually competitive experience or not. There's a round system where you have to win multiple rounds against the same team, playing WITH the same team, so they didn't want to force you off your team with auto balance. They could have balanced in between rounds, but then you still mess up that dynamic where it feels like you're always on the same team. But then valve removes stopwatch, which was great for serious play and was the only way to make it feel like there's consistency between rounds and helped keep unbalanced pubs from lasting too long. So now we have unbalanced teams for the sake of a competitive experience, and an undermined competitive experience for the sake of allowing people to fuck around in a match where they've already lost. Because Valve doesn't really know what it wants to do about casual, we get the worst of both worlds.

man the day that gun mettle came out was so hype, everyone was just thinking the game was completely dead and valve just came back and made everyone feel that update excitement that i personally at least hadn't felt for at least a year before that hopefully we can get the same with jungle!!

[QUOTE]The biggest problem with mym pub changes is that they couldn't decide if they wanted it to be a serious, actually competitive experience or not. There's a round system where you have to win multiple rounds against the same team, playing WITH the same team, so they didn't want to force you off your team with auto balance. They could have balanced in between rounds, but then you still mess up that dynamic where it feels like you're always on the same team. But then valve removes stopwatch, which was great for serious play and was the only way to make it feel like there's consistency between rounds and helped keep unbalanced pubs from lasting too long. So now we have unbalanced teams for the sake of a competitive experience, and an undermined competitive experience for the sake of allowing people to fuck around in a match where they've already lost. Because Valve doesn't really know what it wants to do about casual, we get the worst of both worlds.[/QUOTE] I am really hoping Valve adds stopwatch mode back into Casual for Payload and Attack/Defend. Because right now the winning team is the one who wins the last round, not like in Competitive where the winning team is the one who captures the fastest. The team balancing issue is more complicated. I think a simple solution for the time being would be to add back the option to scramble teams [I]after[/I] the match ends. That way, it won't drastically interfere with the teams during the game, and by the end of the match it is already determined who was the better team anyway. I think if team scramble was put back in, it would also encourage more people to stay on the same server.

I cracked the code. [IMG]https://files.catbox.moe/woesi0.png[/IMG] There are 10 Payload Maps in-game atm. World 11. World = Map. 11 = number of the new Jungle Map. Going after this Jungle would be a payload map, and these are servers specifically set-up for "World 11" - meaning either the new Jungle Map, or the new Update in general.

[QUOTE=Fluury;52424513]I cracked the code. [IMG]https://files.catbox.moe/woesi0.png[/IMG] There are 10 Payload Maps in-game atm. World 11. World = Map. 11 = number of the new Jungle Map. Going after this Jungle would be a payload map, and these are servers specifically set-up for "World 11" - meaning either the new Jungle Map, or the new Update in general.[/QUOTE] tbh, .... I first thought this would be another Illuminati joke but then, I saw it actually makes sense

[QUOTE=ComodoreBluth;52424181]I really hope that the Pyro update is multi day too (maybe one day for each weapon with the other features/maps/etc being included on those pages) to build up hype in the same way though of course it won't be 7 days.[/QUOTE] I would say Pyro Update will have at least 4 days. 1 for Jungle, 1 for Pyro, 1 for Comp/Balance Changes, 1 for Campaign.

Sorry if this was clear from the start but I found an old (tough break) post where someone discovered the Pyroland servers and back than they didnt seem to feature the (World 11) tag Post: [url]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/357275885699806910/72D753D6D61B0D4E7D01F13B081401D89D8D3EF3/[/url]

[QUOTE=Doodle966;52424573]Sorry if this was clear from the start but I found an old (tough break) post where someone discovered the Pyroland servers and back than they didnt seem to feature the (World 11) tag Post: [url]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/357275885699806910/72D753D6D61B0D4E7D01F13B081401D89D8D3EF3/[/url][/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Benoist3012;52423907] They are supposed to have a name similar to these ones: [url]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/357275885699806910/72D753D6D61B0D4E7D01F13B081401D89D8D3EF3/[/url][/QUOTE] Is it really that hard to read? Anyway if those pyroland servers really are telling that the next major update is near, a release for the 1 year MYM anniversary seems very likely now.

[QUOTE=Benoist3012;52424683]Is it really that hard to read? Anyway if those pyroland servers really are telling that the next major update is near, a release for the 1 year MYM anniversary seems very likely now.[/QUOTE] Nah it wont be a friday, but this week has got to be THE week

[QUOTE=Dookas;52424734]Nah it wont be a friday, but this week has got to be THE week[/QUOTE] Well I though about July 6th not exactly 1 year but very close.

I think it will be out Wednesday or Thursday.

The Steam Store has a red bar that keeps getting more intense as each day goes by, it's a stretch, but maybe red = flames = Pyro?

Did Valve give mappers access to jungle props yet? If not, then this week isn't the one for sure, since the mappers will have to get a bit of time to replace the current detailing with new jungle assets.

[QUOTE=DatGoldyDooly;52424782]Did Valve give mappers access to jungle props yet? If not, then this week isn't the one for sure, since the mappers will have to get a bit of time to replace the current detailing with new jungle assets.[/QUOTE] They stated that that plan was scrapped.

-ninja'd-

[QUOTE=Fluury;52424513]I cracked the code. [IMG]https://files.catbox.moe/woesi0.png[/IMG] There are 10 Payload Maps in-game atm. World 11. World = Map. 11 = number of the new Jungle Map. Going after this Jungle would be a payload map, and these are servers specifically set-up for "World 11" - meaning either the new Jungle Map, or the new Update in general.[/QUOTE] What was the last Payload map Valve made? Barnblitz?

[QUOTE=TectoImprov;52424792]What was the last Payload map Valve made? Barnblitz?[/QUOTE] Technically Cactus Canyon, but the last completed map was yes, Barnblitz. (Even PLR has gotten maps more recently from them.)

This does mean valve is working weekeds, at least the TF team is. They're certainly trying to get this to release Tuesday or Thursday.

[QUOTE=gjw22;52424866]This does mean valve is working weekeds, at least the TF team is. They're certainly trying to get this to release Tuesday or Thursday.[/QUOTE] Not exactly. For all we know Jill did this via his phone on his private toilet

[QUOTE=Fluury;52424881]Not exactly. For all we know Jill did this via his phone on his private toilet[/QUOTE] Uhh, I doubt that. It's not easy to launch servers from a phone (at least I'd assume) especially in this quantity.

[QUOTE=Fluury;52424881]Not exactly. For all we know Jill did this via his phone on his private toilet[/QUOTE] They're absolutely working weekends. They were working weekends when I visited them in June 2016, which was ~2-4 weeks before the launch of MyM. It's clearly within 4 weeks of launch; they're going to be in crunch mode.