So unless you have been living under a rock where TF2 new does not penetrate to, you are probably fully aware the scout update to TF2 is coming next week. The TF team has been busy, robbing people of cold hard earned recession cash for Left 4 Dead, so its been a while since they updated TF2. Hey they kept us waiting for 9 years for the game who cares how long everyone waits for free content right.

Okay that is not all true, they introduced a bug into TF2 that let glitchers wield weapons with any class, so you may have for example seen a pyro carrying a medic gun outside of Garry’s Mod. Then they decided to punish people who used said exploit by removing their unlockables for a month. Thats total bullshit right there, TF2 is a fun game and there are plenty of servers out there that encourage funny behavior and may have had the entire population doing this glitch during a goof off round. Admins should police their own server, end of story and this “ban of unlockables” should at least be toggleable by admins.

So anyway, they are slowly leaking the details of the scout update day by day. Lets be real here, the scout received the most love and rehaul of any class from the QWTF to TF2 jump and was the last class that needed an update. And if the dev team doesn’t officially put one of VilePickle’s maps into TF2 at some point, well, their mapmakers are either blind or scared of being put of work, seriously.

So far from the updates we have community maps, achievement lists, the sandman, and energy drinks. Let me save you the trouble of waiting 4 days for the next updates and let you know what the rest are.

First up: Scattergun unlockable called the Force-A-Nature. How do we know this, well TF2 screenshots of the egypt map contained media blurbs, and in them it said…

“A Dustbowl-style control point map, Egypt is visually striking, full of great combat spaces, and features some really interesting uses of vertical space. Classes with the ability to ascend rapidly (Soldiers, Demomen, and Scouts using the new scattergun unlockable ) have lots of options for traversing the arenas. In addition, the ruins provide Engineers with a large number of potential sentrygun locations.”

So most likely were looking at a double barrel scattergun, that holds 2 shots at a time, and the alt fire blasts both shots at once that can be used to propel the scout up or backwards.

The second is most likely going to be a game mode involving 2 payload carts. I’m not naming sources but its pretty much reliable. Also from looking at the achievements you can tell scouts will get a crit buff for drawing first blood and the scout will have a weapon called the Force-A-Nature.

Rumors leaked a few months ago about FLOOR MASTER of Team Roomba griefing fame asking Robin Walker to put in some “SHAMWOW” audio clips for the scout and Robin said he convinced everyone it was a good idea. Hopefully we will see some of those.

I understand that Valve doesn’t need to release any of this as free for TF2 and I am glad they are doing this. The Orange Box was one of the best gaming deals ever but if they don’t release some free Left 4 Dead updates to ease my pain for wasting money on that piece of shit, well, that sours the deal the Orange Box had. It also leaves me questioning if I want to purchase the next Valve game early at full price since you know its one month until they put it on some steam sale.