Spooky season is upon us. I do know this, partly, as a result of somebody has already coated the treehouse home windows in low cost cobwebs and I can’t gaze broodingly on the fully regular, in no way unsettling occasions of the surface world in 2019. But the true clue is Team Fortress 2‘s Halloween occasion, again as soon as extra with two new maps, a buncha hats and a short lived re-opening of each Halloween occasion from the previous eleven years.
It’s nothing particular, actually, past an excuse to dip again into backstabbing because the Spy. This is nice sufficient for me.
Valve have been outsourcing Scream Fortresses-esses for years. We used to get rampaging headless axemen, bumper car battles , giant eyeballs and evil wizards. Nowadays they have a tendency to depend on community-made maps and cosmetics.
It’s a disgrace, however an comprehensible one. TF2 is historic, and it’s neat to get seasonal new stuff of any variety after twelve years.
The two new maps are referred to as Laughter and Precipice, and I a lot desire the previous. It’s a king of the hill map with a purple portal behind the seize level that you could traverse to grow to be briefly invulnerable and crit-boosted, solely this may increasingly effectively not occur as a result of traversing it entails platforming and generally having your head reworked right into a bomb whereas being harangued by a speaking flying ebook.
Precipice begins off as an earthly payload map the place you must push the cart in a largely straight line. I’m positive one thing spooky occurs when you’re previous the primary stage, however I haven’t had an opportunity to seek out out as a result of my try at cart-pushing went too badly, after which when the perimeters switched cart-defending went too effectively.
Reddit consumer “xXMisterDiscoXx” has made a handy image of the brand new hats and such, once more all sourced from the neighborhood. At first look it appears tame, however then you definately see the genuinely chilling “binoculus”.
As I argued last year, TF2 Halloween occasions are about swiftly-fading novelty slightly than finely-balanced arenas. “Just dip your hand in the bag and see what bites you”, I mentioned again then. Look, I mentioned it once more.
Here are the patch notes for this year.
