Scout release next thursday

Heres what my clan member said, i don't think he has the time to make something like this up.  btw the super shotgun is directly from quake2 so eat it.


VenDetta: 06.24.08 2:35PM Team Fortress 2 Scout Update Coming Next Thursday

shacknews.com — Valve has announced that the Scout class update for its online multiplayer shooter Team Fortress 2 will be released next Thursday. To celebrate the update, the company is also doing another free TF2 Weekend, starting the following friday, as done with the Medic and Pyro updates. Much of the community is pleased at just how quickly this update is coming out. Now on to the changes/additions:

The first unlockable replaces the Scout's secondary weapon of the pistol. The new radar gun works by holding down your primary fire key, which will show a small green health bar of enemies within the cone shaped region, this radar can also pick up cloaked or disguised spies, but the radar only lasts for 3 seconds.

The second unlockable weapon will be the new primary weapon, the super shotgun. With double the damage of the original scattergun, players will truly need to make every shot count for this weapon to be effective.

The third unlockable will bring a sort of nostalgia to children of the 80's, with the scout toting a hockey stick and hockey mask (ala Casey Jones from TMNT), like the super shotgun, this weapon deals much heavier damage than the (Bonk!) Bat but attacks much slower.

During the interview with Doug Lombardi, Developer of Team Fortress 2, Doug had the following to say about the future and past updates.

DOUG: The medic was the most dramatic overhaul, just in terms of looking at his gameplay. People who played the medic in the old days will find a lot of variance when they play the new medic. The demo guy is somewhere we can really play with physics. The engineer is another one. Some of the guys have really simple, classic roles, the Heavy being one of them and the Scout being another. There's not really a lot with the Heavy you can change. He's got a big bad gun, he's slow, but he can take a lot of damage. The Scout was headed toward a simpler route as well, being the nasty gnat he is, so we kind of made him a bit

Found the link

The radar sounds feasible, the "super shotgun" sounds too lazy of an idea to be true, and the third - hockey stick is just what all the scouts have been dying for.  literally.

Wow they popped this one out fast. That is if its true.

link?

I could've sworn that scout was carrying a nailgun.

I looked this article on shacknews and found nothing.

shenanigans

Proof or GTFO. "fellow clan member" my ass. Go back to Weapons Factory, since that's all you seem to post about around here.

On-topic, the hockey mask doesn't suit the scout's look or playstyle, the double-damage shotgun has no downsides, making its likelihood dubious at best, and the radar gun seems utterly worthless. It's much faster to spy-check by simply shooting a team-mate then by taking out a special gun for it. Better yet, run into them, or just leave spy-checking up to the Pyros.

Well that was rude.

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Wow, now this is some great e-rage.  Why don't you take relax a little and take a deep breath?  If you don't like Chro that's fine, just keep your lovely comments to yourself...