Sword and Shield, Newspaper and comic

Since Drew Wolf has a M&M lodged in his nose ...

he has to MEET THE MEDIC ?!

A fierce temper, a fascination with all things explosive, and a terrible plan to kill the Loch Ness Monster cost the six year old Demoman his original set of adoptive parents. Later, back at the Crypt Grammar School for Orphans near Ullapool in the Scottish Highlands, the boy's bomb-making skills improved dramatically. His disposition and total number of intact eyeballs, however, did not.

I don't think story continuity is high on Valve's TF2 agenda.

the Direct Hit has been engineered from the ground up for Soldiers who have mastered the art of shooting at their targets instead of vaguely near them. Those of you looking to deal splash damage, stop reading now: the Direct Hit has a 70% smaller blast radius than a traditional rocket launcher. But the rockets that come out of this thing move fast and hit hard: 80% faster and with 25% more destructive force. Best of all, for you real sharpshooters, the Direct Hit guarantees mini-crits on airborne targets.

Soldier gets epic weapon, faster projectiles, Mini crits and us Demomen only get a sword and shield.

I’ll start with the primary Soldier unlockable which is a weapon that pretty much the entire competitive community would like to see. A rocket launcher with faster rockets but with decreased splash damage would make this class a whole lot more interesting to play. At the moment, most high level Soldiers would like to play some other class instead because the low skill ceiling this class has. Playing Soldier don’t have much variety and you’re most often stuck with the task of protecting the Medic or random spam.

The unlockable I’m suggesting would promote the skilled Soldier play, but it wouldn’t be a straight upgrade (like Ubersaw is atm) because spam and splash damage is very important on maps like Well and Granary where there are tight choke points. It wouldn’t make the Soldier overpowered on public servers either. Most ppl seem to think that the Soldier is OP on pubs already but I think this is an unlockable weapon which would only be used by the good players.

You could also add increased damage for airgibs or no ranged damage reduction for direct hits to increase the skill level needed for this weapon. I’m quite sure it would be a balanced new unlockable for both public and clan mathes if we test it thoroughly in the Beta.
Last edited by ze Moose : 08-24-2009 at 02:55 AM.

Back when your father and grandfather played Team Fortress 2, being bad at the game was so shameful, they would rage-quit (a lengthy, painful process that involved pulling burning coal from the computer’s furnace). Now, thanks to modern-day updates like these, there’s finally a good excuse. You didn’t misread that sentence: losing is now a strategy.

This melee-slot pickaxe becomes more deadly the more damage you take, letting you move faster and hit harder the more wounds you endure. Get close enough to death, and you will become Death himself.

Note: Pretty much any time we reveal a new weapon, somebody on the forums claims they thought of it first. But this time, assuming it’s Tom Francis and jibberish, they are absolutely correct. As a special thanks to them for doing our work for us, they'll each be getting a unique version of the Equalizer of their very own.

Admit it: Every so often, you suspect you’re carrying your team. But other than rage-quitting, what can you do about it? How about motivating those lazy sons of <FEMALE DOGS> to put on their war face and fight?
Enter the morale-boosting Buff Banner. When this secondary-slot item is equipped, any damage you deal boosts a rage meter that, when full, lets you pull out your bugle and sound a call to war! For the next 14 seconds, every teammate who rallies round your flag will deal mini-crits.

Get your thinking pants on, because the Scottish Resistance is the thinking Demoman's sticky bomb launcher. Trading offensive capability for increased defensive power, the SR can lay down twice as many sticky bombs, as well as destroy enemy sticky bombs.

But hold on, thinking fans—there’s more! The SR lets you detonate specific groups of bombs instead of having to set them off all at once. The SR detonates whichever group of bombs the player is looking at, letting you control which clusters blow, and when. You’ll be able to lay more traps and guard multiple areas at a time.

But all this awesome thinking man stuff comes at a price, just like real thinking. The SR is less useful for air-bursts and close range combat, thanks to longer priming rate (0.4 seconds) per bomb.

hmm, Stop lieing!

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