Posted: 25-03-08 In: Team Fortress 2 By: DigiQ8 | (14) comments | Add your comments


In this month issue, PCGamer pinned down Robin Walker to talk about the upcoming Team Fortress 2 massive update which includes; new modes, tweaks and 36 new achievements. Mr.Walker had a few examples for the upcoming Medic achievements such as:

• Placebo Effect: kill five enemies in a single life while having your uber-charge ready, but undeployed.
• Preventive Medicine: block the enemy from capturing a control point with an uber-charged teammate.
• Triage: deploy an uber-charge on a teammate less than a second before they're hit by a critical explosive.
• Autopsy Report: provide an enemy with a freeze-cam shot of you taunting above their ragdoll.

"We design achievements in much the same way we design TF2 classes", Walker said "Once we understand who the "customer" for an achievement is, it's fairly straightforward to design and test it."

On the new tweaks, Valve got a few tweaks for the Pyro in mind, which requires a significant new addition to the Pyro. And for the Medic they try to give him tools that "increase the difference between a highly skilled Medic and a beginner", and the first step towards that is the unlockable weaponry (such as the Overhealer, an upgrade that permanently doubles a target's health, but disables uber-charging)

That's some of what coming to Team Fortress 2 in the upcoming months, in the mean-time you can read a new interview with Robin Walker on the radical new changes to TF2 on CVG.com.