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The Next Class Pack = The Heavy
Posted: 01-07-08 In: News By: DigiQ8 | (88) comments | Add your comments


Robin Walker mentioned on Team Fortress's 2 Official Blog that The Heavy is indeed the next class to get updated.
We do design collaboratively at Valve, and one of the side effects of it is that we really need to be able to evaluate design ideas as objectively as possible. Otherwise design meetings would devolve into subjective arguing. We've found that the best method of working objectively is to have clear goals up front. Once we've got clear goals, we can throw a bunch of ideas up on the board and measure how well each idea achieves those goals. Often the work of testing those ideas against the goals causes us to further refine or clarify the goals.
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