TF2 - Heavy Update

[mat64]

We've been a little quiet for the last week as we've put the finishing touches on the Heavy update. We thought the Pyro pack was the biggest we'd be doing for a while, due to the large changes to the Pyro, but the Heavy update has turned out to be even bigger. In addition to the three unlockable weapons and thirty-five achievements for the Heavy, we've got a new game mode with five new arenas for it, a new Payload map focusing on more open spaces than Goldrush, and another popular community-made map. Throughout the rest of the week we'll be giving you the details on all this, and if all goes well, you'll have your hands on it shortly afterwards.

The community-made map included in the Heavy update is cp_steel, by Jamie 'Fishbus' Manson. After the Pyro update we received a lot of email telling us how wrong we were in our choices, and cp_steel was an easy next choice due to the way it dominated the suggestions. If you're firing up your email right now to tell us that we never get anything right, please include suggestions of what map(s) we should be looking at next.

We'll be updating A Heavy Update site with more info daily. Stay tuned!

So far we've had a look at the new community map cp_steel and a look at the first new weapon for the heavy the K.G.B aswell as the names of the achievements. So we are left with a new gamemode, some new maps, the remaining 2 heavy weapons and more information on the achievements. This certainly is looking to be an interesting update.

[DrLacero]

Indeed, Steel is such an amazing map, my favourite CP. The achievements are pretty obvious (well done valve, you named them well):

1. Iron Kurtain - heavy_damage_taken
2. Party Loyalty - heavy_defend_medic.png
3. Division of Labor - heavy_assist_medic_large
4. Red Oktoberfest - heavy_earn_medic_domination
5. Show Trial - heavy_kill_taunt

6. Crime and Punishment - heavy_kill_flag_carriers
7. Class Struggle - heavy_kill_medic_pair
8. Soviet Block - heavy_block_invuln_heavy
9. Stalin the Kart - heavy_block_cart
10. Supreme Soviet - heavy_receive_uber_grind

11. Factory Worker - heavy_stand_near_dispenser
12. Soviet Union - heavy_assist_heavy_grind
13. 0wn The Means of Production - heavy_clear_stickybombs
14. Krazy Ivan - heavy_kill_underwater
15. Rasputin - heavy_take_multi_damage

16. Icing on the Cake - heavy_kill_dominated
17. Crock Block - heavy_survive_crocket
18. Kollectivization - heavy_assist_grind
19. Spyalectical Materialism - heavy_uncover_spies
20. Permanent Revolution - heavy_kill_while_spinup

21. Heavy Industry - heavy_fire_lots
22. Communist Mani-Fisto - heavy_kill_crit_punch
23. Redistribution of Health - heavy_heal_medkits
24. Rationing - heavy_kill_shotgun
25. Vanguard Party - heavy_first_to_cap

26. Pushkin the Kart - heavy_payload_cap_grind
27. Marxman - heavy_kill_midair_minigun
28. Gorky Parked - heavy_defend_control_point
29. Purge - heavy_kill_capping_enemies
30. Lenin a Hand - heavy_revenge_assist

31. Five Second Plan - heavy_teleport_fast_kill
32. Photostroika - heavy_freezecam_taunt
33. Konspicuous Konsumption - heavy_eat_sandwiches
34. Don't Touch Sandvich - heavy_kill_scouts
35. Borscht Belt - heavy_kill_heavies_gloves

Hopefully the new game mode is Escort and not Hunted.