That’s a lot of “R” sounds.
Welcome to the Engineer Update Roundup! Yeehaw and all that junk. The Engineer Update for Team Fortress 2 has (finally) gone live and we here at CFD! are giving you the what’s what. We’re a few days behind, you say? More like fashionably late, I say. We can’t help that we were rustlin’ cattle out on the prairie and other… cowboy stuff.
So, without further ado, let’s get on to the update.
NEW WEAPONS!
The Wrangler: Replaces the pistol. This nifty little device lets you take control of sentry guns. You can control who and what they shoot, while the Wrangler sets up a bubble shield around the sentry that soaks up 66% of the damage dealt to it. Very nice! The firing range is also doubled and Level 3 Rockets have an increased launch rate. The drawback is that once you back out of the sentry, it is helpless for 3 seconds while it reboots. Better have your wrenches at the ready!
The Gunslinger: Replaces the wrench. Gives +25 max health to the wearer and allows for a melee combo attack where the third punch is a crit. Best part: it drops mini-sentries instead of regular sentries. Mini-sentries only cost 100 metal and build 4 times faster than a normal sentry (we hear it takes less than a second to put down!). However, they cannot be healed or upgraded, and deal half the damage of a normal sentry.
Frontier Justice: Replaces the shotgun. It has a 50% smaller magazine than the normal shotgun and doesn’t get random crits. Instead, it gets REVENGE CRITS! Oooooh! What’s that, you might ask? Well, an engineer gets 2 crits for every kill their sentry makes and 1 crit for every assist. When that sentry is destroyed, the engineer receives BONUS crits with the Frontier Justice. Pretty awesome, no?
NEW MAPS!
There are 3 new maps that come along with the Engineer Update: Thunder Mountain, Hightower, and Upward. All 3 are payload maps, from what we can gather. Thunder Mountain supports a really long track. Hightower has two satellite dishes that need to be destroyed, one for each team. While Upward is… really high up. It is, in fact, built on a mountain, is abandoned, and well… according to the pictures, we should blow it up just to be safe.
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And that’s it! A pretty awesome update if I do say so myself. Now what’re you waiting for? Get outta here and go play some TF2, goshdarnit! What about me? Well, I’m gonna go mosey for a little while. Oh yeah, I’m totally moseying.
[Via: Team Fortress 2]
