Suggests Team Fortress 2 exploiters should fail less.
Spies lugging around miniguns, scouts running rampant with flamethrowers, and pryos slinging mediguns – it’s just not meant to be in Team Fortress 2. Regardless, thanks to an exploit in the game, classes have recently been switching weapons all over the shop. Until now, that is, as developer Valve has plugged the hole – but that’s far from the end of the story.
It posts an update with the title “You Have Failed Me” while posing as the female in-game announcer. Known only as ‘TF Announcer,’ she lets players know that she’s very disappointed in those who took advantage of the gameplay-jolting hack.
“It saddens me that despite my best efforts to instruct and better you, some of you insist on finding new ways to fail,” she reports. “We have sounded the alert and released a quick fix for an exploit that some unscrupulous players were using to wield items on invalid classes.”
TF Announcer goes on to explain that there are immediate consequences, although bans aren’t on the table this time around. “I have considered an appropriate punishment for the good-for-nothings responsible for this horrendous breach of conduct. Death, of course – but death is too good for disappointments such as these.”
So, what’s on the menu? Why, something designed to really pound home the message that taking advantage of exploits is just not cool, of course. For these naughty rascals, all of “their unlockable items have been removed for a month,” she announces. These unlockables can take considerable work to attain, so it’s certainly no small punishment, but it sure as hell beats the ban hammer.
“Fucking owned,” one player aptly remarks on the game’s forum, summing up most of the viewpoints so far. Of course, it’s likely set to be flooded with ensuing hilarity as certain players start finding their favourite weapons missing.
For those curious, you can see below for the exploit in action.
Meanwhile, Valve is currently leaking information on a daily basis about its next big update for the game, and this time it’s focused primarily around the scout.
So far, it’s released information on a new weapon called The Sandman which will stun “the living crap outta anybody dumb, slow, drunk, mute or Australian enough to get in the way.” Today, it announced the inclusion of two maps, Watchtower and Junction, the latter of which is already quite popular.
Four more mysterious features are included in the update. They will all be announced by and available on an American next Tuesday.
Supporting our habits:
Anonymous Gibbon
2009.02.20 11:53
And boom goes the dynamite