someone please make sure Rik is alright after this update news

imagine if they don't change airblast LOL

woow is time to reinstall and add up in pugchamp just for this update

tbh the short is pretty low quality

no?

they ditched the fart taunt.....

the lighting in the jungle scene was mediocre at best, all the characters besides scout and hale just reused ingame voice lines, and the yeti model is absolutely atrocious

https://i.imgur.com/AbR1qqU.png

it feels like it wasn't ready but they had to roll with it

http://fakkelbrigade.eu/maps/koth_lazarus_rc4.bsp
http://fakkelbrigade.eu/maps/cp_mossrock_rc5.bsp, reskin of cp_keikoku
http://fakkelbrigade.eu/maps/plr_bananabay_rc4.bsp
http://fakkelbrigade.eu/maps/koth_brazil_rc1.bsp
http://fakkelbrigade.eu/maps/pl_enclosure_rc9b.bsp

youre too picky, it look like any other update sfm

Great update, really Hyped about it. And exited to see Brazil. Hope we get more videos.

Maybe when using the jet pack you won't be able to use air blast and vice versa.

lol ok what
ban it

Where is the pyro fart taunt that was leaked?

maybe i'm picky because i've used SFM extensively?

expiration date had noticeably better lighting, model quality, and overall animation quality, let alone a real plot

fuck dude even the love and war 30 second clip was better quality

look I'm hoping the update is good, I really really want it to be, but it's pretty obvious the people that worked on TF2 shorts in the past are long gone now

hey, if you're going to nitpick to that extent maybe you should make the next set of sfm's and make them perfect :)

these are not things that most people care about or will focus on, considering that the pyro update just got announced

You're not allowed to complain at TF2 at all unless you've made a better game.

if the only bit of content we've seen out of valve so far for this entire update is pretty mediocre, it really isn't doing a good job of quelling the fear that the rest of the update will be mediocre, too

some of the maps look neat, but they're community-created so that doesn't speak to the quality of the rest of the update.

obviously we'll have to wait and see, but... it's not a good sign imo.

are they just presenting stuff right now or is there stuff to actually download?

https://i.imgur.com/1lEN0ky.png

https://i.imgur.com/Rf8Q8iu.png

BANANA BAY IS FUCKIHNG NUTS

If I can't fart at people it's an objectively bad update.
edit: it's a joke

calling it now banana bay is the new hightower

youre right i would also be picky if i knew a thing about sfm but hopefully this will be a quality update!

if this is the same koth_brazil I played in 4s years ago im prepared to get lost in a maze of small sidepaths PogChamp
edit: it is

you guys can download those maps right now on tf2maps.net

steam isn't updating tf2 for me. please send help

I rewatched the short and went through a few frames. Lighting I think was fine, scenebuilding was fucking fantastic (unless that's absolutely their in-house map), animation quality's a step above Winglet's old short for the Mayann community project. It doesn't hold a candle to Love and War or Meet the Spy's lighting, but It's something I wouldn't be surprised to see in the Saxxy's (speaking of which HELLO VALVE SAXXY'S WHEN THIS WEEK???). I think the lack of voice lines from other classes hurt it story-wise, TF2 is so reliant on its voice acting to carry it. Spy not even snapping one smarmy remark towards Scout was incredibly weird, I'm so confused since I'm confident they got VAs to record lines for in-game.

Valve does use a mix of mocap and animation and it is really noticeable for some reason since Expiration Date, and for whatever reason their NPC characters that they've brought out of the comics into SFM look way more detailed than the in-game TF2 models. That being said, crappy model quality or weaker animation was present in ED like look at Miss Pauling's collar and her in general. The fan-made model is smoother than this model.

http://78.media.tumblr.com/2bce3d59e72d69fbf5823193fae9357c/tumblr_n7c9yjUjq81s21x06o2_1280.gif

The yeti model's armpits do really suck but my theory is they probably bought this Halloween Heavy set from The Heartsman, so they or Heartsman had to model over the Heavy or around the missing spaces. Either they asked him to make sure it had a decent to low amount of polys in-game, or Heavy's armpits being fucked up from the start is what caused this. I can see in the Yeti Smash taunt thumbnail that there's like a seam between where Heavy's sleeves would have been vs. where the arm starts.

Also I thought Saxton Hale was going to suck even more than the yeti or Miss Pauling because I saw the leaked art from the Turbulence Saxxy trip and I thought it was just Soldier with a mustache and a cleft chin. It looked nothing like the comics or Moby Francke's concept art. I was prepared to ask JPRAS for his model from Winglet's Mayann animation as soon as this came out, but then this came out and Hale looks much better than I thought he would look. His profile shows respect to the feeling that Francke's concept felt like.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DMS_aOmUMAAe90z.jpg

You wont see anything until thurs.

Welcome to actual updates.

The Jetpack can't be part of the base class for pyro because the class has backpack cosmetics which would have to be removed from the game for it to work.

Pretty hyped for the buffs to scout and crossbow and nerfs to soldier coming in this patch tho :)

The jetpack is literally going to be the hookshot game mode part 2. Everyone needs to chill.