Team Fortress 2 Update Arrives - Including Badlands

[Hectic Glenn]

A Free automatic update for Team Fortress 2 is now available via Steam. The release is headlined by the introduction of "Badlands," a new map that pushes control-point gameplay onto vertical landscapes.[br]To view the full release notes and/or find out more about Team Fortress 2, please visit www.steamgames.com[br]</br>
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[scotland1]

Wooo.

 

[TwwIX]

Cookie Time!

 

[hool10]

Fun as hell!!! My favorite map was the mod map: warpath. I liked it mainly because of the teamwork. This map is ****ing incredible though. You must have 2 or more, smart medics or your team is toast. There is few ammo, health drops so those medics are key to victory. Also there are many hiding spots for those spies! :cheese: The map is also big so the snipers have an actual role this time.

 

[DiSTuRbEd]

The map is also big so the snipers have an actual role this time.

Hell yeah! Some guy was already complaining about me in a server. When you get the other team down to 2 CP's its very easy to snipe those areas and get some nice kills!

I love this map!

 

[hool10]

Hell yeah! Some guy was already complaining about me in a server. When you get the other team down to 2 CP's its very easy to snipe those areas and get some nice kills!

I love this map!

Yeah, usually the demo's blindly fire up there. If your smart, you go against the metal shield so the grenades roll of the spire. The snipers will always see you though... The best part for spies is that there are so many routes, that many get overlooked. So the spy just camps out there waiting for an unfortunate victim. Or goes into the enemy base. I could go on and on but the map is amazing.

 

[Krenzo]

I was hoping for old school Badlands CTF.

 

[Ennui]

Fun map, medics are beyond essential though.

 

[Ne0nguy]

Why are they advertising the fact that is is a 'Free' update?
Is there an update that we are eventually gonna have to pay for?

 

[joule]

Why are they advertising the fact that is is a 'Free' update?
Is there an update that we are eventually gonna have to pay for?

Valve is now developing for consoles. Console users pay for their updates (haha, I feel sorry for 'em) so that's why there is FREE in the title.

Valve now has to appeal to their console userbase, so from now on you better bet that you will see FREE in the title of their updates.

 

[Hazar]

great map

 

[DiSTuRbEd]

I was hoping for old school Badlands CTF.

They stated months ago, this is nothing close to the old Badlands.

 

[Javert]

This map is tough to learn.

 

[Wang Tang]

I find myself getting lost in the starting area, still inside -_-

 

[delusional]

great map for spies since it's so easy to infiltrate their spawn on the far right door. I broke my record for damage as spy.

 

[xcellerate]

They stated months ago, this is nothing close to the old Badlands.

unfortunately, the old badlands was bad ass.

I still want Rock_2!

 

[PriNcE oF SpAcE]

one of the best official maps yet IMO and also the nicest looking one.

I think it's a little too open(number of routes) in some areas leaving certain classes very handycapped.

demomen, snipers and heavies have a hard time on this map because of the multiple angles the enemy can attack from...

on the other hand it's a paradise map for spies, scouts and pyros.

 

[Pesmerga]

It's a scout map thus SUX

 

[morgs]

Wtb Ctf

 

[Pesmerga]

Yeah, CP is pretty shit if it's back and forth like Well or Hydro.

Moar liek Gravelpit.

 

[Jintor]

They'll update it as well, of course. But I can't wait to play!

 

[AciD]

It was worth to wait.

 

[Avoidist]

Indeed. The best 5-point CP map by a wide margin, and you get the feeling of something new.

 

[Druckles]

Fun map, medics are beyond essential though.

I've noticed this. It's surprisingly different to Granary, even though it's essentially the same game type. While I don't think you can win without a medic in Granary, I'm not sure what it is, but you seem to require medics more...

I think it's brilliant, quite frankly, especially because of the vertical element in it. It adds alot to the game.

 

[Nibwoddle]

Awesome. Can't wait till I get back to my dad's house so I can play it.

 

[UseAbuse]

Badlands is a pretty solid map, at least compared to well and granary. Although im a bit disappointed, I was expecting steeper cliffs.

Great update ftw. Can't wait for goldrush.

 

[Citrus]

I played 5 minutes of badlands and didn't like it, but then I don't really like any of the 5 CP maps.

 

[[Matt]]

badlands is ace but the best new addition to TF2 has to be the scorching sound when your pyro's flamer hits the target... both useful and gloriously satisfying knowing your target is being roasted alive!

 

[dogboy73]

I was hoping for old school Badlands CTF.

They stated months ago, this is nothing close to the old Badlands.

Not really sure why they called this badlands in that case. Why not call it something else? Confusingly, there's a TF2 remake of the original Badlands map doing the rounds. I wa playing it the other day. It was excellent.

The new 'Badlands' map is good fun now that I've sussed the layout (which doesn't take to long at all). It felt a bit confusing at first. But then most new TF2 maps feel like that at first. It's going to be good with 30+ players.

 

[63]

and you get the feeling of something new.

Because... it is new?

 

[Planetary]

I like it

Looks like dustbowl, plays like granary, complete with forward spawn points.

Definitely scout paradise.

 

[Trevelyan]

Hooray for Badlands, its already up there with Dustbowl as my favorite cp map.

 

[Jintor]

It's a little difficult to get used to, but I'm enjoying it immensely.

 

[jondy]

Gah, this map is Awesome.