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Brains
12-08-2009, 07:50 AM
http://kotaku.com/5421317/next-team-fortress-2-update-to-get-friendly

looks like there is a new game mode coming. by the sounds of it, may even be turning against your own teammates??? I'm sure homfry can analyze it better since he's super Mr psych major.


EDIT: listening to it again, kinda sounds like both RED and BLU will stop fighting and join teams or something, maybe for a Christmas truce. new sound files have been found by some other players
New soundfiles in update! - Steam Users' Forums
still the very good chance of a new game mode where both teams maybe fight together against the Saxton Hale corporation?? either way, I'm liking the possibilities :D

EDIT2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce
valve is so crafty. what could they be up to.

EDIT3: here at what the new sound files are
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Friendship ends in ten seconds
Friendship ends in thirty seconds
Betrayal will not be tolerated
You cannot hide anything from us, mercenaries. And now, you will pay the price.
All you ever do is disappoint and betray me, cheating, stealing, friend making!
It's not too late to repent, kill your friend now and end this. Listen to your concience!
It's me or him, and I pay your salary. Make your choice!
Alert, a friendship has been detected, and will be eliminated.
You cannot hide anything from us, mercenaries. And now, you will pay the price. (Again)
Warning! A friendship has been detected!
How could you betray me?
Friendships are in direct contravention of mercenary conduct as delineated in your contracts, and on a personal note, I am very, very disappointed with you.
I won't single any one of you out. I will just say that some of you have betrayed the trust of your employers and because of that you must die. The rest of you are.. satisfactory.
Success! Despite your friendships.
Success! No thanks to the best friends among you.

EDIT4: hope valve isn't just fucking with us....
Mechagodzilla
12-08-2009, 07:55 AM
Interesting.
klossi
12-08-2009, 08:24 AM
introducing a 3rd party: team pnk
Brains
12-08-2009, 08:36 AM
apparently players have already heard the sound files in game. they have been saying it usually happens when you have a steam friend on the opposing team, and it happens during the setup time.....

EDIT: it's been happening throughout the match. more people have begun to report when they hear it.
Chillnburn1
12-08-2009, 09:07 AM
Oh boy, this is getting pretty awesome right now!
Chillnburn1
12-08-2009, 09:19 AM
I think the announcer doesn't quite like the teams having a truce.
Brains
12-08-2009, 09:32 AM
new theory:
you temporarily are capable of switching teams, and you get to work together with an "enemy"; like you steal your own intel, and bring it to the enemy base..thus the whole "friendship ends in 30 seconds"...so if your time runs out and your in the middle of the enemy base...your screwed.(you get killed, they take the intel and just complete the objective since you already brought it deep into their base, and you lose) :D
klossi
12-08-2009, 09:41 AM
the point of this is clearly to push the whole steamfriends thingy. there are some achievements already that support this.
Brains
12-08-2009, 03:04 PM
apparently the update already happened somehow?
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?story=61522

or it wasn't an update, but an addition to what already exists? no one has figured it out yet what has actually happened...or if they have, they haven't made it public knowledge yet. I'm dying to just leave work and go try and figure it out :D haha
Crux
12-08-2009, 03:32 PM
I might just be going insane from exams but I thought I heard the announcer saying some weird things during our highlander match last night... I didn't really catch what most of it was though
Bonemasher
12-08-2009, 03:54 PM
Anyone else think its a regular deathmatch mode? If so I wouldn't care too much about it.
StarYoshi
12-08-2009, 03:55 PM
Regular deathmatch would mean I can Axe EVERYTHING :3
Brains
12-08-2009, 03:59 PM
posted by someone on the tf2 steam forums

""""I've been browsing the forums for the last 15 minutes or so after catching scent of the new Announcer sounds, and all I can say is....

There will be no new gamemode.
There it is.
None of the soundclips actually suggest there will be any new content added to the game *events, new maps, new game types*

Its obviously just something that responds to the fact that there are people on a server who are on each others friend's lists, some of the lines will play when friends *steam friends, not any other kind of game-changing friends* join the same server. The part about ' kill you friend ' is just there for fun if you and your steam friend happen to be on oppossite teams, the whole attitude behind the new lines is that you can't be friends with an enemy, it doesn't actually expect you to do something, its just part of the announcer's crazy sense of humor.

The part about 'friendship ends in 30/10 seconds' is just a replacement for the normal mission countdown when there happen to be steam friends on oppossite teams before the map starts ( obviously, when the round starts, you are going to try to kill your friend, thus 'friendship ends')

These new clips will have no new effect on gameplay, this would explain why the clips have already been heard in game

Edit: Yes, this is pessimistic, but like the rest of you I saw the quote about there being something ' big' coming before the end of the year, I just don't think these voice clips have anything to do with it

All for a Christmas event, but seriously, you can't truly expect this be it"""""

bahhhh. hopefully he's wrong....even though it makes perfect sense.
Kaplan
12-08-2009, 08:00 PM
All I know is that there is some "big" TF2 update coming soon. Most likely a Christmas theme event.

Trading, according to Robin Walker, will not occur this year.
Juicedturtle
12-08-2009, 10:28 PM
Yea, i heard some of these last night.
darklight
12-09-2009, 09:24 PM
new theory:
you temporarily are capable of switching teams, and you get to work together with an "enemy"; like you steal your own intel, and bring it to the enemy base..thus the whole "friendship ends in 30 seconds"...so if your time runs out and your in the middle of the enemy base...your screwed.(you get killed, they take the intel and just complete the objective since you already brought it deep into their base, and you lose) :D

Oh god. Can you imagine how confusing this would be for spies?:push:
Brains
12-09-2009, 10:03 PM
everyone hates spys, so no one would care if spys had to actually work for their kills...
Devant
12-09-2009, 10:17 PM
i think cookies has beaten the spy game...
CookiesForBreakfast
12-10-2009, 12:49 AM
everyone hates spys, so no one would care if spys had to actually work for their kills...

I don't hate spys. :D
Brains
12-10-2009, 08:16 AM
I don't hate spys. :D

ahah only you are allowed to like spys cookies.
Bonemasher
12-10-2009, 05:52 PM
http://www.teamfortress.com/war/administrator/

A comic, about the demo and soldier being friends. Was posted on the tf2 blog. Doesnt hint at the update or anything.
Brains
12-10-2009, 06:03 PM
Demoman vs Soldier: How it works - Steam Users' Forums
so who do we want first...
personally I like demo better :D