Feb 14, 2012
Happy Valentine's Day!
Team Fortress 2


If there's one thing we know more about than hats, it's probably romance. Remember that romantic scene in Say Anything where John Cusack holds up a boom box in the rain? Well, we hold stuff up in the rain all the time. Golf clubs. Our wallets. An umbrella. Whatever's handy, really. And do the girls go for it? Hard to tell - it rains pretty hard in Seattle, so the limited visibility combined with wind shear makes it tough to see the appreciation on the ladies' faces.
Feb 14, 2012
Valve Trolls Valentine's Day With $100 Team Fortress 2 DLC
Team Fortress 2

Valve Trolls Valentine's Day With $100 Team Fortress 2 DLCTeam Fortress 2 developers Valve have put together "the most accurate simulation of an actual Valentine's Day gift ever made available to the public", and today made it available as an in-game item to owners of the multiplayer shooter.


That simulation comes in the form of a $100 diamond engagement ring, which Valve admits is "basically useless". It can only be gifted, and once sent to a player, if it's accepted, the entire TF2 community will get a message broadcasting the engagement. Both players will then be wearing the ring on their in-game models.


So it's only basically useless, not entirely useless! It can, if someone actually pays up, be heart-warming. And also a useful experiment to test just when, and how, people will stop buying superfluous shit for this game.


Happy Valentine's Day! [Valve]


Feb 13, 2012
Team Fortress 2′s Boston Boom-Bringer shake-shake-shakes the room
Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 Scout boom
The Scout just got 15% more obnoxious with the addition of a great big ghetto blaster to Team Fortress 2. It'll tease your enemies with a selection of sick beats during every taunt, upgrading the Scout from "unbearable" to "must be killed at any cost" in your enemies' estimations.

It's described as a "level 1-100 Futuristic Sound Device," and will set you back a hefty £7/$10. A portion of that will go to a community member. The Boston Boom-Bringer is the latest item to be promoted from the Steam Workshop, which is still overflowing with nonsensical but brilliant items like an Anubis headdress for the Pyro, a Soldier plushie on a stick and this magnificent bug mask.
Feb 10, 2012
Valve Drops Mad Beats on TF2, Adds A Boombox
Team Fortress 2 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Craig Pearson)

I'll bet the Vengaboys sound amazing on that thing.

Uh-uh they did-uhnt. Valve did not >just add a boombox to Team Fortress 2 that plays sounds whenever a Scout taunts… I think they did. Just let me check the server over here [opens server door] WELL, NOW I CAN’T HEAR AND I NEED TO CHANGE MY PANTS. BUT I CAN CONFIRM THAT THEY WENT THERE. They’ve released a paid for (£6.99! – too rich for my roots) community item called the “Boston Boom-Bringer“. Whenever the Scout taunts, it’ll play one of four phat beats. If you want to prepare yourself for the aural wreckage that the game’s about to throw at you, there’s a video below.

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Feb 9, 2012
I Can't Taunt Without My Radio
Team Fortress 2 - SZ
<a href="http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=7317"><img src="http://media.steampowered.com/apps/tf2/blog/7317/boombox_sized.jpg" width="400" height="261" border="0"></a>

<i>My radio's bad from the Boulevard.
I'm a hip-hop gangster and my name is Todd.
Terrorising my neighbours with the heavy bass.
I keep the suckas in fear by the look on my face.</i>
-LL Cool J, 1985

Most people only know LL Cool J as a rapper, actor, fashion designer, record producer, and author. Now, though, you can add "spooky-ass Nostradamus" to that list, because we've just released a misc slot item for the Scout called "The Boston Boom Bringer" that pretty much exactly matches the lyrics LL penned <i>almost thirty years ago.</i> Is it a radio? Yes! Is it "bad"? Yes! When you taunt while it's equipped, will it play music to terrorize your neighbors and scare suckas? Yes! Are you a hip-hop gangster named Todd? That's gonna vary from person to person, obviously, but it's not totally out of the question! The point is, there's probably an LL Cool J song that predicts your death. The secondary point is everything we just said about the sweet new boom box item.

We went through LL Cool J’s back catalog looking for other prescient rap songs that described musical items available for the other eight classes, but apparently one of the Ls stands for “lazy”, because it doesn’t look like he wrote any. So just in case anyone out there wants to succeed where LL Cool J failed, we've added a special "Sound Device" category to both the in-game item submission UI and in the Workshop so that you can tag your sound-themed submissions. Make something good enough and it may join the ranks of <a href="http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Aladdin%27s_Private_Reserve">Aladdin’s Private Reserve</a>, <a href="http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Conquistador">The Conquistador</a>, and the <a href="http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Lucky_Shot">Lucky Shot</a>, all great community-made items we’ve shipped this year that were mentioned by name on rap oracle LL Cool J's 1987 album "Bigger and Deffer".

Feb 9, 2012
I Can't Taunt Without My Radio
Team Fortress 2 - SZ


My radio's bad from the Boulevard.
I'm a hip-hop gangster and my name is Todd.
Terrorising my neighbours with the heavy bass.
I keep the suckas in fear by the look on my face.
-LL Cool J, 1985

Most people only know LL Cool J as a rapper, actor, fashion designer, record producer, and author. Now, though, you can add "spooky-ass Nostradamus" to that list, because we've just released a misc slot item for the Scout called "The Boston Boom Bringer" that pretty much exactly matches the lyrics LL penned almost thirty years ago. Is it a radio? Yes! Is it "bad"? Yes! When you taunt while it's equipped, will it play music to terrorize your neighbors and scare suckas? Yes! Are you a hip-hop gangster named Todd? That's gonna vary from person to person, obviously, but it's not totally out of the question! The point is, there's probably an LL Cool J song that predicts your death. The secondary point is everything we just said about the sweet new boom box item.

We went through LL Cool J’s back catalog looking for other prescient rap songs that described musical items available for the other eight classes, but apparently one of the Ls stands for “lazy”, because it doesn’t look like he wrote any. So just in case anyone out there wants to succeed where LL Cool J failed, we've added a special "Sound Device" category to both the in-game item submission UI and in the Workshop so that you can tag your sound-themed submissions. Make something good enough and it may join the ranks of Aladdin’s Private Reserve, The Conquistador, and the Lucky Shot, all great community-made items we’ve shipped this year that were mentioned by name on rap oracle LL Cool J's 1987 album "Bigger and Deffer".

Feb 9, 2012
Team Fortress 2 Channels LL Cool J (What?)
Team Fortress 2

Team Fortress 2 Channels LL Cool J (What?)There's a new item in Team Fortress 2 that the Scout can employ which plays music. Sounds pretty trivial, but man, you've got to read Valve's description of the item.


My radio's bad from the Boulevard.
I'm a hip-hop gangster and my name is Todd.
Terrorising my neighbours with the heavy bass.
I keep the suckas in fear by the look on my face.
-LL Cool J, 1985


Most people only know LL Cool J as a rapper, actor, fashion designer, record producer, and author. Now, though, you can add "spooky-ass Nostradamus" to that list, because we've just released a misc slot item for the Scout called "The Boston Boom Bringer" that pretty much exactly matches the lyrics LL penned almost thirty years ago. Is it a radio? Yes! Is it "bad"? Yes! When you taunt while it's equipped, will it play music to terrorize your neighbors and scare suckas? Yes! Are you a hip-hop gangster named Todd? That's gonna vary from person to person, obviously, but it's not totally out of the question! The point is, there's probably an LL Cool J song that predicts your death. The secondary point is everything we just said about the sweet new boom box item.


We went through LL Cool J's back catalog looking for other prescient rap songs that described musical items available for the other eight classes, but apparently one of the Ls stands for "lazy", because it doesn't look like he wrote any. So just in case anyone out there wants to succeed where LL Cool J failed, we've added a special "Sound Device" category to both the in-game item submission UI and in the Workshop so that you can tag your sound-themed submissions. Make something good enough and it may join the ranks of Aladdin's Private Reserve, The Conquistador, and the Lucky Shot, all great community-made items we've shipped this year that were mentioned by name on rap oracle LL Cool J's 1987 album "Bigger and Deffer".


Is it wrong I enjoyed that description more than I'll probably enjoy the item itself?


I Can't Taunt Without My Radio [Valve]


Feb 9, 2012
I Can't Taunt Without My Radio
Team Fortress 2


My radio's bad from the Boulevard.
I'm a hip-hop gangster and my name is Todd.
Terrorising my neighbours with the heavy bass.
I keep the suckas in fear by the look on my face.
 -LL Cool J, 1985

Feb 9, 2012
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
Team Fortress 2 - Valve
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
  • Added The Boston Boom-Bringer
  • Fixed the Heavy bots not spawning in the commentary maps
  • Updated ctf_doublecross:
    • Added a respawnroom visualizer to the dropdown spawn exit to prevent griefing
  • Updated community and promotional items:
    • Soda Popper: improved model and texture
    • Winger: fixed first-person clip reloading
    • Apparition's Aspect: updated mesh to reduce clipping with many hats
    • Hero's Tail: added an additional style that more strongly responds to paint
    • Bonk Boy: added an additional style that leaves the Scout headphones visible
  • Additional items are now paintable:
    • Lord Cockswain's Novelty Mutton Chops and Pipe
    • Planeswalker Goggles
    • Pilotka
    • Nanobalaclava
    • Cold War Luchador
    • Cremator's Conscience
    • Dashin' Hashshashin
    • Desert Marauder
  • Relaxed equip region restrictions for the Earbuds so that they can be equipped with anything
  • Lokalisierungsdateien aktualisiert
Feb 9, 2012
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
Team Fortress 2
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
  • Added The Boston Boom-Bringer
  • Fixed the Heavy bots not spawning in the commentary maps
  • Updated ctf_doublecross:
    • Added a respawnroom visualizer to the dropdown spawn exit to prevent griefing
  • Updated community and promotional items:
    • Soda Popper: improved model and texture
    • Winger: fixed first-person clip reloading
    • Apparition's Aspect: updated mesh to reduce clipping with many hats
    • Hero's Tail: added an additional style that more strongly responds to paint
    • Bonk Boy: added an additional style that leaves the Scout headphones visible
  • Additional items are now paintable:
    • Lord Cockswain's Novelty Mutton Chops and Pipe
    • Planeswalker Goggles
    • Pilotka
    • Nanobalaclava
    • Cold War Luchador
    • Cremator's Conscience
    • Dashin' Hashshashin
    • Desert Marauder
  • Relaxed equip region restrictions for the Earbuds so that they can be equipped with anything
  • Lokalisierungsdateien aktualisiert
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