Oct 28, 2011
Team Fortress 2 Halloween Update pits players against Demoman’s giant evil eyeball
Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 Halloween Update
The Team Fortress 2 halloween update is here! Do you like eyeballs? Of course not. Kill a giant, evil one now as part of the Team Fortress 2 Halloween Update. The map, Viaduct, is now haunted by the Demoman's lost peeker, and is now called Eyeaduct! If that's too much terror for one sentence, here are a few reassuring comments from the Team Fortress 2 blog to calm your nerves.

"There will be no ENORMOUS HAUNTED EYEBALL to terrorize you around an island filled with tons of SECRET LOOT, and a GIANT SKULL!"

"There will be approximately zero percent chance of you getting your trembling hands on a spooky costume FOR EVERY CLASS!"

Phew! Read on for a list of terrifying features that definitely haven't been added as part of the Team Fortress 2 Halloween update. There's a comic, too, explaining the origins of the entirely non-existent giant evil eyeball.

Halloween 2011 Event

Viaduct has been haunted and is now... Eyeaduct!
One full multi-piece costume set has been added for each class
Random gifts containing costume pieces drop in Eyeaduct on registered servers
2 new Halloween 2011 achievements
Any unusual hats uncrated during the event will be Halloween-themed
New Halloween-themed items are available in the Mann Co. store, but only for a limited time!
Updated effects for The Cow Mangler 5000
Updated in-game abuse reporting tool to include option for reporting abusive game servers
Added mapcycle_halloween containing all Halloween event maps
Fixed team colors and styles not updating properly in store previews
Fixed bug in reputation trend status display for registered servers
Fixed a problem that could cause repeated stutters after joining a server
Fixed the Spine-Chilling Skull not appearing when equipped by soldiers
New Halloween-themed community-created items submitted to the Workshop are now available in the Mann Co. store!

 
Oct 28, 2011
Undeyeing: Team Fortress 2 Halloween
Team Fortress 2 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Andrew Smee)
Team Fortress 2′s sinewy neck of content has been slashed open once more, pumping forth a bloody torrent of hats and features. It’s the third annual Halloween update, and it brings full-body costumes for every class (including a fantastic “teleporter gone wrong” Brundlefly for the Engineer), an update for classic King of the Hill map [...]
Oct 27, 2011
Let Team Fortress 2 Tell you a Ghost Story
Team Fortress 2

Let Team Fortress 2 Tell you a Ghost StoryTeam Fortress 2 is getting some updates for Halloween: Objects, items, hats, you know the deal. It's also, though, got something a little more exciting: a new Team Fortress 2 comic.


One that tells the tale of how the Demo lost his eye. And how cute a Saxton Hale costume looks on a little fat kid. And how a kid can dress up as France and somehow get away with it.


You can read the comic below. For more info on the items being released for Halloween, head here.


Scream Fortress [Team Fortress 2]


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Oct 27, 2011
Scream Fortress Very Scary Halloween Special
Team Fortress 2 - SZ
Welcome—<strong>IF YOU DARE</strong>—to the Third Annual Scream Fortress Very Scary Halloween Special!

<a href="http://www.teamfortress.com/veryscaryhalloween"><img src="http://www.teamfortress.com/images/posts/demo_eye.jpg" width="420" height="242" border="0"></a>

Let us be frank with you: <a href="http://www.teamfortress.com/screamfortress/">Last year's special</a> was <i>pretty darn terrifying,</i> even by our impossibly high standard of scary. To cite just one example: Dracula was taken to the hospital after witnessing <i>just the loading screen</i> of last year's update. That's not Terry Dracula your greengrocer, either. This is <i>the</i> Dracula we’re talking about. And if it scared Dracula, who eats ghosts and craps Frankensteins, we shudder to imagine what it must have done to you.

As an apology, we’re debating taking all of the scares out of <a href="http://www.teamfortress.com/veryscaryhalloween">this year's Halloween Special</a>. For instance, one playtester thought the Pyro was a little scary, so we’ll probably remove him as a class. Someone else swore he remembered reading something about somebody getting hurt by a gun once. And that sounded scary. So probably no more guns, either. Then Dracula called from the hospital. "Hey guys," he said, "hats are pretty scary." Well, now, that must have been the morphine talking. So we’re adding more hats just to be safe.

Long story short, we guarantee you that nothing's going to scare you this year. There will be no <strong>ENORMOUS HAUNTED EYEBALL</strong> to terrorize you around an island filled with tons of <strong>SECRET LOOT</strong>, and a <strong>GIANT SKULL!</strong> There will be approximately zero percent chance of you getting your trembling hands on a spooky costume <strong>FOR EVERY CLASS!</strong> And we certainly wouldn't <strong>DRAMATIZE THE BACKSTORY</strong> of this hypothetical scary update with a <strong><a href="http://www.teamfortress.com/bombinomicon">FEAR-CHOKED TERROR-COMIC!</a></strong>

No, dear reader, we wouldn't do any of these things. Why? Because we're <strong>MUMMIES!</strong> Mummies can't make updates, we live in pyramids! What are you, insane? For the answer to that question, keep reading:

<strong>YES! YOU ARE!* TWIST ENDING!</strong>

* You went insane back in the second paragraph! <strong>YOU</strong> actually wrote this blog post! The only thing that isn't a figment of your imagination is <strong>THIS UPDATE! TWIST FOOTNOTE!</strong>

Oct 27, 2011
Scream Fortress Very Scary Halloween Special
Team Fortress 2 - SZ
Welcome—IF YOU DARE—to the Third Annual Scream Fortress Very Scary Halloween Special!



Let us be frank with you: Last year's special was pretty darn terrifying, even by our impossibly high standard of scary. To cite just one example: Dracula was taken to the hospital after witnessing just the loading screen of last year's update. That's not Terry Dracula your greengrocer, either. This is the Dracula we’re talking about. And if it scared Dracula, who eats ghosts and craps Frankensteins, we shudder to imagine what it must have done to you.

As an apology, we’re debating taking all of the scares out of this year's Halloween Special. For instance, one playtester thought the Pyro was a little scary, so we’ll probably remove him as a class. Someone else swore he remembered reading something about somebody getting hurt by a gun once. And that sounded scary. So probably no more guns, either. Then Dracula called from the hospital. "Hey guys," he said, "hats are pretty scary." Well, now, that must have been the morphine talking. So we’re adding more hats just to be safe.

Long story short, we guarantee you that nothing's going to scare you this year. There will be no ENORMOUS HAUNTED EYEBALL to terrorize you around an island filled with tons of SECRET LOOT, and a GIANT SKULL! There will be approximately zero percent chance of you getting your trembling hands on a spooky costume FOR EVERY CLASS! And we certainly wouldn't DRAMATIZE THE BACKSTORY of this hypothetical scary update with a FEAR-CHOKED TERROR-COMIC!

No, dear reader, we wouldn't do any of these things. Why? Because we're MUMMIES! Mummies can't make updates, we live in pyramids! What are you, insane? For the answer to that question, keep reading:

YES! YOU ARE!* TWIST ENDING!

* You went insane back in the second paragraph! YOU actually wrote this blog post! The only thing that isn't a figment of your imagination is THIS UPDATE! TWIST FOOTNOTE!

Oct 27, 2011
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
Team Fortress 2 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

  • Halloween 2011 Event
    • Viaduct has been haunted and is now... Eyeaduct!
    • One full multi-piece costume set has been added for each class
    • Random gifts containing costume pieces drop in Eyeaduct on registered servers
    • 2 new Halloween 2011 achievements
    • Any unusual hats uncrated during the event will be Halloween-themed
    • New Halloween-themed items are available in the Mann Co. store, but only for a limited time!
  • Updated effects for The Cow Mangler 5000
  • Updated in-game abuse reporting tool to include option for reporting abusive game servers
  • Added mapcycle_halloween containing all Halloween event maps
  • Fixed team colors and styles not updating properly in store previews
  • Fixed bug in reputation trend status display for registered servers
  • Fixed a problem that could cause repeated stutters after joining a server
  • Fixed the Spine-Chilling Skull not appearing when equipped by soldiers
  • New Halloween-themed community-created items submitted to the Workshop are now available in the Mann Co. store!
Oct 27, 2011
Enter… MONOCULUS!
Team Fortress 2 - SZ
There are some questions in the TF universe--questions like "Is Pyro a boy or a girl?" or "Who will be the tenth class?"--that get asked so often that they become, in a sense, unanswerable.

Then there are the questions nobody has thought to ask. Questions like, "Every time you explain something supernatural in TF2 you say the Soldier angered a magician. Who is the magician?" Questions like, "If the TF mercs went out trick or treating, what costumes would they wear?"

<a href="http://www.teamfortress.com/bombinomicon"><img src="http://www.teamfortress.com/images/posts/monoculus.jpg" width="420" height="197" border="0"></a>

These are the questions we ask, because unlike those other questions, <i>these ones we have an answer to.</i> Answers like, "His name is Merasmus the Magician, and he's in a <a href="http://www.teamfortress.com/bombinomicon">Halloween comic</a>!" Answers like, "The TF mercs would wear awesome costumes that you can pick up by collecting scattered gifts in the Halloween update--which will be live very soon!"
Oct 27, 2011
Enter… MONOCULUS!
Team Fortress 2 - SZ
There are some questions in the TF universe--questions like "Is Pyro a boy or a girl?" or "Who will be the tenth class?"--that get asked so often that they become, in a sense, unanswerable.

Then there are the questions nobody has thought to ask. Questions like, "Every time you explain something supernatural in TF2 you say the Soldier angered a magician. Who is the magician?" Questions like, "If the TF mercs went out trick or treating, what costumes would they wear?"



These are the questions we ask, because unlike those other questions, these ones we have an answer to. Answers like, "His name is Merasmus the Magician, and he's in a Halloween comic!" Answers like, "The TF mercs would wear awesome costumes that you can pick up by collecting scattered gifts in the Halloween update--which will be live very soon!"
Oct 27, 2011
Scream Fortress Very Scary Halloween Special
Team Fortress 2
Welcome—IF YOU DARE—to the Third Annual Scream Fortress Very Scary Halloween Special!



Let us be frank with you: Last year's special was pretty darn terrifying, even by our impossibly high standard of scary. To cite just one example: Dracula was taken to the hospital after witnessing just the loading screen of last year's update. That's not Terry Dracula your greengrocer, either. This is the Dracula we’re talking about. And if it scared Dracula, who eats ghosts and craps Frankensteins, we shudder to imagine what it must have done to you.
Oct 27, 2011
Enter… MONOCULUS!
Team Fortress 2
There are some questions in the TF universe--questions like "Is Pyro a boy or a girl?" or "Who will be the tenth class?"--that get asked so often that they become, in a sense, unanswerable.

Then there are the questions nobody has thought to ask. Questions like, "Every time you explain something supernatural in TF2 you say the Soldier angered a magician. Who is the magician?" Questions like, "If the TF mercs went out trick or treating, what costumes would they wear?"


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