TF2 Soldier and Demoman updates and new weapons are finally here! It looks the long awaited Demoman Versus Soldier update has been released for Team Fortress 2. This update is entitled WAR!
Throughout this week the guy’s over at Valve will be showing off three new weapons for both the Soldier and Demoman classes. This should get interesting real quick.
Attention: The War! Update is now released as of 12/17/2009.
Throughout the week of the War! update TF2 gamers got to sample new weapons for both the Soldier and Demoman class. As well, the killing war between the two classes was a heated battle with a very slight margin of victory. Review the week at War below and see the new weapons and descriptions.
The Archives of War!
Wednesday, December 9th 2009: The Administrator
Thursday, December 10th 2009: This is War!
Friday, December 11th 2009: The Propaganda Contest
Saturday, December 12th 2009: Crafting, Saxon Hale
Sunday, December 13th 2009: The Demoman
Monday, December 14th 2009: The Soldier
Tuesday, December 15th 2009: The End is Near
Demoman Class Weapons
Introducing The Close Combat Kit
The Eyelander and The Chargin’ Targe
The Eyelander Description: Made with pattern-welded Damascus steel, this melee-slot weapon offers a guaranteed decapitation with every killing blow. Unfortunately, because it’s haunted, it will suck away some of your soul: expect a decrease in your max health at the outset. However, once the blade feeds on neck, you’ll receive a boost in max health and speed. With each new protesting head you cleave (up to four), you’ll get healthier and faster.
The Chargin’ Targe Description: The targe replaces your tried-and-true sticky bomb launcher, but offers some unique capabilities in return, especially when used with the Eyelander. Just equipping the Chargin’ Targe provides automatic +50% fire damage resistance and +65% blast damage resistance. But the Chargin’ Targe’s main perk lies in its name. Alt-firing will hurtle you toward an enemy at a punishingly damaging high speed (far faster than a Scout can manage).
The Scottish Rebellion Description: Get your thinking pants on, because the Scottish Resistance is the thinking Demoman’s sticky bomb launcher. Trading offensive capability for increased defensive power, the SR can lay down twice as many sticky bombs, as well as destroy enemy sticky bombs.
Soldier Class Weapons
The Direct Hit Description: A high precision version of the standard-issue rocket launcher, the Direct Hit has been engineered from the ground up for Soldiers who have mastered the art of shooting at their targets instead of vaguely near them. Those of you looking to deal splash damage, stop reading now: the Direct Hit has a 70% smaller blast radius than a traditional rocket launcher. But the rockets that come out of this thing move fast and hit hard: 80% faster and with 25% more destructive force. Best of all, for you real sharpshooters, the Direct Hit guarantees mini-crits on airborne targets.
The Equalizer Description: This melee-slot pickaxe becomes more deadly the more damage you take, letting you move faster and hit harder the more wounds you endure. Get close enough to death, and you will become Death himself.
The Buff Banner Description: Enter the morale-boosting Buff Banner. When this secondary-slot item is equipped, any damage you deal boosts a rage meter that, when full, lets you pull out your bugle and sound a call to war! For the next 14 seconds, every teammate who rallies round your flag will deal mini-crits.
How is the War! Update different?
Where the War update differs from other class updates is that we’ve decided to mix things up a little with, as the Administrator would say, “a healthy competition.” A secret, exclusive seventh weapon has also been developed by the TF2 team. In other words, either the Soldier or the Demo (but NOT both) is walking out of this update with one more weapon than the other. If you want your class to have it, you’re going to have to fight for it. The more Demomen you kill as the Soldier class will help ensure the Soldier gets the weapon at the end of the week. The more Soldiers you kill as the Demo will help the Demo class get the exclusive seventh weapon. Check back daily to see how your class is doing at the War hubpage — this is also where you’ll see links to all the leaked previews of the weapons, maps, and surprises releasing soon with this update.
- Valve
Quote from TF2 Developers:
Like any other class update, the War update will reveal three new weapons each for the Demoman and Soldier throughout the week, as well as some maps, achievements, and surprises, right up until the day of release, when everything we’ve been teasing goes live.
TF2 Demoman Update Specifics:
Rallying call from the Demoman:
Lads! Warriors! DEMOMEN! As I look out at ye with me tear-stained eye, I see the BEST BLOODY CLASS on the battlefield! No other class can deny it. They cannot stand against us man to man. Oh no. So they wheedle and deceive their way into our confidence, just to drive a shovel straight into our great, trustin’ Achilles bloody hearts.
THIS WEEK, lads, we have been granted the opportunity for revenge—against our crew-cutted betrayer, against Brutus Benedict Arnold Judas Bloody Iscariot himself: the SOLDIER! Every Soldier who dies by a Demoman’s hand will be noted in the annals of war. And at the END of this week, when the smoke clears and the dead are tallied, it will be the Demomen who emerge as the most LETHAL BLOODY KILLERS the Soldier’s ever made the great mistake of crossin’!
The Soldier may take our LIVES, mates. They may betray us and they may break our hearts. But they will never take our SATISFACTION. When WE are given an EXCLUSIVE, SECRET EXTRA WEAPON UNLOCK that could have gone to them. And when they look BACK on this week, they will wonder: “Could I have fought HARDER? Could I have killed MORE?” And the answer is: Yes, you bloody well could have. AND THE OUTCOME WOULD STILL BE THE BLOODY SAME.
To war, my loyal Demos! To blood and scotch and bombs! To the death of our betrayers and the sobbin’ sound of their dyin’ regrets! TO WARRRRRRR!
TF2 Soldier Update Specifics:
Rallying call from the Soldier:
Now hear this, you blood-hungry sons of war!
As of oh-nine-hundred Eastern Standard time, we are at WAR with the DEMOMAN! That one-eyed bagpipe-playing sonofabitch has been a thorn in our collective sides for long enough! For THIS WEEK ONLY, each and every man brave enough to fight under the Soldier banner will be KILLING DEMOS!
Gentlemen, there comes a time in a man’s life when when HE MUST DRAW LINES! Friendship is FINE for tea parties and shopping trips to the dress store! But when the chips are down, a soldier puts ASIDE friendship for the good of WAR!
Every Demoman gutted, garroted, exploded or otherwise killed by a Soldier will mean a POINT for the Soldier Team! At the end of this week, when the points are tallied AND WE ARE FOUND TO HAVE MORE, we will be awarded an EXCLUSIVE ONE-OF-A-KIND WEAPON.
Gentlemen, I have NO IDEA what this weapon is. I don’t even know if I’ll WANT it. But BY GOD, I know what’s IMPORTANT, and it’s that WE get it and the DEMOMAN DOES NOT.
Am I understood? Then get out there and KILL0!
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