Pyro Update Coming on Thursday, Free Weekend Planned

June 16, 2008 · by Zips

Update: Because I'm apparently a blind moron, I'll make special mention here that there will be two community made maps released with this Pyro update!

Original: Hot off the presses comes news from Valve that the Pyro update is coming this Thursday! What's more is that the Meet the Sniper video will be made available tomorrow!

The main event of the week is the Pyro Update, which will be made available this Thursday and contains three unlockable new weapons for the Pyro plus 35 new achievements. In addition, two user-created maps are included to highlight the great work being done in the community and distribute those works to all TF2 players.

Meanwhile as folks wait for the Pyro Update to be released, the latest in the "Meet the Team" video shorts, "Meet the Sniper," will be made available tomorrow (Tuesday, June 17) at 11 am PDT along with a web site dedicated to the Pyro update.

Finally, to give everyone a chance to try the new weapons and community maps, Valve will hold another Team Fortress 2 Free Weekend via Steam, a leading online platform for the delivery and management of PC games. The Free Weekend is scheduled to begin this Friday at 11 am PDT.

Rejoice Pyro fans and fans of Team Fortress 2 in general. This new update is about to hit very shortly.

What a fine day for me to be wearing my TF2 Pyro t-shirt, that's for damn sure.

comments (12)

FreeHugsForAll#12:22 pm pdt - 6/16/08

Wooooooaaaaaaaahhhht?

quadir#22:57 pm pdt - 6/16/08

any news on those questions to Robin?

GenocideOwl#34:21 pm pdt - 6/16/08

where is the proof of these statements?

Zips#44:22 pm pdt - 6/16/08

GenocideOwl wrote..
where is the proof of these statements?

It's a press release.

brains#55:49 pm pdt - 6/16/08

hope all the new players like playing pyro-fortress this weekend :/

Zips#67:49 pm pdt - 6/16/08

Hm... I missed this before. The PR also states that there will be two new user maps included in this update.

StealthMonkey#78:24 pm pdt - 6/16/08

Yay for pyro, I guess I'll give that class a try for once.

But.... we want demoman unlockables! :D

milly9#88:51 pm pdt - 6/16/08

I'm more excited for the Meet the Sniper video. But I hope the new maps aren't something we've already played.

MassyBoy#91:23 am pdt - 6/17/08

As the maps are community made ones, I'm sure a lot of people will have played them already. I just hope they aren't symmetrical maps with no thought or design gone into them. I much prefer the maps like Dustbowl whereby time and effort has been put into the design instead of just making half a map then mirroring it-just so boring

Zips#108:11 am pdt - 6/17/08

MassyBoy wrote..
As the maps are community made ones, I'm sure a lot of people will have played them already. I just hope they aren't symmetrical maps with no thought or design gone into them. I much prefer the maps like Dustbowl whereby time and effort has been put into the design instead of just making half a map then mirroring it-just so boring

They'll probably be new to me. I think I've only played one, maybe two community maps. I know for sure I played that orangebox_x one or whatever it's called.

So, hopefully one of the maps isn't that and I've got two new maps to play come Thursday.

maniac11919#1111:02 am pdt - 6/17/08

Has the meet the sniper video been released yet? I just realized it was 11 am pdt and I have yet to see it pop up...

appended @ 11:20 am pdt on 6/17/08

And Zips, add me on steam.

appended @ 11:36 am pdt on 6/17/08

It's just been released:

http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/in...c=US&client=1

Thortok2000#127:42 pm pdt - 6/17/08

That was pretty funny.

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