Team Fortress 2 update and DLC in very near future

by Dustin Burg { Dec 12th 2007 at 2:15PM }

NeoGAF member Shamrock was a bit annoyed at Valve for what he felt to be a lack of Team Fortress 2 news, updates or community interaction from Valve and he wanted answers. And after shooting off an email to Valve's Gabe Newell (who later handed it off to a Valve software engineer) he and the rest of us got a TF2 update. Yay!

According to Valve software engineer Kerry Davis, the TF2 development team has been busy lately, working on a patch as well as some downloadable content. The patch will fix numerous bugs in the game including bandwidth issues, stats reporting, menu enhancements and exploit fixing which are all issues they investigated after reading forum posts made by TF2 players (aww shucks, they listen to their community too!) The patch has already been submitted to Microsoft and should be applied before Christmas. Finally, Davis mentions that they are working on new multiplayer maps as well which do not have a release date just yet, but they'll be rolled out on both the PC and Xbox 360 which smells of free DLC to us. Oh, and Davis also reminds us that Valve cares, loves us and will do anything to please our ungrateful bums, except they refuse to wash our car. Which sort of stinks, seeing that our car is hella' dirty.

Tags: team-fortress-2, tf2, valve

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jon @ Dec 12th 2007 2:27PM

Thats the best news I've heard all day.

flippy_squirrel @ Dec 12th 2007 2:38PM

They listen to their customers in the gaming community?!? They answer questions?!?! Holy crap! Now only if other companies would follow the examples of Valve... (EA:You are a bad, BAD dog)

Ben @ Dec 12th 2007 2:46PM

not that I need a reason to Play TF2...

danny. @ Dec 12th 2007 2:51PM

this makes me very happy

Larry not allowed to say cheevo @ Dec 12th 2007 3:00PM

I've tried to be into this game! Everyone loves it so... I just can't do it! I don't know why!

Now Portal on the other hand...

w00t! for patches!

btw, w00t is now an official word!

http://www.news.com/8301-13772_3-9832741-52.html?tag=newsmap

TORO @ Dec 12th 2007 3:28PM

I was suprised to see Dustin as the author of this post.

Freeze @ Dec 12th 2007 6:28PM

We want DLC for Portal. I think that's what we're all waiting for.

paranoidman @ Dec 12th 2007 9:48PM

How about freaking matchmaking?

Eh, forget it, I'm putting this game up on eBay.

coalhalo @ Dec 13th 2007 10:21AM

I'm a bit surprised that people think Valve has ignored TF2. They sent out a patch a few weeks after release that fixed alot of the lag issues. And Valve has already said dlc would be coming, but they are going to wait a bit before they roll it out. In the past Valve has shown just how much they care about & listen to the "community". They will keep on doing so with The Orange Box.