Spy also debuted the first of many popular comic strips Valve made for Team Fortress 2. Four new maps were brought to the game, including Pipeline, the first map for the Payload Race game type, which has both teams pushing their own cart of explosives while stopping the enemy from doing the same. The update also changed the way new weapons are unlocked to include an item drop system. Both the Sniper and Spy received three new weapons. Spy Update, as the name implies, heavily impacted two classes.
While the first four major updates to Team Fortress 2 focused on specific classes, the Sniper vs. Payload has since received 12 additional official maps and has become very popular among players. The map Gold Rush was released as the first Payload map in Team Fortress 2, requiring the offense to push an explosives-laden cart into the enemy’s base before time runs out. Gold Rush gave the medic the Blutsauger, a primary weapon that decreases the rate of health regeneration but increases health when shooting enemies the Kritzkrieg, a Medi Gun replacement that gives critical hits to teammates when ÜberCharged instead of making them invincible and the Ubersaw, which has a slower swing rate than the default melee weapon, but increases the ÜberCharge meter with each hit. The update, named after the map that came with it, became known as the Medic Update among fans due to the weapon releases, which changed the way the medic class could be played. The first major content update for Team Fortress 2 brought a new map, a new mode called payload, three new medic weapons, and the “ Meet the Scout” animated short. Since today marks the 10 year anniversary of the release, here are the seven best Team Fortress 2 updates over the game’s first decade, with insight from our interview with the lead designer about the transition to microtransactions and a free-to-play model. This surely wouldn’t be possible without all the free updates Valve has released for the game. Team Fortress 2 is now over a decade old, but it consistently ranks among Steam’s top 10 games in terms of active player count.
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