Author: John Irwin

Changes to TF2, EVL Battle Royale on the horizon and Hackers being put out of business. Just some of the things we are going to talk about this week…..wha? you want more. Well how about we tell you the astronomically small odds that you’ll open the “Perfect” weapon from a case. Still not enough? How about we let you in on a little info about the next TF2 Comic? Really that’s got to be enough TF2 to keep you satisified. Right. What about this…a fully automated, to scale, level 1 sentry…that is actually….wait for it….A PC CASE!!!

FINE! Then have a comic based on Overwatch……or is it?

Oh…and don’t forget our video of the week.

So much content, where do we start? In TF2 land there’s been a bevy of updates, mostly relating to Gun Mettle but also with a few things like new the ETF2L 6v6 Season 21 tournament medals, and Hammer fixes.

YM runs a Strawpoll to see what redditors think should happen to the community maps after the event.

Tip of the Hats announces their 2015 event date with a countdown timer on the site.

Insomnia 55 is to be held in a tent for the TF2 guys this year. If your’e going look for Tempest and Agro, we’ll be lurking near the stage, smelling faintly of happiness.

Blizzard do a Q&A on reddit about Soldier 76.

Special shout out to Sanc Tuary and Stevoisiak for sending in emails recently. Stevoisiak even takes the prestigious PotW title both for his short Heavy is Still Alive after which this week’s show is titled, but also for his excellent question.

After a week of the update, Tempest and Chronos have returned to give their views on the update as a whole.Plus all the “Minor” updates in the mean time. Like fixing winning a payload match with out the payload.

NOT ONLY THAT, but we discuss how valves new policy on scamming. It is big, it is clever. How does it effect us, how does it effect you?

NOT ONLY THAT, the comic. We almost forgot about it last week, So lets natter about it now. Miss Pauling scamming Saxton Hale, We never thought we’d see the day.

NOT ONLY THAT, have you ever fancied playing out a TF2 fan fiction and try to date one of the characters from them game you love so much…..No…Oh, Neither did we, But obviously somebody else did and made the TF2 Dating Simulator. I swear I’m not making any of this up.

NOT ONLY THAT, But a new class in overwatch too. Soldier 76…basically every single generic shooter class in every single generic shooter game ever.

The wonderful Sigafoo joins us, together with now published (cp_snowplough anyone?) map maker, Fr0z3n to bring you news of the first big official update from Valve in yonks. That’s a real word and you can’t prove otherwise. We take a stab at breaking the Gun Mettle Update down to its component parts before building it back up again, spraying it pretty colours, burying it in the snow out back and marking it with a sprig from a cherry blossom tree so we can find it again in spring. Also a clever reference to Borneo!

This week we discover some very important news about the Tf2 comics. Brace yourself. Its another 6-8 weeks away. However, we also discover that we are getting an issue 7……eventually.

Plus we’ve got some great goodies for you. Splat fortress. Based on Splatoon but made inside of TF2. Interested? How about getting people to I55? That’s right 2 American teams are SOOOO close to rasing all the funds they need to be sent to the insomnia Lan. How close, check it out here and help them get over the top. We also want to let you know about Steamspy, a service that lets you look at some of the stats of steam that valve might have. Such as, which games are being played the most and what games are doing well in the sales.

Ok fine. So you want a bit more. How about a few videos of overwatch gameplay. Bastion and Zarya.

Ruskeydoo is back. Its been a while, but he’s here to talk about all the updates to TF2. Not only that, but we talk about a very unexpected revelation about miss Pauling. Then Agro shows us a Voicepack taking audio from both Red Orchestra 2 & Rising Storm.

That would be it, if it wasn’t for the lengthy amounts of chat about overwatch. We talk about the widowmaker & Winston gameplay videos that have appeared, A hint at a new character and some speculation about how some of the game mechanics will work. Join us for a good time.

The one where Dungeon of the Endless gets TF2 items

Steam starts issuing refunds

The summer sale kicks off, together with cookie clicker style minigame.

Maps workshop sees a tonne of updates.

And our Artist of the Month competition sees some winners.

This has been an interesting week for us. Firstly, Chronos made a huge journey to The UK. This results in Less Chronos Lag than usual, But more echo as he was in the same room as tempest…Weird. This was also the week that we released the 2nd Meet your Makers. A fantastic look at the people who make the game what it is. From cosmetic creators, to T-shirt Designers, to….Valve themselves. Yep, its been kinda busy this week. Especially if you stay to the end of the episode.

But it wasn’t all about Kritzkast (hard to believe i know) Valve did a huge favour for the community this week. We now have maps available in the workshop. This means that you can now have custom server maps that get the info straight from the workshop. Its amazing guys. We live in a bright new world. oh, i forgot to mention, you know that whole, steambox and steam controller……yeah, you can now pre-order them. its no longer a pipe dream

King Raja has graced us with his magnificent presence for one the greatest day of our worthless peasant lives.

All hail the king! Long live King Raja!

Ahem, in more relevant news May 18th update saw a number of fixes reported by white hatter Nathaniel Theis. There’s a fan-made TF2 documentary in the making. New news site Essentials.tf is gains momentum.

Over at Overwatchwat.ch Hanzo has his own video, with some quite disturbing voice lines.