Author: John Irwin

Bit of a change up this week as it’s just Tempest and Agro to shoot the breeze on topics as intellectually challenging as fully-immersive interactive porn,  Magic the TF2 and the longevity of TF2 itself. Featured on the show was this entry to the KritzKast art competition which is going to be pretty tough to beat now.

Firstly. Please accept our apology for the massive delay in this weeks episode. Long story short, Our servers moved at a time we didn’t expect and delays followed. Sorry With that out of the way OMFG MATCHMAKING!!! This week the guys at teamfortress.tv went to valve HQ and talked about competitive matchmaking for TF2, simular to Dota and CS:GO. What does this mean for TF2? We talk with Mana from teamfortress.tv who went on this journey of discovery. He lets us know all the little details about the upcoming update. Plus he lets us ask him mountains of questions he doesn’t know the answer too. We also let you know about the 2nd wave of blind boxes coming your way, Plus the new Video Series by UEAKCrash on how to make maps. Pro tip, If you want to know more about UEAKCrash, wait til the next episode.

The workshop was the focus this week. You may have heard about skyrim and mods being a chargeable commodity. That didn’t go down well. But on a brighter note, we let you know that valve might be working on a large video working with workshop item creators. all we know is that they’ve been asked to all make videos describing how the workshop has changed their lives.

The community this week has been working over time. We bring you “Who wants to f***?“, plus a great cowmangler prop (see above) and a Balloonicorn Onesie. Plus we bring you a local radio interview with Ellen McLain, John Lowrie. Then, from overwatch…watch, There is a great article in PCgamer talking about the blueprints of the game and future development. Plus your usual banter and good times.

Always good to see an update, especially when it fixes a bunch of crashes, even better when manpower gets a look-in too. What we didn’t expect was a secret Engineer revolver animation and scout jumping in a little motor car.

On possibly the worst day of the year to make a ground breaking announcement backpack.tf drop earbuds as currency.

Our POTW Joerge Sprave earns his title with his wonderful creation of the Heavy Slingshot. Lastly SFM creations by MaGGot4th: Grand Theft Fortress – Alien Fortress – The Red Fury

Overwatch is back in the news with Innovis Labs submitting their 2nd trademark filing.

After going through in rigorous detail, the nature of this weeks ginormous update (see sarcasm for details) we talk about the issues UGC have been having. This week, they were hacked and the site was temporarily taken down for safety reasons. Listen to the episode for details, but needless to say if you have an account on there, change your username and passwords to prevent any future shenanigans.

Have you seen Saloon.tf? Its a very interesting site where you can place bets on competitive TF2 matches. using real money….Don’t be silly, using In game items. Want to support your friends team? Place a bet. Want to maybe make some easy keys? Place a bet. Want to give up gambling? Visit gambleaware. To top it off, we talk about this fantastic piece of art as seen above.

This week we start something new. We know the spring Months are a little barron when it comes to updates and fan activity. So instead of us streching the little content we may have, we’ve decided to try and keep the episodes shorter and more to the point. This may not alway be the case as….well…. we can talk when we need to. This week is a prime example. We only really have 2 things to talk about. the From the Cart charity stream, which ran over the course of the weekend raising a whoping $10,820 for ablegamers to help gamers with disabilities. Fantastic work guys.

We also discuss the recent update and a new podkast you may have heard of called the learningcliff. Featuring the one and only Ruskeydoo.

Its Taunting time. 3 new taunts have been added to the game, but more importantly, we now have a functioning taunt area in the workshop that will now let people add taunts for valve’s consideration. Fancy giving it a try? check out the FAQ for more details. As usual we’ve had some fixes cleaning up the game, a bit of crate rotation and 2 medals, one by Ruskydoo and another we can’t be associated with. Also more and more changes to Mannpower, including a ctf conversion of Thundermountain. Check it out, it’s very different from what we’ve had before.

However the big news this week is Flares that care and TF2Can. We’ll explain more on the show, but we’ll say that out of the ashes of a charity event under very injudicious management came a weekends worth of money raising with a great community feel in the form of TF2Can

In other news, we talk about Valve’s F rating for customer service, A great looking Ubersaw prop and the fact that one of the characters in overwatch is based on one of their employees.