What do you call a mod made by Star? Why, Starmod of course! Just as you’d name doors that appear only big enough to fit little tiny pixie man, TF2 Fairy Doors.
End of the Line is ramping up the hype (again) with their EotL Tee and poster. Don’t Starve has an unused Pyro class, and Monopoly Fortress could be the next game to appear in WeLoveFine. Well it’s not, but how cool would that be?
Tempest is back! In other updates.. there’s been another update. Theoretically this makes macs more stable, you may disagree. There were another few changes to things like voting for alltalk and teambalance to be disabled. But the thing that’s big for us today is the 4th annual Saxxys. As with any event where there are winners and looses, we get deep into it.
Finally the 4th comic is out too.. huh, 4th Saxxys, 4th comic.. huh. Which is almost more than we are prepared to talk about the comic this week. Don’t worry, we’ll get to it.
There’s a completely legit Engineer wrench for sale at ThinkGeek.com. Lastly.. play along at home with Terrzyl’s KritzKast Bingo.
The 4th Annual Saxxys are on us again. The official blog brings to our attention a new TF2 mod, Respawn:Arena. There are updates a plenty with 9 new items, all part of the Limited Late Summer Pack. BETA Lan gets their own medal and Captain Canteen is finally killed off. Finally a fair favourite of Sir Grey, a small sculptured bust of a Spy. And yes, he has ordered one for himself.
This was recorded the week the 2014 Saxxys started accepting entries! The Horace hat is finally revealed in all its fury goodness. There’s been a boat load of updates (admittedly that’s true of every week recently). Battle Nations is a thing with TF2 in it and Alien: Isolation is a thing with its thing in TF2. The only thing better than Chris’s configs, it seems, are Rhapsody‘s. There’s hat related Flair for everyone in our reddit group, and then of course there’s the video of the week.
We are joined by Backpack.tf‘s creator Brad Pitt and their lead developer Fiskie to discuss such important issues as the latest TF2 update, Cranwell86’s worst ever trade and WeLoveFine’s recognition.
Did you know some of the Blind Box Merc’s are actually made of Australium? And are available in Europe now too? Binding of Isaac items have been sudo confirmed.
And lastly the cart can be moved, if incredibly slowly, when the other team is on it.
We all love welovefine.com, almost as much as the guys in that brass band at PAX Prime’14 like playing their music LOUD! Most especially this week because they have given us lots of TF2 merch including the Portable Merc Blind Boxes. We can unbox them while we listen to our SteamMusic while watching Russian TV mistaking TF2 propaganda for real propaganda.
Honestly, it’s not like there’s anything better to do while waiting for McVee’s SFM to render. That is unless you want to try your hand at building a TF2 Lego sentry gun.
Highlights from this week’s update include; all community weapons being renamed as “map” items, Australium Scattergun now looks purdy, RockPaperShotgun’s Horace the Endless Bear promo item added, and stage 2 of cactus has been cut.
Amazon bought Twitch for $970m in cash (not in REF), the bi-monthy comic isn’t out again and TF2 has characters in Super Time Force.
Perhaps a little bit of a misnomer to title this one “live from” since we weren’t able to live stream the recording, though I’m hoping it will go some way to explaining why our audio isn’t perfect this week. We had a LAN party going on behind us. Not just any old LAN either. This was i52 the UK’s biggest LAN with somewhere in the region of three thousand BYOC attendees. Joining us on the hastily made up “sofa” were, the winners of the i52 Highlander match (We’re only in it for the Pizza), Lange (from teamfortress.tv), Aclus (TF2 fan artists) and Xerxes (still the VP of UKCS).
In the build up to i52 TF2 gets an update. Real life merch makes its way to the workshop. The End of the Line beta map goes into open beta. Valve have surreptitiously added “skill rating” to the game.
Cyberleague.eu has an invitational 6v6 just as maincall.tf opens their doors. Huds.tf opens as the relaunch of tf2huds.net and the rather marvellous hudcreator goes live.
YM via Reddit, gives us a chance to look at the original versions of Goldrush and Badwater. Finally, a developer of Binding of Isaac wants us all to think of TF2 items.
It’s a big week and so, amazingly, we skip over this week’s update to talk about a historic moment when the entire KritzKast podcast was together in one place.
Makani confirms the fourth installment of the current TF2 comic for the end of the month, but in the meanwhile you can view Kevin Lennertz fan comic about the sniper.
Everyong gets access to the hugely useful heatmaps.tf, but it’s not the only thing that’s heating up as we discuss the changes made by Twitch.tv. The DOTA 2 Workshop sparks interest as people find references to Source 2.
For our cats in trees, we’re all rather taken by a fan-made Bonk Boy Mask. Lastly, we announce that kritzkast is leaving Feedburner.