Category: Episode

We say live. It’s recorded Live. That’s kinda the same thing right? Agro and Tempest spend the weekend at Insomnia 55, the UK’s biggest Lan and Gaming Festival. Not only that, but the home of the only International TF2 Event. Teams Ascent & froyotech came over from the states to show their prowess in thew ring of honor against the Euro might of nerdRage.tf2 and Reason Gaming. I won’t spoil it for you. But I will say that you can watch all of the games as they were streamed from teamfotress.tv. We had a blast and hopefully conveyed that as we talk about the event, the tournament itself and all the people we bumped into over the weekend.

We didn’t talk just about I55. Tempest got to say his bit on Pass Time. Lets say its not good. But we also chat about Trade ups and how that will effect the contracts and how we look at them. Plus all of the other weird and game warping bugs that they solved this week.

Nathaniel Theis gets recognition for his exploit discovery and reporting skills. He also give us his feedback on his new hat, the Finder’s Fee.

In this week a new game mode has dropped, PASS Time. This isn’t the first beta game mode Valve have running at the moment. Unusually though this one has been co-authored by a second studio, Escalation.

Secreted away in the PASS time map is a darkened room. Imgurian DaveTB and a “tf2g dude” have shed some light, literally on what the room holds.

The 2015 Saxxys have been announced. Time to get started on your SFM entries.

Lastly there’s been a rash of new weapon skins, as showcased on this facepunch thread. Make sure you do your bit by upvoting the good ones on the workshop.

The big ugly trading bug
Thread

Tip of the Hats gets $5000 + a Golden Pan
Pan Tweet | Twitch Tweet

I Am Sandvich! DLC released
Trailer | Steam Store

New Custom Weapons Server
Trailer | Steam Group | Weapon list | credits: Crafting

TF2 Workshop: New Teufort Wasteland
Link

Overwatch on Battle.net client
Image | Thread

Potential characters in Heroes of the Storm?
Link | Thread

Here we answer all the important questions:

How do you persuade high level players to take fight over money?

Is there more concealed in the Concealed Killer vs. Craftsman Cases than reskinned weapons?

What do you call a conflict to the death with cheese?
Website | Promo Art | Trailer

What’s less of a surprise than rain on your day off?
Profile | Trailer | Gameplay

Another great week for mapkind with TF2maps.net’s 2015 Summer 72 hour mapping contest under full swing while we were recording.

Erik Wolpaw give us a jolly good read on Penny Arcade. While Edge Gamers have their own beheading competition.

TF2 tops out at an average of 60,000 con concurrent players in July, according to Steamcharts.com The most since records began in 2012.

Creator of Meet your Makers – Void, calls for Themed Crates.

Over in Overwatch there’s a hint so large it has it’s own ZIP code that we’re getting a support character called Lúcio

Finally you too can have an editor like ours for just $5; hire a Doug at fiverr.

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.