173 Dick in a box

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Possibly one of the worst, or best depending on your point of view, ideas was to stick a wooden chest on to the crotch of the demoman. Yet this is exactly what the latest update brings with the Liquor Locker. An unlikely equipment region equal only to the new “crsk”. This update also brings a fix to the Gentle Manne’s Service Medal, the Texas Half-Pants and the Something Special For Someone Special, the last two to prevent them being seen as flying items when a spy appearing to wear them cloaked.

Valve have hired an economist, Yanis Varoufakis, who has joined Michael Abrash in blogging his experience. The Dynamic Payload maps contest we talked with Fr0z3n in episode 170 about has come to an end. Mecha the Slag unveils his new creation, Robot Fortress. Little is yet revealed about this strange Monday Night Combat style modification but the video looks fun. We want to play it Mecha!

Speaking of fun, Cam Fortress holds all sorts of possibilities for moving around the world in a Team Fortress version of augmented reality. Follow the QR code below to get it on your andriod device.

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There’s a new player on the TF2 trading scene. TF2Bazaar seeks to take their place as an easy trading site together with craft numbers and pretty colours.

Our player of the week is named so for coding one of the coolest things to happen to reddit.com/r/tf2/.

The sidebar now features “TF2 Live Streams”. Every few minutes the page scans Twitch.tv and own3d sites for people streaming TF2. Check it out now or wait until Sunday when you can be sure to see KritzKast on that list.

Lastly, we’ve got news for KritzKastCon4 at i46. Novint have been kind enough to slip us a couple of their Falcons and we’ll be giving these away at the event.