So long as there is Team Fortress 2
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.
It seems we can’t have another update to cactus canyon without having another cactus. There’s three in there now; Half Life 3 confirmed? No. What we do have back though is the level 3 mini-sentries. \o/
ValveTime, run through their Top 5 Valve maps, betting on matches with keys and metal becomes a thing with Saloon.tf. The i49 Fragumentary is on the horizon as is an item replacement service from mods.tf and McDonalds still haven’t made the TF2 connection with the Volcano Fragment Burger.
Lastly, our servers‘ new build is almost, almost done. I can almost smell it.