Besides the fact that it makes a lot of TF2 players angry, what with all the duplicate unlocks everyone’s getting, the new system is also wasteful in terms of energy.

I counted roughly 350 achievement_idle rooms at 3:00 PM today, most of which were full and had probably on average 12 people in each room. That’s an estimated 4200 people who are in these game rooms idling, doing absolutely nothing but leaving the computer on to gain achievements in most cases. If each one of those people were to commit 24 hours to letting their computer idle that would equal $3,113.11 worth of electric according to my figures. That’s in a single day, but what if users were to idle for a full week? Well that would cost them $21,791.75 over seven days.

I think everyone would have been better off if Valve just stuck with the old system for this update, and worked out the kinks in the new system while everyone was enjoying their earned unlocks.

Two patches and the random drop generator is still horrible. Where the hell is my huntsman?

Turns out the April Fools joke back then was all about making people believe that Jarate was a fake unlock.

How ironic.

The next update consists of an unlock that renders the sniper immune to the first backstab landed on him, but slows him down while trading in one of his weapons. A shield on the back that jolts the spy that hits it.

The update page doesn’t specify if this shield will be visible or not, but I’m certain that any dignified spy will adapt and simply shoot snipers three times in the kneecaps to avoid getting shocked. Continue reading »

As with most updates, the sniper unlocks will be bundled along with a trio of new maps. The double payload map called Pipeline, and the fancy arena maps called Sawmill and Nucleus.

Sawmill seems to be the most interesting of the bunch, as it’s the first map we’ve seen that has a rain effect. It will also feature environmental hazards.

Pinning corpses to walls as the sniper? I think that this update will really be fun.

No, we’re not talking about the April Fools joke that was posted a couple of days ago, a new official blog post has shown up stating that the sniper will be the next class to receive an update.

I don’t know about you, but I’ll be dreading the day that update hits the tubes. Fighting a couple of decent snipers on some maps is annoying enough!