Well, yes, but my point was, while those are legitimate reasons for shipping a lot of hats if they wanted, that information doesn't absolve this update of the failing of being nothing but hats. Could they not ship some weapons and a map or two the old fashioned way?

They would have caught a lot less flack for it if they'd just said that the update was more for the purpose of testing their new infrastructure and look how the community answered the call when they needed the content, rather than trying to make it into a celebration of the community's industry. Then it wouldn't have been a thing of the "community" taking the fall for a anemic and poorly executed update.

If it's any consolation, I did hear of a couple of people in the Kritzkast pre-podcast chat discussing a hypothetical competition where modes like Special Delivery and Medieval that only have one map each would have a map-making competition.

To be fair, it is a hell of a lot harder to make a map than to robot-icize a pre-existing hat.

It is. It's a damn shame tf2maps.net hadn't hosted an MVM map-making competition recently or something.

My Kritz is now charged
Right click on the demoman
Sticky hits a fence


Pull out a sandvich
Enjoying a tasty heal
A knife in my back


Tailored suit ruined
I have been shown who's the boss
What a disaster

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Long hours in Hammer
Prepare to release my work
I forgot cubemaps


Solly and Engie
Hot, sexy helmet party
THAT SOLDIERS A SPY!


Sentry going up
Ain't that a cute little gun?
SAPPIN' MAH SENTRY!

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>>13939
The other nine thousand Skullgirls hats

Oh shut the fuck up. There's 11 hats/misc objects and they are UP FOR VOTE. They WON'T ALL BE ADDED. At most, we'll get 1 or 2. They are allowing the community to choose. So choose what you like. There are thousands of ingame hats that are worse than the Skullgirls ones. So get over yourself. Or would you just rather keep getting reskins of the same old hats?

>>13944
Gosh, someone's grumpy today. Want a mint biscuit? Would that make it better?

>>13939

Skullgirls is actually pretty cool. It's a fighting game made all by fans, hand-drawn and animated in 2D (think Guilty Gear, if you're familiar with it), with a mostly female cast of monsters and macabre creatures. (The token dude is a big buff black guy who's a cyborg Jazz musician.) They were also generous enough to give Fighting Is Magic their fighting game engine for free when they ran into legal trouble.

I do think it's a bit clashy with the TF2 style, but I'm okay with them re-submitting them to make them official.

Related: What's your favorite game what had a TF2 tie-in?

I asked a bunch of people on hipstr awhile back, and Don't Starve was almost the overwhelming favorite, although Plants vs. Zombies and Brütal Legend got some love, too. Heck, I even met some Sam and Max fans over MvM today. That seriously pleased me.

>>13867
PvZ and Don't Starve are games I adore, but don't care too much for the tie-in items.

Is it sad my favourite tie-in item is the plain ol' Bill's Hat? Seems almost.. boring to have that as my favourite. It looks so cute on Engineer though

>>13912
That's not weird. I ran into a Soldier once who had a white Bill's Cap, white Soldier's Formals, and Earbuds. Looked pretty dapper.

And yeah, I kinda agree. The PvZ stuff for The Sims 3 was actually better.

I can't see these guys ever really settling down canonically and can see them doing (or at least attempting) mercenary work until the end of their lives.

Which just gave me the mental image of Soldier wheel-chair bound in his 80s attempting to rocket jump with a blanket over his legs.

  >>13911

Oh my god. That mental image just made me burst into laughter.

Hm...After TF2 was over? I've got a shitload of different headcanons for this. One goes where the wars go on and on forever, and signing a contract is essentially signing a death sentence. A computer will retire a man, but he will never leave the battlefield. New teams are brought in periodically, but no one ever really thinks about what happened to the old teams.

Another headcanon is that all the mercs get fired, and they all split off in their own directions, but it's actually really sad, because the only place they belonged was with each other, and they eventually meet up again and go to fight godzilla and shit as the A-Team together.

And yet another is that it's a nine-to-five job, so when it's over, it's over. The guys find other work, or move off to Australia to fight kangaroos for the rest of their lives or just do whatever they want. Nothing really comes of it--they're just not together anymore.

As far as the whole MvM thing goes, I figure they just go in, kick Grey's ass and are done with it. After that, the Admin does some handwave thing of 'oh yeah you're not all really fired' and the fighting continues, but this time the teams aren't really sure who they're actually working for, just that they get a paycheck every month to kill someone wearing a different colour than them.

I've probably got more but I'm not gonna spam with that crap.

>>13911
Ain't gonna lie, I laughed.

As for my headcanon.. it depends on what I'm dealing with:

If it's my own writing (where I justify multiples of the same class/character as clones), I imagine they are brought into existence to fulfil a role, and once that role is no longer needed to be filled post-MvM... well, it can go either way.

If it's a light hearted take, they get situated as far apart from each other as possible in the real world, told not to take any high-profile jobs lest a civilian recognise them and to live out the rest of their years in peace. Given they're mercs, there are a lot of issues adjusting and so they vent their frustrations in various ways. Like the odd demo giving up on a regular job and travelling the world to study (read: hunt) mysterious creatures, or another who bands with a pyro to enter the pyrotechnics business with sparkling assassinations inexplicable fatal firework accident on the side.

If it's a dark take, they are set to be destroyed behind closed doors. Some of them might escape. Getting really horrible, there are times I imagine it like that lovely film, Moon - where their bodies break down after x amount of years and they're replaced with a fresh clone.

When I think about the game, and how Valve could possibly end the story without breaking the eternal war aspect, I imagine them winning the robot (hat?) war and disbanding... yet failing miserably to integrate into society so they come back for a reunion and decide to duel it out like in the good old days, for the rest of their lives. Like what Tidbits said.

anybody got helmet party headcanons?

>>13808
Soldier isn't the mad scientist type, but he's much more comfortable with Engie's tinkering than Medic's wonton flaying of organs. Of everyone, Soldier gets along best with Demo and Engie.

Engie's also the dom, while Solly's his whipping boy attimes.

>>13808
Yes'm.

When Soldier was a boy, he had a crush on Rosie the Riveter.

Soldier helps the Engineer to stage dangerous rescue missions for buildings that get left behind enemy lines.

Engineer’s failed sentry prototypes are currently guarding the trench that Soldier has been digging in Merasmus’ back yard. Engineer would have just scrapped them, but he understands how important it is to Soldier that everything gets to be useful, even if it’s flawed.

Soldier doesn’t have a problem with the fact that his sweetheart isn’t a woman. He does have a problem with the fact that his sweetheart isn’t FREEDOM, LIBERTY, AND WAR.

After a few too many hours watching Soldier roll around the floor with his kitten, giggling and tickling it and telling it how cute it is, Engineer has developed a deep, murderous resentment for his own cat.

Every night the Soldier rings up the Demoman to recount every single thing that Engineer said or did to him that day and explain why it means he’s well on his way to becoming Engineer’s “best friend forever.” Demoman used to listen carefully and try to give Soldier meaningful advice, but that was too much work so now he usually just sets the receiver down on the table and does his laundry.

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  >>13806
Case in point

I love everything about this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3fIX_cUvzs

>>13809

My body is not prepared for this.
Remember some time ago they said about making a 15 minute Teamfortress 2 movie using Source Filmmaker?

>>13774

Yeah, this is... this is literally for that short they mentioned.

It's the thing.

>scout_its_a_monster.wav
>scout_provoking_monster.wav
>scout_provoking_monster.wav
>pauling_missing_a_tooth_01.wav

Huh...

>>13786
Adding more customization options for those who want it, at the expense of not fixing tiny bugs that have no effect on gameplay? Sounds fine to me.

>>13786

Dude, I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure my gameplay/gameplay experience improved after I got a Battle Bob for the Soldier.

Because I looked so goddamn fabulous the other team couldn't even handle me.

I still enjoy it and I have a good group of tf2 friends. Also I love mvm. Problem is, I have satellite internet now and my ping averages 600 so....yeah. I miss tf2.

I think 13777 was referring to the Final Combat Sniper, who, I would agree, does have pretty much the exact same build

Ah, my mistake. I have nothing positive to say about that character (stripperific outfit, dumb poses, and her Meet The video is so poorly-made they have her shoot her own teammates), so I wasn't thinking of her at all.

>>13782

She's not a good design by any stretch of the imagination, but at least they got the 'feasible activewear' part right, and they even managed to avoid making her stripperific, which puts her miles ahead of most female video game characters

thats like comparing dog shit to cat shit. Sure, cat shit is smaller, and in a catbox for easy cleaning, but it's still shit.

>>13781

If you say that the design sucks, then we can agree we disagree, since I do like it and we can't argue taste.

No, we can argue taste! This is a thread! Thats what it was made for!

>>13783

Of course I was talking about final combat sniper

http://fc.xunlei.com/zt/mechanism/?u06id=13682991994936572065

Meet the "Mechanism". (I'm assuming the final English name will either be "Mechanic" or "Engineer", the Chinese name is "Engineer".) She's around 22 years old (but the bio still calls her a "high school student"), stands about 169 cm (5' 2" ish), blah blah blah.

Loadout:
* Automated sentry (placed via the device in her hands as seen in the picture)
* Shotgun
* Wrench
* Ammunition backpack that provides 20% extra ammo for the sentry