A TF2 Blog Post? A TF2 UPDATE?

What the hell? What is going on here? Is it the end times? It must be, because, after years of silence and nothing but crates, the Team Fortress 2 dev team have made a blog post on their website. A very special blog post. A post aimed at Steam Workshop creators, asking them to start creating all sorts. And, most importantly, the blog post confirms that we will get a REAL update this summer.

Now, we’ve actually technically been having updates for the last few years, but all these updates have been mostly cosmetic. If you’re lucky, you’d get a new map or two, but the majority of the content would be locked behind a crate or a case. The events were mostly locked away, aside from the new maps, so the average free player didn’t really get anything from them. Really, those updates are just adverts for the new cosmetics in that update. Buy the key, open the crate, get something crap and repeat.

This update though is promising to be a real update, more like the Jungle Inferno or maybe even the Meet your Match update. That being said, the blog post doesn’t mention weapons or balancing or anything like that. Heck, it mostly just mentions cosmetics and things we get anyway. So I very much doubt that this update will be the oft-promised Heavy update. I also doubt it will have anything balance-affecting at all, to be honest, and new weapons are doubtful here. Valve will probably play things safe, especially, since they call only for cosmetics items. That being said, I hope to be pleasantly incorrect here, and that Valve might add a few weapons after all.

As to what this update will contain, I have absolutely no idea. In fact, no one has any idea what it is. It seems like not even Valve knows what this update is. They simply haven’t decided. I’m taking a guess and thinking that maybe this event will be a bit like End of the Line or Invasion, community-based updates with plenty of cosmetics. But this time, the community won’t really be involved. I mean, they will be involved, but it’ll all be done via the Steam Workshop, rather than actually having community input, and Valve I assume will just pick what they like and make an update around that. After all, End of the Line in particular had various disputes between community members and kinda didn’t come out as great as everyone expected.

Still, it’s all very exciting. The last few updates we had all kinda flopped. I blame Pyro for that. Here’s hoping that this mysterious, unnamed, theme-lacking update is actually any good. We’ve been given an insanely early warning of what’s going on, but it all feels very half-baked and honestly rather sudden. After all, this is the first proper update we’re going to have in a while, and anything can happen.

All we can do is wait and see. And start making things, if you are a Steam Workshop creator. Good luck to you all.