As I wrote earlier, the official Engineer Update was released today. Along with the things spoken about that were revealed over the past few days, some additional and hinted at things were added. One of the major ones was that Engineers can pickup and move their buildings around. This is an interesting game changing mechanic, as up until now they have had to deal with quickly demolishing and then building elsewhere. Now they can just jump up with the team’s push and not worry about that. The Engineer also has his own theme music on the main menu, and a community CP map called ColdFront has been added into the game.
Along with that, some notable tweaks that alter gameplay:
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The sandvich has a cooldown similar to the Bonk! Atomic Punch and Jarate.
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The Gunboats have had their damage reduction changed from 75% to 60%.
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The bleed time on the Shiv has been reduced to only 6 seconds, and it’s damage decrease brought up to 50% from 35%. This makes it less effective, which is good for spies who keep getting the sharp end in their face.
There are some additional things you can read on the official news page, but this is the interesting stuff.
The TF2 Game Update for July 8th, 2010 by ZombieSkittles, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License.
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