Also, was the Community Scattergun meant to do anything special? I never noticed either of you use it. The stats on it are all debuffs too.

However he recorded it all here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1vEb_F6crU

:D

Thanks for all the congrats, chaps, I am slightly stunned by the mention and can’t wait to try this motherbastard out. Will screenshot whatever special version they’ve given me, I suspect it’ll be sparkles and a custom name.

My first time reading this blog was from the unlock post, and I’ve been a stronger supporter of your Shovel unlock ever since (And a pretty regular reader of your blog as well) glad to see you get some recognition.

More evidence that you should be a developer.

Man, I wanted rid of that nade launcher too.

I can’t wait to play with either of them.

Still, to get one of only two exclusive items in existence in a game played by millions is damn cool. Here’s hoping it’s as absurd as Walker’s Rocket Launcher.

Aw, who am I kidding. Abuse your new power to crush your lessers. It’s what I would do in the same position.

Call it a counterpoint to the “OMG Valve is going to ruin EVERYTHING” crowd that seems to crop up around EVERY update in spite of all the evidence.

As for the war, it surprised me that soldiers did so well early on, but demos are catching up. I think the trend came about because soldiers are easier to pick up and play. The initial weekend crowd featured a lot more casual players who fared better as soldiers. The workweek has hosted more dedicated players, who can play the demoman to the full (slightly OP) extent of his potential.

So far the unlocks sound like good fun. I doubt, however, that the Eyelander will stand a chance against win-bombs in the long run. I worried when I initially heard about “crafting” being included, but the implementation as described sounds nicely unobtrusive.

I could just type up what I want into Word and copy+paste it into here before Firefox crashes, or even use Internet Explorer to view this website and hope it doesn’t crash, but I am lazy and will continue to complain in the hopes someone will address this issue for me.

Soldier FTW. Although Valve should implement Wee Creepers just so they could do a Weighted Companion Cube style plushie that I would buy the shit out of.

The Headline for the mock newspaper for the kills makes me suspicious of an engineer update. Though I dont know how much id want to play Engi when the servers could have a lot more demos and Soldiers :P, Though on the plus side its better than releasing the engi on its owm – the worlds most boring Dustbowl round ever would result.

I want to type something interesting for the sake of discussion but for some reason Mozilla Firefox keeps crashing on Pentadact (and Pentadact.com only). I must submit this comment before the browser crashes again!

In general, the war is a strange thing. Its like a warped popularity contest, where the kill to death ratios (and not overall numbers) of the supporters are what really matter.

(@Jethro
As an American, then, I must oppose you. Oh, and my own 200 hour difference in time played between the classes helps a little.)

So, if you are a minor, you can use your face, win, get Valve to use your face, and sue them for cash.

Are any of you guys making a poster? I think it’s worth a shot even if your graphical skills aren’t top notch.

I don’t want demo to win really. I think they have enough tricks. But that’s just it – we don’t even know what we’re fighting for. We should organise a movement to kill exactly the same number of each, maybe they’d give updates to both.

Then again, a draw is where everybody loses. Oh, I don’t know, I just don’t need this stress in my life right now. I’m going to play Wurm Online and let my wife take care of the war.

The Soldier is about 90,000 ahead right now, but as the kills are in the millions, that’s not a big margin.

“Each winner (or the winner’s parent or legal guardian if the winner is a minor) consents to the use of his/her name, likeness, photograph in any and all media for promotional purposes in any manner by Sponsor, its designees and its advertising and promotion agencies without further compensation or notification, except where prohibited by law”

So Valve will plaster your face over everything and you’re basically their bitch?

I suppose id join soldier, just because rounding a corner to a camping demoman is slightly more annoying than being on shot by a unaimed rocket to the face.

I might just stay the hell away from this one. I’ve already played on a few all-soldier servers where one demoman could easily clean up just by having more valid War targets than any soldier does. It makes me nervous.