It's Official: The Heavy Update Is Next!

[Oli]

An update to the Teamfortress 2 blog has revealed that the Heavy class will be receiving the next update:

As Gabe mentioned in his lengthy response to an email recently, the next class pack will focus on the Heavy. For the Medic and Pyro packs we kept our goals for the pack pretty close to our chest, but for the Heavy we've decided to open up the process a little. Our hope is that you'll get a better insight into how we approach design problems, and have some fun thinking about the problem yourself. We do design collaboratively at Valve, and one of the side effects of it is that we really need to be able to evaluate design ideas as objectively as possible. Otherwise design meetings would devolve into subjective arguing. We've found that the best method of working objectively is to have clear goals up front. Once we've got clear goals, we can throw a bunch of ideas up on the board and measure how well each idea achieves those goals. Often the work of testing those ideas against the goals causes us to further refine or clarify the goals.

Goal: Make the Heavy more viable when he has no Medic to pair with.

Constraints:

• It shouldn't have a cumulative effect when being healed by a Medic as well. Heavy/Medic pairs do pretty well as it is.

• It shouldn't significantly change the Heavy's role, relative to other classes. In particular, it shouldn't significantly encroach on another class's role.

• It should be understandable for both the user and the player it's being used on.

Obviously, there are many more, like the full set of skills required to be a good user of an invulnerability charge. If you compare his combat related skills to that of the Soldier or the Demoman, you'll see he has a unique set that's less about aiming & dodging, and more about commitment choices and accurate battle evaluation.

You can see the full list of goals set out by Valve on the Teamfortress 2 Blog.

[Kylee!]

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GOOD MOTHER OF EPICNESS!

Words cannot describe my glee and happiness... only -> :awes can do the job.

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[Hawkers]

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My prediction was correct!

[solofowaffles]

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My prediction was correct!

I thought I said it first D:

[Yukiism]

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Yes! :yay: I love Heavy!! :awes :awes :awes :awes

[Micster]

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Noooo, my topic got locked even though I was first. :p

Anyway,

:awes x 100

[TheEn|gma]

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Yeah :awesome

[ch3ch3n]

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this will be the gun he s getting 100% [media]http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2008-3/1301784/heavy.jpg[/media]

[imported_Will]

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I thought I said it first D:

Acctually i said it first when they relesed the medic

Oh and that gun is hawt.

this will be the gun he s getting 100% [media]http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2008-3/1301784/heavy.jpg[/media]

[Thermal755]

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Oh god.......servers will be full of "CRY SOME MORE" "SO MUCH BLOOD!"
And of course "DOKTOR......MEDIC!!"

[Smush]

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Nothing can beat good ol' Mowing people down with the heavy :awes

[Mo0by]

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[imported_Will]

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Oh god.......servers will be full of "CRY SOME MORE" "SO MUCH BLOOD!"
And of course "DOKTOR......MEDIC!!"

Actually you forgot, "GET BEHIND ME DOCTOR!!!"