Valve has updated the Team Fortress 2 war information earlier on this evening. Besides the typical status update on the number of casualties (2.8M dead Soldiers, 3.0M dead Demomen), the blog also makes mention of a new Saxton Hale comic and item crafting!
Oh, but that's not all! Hidden within the Saxton Hale comic was a link to Poopy Joe, the monkey that had an unfortunate rocket incident moments before launching into space. A lot of potential unlock clues are hidden on the page including swords, pick axes, gorilla masks, bugles, and more. Red herrings or legitimate clues to new unlocks? Who knows! Valve knows, but they aren't talking... yet!
EVERYTHING in your inventory now contributes towards something you actually WANT, and can build YOURSELF! If you're super clever, you'll even be able to craft new items before others can earn them the old fashioned way.
If you thought all those duplicate hats and weapons in your inventory were incredibly useful before, man, were you wrong! You were also in the quiet minority, if the forums were any indication. What, you couldn't have posted a single sentence about how much you loved your crappy inventory? You're killing us here. We're flesh and blood people, not useless-item-creating machines.
Blueprints-some of which you'll get right off the bat, others of which you'll have to puzzle out on your own-will tell you which ingredients you'll need to combine to make different items. Think of blueprints as recipes, but instead of making Chicken Cordon Bleu, they makes guns! And hats! And Sandviches, which in retrospect would have helped our analogy better if we'd mentioned that first. No time to correct it! We're in the middle of a WAR here-this Crafting information needs to get to the people!
If you thought all those duplicate hats and weapons in your inventory were incredibly useful before, man, were you wrong! You were also in the quiet minority, if the forums were any indication. What, you couldn't have posted a single sentence about how much you loved your crappy inventory? You're killing us here. We're flesh and blood people, not useless-item-creating machines.
Blueprints-some of which you'll get right off the bat, others of which you'll have to puzzle out on your own-will tell you which ingredients you'll need to combine to make different items. Think of blueprints as recipes, but instead of making Chicken Cordon Bleu, they makes guns! And hats! And Sandviches, which in retrospect would have helped our analogy better if we'd mentioned that first. No time to correct it! We're in the middle of a WAR here-this Crafting information needs to get to the people!
Oh, but that's not all! Hidden within the Saxton Hale comic was a link to Poopy Joe, the monkey that had an unfortunate rocket incident moments before launching into space. A lot of potential unlock clues are hidden on the page including swords, pick axes, gorilla masks, bugles, and more. Red herrings or legitimate clues to new unlocks? Who knows! Valve knows, but they aren't talking... yet!