Valve had a nice little gathering of souls last night at Blondie's Bar and No Grill here in SF to show of the new Team Fortress 2 map, Goldrush. If you are reading this, you are probably a big Team Fortress 2 fan, so I'll skip explanations of the game and dive right into the details.
First of all, I loved the look of it. The name certainly describes what the map was like, looking like something out of Disney's Big Thunder Mountain railroad ride. Lots of wooden structures, water towers and mine car tracks. But the map isn't just a new area, it also features a new gameplay type called Payload. Basically how it works is this: the map has three separate areas and players are split into offensive and defensive teams. The goal of the offensive team is to push a mine cart loaded with explosives through the map, capturing the defensive team's bases as they go. The cart moves faster depending on how many people are surrounding it and leaving it unattended will cause it to start rolling back towards the beginning again. The other team of course, tries to stop the payload from reaching it's goal.
The map wasn't the only thing going however. We were also privy to the new item system that will be instituted with the next update. This also ties in with the thirty six new achievements for the Medic class. By gathering some or all of the new achievements, you can gain three new unique items. One third of the achievements will net you The Blutauger, a new syringe gun. This weapon does not give critical damage, but instead sucks health from the enemy on impact. Earn two thirds of the achievements and you will get The Critzcrieg, a new medigun that will rapid fire critical rockets. Getting all the achievements will see you receiving The Ubersaw which takes melee combat damage and converts it into Ubercharge. Four direct hits with it will charge up whatever Medigun your Medic has currently equipped.
Team Fortress fans are going to have a field day with this new map and if you want to get all those new weapons (and I know you do) take a gander at all 36 achievements after the jump!
First Do No Harm: Play a full round without killing any enemies and score the highest on a team of six or more players
Quadruple Bypass: Heal a teammate who is taking fire form four enemies at once
Group Health: Work with two other medics to deploy three simultaneous Ubercharges
Surgical Prep: Have an Ubercharge ready before the set up phase ends
Trauma Queen: Deploy three Ubercharges in less than five minutes and assist in five kills during that time
Double Blind Trial: deploy an Ubercharge within eight seconds of a nearby enemy medic deploying his
Play Doctor: In a team with no Medics, be first to switch to Medic after a teammate calls medic and heal 500 health
Triage: Deploy an Ubercharge on a teammate less than a second before they are hit by a critical explosive
Preventative Medicine: Block the enemy from capturing a control point with an Ubercharged teammate
Consultation: Assist a fellow Medic in killing five enemies in a single life
Does It Hurt When I Do This?: Kill fifty Scouts with your syringe gun
Peer Review: Kill fifty Medics with your bone saw
Big Pharma: Assist a heavy in killing thirty enemies where neither of you die
You'll Feel a Little Prick: Assist in killing four enemies with a single Ubercharge on a Scout
Autoclave: Assist in burning eight enemies with a single Ubercharge on a Pyro
Blast Assist: Assist in exploding five enemies with a single Ubercharge on a Soldier
Blunt Trauma: Assist in punching out for enemies with a single Ubercharge on a Heavy
Medical Breakthrough: Assist in destroying eight enemy Engineer buildings with a single Ubercharge on a Demoman
Midwife Crisis: Heal an Engineer as he repairs his sentry gun while it's under enemy fire
Ubi Concordia, Ibi Victoria: Assist in killing five enemies on an enemy control point in a single life
Grand Rounds: Heal two hundred teammates after they have called for Medic
Infernal Medicine: Extinguish one hundred burning teammates
Doctor Assisted Homicide: Assist in killing twenty nemeses
Placebo Effect: Kill five enemies in a single life, while having your Ubercharge ready but undeployed
Sawbones: Hit enemies with your bone saw ten times in a row without dieing or missing
Intern: Accumulate seven thousand heal points in a single life
Specialist: Accumulate ten thousand heal points in a single life
Chief of Staff: Accumulate ten million total health points
Hypocritical Oath: Kill an enemy spy that you have been healing
Medical Intervention: Save a falling teammate from dying on impact
Second Opinion: Ubercharge two teammates at once
Autopsy Report: Provide an enemy with a freeze cam shot of you taunting above their ragdoll
FYI I am a Medic: use a bone saw to kill five enemy spies who have been calling for Medic
Family Practice: Ubercharge ten of your steam community friends
House Call: Join a game that one of your friends is in and then deploy an Ubercharge on him
Bedside Manner: be healing a teammate as he achieves an achievement of his own
You'll Feel a Little Prick: Assist in killing four enemies with a single Ubercharge on a Scout
haha, I have called scouts that on quite a few occasions.
Not too stoked that the people who have these weapons unlocked are going to be the ones who just go on private servers and have others stand still while their killed. Why couldn't they have done it on the number of hours players had played as medic, would seem fairer as then those who have actually been spending their time getting good at medic will be the first to get the new weapons.
Your welcome to join us beat the ludicrous system savaloid. Frankly that Bedside Manner one is stupid. I know there will be new achievements for all classes, but eventually the number of people out there without them will dry up, leaving some unable to get it.
But aye, about 10 or so seem to count on the guy you're healing. Like the "Heal a Heavy, get 30 assists/kills with him without either of you dying". YIKES!
Can see me and Sam doing "Consultation" together
_________________ "Dear Valve, Paper overpowered - please change. Scissors about right. Regards, Rock"
From what I've picked up from reading around a bit it seems to be mostly people who don't play medic too often who are kicking up the biggest stink. Comments like "aww man I'm going to have to play medic for ages to get these" but I quite like that fact they're not going to be easy to get. I expect to not get them all but that doesn't stop me from having a damned good try.
On a day to day basis I think the new syringe gun looks the most useful day to day.
Critgun looks a bit situational and the Ubersaw damned dangerous to try. Need a nice medic buddy for that methinks.
Just my 2 cents.
_________________ I'm a medic, not a doctor. Doctors heal people. I just make them comfortable while they die.
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