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Steam SupportVisit the support site for any issues you may be having with the game or Steam.
Kassie N over at Tumblr dropped us a line to show us how she and many others in the Tumblr TF2 community spent their time while waiting for Meet the Medic. From June 10th to June 23rd, they drew and painted Medics of all shapes and sizes, and collected them into a massively Medictastic collage. In the end, they had over 160 images, created by over 50 different artists.
Kassie then sent that massive collage to us, and we promptly brought down the Valve network trying to download it. After that, Kassie took mercy on us and broke it into individual images, and our IT staff took mercy and stopped trying to have us fired.
Go check it out!
The chaps over at Will it Craft? fired us an email to say their crafting tool is just as crafty as any previously posted crafting helper, so we crafted up this post to let you know.
The fine folks over at VanillaTF2 dropped us a line to tell us that one of the best games in competitive TF2 history wrapped up on the weekend, when Team Thermaltake met TCM Gaming in the ETF2L Season 9 Premiership Final. If you haven't seen it already, you're in for a treat. You can watch the shoutcast over here (match starts at the 0:53), or the firstperson view over here (match starts at 0:43:30).
Torden also sent us a this breakdown of various other upcoming events in competitive TF2:
If you haven't seen it yet, Thomas 'King2500' Schulz has released his nifty Crafting Advisor, which will analyse your backpack and figure out what you could potentially create out of all the junk you've got lying around in your backpack. Once you select what you want to craft, it'll lay out the set of blueprints you should follow to arrive at it.
Yesterday the folks over at Community Fortress opened up registrations for their first ever 6v6 Tournament, sponsored by Zalman. Head over there and check it out.
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)
The Control Point guys are upto something over here. There's a countdown and everything. We're assuming the universe will end when it hits zero.
This clever fan-made comic has the Engineer taking matters into his own hands. Nice work, Nik.
It starts Sunday July 10th, from 20:00 CEST. The cup itself will run over two Sundays. The first 3 rounds will be played on the first Sunday, while the quarter, semi and grand final will be on Sunday July 17th. Simply create a 2v2 team and you’ll be able to signup. The game server is located in London and playable for American teams. Visit the ETF2L tournament page for complete details.
Check out this cool video we came across today.
Starting out with Classic Mix-Up taking on The Experiment on cp_Snakewater_rc3. Details here. Streaming available on Justin.tv through either eXtv or MGE, also Chris Schetter from Keekerdc.com will be doing a radio shoutcast.
New to TF2? Well now there's a group of people who are dedicated to helping new players learn and master the game. Stop by the Coaching Society Steam group to find out more.
Nice work, once again TF Community for raising over $1,000 for the Cure-Search for Children's Cancer. You can find info about it in a few forum threads here, here and here.
The signups will open on July 10th, 2011 17:00 CET and will stay open for 3 weeks. For more info visit the tourney web page.
June 23, 2011—Valve, creators of bestselling game franchises (such as Half-Life, Portal, Left 4 Dead, and Counter-Strike) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), announced today that after four years and over 200 updates, its popular and critically-acclaimed online action game Team Fortress 2 (TF2) is now Free To Play (F2P).
The F2P announcement comes as part of the "Über Update". Released today, it is the largest content pack delivered to TF2 since it shipped in 2007.
New players interested in experiencing what PC Gamer calls "the most fun you can have online" will have access to training and offline practice modes, so they can hone their skills before jumping into the ever-expanding TF2 universe.
To celebrate the launch of the Über Update, Valve has released "Meet the Medic," the latest in its series of TF2 animated shorts.
TF2 is now Free to Play for PC & Mac players via Steam.
For more information on Free to Play, please visit http://www.teamfortress.com/freetoplay.
For more information on the "Über Update" and "Meet the Medic", please visit http://www.teamfortress.com/uberupdate.
