WTF Update

Woot, Team Fortress Update =D

If you're like me and are currently using Valve's Steam software, then you more than likely know of (or own) Team Fortress 2 (TF2). If you actually play the game, then you also know this; there hasn't been a major content update in, like, forever. So it's about damn time that this update goes live, because I'm sick of the same 5 or so maps over, and over, and over...

Yes I can understand that making too many maps can make the game bigger (too big? don't think so), it also puts more pressure on players to learn the maps to play successfully. But when you have a handful of maps that just rotate, one after the other, it gets very.. Grating.

Until the recent addition of Well (CTF),which was a remake of the 'Well' Control Point map into a Capture the Flag affair, there was only one CTF map. Just one. So what I heard on my Ventrilo, and people in game, was "Map change, woot... Oh god not 2Fort," as 2Fort has been the only CTF map available until recently. But even with the introduction of a map that was merely modified, I don't think it's good enough.

In my opinion, we should be seeing at least 1 new map every 1-2 months, to allow for the design of it, and testing. It shouldn't take any longer than that, at least not for a single map. And running on that kind of schedule, you'd be bringing in 6 new maps a year. You might even go smaller than that, I suppose. 5 maps, maybe 4 at the least, but then you're putting them too far apart for the liking of your typical gamer. That probably won't happen, but hey, I (we) can dream.

The other thing I'd really like to see would be 3-way maps. Putting not 2, but 3 teams against each other. 3-way CTF with only one flag in the middle of the 3 bases. 3-way Control Point, where each base has a point, a point in between all 3, and a point between each base (i.e., between red/blu, blue/other colour, other colour/red) so a team needs to capture an adjacent point before being able to assault the base.

But then I don't even know if that could even be done, considering the 2 team style of Valve's games has been this way for a long time. But I can keep dreaming!