No More Team Fortress 2 Updates Until 2009

Extra unlockable goodies for burning things, healing pals, and mowing down opponents will have to suffice for now.

Valve's continued release of new maps, character class updates, humorous achievements, and other content for Team Fortress 2 has greatly prolonged the inherent joy derived from hopping into the ranks of red or blue and blowing the crap out scores of other players. However, the spigot has been temporarily tightened, staunching the flow of updated content until next year. You can blame the zombies.

Speaking to Shacknews yesterday, Valve marketing VP Doug Lombardi said the next Team Fortress 2 update won't be released this year. "We're going to keep evolving Team Fortress 2," he said. "Once Left 4 Dead wraps, you'll hear us clamoring more about (the next TF2 update)"

In a post on the official Team Fortress 2 blog last month, software developer Robin Walker explained the team has been moonlighting on Left 4 Dead - Valve's upcoming co-op survival horror, zombie-blasting romp through apocalyptic hell. Unsurprisingly, they've has been helping to complete the game's versus mode, where one teams plays the human survivors and the other plays the zombies.

Here's hoping their attention soon turns back to Team Fortress 2, as the current upgrades for the Medic, Pyro, and the Heavy classes have ushered in many new hours of slaying enjoyment...and sandwich eating.

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So, this means no... no new "meet the team" videos?

Wahhh!

Team Fortress 2 is easily one of my favourite games, this news make me sad :( Super excited about Left 4 Dead though.

NoOOoooOOo- oh wait thats only three months.

So what were the other unpopular classes?

Scout comes to mind. Maybe Spy after that. Maybe.

I'm hoping that also means that Valve will work on supplemental content for Left 4 Dead, too. After all, they have plenty of time to just screw around and to something like that after Left 4 Dead's release if they're waiting until next year.

Oh noes now we're have to start playing again instead of spending all day in dedicated achievement farming servers! So sad.

well, this is from an xbox player, but mabey if valve could run in real world time (24 hours, 365 days a year, 12 months) and not valve time (couple months= the time christ gets ressurected) for xbox updates, i would give them a big hug. but yea, that does suck. I have played on a pc (before it broke) and its a blast, but at least it will give pc owners a chance to hone their backburning and sanvach eating skills before the enevitible demoman nerf update!

Just give me my damn 360 update. "Before the end of the year" isn't good enough. I want a date damn it!

No worries, there's too many games coming out in the runup until Christmas for me to focus on getting new TF2 weapons. Although I wouldn't have minded a new video.