RWAR!

My understanding of the class packs are that they focus on the then-ignored classes.
As I've heard, before the March update, you couldn't spot a medic anywhere in a game, MAYBE one...rarely.POOF, medic up date : 4-6 per team XD.

then the hated, underpowered useless pyro. POOF update : PYRO HEAVEN.
And now the heavy...well people mostly still hate him because Natascha is useless and the heavy is STILL slow but hey.

People conceive this as "Oh, 1 attack, defense, and support class update", but if you look - they're also all mostly ignored or UP classes.

That's why my *initial guess* for the next class pack was either sniper or the spy. Teh spy is broken and severely underpowered due to bad netcode, hit detection and animation issues, which prevent the user from getting truly legitimate backstabs (I myself backstabbed a medic and he just simply walked off. He didn't evne turn around !).

However, the latest blog post of "Git along there little doggies" on TF 2's official blog makes my mental peen throb in anticipation and hope of what is perhaps an ENGINEER PACK!
The engie is hated and laughed at as the "Noob-friendly idiot class where you set up a sentry and whack it all day". IT would fit the overlooked \hated part of the update.

So yes, I suspect we are getting an engie update next (Although I think the spy \ scout need more work, TBH).
All ranting aside : What is your guess?

Only if you play it well.

I've seen my teammates stupidly build a sentry behind mine. I mean, wow, okay, you suck.
Then another one of my teammates felt the unexplainable urge to put a dispenser ...infront of the spawn.

If you play smart as an engineer, the other team is in for a tough time.
Consider this : Even one layed teleporter saved atleast 12 seconds off the person's time getting back into the fight, which is a massive advantage. Heavies especially need this, just imagine, a big tank dies, then appears right back in the battle not ten seconds later, instead of say, half a minute later.

People just hate the engineer because of how noob-friendly it is.

On the somewhat offtopic note pertaining to TF 2 : Who else feels that the "all-accurate" pistol is horrible?
Even the Spy's magnum only hits 80% of the time, some bullets just WHAM go way outside the reticle if you are shotgun or farther range away.
But the pistol is truly nothing short of tragit. It's depicted and praised as an "accurate weapon to pick off enemies".

And yet, the accuracy is terrible. People have proven that from 2fort battlement to battlement, in severel tests, shotgun shots fired were actually MORE ACCURATE thant he "accurate" pistol...isn't that just sad?

RedStriker:

Blackwingdragon:
And yet, the accuracy is terrible. People have proven that from 2fort battlement to battlement, in severel tests, shotgun shots fired were actually MORE ACCURATE thant he "accurate" pistol...isn't that just sad?

I disagree, As an engie (no one was defending our briefcase :P) I killed a heavy and pyro at about full health in a tunnel on 2fort. Maybe it was just luck but I think if you know how to use a pistol it is effective.

Anyways I'd like to see a spy update, just 'casue of all the cool possibilities (like an instant teleportation device or the ability to put down poison hp packs)

I love it when people play the " you don't know how to use it" or "I know how to use it" card.
So how can you use a pre-programmed weapon in an FPS?
Because all I can see happening is you point and click. Obviously, aiming at something as huge as a human isn't a big deal...

Anyway, yeah I'm dying to see spy gadgets \ engie unlocks. Hell, my idea for an engie sentry was a throwable turret that latches unto walls and can only be upgraded to level 2 - if you could reach it. Imagine placing one of these on the roof of your intel room. Spy sees no sentry, grabs intel, gets mowed down. It would prevent demomen and spies getting to it so there would be a BAWWWW that it was OP ...
...unfortunately.

Sadly, no.
There is an email that they mostly ignore.
Except Gabe Newell, he directly replied to criticisms that the demoman is overpowered - as he obviously is. He said that "Internally, we at Valve call the STickies "winbombs" ....and I was quoting as literally as I could.

I'm assuming that if and when information on that gets out, it will be posted on www.teamfortress.com 's blog. Now that they are mostly done with L4D, we can expect a class pack within the next couple of weeks. Medic-Pyro-Heavy all took 2 months each (Infact, I took a sixty day vacation to Canada right as the Pyro came out. When did I return?The same day as the heavy pack! DAMN! ).

Doesn'T mean you should halt the packs on the PC. Valve owns the rights to the game, Micro$oft just distributes ita nd content for it. It is already a vastly inferior version to the PC in many ways (Look up the comparison sheet on one of the wikis).
Dedication to gamers means the reachable ones get the bonuses they deserve, IMO.
But yeah, I heard micro$oft is trying to milk people, and I consider that absolutely disgusting :-\..

Yeah, the flaregun is golden on maps like 2 fort. Hit a sniper and he'll run back to heal up like a pussy :-D. IT's epic and useful, if rather piss weak.

Uhhh it also added the, you know, AIRBLAST :-P
FTR, I hate Backburner though. The maps were not made for ambushing. BIg area - corridor - big area. EVERY MAP HAS THIS!

The logic they use is "Oh get behind someone and we "reward" you with 100% crits". Good f*cking luck. For the price of pure luck, you lose your airblast, making you the weakling you were pre-patch against soldiers and demomen :-P. I think not lol.
And if I DO get behind someone BY ACCIDENT, they'Re pretty much dead with the normal flamethrower anyway, you know?
Or I can puff and axe and all but a heavy instadie anyway.

Edit : also, those unlockables all suck balls, they obviously aren't the real ones.
Natascha proves that slowing is useless, or in the VERY kindest - situational. I fail to see how the SLOEST CLASS i nthe game can run ahead of the entire much faster class race, to the front line, and survive past shotgun range, slowing people who can then giggle and gleefully run back to heal up.
I just absolutely fail to see the usefulness of the gun.
Sidenote here : This usually invites a "You're a noob!" or a "you doN't know how to use it" from rabid fanboys. Hilariously - how CAN you use a gun?Wait, ...point and click?I GOT IT? ZOMG
*ahem*

All of those are luck and situation based. It sacrifices the damage dealing class' DAMAGE.
Smart scouts will run away before the thing even spins up or find cover. Enemies can infact retreat because the slow effect needs five bullets to slow the person enough so the rest connect and KEEP him slowed.
What sound?
Yyyeeeeah pyro can still flaregun you to death xD.

I know what you mean, but still. THe minigun is inaccurate as hell past shotgun range , so most of the shots intended to slow miss, and therefore DON'T SLOW. And yes, I do usually move without spinning up, because, guess what, the heavy is f*cking slow. I spin up near the front and around corners...not a noob fyi XD.

Hehe, yeah.I always shout like a drunken dumbass " GO FOR THE MEDIC!" . But people are so mentally impotent ;_;
They expect to take down 450 +regen+ hp within shotgun range with their putput weapons XD..
It's rather hilarious, until your team loses because of the same idiots...

The_root_of_all_evil:
Kritzkrieg Pyro or Demoman tends to scare them a lot more...

AMEN!
I used to giggle at people who ubered heavies.
They'd take a second or two to realize what's up, four or more to waddle into position and another to spin up and fire, so XD.
Uber a pyro?Now he runs out, flames EVERYTHING and people run for cover - and you can advance.

I also find sadistic pleasure and fascination in kritzing a soldier or a heavy =3.
Though one time my intended kritz target died, so I had to use it on a spy, who thankfully got the hint. He killed all 3 of my pursuers in 1 clip o_o.