Team Fortress 2 Patch Finally On The Way

December 13th, 2007 by Brian Lockhart in Multiplayer, News, Online, Xbox360

Some Orange Box owners have been feeling that Valve has skipped town and left Team Fortress 2 to rot, with some much needed love. However, that love is already on the way, along with work of new maps and DLC for the Orange Box game on both PC and 360. News comes via an e-mail to a frustrated player. The most exciting thing is, you can expect the first major patch, as long as everything goes well before this Christmas. Nothing will be sweeter than ripping open a fresh copy of Orange Box on Christmas morning, and evading some of the known issues that have plagued the game.

“We do have a new update coming out - in fact, it’s going to Microsoft for certification today. There’s about a 10-14 day certification time, so you should be seeing it before Christmas. The update fixes several game-play exploits, improves bandwidth usage, improves stats reporting, and fixes some menu bugs. Most of the fixes that are in this update are in response to forum posts from both the PC and 360, and from direct in-game feedback from players. (Yes, we actually have several people who regularly play TF2 on the 360 and collect feedback from the players. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it.)

We are currently working on new maps, and we are planning to release them as downloadable content for the 360. I don’t know what the schedule will be for that - new maps will likely be released individually on the PC as they’re ready, and then we’ll offer them as a single pack on the 360. We’re currently testing a new map that’s extremely fun, and we can’t wait for our customers to try it out.”

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