VALVe will be releasing the Orange Box SDK tomorrow morning (probably VALVe time, GMT-8) which includes the updated content creation tools.
The meaning of this is that better, prettier, stronger custom maps are on the way!
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Update: It’s available NOW as an update to the source SDK. Official news release.
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(Thanks: DigiQ8 at halflife2.net)
A practice match against dG.urself was held tonight at our TF2 Server, we played dustbowl and beat them 2:0.
Good game!
Scores: 1, 2.
A lot of people wondered what is the meaning of Team Fortress 2 shifting out of Beta – Well apparently one major difference is that updates don’t come once every two days, but once every two weeks. Today’s update brought us:
Some crash fixes
An improved death cam
Improvements to player avoidance code – the one that make [...]
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Rules in Germany prohibit advertising and shelf presentation of video games that glorify violence, or display violence.
In Half Life, the German version, everybody bled Green, and marines were robots.
In Team Fortress 2, the Gibs turn into this:
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This is basically VALVe saying, this is how exploding non human robots look [...]