Team Fortress 2 beta

[Turbine]

The Team Fortress 2 beta will be released on Steam in a few hours, to everyone that pre-ordered the Orange Box.
Is anyone here going to take part?

[SOAPboy]

I am. Sadly ill be at work on a subpar computer, so ill be playing WoW instead.

BUt once i get home. Huzzah!

[Turbine]

The TF2 preload is up you can start downloading now.

[Big Kahuna Burger]

THAT'S team fortress?!

[Turbine]

What do you mean?

[Big Kahuna Burger]

all cartooney and shit. i thought it was like halflife

[Turbine]

Here are the character trailers that have been coming out lately:

Heavy: http://youtube.com/watch?v=mY5qJHZCz2I
Soldier: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ASNVzWfRX1g& ... ed&search=
Engineer: http://youtube.com/watch?v=NJzRGrQ8_Gs


And a game trailer:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FvC5aWrrSx8

[SOAPboy]

The TF2 preload is up you can start downloading now.

Oh ive been preloaded for a few days.

Just sucks, im at work. >_>

[Wizard .3]

Been playing Fortress Forever for the past couple of days. Plays just as well as TFC.. and I expect TF2 to be even better. Woooo

[Mogul]

Yeah, I am in the beta and I am excited! Hope I can manage to farm/raid still after it's out. ^_^

[SOAPboy]

Yeah, I am in the beta and I am excited! Hope I can manage to farm/raid still after it's out. ^_^

Hey what server are you on btw?

Were all on illidan alliance now. >_>

[Mogul]

I am on Mal'Ganis, alliance. I have a 70 warrior, my current main, and my old character, a paladin. I run him around in his pre-TBC epics and use him to farm. I also have a 70 horde paladin that I will transfer to Mal'Ganis in a month to PvP with VXIX (clan 519 from Quake) but right now he is on the Underbog with irl friends.

Sorry to derail the thread. ^_^!!

[Turbine]

You talking about WOW or WoW?

World of War or World of Warcraft

[Mogul]

haha, what is World of War?

[SOAPboy]

I am on Mal'Ganis, alliance. I have a 70 warrior, my current main, and my old character, a paladin. I run him around in his pre-TBC epics and use him to farm. I also have a 70 horde paladin that I will transfer to Mal'Ganis in a month to PvP with VXIX (clan 519 from Quake) but right now he is on the Underbog with irl friends.

Sorry to derail the thread. ^_^!!

Yeah. was considering rerolling Mal'Ganis horde. Goons and all.

[DiscoDave]

I'll be getting it

[SOAPboy]

"Late in day release"

So no TF2 until after 1pm at the earliest. GG

[MKJ]

the humanity

[DiscoDave]

downloading at about 10k/sec on my 20Mb connection.

Guess it'll take a while

[SOAPboy]

downloading at about 10k/sec on my 20Mb connection.

Guess it'll take a while

Yup servers are getting hammered.. People are bitching up a storm on the steam forums.

[+JuggerNaut+]

gee, didn't see that one coming. whiners.

[DooMer]

hey guys, join up so we can own up http://steamcommunity.com/groups/quake3world

[Nightshade]

all cartooney and shit. i thought it was like halflife

Ever played Evil Genius? It looks just like it, which I don't mind but it's not at all like HL2.

[DooMer]

Yeah, they spent a lot of time on the art direction. They were going for a classic spy feel. Might get some more insight, and maybe a new found respect for it here: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/23654.html

[Turbine]

I guess they are waiting till about 6PM PST (-8:00 GMT). This is so that when the game is released, it is not overcrowded by a bunch of 11 year olds running around acting like idiots, ruining the game. Instead this way more mature players will be in game from the start, giving the game a better impression of teamwork. That's my guess.

Or.

Once again undereducated game developers think the Earth is flat and everybody lives in the US. It is Tuesday already in some parts of globe and the devs in the US are not even awake yet. When you say that it will be released at "Monday evening" 80% planet population is living in Tuesday. You should always inflate beta/demo release dated by +24 hours.