MVM Announced [Now with Day 3]

Clearly this was the new gamemode all along, and Doomsday was just filler to keep the masses at bay.
 
I'll pass. I don't like the sound of only 6 players per server. That's why I don't play L4D online, I like to blend in with the crowd.
 
I remember alpha testing MVM, man I can't wait for it to release! Too bad I'm not going to be there for the release, I'll be in Texas till the 20th...
 
5starGeneralAlphaSnake said:
http://www.teamfortress.com/mannwill/ Anyone see this? If so, read it for me.
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I, Zephaniah Mann being of sound mind, do herby vow to haunt the earth as a horrifying poltergeist, until such time as I have quenched my all-consuming thirst for vengeance against the world, and especially against my dunderhead sons. If it takes a brave man to admit he is in error, then surely a man willing to admit both of his sons are stumble-bum muttonheads is twice as brave. It was they who convinced me to spend the entirety of my sizeable fortune purchasing land in the unclaimed frontier of the Americans, in the hope of expanding our weapons concern to the uncolonized westernmost regions. Many tales did they whisper in my too credulous ears, of gravel as far as the eye can see, for any man with strong back and iron spirit to harness. Long did I dream of transforming these virgin lands, and its vast holes, into the worlds most majestic and profitable pits of gravel. But when at last we arrived, we found only "fool's gravel" - my nitwit sons had purchased a continent-sized parcel of sand! It is here in this wind-swept desert hell that I fear I shall breathe my last. Since moving from my Cambridgeshire estate to the untamed frontier I have contracted putrid fever, bilious fever, blackwater fever, green fever, spotted fever - even womb's fever, as a complication from a serious bout of superfluous uterus. On our sailing trip to the new world I contracted white plague, marasmus, sweating sickness, deplumatious tumors of the eyelids, pleurisy, membranous croup and scarlet rash; during the drive west I contracted brain itch, stomatitus, and blood poisoning; since settling our estate I have contracted falling sickness, walking sickness, stationary sickness, shingles, jaundiced spine and skull bloat. I contracted scriveners palsy in the writing of this last will & testament. Possessing no paper in this godforsaken frontier, I have penned this on my own skin, which has sloughed off in quantity since contracting impetigo.

To the foul-smelling, uneducated simpletons of the untamed Americas, I leave only this curse - as weapons have caused my downfall, so will I engineer the downfall of any soul who puts one to use near my restless grave. Shoot over my bones and I shall visit upon you a haunting the likes of which you have never seen. To my dearest maidservant Elizabeth I leave the rest and residue of my estate - including all deeds, accounts, debts public and private - my tobacco plantation - and what remains of the fortune my addle-pated sons have squandered. Find the gravel that I was unable to find! Honor me by placing it inside a pit! To my faithful aide and tracker, Barnabas Hale of the savage Australias, I divest compleat controle of the Mann & Sons Munitions Concern. You procured the poppy flowers required for the medicines that gave me succor from the pains of my many warring ailments. It has been pleasant to not shriek myself to sleep. To my layabout, brain defective sons, Blutarch and Redmond, I leave the greatest curse of all - partnership. What land I have purchased in this new world is to be split evenly between you both. You have wasted your lives bickering over nothing, and so I leave you dimwits something of consequence over which to feud. Lastly, to most trusted Elizabeth I leave the entirety of my "miracle" gravel cache, uncovered with Barnabus during a trip to Terra Australis. My weakling son Gray resurfaced last year and has threatened to blackmail me for it. I give the gravel to you and swear you to utmost secrecy in its keeping. God and His angels will have to drag me screaming to Heaven. I do not want to die. Damn you all to Hell!

Zephaniah Mann
 
I tried processing two of the FAQ answers from Day 3 together:

Do I need to buy anything to play Mann vs. Machine? No.

What is a Tour of Duty Ticket? A Tour of Duty Ticket gives you access to Mann Up Mode, and can be purchased from the Mann Co. Store for $0.99.

"You don't need to buy anything from us, but we'll still take your money!"

My overall impression of this update is that Valve expects people to play as a team. Perhaps they were trying to rectify how people never play as a team in Team Fortress 2.
 
All right, men! This is it! Gray Mann's robot army is HERE! The Mann vs. Machine war has begun!
 
YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! I WANT THAT ROBRO 3000!

Change list!
Added Mann vs. Machine
Added Archimedes
Added The Soldier's Stogie
Added The Robro 3000
Updated The Helmet Without a Home to be paintable
Fixed some clipping issues with The Salty Dog
Removed player penetration from The Pomson 6000 and boosted the damage to compensate
 
lol, steam servers can't handle my request to start the game.
 
heh i changed my server to Sweden and loaded tf2 to force it to update and hurrah it worked. looking at 20-30 mins for me :/
 
Like Shootist-Kartane mentioned, changing servers to a region with lower population will work better. Think remote or small countries. I'm DLing from The Netherlands right now (slightly influenced by my heritage, that choice).

Steam -> Settings -> Downloads & Cloud -> Download Region. You will have to restart Steam, but if you've chosen a good region, your DL will start as soon as you launch TF2.

GLHF.

edit: to illustrate-- CAPSLOCK is getting 50 kbps atm. I'm getting 800ish from Dutch servers, and I'm on the US west coast.

edit2: my DL is done. I switched my region back, restarted Steam. ~6k players in queue, 48 full MvM servers, est. 14 min wait time.
 
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Caelestis said:
I tried processing two of the FAQ answers from Day 3 together:

Do I need to buy anything to play Mann vs. Machine? No.

What is a Tour of Duty Ticket? A Tour of Duty Ticket gives you access to Mann Up Mode, and can be purchased from the Mann Co. Store for $0.99.

"You don't need to buy anything from us, but we'll still take your money!"

My overall impression of this update is that Valve expects people to play as a team. Perhaps they were trying to rectify how people never play as a team in Team Fortress 2.
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Hmm it sounds like if you want the loot you have to buy a ticket :thumbdown:
I knew there had to be a catch somewhere.
 
Also: YAY POMSON NERF.
One of you was running around as Pomson/Gunslinger earlier and it was easily the MOST IRRITATING THING I've ever encountered in TF2. Worse than Foundry lag.
 
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