Depending on how well you have been following Team Fortress news recently, then you may or may not know of the “friendship” issue.
Apparently, in a recent update, some announcer sounds were added to the stock supply with no explanations. This, of course, led to wild speculation including the idea of red/blu cooperative play against the announcer.
Of course, Kotaku then reported that Valve has denied that and other rumors. Instead, they put extra emphasis on the subject of for whom the sounds toll.
Well, there has been another update and for a site like BWL it fits quite well.
The TF2 blog has been updated with a semi-explanatory teaser comic [which they linked to saying “Friendship ends in one day.”
Three points stand out to me upon reading this comic. First, more game companies need to post comics for teasers to their new content.
Second, this appears to indicate that there will be a sort-of sub-competition with special rewards for playing and fighting your steam friends in-game.
Third, Valve is directly using fan-art for character designs now. Not really a surprise as they have always used that sort of community inclusion. They did already have the artist visit their home base and they did sort of hint at the use of the design once before Halloween.
What’s that? What do I mean by “fan-art for character designs”? You’re one of the people that hasn’t already heard this story or seen the original drawing?
And, as I said, it is to be expected given Valve’s tendencies for community “friendship”. Especially since other artists had already jumped on the concept to make their own Announcer/administrator images.
It seems the little update plan Valve came up with was a competition. Best stereotype wins.
Huh? Oh… okay…
The idea is for players to choose either demo or soldier and try to kill the other class. This will determine which class, demo or soldier, gets a new “EXCLUSIVE, SECRET EXTRA WEAPON UNLOCK” during a new double update.
Okay, that isn’t really shocking… I’m just glad we finally got past all the teasing the writers were doing over the past year.
The real news is…
Two new game comics.
You read that correctly. Today I have made available two new short comics.
First up is the first episode of a new comic series called “The Sniper Chronicles” by Radu Iceman. This first issue is 14 pages of comic goodness that introduces a zombie plot.
The second new comic is something different I wanted to make after reading a month old message on the Concerned forums.
As I have been working on a model reskin pack for a little while now… I thought this would be a good time to try out the team concept and play around with the new skins. I also had two new wire mod / gcombat “props” for future movies that I wanted to show off.
All in all, this inspired me to create a new sub-section for the Game Comics page. I call it “Web Events Archives”. Anyone can make a Web Events Archive, but the premise is that they are based on real forum events… no matter how loosely.
To read the first Web Events Archive, “The Signal“, a 10-page comic loosely based on actual forum events, simply stop by the Game Comics page.
Whenever I started the transition of the site, turning it into Bored With Life, I had a few new comics and stories submitted rather unexpectedly. At the time, I had only started to release new content. I had actually only posted my first Half-Life 2 story.
I had many plans for the future and began work on a Comic Strips page as one of the additions.
Since this was such a new idea for this site, I was rather surprised when a new comic strip was submitted. I did a little digging and tracked the author back to TWHL.
The Mesa Times by Daubster
The Mesa Times is the creation of one of TWHL’s staff, Daubster. It is a Half-Life comic strip that takes place before the Black Mesa incident. Daubster made it and posted it on TWHL initially with plans for a future website that never materialized. One of the forum members at TWHL posted our link and suggested that he submit it here.
And so, The Mesa Times by Daubster is today’s featured comic. Learn how the G-Man developed his speech impediment, learn what happened to the donuts, learn how Gordon got his assignment in the test labs, and learn what the scis do in their spare time.
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