Valve Discusses Team Fortress 2's Future [Slashdot]

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The Escapist chatted with Valve's Robin Walker about how the Team Fortress 2 team has been listening to feedback and continually updating the game to fix problems and add to the gameplay experience. Walker mentions that ideas for new classes are "floating around," and that a new mode of play will be introduced soon. "'Players have driven our entire approach to designing achievements, the way we tie unlockables to those achievements and the design of those new weapons themselves. The choices we made within the Medic and Heavy updates were very much the result of the ways that players have used that combination of classes within the game. The addition of the payload game mode came from players requesting an old Team Fortress Classic map called Hunted, and describing what they did and didn't like in that map.' ... The Scout is the next class slated for the special treatment, and Walker expects the update will be available early this year. Additionally, the team is juggling a number of side projects at the moment, including finally bringing a year's worth of the downloadable content and upgrades to the Xbox 360 version of the game. A new Payload map is in the works, more community maps are on the way and the team will soon unveil a very different new game mode."http://games.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/01/21/0848215 (http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/21/0848215&from=rss)
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[Half Japanese]

Until they can be bothered to update anything on the 360 front, the Orange Box will continue sit on the shelf collecting dust.

[carlcarlson]

Seriously. I can't believe they still haven't touched the 360 version yet. They're going to add game modes to the PC version while the 360 still has glitches all over the place?

[Solertia]

Personally, I'd just suggest buying TF2 for PC if you don't already, even if you already own Orange Box on 360 (like I do). The advantages/positives of TF2 on PC DEFINITELY make it worth the $20 (or however much it is now).

[Cryomancer]

I've always heard the neglecting of the 360 version has more to do with how live works, ie they don't want Valve putting up lots of free addons, so they are going to package a lot of them and charge a smaller amount than they would normally need to.