The jingle sound is the best thing ever, if I had a dollar for every hit I've had that doesn't register on the opponent from lag or whatever I would be rich, at least now I know when I'm missing before I'm a corpse on the floor.

Going back briefly to the random unlocks, but I played seriously for the first time in a while yesterday and I unlocked about 5 items (2 of which were soldier boots and 1 hat if you're interested), I tried the same thing today thinking I might be having a lucky streak but nothing so far, makes me wonder if the rumour about more hours playing in last week = lower chance is true or not.

Not sure how many people here still play TF2, but if you don't keep up with it, you might want to hear this. (As long as you play the PC version, that is).

Just released today:
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5...nomyupdate.jpg
Click on the image for full details. Or if you just want the gist of it:

• 17 new community created items for 5 classes.
• Online store. Functional items can still always be attained for free through crafting/drops, but a handful of cosmetic items can only be purchased.
• You can now trade/gift items with other players (unless you bought it through the store).
• Dueling mini-game, whatever that means.

Naturally there's a lot of nerd rage over microtransactions, but like usual it's just a lot of hot air over something that's not a big deal.

The one thing I'm a bit disappointed about was the supposed inclusion of a 6th class, which didn't happen. And I was hoping it would be medic, since it's been a hella long time since he's gotten anything.

Starman the medic does have a new bonesaw, but currently valve isn't allowing people to buy it. Near the bottom item list when in doubt I always check here after game updates.

The spys new items as a set are a really fun new way to play spy. Granted the pistol does less damage and you can no longer disguise at will, but the trade off is silent fast backstab kills (disguising as the last person you killed) and silent cloacking which is especially useful teamed with dead ringer. I never thought the kit would be that useful but I was wrong, it just shows how much people rely on the decloacking sound and being stabbed noises to identify nearby spys, all I can say is inbefore valve nerfs it.

Yeah, I just noticed the Vita-saw today, but it's pretty underwhelming.

And yeah the new spy stuff is fun, but I don't know if I'd go as far as overpowered. If anything, it's the Dead Ringer that's been broken this entire time, and combining it with the Polycount stuff just makes it even better.

After a few days of the update being out, the one thing I really don't like are the crates. It'd be nice if they didn't apparently have a 90% chance of getting a Scottish Resistance. Yeah, you can choose to trade them away, but if that's the only particularly smart choice you've got, then they're they're not going to be a valid trade item for very long.

Clearly I've been doing it wrong I could never get my head around the dead ringer on account of that loud as hell decloack noise, still at least I have this option for when I'm feeling lazy.