TF2: The Scary Part Is That I Only Have 2 Weeks!

Well, once again ladies and gentleman, I have had my highest hopes revealed! Late last night Team Fortress 2's blog updates (Automatically notifying via Steam) and I get the message I have been waiting for: Scream Fortress III.For those of you who have been playing for more than 10 days, you may know a bit more about how Robin Walker and his team go about doing their hat-filled updates.

For the past 3 years, the Team Fortress team has taken it upon them to make a halloween filled update, and every year, they've made it bigger. Year one saw the addition of a new map, a mildly disturbing mask for every class, and of course, a free hat to all of those who clicked on a special page, or then dominated anyone who wore said hat. This was the birth of a hat for all, even though Ghastly Gibus isn't that much of a hat.  It gave the ability to all of those poor, hatless people to have one. I remember my first Gibus. Even though it is long gone, I still remember it with fondness. Mostly because I sold it for a Stout Shako.

Year two saw the addition of new masks for every class, the addition of more hats, haunted weapons, and even the first ever mini-boss. The Horseless Headless Horseman was the first baddy to not care if you were RED or BLU, he enjoyed killing everyone. Maybe he was color-blind. Im not quite sure. But what made him special was the ability to "scare" opponents, even shutting off sentries, super-jumping, and of course, gratuitous amounts of HP. This lead to the making of the "Vs. Saxton" Mod where you could fight off  Saxton Hale, or even control the great Australian-Moustached behemoth.

This year intorduces a special costume for every class, a new map, and the Demoman's missing eye, who you must defeat. This is all in the pursuit of a good time, and the addition that you only hve two weeks to collect these items on official servers makes me think of all the time that will now be dedicated to TF2 over the next few days. I had plans to play Reach with friends at a halloween party, but nooooo. TF2 just ruined all of my plans. I had even bought a Monkey Wrench and spray-painted it gold for part of my Engineer costume. I always love scaring the little ones by dressing up like an evil Texan. But, now I will be obsessed with trying to get a costume to make the Soldier look like a robot. Oh well. Time well spent! Time to get to work. Who knows? Maybe I'll stop for a candy break sometime in between.