{"id":216,"date":"2009-05-15T17:43:37","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T00:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/?p=216"},"modified":"2009-05-15T17:43:37","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T00:43:37","slug":"team-fortress-2-sniper-spy-updates-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"Team Fortress 2: Sniper + Spy Updates Imminent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">A few weeks ago, I whined that Valve was prepping a Sniper update for Team Fortress 2, which I feared would lead to even more useless Snipers &#8212; who often hide in corners, never change classes and do little to actually accomplish objectives &#8212; flooding TF servers. But Valve, as always, has a trick up its sleeve: rolling out the Spy update at the same time. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Over at the official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamfortress.com\/spyupdate\/english.htm\" target=\"_blank\">TF2 site<\/a>, Valve is up to Day 4 unveiling bits of the update, which includes back armor for the Sniper (protecting from one backstab), a crossbow, and several Spy updates, including a feign death on hit and permanent invisibility while standing still. It&#8217;ll still be a week or two of Spies and Snipers running amok, but at least it won&#8217;t be just Snipers.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Oh, and I almost forgot the coolest part: a new Payload &#8220;race&#8221; map\u00c2\u00a0where teams push two carts\u00c2\u00a0side-by-side. SWEET. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I whined that Valve was prepping a Sniper update for Team Fortress 2, which I feared would lead to even more useless Snipers &#8212; who often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc-games","category-team-fortress-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}