KritzKast

After a week of the update, Tempest and Chronos have returned to give their views on the update as a whole.Plus all the “Minor” updates in the mean time. Like fixing winning a payload match with out the payload. NOT ONLY THAT, but we discuss how valves new policy on scamming. It is big, it is clever. How does it effect us, how does it effect you? NOT ONLY THAT, the comic. We almost forgot about it last week, So lets natter about it now. Miss Pauling scamming Saxton Hale, We never thought we’d see the day. NOT ONLY THAT, have you ever fancied playing out a TF2 fan fiction and try to date one of the characters from them game you love so much…..No…Oh, Neither did we, But obviously somebody else did and made the TF2 Dating Simulator. I swear I’m not making any of this up. NOT ONLY THAT, But a new class in overwatch too. Soldier 76…basically every single generic shooter class in every single generic shooter game ever.  

The wonderful Sigafoo joins us, together with now published (cp_snowplough anyone?) map maker, Fr0z3n to bring you news of the first big official update from Valve in yonks. That’s a real word and you can’t prove otherwise. We take a stab at breaking the Gun Mettle Update down to its component parts before building it back up again, spraying it pretty colours, burying it in the snow out back and marking it with a sprig from a cherry blossom tree so we can find it again in spring. Also a clever reference to Borneo!

This week we discover some very important news about the Tf2 comics. Brace yourself. Its another 6-8 weeks away. However, we also discover that we are getting an issue 7……eventually. Plus we’ve got some great goodies for you. Splat fortress. Based on Splatoon but made inside of TF2. Interested? How about getting people to I55? That’s right 2 American teams are SOOOO close to rasing all the funds they need to be sent to the insomnia Lan. How close, check it out here and help them get over the top. We also want to let you know about Steamspy, a service that lets you look at some of the stats of steam that valve might have. Such as, which games are being played the most and what games are doing well in the sales. Ok fine. So you want a bit more. How about a few videos of overwatch gameplay. Bastion and Zarya.

Ruskeydoo is back. Its been a while, but he’s here to talk about all the updates to TF2. Not only that, but we talk about a very unexpected revelation about miss Pauling. Then Agro shows us a Voicepack taking audio from both Red Orchestra 2 & Rising Storm. That would be it, if it wasn’t for the lengthy amounts of chat about overwatch. We talk about the widowmaker & Winston gameplay videos that have appeared, A hint at a new character and some speculation about how some of the game mechanics will work. Join us for a good time.

The one where Dungeon of the Endless gets TF2 items Steam starts issuing refunds The summer sale kicks off, together with cookie clicker style minigame. Maps workshop sees a tonne of updates. And our Artist of the Month competition sees some winners.

This has been an interesting week for us. Firstly, Chronos made a huge journey to The UK. This results in Less Chronos Lag than usual, But more echo as he was in the same room as tempest…Weird. This was also the week that we released the 2nd Meet your Makers. A fantastic look at the people who make the game what it is. From cosmetic creators, to T-shirt Designers, to….Valve themselves. Yep, its been kinda busy this week. Especially if you stay to the end of the episode. But it wasn’t all about Kritzkast (hard to believe i know) Valve did a huge favor for the community this week. We now have maps available in the workshop. This means that you can now have custom server maps that get the info straight from the workshop. Its amazing guys. We live in a bright new world. oh, i forgot to mention, you know thjat whole, steambox and steam controller……yeah, you can now pre-order them. its no longer a pipe dream

We’ve interviewed a lot of people on here, which is another way of saying that the Team Fortress 2 community is massive and brilliant. Occasionally we get the chance to revisit with some of our previous guests. Find out where they are now on their various projects and chew the cud with them on where they see their sites going in the future. This is one of those episodes. Sitting down with Masternoob and Foxy from TF2center we explore the site as it is now and look into the very near future to see Advanced Lobbies.

King Raja has graced us with his magnificent presence for one the greatest day of our worthless peasant lives. All hail the king! Long live King Raja! Ahem, in more relevant news May 18th update saw a number of fixes reported by white hatter Nathaniel Theis. There’s a fan-made TF2 documentary in the making. New news site Essentials.tf is gains momentum. Over at Overwatchwat.ch Hanzo has his own video, with some quite disturbing voice lines.

Bit of a change up this week as it’s just Tempest and Agro to shoot the breeze on topics as intellectually challenging as fully-immersive interactive porn,  Magic the TF2 and the longevity of TF2 itself. Featured on the show was this entry to the KritzKast art competition which is going to be pretty tough to beat now.

This week we are joined by UEAKCrash, the infamous name behind such maps as Trainsawlazer, WubWubWub and Glassworks (notice how we listed the serious map last). He talks with us about his personal career in map making, some of his previous and upcoming maps, But also about his new video series, teaching people from the ground up how to make a map. To round the episode off, We want to let people know about our latest Chance to get a Lo-Fi. Our admin of the month contest has been changed for one month only. This month you can enter by submitting a photo, screenshot, drawing, SFM, anything creative to show your love for the Lo-Fi. Head here for more details. Also worth a mention is some of the new Overwatch Merch.

Firstly. Please accept our apology for the massive delay in this weeks episode. Long story short, Our servers moved at a time we didn’t expect and delays followed. Sorry With that out of the way OMFG MATCHMAKING!!! This week the guys at teamfortress.tv went to valve HQ and talked about competitive matchmaking for TF2, simular to Dota and CS:GO. What does this mean for TF2? We talk with Mana from teamfortress.tv who went on this journey of discovery. He lets us know all the little details about the upcoming update. Plus he lets us ask him mountains of questions he doesn’t know the answer too. We also let you know about the 2nd wave of blind boxes coming your way, Plus the new Video Series by UEAKCrash on how to make maps. Pro tip, If you want to know more about UEAKCrash, wait til the next episode.

The workshop was the focus this week. You may have heard about skyrim and mods being a chargeable commodity. That didn’t go down well. But on a brighter note, we let you know that valve might be working on a large video working with workshop item creators. all we know is that they’ve been asked to all make videos describing how the workshop has changed their lives. The community this week has been working over time. We bring you “Who wants to f***?“, plus a great cowmangler prop (see above) and a Balloonicorn Onesie. Plus we bring you a local radio interview with Ellen McLain, John Lowrie. Then, from overwatch…watch, There is a great article in PCgamer talking about the blueprints of the game and future development. Plus your usual banter and good times.

The remarkably lovely Fox Peace joins us tonight. YouTube | Twitter | Twitch | Steam So that we can figure out if Makani’s comic #7 is real, TF2 is dead, Teamfortress.tv needs talent, the Legend is endless and if anyone can ever really afford to go to Blizzcon.

The show is brought you today by two of the brains and brawn behind TF2can which raised over $9000 for charity in Winter 2014. It just happens that they are awesome guys from the TF2 community too. Joining us we have SFM artist Uberchain Youtube | Steam | Twitter | deviantArt | Tumblr | Patreon And rising YouTube superstar, Uncle Dane Youtube | Steam | Twitter | Twitch Also discussed is Winglet’s medic taunt and Team Fortress 2 Classic; the re-imagining of all forms of Team Fortress into a TF2 mod, available for download now.

Always good to see an update, especially when it fixes a bunch of crashes, even better when manpower gets a look-in too. What we didn’t expect was a secret Engineer revolver animation and scout jumping in a little motor car. On possibly the worst day of the year to make a ground breaking announcement backpack.tf drop earbuds as currency. Our POTW Joerge Sprave earns his title with his wonderful creation of the Heavy Slingshot. Lastly SFM creations by MaGGot4th: Grand Theft Fortress – Alien Fortress – The Red Fury Overwatch is back in the news with Innovis Labs submitting their 2nd trademark filing.