Summary: Yes, of course it was April Fool’s day last week. Valve’s chance to make fun of us by feeding us misinformation. This time round they teamed up with Reddit to declare that reddit had taken ownership of TF2. The official Wiki played along with multiple updates that just weren’t true, including koth_egmill, the Easter Bundle and a wonderful animation for the Pit-Boy. ETF2L got in on the fun too. Claiming the beloved eSports celeb, TivQ was a hacker. There were some red faces when it was revealed to be a hoax later on. There’s a bit of a cross over with the real and fake when it comes down to the proper update. Reddit hats, the Conspiracy Cap and the Public Accessor have been added to the game, though no news on how to actually get them yet. In addition there was a secret Easter egg on the April 1st blog post. Clicking the full stop at the end of the post takes you to The Teufort Reader and series of Adverts for Lecture Valley and Mann Co. products. Included in this may-be-fake-may-be-real line up are a medieval teleporter, Dispenser costumes and lots of nutmeg. Good news for VR fans, the HUD on the Occulus Rift we talked about in eps.213 week has been updated, along with new input parameters for Razer’s Hydra controller. It’s been a long enough wait but Poker Night at the Inventory 2 is finally available as pre-order. That means new TF2 items and luckily enough we have the creator of those items in our hosts list. We grill Ruskeydoo about the Bloodhound, Dapper Disguise, Necronomicrown, Samson Skewer and the Long Fall Loafers. He didn’t make the loafers, but four out of five aint bad. There’s manic gameplay on the eSports front too. Starting with a Ready Steady Pan Semi-Final. Ruskeydoo and Agro casted this match between itsallgood and Goon Partchers. We did such a good job they’re letting us cast the final next week too. Agro joined Khalesi and Commedian to cast the final round of the Round Robin‘s 7th EU Mentoring Tournament. Finally, there’s and epic competition ahead in the 5th Community Vs Pros. 9 communities are represented to fight against the pro team of AG.
