Holy Hand Grenade - Soldier

[Mana 3,867]

The fine folks over at Team 17 are about to release Worms Reloaded this week. Being massive fans of their work, all the way back to the original Alien Breed, we thought it'd be fun to do something with them. So, we approached them and politely asked if we could include an iconic element of their game in TF2. The conversation was going swimmingly until they said that the best item to use would be the Holy Hand Grenade. We shuffled our feet and nervously explained that some soon-to-be-fired idiot had removed all of TF2's grenades.

But luckily, we were saved by our own shoddy workmanship. While we removed grenades from the game during early development, we left two of them dangling on the front of the Soldier as a teasing reminder of what once was. So, to celebrate the release, we're going to give a nifty Soldier visual update to anyone who buys Worms Reloaded before Thursday, September 2nd, allowing him to sport two Holy Hand Grenades and a new Soldier helmet. Here's what it looks like in-game:

http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=4245&p=1

Who's getting it? Anyone wanna go for the 4 pack to save further monies?

[ReconPWN 10]

Tempting but I don't feel like paying 18 dollars for 2 golden grenades and a hat.

[Data 2]

http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=4245&p=1

Who's getting it? Anyone wanna go for the 4 pack to save further monies?

Aw man...I already bought my own copy because I couldn't find any takers on a 4-pack..

[Mana 3,867]

Tempting but I don't feel like paying 18 dollars for 2 golden grenades and a hat.

But you buy the game itself... not the hat! :S

[Paul Bunyan 13]

But you buy the game itself... not the hat! :S

WHAT!? That would be INSANE!

[ReconPWN 10]

WHAT!? That would be INSANE!

Indeed.

[Mana 3,867]

I have acquired this game.

Wonder how long it will take for Valve to release the bonus items. Maybe tomorrow? They like doing updates on Thursdays.

EDIT:

[hlds] Team Fortress 2/Counter-Strike: Source Beta Updates Coming

Required updates to Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike: Source are on the way. If all goes well, they should be live a little after 5 PM PST.

Jason

One can dream!

EDIT2:

A required update to Team Fortress 2 is now live. Please run hldsupdatetool to receive the update. The specific changes include:

Added Hungarian localization file.

Updated Steamworks stats gathering.

Updated localization strings based on community feedback.

Updated Cp_Yukon

- Fixed an exploit where players could get outside of the gameplay space.

Updated Koth_Viaduct

- Reduced the capture time for the control point from 6 seconds to 3 seconds.

Jason

Well, this was a disappointment. Do people even play those maps?

Worms stuff was in the files, yay. Hopefully it drops now.

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[No longer a Sexy King:^) 5,592]

wish i had the game*

[The_EE 38]

LOL at people who buy games to get pointless hats.

[ReconPWN 10]

LOL at people who buy games to get pointless hats.

Erm....can we get this troll off yet?

[Mana 3,867]

This is how it looks like ingame:

[ReconPWN 10]

I love the "only a loser would care about points" chat message at the bottom.

Eh I don't know if I will buy the game I think the 2 golden grenades is sort of a sniper body shot target. But thats just my opinion.

Also Mana how is the game as in just basic entertainment on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being amazingly boring and short and 10 being many hours of entertainment and gameplay. (Or anyone else who has this game.)

[Mana 3,867]

Here's some better pictures.

[The_EE 38]

Erm....can we get this troll off yet?

Yes, I am the troll that didnt state he would sell every hat and scrap of useless metal he has for cash because he cares so little about pointless hats.

If you want to get me off though, send me pictures of you dressed like a viking covered in Cottage Cheese looking lustfully at a picture of the Golden Girls.

[ReconPWN 10]

Yes, I am the troll that didnt state he would sell every hat and scrap of useless metal he has for cash because he cares so little about pointless hats.

If you want to get me off though, send me pictures of you dressed like a viking covered in Cottage Cheese looking lustfully at a picture of the Golden Girls.

I guess I made him mad, talk to me somewhere else other than a thread where you are completely going off topic.

[Krash 1,040]

I guess I made him mad, talk to me somewhere else other than a thread where you are completely going off topic.

lol.

Anyway, It looks pretty cool, i dont extremely like it, id rather have drill hat or ushanka.

[Rolooooooooo 2]

so it's just another skin then? U can't actually throw the golden grenades or your golden balls away? If I could throw the grenades what reaction would happen to a demo man doing his butty shick taunt (u know the one when he carries his new sticky launcher that he has to look at to activate) while the grenade explodes in his ass. OO I think am going XXX. am shutt### up now