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[PTTG??]

Burden of the State
Level 35 Cape

25% more damage received
20% less damage done to nearby allies

Medics that are healing you are 'nearby'.

In one fell swoop, this makes heavies the core of an attack, not solo raiders. It allows them to continue to protect pocket medics (while giving the medics more injuries to heal). It would look awesome- a team-colored cape with a hammer and sickle on it. It would also accentuate the heavy's role as giant meat wall, taking damage for the players behind and around him.

It also makes pocket medics by-proxy more helpful to allies, keeping them healthy by keeping the source of a handsome damage reduction alive.

Much like the buff banner, it is a Team before Me item that rewards interaction with teammates and penalizes lone wolfing.

[Siquo]

The engy gets a remote-controlled robot monkey, somewhat like the RC-car from COD:BO, but it can just do melee damage. Upside: it can double jump and is very fast. Downside is that while controlling it your char is vulnerable to attack.

Now that I thought of it, I want this so bad.

[PTTG??]

So the engie can change class to the scout, but can also be randomly killed by surprise and doesn't have guns?

Ok, so well he can still build his dispenser and teleporter, but this would probably replace the sentry.

[Siquo]

So the engie can change class to the scout, but can also be randomly killed by surprise and doesn't have guns?

Ok, so well he can still build his dispenser and teleporter, but this would probably replace the sentry.

I'd say it replaces the shotgun, that's a significant disadvantage. Jumping around as a crazy monkey sure beats base-camping.

[Strange guy]

Wasn't there something about Mann Co. sending monkeys to space waaaaaaay back when? Soldier update, maybe? Or Engineer? It was on one of those newspaper things.

That was this.

It's already served it's purpose of hinting at the equalizer and the eyelander, but perhaps we'll see larate next update. Or Vladimir Bananas as a boss for the raid mode that people claimed was coming long ago. Probably irrelevant though.

[mr. macduggan]

I admit I was wondering why nothing changed in the changelog when this update went live.

[PTTG??]

Team Vrs. Hale mode. It's coming.

[sluissa]

The engy gets a remote-controlled robot monkey, somewhat like the RC-car from COD:BO, but it can just do melee damage. Upside: it can double jump and is very fast. Downside is that while controlling it your char is vulnerable to attack.

Now that I thought of it, I want this so bad.

Just change class to the scout. If you've got enough time to mess with that as an engy, you're doing it wrong.

[Darvi]

Team Vrs. Hale mode. It's coming.

Doesn't that already exist? I could swear that I killed a few people as Hale.

[mr. macduggan]

yeah, but it's only a mod, not an official gamemode. Also, I don't really see how that goes with rockets... 

[FunctionZero]

I wouldn't think that Saxton Hale would believe in rockets anyways. He'd build a ladder to the moon or something instead.

If he did, though, rocket-crash-landing entrances would be a truly smashing way to get around.

Reminds me of that picture with a guy riding a nuke.

[PTTG??]

I wouldn't think that Saxton Hale would believe in rockets anyways. He'd build a ladder to the moon or something instead.

If he did, though, rocket-crash-landing entrances would be a truly smashing way to get around.

Don't be rediculous. He'd use rockets- TO BUILD A LADDER!

[DarkerDark]

What if scientists cloned Saxton Hale for the sole purpose of stuffing him into a rocket and shooting him off into space to explore distant planets? Who else would be better to face the challenges of potentially hostile planets than the world's manliest man, Saxton Hale? I'm willing to bet the man can survive the vacuum of space! He could certainly survive a crash landing.

Say that these rockets never made it into space, and instead, they came hurtling back down to Earth. The Saxton Hale clone climbs out of the wreckage, and not knowing any place that isn't Australia, believes that he is truly on an alien world. Imagine his surprise when he sees not only the mercenaries from RED, but also the mercenaries from BLU rushing in to retrieve him. This can only lead him to believe that the aliens have hit him with some sort of jedi-mind-trick, and that the friendly mercenaries aren't really mercenaries at all, but hostile aliens looking to take him back to their sinister laboratories for dissection! He was never issued a tin-foil hat to protect against mind control, after all.

Cue Saxton Hale mode, as the mercenaries from both teams try to bring down a clone hell-bent on destroying all "alien" life on Earth.

[mr. macduggan]

Yeah, I do bet it's the new gamemode. I was wondering why they left arena out of the "play now" browser. Funny, that. Maybe the new mode will be similar to arena...

[FunctionZero]

Why must you be so horrifying, Team Fortress 2?