Co-op coming to Team Fortress 2, and Steam Gets a Face Lift.
Coming August the 15th Team Fortress 2 will see a new update that implements a horde mode called Mann vs Machine. Up to six players can team up to fight off a never ending stream of robots donning the likeness of your favorite TF2 characters. Apparently the game type allows you to upgrade your weapons and buy abilities along the way for some extra carnage.
The description on the TF2 website reads:
“Mann vs. Machine is a new co-operative game for Team Fortress 2 that lets you and five friends wage a desperate battle to stop a lethal horde of robots from deploying a bomb in one of Mann Co.’s many strongholds. Take advantage of breaks between waves to upgrade your abilities and weapons. Survive all the waves in any of a variety of missions to earn incredible loot.”
Meanwhile, Valve have announced that Steam will also be getting an update over the coming days with new community content. So far only Day one has been revealed and it adds something called game hubs, a place where all community content can be accessed at once. This includes a forum, mods and screenshots.
Here’s a quote from the Valve Website:
“Every game on Steam will have a new Game Hub. The Hubs highlight the most popular user-created screenshots, videos, and Steam Workshop items as rated by the community and combine it with related news, discussions, and comments for the game all in one central location.”
All this in addition to the recent announcement that Steam will soon begin to offer other applications besides games, it certainly looks like there’s no stopping the digital download giant. Now, where’s Half-Life 3!