As some have now noticed, examining the file names of the Heavy’s achievement icons sheds a little light on what the achievements actually might be.
For instance, “Class Struggle” is “tf_heavy_kill_medic_pair”, and “Crock Block” is “tf_heavy_survive_crocket” (ie: crit rocket).
More intriguingly, in fact, most intriguingly, is “Konspicuous Konsumption“, whose icon shows a dinner plate and utensils, and is labeled “tf_heavy_eat_sandwiches”.
There will apparently be sandwiches, now? If I know my gaming lore, food = health (except in Burger Time, when food tried to kill you), so perhaps there will be a replacing of the standard heath packs with hovering, rotating sammiches? I like.
No idea if other items from the “Meet the…” movies will be making it into games, such as the Engineer’s guitar or the Sniper’s bottles-o-urine, but if they’re adding sandwiches to the game, can piss bottles be far behind?
45 responses so far ↓
1 jzimbert // Aug 13, 2008 at 1:42 pm
You should absolutely start a blog about Burger Time. Best game ever.
2 Rory // Aug 13, 2008 at 1:43 pm
My guess? The new game mode is a Heavy Pac-man clone. Avoid the spies, gobble the tasty foods, tap your Medic buddies for an UBERCHARGE. What’s not to like?
3 TheLinx // Aug 13, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Apparently there’s a rumor that the shotgun replacement will be a sandwich that gives you 100 hp when you eat it.
I’m not sure if it’s true.
4 Sam // Aug 13, 2008 at 2:06 pm
There wont be floating sandwiches as the redistribuiton of health mentions healthpacks
5 Robert64 // Aug 13, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Having revenge assists will be interesting, if it is what Lenin a Hand is.
6 S-Guy // Aug 13, 2008 at 2:11 pm
I could really go for a sammich right about now. The killing gloves of boxing look interesting too, but usually, I’m the one that always gets punched. X_X
7 Tim // Aug 13, 2008 at 2:12 pm
TheLynx: I’m not entirely sure if you’re making that up or not, but it’s actually not a bad idea. Heavy gets more sandwiches by getting ammo, which he can get plenty of by killing enemy team. He can get the health from the sammich whenever he needs it, making a medic less essential. Since heavies mainly use the shotgun for when they don’t want to deal with windup or have run out of ammo, this would be very appealing to lone heavies who are good at finding ammo boxes/going on a rampage.
This would really change the dynamic, because before, killing an enemy just gave you ammo. This really blurs the line for the heavy at least.
But answer me this, fellas: What good would a jar of urine be to a sniper? No, he’s getting either a Winnebago or a Mr. Coffee. Mr. Coffee lets him run faster, adds autoaim to make noob sniping easier, but it replaces his machine gun making it harder for him to defend himself at close range, but easier to run away, meaning snipers who choose to take this need to get better at finding multiple sniping positions and changing often to keep the enemy from killing them. The Winnebago would let him run over the enemy, get around the map faster, and enhance spawn camping (click my name for clarification on that last point).
8 Noob!X // Aug 13, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Sandwich is too hard to type…its gonna either be Sammich, Sammy or just Sam’s from now on.
9 J3553 // Aug 13, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Сэндвич-слишком за питание!
10 arklansman // Aug 13, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Demoman needs haggis.
11 Duke // Aug 13, 2008 at 3:06 pm
J3553, ты по-русски говоришь, или просто прикалываешся с переводчиком?
The new video will be MEET THE SANDWHICH
funny that Chris noted some other blogs that “discovered” hints in filenames and didn’t note his own commenters doing it…
12 J3553 // Aug 13, 2008 at 3:16 pm
@Duke, Я просто использовать переводчик. Я могу говорить по-английски bearly, как он есть. LOL.
13 Mike // Aug 13, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Yeah, what arklansman said really didn’t make any sense to me in Russian.
14 Mike // Aug 13, 2008 at 3:27 pm
J3553, rather.
15 Mike // Aug 13, 2008 at 3:29 pm
More games should have sammiches as health though. I’d love runing around in Doom 4 and finding sandwiches in military depots in between blasting hell spawn.
16 Cpt. Falcon // Aug 13, 2008 at 3:41 pm
http://steamgames.com/tf2/heavy/images/AchievementIcons/tf_heavy_kill_taunt.png
looks like heavy gets a killing taunt too.
i hope it’s not just as simple as the pyro’s, i want it to do something different, like maybe knock enemies back really far, or steal all their ammo from their secondary weapon. (or primary with medic)
17 Sumguy21 // Aug 13, 2008 at 3:48 pm
I guarantee you sandwiches are part of the new gamemode. Maybe something involving collecting sandwiches for the team.
18 SteveCentra // Aug 13, 2008 at 3:48 pm
I still haven’t forgiven you.
19 Mr. Brit // Aug 13, 2008 at 4:02 pm
‘collecting sandwiches for the team’?!?!
What a laugh! Collecting is for OLD games, pacman (and anything by nintendo, which are BAD games)
20 d@niel // Aug 13, 2008 at 4:04 pm
The health sandwiches depend on the engineer achievements though. As soon as these get released instead of a dispenser the engineer then will be able to build a Subway’s and hire the scout.
21 Simon // Aug 13, 2008 at 4:12 pm
that tag is a hoooorrible pun, chris
22 Tim // Aug 13, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Valve clearly hasn’t had lunch today. HL2 EP3 will replace the HEV recharge stations with mustard and ketchup pumps. The game will score an E rating, as instead of bleeding, Freeman’s suit will merely leak ketchup.
23 Mr. Brit // Aug 13, 2008 at 4:46 pm
spy’s sappin’ my subway!
24 jordan // Aug 13, 2008 at 5:39 pm
i am quivering in excitement for the sammich. Quivering!
25 Mr. Brit // Aug 13, 2008 at 5:50 pm
I reckon the samdwich should be throwable as an Alt. Fire, no damage but if it hits someone they get comically fat, move slower and are 50% more likely to explode when hit with a melee. It lasts fpr about 30 seconds
26 Mr. Brit // Aug 13, 2008 at 5:51 pm
I reckon the sandwich should be throwable as an Alt. Fire, no damage but if it hits someone they get comically fat, move slower and are 50% more likely to explode when hit with a melee. It lasts fpr about 30 seconds
27 Mr. Brit // Aug 13, 2008 at 5:51 pm
I reckon the sandwich should be throwable as an Alt. Fire, no damage but if it hits someone they get comically fat, move slower and are 50% more likely to explode when hit with a melee. It lasts for about 30 seconds
28 Mr. Brit // Aug 13, 2008 at 5:51 pm
woops
29 jordan // Aug 13, 2008 at 5:55 pm
why did you say it three times?
30 Mr. Brit // Aug 13, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I corrected a mistake each time, but I stopped it from loading so I figured they wouldn’t be sumitted, they were :p
31 J3553 // Aug 13, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Oh, LOL!
32 Mechlord // Aug 13, 2008 at 6:44 pm
The image name for “Don’t Touch Sanvich” is”tf_heavy_kill_scouts.png” which I would guess is a reference to meet the scout. So, killing scouts it is.
33 Erik Z // Aug 13, 2008 at 6:45 pm
What *kind* of sandwich?
34 Tim // Aug 13, 2008 at 6:47 pm
@Mr. Britt: Is that an endorsement for Fat Princess TF2 mod?
I do like the idea of a throwable sandwich. It’d be a great way to save a team mate in trouble when there’s no medic around. Granted, for comedy’s sake, we need the other team to be able to steal his sammich.
It kind of reminds me of the cliched moment in action films where the hero runs out of ammo and the dark and rugged master who taught him everything he knows gives him his gun to win the day against the bad guy.
35 Mechlord // Aug 13, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Hooray! The image name for “show trial” is “tf_heavy_kill_taunt”. The image for it shows his melee taunt with the gun mimicking, so I guess hes getting his own hadoken.
36 Cpt. Falcon // Aug 13, 2008 at 6:52 pm
i assume that spies will be able to sap said sammiches?
http://img460.imageshack.us/img460/7065/gfscd4.gif
37 Soundwave // Aug 13, 2008 at 7:31 pm
GET BEHIND ME SAMMICH!
38 The Prick of Destiny // Aug 13, 2008 at 9:19 pm
I agree with Poster #17: I think the sandwiches will be in the new gamemode, not a new weapon.
39 AlphaHawk // Aug 13, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Hah.
“Yo what’s up?”
40 Nonomu198 // Aug 14, 2008 at 12:13 am
MEET THE SANDWICH!
*a table with a sandwich in the scene*
*after a few moments the heavy rushes in and takes the sandwich, knocking the camera down*
*a few moments later the scout comes chasing the heavy with his bat cursing*
*a boink from afar is heard, followed by the sound of machine gun*
*the scout’s body is thrown near the camera, and the heavy’s laugh is heard*
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/1545/tf2sandwichtimeed0.png
41 Gothic // Aug 14, 2008 at 4:50 am
YOU MAKE GOOD SANDWICH.
42 Crazy Climber // Aug 14, 2008 at 12:03 pm
I liked the callback humor to VotF. I’m looking forward to more VotFs themselves, though.
43 Catfish Jack // Aug 14, 2008 at 3:34 pm
I bet 5 medipacks that the “Eat Sandwiches” achievement is simply “Kill X Number of Scouts” or something along those lines.
In Meet the Scout, the scout steals the Heavy’s sandwich. So if you get to Eat Sandwiches it means you’ve killed the scout(s).
44 Still Not Chris // Aug 14, 2008 at 7:49 pm
No throwing sandwiches to teammates. That makes the heavy a medic, and one that people like more, because his ammo is delicious.
45 mew4ever23 // Aug 17, 2008 at 9:24 pm
I wonder what the sandwihes are going to do and how you use them…
Dude, the piss bottles in meet the sniper were a pun about how snipers don’t go anywhere.
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