Team Fortress 2 Free Weekend

[Spore]

Valve has recently stated that from May 2nd to May 4th, their hit class based online multiplayer game, Team Fortress 2, will be fully available for free. If you haven't played this game yet for whatever reason then I strongly urge you to do so and join me in a couple of games over the weekend. The link below explains the newest additions to TF2 as well as how to partake in the weekend festivities. Note: You must download Steam, Valve's game distribution service, to play Team Fortress 2. It is free.

http://www.steampowered.com/goldrush/
You can start preloading the game now which will download Team Fortress 2 to your hard drive and unlock at exactly May 2nd for your playing pleasure.


What TF2 is all about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Fortress_2





Hope to see some of you there. If you like it, consider buying the Orange Box which contains Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2 Episode 1, Half-Life 2 Episode 2, Portal and Team Fortress 2 all for 50 dollars. All amazing games. Also, add me to your buddy list. I'm "ionic_in_maine". Happy fragging.

Minimum requirements:
CPU Minimum: Pentium 4/Athlon XP or better
CPU Speed Minimum: 1.7 GHz
System RAM Minimum: 512 MB
Operating System Minimum: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Video Card Minimum: DirectX 8 compatible video card (NVIDIA GeForce3+ / ATI Radeon 8500+)

Video Card Features - Minimum attributes of your Video Card
Video RAM: Required - 128 MB
Video Card 3D Acceleration: Required - Yes
Pixel Shader Ver.: Required - 1.1

You can check if your computer stacks up by visiting this site and selecting "Team Fortress 2" off of the list. It will give you a detailed reading of your computer.

[Shortay]

Even though I have the OB for the 360 I'd love to play TF2 on my Laptop, so I'm downloaded it just there.

Thanks for the heads up about it, Spore.

[kelvingreen]

Can't run it on our PC.

[Shortay]

I'm pre-loading TF2 now, but it's taking so long that I think I'll stop it now and leave it on during the day tomorrow...

[Spore]

Originally Posted by Shortay-01

Even though I have the OB for the 360 I'd love to play TF2 on my Laptop, so I'm downloaded it just there.

Thanks for the heads up about it, Spore.

Does the 360 have the new patch with the map Goldrush and the new medic achievements and weapons yet? Haven't checked.

Edit: Added minimum requirements to the bottom of the first post. Also added a link to check if your computer stacks up to the task of TF2.
http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest

[Shortay]

Originally Posted by Spore

Does the 360 have the new patch with the map Goldrush and the new medic achievements and weapons yet? Haven't checked.

Not sure, I'll take a look later.

[Drake]

The 360 version doesn't have a single new map yet. No Medic achievements/weapons either. It's only been bugfixes so far (But there's still some bugs that have been in since release).

[Drake]

There's another achievement pack coming this week (Pyro), so there's another Free Weekend. No excuses this time, try it!

Valve today announced a set of new releases for Team Fortress 2, the title named Multiplayer Game of the Year by PC Gamer and Gamespy.com.

The main event of the week is the Pyro Update, which will be made available this Thursday and contains three unlockable new weapons for the Pyro plus 35 new achievements. In addition, two user-created maps are included to highlight the great work being done in the community and distribute those works to all TF2 players..

Meanwhile as folks wait for the Pyro Update to be released, the latest in the "Meet the Team" video shorts, "Meet the Sniper," will be made available tomorrow (Tuesday, June 17) at 11 am PDT along with a web site dedicated to the Pyro update.

Finally, to give everyone a chance to try the new weapons and community maps, Valve will hold another Team Fortress 2 Free Weekend via Steam beginning this Friday at 11 am PDT.

http://steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=posts&id=1627

[Drake]

You can preload it for the upcoming Free Weekend now: http://www.steampowered.com/pyro/

[Ginta]

Can anyone tell me how to start the game off of Steam?

Edit: Nevermind, I found my problem.