Team Fortress 2 Team Unveils New Game and Maps

As part of the Team Fortress 2 Sniper Updates being released this week, today they have released two new maps and a brand new game mode - made just for all of you stealthy snipers.

The new game made called, Payload Race, which is like the payload mission where you try to destroy a pipeline but in Payload Race - both sides are trying to deliver their payloads at once.

"It's been crazy trying to push the cart into enemy territory AND stop their cart from getting into ours. It was an uphill battle by the end - literally! Stop pushing for a sec and it rolls back down to the bottom. Hard work." the TF 2 web site said in a postcard like message to players.

The new Huntsman Longbow should work nicely on this sniper friendly map.

In addition to the new Payload Race game mode, there are two new arena maps; sawmill and nucleus.

Sawmill is set in a stormy mountain sawmill, this arena map has its cap point in a large structure atop a hill in the center of the map; beneath which lies a hidden underground spytech base; and above which, pouring down on everything we just mentioned, is rainthe first weather effect to appear in a TF map. If that previous sentence wasnt long enough for you, replace the period with a comma and add this next part: players must ALSO watch out for the two deadly saw blades near the cap, which were left on when the previous occupants abandoned it for a less deadly, hilly, rain-swamped sawmill not built on a spybase.

Nucleus is a diabolical doomsday device is the foundation of this circular arena map, which features long sightlines and a bottomless radioactive pit underneath most of the game area. The cap, located in the center of the arena, is only accessible by catwalks suspended over a chasm, which open after the timer has run down.