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Valve Updates With Community Maps and Scattergun Tease
Could We Just Lets Go Up?
by Coop
It's day four of Valve's unveiling of next week's Scout update, which means a few things: we're approaching the release, and you might want to recount what else has been confirmed. Moving forward, today reveals that the map CP_Fastlane has been fixed up, with additional spawn points and exploit fixes. CP_Egypt is also being featured, and is a community map with a unique style. Seen above, it looks like a mixture of Counter-Strike's Dust level and Goldeneye's Temple. Here's Valve's description, which has a bit of interesting news:
A Dustbowl-style control point map, Egypt is visually striking, full of great combat spaces, and features some really interesting uses of vertical space. Classes with the ability to ascend rapidly (Soldiers, Demomen, and Scouts using the new scattergun unlockable ) have lots of options for traversing the arenas. In addition, the ruins provide Engineers with a large number of potential sentrygun locations.
That's right, the new Scout scattergun unlockable will help them go up.
If they hadn't already added 'Bonk' energy drink I'd make another Red Bull joke (Red Bull gives you wings!), but I have a feeling this one is going to be downright weird. Special shoes? A helicopter-hat? My guess is something similar to the Pyro's alternate fire, which will take advantage of the Scout's speed and ability to get next to someone quickly. Anyone else have any guesses?
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That's always nice but does anyone know when the DLC is coming out for Left 4 Dead, I'm really eagerly waiting it's release! Someone please post news about that. As far as Counter Strike I don't play it, map reminds me of something off of Wolfenstein: ET though. Very good game.
all i heard about the L4D dlc is, early spring 2009.
New Scattergun is called the "Force-O-Nature" it's a wind gun.
That confirmed?
@ Coop
Check the Bonk Punch page where the achievements have been described.
So yeah, its basically a wind-cannon esque device.
Fall Classic: Cause an environmental death or suicide using the Force-A-Nature's knockback.
Caught Napping: Kill 50 enemies from behind with the Force-A-Nature.
@Coop again . . . now that I think about it, it could even be a spring loaded boxing glove.
That's what I was thinking, but I'm not sure it would really fit his character. Maybe it's something completely different, like a charge attack. He says in the "meet the scout" video that he is, indeed, a force of nature.