So, this weekend was a free Team Fortress 2 trial weekend.

I guess I should have posted this fact BEFORE the weekend... but whatever. It was great fun picking on n00bs. It made me feel like I actually could play worth a shit.

Anyway, TF2 released their new map, Gold Rush. It's a new game mode (Pay Load) which also released this last week, and mapmakers can now make maps based off of this game mode. There were several other mapmaker additions this week, such as the ability to make map-created turrets and dispensers throughout the map, and can even make them invincible.

Let me just say... Gold Rush is SUCH a DAMN FUN MAP . I see this game mode becoming INCREDIBLY popular.

Also released this week are the new medic achievements (of which there are 36, plus 3 milestone achievements) and medic unlockable weapons. The way this works is, there are 36 achievements based solely on medic-y things, such as having a Heavy melee attack two enemies while ubercharged by you. Anyway, every 12 achievements, you unlock a milestone achievement, which in turn unlocks a weapon for the Medic.

The three weapons are:
...Awesome. Check the link below for the actual description.

Anyway, if you wanna read about it from the official creators instead of some crackpot who can't even remember to post that the free weekend was this weekend, here's the link:

http://www.steampowered.com/goldrush/