Around this time last year, we were finally meeting the Medic, leaving a singular ambiguously-gendered character without a short. By Wednesday of this week, all your questions about the Pyro might be answered. Really, if the shorts have been any indication one way or another, Valve tends to raise more questions than they answer, but it's all in good fun.
Appropriately dubbed "Pyromania," Valve has launched a countdown site with a clock slowly ticking down to their official launch of the Meet the Pyro video. Under the clock are three gauges corresponding to each day in the reveal. Keeping in true Valve fashion, Team Fortress 2 is seeing massive updates, the first of which appears to be a new map, titled Doomsday, and brand-spanking-new game mode.
From the Day One update site: "Doomsday pits BLU against RED, with only one team getting the honor of transporting a suitcase nuke full of recalled Mann Co. Australium to American monkeynaut Poopy Joe’s rocket, so he can blast off and hunt down Soviet space chimp Vladimir Bananas. It's the same spirit of competitive enterprise that stalled the moon landing by three years when Buzz Aldrin suplexed Neil Armstrong into a pile of folding chairs at Astromania '69! Both teams will attempt to get the necessary fuel up a preposterously slow-moving elevator and into Poopy Joe’s Australium-powered rocket to the stars."
In addition to Doomsday, players can look forward to eleven new achievements, bringing the grand total to around a billion. They keep tacking them on and it just gets better and better.
You know Valve would never leave you with just a new map, new game mode, new achievements and the promise of a brighter tomorrow, so there also a tie-in with Adult Swim. A new teaser site has been launched, inferring that the two companies are in cahoots.
It's a beautiful day for some Team Fortress 2. Won't you join us?
