A Heavy Update

“

I have new way to kill cowards. Click to listen — The Heavy

”

A Heavy Update was the third major content update for Team Fortress 2.

The Heavy class was the face of the update, recieving three new weapons, providing players with greater gameplay opportunities. To accompany the Sandvich consumable weapon, Meet the Sandvich was released alongside the update. The update also pioneered the Slowdown mechanic.

A new gamemode Arena was introduced, focusing on combat between the two teams and bringing five new maps to the game. The maps Badwater Basin and Steel were also included.

The update was released on August 19, 2008.

Additions

Maps

Name	Picture	Game mode	File name
Badwater Basin		Payload	pl_badwater
Steel		Control Point	cp_steel
Badlands (Arena)		Arena	arena_badlands
Granary (Arena)		Arena	arena_granary
Lumberyard		Arena	arena_lumberyard
Well (Arena)		Arena	arena_well
Ravine		Arena	arena_ravine

Update progress

Beginning a recurring theme within major updates, A Heavy Update was released on a daily basis. Each day was marked with a unique page depicting at least one of the aspects of the update, before all were released.

Trivia

• The slowdown effect inherent with Natascha originally stacked upon itself, resulting in enemies coming to a complete halt when hit with multiple bullets. This occured at any range between the Heavy and the enemy.
• The Sandvich was advertised as having unlimited use, before a cooldown bar was implemented for balance issues.

Gallery

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  The official hub.

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  Release of community map, Steel

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  Release of the K.G.B. and the Heavy achievements

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  Release of Badwater Basin

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  Release of Natascha

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  Release of Arena Game Mode and 5 Arena Maps

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  Release of Meet the Sandvich

External links

• A Heavy Update page
• Meet the Sandvich