Orange box & Team Fortress two beta thread

[evil twin]

According to this story the beta will not be released until tomorrow. However, the steam forums are suggesting it will come out at 7pm eastern tonight. Let's go go go!

[geormiet]

I am going nuts waiting ... i will be seriously angry if it is TOMORROW!

[geormiet]

i hear a rumor tf2 is playable starting 7PM EST...

[Low Key]

Personally, I'm buying Orange Box for Portals. The replayability of Narbacular Drop has me drooling over this game. That I only own HL2, and not ep. 1, will make it all the more worthwhile.

As for TF2, well, I stopped caring about multiplayer FPSers when CS:S came out. It just killed the fun for me.

[TheCroShow]

glad i haven't bought a single thing from the HL2 series/engine. the Half Life: Source package is a steal for me =D

[evil twin]

Yeah that orange box is amazing value if you haven't got any previous HL2 stuff. It's still great value if you played those games as and when they came out.

Anyway, damn it! Where is our TF2 beta! We've had a steam update but TF2 remains unreleased.

[LovedBySgtSaLT]

OMG

tfc2 is like the best game ever!

[Thanir]

I just preordered this over Steam. I already have HL2, so I will be able to gift the HL2 portion of it to a friend...kind of cool. Also getting $5 off was nice. I went ahead and preordered so I could play the TF2 beta. It's dling now, but it's going to take awhile, so guess I will try it when I wake up.

[GHAND]

Just had some fun with the beta and its great. Love the sounds and the cartoony models really add to that touch of humour. Gameplay and classes seem really balanced aswell.

[evil twin]

I just tried it out on 2fort (of course) as a soldier and it was great fun. Many of the old techniques worked and it was a veritable frag fest. Enemy engineers were trying to build sentries in the middle of our base, and half their team seemed to be spys. This looks like it could be a whole lot of fun.