Mac Gamers, Prepare for Team Fortress 2 Engineer Update

Valve Software has confirmed that its new update for Team Fortress 2, the Engineer Update, is scheduled to launch tomorrow. The release will introduce new maps, items, and achievements, and is described as "the largest single-class update ever." Team Fortress 2 was released on June 10 for Mac OS X via Steam, Valve's digital distribution, multiplayer and communications platform.

“Everyone loves remote control toys,” Valve Software states on the official TF2 blog. “But the problem with most of them is, unless you manage to remote control one directly down someone's throat, they're pretty useless as weapons. But what if we were to tell you that we fixed that obvious design flaw?” Valve continues: “Day Two of the Engineer Update brings the engineering faithful The Wrangler, the remote sentry gun controller; "Upward", an all-new, Valve-designed Payload Map; and 25 shiny, super-rare wrenches from our quickly-dwindling supply.” The development studio notes that it has increased the weekly item drop limit for this week only, in order “to ensure everyone gets the chance to pull the lever.”

Team Fortress 2 is a team-based first-person shooter with multiplayer gameplay. It is the sequel to Valve's previous Team Fortress Classic, and was released as part of The Orange Box video-game compilation on October 10, 2007 for Windows and the Xbox 360. Team Fortress 2 arrived on Sony’s PlayStation 3 on November 22, 2007, and, as a standalone package, for Windows on April 9, 2008. The game was then distributed online through Steam.

Valve's shooter is focused on two opposing teams that compete for the same objective. The Reliable Excavation & Demolition (RED) team, and the Builders League United (BLU) team represent two corporations that secretly control every government on the planet. The game's objective is defined by the mode in use. Capture-the-flag (CTF) maps have both teams obtaining a briefcase of intelligence from the enemy team's base and returning it to their own, while preventing the enemy from doing the same.