Engineer Update

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The Engineer

The Engineer Update is a patch for the Engineer, the last class to have a major content pack released. The update announced on July 5, 2010 and was released on July 8, 2010.

Rather than announcing new content for the update regularly, new content was released every time 25 Golden Wrenches were found[1]. With 100 Wrenches to be found in total, there were 4 announcements prior to the final release.

Announcements

The Engineer Update was first teased in the Engineer Update teaser trailer released on May 5, 2010. The Golden Wrench was first discovered in the July 1, 2010 Patch, and accompanied by mcu hfan speculation. Ahead of the announcements, Loose Canon was released on July 2, 2010 to fill in the Engineer's backstory.

The Engineer Update page officially begun on July 5, 2010, as announced on the TF2 Official Blog post "Engineer Update: Day One". The update was released on July 8th.

The community-made map Coldfront was also added in the patch, but not mentioned by Valve.

Trivia

  • There were several nods and references to the content of the update before it was released, most prominently the reveal of the scrapped Repair node, a screenshot displaying the new hauling ability, a Kritzkast interview which discussed the scrapped instant teleport and the appearence of Frontier Justice in the Mac update trailer.
  • On July 5, 2010, moments before the update's official announcement, Shawn posted an announcement to the official Team Fortress 2 Steam group entitled "link". The announcement only consisted of random text linking to the official Engineer Update page.
  • In the "Loose Canon" comic, during the scene starring the Announcer's ancestor, there are four blueprints on the background. Three of them show the different levels of standard sentries, while the one hidden mostly by the text balloons shows two barrels of a machine. The barrels bear a strong resemblance to those on level one sentries, but seem to be slightly bigger.
  • Also in the "Loose Canon" comic, Alice, the possible ancestor of Helen, the current Administrator, tells Radigan Conagher, the ancestor of the Engineer that she has managed to amass only 100 pounds of the rare gold-colored "transformative new element" known as Australium and offers it to Radigan on the condition that he build build "life extender machines" for both Redmond and Blutarch Mann. Presumably each of the 100 Golden Wrenches contains one pound of Radigan's original cache of Australium.
  • During the Engineer Update, the "Smelt Reclaimed metal" and "Smelt Refined metal" blueprints are disabled to prevent players from smelting and unsmelting metal rapidly in an attempt to find a Golden Wrench

Update progress

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