Engineer Update
The Engineer Update is an upcoming patch for the Engineer, the last class to have a major content pack planned for release. The update was announced on July 5, 2010, and is currently ongoing.
Rather than announcing new content for the update regularly, new content will be released every time 25 Golden Wrenches are found[1]. With 100 Wrenches to be found in total, there are thought to be 4 announcements prior to the final release.
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Background
Golden Wrench
The Golden Wrench is a Wrench replacement for the Engineer. It has the same damage and capabilities as the regular Wrench, but turns all the enemies it kills to solid golden statues.
The Golden Wrench is allegedly made of Australium. It can only be obtained through Crafting, having a very small chance to appear as the result of any crafting attempt. Only 100 Golden Wrenches exist, but not all of them have been found yet. While the Golden Wrench has been in the game's items since July 1, 2010, Golden Wrenches only started dropping on July 4th, 2010.
A listing of everyone who has found a Golden Wrench may be found here.
Announcements
The Engineer Update page officially begun on July 5, 2010, as announced on the TF2 Official Blog post "Engineer Update: Day One". After 25 Golden Wrenches were found, Part One of the Engineer update was published.
Frontier Justice
The Frontier Justice is an unlockable Shotgun replacement for the Engineer.
While it cannot Crit randomly and has a smaller clip size, it gets Revenge Crits: For every Sentry Gun kill or assist, the Frontier Justice will get additional guaranteed Crits when the Sentry is destroyed.
This weapon could be seen before being announced, in the Mac update trailer.
Pre-announcement references
While officially announced on July 5, 2010, numerous references have been made by Valve prior to the release.
Repair Node (scrapped)
On March 2, 2010, Valve published a post on the TF2 Official Blog, Dammit dammit dammit dammit!, describing an idea for a new Engineer building, the Repair Node. The idea was rejected after playtesting.
The repair node reappeared in the video which accompanied the 119th update.
A blueprint of the Repair Node appears on the Engineer Update site, with the text "...R WORK" visibly written over it, and then a different view of the same blueprint, on the hidden Radigan page, saying "..LL NEVER W...". It seems likely the full text reads "WILL NEVER WORK".
119th Update
On May 5, 2010, as part of the 119th update, Valve released a 27-second teaser for the Engineer update. The teaser contains many things that may be hints about the Engineer's unlockable weapons.
Instant teleport (scrapped)
In an interview, Robin Walker discussed a cut and unnamed Engineer building, referred to by the community as the Instant teleport, that would immediately teleport the Engineer back to his teleporter exit.
Mac Update
On June 11, 2010, Valve released the Mac Update, accompanied by a video showing the Engineer holding the Frontier Justice in the video, which had not yet been announced at the time.
Screenshot from Robin Walker
On June 27, 2010, Valve sent an in-game screenshot to the Apocalypse Gaming Community as a thank-you present for hosting the Battle of Both Worlds event. The screenshot was accompanied by the following message by Robin Walker: "We didn't give you a photo of us signing. After some conversation here, we decided that a more fun way to prove that you did get the shirts from us is to give you something about the upcoming Engineer Update that could only have come from us. Please find this something attached."
This picture teases what could be a new map, as the structures and location have not yet been seen in any of the current Maps
Golden Wrench
On July 1, 2010, Valve released a patch adding a new melee weapon for the Engineer: the Golden Wrench.
Loose Canon
On July 2, 2010, the Loose Canon comic was published, sparking speculation that the start of the Engineer Update had begun.
Trivia
- 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.
- 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
Initial update page (Day 0)
Release of the Frontier Justice (Day 1)
References
External links
Hidden links
Radigan Conagher holding the Frontier Justice
