Team Fortress 2: Mann vs. Machine Update

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The log below is a conversation me and Groden had at the times specified. It's important that you read it.


Friday, August 10, 2012
1:52 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: Hey Groden.
1:52 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: http://www.teamfortress.com/gray/
1:52 AM - Groden: hey
1:52 AM - Groden: whats up
1:53 AM - Groden: weird
1:53 AM - Groden: what is this
1:53 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: You can navigate to it by clicking on the bloodstain on the main page's banner.
1:54 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: I was just checking the main page and I noticed the bloodstain
1:54 AM - Groden: im guessing its for something upcoming
1:54 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: and that's where it took me
1:54 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: yeah
1:54 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: From the hints in Foundry and Doomsday, the community thinks that the Mann vs. Machine update is coming.
1:55 AM - Groden: thatd be interesting
1:55 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: The photos in Doomsday (same ones in Foundry) aren't from MTP.
1:56 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: In fact, people think that it's from the update itself. In addition, in Foundry...here, let me find it...
1:58 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: Yeah, look at this shit. http://www.pcgamesn.com/tf2/mann-vs-machine-mode-teased-latest-team-fortress-2-update
1:59 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: This, too. http://imgur.com/a/cUQwr
2:00 AM - Groden: yeah i was looking at that
2:01 AM - Groden: you know, its probably just a hat or something
2:01 AM - Groden: but i'm hoping its like
2:01 AM - Groden: a zombie siege game mode
2:01 AM - Groden: where you just fight waves of robots
2:01 AM - Groden: i always thought something like that would be cool in a game like tf2
2:02 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: I doubt they'd have cryptically hidden easter eggs and a viral campaign for just a few hats.
2:02 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: And robotic character models, no less.
2:02 AM - Groden: oh theres full models?
2:02 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: Well only the heads are seen in the SFM files
2:03 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: SFM also makes references to "Source 2"
2:03 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: So on Valve's part, ti's likely completely accidental that they were discovered.
2:03 AM - Groden: ep3 code has been leaked in dota2
2:03 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: There's also a ton of new voice commands present
2:04 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: So yeah, I doubt they're doing all of this for just a few hats.
2:04 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: And they did mention "big changes" this year.
2:04 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: Apparently happening very soon, too. Gotta say, I'm pretty fuckin' excited.
2:05 AM - Groden: ok this actually is making me shit my pants because the game mode i thought of might actually be coming
2:06 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: Word has been around about this update for ages
2:06 AM - Groden: also the robots are kind of terrifying
2:06 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: Rumors and speculation, though
2:07 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: Nobody knows for sure just yet. And yeah, they are.
2:07 AM - Groden: yeah, but theres a lot of reason
2:07 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: The Pyro's actually scary.
2:07 AM - Groden: this isnt "valve must be revealing ep3"
2:07 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: "Gray" fits with the theme of robotics.
2:08 AM - Groden: tb said its the mann brother for the spectators
2:08 AM - Groden: i had to lol
2:08 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: wow that's
2:08 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: wait
2:08 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: let's say that's true
2:09 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: If that's the case, then Gray has been watching every aspect of every match of TF2, in-universe and in-game.
2:09 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: We already know that the Administrator keeps track of everything RED and BLU does
2:10 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: And how the killfeed works leaves me wondering just what kind of tracking she's using
2:10 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: Since that's also present in spectator mode and you can actually look /anywhere/...
2:10 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: Well, "Gray" is starting to sound more and more like an omnipresent, omniscient hidden figure in the universe.
2:10 AM - Groden: the killfeed is just a game element so players know whats killing them, but christ, tb's joke is unsettling now
2:11 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: Just. Like. Spectators.
2:12 AM - Groden: i am going to the hidden foundry room to cry to myself
 
Addendum

2:22 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: Also
2:22 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: Look at the Engineer update video
2:22 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB8AjhnLYkw
2:22 AM - Groden: whats in it
2:22 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: Pause frequently
2:22 AM - Groden: bunch of robots?
2:22 AM - Groden: thats probably just a coincidence
2:22 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: this might be stretching it, but at a certain point
2:22 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: I see what looks like a robotic head.
2:22 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: Here, I'll screenshot it.
2:23 AM - Groden: the pictures in doomsday are the same as foundry
2:24 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/80280291/awards/engie1.PNG
2:24 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/80280291/awards/Engie2.PNG
2:25 AM - Groden: second one looks like robot heavy
2:25 AM - Groden: first one i dunno
2:25 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: they're the same thing
2:25 AM - Groden: oh
2:25 AM - Groden: yeah that looks like the robot heavy
2:25 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: The camera pans until you can see it from a slightly different angle
 
Addendum 2

2:26 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: I'm sleuthing over this shit.
2:28 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: Call me Tabuu Holmes or something
2:30 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: oh fuck me
2:30 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: I just remembered
2:30 AM - Groden: what
2:30 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: The life-extension machine was made for "Blutarch and Redmond Mann, as well as an undisclosed third party."
2:30 AM - Groden: yeah
2:30 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: Which the Engie did work on.
2:30 AM - Groden: i'm assuming its gray
2:31 AM - Groden: engy's ancestor
2:31 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: And the robot Heavy head in his shop
2:31 AM - Groden: engy just helped repair
2:31 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: Yeah
2:31 AM - Groden: who really just took advantage of it so he could make the gunslinger
2:31 AM - Groden: but that is a robot hand
2:31 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: I can't imagine the kind of balls it took for him to cut off his own hand and replace it with something that might not even work
2:32 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: Engie deserves some more respect.
2:32 AM - Groden: engy is one of my favorite classes personality-wise
2:32 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: and so much for my fucking detective work
2:32 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: look at this screen
2:33 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: from the end of the video
2:33 AM - Groden: what
2:33 AM - {Travis Touchdown|Sleeping}: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/80280291/awards/engie3.PNG
2:33 AM - Groden: oh god
2:33 AM - Groden: ok yeah
2:33 AM - Groden: this has been in development for the longest while
 
you totally didn't post the exact same thing on xephyr