Upon witnessing that appear in the bottom right of my screen in Team Fortress 2 I was a happy man, but hunt for the achievement which had lasted all of five minutes was finally at an end. I had become a holder of the OMGWTFBBQ achievement, and I am proud to say that I did it legitimately.

After reading Tom Francis’ bloggings on his quest to earn the OMGWTFBBQ achievement and Chris Livingston’s take on it I decided to go out and focus on getting it myself.

I informed my comrades on the Rock, Paper, Shotgun Steam Group chat of my goal and recieved numerous ‘good luck’ messages. Well maybe not quite, but I was given various hints about strategy and whatnot.

I jumped onto the PC Gamer Team Fortress 2 server, went through two rounds on some map that I have already forgotten the name of, then we got onto cp_Well and map which I have enjoyed immensely in the past few weeks. I went to the other side of the tracks and saw two possible victims, a Heavy who was my initial target and a Soldier who was running in my direction. I whipped out my Shotgun, hit G and hoped for the best.

I held my breath as my Pyro went through the motions of the Haduoken and suddenly there it was my achievement, I had done it. OMGWTFBBQ, perhaps one of the most ingenious acheivements Valve have put in their games, just behind the Gnome in Episode 2 was mine. A great day in the land of Team Fortress 2.

It has been a busy few days for Team Fortress 2 related news and I think it is about time it was all brought together in one, nice and neatly wrapped package for your reading pleasure. If you want to Meet The Sniper, find out about the Pyro update and learn more then read one. If not, well then why are you reading this blog?!

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As I said, you just got to meet the Sniper!

Word reaches me from Rock, Paper, Shotgun regarding the release dates for the Pyro Upgrade and the latest ‘Meet The’ with Meet The Sniper.

Tuesday at 11am PDT/7pm GMT Meet The Sniper will be released to the waiting public. Rock, Paper, Shotgun informs us that this is one of the best ‘Meet The’ to date with some great laughs and back story development.

Thursday will see the mega-Pyro changes occur whereby players will be able to procure 35 new Pyro-specific achievements and earn three new unlockables. We can also expect to see two new user-created TF2 maps appear in this update.

All this leads up to Friday which will see the launch of a new Free Team Fortress 2 Weekend. From 11am PDT/7pm GMT on Friday anyone and everyone will be able to play Team Fortress 2.

Picture and information from Rock, Paper, Shotgun.

Hellls yeah! The Scout is officially a twat, the Heavy is officially great. That sandwich is mine!

The next major update for Team Fortress 2 has been dated for the week of the 20th April according to Shacknews.

A specific date has not been mentioned, but with Valve that is to be expected. The update is slated to feature the new game type and one new map, Payload and Badlands respectively.

Also possible to feature in the upcoming update is the Medic unlockable items. While the specifics regarding the Medic changes are still up in the air there are planned to be three new items. These will be selectable in a new character loadout screen.

Shacknews