The war is finally over and the victor with an impressive 6,406,065 kills is the Soldier. Just beating the Demoman by about 30,000 kills the solider has proved his worth as the best combantant and receives the Gunboats for all his hard work.
Proving that stairs are practically useless, the Gunboats are secondary slot boots that reduce rocket jump damage by a huge amount. Take that Shakespearicles, inventor of the rocket jump and strongest writer to ever exist.
Along with these boots the Solider will receive two other weapons as part of the update – the Equalizer and the Buff Banner.
The Equalizer works on this simple premise – you hurt me and I become death. This melee slot pickaxe lets you move faster and hit harder with the more damage you take.
Meanwhile the Buff Banner fills the secondary slot and gives the soldier some support abilities. Dealing enough damage with the Buff Banner equipped fills a rage meter which when full can be used to give everyone around you mini crits for 14 seconds.
Despite his losses though the Demoman does not get to go away empty handed. His final weapon unlock sacrifices offensive capability to become a god of defence. Named The Scottish Resistance it allows you to lay twice as many sticky bombs as well as being able to destroy enemy stickies.
Better still the secondary fire does not detonate all sticky bombs. Instead specific groups of bombs can be set off by looking at them and detonating allowing for a number of traps around base. The downside though comes with a bomb priming rate of 0.4 seconds making it hard for close quarters combat or air bursting.
So there is the war update. New weapons, achievements, a crafting feature, some backstory and two new maps cp_gorge and ctf_doublecross. Time to kill methinks.
