

RED and BLU face off in an epic battle to score more goals than their opponents. Here's hoping that, together, we can create something special that the community will enjoy as much as we've enjoyed just getting to this point! So, many thanks for hitting us up at with any and all thoughts. And now we're extremely excited to have the opportunity to collaborate with you, the players! Your feedback will be critical to making this mode, at very least, worthy of the game we all love. And hello to the TF2 community! As massive fans of all things Valve and TF2, we've been thrilled to work with them, and the deft developers at Escalation Studios, to present this super early look at PASS Time. Keep reading for more information about the new game mode-or just boot up TF2 and play it for yourself. This is a new way of doing things for them, and they're looking forward to working with you to see how it grows over time. PASS Time marks Bad Robot's first foray into rapidly iterative content, and they're really excited to get feedback on their beta so they can work with the TF community to evolve the game. PASS Time combines TF2's usual fast-paced bloodsport with the actual fast-paced sports of soccer, hockey and basketball. To which our logical response was: "Why don't you?" (There might have even been some buck-buck chicken noises.)įlash forward a bit, and here we are: The TF team is incredibly happy to announce PASS Time, a new game mode for Team Fortress 2 dreamed up by Bad Robot and co-developed with the talented folks at Escalation Studios, available now in-game as a beta release. "Man, we wish we could do something like that," they said. So the idea of shipping a beta version of something, then working with a community of gamers to make it better over time, was a wholly new and exciting concept to them.

Traditionally a film and TV studio, they typically don't get to show their community anything until it's already finished. We liked the stuff they were making, they liked the stuff we were up to, and we hit it off almost instantly.Īfter we'd given them a tour, one of the things they found the most fascinating was TF2's ongoing update schedule. Introducing PASS Time, a New Beta Game Mode! AugTF2 TeamĪ while back we ran into some of the guys at Bad Robot.
