Valveās announcement of a new āMann vs Machineā game mode for Team Fortress 2 didnāt just come out of the blue. It didnāt even have its hat tipped over the weekend
https://lastchance.cc/team-fortress-2-now-has-a-third-team-robots-also-co-5934443%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
The history of the updateās promotion has been catalogued over on this Reddit post, which shows the build-up to Team Fortress 2ās biggest update in years began all the way back in May 2010, with the release of the āMeet the Engineerā update. In the first 15 seconds there are several glimpses of robot heads, at the time seemingly harmless but now revealed to be the skulls of two of the gameās new robot foes.
The paper-trail continues through the release of new maps (with hidden rooms containing clues to the impending robot army), updated game files containing further clues and even hidden links on the gameās website.
Itās exhaustive. If you needed further explanation as to why thereās no impending Valve game with a ā3ā in the title, itās because theyāre all too busy being funny-buggers with the code to a game thatās nearly five years old.
Everything we know about Man versus Machine, and the ARG. [Reddit]
