The Fight or Flight Update - Day 2

Instead of bullets, this thumping old beast shoots short-range explosive rounds, so fast you can't see them—or airblast them—in flight. They'll detonate when they hit a surface, but they'll also detonate at a fixed range, dealing midair splash damage that's tough to avoid. (We've reassured Heavy that flak cannon explosive rounds are a lot like bullets.)

Hitting enemies with Chekhov's Punch stores critical hits, which you'll consume and activate whenever you attack with your other weapons. And you're going to need them—you take guaranteed crit damage from all melee sources if you're carrying Chekhov's Punch, even if you have another weapon in your hands.

Oh, no! RED team is siphoning floodwater out of an ancient Egyptian burial site and using it as rocket fuel! Push a bomb-cart off a cliff onto their water pump so the honored dead and priceless artifacts are swept away into the river and lost forever, like nature intended.

You didn't listen (made a scene) when the craftsman (sales associate) at the gunsmith (Wal-Mart hunting supplies desk) told you "listen, mack, shotguns don't come any shorter than that! It's not safe!" So you torched six more inches off in your garage, and now it kicks like a mule and spreads like smallpox. Fire at your feet or right behind you for a much-needed boost, and never be caught in a long range firefight again! Just... watch your fingers, okay?

A grisly utility melee that's as fearsome and traumatizing as the Halloween store animatronic it probably belongs to. With the Harvester held out, some of the afterburn damage you dish out (even on your victims' charred remains!) will be returned to you as health and charge for a decapitating crit-slash! Everyone you set on fire is instantly extinguished when you die, though, so don't be surprised if your marks fight back harder than you're used to.

The rumors are true: we got so sick of you nominating DeGroot Keep "as a joke" that we all pitched in and made a brand-new Medieval Mode map, just so you'd give it a rest. Four teams, a moving objective, and overclocked siege weaponry for you to ride on! Take part in a Dark Age massacre, and see your heroic deeds immortalized in a three-sentence Wikipedia article 900 years from now.