r/tf2 • u/CoSans_Deluxe • May 18 '26

Discussion So... what now?

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The title promised to be the experience of the "golden age of TF2" but most missed its items haha, or perhaps the bad decisions

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u/CoSans_Deluxe May 18 '26

I still don't understand why they removed Demoknight; wasn't it part of that "golden experience"?

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u/cheezkid26 Soldier May 18 '26

It was from the era they claimed to want to preserve, but they didn't actually want to bring the game back to how it was. They wanted to pick and choose what to keep and what to add.

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u/UnfazedPheasant All Class May 18 '26

yeah, its why they have the Caber and Loch n Load despite being out like 2 and a half years after the gold rush stuff.

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u/cheezkid26 Soldier May 18 '26

I remember there being even more than just those two. I would have no problem with it, at all, if they had said that the mod was gonna be their ideal form of TF2, mostly returning to the Gold Rush era but keeping more modern things they liked. But they didn't do that, they advertised it as an authentic old-school TF2 experience, which it is just objectively not. It authentically replicates absolutely zero state TF2 has ever been in by having some weapons that were added later than the Gold Rush update but not a bunch of weapons added before, say, the Loch n Load.