We've been pretty quiet lately, but thankfully, that's about to end. In the next few days we'll have an update out that has a couple of new features for the Engineer and Spy, and a variety of other smaller fixes.

* Teleporters will be upgradeable to level 3. As the teleporter is upgraded, the cooldown will decrease.
* Dispensers will be upgradeable to level 3. They will heal faster and generate metal faster as they are upgraded.
* Spies will be able to recharge their cloaking ability by picking up ammo off of the ground.
* We've made a bunch of minor changes by adding particle systems and upgrading the HUD to show things like deaths by critical hits, players that are overhealed, and giving more information to medics when people are calling for them.

These are just to work on some class balance and depth issues that we've seen in the wild with these two classes, but aren't meant to replace their entire class packs. They will be getting more attention further down the road.

While that's in testing, we're off working on several things that folks have been emailing us about, so we thought it'd be good to provide some detail:

* The next class pack will be the Scout. One of the main goals we're focusing on for him has been to provide tools that make him useful in maps like Dustbowl & Goldrush. If you have any ideas for what you think would work well, post them over on the Team Fortress 2 Forum and we'll take a look.
* We are actively working on a massive XBox 360 update, which will include pretty much everything we've shipped on the PC in the last year. We'll provide you with a rough date when we have one.
* We're also working on bringing over a variety of engine improvements from Left 4 Dead into the TF2 engine, but it won't be a wholesale replacement of the engine. This means we'll get some of L4D's performance improvements, like the better multicore support, but not all of them. For example, we can't bring over some improvements without dropping support for DX8, which we're not prepared to do.

ffs, why they are updating classes which i don't like ;p . i hope, next update after scout one, won't be spy update ;x

Yay finally, they took my advice and allowed the spy to recharge his stealth faster. I hope dispensers will also recharge the stealthbar... but from the looks of it only ammo packs

If you approach dispenser while cloaked it will allow you to stay cloaked forever - it stops cloak bar from falling down ( but it doesnt recharge either ). The engineer I guess will be the case of teleporter lvl1 -> dispenser -> sentry lvl1 -> dispenser lvl2 -> sentry level 3 -> dispenser lvl3 -> teleporter exit lvl3 ( of course all that under some circumstances .

I didn't realise how fast the recharge was gonna be, it's like 2 seconds.

You upgrade the entrance not the exit, can you upgrade the exit instead? hmm.

Only problem now is, spies that sap your entrance, gonna get annoying! Doesn't take long to get an entrance up to level 3 outside spawn though

SCOUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CAPTAIN AWESOME WILL BECOME CAPTAIN MORE AWESOME!!! <3

Omg, I think I'm doomed now!

:/ tbh that idea sucks. At least the spy is invisible while being invisible (lol).

* We're also working on bringing over a variety of engine improvements from Left 4 Dead into the TF2 engine

I take it all back. FFFFFFUUUUUU cardboard!!!!!