Team Fortress 2 Has PC/360 Cross Platform Play

IGN has an in-depth article with Valve Engineer Robin Walker, TF2 Project Lead Charlie Brown, and Marketing Director Doug Lombardi, talking all about the Team Fortress 2 project. Along with details on class clarification, the look of the game, and map design decisions, the Valve folks confirm that 360/PC cross platform play is already in the game. "IGN: So you're actually playing now on Xbox 360s connected to PCs? Doug Lombardi: Technically it's done. Robin Walker: From our perspective, we did the Xbox port of Half-Life internally, and we did that because we wanted to have the expertise from doing that. Like controller expertise and all the sorts of decisions you've got to make that are different on consoles we wanted to have that in-house because we knew we'd be doing more Xbox titles and more console titles. And so the same guys that did that are working on TF2, we have all the tweaks we did to the controls, the sticks and everything."

Not the original plan...

[Tickenest]

It should be noted that back when development on TF2 started, they had this feature working, but at that time it was to connect the Commodore 64 and the NES versions. Due to delays in development, though, they switched to more modern systems over the years several times (I was most looking forward to the Tandy-SNES linkup, myself.)

Oh well now I HAVE TO buy it.

[My name is Bucket]

I want to be there on Day One when the smack-talking 12-year-olds join their first game and get trounced before they can turn halfway around.

Of course, it's possible that 360 will support key+mouse. Even so, XBox Live is a cesspool of pubescent filth. I tried it exactly once and it convinced me NEVER to invest in a USB headset.

Arguably true

[argStyopa]

Yes, as far as I can tell, TF2 plays PRECISELY as well on my PC as it does on my XboX360.

Somehow, I'm less than satisfied, however. Do you think they will remember my pre-rder from what, 1998?

Re:finally

[ZDRuX]

Damn! You beat me to this :) I was just going to point out how sorry I feel for all the 16 year old xbox fanboi's out there thinking they're tough shit and watch them scream and cry like little girls as they get chewed apart by PC gamers :)