Seriousness: The very, very rare moments of sadness and sweetness in the games' storylines are preceded and followed by broad comedy, shocking violence, and most often, a mix of both extremes at once. He's trying to woo her, and she's not exactly averse to him, if he can just get his Jerkass tendencies under control a little better. It came to the point where people started to put "leaked" in quotes under the belief that Valve had planned it all along.
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In response, Valve added a gag about it to the video itself (and asked users to "act surprised" when officially releasing the video), created an " achievement" for themselves screwing up, and posted a series of blog posts about Robin Walker firing every employee in the company that continued into the next day's announcement and even crossed over to the Left 4 Dead blog (which is an in-joke: the L4D dev team is also composed of people from the TF2 dev team). Ripped from the Headlines: The weekend before "Meet the Spy" was released, it was accidentally leaked due to a loophole in YouTube privacy settings not being applied to devices like the iPhone.The most similar feature is Torbjörn's turrets, which are functionally identical to the Engineer's sentries in TF2. Blizzard Entertainment's Overwatch is obviously inspired by TF2, quite heavily in some places.Age of Gunslingers Online is also obviously inspired from TF2, especially classes.Monday Night Combat is fairly obvious in taking inspiration from TF2.Final Combat is a much more shameless one.Gameplay itself is actually different (it's third person, there are no classes - only customizing weapons and appearance, it's got more in common with Unreal Tournament or Gunz The Duel), but there's still a lot it owes to TF2 (giblets and the weapons). Online/ Microvolts, a Korean free-to-play game, has a trailer that shares a lot of similarities to the "Meet the X" videos. Author Avatar: Many of the items are credited in supplemental material to "TF Industries", based in the same place as Valve.