Well on the oldie line, there is a fire rocket for pyros (think soldier style rocket, but is damage is flames instead of blast (and of course much lower)), the mag mines for engineers (holds the enemy in place for a time determined by the amount of "metal" on them), the jump pack for scouts, and the ever popular fake ammo box for spies (I remember fondly dropping those outside the enemy base, their guys run across the bridge in 2fort5 and suddenly right as they hit the teeth of our Defense find themselves with little to no ammo).

For Engies (my favorite class), I'd love the ability to mount your turret on a wall or ceiling (provided you can reach it). It would give you a better angle on some choke points, and make it harder for Demos to sticky them.

Spies - remote sappers. Attach it, run away, wait for the Engineer to leave his post, then activate it. Limited supply, so you can't remote sap like 4 Engineer Sets at once.

Pyro - Only thing I can think of is napalm. Let them spray the ground with it to make it burn for X seconds, and anyone who crosses it catches on fire. There'd have to be a VERY limited amount of ammo for it, though, or else they could just coat control points with it all day.

I love the idea of having a shield, either mobile or stationary. Mobile would be especially cool to break those sentry gun lock downs which I see a lot in goldrush.

My additions:

* Jump pad instead of the teleporter.
* Scout scatter gun which shoots in quick succession, once engaged, empties the gun and doesn't disengage before that.
* 1 time ricochet rocket for the soldier, ricochets once, from everything even enemies.
* Firepods for the pyro, which creates a burning patch on the ground. (like chirs3 napalm)
* I second the assault rifle.

The shield is a great idea, especially if they tweak the knockback when it's equipped so that a soldier can slowly advance towards a fully-upgraded sentry.

I also love the jump pad idea. Why should soldiers and demos be the only ones to get at hard-to-reach places?

Firepods for the pyro could be done as molotov cocktails, and would be a solid middle-distance option. I like that it'd force pyros to choose between being more effective at range against other pyros (the default shotgun), or being more effective at range against all other classes (with the ability to do fire damage at a distance).

Assault rifle for soliders is probably a no-brainer for the basic unlockable. In the same way that the Blutsauger is an unlock for medics with comparatively minor downside, Valve could tweak damage and clip size for balance (maybe slightly less DPS than the shotgun at close range, only a clip or two of ammo, or some small tradeoff).

At a distance, spies aren't a big problem. The other big problem is right now, if a spy is among your guys the only damage he can do is sapping or backstabbing one or two people before he's killed. If he could wade into the middle of a group and start unloading a shotgun at point blank without spoiling his disguise? He could kill half the team before finally catching a bullet. Certainly there'd no longer be a choice of what to go after first if a spy comes across an engineer with his sentry gun; blast the engineer with your shotgun and the sentry gun still thinks you're there to share cookies and cake.

OK, that sounds a lot better. I still don't know though. It's nice that it totally takes away the spy's ranged capability but in my experience the revolver is very much a panic weapon. There's not a lot of penalty in taking away a tool the player isn't going to use 9 times out of 10. On the other hand the same could be said of just about any secondary weapon.

Honestly I'm a little nervous what they're going to do for the spy's unlockables since that class is so precisely balanced as is.

I want achievement whoring removed from the weapon unlocking process. It sucked in Battlefield. It sucks now. Just give me the damn guns, and screw the E-peen of the poopsockers. Each new set of weapons otherwise would have been a reason for me to install and play that game again. But now it is still the same tired gametypes I have been used to for over a decade. Maybe Valve will wise up.

Have to disagree there. I play spy a lot, and I use the revolver a lot. It's great for:

*taking out buildings under construction
*fleeing enemies (particularly if they're on fire)
*medium range sniping from a position where you're not easily seen (for example, 3rd floor enemy rafters above 2nd point on Well).

Don't get me wrong, I've been to known shoot like crazy while backpedaling after being discovered, but there are plenty of other uses for it, if you're a decent shot.

What the game really needs are more weapons/abilities tailored towards cooperation.

Every TF2 preview talked about the Heavy/Medic combo, and held it up as an example of cooperation on a 2-man level. Problem is, there aren't a lot of Heavy/Medic combos other than the Heavy/Medic.

That's the thinking behind the Javelin and tactical shield ideas. Neither are of any real use by themselves, they require a second person to exploit their abilities, just like the medic's hoses. TF2 needs more of those.

That said, as far as solo-use ideas go, the rivet gun is golden.

Is there hacks out there? because either I really need to work on my spy skills or somehow everyone knows I'm a spy regardless of how I work it (I've been shot cloaked underwater by a medic already several times).

You are not cloaked when in water, your silhouette shimmers.

You cannot, but I can't remember if stepping into a teleporter makes you drop the flag or if you can't use the teleporter at all. I think its that you drop the flag if you step into a teleporter.

Well I think the Medic is already pretty solid as far as team dynamics go.

I'd like to see something get Snipers involved in cooperating with the team. Painting a target from afar is the first thing I was able to come up with.

Also, I think Soldiers need some tweaks to better differentiate itself from Heavies. They're both slow, big damage-dealers that are most effective at shorter ranges. I play Soldier most, but on a team with some Heavy/Medic combos running, it's often better to just play something else. A tactical shield would help.

Man, I'm going to be sad now when the Soldier melee weapon isn't a tac shield.

Sniper

Gun stand - You lie down in the prone position and your sniper rifle is propped up on a stand. You no longer zoom out after every shot, but lying down and getting up leaves you exposed.

Caltrop gun - Sprays caltrops over an area, slowing the movement of anyone who steps on them. (A classic scout ability, re-purposed for the sniper's use.)

Earslicer - The sniper can use his machete to hack off the ears of enemy corpses to add to his necklace of ears. Each ear on the necklace reduces the time it takes for the sniper to build up his focus to 100%.

I heard that too, no confirmation though. I did see an email from Robin Walker saying that they were going to change how weapons are unlocked since so many people complained about the stupid random achievements that don't encourage good play.