The "10th Class" legend is an urban legend revolving around the 2007 first-person shooting game Team Fortress 2.
Description
Ever since its release in 2007, Team Fortress 2 has had only nine classes: the Scout, Soldier, and Pyro for Offense, the Heavy, Engineer, and Demoman for Defense, and the Sniper, Medic, and Spy for Support. However, players to this day claim that a tenth class will be added to the game at some point in the future. The most rumored candidate is the Civilian class from the original Team Fortress Classic.
In a 2009 interview with Escapist Magazine, Team Fortress 2 co-creator Robin Walker said the following: "We've got several new class designs floating around, some of which we like a lot, but right now we're focusing on the broadening of our existing classes through the addition of the unlockables." However, he later retracted the statement, saying: " A 10th class is something we'd really like to do, it's just an order of magnitude more work than adding a new unlockable. Also, the 9 classes provide a wide spread of gameplay for us, and often we find that new class ideas are more like subclasses of an existing class. In some cases, we're able to design an unlockable that provides a boost to that style of play, essentially creating the subclass in the game." [1]
Trivia
- In 2009, fans of the game created a fake update called the "Guard Dog Update" that proposed a tenth class called the Guard Dog, an armed German Shepherd with a machine gun strapped to its back, the ability to carry ammo and health boxes to its teammates, and the ability to track down respawned enemy players by sniffing their corpses. On November 21, 2009, Valve officially commented on the fan-made update in-character as the character Saxton Hale. [2]