TF2: The Scout Update next week!!!

[Chalex4]

The Sandman only restricts the doublejump when you have it equipped in hand AFAIK.

Are you sure about that? I would have thought it would affect you whatever weapon you are using, although I would probably prefer it the way you described.

I don't think that'd be good for TF2 combat... it's nicely balanced at the moment, but if you can curve it like that, it'd become a bit balls to the wall for my taste...

You wouldn't believe the heated discussion over matters like this on the Steam forums. Many are claiming that Valve is actually going to release a Spy update instead because of the "disappointing" updates to the scout along with:

One of the weirdest things to me is that the Scout update site is hosted on teamfortress.com, instead of steamgames.com.
SteamGames is the 'main' games site, and, apparently, everything hosted their that's about TF2 belongs to their editor (EA). So, they probably didn't host the scout site there because it was some sort of joke, or anything else not serious enough to be put on steamgames.

Also, you can see some sort of double payload map in the background of the latest update here and the scout also appears to be holding a different shotgun (upon very close inspection). Could these be the new gamemode and weapon? The crazy discussions are here.