This week s mysterious Team Fortress 2 Love & War campaign has so far spawned a fifteen minute movie and a handful of new emotes, but Valve has gone further today with the announcement of a huge drop of new weapons and items. Among the lucre is a new level 1 Scattergun called The Back Scatter, a level 1 Shield dubbed The Tide Turner and a new parachute called The B.A.S.E. Jumper which slows your descent when falling.

Most important though, is the arrival of a handful of new bread-themed buffs and attacks, obviously inspired by yesterday s hilarious and, let s face it, very moving Expiration Date short film. The only condition is that these are limited edition items: you ll need to craft the all important Bread Box before it expires on July 9.

Once you ve done this you can use the Bread Box to craft a host of advantages including The Self-Aware Beauty Mark which punishes coated enemies with mini-crits. The Snack Attack is a sapper, while The Bread Bite rewards the player with 30 per cent faster move speed when worn. Watch out though: you ll incur 25 per cent more damage. Finally, the Mutated Milk rewards 60 per cent of the damage done to an enemy covered with milk . Full details are listed on the Team Fortress 2 site.

Here are all the new, non-bread weapon and item details for your pleasure. There's a bunch of new achievements as well. We're expecting two more announcements this week so be sure to check back.

The Back Scatter (Level 1 Scattergun)

Minicrits targets when fired at their back and at close range

-34% clip size

No random critical hits

20% less accurate

The Tide Turner (Level 1 Shield)

25% fire damage resistance on wearer

25% explosive damage resistance on wearer

Full turning control while charging

Kills while charging refill 100% of your charge meter

The B.A.S.E. Jumper (Level 1 Parachute)

Press 'JUMP' key in the air to deploy.

Deployed Parachutes slow your descent.

The Classic (Level 1 Sniper Rifle)

Charge and fire shots independent of zoom

No headshots when not fully charged

-10% damage on body shot

The Air Strike (Level 1 Rocket Launcher)

Increased attack speed while blast jumping

Clip size increased on kill

-25% damage penalty

-25% clip size

-15% explosion radius