Team Fortress 2

[MBS]

after browsing through amit's humorous thumb monkeys thread, i noticed that a lot of us play TF2. so, i decided to start a thread. : D

how about those heavy updates, eh?

MX STEAM IDS:

MBS - zed leppelin
Kingofdudes - kingofdudes (i think?)
Amit - eggothewaffle
Mister Che - leunam23

[Pop music sucks]

I don't know if I even want to try attaining those achievements. I hate playing as that class:(

And as my favorite class, the Spy, I keep getting randomly sprayed by a 29581725 Heavies on the other team

:upset:

[RunAmokRampant]

ya a lot of the heavy achievements require a medic as well which is a bit of a pain.

[Pop music sucks]

Well, it's not so bad since my other favorite class is medic. But I've been on a major medic run and I wanna play as Spy.

Howerver, with one of my Steam friends we like to create chain ubers and Heavies are easy targets to get the ubersaw to 100%:evil:

[Incognito]

I only have this for 360, I love it, but no updates (or gold rush) for us. :(

[RunAmokRampant]

now that sucks some major balls. Do have to pay for updates for 360 or you just dont get them at all?

[kattunlover69]

this game sucks and i have it on pc

[Mister_Che]

now that sucks some major balls. Do have to pay for updates for 360 or you just dont get them at all?

They don't get them because Microsoft wants to charge for the updates while Valve says no.

[GreyHam]

wonderful game

some of the heavy/medic achievements are the same for both - like killing 20 people while being healed

just got in from work, and will be enjoying the madness of all heavy teams shortly

[RunAmokRampant]

this game sucks and i have it on pc

no u suck

[AA-12]

This is one of the best shooters ever.

I used to play Soldier and then moved on to being a shitty Sniper. I haven't played in a while though.

[Kingofdudes]

Scout is my class, its too bad scouts are really only useful on 2fort :upset:

[Mister_Che]

Same here, but I'll still use them on other maps.

[MBS]

Scout is my class, its too bad scouts are really only useful on 2fort :upset:

haha i remember one 2fort we played, you kept scout rushing and i kept killing you :cool:

i play sniper a lot, which is why this heavy update is making me lawl

snipers are awesome on badwaterbasin and with the heavies moving slowly with the cart, it's free kills basically

[Let's Chop Cats!]

Best multiplayer games since CS. I mainly use Pyro or Soldier, but with the medic and heavy updates I've been using those.

[spitfirejunky]

I play as medic, spy and more rarely as pyro. Haven't touched the game in a while though.

[Amit]

ok can i say that while tf2 is in general far better than tfc, the lack of frag and special grenades depresses me :[

[Let's Chop Cats!]

It would just turn into COD4 being a nade spamming fest, its for the best.

[Spiney_Norman]

Haven't played this for ages, since my computer got nicked :upset: I really want to play it again, dammit!

[Kage]

i missed the grenades as well when tf2 first came out, but it really is better off not having them.

[Kingofdudes]

haha i remember one 2fort we played, you kept scout rushing and i kept killing you :cool:


You also leave out all the intel caps I got noob

[MBS]

You also leave out all the intel caps I got noob


ok fine let's play a game

also post your steam ids and i'll edit them into the first post

[sLarkin20]

Yah those special nades were ridiculous in TF Classic. Demoman spam on Dustbowl, anyone? I'm glad they aren't in TF2.

[Kage]

Yah those special nades were ridiculous in TF Classic. Demoman spam on Dustbowl, anyone? I'm glad they aren't in TF2.

that was nuts

it worked for that game, though

[Amit]

my steam id is eggothewaffle i think

oh and i disagree completely

do u guys even remember playing tfc? man i played that forever and never had a problem with nade sparm

[sLarkin20]

You obviously didn't play Dustbowl enough. All it took was 2-3 semi-smart Demoman to continually spam the exit tunnel and it would be near impossible to get through. I can remember quite a few games that went like that.

[Amit]

dustbowl sucked dick tho

[Kingofdudes]

my steam name is kingofdudes

[Mister_Che]

Leunam23

[DBlitz]

I play this on PS3... but I still enjoy it heaps. If I had a better laptop I'd definitely buy it for PC, on friday I downloaded the pre-load for the Free Weekend thing, I was lagging so badly, and I don't see how it could be my internet, it has decent speed. It was most likely graphics, I had to set everything on medium but then I lagged more.

[Anglachel]

What were those special Engineer grenades?

those ****ing ruled

srs in tfc 2fort you could get 3 engineers to build a sentry in front of enemy spawn and they were pretty much ****ed

[Pop music sucks]

You mean those things with the yellow shockwave.

It was a beast that can take out anything within its radius.

[Let's Chop Cats!]

http://steamcommunity.com/id/RNJ

[-Listy-]

im gonna try this later since ive borrowed the orange box for a while. although i don't know what class im gonna go and what the hell i'll be doing..

[Kage]

just try all the classes, you'll get the hang of it.

[simplephotographinthesun]

You mean those things with the yellow shockwave.

It was a beast that can take out anything within its radius.

EMP grenades were pretty badass

i still play TFC when i really shouldn't

[Mister_Che]

Arena is pretty god damn fun.

[Kingofdudes]

Yeah, I have been pretty inconsistent playing it though :/ I just need to find a good strategy for myself

[Aaron]

I like TF2 but it's too bloody fast for a console gamer like me.

[Mister_Che]

Yeah, I have been pretty inconsistent playing it though :/ I just need to find a good strategy for myself

I've only played Scout on it and I've done pretty well so far. The arena maps all have plenty of paths and obstacles that make ambush tactics so useful.

[RunAmokRampant]

haha i was playin spy and i backstabbed some dumbass sniper and the dude yells in his microphone 'thats fukin unaustralian!'

I laughed and got him again multiple times till I dominated him. Was pretty easy to do because it was 2fort.

[sLarkin20]

Is it just me, or is it IMPOSSIBLE to ****ing win on cp_steel?

I play on a server that rotates through a couple cp maps, and steel is one of them, and I have not seen any attacking team win that map in at least the 10 games or so I have played on it.

Badwater is a pretty sweet *** map, though.

[Mister_Che]

I played cp_steel for a little bit last night, but it wasn't enough to make a call on that.

Badwater is pretty awesome.

[Kingofdudes]

I do like how arena opens up a lot of new strategies. Kritzkrieg is now really useful, and scouts do slay on there

[Mister_Che]

I kinda wish Badwater used the new Alpine environment. The level feels somewhat barren, but the open space is a nice change.

[Let's Chop Cats!]

I hate steel, its so needlessly complicated.

[MBS]

i remember when the server i frequent first rotated to steel, not many people knew how to play it (myself included) and alltalk was on so all you can hear was "so it's a... then b?" "where the **** am i?" "ok ok just follow the pyro... wait, where'd he... SPYRO, SPYRO!" "this map is ****ing lame."

[sLarkin20]

Steel is kind of weird. Sometimes the attacking team will build SG's and **** at B, then go cap A, then the defending team goes to defend B, and then the defending team ends up ATTACKING B because the attacking team has already built up there :\

It doesn't make much sense.

[Incognito]

They don't get them because Microsoft wants to charge for the updates while Valve says no.

At this point, I wouldn't care if it cost anything, I just want updates.


The vast majority of 360 players are TERRIBLE at this game. One medic soldier combo will usually decimate the other team. Kids also don't know how to use spy in 360, I rape them all day. It kills me when a spy misses a backstab and continually tries too stab me in the front while I back-pedal and shoot him with rockets.

[Mister_Che]

I'm trying to find the link, but apparently the updates will be coming to the 360. Let me see if I can dig it up.

EDIT: Nah, I can't find it.

[Incognito]

Bah, I keep having people tell me they're coming soon (originally everyone was saying sometime in July), but it keeps never happening.


I also wish they would fix the glitches, not sure the PC has them fixed, but there's almost always someone abusing one or more glitches on 2fort, dustbowl and gravel pit. It really ruins the fun.

[Kingofdudes]

what, stuff like shooting flames through the floor?

[Incognito]

That and...

Getting out of the map on 2fort, not because it gives a team an advantage as much as a disadvantage, you end up taking this teleporter that leads out of the map which is useless and then you have to suicide which is a pain, then on top of that you have at least 1 player sitting outside the map constantly taunting while not doing anything for the team.

Oh snap, I just remembered on the blue side in 2fort it's possible to get inside the respawn, and even possible to getting behind the second set of doors, if a demo gets in there it's very annoying.

Skywalking in general is also very annoying, happens on dustbowl the most. Also being able to shoot through the fences is annoying, if you're an engie and you get sniped or crit rocketed before you can build a sentry (which you're given time for) is frustrating. You can also cap the first capture point of the second part of the map while not actually having to physically be on the point.

As for gravel point, I'm referring to being able to drop below the map at capture point A and having engies builds sentries there.

[DBlitz]

^ thats all probably fixed on PC and it seldom happens on PS3

[Anglachel]

I didnt know some of those existed on pc

[Mister_Che]

I've never seen them, personally.

[Kingofdudes]

y didn't you play last nite amit, I was v v lonely

[Mister_Che]

Hey, I think Amit and I actually played last night. There was an Eggothewaffle on the server I was on.

[Amit]

haha really?

that was probably me!

[Mister_Che]

Pretty sure it was.

You were on the other team though. I only noticed because I saw you after I was killed a few times. I left shortly afterwards because I was going out.

[Kingofdudes]

/me ubercharges thread

So how many people can say they have taken down a level 3 sentry at full health down with a scout :cool:

[Mister_Che]

I need to show my scout more love. :/

I've been taking down heavies with the Axetinguisher lately. One instance was particularly funny.

I was on the left side of a doorway heading inside (arena_lumberyard) when a Heavy pops up. I light him on fire, hide behind on the right side of the doorway, pull out the Axetinguisher, then nail him once and kill him. It was pretty funny at the time.

Killing people with the Axetinguisher and reflected crit rockets is soooo satisfying.

[Kingofdudes]

I do the same exact thing to take down heavies! I love it when the image pops up at the top right for all to see.

I had a pretty satisfying knife spree yesterday. I got onto the enemy battlement on 2fort, back stabbed both snipers, jumped off, ran back into their base and knifed a soldier along the way, got up to their battlement again, jumped off, and back stabbed a medic and 2 heavies :-D

[Mister_Che]

So no word yet on what the next update might be? Frankly, I just want a "Meet the Pyro" video so I can be assured that the Pyro may, in fact, be a girl.

[Kingofdudes]

My guess would be a soldier update, with all these updates for the other classes, they just seem to be a bit underpowered.

[Anglachel]

http://i37.tinypic.com/dwuskp.jpg

[Anglachel]

i remember hearing next update was engineer, btw

[Klown]

i like to bat ppl

[Anglachel]

BONK!


what the **** caps filter ignores tags :(

[sLarkin20]

I love going Scout just to piss the other team off.

Such an annoying class.

[DeckerDontPlay]

i love this game

[Pop music sucks]

I love how the Spy's backstab got 'fixed':rolleyes:

It's just so satisfying to see a stabbed back that isn't stabbed in the back:angry:

It's that freaking aggressive stab that screws up, not the passive I'm-just-gonna-knick-you-in-the-arm stab.

[RunAmokRampant]

hehe i love pulling off the 'frontal' backstab.

[Anglachel]

do you guys aim for the face when you do that

[Incognito]

hehe i love pulling off the 'frontal' backstab.

This is incredibly annoying when it happens to you.

[Kingofdudes]

****in' face stabs.


They never work for me :upset:

Nothing more annoying when then when an enemy engy sneaks into your intel room and sets up shop, and your teammates do nothing about it :mad:

[Pop music sucks]

Hahah, I remember on 2fort the engineers set up shop right outside the respawn by the stairs. There were like 4 level 3 sentries and 4 dispensers. 4 engineers 6 heavies and 6 medics all just hanging outside their spawn. The other two were covering our intel while the rest just pwned.

A lot of Blu left the server.

[Mister_Che]

http://www.teamfortress.com/sniperupdate/

First unlock revealed!

Any experienced sniper will tell you how irritating it is when your targets keep moving around. The question is how to stop these cheaters from wind-sprinting around like they own the place. And the answer is to pin them to a wall. How? With arrows!

"Now, hold on," you might be thinking. "I'm strong, but no one could throw an arrow that hard." Introducing the Huntsman longbow, which solves that age-old throwing problem.

"Now, hold on," you keep saying. "Aren't bows and arrows primitive and harmless?" Why don't you ask the dinosaurs? Except you can't, because the cavemen bow and arrowed them to death. One headshot from the Huntsman can mean an instant crit, in addition to a bolt-riddled corpse hanging from a wall that's gruesome and funny.

And even if you don't kill them, they'll carry around a certain arrow-shaped something as a living testament to your awesome archery skills and their frankly unawesome dodging skills. Comes with 18 arrows and a one-second charge for full power shots.

http://teamfortress.com/images/posts/ouch.jpg

Second unlock revealed!

The Razorback is a beautiful hand-carved tribal shield, built using indigenous techniques passed from father to son since before recorded time. Sometimes the old ways really are the best ways. And after using the Razorback in the field, we quickly discovered this was not one of those times.

All the tribal craftsmanship in the world, it turns out, cannot stop a modern butter knife. So we taped a car battery to it. Sure, the added weight of the redesigned Razorback’ll slow you down a little. But any poor sap dumb enough to backstab you while you’re sporting one is getting a surprise to the tune of 10,000 volts. Plus, if they want to stab you again, they’ll have to wait until their knife cools down. Which is lucky for you, since the Razorback collapses into a million finely crafted pieces after a single stab.

Third unlock revealed!

Jarate is a thrown jar that splashes upon impact. When splashed on enemies, they take 35% more damage for a period of time. Jumping in water will wash off Jarate. Jarate is also able to short out Spies’ cloaking devices. When used on teammates, Jarate will extinguish any fire effects.

* Jarate is neither affiliated with, nor a substitute for, Karate.

The Spy update!

http://www.teamfortress.com/spyupdate/

Meet the Spy!

Day 5 of the Update

Third unlock revealed!

There are two sorts of men in this world: the sort with blood pouring out of a hole in their heads, and the sort holding the Ambassador. It has the ammo count of a revolver and the pinpoint accuracy of a sniper rifle, even at long range. (But remember, a gun that packs this much heat needs to cool off between shots, so make every shot count.)

With its rosewood grip and likeness of your enemy’s mother (please send photo) engraved on the barrel, the Ambassador is eight motherloving pounds of steel your enemies won’t want to negotiate with.

[Luc214]

should I buy this game y/n

[Ventriloquist]

Well it's probably the best online FPS game so y.

Mister Che do yo know which gun does that one replace? If it's the sniper rifle, it sounds pretty useless.

[Let's Chop Cats!]

Absolutely. Also buy L4D while you're at it.

[Luc214]

I have l4d it's awesome

[Understanding In a Crash]

should I buy this game y/n
Y!

It's like $20 for this game, HL2, and portal. That's a bargain by any standard.

[Pop music sucks]

I dunno. Bonk! replaced the pistol and in circumstances where there's a lot of sentries and you work with a medic-demo/pyro/heavy combo and draw the sentry's fire away from them, Bonk! works fantastic. All the knockback effect of those guns are focused on you and the medic/whateverthe**** can destroy said sentries.

[Mister_Che]

should I buy this game y/n

Yes. Best $20 I ever spent on a game. I would spend $50, even.

Mister Che do yo know which gun does that one replace? If it's the sniper rifle, it sounds pretty useless.

Sniper Rifle probably. It's got a 1 second charge time so that might be offset the range.

[MBS]

YOU WILL SHOOT THEM AND THEY WILL STICK TO THE WALL AND THEY WILL DIE

:lol: oh valve

[Mister_Che]

Second update is up. New Payload mode and two new Arena maps.

[Ventriloquist]

New payload mode? New map?

[Anglachel]

Arrows?!?

Sticking out of MY cloaked spies?!

[Mister_Che]

New payload mode? New map?

Double payload. Check out the link.

[Mister_Che]

New unlock. I'm kinda meh on it.

[Ventriloquist]

Sounds good. tbh. worst enemies of a sniper are spies. i merely use the machine gun anyway.

[MBS]

if it's not visible on the sniper's back that'll be so uncool :(

[Ventriloquist]

Well if it's visible no one would attempt to bs you.

[Mister_Che]

Oh my:

Valve seem to be messing with us. As the Sniper update rolls out, suspicious things have been happening. Suspicious, sneaky, back-stabby things. Spy-like things. Yesterday saw the reveal of a new game mode (the one hinted at in the background during the Scout update), the Payload Race. Two carts, one per team, uphill. Today brings us the Sniper’s second unlockable - the Razorback - a “tribal shield” wired up to a battery, designed to protect the Sniper from being backstabbed by Spies. But it gets weirder.

The rivalry between Sniper and Spy is one of TF2’s most passionate, and giving the Sniper an anti-backstab device is going to infuriate Spy players. Sending 10,000 volts through the knife into anyone who should try a backstab, it’ll also make the blade too hot to use for a short while. Which is a good job, since the shield can only withstand one stab before breaking into bits.

But then a funny thing happened. It’s controversial, various Steam forumites absolutely adamant the whole thing is a hoax perpetrated by a photoshopping mischievous few, but a number of people are reporting (and posting screen grabs as proof) that for about ten minutes earlier today, a Spy appeared behind the Sniper on the update page. You can see the full thing here.

The hot hot speculation on the Valve forums is that the Sniper update may well be concealing a potential simultaneous Spy update. Because if the Spy is uncloaking behind the Sniper, then perhaps the dead Spy body on the ground is a feigned death decoy type thing. Well, I dunno. Two Spies makes more sense. But then, why would Valve have performed this peculiar act? If they did. It’s tempting to assume fakery. Or that Valve are deliberately messing with people. They’re like that. (Update: The Spy appeared again, this time the full length of his body, but still as if coming out of cloak. Something’s definitely up.)

[ ... ]

So, is there a secret Spy update in the works too? Is there a reason why the usual main update page menu is absent, so we can’t see how many updates are planned? The Sniper’s new bits and pieces are expected to go live on Tuesday. Everything else is up in the air.

http://vjarmy.com/junkbin/spyuncloak.jpg

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/05/15/sniper-update-day-3-things-get-mysterious/

[Pop music sucks]

Oh god, I loved feign death in TFC.

[Understanding In a Crash]

Oh god, I loved feign death in TFC.
Yes.. that was extremely useful and I can't believe it's not incorporated in 2. I also liked those medi posion gernades.

[Mister_Che]

Holy crap double class update omg!

[Anglachel]

Holy crap double class update omg!
ishatbrix

[Ventriloquist]

I want the engineer update :(

[MBS]

Holy crap double class update omg!

i think it's just for the spy

[Let's Chop Cats!]

They'll both come out at the same time, its pretty clear the unlocks play off each other. Ether way I'm psyched, new map type looks fun as hell.

[Mister_Che]

i think it's just for the spy

God I hope not.

Ether way I'm psyched, new map type looks fun as hell.

It looks like it'll be super chaotic, which will be fantastic.

[Anglachel]

And now we wont have everyone being ONE class!

also i think theyre going to stop forcing you to get the weapons via achs

[GreyHam]

im finally going to be able to be the scout class! hurah!

*i haven't played tf2 for far too long...*

[SgtPrimus]

I want to get TF2 but I can't decide whether to get it on xbox or PC. I would get it on PC with hesitation but the only problem is I don't have the recommended requirements because of my graphics card. I pass the minimum but on xbox it would look and maybe run better. It is about the same price so that doesn't really make a difference. Opinions?

[Pop music sucks]

omfgj;asljdal;jyal;y;alykj

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTj6tauY1JU

The Spy is the man.

[Ventriloquist]

Lolololol I was just about to post that here, amazing :)

And now he's going to **** us!

[Pop music sucks]

I believe this was all planned to 'leak' that video. It makes sense, considering the join date, the 'sniper' update, and that the Spy has that 60's-spy motif about him, complete with seduction, backstabbing (metaphorically and literally) double-crosser, and escaping with the 'intelligence'.

[SgtPrimus]

I want to get TF2 but I can't decide whether to get it on xbox or PC. I would get it on PC with hesitation but the only problem is I don't have the recommended requirements because of my graphics card. I pass the minimum but on xbox it would look and maybe run better. TF2 is $20 on PC and the whole orange box is only $20 on xbox. Opinions?

[MBS]

PC is superior, without any question

[sLarkin20]

I'd hate to play it on a console. PC ftw.

[SgtPrimus]

I would normally agree, but my PC sucks and barely passes the minimum on system requirements lab (http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest).

[Jawaharal]

god so many updates since I last played. Learning curve is going to be huge once again

[SgtPrimus]

I went ahead and got it for PC, cause all I am missing from the recommended is the pixel and vertex shader which is supposed to be 3.0 and I have 2.0. Three hours to download and from what it sounds like a long learning curve.

[Ventriloquist]

Try lowering the DirectX level to 8.0 that's how I played it on my old laptop. Console command is mat_dxlevel 80. The game will still look nice.

[Let's Chop Cats!]

new Meet The Spy rules. can't wait for the update.

check the TF2 blog, ridiculous stuff the past day.

[MBS]

"Yeah, Robin?"
"Ah, come in, Matt. How's the family?"
"Oh. Uh, good. What's this ab—"
"Top drawer. How about your little boy? He getting better at the ol' soccer?"
"Football. No, not really."
"Do you think he'd be any good at cleaning out your desk by five?"
"I —"
"Because you're fired."


:lol:


"You wanted to see me, Robin?"
"Yes, Greg. What's the difference between you and you're fired?"
"I — what?"
"Clean out your desk, Greg."

VALVe probably has the best sense of humor of any game developer

[spitfirejunky]

Valve's head of HR, Kathy, just came to talk to me. I'd been lining up employees in a row against the wall so I could run past and fire them faster.


Some of you on the forum have wondered if Valve leaked it on purpose. And until we find the clown who did leak it, the answer to that is yes.

Oh man.

[Mister_Che]

Valve actually responded to people who mailed in the clip out coupon that was on their blog:

http://www.teamfortress.com/scoutupdate/force-a-nature.htm

http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn18/ElNarez/1242716774411.jpg

[ThisGuy]

I just discovered the medic. Turns out it's actually a pretty fun class to play.

[Mister_Che]

Bump for new Spy weapon, the Ambassador.

[Anglachel]

PUT TWO WHEELS ON THIS THING AND ITS A CANNON

lol

[GreyHam]

I want to get TF2 but I can't decide whether to get it on xbox or PC. I would get it on PC with hesitation but the only problem is I don't have the recommended requirements because of my graphics card. I pass the minimum but on xbox it would look and maybe run better. It is about the same price so that doesn't really make a difference. Opinions?

Truthfully? Wait until you get a GPU update. Playing on minimum with a crappy framrate will hurt your enjoyment, given you'll probs die a lot and itll look shite

please dont get it on the XBOX. I can't imagine anything worse than trying to play a game that really needs fast reactions and accuracy with thumbsticks

[Mr. Pickle]

I went out and bought Orange Box today, since it's only $20. Don't really enjoy Half-Life too much, and haven't tried Portal, but I'm having a blast with TF2. Really fun!


And the game is still really fun on Xbox. Don't listen to gay pants up there.

[RunAmokRampant]

but i hear xbox dont get the updates?

portal awesome as well

[Pop music sucks]

The problem with the console updates is that the game is as jam-packed as it is, they're trying to find a way to get all the stuff that's readily available from the original PC version into the console.

[SgtPrimus]

Truthfully? Wait until you get a GPU update. Playing on minimum with a crappy framrate will hurt your enjoyment, given you'll probs die a lot and itll look shite

please dont get it on the XBOX. I can't imagine anything worse than trying to play a game that really needs fast reactions and accuracy with thumbsticks

I grabbed it Sunday night, cause it was only $20. It runs alright but there is a graphical error every once and awhile, which I'll probably post on here later today to see if any of you guys know what could be going wrong.

[Mister_Che]

but i hear xbox dont get the updates?

Valve is working on it, but Microsoft has a lengthy certification process for DLC.

[Ventriloquist]

Ambassador looks great. Definitely going to use it. Those things never miss. I'm wondering about the knife replacement.

[Anglachel]

**** the knife
whats the new kukri

[Mister_Che]

http://i42.tinypic.com/2506u00.jpg

Sign of things to come?!

[Mister_Che]

Updated first post.

[Ventriloquist]

So, they are going with the Jarate. I thought that was an april fools joke.

[Anglachel]

me2

Reading those achs confirms that the Razorback takes melee slot

[MBS]

jarate + kukri sounds pretty good

[Anglachel]

Jarate + bow would probly work well too

Razorback will pretty much never get used

[Pop music sucks]

Razorback will be used by the hardcore camping snipers. The sort that never move from their spot at all, much like the awp whores of CS:S.

[sLarkin20]

Valve's head of HR, Kathy, just came to talk to me. I'd been lining up employees in a row against the wall so I could run past and fire them faster.

"You're fired you're fired you're fired you're fired oh hi, Kathy. What's up?"

"I'm a little concerned that you're mistreating your authority." I nodded, then reminded her that we'd talked about her using smaller words.

lmao, I love Valve.

[MBS]

you mean the bad ones

[SgtPrimus]

Here is the graphics glitch I keep having.

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/4463/graphicsglitch.jpg

Random **** like that just pops up, making it impossible for me to play. I can minimized and reopen the game but it takes like 3 min to reload and gets tedious after awhile. Anyone have any ideas what could be going wrong?

[Mr. Pickle]

Your computer sucks, I think.

[SgtPrimus]

Basically

[sLarkin20]

reformat

[SgtPrimus]

**** that, that is too much work over a $20 game.

Thanks for the suggestion though

[VTK]

**** that, that is too much work over a $20 game.

Thanks for the suggestion though

It's not a $20 game, it's Team Fortress.

Seriously. It's by far the best bang per buck I've ever gotten in a video game.

[VTK]

Razorback will be used by the hardcore camping snipers. The sort that never move from their spot at all, much like the awp whores of CS:S.

Well, with crosshairs around in TF2, the sniper rifle can be used almost as effectively as the SMG in close-range combat... so I'd reckon we'll see people other than campers using the Razorback.

[sLarkin20]

I don't understand how the new weapons system works. Do you just get them at random times during the game, or do you have to actually pick something up in game, or what? Apparently it's no longer achievement based, so what is the point of achievements?

[RunAmokRampant]

Razorback will be used by the hardcore camping snipers. The sort that never move from their spot at all, much like the awp whores of CS:S.

no razorback will be useful to whoever uses the scope on their sniper which is everyone. At least gives snipers a fighting chance against those backstabbing spies.

[Ventriloquist]

If there is 1 spy on the other team I won't bother with the shield tbh.

[MBS]

achievements are just for having them, and i guess you randomly pick up weapons off the ground, and you unlock ****

it's weird they're supposed to update the blog with how it works today

[sLarkin20]

I dunno if I picked anything up but I randomly got the Sandvich today....which I already have.

This system is ****ing stupid. They need to go back to achievement based weapon system or just give them to everyone, not this randomness.

[SgtPrimus]

**** me, now they are charging ten bucks for it after I just spent $20 a few days ago.

[DhA]

Yeah the randomness is dumb, I don't actually have the game myself but I'm at Uni and we play round my mates room quite a bit, I like playing as Sniper and Spy best - a fun thing we did once was just go Spy and keep ackstabbing the same sniper, even if it meant we got shot by a sentry straight afetrwards. He got so pissed of it was so funny. People on teamspeak often say funny things aswell.

[VTK]

I dunno if I picked anything up but I randomly got the Sandvich today....which I already have.

This system is ****ing stupid. They need to go back to achievement based weapon system or just give them to everyone, not this randomness.

Agreed. The randomness ruins the fun of actually getting some achievements and be rewarded for such.

[Let's Chop Cats!]

I have yet to get anything, I've played for numerous hours.

[GreyHam]

TBH i don't mind it so much. Being able to go on a server and not have everyone whos achievement whored have all the new things was a pleasent surprise. They did come out and say that the drops wern't as frequent as they should have been mind, and i dont know what the formula for the drops is. Would make more sense to have them as a reward for playing in a useful way (eg scouts capping points, engies defending areas, medics ubercharging, and the offensive classes getting kills) than just popping up when you're just running somewhere and telling you you've found something else you already have

Plus, the first 6 slots to be filled on any given server are generally spy and sniper. Its a race of the fastest connection to see who gets a place. If you dont get to play as a class, you dont get the achievements, cant unlock the weapons, and thats just lame

Plus - rewards people for playing the game, not whoring achievement servers

[DBlitz]

yay a friend bought me the pc version of tf2

i have the ps3 version of it and loved it, but i haven't played that in like half a year

[MBS]

http://i40.tinypic.com/2itixso.jpg

the dead ringer is AWESOME

[Pop music sucks]

I want that so bad:upset:

[die of starvation]

does this game suck or what

also can i find servers or w/e where most of the people are really bad
i mean like horrendous worse than i would be after playing for like an hour
cuz i wont bother if ill just die all the time

It's not a $20 game, it's Team Fortress.

Seriously. It's by far the best bang per buck I've ever gotten in a video game.

wolf et was infinite bang per buck

[MBS]

just keep playing random servers, and favorite ones that you like. i know that if i want to play against decent people, i'll go into anglachel's clans server (even if they're all 12) and if i want shitty pugs to **** around with, i'll go into the 24/7 INSTA RESPAWN HATS HAPPY HOUR server

[GorgeousGabe]

I was playing this the other day... I mean, I'm in general very good at FPS... I'm familiar with Counter-Strike, and I had played TF2 once or twice before, but for all practical purposes I am an utter newbie at this game.

Didn't stop me from going in as the demoman and literally killing the entire opposing team, single handedly winning the match

ohhhh yeah

[RunAmokRampant]

hahah yeah i got cloak and dagger.

fun fun.

[sLarkin20]

I found jarate and the hunting bow the other day. Hunting bow is ridiculously awesome for headshots, and jarate can help rape a pack of people pretty quickly with all the mini-crits.

Still hate the way the weapon system is so random. I've already gotten doubles of multiple items, and I think I might have 3 axtingushers now or something.

[Pop music sucks]

I really want the Dead Ringer and the Ambassador. I don't really care for the Sniper stuff since it's my least played class.

[sLarkin20]

I found the Ambassador but Spy is my least played class, too bad we can't trade :|

[BullDoG_37]

anyone else notice that the pyro can now put team mates out with the compression blast?? is really handy when ur medics are burnin

[Anglachel]

just keep playing random servers, and favorite ones that you like. i know that if i want to play against decent people, i'll go into anglachel's clans server (even if they're all 12) and if i want poopty pugs to **** around with, i'll go into the 24/7 INSTA RESPAWN HATS HAPPY HOUR server
well the most annoying 12 year old i mute immeditely near always

theres like 3 others everyone else is a teenager or in their 20s/30s


i still havent got ****
other than the bow

[MBS]

is the real susan a dude or a chick i can never tell :(

oh yeah, i got the sniper hat :D

[sLarkin20]

Are the hats just for aesthetics or do they do anything? I ain't gots none yet.

[MBS]

aesthetic

[Ventriloquist]

How retarded is this new special weapon system. Valve really disappointed me.

[Anglachel]

a dude

and again, see:

well the most annoying 12 year old i mute immediately near always
thats susan

[MBS]

rofl that kid is so annoying

edit - i remember when he tried to talk about pot and he's like

YEAH MAN A DOOBIE IS LIKE... A CIGARETTE... OF MARIJUANA

[Mr. Pickle]

I'm sick of playing it on the 360 and getting stuck with modders.

[DBlitz]

started playing this on pc since yesterday (used to play on ps3, but i haven't played all year). pretty fun even though i'm pretty ****.

this is probably one of the first fps i own for pc and currently the only actual pc game i own. its gonna take a while to get used to the controls and ****.

[Klown]

i want

my

pyro

hat

:@

[Anglachel]

i have no hats it makes me mad

[sLarkin20]

Yup, no hats either. I still rarely see them on anyone else. If you really want one or the weapons or whatever try going afk in a game overnight. I don't care enough to do it personally, but I know people that did it to get the weapons when they first came out. Not sure how successful it was but I don't think you have to be actually playing to get anything, just be in a game.

[Klown]

i have all weapons and achievements cos im pro

[Anglachel]

i got my ****ing backstab ach reset at like 900 and some so i ****ing quit


if you're playing with some half smart people spies are ****ing useless anyways

[RunAmokRampant]

not really

[Anglachel]

yeah really

[RunAmokRampant]

you must be **** at spy then.

[Klown]

i just w+m1 everywhere as pyro and kill heaps of spies without even realizing u better watch out

[Anglachel]

you must be **** at spy then.
anybody can join a pub and camp as a spy

anybody can join a clanserver and not make it 20 feet out of spawn as a spy

[Understanding In a Crash]

anybody can join a pub and camp as a spy

anybody can join a clanserver and not make it 20 feet out of spawn as a spy
Sounds like someone got raged by a pro spy. I think it's more difficult to play spy in a clan server then at a pub but I don't always think being spy in a pub is cake walk either. The spy is hardly a useless class and is easily one of the biggest game changers. One pro spy on a baddie team can make that team win against a bunch of average guys. My favorite classes are engineer and spy and have you ever tasted the damage a spy can do to teleporter entrances every damn round every every damn rebuild?

[Anglachel]

not as much damage as my rocket does

all you need is enough of a brain to turn around and high sensitivity and spies mean nothing to you (unless you're a preoccupied heavy)

ofc if you're bad your sensitivity is prolly still 3

[sLarkin20]

wtf are you talking about if it's a decent spy you aren't even gonna realize anyone is there till there's a ****ing knife in your back

[Anglachel]

wtf are you talking about if it's a decent spy you aren't even gonna realize anyone is there till there's a ****ing knife in your back
you'd have to be alone for that to happen

and what the **** are you doing alone

[sLarkin20]

i dunno maybe running from spawn to wherever the **** the action is i dont sit and wait for a bunch of teammates to spawn and hold my hand the whole way there

[Anglachel]

you're either playing a horrible map with too much distance between spawn and action, being spawncamped, or really ****ing stupid if a spy can get you more than once in such a scenario


also if the spy is any good in the middle of all the action you're all doing something terribly wrong

like not uninstalling

[sLarkin20]

lol ok

[Anglachel]

uninstal nao

[Pop music sucks]

Gliding only works if you get shot at the feet when you're a Spy. Medics tend to stay at the back of the pack. When you kill a medic everyone (that's smart) turns around and spams. The trick is then flip on invisibility right after the kill, and try to use the enemies rockets/nades to rocketjump/nadejump really far away.

Same goes for level 3 sentries if you just want to kill someone. You have to be the right distance though and time your invisibility right. You want to be close enough to get shot but not get hit by the missiles and not high enough to crater when you land. You'll jettison really far away and no one will know where you're at.

[RunAmokRampant]

i love spawncamping.

[Klown]

just own everyone

[Anglachel]

http://www.teamfortress.com/classless/

what the **** is this ****

more hats ill never get

[Pop music sucks]

**** man I want the spy hats

[Klown]

I STILL ONLY CARE ABOUT MY PYRO HAT

aaaa

[Pop music sucks]

pyro hat is stupid hat

[sLarkin20]

Heavy hat is hilarious it makes you look r-tarded.

[Anglachel]

well as shown in classless update pyros getting a firemans helmet and heavy is getting a commiehat so

[Pop music sucks]

The soviet hat would be one of the better tier of hat.

Spy hats > all hats

[Klown]

yeah they're adding like 6 billion new hats, idk if they're going to be any easily to get

i've been using that idle program for like 3 weeks and had no hats so far

[die of starvation]

i tried to play this game and couldnt get it to work

[Bleekill]

i tried to play this game and couldnt get it to work

What do you mean? you get some sort of error?

[Anglachel]

omfg pyros thrid hat is a ****ing glove

[Klown]

I NEED TH GLOVE HAT

o~

[Klown]

+e‪

[MBS]

http://i26.tinypic.com/2d2ajdc.jpg

i want this hat more than anything right now

[Let's Chop Cats!]

I haven't got a hat yet. I'm sad.

[Mr. Pickle]

Me either.


/goes back to play on his 360 version

[Bleekill]

Hahahaha.


360 version faillllls

[DBlitz]

i want a hat

[Pop music sucks]

I got the Ten Gallon Texas hat :]

[Klown]

yay naked medic reskin w/ penis physics

[Mr. Pickle]

Hahahaha.


360 version faillllls

nah it's fun.


so ur dum

[Mr. Pickle]

Gice. Someone play this on 360 with me.

[Pop music sucks]

Good luck it's all about playing this game on the computer.

[Ventriloquist]

I haven't got any hats either. Tho the usual server I play has a console command that makes you wear one.

[Mr. Pickle]

Plenty of people still play it on Xbox; there's always a wide selection of games to choose from.

Question, though. Is it possible to play with PC users through some means?

[MBS]

no, pc users are pretty much playing a completely different game

[RunAmokRampant]

a completely better game too.

[sLarkin20]

If you play TF2 on anything besides PC you are a complete piece of ****.

[Anglachel]

yay for idle program

ive got no hats still

[sLarkin20]

What the **** is an "idle program"

Or why would you need one, I should ask

[Klown]

there's a program that connects you to a server without loading the actual game up, so you can just leave it running in the background forever and it will still give you the chance to get random weapons/hats

my log from today looks like this

[08/19 02:35:56 AM] Item ID 26939796: The Ambassador (level 5)
[08/19 04:40:55 AM] Item ID 26967870: The Dead Ringer (level 5)
[08/19 05:06:00 AM] Item ID 26973255: The Sandman (level 15)
[08/19 06:45:59 AM] Item ID 26992609: The Razorback (level 10)
[08/19 07:35:59 AM] Item ID 27001673: The Axtinguisher (level 10)
[08/19 09:40:57 AM] Item ID 27023450: The Axtinguisher (level 10)
[08/19 12:10:55 PM] Item ID 27050521: The Sandvich (level 1)
[08/19 01:00:55 PM] Item ID 27060175: The Cloak and Dagger (level 5)
[08/19 01:25:55 PM] Item ID 27065084: The Ambassador (level 5)
[08/19 02:40:59 PM] Item ID 27080367: Natascha (level 5)
[08/19 03:55:58 PM] Item ID 27096628: The Force-A-Nature (level 10)

some people will get a hat after a day other people (like me) wont have one after a month~

[sLarkin20]

Oh

Well, I play like maybe 10-15 hours a week of TF2 and have had every weapon for a few weeks now. I guess it would help for hats, if that.

[MBS]

i woke up this morning to a jarate and huntsman :/

edit - i also forgot how fun scout is

[Klown]

tehehe all the steamstats guys lost their stuff :3

[Klown]

too bad the only unlockable i ever use is my axtinguisher which I still have (never got any hats through steamstats)

hat drop rate has been increased to 4.5% apparently

valve gave everyone who didn't idle a halo hat because they're babbies, now they're bitching about medics not healing them due to the halo etc

[Bleekill]

I only have the halo hat. I haven't been playing a ton lately cause of classes and sh*t. I use the axtinguisher and back burner, I can sneak up on a small crowd and just burn them to ashes in seconds with crits from behind.

[Pop music sucks]

There's a group of medics that won't heal anyone that's wearing a halo.

Yeah way to go with playing a game called Team Fortress 2.

*wears Halo*

[Klown]

what don't use the backburner it's useless 99% of the time

yeah the medics not healing halo guys is funny it's like bullying in a school playground

[Pop music sucks]

I think it'd be awesome if the halo healed the wearer like 1 point every 4 seconds.

:3

[Bleekill]

what don't use the backburner it's useless 99% of the time

yeah the medics not healing halo guys is funny it's like bullying in a school playground

If you get behind them it's 100% useful though.

[Anglachel]

i got 3 items off steamstats

i delete them all

valve gave them all back to me

:\

also this "i hate people with halos" **** is stupid i play with little kids that are more mature than that

if any faggot comes in complaining about people who dont have halos are lameass cheaters and any person without one complainign about how nobody actually chose a "moral high ground" im going to ADMIN CABOOSE

[sLarkin20]

I lurv my halos for being a good and honest player :]

[MBS]

i am a dirty cheater :(

[sLarkin20]

bwahahha no awesome halo for you

[Anglachel]

its not even cheating you all had access to it nobody had an advantage :\

also the halos are glitched on cloaked spies and make them and pyros look like ants

[sLarkin20]

Not really cause Valve is referring to outside idling programs.

"Over the next few days we'll be removing all TF2 items that were earned using external idling applications. We're going to adopt a zero tolerance policy for external applications used to manipulate the persistent item system. Due to us not having a policy in place prior to today, this time we're only removing the items earned through cheating the system. Going forward, if we find users using external applications, we'll remove all of their items. If you're interested, only about 4.5% of the players in TF2's community will be affected by this cleansing process."

edit: Although looking into it more it's kind of hard to argue against idling programs, cause the whole concept of being randomly awarded stuff is ****ing stupid to begin with, so I can see the issue.

But it's pretty entertaining to run around with my halo hat and see people start arguing in game over the whole issue again and again.

[MBS]

it's not really 4.5, it's more like 1/3rd of the community lol

[Klown]

the spies with halos being visible is hilarious, as is the crit buff - you can see their weapon sparkle when they're cloaked

[GreyHam]

I didn't get a Halo. Looks like i was caught red handed.

Fair play, take the dodgy gear away. Most people were looking for hats rather than equipment (the only game changing mechanic) so if they can't fight the tears at the loss of their precious hat then methinks they need to get back to WoW were insane attachment to pretend material possesions is normal behaviour

[sLarkin20]

I thought it was pretty pathetic that people were freaking out and idling 24/7 and using programs and wtf ever else just to get some stupid in-game hats.

[GreyHam]

It was, and it is, and given that i hardly ever play TF2 i'm not especially sure why i even bothered. People are bitching at Valve a lot at the moment, but in all honestly their only crime is setting very high standards for themselves which have been difficult to follow given that EVERYONE is suffering an economic recession and the video games industry isn't exactly recession-proof.

[Bleekill]

Valve doesn't give a sh*t if they loose 4% of the player base, especially seeing how many people play the game. They treat it like an mmo of sorts, nobody would be bitching about bans then.