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There was a page showing a sniper piss jar as a 3rd weapon, but the page seems to have gone now, maybe the idea got canned because they thought some players would find it too offensive an idea for the theme of the game?
What, you don't want my bikini-clad body? |
That was an April Fool's joke.
Jam it back in, in the dark. |
New game mode look pretty crazy, definitely gonna be the best on 32 person servers. The shield thing for the sniper is interesting, though the achievement that's ELECTROCUTE 300000 SPIES will be ridiculous.
There's nowhere I can't reach. |
Supposedly they're looking to detach achievements from the unlockables so it won't matter as much.
This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. |
You might want to check that updates page again, no april fools joke this time it seems someone else is getting an update soon...
I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body? |
It's pretty much the one element of terrible design in the entire game. I was speaking idiomatically. |
OHSHI. Spy + Sniper update at the same time is going to be hilariously bad. I wonder if one of these is going to replace the spy's electrozapper. The feign death is also a rad feature I was missing from TFC.
What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? |
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2nd what Garr said, you would think they would have less ideas with all these fan videos around now, but apparently not.
While we wait for the spy/sniper update, I thought GFF would be interested to see some glitches with the sandman vs airblast. Personally I can barely read the subtitles on the embeded version, so you might want to view it on youtube.
With the cooldown before you get a new baseball unless you go back to base being pretty long, I guess it never occured to valve to test these situations. Most amazing jew boots |
Jarate seems to not quite be an April Fool's joke. I'll be curious to see what the cool-down time is. Also, neat how you can't use it on yourself to put a fire out. Would also be an interesting tweak to make it so the damage boost also happened to your teammates when you use it on them to put a fire out.
Also, for anyone on here that doesn't already have TF2 and is reading this thread for unknown reasons, this weekend is free to play for anyone. Naturally they choose the worst time when everyone's going to be playing spy/sniper for shitty achievements, but it's still free! Jam it back in, in the dark. |
I'm in the process of reinstalling Windows as I type.
Gonna do the usual thing of redownloading TF2, unlocking all the new shit, playing it for six hours and then shelving it for another few months. Woo! Bring on the demo/soldier/engie update. There's nowhere I can't reach. |
If someone wants to play some TF2 on 360, hit me up.
If you need to ask what my XBLA username is, don't hit me up. This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. |
My brother bought the 360 version of the Orange Box for Portal, so I guess I could give console TF2 a go. How does it compare? I've heard it hasn't had a single content/balance update in eighteen months...
Feel free to add me on XBL. Username = fnool I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body? |
In the process of getting acheivements as I speak, the bow and arrows pretty awesome especially getting headshots at close range legolas style, but I somehow managed to get 2 of them in my loadout!
I have a horrible feeling it's a glitch which has given me 2 of the same weapon instead of a new one every milestone that I'm going to have to report to valve Edit: A newcomer friend of mine said he has 2 of the pyros flare guns, sounds like valve made another silly mistake in the updates... Edit2: Stupid me it's a new random item finding system like something out of an rpg, bad idea valve imo I was speaking idiomatically. |
Nope - they've changed the system by which people acquire the new equipment. It's not tied to achievements anymore; now you just find them randomly. It's resulted in people occasionally having multiple instances of a single new weapon.
What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? |
The fact that this has to drop on the spy and sniper update burns my biscuits if only for the fact that spy is what I'm best at. I got 11 achievements in an actual server in around thirty minutes, and ten minutes after that I found out that it's random loot time in TF2. While in theory it's not a bad idea to have random items given to you, (especially because it's free TF2 weekend and gives a lot of people a chance to experiment) the process itself is completely and utterly random. There is no trigger, there is nothing special you need to do. You can be in a server and see one person get every single item, and no one else gets one, or you can be in a server where no items drop for hours on end. This has led many people to create 'farm' servers in which people set the map times for as long as possible, and everyone sits in spawn just waiting and going off to do other things. A good decision would have been to tie items to points. For every 15 points you get, you get a new item. I haven't even seen headpieces drop. FELIPE NO |
Elaborating on what I said before, it reminds me of online rpgs where people camp the same boss monster for months. It has a chance of dropping some rare item, but then one day another guy kills the monster and gets the item first time, while you continue to grind to death.
It's a flawed and annoying system, it's not even as if they allowed players to trade doubles of items with their steam friends, frankly I'm amazed valve would do something so stupid. What, you don't want my bikini-clad body? |
Did you guys seriously love grinding non-intuitive achievements that much?
I played for about three hours last night; I got one drop. That's not a lot, but with the old system I'd need to get 12 achievements in 3 hours. If I wanted to do THAT I'd have to go to an achievement server, and I don't think anyone agrees that those goddamn monstrosities are good for the game. I want the Huntsman because it looks like it might make Sniping actually kind of fun. I don't want to have to play Sniper incredibly poorly for 80 hours slowly grinding out achievements to get there. The chance to just randomly get the Huntsman while I play a class I am good at and enjoy is a godsend to me. (and if you really think there's no reason the backpack lets you have duplicate items, you're not much of a creative thinker. Say it with me: personalized weapons.) The drop I got, incidentally, was the Axtinguisher, which I already had. Oddly, I am not infuriated by this! Most amazing jew boots |
No achievement servers for me and I have all the unlocks for pyro, heavy, and medic (still haven't managed any for scout since I'm lame and only play on dustbowl).
Also, since nobody posted it, here's the changes they put in with the new game. I'm going to bold the ones I find most exciting/interesting.
There's nowhere I can't reach. |
This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. |
The real game breaker for me will be if they take even more inspiration from mmorpgs by adding multiple versions of the same weapon and one completly dwarfs the others in terms of how good it is, but hopefully that will never happen. I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body? |
I find using enemy teles interesting in theory, but how often will you get to do it? At best this is a good way to quickly locate their tele EXITS so as to camp them, stabbity stab stab
Oops, game broken, oh no, go home, cry Meanwhile, on the TF2 blog, they confirm: - Item trading. This is why you're finding duplicates. What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? |
Apparently I'm not explaining well enough, I was talking about if they decided to make different versions of the same weapon i.e. a level 10 Blutsauger for example instead of a level 5 that does something like +10 health per hit. It's one thing making the weapons unlockable based on luck, but a rarity thing like that would be going too far imo.
edit: Well by some kind of good luck I got all the weapons today, and I've seen players with the medic, engie, scout and pyro hats. Although it has to be said valves attempts to remove the need for achievement servers has only created overnight afk servers instead:
I'll admit I didn't like this system at first, but as long as they don't do things like versions of the blutsauger from levels 1 to 10 I no longer have complaints with it. FELIPE NO |
Well they finally fixed the Ambassador after a day of it being completely unusable.
It does 100 damage a headshot now instead of a measly 45 damage (which I'm to understand a regular revolver shot did more damage than that). Only problem is, I think they lowered the accuracy of the gun, unless a pyro's head is just litterally impossibly to hit. Speaking of which, I'm really on ends about how they gave a sniper a few added strengths against spies, whereas spies did not receive one decent item to help combat pyros. You could argue that the Dead Ringer is suppose to deter pyros from constantly flaming you, but what pyro in this game stops flaming after someone dies? It's just a minor complaint from my end, because I love the spy class so much. I know there has to be anti-classes, but I would have given up the ambassador for some flame resistant oil or something to that extent. Other than that the update hasn't been too awfully bad, but I think that's because I've gotten lucky and got a few good drops after about a day's worth of game time. What, you don't want my bikini-clad body? |