Team Fortress 2 Discussion Thread

[quote name='shinryuu']These scout achievements take awhile if you try earning them the way they wanted you to earn them...[/quote]


This is why I really wish they just unlocked them with a patch. I mean nearly everyone who wants the weapons (and who wouldn't) goes about it in a manner valve does not intend (be it achievement servers or other means). You'd think they'd have realized this after releasing the packs for medic, heavy, pyro.
 
[quote name='BlueScrote']This is why I really wish they just unlocked them with a patch. I mean nearly everyone who wants the weapons (and who wouldn't) goes about it in a manner valve does not intend (be it achievement servers or other means). You'd think they'd have realized this after releasing the packs for medic, heavy, pyro.[/QUOTE]


Pyro and Heavy are actually fairly balanced in terms of achieving through normal play. Medic and Scout are quite difficult to achieve through normal play due to some of the achievements being outside of what the class would normally do (i.e. Uber a scout - kill 3 people). Too many of the scout achievements actually require the unlocked weapons.
 
Thing is, when you play Medic it actually helps the team. When you play Scout, you probably won't be doing as good as you would with a different class. That might just be only me, but still.

All I want to say is these achievements will take awhile for me, just like how the Heavy achievements are hard for me. =p
 
[quote name='BlueLobstah']Pyro and Heavy are actually fairly balanced in terms of achieving through normal play. Medic and Scout are quite difficult to achieve through normal play due to some of the achievements being outside of what the class would normally do (i.e. Uber a scout - kill 3 people). Too many of the scout achievements actually require the unlocked weapons.[/QUOTE]

I think it was very well made in that they are fun and fit scoot behavior.

Kill a fully charged medic
Kill from behind
Capture points (At least 5 achievements for these)
Kill lots of guys
Double Jump

See what I mean?
 
What servers do you guys frequent? I've tried to follow the last couple of pages of the thread in regard to servers, but haven't had much luck.
 
[quote name='Kayden']Bitches best be getting on my server soon...[/quote]


I tried joining your server and I got an error saying that:

server is using an older protocol (14) than your client.
 
[quote name='BlueScrote']I tried joining your server and I got an error saying that:

server is using an older protocol (14) than your client.[/QUOTE]

yup same here. got a new friend playing and we were gonna show him the ropes in an empty server so i was like hey we'll use kaydens. no dice.
 
[quote name='Kayden']Mmmk, try again.[/quote]


Alright I got on there now. Any ideas for at least a one-shot CAG night on Kayden's server?
 
fucking annoying.

At game start, you can't move for 5 minutes. You can shoot your feet and jump, but you can't move.
Game also gets stuck at Waiting for players.

Since Valve has zero support or instructions, I'm going to say fuck it unless one of you wants to look into it. I don't have the patience for this half assed shit.
 
I've been having fun on challenge map and mic spam/surf servers.

Hoping scouts will go away eventually and I can go back to normal gaming, but its a fun change of pace anyway.
 
[quote name='lanleague']I farmed Heavy achievements.

I feel so dirty.[/QUOTE]

I farmed medic and half of pyros. But Heavy? They're so easy :bomb:

Oh well, don't sweat it.

EDIT: Actually in reflection, looks like I farmed heavies too :(
 
They need a way to be able to list the server's settings, like what their ping limit is. I hate joining a server, dominating it, and then get that lag spike and bam, kicked.
 
[quote name='crystalklear64']They need a way to be able to list the server's settings, like what their ping limit is. I hate joining a server, dominating it, and then get that lag spike and bam, kicked.[/QUOTE]

It's not easy for them to detect things like that because that's a sourcemod. I do agree though, they ought to add an option to "See all mods" when you right click a server, effected gravity, hlstatsx, etc.
 
Game updated today. Sandman gets much-needed nerf. Now only inflicts half the damage it used to and the minimum distance to actually stun the player has increased.
 
I think it's still too powerful, the stun time to distance ratio is nuts. I got hit (On 2Fort) from the middle of my battlements (The mini-house in the middle) to the doorway to getting out to the battlements and had a ~3-4 second stun. It really needs to be 3-4 from battlement to battlement or something.
 
I always thought that stunning an ubercharge was deathly wrong. The Sandman should push back ubers like a flamethrower airblast.
 
[quote name='Hydro2Oxide']Hey, I just noticed Kayden got banned. What happened D: (Sorry for seriously OT)[/quote]

He has had a long history getting banned for posting dumbass NSFW .gifs and being a douchebag. I guess that it finally caught up with him.
 
I think Egypt needs some tweaks. Stage 1, a good offense can get pass this if Red decides to stack on engys/have little-to-no medics. Maybe, 1/6 times a team gets pass this stage. Stage 2 is almost impossible if you build on that arch near the second point. 1/10 times a team gets pass this stage. Then the third stage somehow is the easiest out of all of them. wtfbutter.

Junction just gets boring after the first time you play it.
 
Multi-core support has officially been released:

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/57728

To turn it on, go to the Options->Video->Advanced dialog, and check the "Multicore Rendering" option
Click to expand...

In the past this was available only as a console command and it greatly increased performance for a lot of people but also added a lot of instability. I hope this official release makes it completely usable. Should notice a big FPS bump during firefights.
 
[quote name='mtxbass1']*awaits the freezes that came with L4D when they added multi-core support*[/QUOTE]

Didn't the game ship with multi-core support?
 
I'm not going to even bother with multicore, in Left 4 Dead I had to turn it off because the game would freeze for 2-3 seconds every minute or so with multicore on but ran just fine with it off.
 
I don't notice any difference with it enabled. Frame rate with a zoomed sniper still dips for me. When I play sniper on my brother's computer, it's soooo easy. On this computer, if there's a pyro using his flamethrower or medic healing, my fps lowers... haha.
 
[quote name='NTolerance']Didn't the game ship with multi-core support?[/quote]

Broken, freeze-laden, "beta" multi-core support.
 
[quote name='Hydro2Oxide']When I run multicore my game skips a hell of a lot. It's fluid without. Guess it's a bust so far.[/QUOTE]Same. I thought my mouse was screwing with me at first.

Oh well. TF2 already runs damn fine as it is for me.
 
Valve announced yesterday that the next class to get an update will be the sniper, and that the sniper update will be the biggest one yet. Before that we'll be getting an update before the sniper update that includes content for all classes.

For those who missed it Valve also had a great April Fools joke: the Jarate.
 
Avoid this server: 216.6.236.150:27015

It's a West-coast Seattle server that advertises 24/7 Payload rotation and false playercounts. It does not respond to player queries.

Why are these servers still showing up after the server-scoring patch?
 
[quote name='Nohbdy']Avoid this server: 216.6.236.150:27015

It's a West-coast Seattle server that advertises 24/7 Payload rotation and false playercounts. It does not respond to player queries.

Why are these servers still showing up after the server-scoring patch?[/QUOTE]

HEY! You're that guy on the Steampowered forums!

They haven't implemented the scoring and removing system yet.

Anyhow, thought I'd let you guys know I made a google Chrome TF2 theme :bouncy:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=834845
 
woooo, sniper is next class update. this update is going to include a bunch of new maps and gameplay tweaks. they're also planning to release an update before the sniper update that will include content for all classes. also those videos at the end are really cool.

http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=2394

EDIT: oh crap, i totally didn't see the other post that already said this. whoops!
 
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