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Team Fortress 2 Official PC Thread. SO. WORTH. IT.
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I'm sure I could find it if I just looked back a page, but is there a list of all the maps on the server (including stuff not in the rotation!)? I need to download them separately because every time I try to download FROM the server, it takes forever. I assume it's something on campus throttling the download speeds (even though my ping is far better than when I'm at home). With all the customs on the server lately, I can never play because by the time the download's even halfway done, the next map comes up, and then the server's full. Hah.
Also. Final Destination sounds... well, glorious. Icy took the words right out of my mouth! O:
EDIT: I looked back a page (lol) and saw the current rotation. That's easy enough. How about all the customs NOT in the current rotation? Just the two on this page? FD and the... other one?
Also. Final Destination sounds... well, glorious. Icy took the words right out of my mouth! O:
EDIT: I looked back a page (lol) and saw the current rotation. That's easy enough. How about all the customs NOT in the current rotation? Just the two on this page? FD and the... other one?
Thank you very much, sir!
EDIT: Castle2 or Castle3? O: Am I missing something? I found Castle3 on FPSBANANA, but Castle2's in the rotation? Something you didn't like about the new version?
EDIT DOUBLE: While I'm at it, are there any other maps that I should download older versions of?
EDIT: Castle2 or Castle3? O: Am I missing something? I found Castle3 on FPSBANANA, but Castle2's in the rotation? Something you didn't like about the new version?
EDIT DOUBLE: While I'm at it, are there any other maps that I should download older versions of?
Perfect, this should weed out the douches.Icy said:I think I am making head way with these guys.. I may have a list of names of who reversed shortly. I so hope to god i get it......
Anyways.. There's a 90% chance I'm keeping the server up. Anyone who makes a donation, please PM your transaction information,etc when you donate beginning today. Any and all future donations will be refunded after 2 days if I get no PM.
Valve's cooking up a major stew.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=180201&site=pcg
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=180201&site=pcg
I'm not a fan of tying to unlockables, either. Valve games are too good to need gimmicks like that. The new maps/mode sound pretty awesome though.
Agree with the above post. Medic needs more incentive to play, so it's cool they did him first. But you have to hope the rest come in a timely fashion. Those sound like massive changes and if certain classes have to wait a year to get their upgrade, that's gonna be messed up.
Agree with the above post. Medic needs more incentive to play, so it's cool they did him first. But you have to hope the rest come in a timely fashion. Those sound like massive changes and if certain classes have to wait a year to get their upgrade, that's gonna be messed up.
The new changes sound awesome. However, I think it'd be a boon for all players if servers were allowed to dictate whether or not they want to use the new weapons and unlockables.
Ugh, I hope I'll never have to play against you once that happens. :lol
For all the changes that they could make, they need to look into a wall climbing skill for scouts. Can you imagine the chaos?
Won said:Unlockables only for one class will not end well. Especially with Valves dev. speed. Throwing knives for my spy in 2010 confirmed.
Ugh, I hope I'll never have to play against you once that happens. :lol
For all the changes that they could make, they need to look into a wall climbing skill for scouts. Can you imagine the chaos?
Confidence Man
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trh said:
Not looking forward to this at all :/
And convoy deserves a spot in the rotation.
PillowKnight
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Wow, if this doesn't fuck up the balance it could be really interesting. These weapons are switched in real time right? It'd be pretty lame to have to pick one.
Goldrush is gonna be epic, can't wait.
Goldrush is gonna be epic, can't wait.
PillowKnight
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On further consideration...sounds pretty lame. I just realized how much fun it would be fighting a 600 hp heavy without a medic :|. Usually it's and uphill battle but not impossible.
Thinking about it some more, I hope to hell sniper is the last class to receive this. You know when these things are released, there's gonna be shitloads of people playing that class to unlock all the achievements. Servers full of 20 snipers would send me into a one month sabbatical.
Or force me to finally start playing spy and go on a knife spree.
Or force me to finally start playing spy and go on a knife spree.
I dunno... part of the reason 450HP Heavies are so hard to kill is because they have a Medic hosing them to replenish their health while it's going down.
A 600HP Heavy whose health isn't constantly regenerating might be a lot easier to take down than you think, if you just stay out of his line of fire.
I wonder what Pyro will get though. I'm betting that one of his unlockables will be the return of the Incendiary Cannon: weak primary damage, but the rocket splash sets opponents on fire from a distance. That'd be a neat replacement for the Shotgun, and it'd retain the Pyro's ability to discoordinate and wreak havok on clustered enemy groups without necessitating a suicidal close-range ambush.
Maybe for the Flamethrower replacement, he'll get a Flamethrower with weaker max damage, but less damage/distance dropoff, longer range, or less chargeup?
Or, maybe a Flamethrower with less damage, but more afterburn damage, and enemies who are on fire can spread the flames by touching other enemies, similar to the old Medic infection.
A 600HP Heavy whose health isn't constantly regenerating might be a lot easier to take down than you think, if you just stay out of his line of fire.
I wonder what Pyro will get though. I'm betting that one of his unlockables will be the return of the Incendiary Cannon: weak primary damage, but the rocket splash sets opponents on fire from a distance. That'd be a neat replacement for the Shotgun, and it'd retain the Pyro's ability to discoordinate and wreak havok on clustered enemy groups without necessitating a suicidal close-range ambush.
Maybe for the Flamethrower replacement, he'll get a Flamethrower with weaker max damage, but less damage/distance dropoff, longer range, or less chargeup?
Or, maybe a Flamethrower with less damage, but more afterburn damage, and enemies who are on fire can spread the flames by touching other enemies, similar to the old Medic infection.
PillowKnight
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Well it says it boost people permanently up to max...I took that to mean they're still being healed though. Even though that makes no sense. So you'd easily have your entire team at double max hp ? Hm, maybe it's a per life, so if they die the max health boost goes away.Crushed said:
Interesting pyro buffs, maybe he'll finally get some kind of secondary fire. Hopefully there is an excuse to throw blue fire in there somewhere.
Crushed said:
I think an exception may be made. The incendiary grenade in TFC was the one nade that you could spam all day long and no one would complain...mainly because it didn't do jack. :lol
I'm excited to see some additional Pyro buffs/add-ons, imo it's the one class that could really use some extra abilities right now.
Grenade schmenade, I just want to throw wine bottles at people. ;_;Crushed said:
It would serve the same purpose as your incendiary cannon, only possibly with a little less range? But it would be a molotov cocktail awesome.
Well I would certainly hope so. Anything else would just be ridiculous. Actually I would expect that it's only permanent for as long as you have that amount of health. That is, one medic buffs you to double health, but you lose it all. Another medic (not using the Overhealer equipment set) wouldn't be able to heal you all th eway back to double health. Same goes for medic packs. They'll only heal you back to your standard however-much-health-your-class-has.PillowKnight said:
TheOneGuy said:
I'd think a medic gun that heals slower, has no uber, but does the full 200% boost would be fine. The slower healing would prevent people from mindlessly charging into a firefight without having to worry about consequences, and the loss of uber would be a considerable detriment.
I don't think it's as intimidating as it may seem at first sight.
PillowKnight
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Yeah it is a good game changer for medic. During setup you'd have to pick whether you want to :
A) Get an uber going
B) Boost up 5-6 of your teamates to double health.
I don't like it though. Now not only will I have to worry about the asshat medic who's not doing his job, i'll have to worry about the asshat medic who's not doing his job while everyone else runs around at double hp.
A) Get an uber going
B) Boost up 5-6 of your teamates to double health.
I don't like it though. Now not only will I have to worry about the asshat medic who's not doing his job, i'll have to worry about the asshat medic who's not doing his job while everyone else runs around at double hp
.That's why I'm thinking it'll be a "pick one person" thing.PillowKnight said:Yeah it is a good game changer for medic. During setup you'd have to pick whether you want to :
A) Get an uber going
B) Boost up 5-6 of your teamates to double health.
I don't like it though. Now not only will I have to worry about the asshat medic who's not doing his job, i'll have to worry about the asshat medic who's not doing his job while everyone else runs around at double hp
You start Overhealing someone to more than their maximum, then the last person you Overhealed will start dropping back to their normal max. It's just that if the Medic dies or stops healing, then the person won't naturally drain back down on their own.
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New weapons sound great but I worried about balance issues now. And I hope the overcharge is distinct enough that I can tell which medic is which at a distance.
Goldrush sounds awesome though.
Goldrush sounds awesome though.
Overhealer?
Hmmm...
So you heal a heavy to 600 and leave him - he doesn't drain automatically.
What if he gets shot and his health is 520? Can he heal up to 600 again by picking up health packs / sitting at a dispenser? What if he gets shot and his health is below 300?
What if you overheal someone else? Does the heavy's health cap stay? Does it slowly drain? Does it instantly vanish? What if the Medic switches classes? Or loadouts?
I can see it now:
Charge team to 200%.
Have a teammate charge you to 200%.
Have teammate switch to normal medic and charge uber.
Switch to the faster healing gun with no uber (the most probable other gun, unless Valve allows for chain healing or AoE...).
200% Normal Medic --> 200% Fasthealer Medic --> 200% Heavy
If the heavy takes damage, the normal medic can jump on him as well.
The normal medic can uber the fasthealer medic, and juggle the heavy while he's at it.
You can hide one medic behind a corner, and the medics can swap position if need be.
If a medic goes down, you've still got one double-health medic in the area.
I think the changes are unnecessary. I can't imagine how horrible it will be to get Engineers with more powerful SGs or demo men with two sticky launchers (and thus two separate groups to detonate).
This will certainly screw up the experience for anyone who is new to the game and doesn't have the unlocked stuff.
I for one have only a few chor...achievements completed. I think. I don't even know.
On the other hand, I'd love to see a scout loadout that would have 8 shots in the scattergun, or perhaps an alternate firing mode that fires two shots at once.
Or you know, just give me more ammo for the damned pistol. The engineer gets 200 + a clip, the scout gets 36 + a clip.
Let the speculation begin, I guess.
They should certainly roll out changes for all classes at once. I'd hate to see the damned games with all pyros or all snipers...
Any info as to when the changes will take place?
Hmmm...
So you heal a heavy to 600 and leave him - he doesn't drain automatically.
What if he gets shot and his health is 520? Can he heal up to 600 again by picking up health packs / sitting at a dispenser? What if he gets shot and his health is below 300?
What if you overheal someone else? Does the heavy's health cap stay? Does it slowly drain? Does it instantly vanish? What if the Medic switches classes? Or loadouts?
I can see it now:
Charge team to 200%.
Have a teammate charge you to 200%.
Have teammate switch to normal medic and charge uber.
Switch to the faster healing gun with no uber (the most probable other gun, unless Valve allows for chain healing or AoE...).
200% Normal Medic --> 200% Fasthealer Medic --> 200% Heavy
If the heavy takes damage, the normal medic can jump on him as well.
The normal medic can uber the fasthealer medic, and juggle the heavy while he's at it.
You can hide one medic behind a corner, and the medics can swap position if need be.
If a medic goes down, you've still got one double-health medic in the area.
I think the changes are unnecessary. I can't imagine how horrible it will be to get Engineers with more powerful SGs or demo men with two sticky launchers (and thus two separate groups to detonate).
This will certainly screw up the experience for anyone who is new to the game and doesn't have the unlocked stuff.
I for one have only a few chor...achievements completed. I think. I don't even know.
On the other hand, I'd love to see a scout loadout that would have 8 shots in the scattergun, or perhaps an alternate firing mode that fires two shots at once.
Or you know, just give me more ammo for the damned pistol. The engineer gets 200 + a clip, the scout gets 36 + a clip.
Let the speculation begin, I guess.
They should certainly roll out changes for all classes at once. I'd hate to see the damned games with all pyros or all snipers...
Any info as to when the changes will take place?
Confidence Man
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Sounds to me like it's just the normal overcharge, only it goes higher and doesn't drain away automatically. So he brings your health up to 2x and that's it, he goes on his way and your health remains as long as you don't get damaged regardless of whether he heals someone else or switches classes. The only way to get back up to 600 would be from a medic with the right gun.
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