gottalovetheglove
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Yeah, it's been up there for a while, only downloaded it a couple of days ago. It's very fun to just screw around in, and the 'easter egg' is pretty creepy in a funny way (roMonster said:
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Team Fortress 2 Official PC Thread. SO. WORTH. IT.
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fallengorn
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PillowKnight
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That could be, but it's not the whole story. There's all that mention of friendship pacts. Edit : that could be adding someone to your friends list, besides that there's some other unexplained stuff.fallengorn said:
I think it might be a Death match mode with hidden alliances, even though it seems strange and far fetched when you consider how it could be implemented be implemented. It's not like TF2 to have a huge button pop up or a lot of intrusive UI.
gottalovetheglove
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According to Kotaku: "We've got something coming, but it's not a new game mode," Valve's Robin Walker says. "The key to understanding the new sound files is to figure out who's hearing them in-game, and who isn't."
It has nothing to do with your friends list, from what I can tell. I heard one or two of the sound clips with no one on my friends list on the server (or even TF2, I think).
It has nothing to do with your friends list, from what I can tell. I heard one or two of the sound clips with no one on my friends list on the server (or even TF2, I think).
Azure Dream
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Could it be where you and someone on your friends list join opposite teams, and play through a round without killing each other? Maybe spend a certain amount of time near each other without shooting?
Most possible explanation to me so far seems a temporary objective mission that teams up players (possibly on separate teams) temporarily to complete an objective that offers some kind of reward (Probably hats knowing valve :lol). You also have the ability to kill off your 'friend' to increase chances of getting an item/hat/bonus (Faster cap speed, or something? Bonus HP, Mini crits for a certain time).
Now off to the Steam forums to see if I can find anything else interesting....
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I guess Soldier / Demo update before christmas? Anti-Sentry bros?
gottalovetheglove
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Didn't get any of the sound files/messages in that round, sadly.
Also wow a lot of people on that server were using +/- rates, I only just noticed that.
Didn't get any of the sound files/messages in that round, sadly.
Also wow a lot of people on that server were using +/- rates, I only just noticed that.
gottalovetheglove
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Oh yeah, a couple of people had that on my screen. My theory is that it's a squished image of some sort. I take a quick look in the files, see if I can find anything.Hazaro said:
gottalovetheglove
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Aside from the pretty old hat updates and the Halloween update, there haven't been any big updates. There was one only yesterday or so, but that was meant to be just a bug fix patch until some people found announcer files which sounded like a new game mode or something, and everyone's still trying to figure out what it is now that Blizz have outright denied it being a game mode.evlcookie said:
Anyway, no dice on the files. Was a brief search. Would be much easier if GCFScape allowed you to find the date when files/folders have been edited last. That way I could just check every folder (there aren't many) for the most recently updated one, and work my way from there.
gottalovetheglove
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Er yeah. I've been talking about Blizzard a lot in regards to WoW lately. I guess I'm just sort of used to it by now, I didn't even think about it.evlcookie said:You mean valve and not blizz?
I haven't played since kicking ass on the Halloween map, so i really should start playing again.
gottalovetheglove
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TF2 forums are saying that the voice clips are exclusive to the Soldier and Demoman. You know what that means. Hopefully a Christmas present from Valve.
That would make sense considering I didn't hear it at all while playing only Medic and a tiny bit of Spy in my last game, but did when I was possibly playing Demoman (I can't remember except that I never play Solly).
EDIT: Played a tiny bit more (only went as Solly and Demo), heard one/two things. I believe (the TF2 forums seemed to think the same thing) that the announcer says the betrayal lines whenever someone switches teams. I saw someone who got the sounds to trigger manually by switching teams. I think she said "You have betrayed my trust!" and "You have betrayed us all!". I didn't get any of the other ones.
That would make sense considering I didn't hear it at all while playing only Medic and a tiny bit of Spy in my last game, but did when I was possibly playing Demoman (I can't remember except that I never play Solly).
EDIT: Played a tiny bit more (only went as Solly and Demo), heard one/two things. I believe (the TF2 forums seemed to think the same thing) that the announcer says the betrayal lines whenever someone switches teams. I saw someone who got the sounds to trigger manually by switching teams. I think she said "You have betrayed my trust!" and "You have betrayed us all!". I didn't get any of the other ones.
GoldandBlue
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From the TF2 forum. Robin Walker briefly had 3 unidentified items for the Demoman and Soldier.
gottalovetheglove
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So I think that just about seals it being the Demo/Soldier update. The voice files seem like a lot of effort for a silly stealth-announcement.
Crab Milk Mickey
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GOD DAMN YOU JIMMY GIBBS JR.
GoldandBlue
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Hah hah this is awesome. I love the comic and hope the Update will include a new Meet the video.
fallengorn
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Oh gawd, soldier and demo? Hope everyone loves crits. :lol
GoldandBlue
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It's gonna be hell for anyone playing Engineer during the update. :lolfallengorn said:
gottalovetheglove
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And Engineer is the only character that won't have been updated after this. Coincidence? I don't think so.GoldandBlue said:
Remember how the 'Sniper' update turned out, guys?
Blue Geezer
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tbh it sounds like demo and soldier need to compete.
how about class with the most frags gets their update first?
how about class with the most frags gets their update first?
i'm guessing that "friendship" is determined if you haven't killed or assisted in killing a player for a set amount of time. you then personally get an announcement telling you to try and kill or assist in the killing of that particular player. it's like a secondary objective/meta-game.
as for what happens when you do (or don't) achieve your objective.... who knows? personal buff? team buff? new hat/item? some sort of change in map condition?
as for what happens when you do (or don't) achieve your objective.... who knows? personal buff? team buff? new hat/item? some sort of change in map condition?
After the comic, I'm feeling like the random sound clips are just part of this teaser story the blog is running before the Solider/Demo updates to get people more interested in TF2 and possibly the who back story.
I still like the idea of a Christmas Truce, though.
I still like the idea of a Christmas Truce, though.
I've been learning Soldier for the past few months. I prefer Blue. I even got one of those "Your argument is invalid!" Soldier shirts in blue.
One of my close friends plays Demo. He did it because he wanted to blow up buildings and still do shit when the rest of the team is just Spy/Snipers. Likes red shirts.
Tonight will be... interesting.
One of my close friends plays Demo. He did it because he wanted to blow up buildings and still do shit when the rest of the team is just Spy/Snipers. Likes red shirts.
Tonight will be... interesting.
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Been a while since we had all GAFfers I believe.
Posted in the Gaming Discussion thread as well for exposure.
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