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[Boonoo]

You should play competitive mode. I heard they don't use pyros much there. ;o

They don't use spys or engies much either, so it's a wash.

 

[Ultimatum]

anybody up for an eu 6v6 group?

 

[Javaman]

Whatdog.

Pet found this. So strange. Both are on the same IP, but with different ports. Maybe it's a phishing server.:lol :lol :lol

 

[Sciz]

Perhaps we were due for a slight name change anyway.

 

[Kuro Madoushi]

Whatdog.

Pet found this. So strange. Both are on the same IP, but with different ports. Maybe it's a phishing server.:lol :lol :lol

Odd...

Maybe it's bizzaro GAF server run by Americanoman, with admins: Master, Shiro Madoushi, VERYl33t, Twig

 

[Twig]

I'm admin on the normal server AND the bizarro server? Sweet. U:

 

[AcciDante]

Nob is my mortal foe on the gaf server. Dominated me so many times tonight

 

[Blizzard]

Nob is my mortal foe on the gaf server. Dominated me so many times tonight

It always seems to go one way or the other.

NeoGAF server: An Unfortunate Series of TeamStax (tm).

 

[Yasae]

It always seems to go one way or the other.

NeoGAF server: An Unfortunate Series of TeamStax (tm).

Spoiler

Ironically all you need to play TF2.

 

[n0b]

Nob is my mortal foe on the gaf server. Dominated me so many times tonight

NO! I was your friend see?

oh wait.. D:

Cajole is a great medic. Also, you would think the stack would have been the other way around.

 

[Boonoo]

NO! I was your friend see?

Cajole is a great medic. Also, you would think the stack would have been the other way around.

That really doesn't even look like a stack; other than you, n0b, the points are pretty even; the dominations are pretty even, too.

Edit: The wins are pretty even, too! This is perhaps the least stacked scoreboard I've ever seen.

 

[Blizzard]

That really doesn't even look like a stack; other than you, n0b, the points are pretty even; the dominations are pretty even, too.

Edit: The wins are pretty even, too! This is perhaps the least stacked scoreboard I've ever seen.

We got revenge against n0b (at which point someone started complaining because we didn't scramble in the reverse direction). Those weren't the games where it was as stacked, though. Earlier, I think the engineer leading one team may have had more points (55ish) than the entire other team combined, and the normal double/triple score ratio was in effect.

Later, there was another roll, followed by a new map, and I think about 6-8 of the blu players joined (or ended up on) blu team yet AGAIN, ending up with the top ten players having at least double (a few triple?) their matching equivalents on the other team.

So then I scrambled (having taken two polls about scrambling in two different maps, both of which passed), at which point one of the two top players who were working together (heavy medic / soldier medic? gypsy davey or something like that) apparently switched so they were on the same team again, and dominated yet again, and n0b told me scramble never works. :lol

I claim scramble can when people don't switch back.

 

[Rabbit Lord]

I was frapsing some tf2 last night, during which I got my 1000th backstab achievement. I thought it deserved a little video. Don't mind the fact that I miss the first attempt.

Of course its set to the guile theme.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J65IGuGzXQ

 

[Twig]

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Hush.

 

[Volcynika]

I enjoy throwing jarate at people over and over. And I got drops of weapons I have multiple copies of. And I have no idea where to start with crafting because I've never done it.

fffffffffuuuuu

 

[fallengorn]

I enjoy throwing jarate at people over and over. And I got drops of weapons I have multiple copies of. And I have no idea where to start with crafting because I've never done it.

fffffffffuuuuu

I'm not crafting anything until the polycount update happens. The new weapons will probably be craftable from other stuff.

 

[Azure Dream]

I enjoy throwing jarate at people over and over. And I got drops of weapons I have multiple copies of. And I have no idea where to start with crafting because I've never done it.

fffffffffuuuuu

http://www.tf2items.com/crafting/blueprints.php

Non-achivement items (fan-contributed mostly) have unique crafting recipes that require very little, but otherwise don't waste your materials trying to craft achievement-granted items.

As said above too, keep your extra stuff, since there's going to be an update soon, and the new items will probably be craftable out of simple combinations.

Other than that, it's just a long, painful process of trying to get hats. There was going to be a tiered weapons system, which makes the addition of a crafting system make more sense, but they couldn't get the balancing right.

So it's pretty much smelt crap for weeks, roll dice, get Baseball Bill's Sports Shine "hat", scream.

 

[Drkirby]

I am 2/3rds of the way to making a hat. Most likely, I will just end up with a duplicate to the one hat I do have, some spiffy looking spy hat.

 

[Boonoo]

So then I scrambled (having taken two polls about scrambling in two different maps, both of which passed), at which point one of the two top players who were working together (heavy medic / soldier medic? gypsy davey or something like that) apparently switched so they were on the same team again, and dominated yet again, and n0b told me scramble never works. :lol

I claim scramble can when people don't switch back.

Yeah, I agree with that. Switching back to continue a roll is a jerk move.

 

[Cheeto]

1up you're either phishing for steam accounts or you have a virus on your box

 

[Javaman]

I am 2/3rds of the way to making a hat. Most likely, I will just end up with a duplicate to the one hat I do have, some spiffy looking spy hat.

That is exactly what happened to me. I've got 2 spy wigs.

 

[Drkirby]

That is exactly what happened to me. I've got 2 spy wigs.

You could craft them into 1 hat if you don't like the wig at all.

Though you could just end up with 1 wig instead of 2.

 

[Javaman]

You could craft them into 1 hat if you don't like the wig at all.

Though you could just end up with 1 wig instead of 2.

That would be my luck. I did at one point craft a shine and a baseball helmet into a derby. Totally worth it.

 

[Rabbit Lord]

They really need to add a hat trading system.

 

[Lionheart1337]

They really need to add a hat trading system.

Scotsman's Stovepipe on eBay for $100 gogogogogo.

 

[perryfarrell]

I think that on the GAF server, the 'team stax' card gets pulled a little too soon sometimes.

This accusation takes the fun out of both winning and losing.

Even if one team beats another by a large margin, it doesn't automatically mean that teams are stacked. (Especially with people leaving or joining the game half-way through.)

 

[Blizzard]

You could craft them into 1 hat if you don't like the wig at all.

Though you could just end up with 1 wig instead of 2.

I thought they at least fixed it so crafting two hats is guaranteed to give you something different than those two...

I think that on the GAF server, the 'team stax' card gets pulled a little too soon sometimes.

This accusation takes the fun out of both winning and losing.

Even if one team beats another by a large margin, it doesn't automatically mean that teams are stacked. (Especially with people leaving or joining the game half-way through.)

When people say it early they're usually joking about it. I agree though, if one team has double or triple the scores then clearly they're not stacked, they're just...misaligned. :lol

I don't mind being on the losing team sometimes. I switched to try to help the losing team after the well thing I mentioned earlier, and we ended up finally winning one (I believe I dominated one of the two players who had switched back to the same team). It can be frustrating sometimes if you actually decide to work really hard and you lose after 20 minutes on a map you don't like anyway, though. Even people like me and the noble Javamonger might be known to quit in similar circumstances!

But then again, I don't mind giving people practice at pubstomps sometimes, I guess, so my opinion may not count. :lol

 

[perryfarrell]

If you're winning & someone says: teams are stacked, then apparently you didn't win fairly.

And if you're losing & someone says: teams are stacked, I'm like 'Dude have you given up on us already? I want another shot at it.'

 

[Blizzard]

If you're winning & someone says: teams are stacked, then apparently you didn't win fairly.

And if you're losing & someone says: teams are stacked, I'm like 'Dude have you given up on us already? I want another shot at it.'

That's why there's a vote -- people who want another shot at it (i.e. people on the winning team) can ask for that.

And about winning unfairly -- there's no enforced class limits, and everyone stayed in the rules of the game, so you win fairly in that sense, but sometimes it's winning "fairly" in the sense of an exhibition game between a major league baseball team and a university baseball team.

 

[DogWelder]

I'd say half the time a team gets rolled it's class mismanagement and not unbalanced teams. Yesterday on a payload map we got rolled because we had 4 medics, 3 pyros and 0 engies on defense. And on cp_steel we had 5 pyros on D. :\

 

[moojito]

I think I'm at the golden stage of newb-ness with this game where I know a bit about the classes, and some good spots on maps to rack up a few kills, but not familiar enough with the game to be able to spot, let alone get annoyed by teammates failing. I wish that would never change!

In fairness, the HH servers seem pretty good for us UK folks, until someone gets the finger out and cranks up a UK gaf server!

 

[Jangaroo]

I'd say half the time a team gets rolled it's class mismanagement and not unbalanced teams. Yesterday on a pipeline map we got rolled because we had 4 medics, 3 pyros and 0 engies on defense. And on cp_steel we had 5 pyros on D. :\

I feel very bad for you.

 

[DogWelder]

I feel very bad for you.

Sarcasm or not, you shouldn't. I'm quite stubborn so if people won't switch, I don't either. Feel bad for Java, he was the only one who gave half a shit.

Edit: Meant to say payload map, not pipeline.

 

[perryfarrell]

I'm quite stubborn so if people won't switch, I don't either.

That makes a whole lot of sense.

If everyone on the team thinks like that, the team will keep losing.

I love it, a team with 9 snipers, and everyone thinks: if they don't switch, I won't either.

 

[Blizzard]

That makes a whole lot of sense.

If everyone on the team thinks like that, the team will keep losing.

I love it, a team with 9 snipers, and everyone thinks: if they don't switch, I won't either.

We had 3-4 people vs. four snipers (three huntsman, one sniper?) and lost all three pipeline maps last night. :lol One guy was trying to use a backburner against them. It didn't work out too well. I can't remember if you were there or not.

 

[DogWelder]

That makes a whole lot of sense.

If everyone on the team thinks like that, the team will keep losing.

I love it, a team with 9 snipers, and everyone thinks: if they don't switch, I won't either.

I knew someone would say this. I was playing the lone demo and asked if the pyros would be willing to switch to a heavy class and received no reply. I wasn't going to switch to medic/heavy with no support.

 

[Jangaroo]

No sarcasm on my part. I'm not very competitive so I don't mind losing unless we're getting steamrolled. If we put up a good fight and last until the last few minutes or so when defending that's just fine with me. What does make me RAAGE FUUUUUUU is when everyone on my team goes 4 spies and 4 snipers with no heavies or medics and expects me to go medic when they suck at sniping. Grrrrr.

 

[DogWelder]

No sarcasm on my part. I'm not very competitive so I don't mind losing unless we're getting steamrolled. If we put up a good fight and last until the last few minutes or so when defending that's just fine with me. What does make me RAAGE FUUUUUUU is when everyone on my team goes 4 spies and 4 snipers with no heavies or medics and expects me to go medic when they suck at sniping. Grrrrr.

Yep, this is exactly what I meant. Otherwise I'm always willing to play medic.

 

[Proven]

It's a shame that most of the diversity of gameplay goes towards the weaker classes...

 

[rar]

i just dont like people who join as a team of 3 or 4, like gypsy davey and legendary medic, and just dominate. its like, we get it, you can pub stomp with your competitive friends, now leave, join different teams, or play something other than soldier/medic/demo/heavy

 

[Blizzard]

i just dont like people who join as a team of 3 or 4, like gypsy davey and legendary medic, and just dominate. its like, we get it, you can pub stomp with your competitive friends, now leave, join different teams, or play something other than soldier/medic/demo/heavy

Well those two were the ones in question. Yes they could dominate, but one also apparently switched back to counteract the team scramble. It's one thing if you get autobalanced, I don't really have a problem with people switching. It's another thing for people to change at the start of a round after a scramble.

Also, there were those three people (the illusive fuck man, what the fuck man, etc.) who joined and then played double medic/heavy. A couple of them had lots of points, but they were doing double medic healing and hardly helping anyone else so it really hurt the team too, unless other people wanted to try to go medic to make up for it. :lol

At any rate, it's just a game and I should rage less.

 

[rar]

Well those two were the ones in question. Yes they could dominate, but one also apparently switched back to counteract the team scramble. It's one thing if you get autobalanced, I don't really have a problem with people switching. It's another thing for people to change at the start of a round after a scramble.

Also, there were those three people (the illusive fuck man, what the fuck man, etc.) who joined and then played double medic/heavy. A couple of them had lots of points, but they were doing double medic healing and hardly helping anyone else so it really hurt the team too, unless other people wanted to try to go medic to make up for it. :lol

At any rate, it's just a game and I should rage less.

i find it frustrating too, and i try my best to balance it out but I AM ONLY ONE MAN

clone me

 

[Jangaroo]

i find it frustrating too, and i try my best to balance it out but I AM ONLY ONE MAN

clone me

No way, clone me. We all know the best counter to any class is the sniper.

 

[AcciDante]

I didn't know that steam has an internet browser! :lol Now I can browse gaf while I wait for someone to leave the server....

 

[rar]

No way, clone me. We all know the best counter to any class is the sniper.

CLONE US ALL

 

[Yasae]

That is exactly what happened to me. I've got 2 spy wigs.

One's the Jefferson, one's the Washington. Subtle differences.

 

[Javaman]

I didn't know that steam has an internet browser! :lol Now I can browse gaf while I wait for someone to leave the server....

One nifty thing too is to leave autojoin on in the background than join another server. As soon as a slot opens up you'll automatically bounce over to the server you want.

 

[Azure Dream]

i find it frustrating too, and i try my best to balance it out but I AM ONLY ONE MAN

clone me

No way, clone me. We all know the best counter to any class is the sniper.

CLONE US ALL

Spoiler

I'm so very sorry.

 

[Oreoleo]

For a new page:


Server IP: 68.232.178.184:27015

Steam Community group: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Neogaf-TF2

 

[Drkirby]

I think I'm at the golden stage of newb-ness with this game where I know a bit about the classes, and some good spots on maps to rack up a few kills, but not familiar enough with the game to be able to spot, let alone get annoyed by teammates failing. I wish that would never change!

In fairness, the HH servers seem pretty good for us UK folks, until someone gets the finger out and cranks up a UK gaf server!

As a pryo, I feel the opposite. I have no clue how to rack up kills, but running around trying to catch the enemy off guard gives me a good since of where both teams stand. Also, IMO the only way to ever bust though a hardpoint is with a Heavy, or a Medic Ubering someone. If you have crappy/no Heavys, or a Medic who aren't very good, you are not getting though.