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Team Fortress 2 Official PC Thread. SO. WORTH. IT.
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Confidence Man
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Had a good time on stronghold, though it seems like hell for engineers with such an open area where the intel is.
But I was... playing Stronghold. And there were instant respawns! Either that or I got lucky every single time I got killed, as did my friend...! He was complaining about the instant respawns. Not because of lack of them.Icy said:the server no longer has an instant respawn for almost a week now. Its factory default persay. The server runs on respawns in 15 second intervals. If he doesnt like, he can complain to valve
I swear I'm not making this up! Well didn't before Stronghold, and 2fort didn't after Stronghold, but Strongholddefinitely had instant respawns.
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Yes but I suck so that means I see a lot of respawn timers. ):
EDIT: Oops looks like I was getting map names mixed up. It was Stronghold that had the instant respawns, not Castle. Guess I've never played Castle? Stronghold had castle-like things so I thought maybe...
*cough*
rollingstart
Banned
I am so bad in the other custom map, the capture one.
there are so many holes and ways to get the intelligence that even if I find a good sentry spot, I dont have time to set it up or someone else will still knock it down from commin one of the several other ways.
there are so many holes and ways to get the intelligence that even if I find a good sentry spot, I dont have time to set it up or someone else will still knock it down from commin one of the several other ways.
rollingstart
Banned
I was thinking about it and what needs to be changed as a whole in the game is a delay between a spy dropping the zappers, something to mess up the zappers. In the last few games, spies would rush in and spam drop zappers on everything, I had to constantly be getting them off my sentry and stuff but as I got them off, right away they were dropped, I was pretty much stuck because there was no delay for me to kill him before fixing my stuff.
Foreign Jackass
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Well this map where there's like two paths in a castle that lead to a capture point? It sucks, mainly because once the snipers get in, there's no freaking way to get out of the spawn point. It's REALLY flawed.
CrookedRain
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I think the map time limits need to be lowered. It really takes forever for a map to change and everyone starts complaining about it. Also, it really sucks if you're up against a stacked team and the teams won't be changing for an hour or longer.
Foreign Jackass said:
Are you talking about the one with the long ramp down? And snipers sit way in the distance and snipe anyone that comes down it?
We were just playing a map and Crooked Rain was sniping everyone. After a couple headshots, I buffed the medic and we ubercharged our way down and fought our way to the CP.
But if that's the map you're talking about, you definitely need a good medic to get you out of there if they're set up.
EDIT: Nice. I went on an 8-4 spree against Warcock today to raise my k/d to 11-17. God damn, snipers
CrookedRain
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Yeah, medics are key on that map. It definitely needs to be smaller though. It really sucks for classes like the pyro because in most areas, you can snipe them before they can even get remotely close. Also, the bigger areas make the map take more of a toll on my framerate than any other map. The spawn areas also need more cover around them so they can't be camped as easily.
I guess it's going to be later rather than sooner for us to get some new official maps from Valve. Not that I particularly blame them for taking the time to make their maps as balanced and awesome as possible, but there's such a huge gulf in quality between the user made maps and Valve's.
CrookedRain
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CrookedRain
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Why stop there? Build dispensers and teleports too and have all the engies stand on top or around them.FartOfWar said:
rollingstart
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servers are down it seems
rollingstart
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banners!
CrookedRain
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Nice. Thanks!Icy said:Brought all 3 servers down to update somethings.
Brought map time from 60 to 40 minutes.
Fixed some random kicking by the server due to words used.. (Warcock this is for you)
Added in the NeoGAF Charity Ads
PillowKnight
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Wow, there must be a huge line on the server, cant get in.
Hey Confidence man, how's your map going?
PS : I have to say, valve's map making tools are amazing i'm not the least bit surprised they have such a huge mod community, the tools are really fun to use.
Hey Confidence man, how's your map going?
PS : I have to say, valve's map making tools are amazing i'm not the least bit surprised they have such a huge mod community, the tools are really fun to use.
rollingstart
Banned
wow, in one of the last rounds I topped my teleporter best, originally it was like 10, now it was like 60.
Yeah it's really awesome. I can't wait until they get their user-generated DLC stuff working on steam.Icy said:
I was having an absolute blast on Scout earlier today before the server went down. Moved on to finally finish a game of 2fort on another server, and finally get the World Traveler achievement. 2fort isn't so bad when there aren't three engineers on each team!
TheOneGuy said:
What do you mean? the only DLC content they will be allowing in the future is their video creation service with the video creator that won't be out for 3 months or so.
If you're referring to custom maps, mods,etc you'll have to get that through various community sites.
fallengorn
Bitches love smiley faces
Valve's got TF2 shirts!
Not a big fan of white shirts though. Wished some of them came in the TF2 red and blue colors.
Not a big fan of white shirts though. Wished some of them came in the TF2 red and blue colors.
rollingstart
Banned
Pyro shirt is badass
fallengorn
Bitches love smiley faces
and just because...
After alot of playing and empirical data gathering i have come to the reject the null hypothesis that scouts are imba. It might seem so at first hand because of their increased mobility, double jump and point blank scatter gun damage. But i have realllly seldomly seen a scout on top on the gaf servers or a game breaking scout. Also it is probably one of the hardest classes to play, your aim has to be on viagra.
No scout or demoman shirt is a massive failure on Valve's part!
Soldier's cool, though!
That's a shame. Such a thing would make Steam truly the greatest thing in existence. Complete with rating systems of course. ):
EDIT: Wait wait wait.
I love playing the scout, jumping around, moving fast, it's so much fun. But damn is it hard to play well! I do infinitely better as soldier (well maybe not infinitely). When I'm scout I get so few points (except maybe caps), but when I'm soldier, I shoot up the scoreboard pretty fast. If anything, I'd say soldier is the easiest class to play as. Plus if a scout runs into a level 3 turret, it's pretty much insta-death.
Soldier's cool, though!
Oh, really? I guess I heard wrong. I freely admit I'm ignorant about the future of Steam, I just remember reading something along those lines somewhere. (Is there a place I could go to read up on all of Valve's future plans for Steam? I don't know why I haven't, yet!)Icy said:
That's a shame. Such a thing would make Steam truly the greatest thing in existence. Complete with rating systems of course. ):
EDIT: Wait wait wait.
People think scout is imbalanced?WARCOCK said:
I love playing the scout, jumping around, moving fast, it's so much fun. But damn is it hard to play well! I do infinitely better as soldier (well maybe not infinitely). When I'm scout I get so few points (except maybe caps), but when I'm soldier, I shoot up the scoreboard pretty fast. If anything, I'd say soldier is the easiest class to play as. Plus if a scout runs into a level 3 turret, it's pretty much insta-death.
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