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Team Fortress 2 |OT3| - Murder-based Hat Simulator
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EmCeeGramr
Member
you know who would make a good admin
who would really shape up the place and take out the trash
who would really shape up the place and take out the trash
speculawyer
Member
Where is Jank? Was it janked so hard it got knocked off the net?
I love Hightower.Tenck said:
Dreams-Visions
Member
Crashing every 20 minutes. Damn near guaranteed.
fallengorn
Bitches love smiley faces
Like literally take out the trash?EmCeeGramr said:
SteveWinwood
Member
I was just about to post this...fallengorn said:
Also I would love to be on Neogaf D-squad Scrubs Team or whatever. Just havin' some fun in a tourney. No one yelling at me TOO loud if I suck alot.
Cloudius12
Member
at first, I really really hated Hightower because it took long and I sucked back then.
Now, I love Hightower and it is the best PLR. My new found hate is any 5cp maps.
Now, I love Hightower and it is the best PLR. My new found hate is any 5cp maps.
inb4joke "what are you talking about? You still suck!"
Togglesworlh
Banned
Pretty much all the people worth a damn. And a few others who aren't.n0b said:
SteveWinwood
Member
Vocal minority. I'm part of it. I'd rather play a bunch of new shit maps every once and a while than the same 4 good maps every night. But that's just me.Tenck said:
I am pretty vocal about disliking hightower, are you saying I'm insane? Q.QAcerac said:
But seriously, I was literally thinking early tonight that we should just keep voting for 40 minute hightower rounds every night until people get sick of it. Reverse psychology or something!
Grimm Fandango
Member
Hightower should be changed to 2 rounds only with each round being no more than 10 minutes. Playing the map as it is now is more energy draining than 2Fort.
Acerac
Banned
With all the support the map receives it is tough for me to believe there are others who hate it. Glad to have you on the team.Blizzard said:
I'd just drop from the server for the duration of the map if I was guaranteed a spot once I returned. Add a clock to the map or make the last point less ridiculous to cap and I'd not mind the map one bit. It's that last tiny bit of the map that makes an otherwise potentially enjoyable game in to complete shit.
High Tower isn't nearly as stalematey as it was when it was first released. The combination of the slower ramp speed plus each team having 19 engineers (since it was the engy update) made the games crawl. I still remember that one time we played the map for literally nearly 2 hours on a single round. It was madness. These days the map tends to end before or around the 45 minute timelimit for both rounds.Blizzard said:
Looking through the demos and the database, the vast majority of the times we've played high tower recently it's been over in 16 to 20 minutes. The edge cases are around 30 minutes with the longest being 36 minutes. Remember that's for two full rounds. Original high tower with it's 9 hour single rounds should have built up callous for you by now, Blizzard!
Togglesworlh
Banned
Exactly. Variety trumps quality every time.SteveWinwood said:
Get rid of voting, put it on a rotation, and fuck the whiners because they're unimportant!
RumblingRosco
Member
I for one like High Tower, but do agree it can run a bit long sometimes.
Also, yeah, fuck this crashing. I crash within 20 minutes every time since the Maniversary update.
Also, yeah, fuck this crashing. I crash within 20 minutes every time since the Maniversary update.
I guess I just remember the good bad old days. I still feel like some maps could be made significantly better with very minor changes, and I'm just too lazy/ignorant to do them myself. Now I realize some people might be like "2fort: DELETE THE MAP" but seriously, here are some ideas.
2fort/doublecross: No more than 1 engineer per team.
Pacman: Delete all the invisible walls. Low-gravity optional. This might make everyone go soldier and demoman if you didn't use low-gravity, but eh, it's a silly map anyway. Getting rid of the walls might at least help.
Hightower: Implement the timer mechanism that at least one other payload race map uses...an official one, if I recall correctly? Once the timer runs out, both carts automatically move to the finish line. This might result in a tie on hightower since both carts get stuck at two different areas, but at least it would make people throw themselves at the cart and the map would end.
2fort/doublecross: No more than 1 engineer per team.
Pacman: Delete all the invisible walls. Low-gravity optional. This might make everyone go soldier and demoman if you didn't use low-gravity, but eh, it's a silly map anyway. Getting rid of the walls might at least help.
Hightower: Implement the timer mechanism that at least one other payload race map uses...an official one, if I recall correctly? Once the timer runs out, both carts automatically move to the finish line. This might result in a tie on hightower since both carts get stuck at two different areas, but at least it would make people throw themselves at the cart and the map would end.
Dreams-Visions
Member
aaaaand another crash.
SteveWinwood
Member
Well, that's a little too far...Togglesworlh said:
^^^Guess not.
Blizzard said:
Last time I remember a rotation I still think we had rtv there as an out.
Last time I remember a WORKING rotation was way back in the early days, and the only time we strayed from it was when the rotation was borked for some reason and then an admin would change the map to fix it. That worked fine.
I remember it well. That was back during Java server. On every map one person would be like "NOT THIS map!" and everyone else would be like "let's do it."
Jank Hard has better technology than the Java Jank. With the mapchooser plugin we're using it's possible to change the rotation dynamically based on time of day, number of players, recently played maps and map ratings.
Jank Hard has better technology than the Java Jank. With the mapchooser plugin we're using it's possible to change the rotation dynamically based on time of day, number of players, recently played maps and map ratings.
Togglesworlh
Banned
Yeah 2fort2furious has the craziest map rotation ever, using all those parameters except map rating.
Don't use ratings.
Don't use ratings.
Cuban Legend
Member
at least they've got awesome maps, I was on there tonight after the GAF server emptied and we played on the this awesome Basketball map then someone turned on the server-wide music with the fucking Space Jam song, it was fun as hell for a breather in the rotation.Togglesworlh said:
Togglesworlh
Banned
FIST BUMPCuban Legend said:
SteveWinwood
Member
This sounds like the greatest thing in the world.Cuban Legend said:
Dreams-Visions
Member
Oh wow. The new update *removed* the "Painterly" filter from the Decal Tool.
"Painterly" was the option that allowed you to add any picture and preserve its colors (for the most part). Now the only option is "Stencil", where you only have a handful of pre-determined 2-4 color combination options.
I'm glad I made all my Decals before the update (all made in "Painterly" before the update will stay as they are). Here's hoping they bring Painterly back. Monochrome is just NOT the same.
"Painterly" was the option that allowed you to add any picture and preserve its colors (for the most part). Now the only option is "Stencil", where you only have a handful of pre-determined 2-4 color combination options.
I'm glad I made all my Decals before the update (all made in "Painterly" before the update will stay as they are). Here's hoping they bring Painterly back. Monochrome is just NOT the same.
Acerac said:
Ace, you must abandon your evil thinking, and join us at the Hightower fan club. Only reason I enjoy it.is because I found about it a couple months ago!
I do like variety, so I welcome any map suggeations you guys may have (EXCEPT FUCKING YUKON!!!!!). I just want at least one game of Hightower every few days
Acerac
Banned
There's nothing wrong with the stage in theory. It just needs a timer and the last push needs to be about half as big. Change those two small details and you'll never hear me complain about the stage again.Tenck said:Ace, you must abandon your evil thinking, and join us at the Hightower fan club. Only reason I enjoy it.is because I found about it a couple months ago!
I do like variety, so I welcome any map suggeations you guys may have (EXCEPT FUCKING YUKON!!!!!). I just want at least one game of Hightower every few days
If we restricted Hightower to every few days you couldn't imagine how elated I'd be. The fact that we play it nightly (sometimes multiple times) is what bugs me.
Togglesworlh
Banned
Wouldn't be a problem if mapvoting didn't exist.Acerac said:There's nothing wrong with the stage in theory. It just needs a timer and the last push needs to be about half as big. Change those two small details and you'll never hear me complain about the stage again.
If we restricted Hightower to every few days you couldn't imagine how elated I'd be. The fact that we play it nightly (sometimes multiple times) is what bugs me.
Togglesworlh
Banned
ugh you hate hightower AND love mapvoting
you are just the WORST PERSON IN HISTORY
you are just the WORST PERSON IN HISTORY