tangmaster96
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Hire date April 10th 2011
Ditto, except finals haven't started yet. That doesn't change the fact that I just had the shittiest week ever for college, thoughI'm done with finals. We better play tonight.
We all know that some server operators run mods specifically designed to falsify information sent to the Valve backend and to their players. These mods inaccurately report the player count and whether players are human or not. They conceal that significant modifications to gameplay have been made. This is detrimental to players' experience.
Perhaps some server operators would actually prefer to not run these mods, but feel that it is necessary to compete and maintain their community. For this reason, Valve has made the decision not to take any action against any server operators at this time.
We will be directly contacting some of the "institutional offenders" who are using these mods on multiple servers. However, whether we contact you directly or not, this email serves as warning to all server operators that we do have the ability to detect this class of behavior, and, going forward, we are going to be more aggressive at policing it. If we determine that you are modifying the network stream or otherwise circumventing basic security measures, we will take the actions needed to maintain a positive environment for our players.
To be perfectly clear, here are some examples of the modifications and behaviours which we consider especially harmful to our community:
* Forging or modifying network communications used to describe server properties to the backend or directly to clients.
* Concealing the fact that bots are bots, and making them appear as human players. (Running bots is OK, as long as no modifications are made that make it difficult for players to identify which players are bots and which are humans.)
* Interfering with the mechanisms that advertise modifications to gameplay rules in the server browser. (For example, nocrits, gravity, respawn times, etc.) Experimenting with gameplay modifications is encouraged, but any mechanisms in the engine designed to alert players to those modifications must be allowed to function.
* Listing the same game server multiple times in the master server.
Thank you,
Fletcher Dunn
We have plans for some sort of intermediate form of game server selection that allows for more user customization. Something in between quickplay and the full server browser. We are really interested in helping people locate the type of game they want to play, and if we can help them find it quickly without wading through the server browser, well do that.
As for whether we will change the purpose of the super-simple press one button, get into a game version of quickplay we have right now --- probably not. That search will probably continue to be used primarily to locate a good server for the vanilla team fortress experience, the one we expect new players to use.
- Fletch
Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
[EDIT] Also, from the mailing list:
Oh thank god. I've always been so annoyed by fake playercounts and bots in rooms that claim to have no bots.
nope, artistdude trolled us all :[
Allow him on the server...but ban him from playing spy. *trollface*Really? Fuck him. Ban him from the server forever.
Vanilla engineer only.Allow him on the server...but ban him from playing spy. *trollface*
The fuk....2 days of idling, yesterday I got 1 gunslinger and today I got 4 random pieces of crap :/
so yeah im tf2 broke for xmas update
Ban him from soldier
Also everyone should chip in so insomniac can get a new computer
...and then he goes back to playing TF2. Figures.Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
Probably everybody wearing the Halloween pin that makes you explode.By the way, is it just my game or is everyone exploding when they die by anything? It was hilarious seeing a guy send far away and when he landed he exploded.
"name": "Naughty Winter Crate 2011"
"item_description": "This crate is unusually festive.\nIts contents are unknown and\nnormal keys don't fit the lock.\n\nYou'd better hold onto it.\nThere'll probably be a way to open it later."
"name": "Nice Winter Crate 2011"
"item_description": "This crate is unusually festive.\nIts contents are unknown and\nnormal keys don't fit the lock.\n\nYou'd better hold onto it.\nThere'll probably be a way to open it later."
Yeah I just got one of those. Guess I ought to trade it away ASAP.New crates are coming according to the Schema update:
Are we playing tonight?
How much? How effing MUCH DO YOU WANT FOR THAT BEAUTIFUL HAT?!?!?!?!?!?!
I swear I will put it to good use ;_;
I love the Spy <3
That #3 is going to be worth a lot, more than I think it should be. But we are talking about virtual hats here.
That #3 is going to be worth a lot, more than I think it should be. But we are talking about virtual hats here.
Any explanation about where that picture came from?hhnnnnnngggg
Updates to Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Source Engine Changes (TF2, DoD:S, HL2M)
Added video options UI for Windows Vista / Windows 7 DirectX extensions. Disabling the extensions will increase memory usage, but can improve compatibility with video drivers.
Team Fortress 2:
Fixed wearable gibs spawning outside of the map
Fixed some missing strings for the Backwards Ballcap
Updated these items so they can be crafted and traded
The Dr. Whoa
The Dashin' Hashshashin
The Sharp Dresser
The Point and Shoot
The War Head
Updated the localization files
Any explanation about where that picture came from?
Last time random rockets showed up, we got cow manglers.
the windows are now lit up and there's ladders coming out of it
could be more Grogobort stuff, or it could be some kind of alien invasion game mode or something.