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[Proven]

Everytime I attempt to join a server in TF2, it gets to about 3 quarters of the way loading the server, then just freezes completely, no explanation, the background picture continues to cycle for map changes etc. but the game remains frozen at that point in the server join.

Anyone else having this problem?

I've had a problem like this since day 1. The game just freezes and in a minute or two (longer if it's the first time you've launched the game in the while and it has to load assets) it will just join the server. It's infuriating to wait through as it even freezes the steam overlay, so I always play TF2 windowed so I can do something else while I wait. Like taunt Kuro.

 

[Clydefrog]

[EDIT] There's a CTF map on the server, atrophy but it has the intel on a cart that slowly slides toward the center. Taking the intel will stop the cart until the intel is returned. Capping the intel sends the cart rolling all the way back to the start of the track to get a new intel. Basically, the longer you defend the intel the harder it becomes to defend. I'd like to try that map one night, just to see how it goes.

Weird, I played that map last night. I hated it.

 

[JakkuFurosu]

I got jammed into a situation where I had to try demoman....god I blow with him.Guess its practice like every other class. Tried sticky jumping with dire consequences........off to youtube

 

[Yeef]

I got jammed into a situation where I had to try demoman....god I blow with him.Guess its practice like every other class. Tried sticky jumping with dire consequences........off to youtube

Unlike rocket jumping, sticky jumping is generally only useful for getting to the front lines. Stickyjumping while in battle leaves your health so low that you'll get killed pretty quickly.

 

[JakkuFurosu]

Unlike rocket jumping, sticky jumping is generally only useful for getting to the front lines. Stickyjumping while in battle leaves your health so low that you'll get killed pretty quickly.

Ill play a few rounds tonight at the Jank with him. Nothing trains you faster then 10 dudes cursing at you.


What seems to be the popular loadout for him or should i just stick to vanilla?

 

[Uriah]

Ill play a few rounds tonight at the Jank with him. Nothing trains you faster then 10 dudes cursing at you.


What seems to be the popular loadout for him or should i just stick to vanilla?

Vanilla is best.

 

[Borgnine]

You're not a real demo on Jank until you dress like Wartime. Also, die Treecubed.

 

[Clydefrog]

I spent over half an hour trying to get a mantreads kill last night. Didn't happen.

 

[JakkuFurosu]

You're not a real demo on Jank until you dress like Wartime. Also, die Treecubed.

I was trying to remember his name before....That dudes a beast at demo... While i was playing my few rounds as demo I had a decent pyro up my ass (my usual class) and i was trying to remember how wartime kept pwning me last night...to no avail. (chalked it up to superb skills)

Though everytime i think Jank demo i think Dennis Rodman. Why every demo guy gotta have kanye glasses :/

I second the die Treecubed sentiment as well and will add QoT and crushed!

 

[SteveWinwood]

I spent over half an hour trying to get a mantreads kill last night. Didn't happen.

One night I'm just going to walk in with the rocket jumper and the mantreads and destroy all of your heads.

 

[Rufus]

Not really related to TF2, but I just saw a guy named Jesus spectating during my last game. Oh boy oh boy, Internet, was that every amusing.

 

[Azure Dream]

Nothing's more depressing than doing something hilarious, jamming the F6 key and seeing "this server does not support replays."

I did Play Now, but it actually matched me with a "real" server, instead of a Valve-hosted server. It still was pretty low-mid tier pub play, and I was mostly kitted out to mess with the new Deus Ex items. So I was a Sniper with the Machina (scope-only shots), Jarate, and the Shahanshah, which I'd never messed with before much either. We were on Steel, A was capped, and most people were moving on to B. I went A - E, because I just like doing that, and sniped a Pyro trying to kill a friendly Scout along the way.

I ended up behind B. I knifed a Dispenser behind the point to death, took a bit of Sentry fire, threw my Jarate (but only got a Medic), and had at least three different people come at me swinging at the same time. I murdered them all with my knife, including the Medic with full uber. I decided to head toward C on the off-chance I could disrupt an Engineer there if we got B, "killed" a Spy along the way, and took the lower route by the big health kit. By this point the Spy had grabbed the kit and De-DRed, and had some shoddy disguise. I hit him again, and he almost immediately De-DRed, probably by accident. Despite his relative advantage (like having a working gun without scoping), I charged him, and he backed up...

Right into the giant pit under E. Backpedaled straight to his death.

It was so much funnier the way it happened, it's frustrating to find out you can't save replays when it counts.


New Sniper Rifle's a beast; the Widowmaker is fun, but needs to either eat less metal or increase your total metal to 300.

 

[MarkMclovin]

I don't think there is anything worse than playing against a team that has a good Demo. Playing against a good Spy, I can handle, but a good Demo? It's like it's personal or something.

Fuck you.

It's also the class which I feel is overpowered too, so maybe I'm biased a little.

 

[XeroSauce]

I spent over half an hour trying to get a mantreads kill last night. Didn't happen.

Rocket Jumper, Mantreads, Market Gardener.

Ran that loadout for 15 minutes and got a total of two kills, one completely by accident (fell off a roof and landed on a GRU Heavy.

 

[speedpop]

I don't think there is anything worse than playing against a team that has a good Demo. Playing against a good Spy, I can handle, but a good Demo? It's like it's personal or something.

Fuck you.

It's also the class which I feel is overpowered too, so maybe I'm biased a little.

Throw a Scout at them!

Also most of them love to backtrack and forget that they have the grenade launcher (probably through spamming it down some needless corridor 20 seconds prior) so I tend to run at them to close the gap.

 

[XeroSauce]

I don't think there is anything worse than playing against a team that has a good Demo. Playing against a good Spy, I can handle, but a good Demo? It's like it's personal or something.

Fuck you.

It's also the class which I feel is overpowered too, so maybe I'm biased a little.

Most of them spam the hell out of their sticky launcher. I'm like that too.

They suck against Scouts and Pyros if you manage to flank them. DR Spy isn't bad either.

 

[Yeef]

In regards to Diamondback crit glitch:

We have a fix implemented and tested. We expect to release it in an update this afternoon.

- Fletch

So there will be a patch today. I wonder if it'll just be bugfixes or have some other stuff as well.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

if i weren't busy playing dx i'd post up the vids of jangaroo and a scout getting penetration killed on doublecross and yeef and java getting their skulls simultaneously slaughtered on plr 2fort

 

[Bakphoon]

In regards to Diamondback crit glitch:
So there will be a patch today. I wonder if it'll just be bugfixes or have some other stuff as well.

It's wednesday in 3 hours here, so it will be a around 60

Spoiler

0

MB big bugfix with only the diamondback bugfix as note.

Spoiler

please let it be a big update for the 15th anniversary

 

[(._.)]

I spent over half an hour trying to get a mantreads kill last night. Didn't happen.

contender for most useless item in the game?

maybe more so than a targe/lock n' load load out

 

[XeroSauce]

contender for most useless item in the game?

maybe more so than a targe/lock n' load load out

I've gotten way more kills with the Loch N' Load then with the Mantreads. It's much easier to lead your target due to the faster grenades.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

Mantreads are worthless.

 

[Smithy C]

Great, now I can finally use a good knife.

 

[Zomba13]

Why is it whenever I see people playing on the EU GAF server they are always just not playing properly or achievement boosting

 

[Moundir&Tony>you]

Why is it whenever I see people playing on the EU GAF server they are always just not playing properly or achievement boosting

I'd love to join you guys , but it's usually too late when I'm online (around midnight GMT+2) .

 

[Smithy C]

Why is it whenever I see people playing on the EU GAF server they are always just not playing properly or achievement boosting

I jumped on there today. Three people trying to get achievements. I kill all three of them, then they tried to voteban me and swore at me in a language I didn't know. It was pretty cool.

 

[Yeef]

The goomba stomp is just a bonus for the mantreads. The main function is the 75% reduction in knockback forces. It keeps you from being juggled via explosives and airblasts. it also makes rushing in on sentries and heavies easier, especially with the speed boost from the whip.

 

[Kuro Madoushi]

I was trying to remember his name before....That dudes a beast at demo... While i was playing my few rounds as demo I had a decent pyro up my ass (my usual class) and i was trying to remember how wartime kept pwning me last night...to no avail. (chalked it up to superb skills)

Though everytime i think Jank demo i think Dennis Rodman. Why every demo guy gotta have kanye glasses :/

I second the die Treecubed sentiment as well and will add QoT and crushed!

Best demos are ICANONLYPLAYDEMOTIME-wartime and ICANONLYVOIDRAYRUSH-Neroh/Hazaro(on Gaf)

If I had to pick between Neroh or wartime though, I'd pick Neroh.

CAUSE WARTIME JUMPS TOO MUCH!

 

[fallengorn]

I think Tre is a better demo than wartime, but he barely plays anymore.

 

[wartime1020]

Most people play demo better than me.

 

[JakkuFurosu]

I just had my first real TF2 rage. I didnt quit, what doesnt kill you makes you stronger right. But I was PISSED.

Now I understand some of the rage posts in here lol. (and no Jacketc, it wasnt the game with you where the 2 stellar engineers we had had 2 sentries up at the end of the map right from the beginning, yet we RAN the whole map cause they refused to put up teles till it was too late....but that didnt help.but the sentries sure did look pretty sitting there collecting dust

 

[moojito]

For people wanting to learn a bit about demomanning, check out this dude - he's pretty damn impressive at explaining his thinking during the video.

 

[TGMIII]

Why is it whenever I see people playing on the EU GAF server they are always just not playing properly or achievement boosting

Sadly I've found unless I stick around and get people I know to join in first, things just don't get started. I really hope we can get to a stage where I don't have to be around to get the server active : /

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

I just had my first real TF2 rage. I didnt quit, what doesnt kill you makes you stronger right. But I was PISSED.

Now I understand some of the rage posts in here lol. (and no Jacketc, it wasnt the game with you where the 2 stellar engineers we had had 2 sentries up at the end of the map right from the beginning, yet we RAN the whole map cause they refused to put up teles till it was too late....but that didnt help.but the sentries sure did look pretty sitting there collecting dust

Was it on barnblitz? I remember you and Jack joining during thar map.

 

[JakkuFurosu]

Was it on barnblitz? I remember you and Jack joining during thar map.

nope.It was badwater(i believe thats the name...the payload one that starts with the tunnel) our glorious engies thought it would be a good idea to tank the last point from the very beginning of match instead of trying to stop them and im not sure what they did rest of time cause I can honestly say they didnt spend their free time building transports or dispensers. Naturally as soon as they got to the end their priceless sentries were destroyed quick.

 

[JackEtc]

Just an FYI guys, I'm clearing out a bunch of my weapons over in the TF2 Trade Thread, in case you are interested.

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

nope.It was badwater(i believe thats the name...the payload one that starts with the tunnel) our glorious engies thought it would be a good idea to tank the last point from the very beginning of match instead of trying to stop them and im not sure what they did rest of time cause I can honestly say they didnt spend their free time building transports or dispensers. Naturally as soon as they got to the end their priceless sentries were destroyed quick.

Ohhhh yeah. I remember now, that's why I changed to Engi since everyone wasted my ubers on defense. Too bad our team doesn't know how to fucking push. One sentry stopped the whole damn team on the last point; didn't change to another class because I was the only Engineer. =\

Those demos seem to forget about their stickybombs.

 

[TurboLibre]

Over four hundred payload matches and it puts me into the same laggy server three times in a row. How frustrating.

 

[deleted]

Nice hats and Birthday-Ball for Gabes Birthday. Demomans handing exploding gifts too.

 

[Forkball]

UPDATE

Added TF birthday replacement models for health kits and ammo packs
Added TF birthday Party Hat and Noisemaker
Fixed The Short Circuit attacking friendly projectiles
Fixed The Short Circuit being hidden when the Engineer taunts
Fixed an infinite crits exploit using The Diamondback
Fixed The Widowmaker not returning the correct amount of ammo when multiple targets are hit
Fixed supply closets regenerating players while they are taunting
Fixed the Select Style UI text overlapping the image of the model
Fixed the sunbeams hat effect
Updated the localization files
Updated the gamehaptics file:
Added draw/recoil forces for The Widowmaker, The Short Circuit, The Diamondback, and The Machina
Added crit fire force for The Widowmaker and The Diamondback
Refined reload force for Flare Gun/Detonator
Bot changes:
Fixed crash with Demoman
bots trying to detonate stickybombs that had already been destroyed
Added tf_bot_kill console command (syntax identical to tf_bot_kick)
Bots obey melee only mode a bit better
Added func_nav_avoid to allow map creators control over where bots "like" to go
Fixed issue with Demoman bot reloading between each stickybomb he fired, causing him to be very slow at setting traps/destroying sentries
Bots never taunt if carrying the flag now
Aiming logic for Huntsman sniper bots
Sniper bots prioritize enemy snipers more aggressively, as well as enemy engineers now
Improved Demoman bot sentry gun sticky bombing
Bots will no longer try to use health entities assigned to the enemy team
Added simplistic behaviors for Chargin' Targe, and various consumables (Bonk drink, sandvich, etc)
Medic
bots stay a bit closer to their patient now
Sniper
bots go after very nearby enemies with their melee weapon now
Added func_tfbot_hint entity to allow map creators to tell sniper bots good places to lurk
Sniper
bots opportunistically fire on viable targets they encounter while on the way to their desired lurking spot
Spy
bots are more aggressive about backstabbing an engineer before sapping his nest now

the hell

 

[JackEtc]

Steam isn't even working for me, I can't even launch it.

 

[vehn]

aww no new weps or anything

 

[Kuro Madoushi]

I think Tre is a better demo than wartime, but he barely plays anymore.

Tre...admin Tre???

I don't recall seeing him on the server, or if he did, he didn't frustrate others like wartime does.

SHUT UP, WARTIME!

 

[Blizzard]

Tre...admin Tre???

I don't recall seeing him on the server, or if he did, he didn't frustrate others like wartime does.

SHUT UP, WARTIME!

Once Tre and Evilore were playing on some random TF2 server. It was scary. Tre is a terrifying demoman.

 

[dragonlife]

I can't even join because you guys are running an older version of the game. That's what it told me when I connected, anyway.

 

[Yeef]

Boring update is boring.

 

[Grimm Fandango]

Some birthday

 

[TGMIII]

That's it?

There has to be more coming....right?

 

[Yeef]

I got a party hat and noisemaker, but they're not showing up in my backpack.

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

Recoil for the Machina? Let's see how it does now.