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Team Fortress 2 |OT4| Official Halo Thread of Polearms and High Fashion
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Perfect birthday present.
I immediately guessed what this was when you said "left us hanging 3 years ago".
Update http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=17567
Glorious thing in the patchnotes:
Thanks Valve
Edit: Nevermind, didnt fix it for me
Glorious thing in the patchnotes:
Thanks Valve
Edit: Nevermind, didnt fix it for me
ArtistDude88
Member
That sucks...they even said those affected by the bug would have the max number of campaign points. Maybe your bug is slightly different? I'm assuming no contracts show up as active for you now.Update http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=17567
Glorious thing in the patchnotes:
Thanks Valve
Edit: Nevermind, didnt fix it for me
fallengorn
Bitches love smiley faces
Glorious!
The Artful Dodger
Member
This did not disappoint.
TheRedSnifit
Member
X finally delivered.
The Shadow Knight
Member
So I uncrated my latest contract crate today and as I uncrated it TF2 just straight up crashed to desktop, when I returned to the game this was waiting for me:
http://i.imgur.com/EgnUxKE.png
First time I've ever struck gold while unboxing.
http://i.imgur.com/EgnUxKE.png
First time I've ever struck gold while unboxing.
According to that, TF2 will not be ported to Source 2.
I finally got the engineer contract so I'm now to the advanced points. It is indeed extremely difficult to get 5 enemies to suicide to your sentry, and then repeat that 2 more times. Even on choke point maps, after the first 3 or so walk into it, chances are someone will kill it.
If any spy targets you, convincing teammates to pyro spycheck or even help kill the spy seems really difficult too.
*edit* It's even worse because it doesn't count assists. You have to get actual kills.
ooooooh this looks nice
ashecitism
Member
Question, is this after a recent meeting or does he mean the last time they talked about, aka "not happening soon, because no need for it"? If it's the latter it's non-news, if it's the former sounds like definitive no and thus news.
InvertedComposer
Banned
Medic Contract for me this week.
2 Points for getting a point
10 points for kill with an ubered heavy
20 points for killing a sentry (including mini) with uber
Heck I finished in 30 minutes, though one day I'll dread getting Engineer Contracts, those are hell.
2 Points for getting a point
10 points for kill with an ubered heavy
20 points for killing a sentry (including mini) with uber
Heck I finished in 30 minutes, though one day I'll dread getting Engineer Contracts, those are hell.
I'm afraid I don't know.
Yeah I did an engineer one today and the bonus points are tough. I got a case drop at least, but the case I got was down to about $1 to sell and they look like they'll mostly get lower in the future. At least I already paid off the overall campaign.
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
I messaged him a link to that earlier today. The pictures are cute.
My sideboard was poor against CoCo and affinity, so I needed some comfort food.
For our dear NSQuote, he finally got into the credits for something: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10tiWNnY3jA
Oreo didn't like it but I still think the tide turner is pretty funny with such rapid turns if you can manage to actually contact enemies before swinging.
Demonkights are plenty of fun to play, but the melee hit detection in the game is just terrible. Having a (sub)class based around a broken system just feels like bad design to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yd1YpPZ0XM#t=1m
I've seen that video and I like it but isn't it supposed to be because of smoothing, multiple 40+ ping people, hidden hitboxes, prediction, and all those things behind the scenes? I assume there was some reason for it and the replays aren't 100% accurate or something.
I mean, if it had been broken for 7 years surely Valve would fix it right? I hope?
I didn't have any problems with the tide turner specifically. It's just more to do with the fact that if you don't get the kill you are basically boned. No escape and basically praying to RNG that one of your swings connects eventually. Plus with the map we were on there wasn't much utility, trying to basically push into enemy spawn with 3 or 4 enemies coming at you constantly. Recipe for disaster.
I don't mean broken as in "not working as intended." I mean broken as in "poorly designed." The melee works the way it's supposed to, but that doesn't mean it works well. You have extended or decreased range depending on which direction your facing in relation to the geometric coordinates, for example.
Head of Vengarl
Banned
Holy shit, that gave me motion sickness. It's like the HL2 hovercraft scene all over again. How do you people play like that?
Ah, gotcha. That sounds funny about the range change.
I think you will get a bunch at once, but bear in mind the cases sell for much less now ($0.50 to $0.70?) than they did originally, if that's what you're interested in.
That didn't take long. But of course the cases aren't the money making item people want. It's all about the drops that you can sell.
I don't know you well enough to judge if that's sarcasm, so just in case it's serious -- the weapon drops are almost completely worthless and have been from very early on. Even weapons out of cases have been (on average as far as I know) worth much less than the case itself.
People were selling cases for $4-6 shortly after the campaign came out, or opening them for weapons worth $1-2. As for non-case weapon drops, mine seem to be in the $0.04 to $0.08 range.
As I've said before the cases are sold at a high price for the first week then drop. (As you've experienced) but the idea is that the contracts will give you a chance to obtain "rare" weapons which will fetch you a few dollars. Which means you only need a few drops to get your money back. These drops are not available to those who didn't buy the pass so that's the reward they get, the drops.
Where the hell did you see sarcasm!?
The bolded is the issue. The drops you get from the campaign are not rare unless you are very lucky, as far as I know. I just checked 3 recent weapon drops I have from 2 different collections, for example. They're worth $0.05, $0.15, and $0.10.
The very first week or two, I sold two weapons. One sold for $1.31, the other for $2.61. Those same weapons now sell for $0.12 and $0.28 respectively.
Compared to that, I sold TF2 weapons cases for $6.27, $3.09, and $1.01. Even now, cases are still selling for $1.41 and $0.83, while the only weapons I sold for over $1 are now worth much less as mentioned above.
But the pass grants you access to get those rare drops. Again RARE. Without the pass you would have the chance to get them in the first place. So thats the appeal of the pass. Just an opportunity to get something rare for 6$ that you might never get.
I don't think that's the case, at least for some people. Sure for certain people, the appeal might be a very unlikely lottery-style situation where they might get a weapon they would otherwise have to buy for a few dollars. For others (most?) the appeal might be this chance, plus selling cases to pay off the campaign, since the the cases sell for more. As far as I know, the cases have always sold for more than the average weapons, so this is the situation for the vast majority of the people, and the reason I was bringing the whole situation up to someone asking about the campaign.
Anyone can still just wait until the prices drop and buy the weapons off the market, however.
Once it was a Gold Rush, but it's beginning to turn into more of a Dust Bowl!
On another note, there were TF2 updates today.
Steam said:
Steam said:
ArtistDude88
Member
Seems like this Gun Mettle update has brought all the hackers. I've never encountered so many in all my time of playing.
Just about every other server I join has or gets one at some point.
Just about every other server I join has or gets one at some point.
These map specific contracts are the worst. The bonus CP is always "win some rounds" and I always end up on a team where I'm the only player that's not a Spy, Sniper or AFK and the other team is some group of pub stompers. I really wish they didn't limit the contracts to official servers.
If you don't care about your dignity, you can always just jump between servers running the map until you find one where a team with an open spot has won like 3 rounds in a row. Then you can join and use their momentum.
I'd rather play the game. I don't care about the weapons and cases and such. Contracts are just an excuse to actually play; but if I don't have fun playing then they're not doing the job that they're meant to do.
I mean, they're encouraging you to win those maps -- you can certainly turn them in early, and I can understand if you don't have fun on those particular maps.
But yeah if you just want the bonus points easily, server jump until you find a winning team and you should get them pretty quickly.
balladofwindfishes
Member
I missed 2 weeks of contracts. When I got in the game, I only had 2 contracts.
Is there a waiting period before I get the rest of my backlog?
Is there a waiting period before I get the rest of my backlog?
Did you do those 2 contracts? Afaik there's only ever 2 contracts active at the same time. So if you do one of them another one might appear?
The Artful Dodger
Member
All this team fortressing and I no longer have a computer to game on