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Team Fortress 2 |OT4| Official Halo Thread of Polearms and High Fashion
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TheRedSnifit
Member
It's one of the most popular online games, and it's pretty fun. Just don't take it seriously.
I enjoy it a good deal. Just regard it as a DM map like Hightower and it becomes surprisingly fun.
ArtistDude88
Member
^ The next Valve ARG has arrived!
Head of Vengarl
Banned
I'll get the last laugh for us when I convert half of them into SMITE players. Divide and conquer. Revenge for their heresy.
They're coming to get you,
Kinky John
Member
Will they add the Gun Mettle cosmetics to the drop system once this is over? How does CS:GO handle stuff that you get in crates?
Valve added a ton of UFO related assets including UFOs and posters to a bunch of maps in the update today, looks like we are going to get the Invasion community update soon.
ZekeThePlumber
Member
The I want to believe posters are pretty awesome.
ashecitism
Member
But the CS team does provide release notes
http://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/category/updates/
They don't put them in the notes field when they submit Steam patches though, which means clicking the "News" link when you see an update tells you nothing.
For TF2, clicking the News link when you see an update takes you straight to the patch notes (or close, since unfortunately a few years ago Valve changed that to include random news stories as well as patch notes). It just saves the extra step of knowing where to go for any individual game. Some developers may use their own site, some may use the Steam forums, etc.
ashecitism
Member
Oh right, you mean on Steam. Barely use the news section.
No it wont have any MVM content unless Valve makes it, one of the people involved in the Invasion community update posted in another forum that I go to saying that they don't have any Invasion themed MVM maps.
I really enjoyed sudden death at the end of stalemates, was always a good bit of fun, never really got why they removed it.
That's oddly beautiful.
TheRedSnifit
Member
I assume the reason was to discourage everybody from going Engie and turtling up whenever the round was coming to a close, causing the match to grind to a complete and total halt.
I can't remember that happening even once on any servers I played on, with 1590 hours played according to Steam. Maybe I was lucky or just forgot? Even if one team managed to defend in sudden death, there was a short timer which would still run out, and the Administrator would mock you both for losing if I recall correctly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHgpxwMtPQs
A small teaser video for the upcoming invasion update posted by one of the people who are working on the SFM.
The poster in it says the event is in September (the actual date is burned off) so it looks like Invasion wont be the Halloween update this year.
I wonder if they are going to roll Invasion into part of an official Valve update and include the final version of Asteroid in the update.
A small teaser video for the upcoming invasion update posted by one of the people who are working on the SFM.
The poster in it says the event is in September (the actual date is burned off) so it looks like Invasion wont be the Halloween update this year.
I wonder if they are going to roll Invasion into part of an official Valve update and include the final version of Asteroid in the update.
ZekeThePlumber
Member
That is pretty great, hopefully it makes it in the game the next time Valve adds taunts.
For those who missed it someone who worked on the Invasion update was unhappy with how the profits from the update would be split and leaked a lot of information about the update, which was later proven to be correct by the people running the update.
The basic info:
It was supposed to be released yesterday (Thursday) but got delayed because of the work Valve had to do to get one of the maps working. It will probably be out sometime next week.
No new weapons (but probably some reskins)
4 maps in the update:
a reskin of 2Fort
KotH_Probed
PD_Watergate (sort of like a variation on Robot Destruction, killing players drops beer that you have to take to a single point on the map for both teams to win the game. This was the map that delayed the update since it's a custom game mode)
arena_Byre (a 2 point arena map. I wonder if they will convert it to KotH though since I don't see Valve buying an arena map since they don't run arena servers but you never know).
Also one of the team members who visited Valve confirmed this is not the Halloween update Valve is working on their own Halloween update (and she said that Valve usually doesn't spend too much time on the Halloween update, it usually takes them 2-3 weeks to put together).
The basic info:
It was supposed to be released yesterday (Thursday) but got delayed because of the work Valve had to do to get one of the maps working. It will probably be out sometime next week.
No new weapons (but probably some reskins)
4 maps in the update:
a reskin of 2Fort
KotH_Probed
PD_Watergate (sort of like a variation on Robot Destruction, killing players drops beer that you have to take to a single point on the map for both teams to win the game. This was the map that delayed the update since it's a custom game mode)
arena_Byre (a 2 point arena map. I wonder if they will convert it to KotH though since I don't see Valve buying an arena map since they don't run arena servers but you never know).
Also one of the team members who visited Valve confirmed this is not the Halloween update Valve is working on their own Halloween update (and she said that Valve usually doesn't spend too much time on the Halloween update, it usually takes them 2-3 weeks to put together).
Well that certainly explains the jank with last year's. Although previous years were pretty well polished (even if ymmv on fun-ness).
Honestly I kinda wonder if the TF2 team was really small last year, it seems like very little got done in 2014.
True, this year by contract (EDIT: hehe nice typo GET IT CONTRACT INSTEAD OF CONTRAST) seems to have a lot more going on. A lot more. Or, maybe some of it just took a long time to get ready? I dunno.
It's also possible many of them are busy getting the Source 2 version ready for release. O; O; O;
It's also possible many of them are busy getting the Source 2 version ready for release. O; O; O;
Yo TF2-GAF, friendly reminder that Tip of the Hats (annual charity event run by the TF2 competitive community for OneStepCamp) is today! Starts in about 12 hours, it's a 36 hour stream featuring showmatches, segments highlighting various game modes like jumping, surfing, etc... all for a great cause.
I posted a thread about it here: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=179313467
Be sure to watch/support at some point during the weekend. :3
I posted a thread about it here: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=179313467
Be sure to watch/support at some point during the weekend. :3
What We're Up To
In summary:
In summary:
- TF2 team busy working on the next major update, ETA the end of the year.
- Will feature "[n]ew maps, cosmetics, and new campaign with contracts and weapon collections".
- "Were also working on things like competitive matchmaking, perf, balance improvements and moving Mannpower Mode out of beta with a new map."
- Halloween is to be "mostly" made on the community, as the team would have to drop all of the above to make a map, etc.
- They'll be looking for items in the Workshop.
- The deadline is October 18th.
- The selected items this year WILL NOT be restricted, so they can we worn year round, "So don't get too gross or out-there with your submissions".
Grappling hooks and power-ups, wasn't it?
Damn right!
I honestly don't mind Valve focusing on a big update at the end of the year instead of Halloween, I do prefer normal content that we can play all year long vs Halloween content that is there for a few weeks.
Also Ronin who is in charge of the Invasion community update announced today that Valve decided to delay Invasion until after the Gun Mettle campaign ends on Sep 30th, so we'll likely get it in early October so it's not too close to the Halloween update, unless of course the TF2 team has changed their mind and is going to make Invasion part of the Halloween update.
Also Ronin who is in charge of the Invasion community update announced today that Valve decided to delay Invasion until after the Gun Mettle campaign ends on Sep 30th, so we'll likely get it in early October so it's not too close to the Halloween update, unless of course the TF2 team has changed their mind and is going to make Invasion part of the Halloween update.
I still haven't played Pass Time. It takes too much time to finish CS:GO contracts AND TF:GO missions to actually play casually!
Yes.
I don't care much about those stuff, so I just play whichever mode I feel like playing, and man.
PASS Time is some good stuff.
Also good to see they fixed how overtime works in this mode, although I wonder if its still gonna be effective if the score is like 2 - 0?
Dislike the throw change though, it was one of the things that made the mode feel very unique.
Does anyone know what it stands for? I looked at http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=17833 but couldn't find anything.
http://restartreplay.com/pc/team-fortress-2-news-roundup/ says:
It's a mystery to me!
Have you even SEEN his hat? If thats what he wears around the place, one can only imagine the wonders hidden in his backpack :O
Probably my package!
ZekeThePlumber
Member
Kinda shitty that they delayed the Invasion update another week. But next week for sure, right??? Lest we risk infringing on Halloween.
Also, apparently TF2 no longer drops hats as a random drop, and it's been this way for a while it's just no one really noticed until now. That's pretty lame.
Also, apparently TF2 no longer drops hats as a random drop, and it's been this way for a while it's just no one really noticed until now. That's pretty lame.