ZekeThePlumber
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You greatly underestimate Valve's ability to hold in a shit. I'd wager they're unsurpassed in that regard.
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Team Fortress 2 |OT4| Official Halo Thread of Polearms and High Fashion
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You greatly underestimate Valve's ability to hold in a shit. I'd wager they're unsurpassed in that regard.
Or if it's not great, at least you can confirm that you're impressed by the way they TALK about the update. And even if you don't like the update, they're aware of things. And stuff.
Head of Vengarl
Banned
I have done nothing but teleport shitposts for three days.
A screenshot of the info on comp matchmaking players get: http://images.akamai.steamuserconte...850/D9D31B144EC79B729682EB420341AEC1B55EBCC1/
Text related to a competitive coin of some kind was found, the first blood achievements were updated to be about matchmaking as well and asteroid was removed from the beta quick play (but the servers are still up) so we might see the final version of that.
Text related to a competitive coin of some kind was found, the first blood achievements were updated to be about matchmaking as well and asteroid was removed from the beta quick play (but the servers are still up) so we might see the final version of that.
ZekeThePlumber
Member
I'm still expecting the update for the pre-patch to be:
-added promotional hats for the 2016 Summer Steam sale
-added promotional hats for the 2016 Summer Steam sale
TheRedSnifit
Member
JIIIIIIIILLLLLLL
ZekeThePlumber
Member
I just got two more beta passes, which now puts me at a grand total of 10 just sitting in my backpack. I guess they're not moving out of beta just yet. I hope this means they're going to address balance and gameplay changes before fully launching, as you would think they should have been doing at this point in the beta.
I'm guessing they're doing one more wave to get a few people to do a few last tests for whatever they updated today.
I bet the update will be later today since it wasn't last night, but you never know with Valve.
ZekeThePlumber
Member
Most of their big updates come out on Thursdays, probably because it gives them an extra day to put out any fires the update inadvertently causes before peacing out for the weekend.
They really fucked up last year by releasing Gun Mettle right before the fourth of July weekend. I'm sure they loved having to update TF2 on a national holiday.
BoosterDuck
Banned
TF2 is getting the Disgaea PC items
any dood who owns Disgaea PC by the end of the summer sale gets the goods
any dood who owns Disgaea PC by the end of the summer sale gets the goods
It's going to be a long weekend waiting for this update.
I do give Valve props for not pushing the update out the door in a poor state. They obviously still had some issues with matchmaking (since they did another stress test) and I do think it's important that this update ship in good state since it will probably bring in a decent number of new players as well as people who haven't played in some time but want to try out the game again because of the matchmaking.
I don't think anyone wants a repeat of the Manniversary update.
I do give Valve props for not pushing the update out the door in a poor state. They obviously still had some issues with matchmaking (since they did another stress test) and I do think it's important that this update ship in good state since it will probably bring in a decent number of new players as well as people who haven't played in some time but want to try out the game again because of the matchmaking.
I don't think anyone wants a repeat of the Manniversary update.
Valve released a small patch today, which is unusual since they don't typically work or release updates on a Saturday:
They are also running the final competitive beta stress test this weekend, the post on the group says it's wrapping up in the next few days.
I'm pretty confident we'll be seeing the big update next week sometime.
They are also running the final competitive beta stress test this weekend, the post on the group says it's wrapping up in the next few days.
I'm pretty confident we'll be seeing the big update next week sometime.
During one of the previous stress tests the enemy team had B4nny as their medic. Also the rest of his team was his friends who play competitive. Needless to say they won.
A couple of videos of the Scout voice actor playing some pubs in character:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUBeJmA9Mtg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk1fnmndUcE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUBeJmA9Mtg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk1fnmndUcE
ZekeThePlumber
Member
Doumeki and I took a round from b4nny and some other infamous tf2 players back when the beta first came around.
After that round they went double quick-fix medic/scout and couldn't be stopped.
TheRedSnifit
Member
oh hey I used to play quite a lot with one of his teammates in this vid
It's always fun to see a TF2 video with someone you know. I remember watching a random Mr Paladin video and there was someone in the video I used to play with on a community servers.
I've also played with Mr Paladin a few times and he got a domination on me once, but thankfully I don't think he was actually recording for that because I never saw it on a video.
TheRedSnifit
Member
I play pubs so often I recognize most of the other players.
There are now 4 private videos on the official TF2 youtube channel's taunt playlist.
The Tough Break and Gun Mettle taunt videos were added the day of those updates so we're very close now.
Edit: I think Tough Break may of actually been a day or two before but we are close.
The Tough Break and Gun Mettle taunt videos were added the day of those updates so we're very close now.
Edit: I think Tough Break may of actually been a day or two before but we are close.
The winners of the Saxxy awards last year visited Valve recently and posted a video of their trip. One thing that did stand out was that Valve has created a 3D model for Saxton Hale. Maybe he'll show up in a future video?
fallengorn
Bitches love smiley faces
10th Class Confirmed.
He'll just play like Winston.
Enraged Winston*
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
I call my erection an Engorged Wilson.
TheRedSnifit
Member
*NEATO
Troy Baker.
You're probably right, they already got Nolan North to play Merasmus it only makes sense to get Troy Baker as well.
Technosteve
Banned
when is game update to source 2?
Some comp TF2 players visited Valve last year and were told there were no plans to update the game to Source 2.
Plans can always change.
I kinda figured Valve would eventually move CSGO and TF2 over to Source 2 so all their current games would be on Source 2 but I know CSGO recently got some engine improvements so it doesn't even seem likely it will move over to Source 2. Since the version of Source CSGO runs on seems run better then the TF2 version I would be happy to see them port TF2 over to that branch of Source. I know the TF2 team told B4nny that optimizatin was important but I question how much they can can really do at this point.
NEW BLOGPOST: http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=22641
For the Disgaea promo items.
We have gotten promo item blogposts before the major update blogpost a couple of times in the past so maybe tonight will be the night.
For the Disgaea promo items.
We have gotten promo item blogposts before the major update blogpost a couple of times in the past so maybe tonight will be the night.
TheRedSnifit
Member
The optimization issues are because Valve is lazy and each update brings new bugs that affect performance. On Macs, for example, a machine that could run everything on maximum a year ago can't play with textures above medium today due to a memory leak issue. They could optimize the game a ton simply by patching out bugs and actually testing updates before shipping them.
An update to Source 2 will never happen. It's been said so many times now, the physics will break and the TF2 code is stuck together with tape and rubberbands. It may be possible, but the 1-7 people working on the game aren't gonna tackle that.
Well if they were to upgrade to Source 2 I doubt it would just be the TF2 team doing it, I imagine the Source 2 team would help out, though I do agree it's almost certainly not going to happen.
TheRedSnifit
Member
Almost every recent update has shipped with massive, incredibly visible bugs. A UI bug had no less than three patches claiming to fix it before it actually went away, and then came back one update later.
"Lazy" is an exaggeration, but they couldn't possibly have done any playtesting for the last few updates at all.