TF2 General Chat and Speculation Station V8 - ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give Heavy Update - Games

https://puu.sh/AXN5K/5c531b7c82.png Banner edited from the work of @HolySnickerPuffs Previously, on Deep Space Nin--I Mean, TF2 General Chat and Speculation: A lot of nothing. A spoopy not-so-mysterious update launched on a weekend to conform with new regulations passed in Belgium and the Netherlands. A little bit of nothing. Some guy named Rich Geldreich used an overrated social media platform to express distaste with Valve's flat corporate structure. What does this bode for the future of TF2? Probably nothing. Nothing. Well, we're in what would be prime time (overtime actually) for our big summer update, but good luck with that. We have no idea what will be contained in this update, all we know is that the TF Team is working on something. Useful Links: https://discord.gg/RPfDhvc TF2 Facepunch Discord, feel free to join! << TF2 Wiki Official Tf2 Wiki << Scrap.tf Automated weapon banking << Marketplace.tf Buy & Sell items for real money << Backpack.tf Pricing, trading and listing of items << Huds.tf Browse and install custom huds for your game << TF2 custom hitsounds Browse and Install custom for your game <<

Wouldnt it be funny if the update that came out wasnt the heavy update afterall?

I'm not sure if that's the word I would use.

given the new post limit is lower than your average skill level on a pub Ill have to continue this from here when did you become mastercoms rofl You both forget. Valve apologism only works when they’ve done something to justify the wait/big nothing for so long. You may not have noticed, but we have squat. Once again this isn't even entirely something valve related and simply being a rational human being - for every guy that comes out of blizzard saying he fucking hated it there there is a guy that probably finds it good. There seem a lot of people that seem to think if you aren't in the hivemind of everything valve = big bad you are automatically some kind of ""valve lover"" And as far as TF2 goes, saying we didn't get anything this year is essentially objectively incorrect. Given Blue Moon and the new report system has improved the game massively early in the year, I find it hard to believe how people can STILL go out of their way and say "lole, big wait of nothing this year as usual "

hmm fresh thread That point that was made in the last thread about Portal 2 being Valve's last actually interesting release.. Honestly that doesn't sound so wrong to me. Sure the technical advances with Vulkan and Steam Controllers and all these meta things about gaming itself are great, but what a lot of people really want from Valve is a new game. And not an experimental VR title, or a mobile game, or a spin-off follow-the-trend card game, or a Summer Sale alien clicker, or a fucking third party portal-themed bridge builder bullshit seriously why did I buy this for money What would be great is a new game. Something like Half-Life or Portal. Or a new multiplayer title. We want great writing. When was the last time we got more wonderful Valve writing in one piece than could fit inside a weapon description box? I want a fucking story, because Valve did make some wonderful stories. Oh hey, there's a comic we could be looking forward to. Or maybe not, because the guy writing it got fired or something or maybe not because we don't get any info from Valve but who cares because look at this cool card game Why is it so fucking hard to give us another story? Valve really seems to be into big breakthroughs with their great writing being more of a device to sell that breakthrough, but that's not the only reason I have nearly every single Valve title in my Steam library. Ah shit I just wanna experience a Valve work for the first time again, anything at all

At this point the only thing I genuinely want from Valve is the end of the TF2 comic.

I'm seeing a bunch of weapon skins again suddenly in my activity feed. Did something happen?

Yes, a bunch of weapon skins showed up in your activity feed.

XD :okhand:

I feel like the ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ cutie is partially my fault. I apologize to you all.

To give you a more helpful response than some stupid snark; No. As far as modding and sv_pure yadda yadda goes we are sadly yet to see something change.

Honestly, there seems so little to talk about. At least last year/the year before we had the whole "we've announced the next update's theme is Jungle", we don't have anything like that this time.

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If they really do regular employee firings how did Eric not get fired yet?

That's because they wanted the community to make content specifically tailored to the upcoming update. They might not have such a specific theme for the next update.

I bet he's not even an actual Valve employee, he just sneaks into the server room and pretends to do maintenance

All I want is the ability to make static, non tile able skins.

you cannot fire what has no job.

To give a serious answer to this after reading the tweets from Rich Geldreich I would guess that Dave Riller is one of the powerful sponsors that he talks about. Dave is an original Valve employee who worked on Half Life 1 and seems to do events with Gabe Newell like the AMA and the video interviews. I believe Eric Smith started working at Valve a few years after Half Life 1 shipped so he probably has a lot of clout as well.

If they have power at Valve why isn't TF2 getting more support? Unless TF2 only exists for new hires to work on to get some experience and find a new patron.

anyone else feels weirded out to see heavy's hand without his gloves? or is it just me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPb4oryoRMw

Can't a guy have naked palms in this economy?

if you look closely at the KGB right glove view model you'll see a pulsing vertex as if it were alive

I could bitch about Scout endlessly, but I'd like to reiterate that the change in 2016 that granted Medics the ability to run at Scout speeds with all medi guns is fucking stupid, zero fun to fight against, and should never have been implemented. It lessens the already weak (in pubs) Quick Fix (and does nothing to address why the QF is still banned in comp) and makes what is already the most powerful class in skilled hands even more so.

same with the random out-of-nowhere weapon switch buff in GM that greatly helps demoman, kills weapon heckling as a skill and of course does nothing to heavy.

Probably made those changes since they personally found them to make the game more fun.

quick fix isnt weak in pubs or anywhere

Heavies and sentries exist.

quick-fix is fully capable of giving you more than enough time to take out a sentry with the added benefit that youll get said uber a lot faster