[quote=PC Gamer]
People make maps in Team Fortress 2 specifically for grinding achievements. Bleak, joyless rooms of endlessly spawning bots and resupply crates, where people don’t play the game, they game it. But in one of these, achievement_all_v4, the author’s added a surprise. A violent, horrific, hilarious surprise of biblical proportions. Here’s a clip.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM1Ay85de3U[/media]
You can grab the map [url=http://www.mediafire.com/?n22rrzm1jyh]here[/url] if you want to try it locally, or sort TF2’s server browser by map name to find any servers running it. It’s not easy to trigger the catpocalypse, though – people on the Facepunch forums have been decompiling the map to figure out how it’s done. Poster belink offers this guide:
“In both corners next to the respawn cabinets next to the striped walls, there’s a func_breakable (keep shooting it – it makes a glass noise). Once you’ve broken that, under it is a button that triggers ‘kittygedon’. I guess you need to trigger them both with +use. I might be missing something, though..”
In fact, [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R0E0mk0eIE]here’s an awesome clip[/url] from [b]scout101547[/b] of the Facepunch guys figuring out exactly how to trigger it – in case you can’t hear them, you need to set the server variable [b]“tf_player_allow_use 1″[/b] to be able to use the hidden switch. Be warned, though, the cat’s appearance sometimes crashes the server.
[b]achievement_all[/b] is a real series of achievement-grinding maps, so unwitting players who’ve shown up to farm some meaningless accolades tend to be somewhat surprised by this turn of events. It’s not clear whether this version is made by the real author of the previous maps, and he’s just sick of the people who use them, or if this is some inventive griefer showing up and exploiting the name. Part of me likes to think it’s Valve.
[b]Update[/b]
Can the cat be killed? Craig tried with his over-powered rocket launcher – probably the most damage ever pumped into this thing – and this was the result:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZw2ST0PhwQ[/media]
[b]Update[/b]
Craig found [url=http://www.f7lans.com/]a server running the map[/url], and I jumped in with him to get some shots. It’s… it’s… oh God.
[img]http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2010/06/Sandvich-of-oblivion-590x279.jpg[/img]
[b][i]"What? What?[/i][/b]
[img]http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2010/06/Caaaaaaat-590x402.jpg[/img]
[b][i]Oh. OH. GOD.[/i][/b]
[img]http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2010/06/OH-GOD-THE-LASERS-590x251.jpg[/img]
[b][i]OH GOD THE LASERS![/b][/i]
[img]http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2010/06/OH-GOD-THE-BEES-590x384.jpg[/img]
[b][i]OH GOD THE BEES![/b][/i]
[img]http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2010/06/OH-GOD-THERES-TWO-OF-THEM-590x396.jpg[/img]
[b][i]OH GOD THERE'S TWO OF THEM![/b][/i]
[img]http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2010/06/OH-GOD-DONT-GO-IN-THE-WATER-590x368.jpg[/img]
[b][i]OH GOD DON'T GO IN THE WATER![/b][/i]
[img]http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2010/06/Craig-versus-the-laser-death-cat-589x388.jpg[/img]
[b][i]Dead now. Here's Craig taking it on with one of our special 'Community' rocket launchers.[/b][/i]
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[url=http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/06/24/laser-death-cat-punishes-team-fortress-2-grinders/]Via PC Gamer[/url]
I got to play in the same server with these guys, this map NEVER gets old. Absolutely amazing.
Rated informative, because even though I saw the other therad I didn't see the other videos and didn't know about the map series.
DOING THIS NOW.
Looks awesome :v:
Second video, near the end. Some unlucky fellow found a camera beard, out of all the hats, it had to be that one. I feel for him.
[QUOTE=Glent;22846957]Rated informative, because even though I saw the other therad I didn't see the other videos and didn't know about the map series.[/QUOTE]
The video was on the first post of the other thread.
[QUOTE=HyperTH;22848035]The video was on the first post of the other thread.[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=958481"]This other thread?[/URL] It wasn't.
[QUOTE=Glent;22848074][URL="http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=958481"]This other thread?[/URL] It wasn't.[/QUOTE]
Oh.
Well, a link to the PCGamer article was put into the other thread before this one.
Totally needed another thread on this map
Couldn't be contained to the other one
nope
Getting on fire un-blinds you! :eng101:
I just can't seem to do it. I did the tf allow use thing, broke the glass, bind k "+use" or +use in console when aiming at the glass part but still nothing.
[QUOTE=DarkWolf2;22850576]I just can't seem to do it. I did the tf allow use thing, broke the glass, bind k "+use" or +use in console when aiming at the glass part but still nothing.[/QUOTE]
tf_player_allow_use 1
Do you have it?
Yes
[editline]04:16PM[/editline]
And it's tf_allow_player_use
:wtc:
Hey f7lans. I love their servers.
Did this map only just come out, or did people only just pick up on this because this seems a huge thing all of a sudden, three threads so far in the course of a couple hours.
What happens to the map/players/server after the cat shoots its final lazer of death?
White screen and server has to be restarted.
Giving yourself the jarate effect and dying after it removes the white effect at least.
[quote][...]of the Facepunch guys[...][/quote]
:razz:
[quote]Poster belink offers this guide:[/quote]
:allears:
