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

C_models were a necessary evil, for sure, but I'm never not gonna be upset by how utterly shite they look in comparison to the old viewmodels. The drop in shader quality is kind of boggling considering that it's a few lines in a VMT. Even more maddening because you can't add it back in yourself without sucking a dick and having your game crash after map-changes because valve continues to enforce sv_pure.

rip shiny fat v_minigun

You could get c_models to look at least 85% as good as v_models, but Valve just doesn't.

Two-thirds "we need to prevent exploits" and one-third "we only want mod content that can be monetized for us".

I can relate... Being someone who still makes sprays even though only a handful will ever see them because of sv_pure blocking clients from downloading content from other clients. So unless you already have the spray, you'll never get a chance to see it. I'm still going to make them though, hell I'm making one as we speak. It gives me an excuse to draw stuff for this game.

honestly confused why they sv_pure'd sound mods aswell I just want to change scout into jerma man

Voice mods aren't actually blocked on Valve servers, and most sounds can still be modded with some script shenanigans.

They just need to make some sounds not be moddable, like the Tomislav's silent rev up sound and the Dead Ringer's uncloak.

imagine if they went the Blizzard Route and monetized voicelines.

wich is why the best part of halloween is being robot soldier.

Mine was doing the Engineer's Banjo Taunt while wearing the Fly costume and annoying everyone in the vicinity playing with you lol... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOeDCQXXtok

Are you serious? c_models are a great thing.

I had a sound mod that replaced the spy’s otherwise quiet decloak noise with a submarine diving klaxon. You know. AAAWWWOOOUUUUGGHAAAAHH Yeah valve crushed that straight away. Same thing with sprays, too. While user content can be creative or funny, 80% of the time it’s some furry porn spray or pictures of Jews being gassed for the memes because that’s essentially the mental maturity of the internet right now, and all the average player ever sees. Valve was correct to remove them.

feels it's been a while since we've heard anything from the comp side did they just give up because valve doesn't listen anyway?

Id imagine they still chatter with b4nny on occasion and as far as competitive goes, their focus probably lies in the official mode whose feedback doesn't rely on just comp players, but also normalo-dudes that usually play casual

I feel like Competetive mode has been bad for so long that it'll never actually be taken seriously now.

The moment they add an incentive, an item reward or something, people will flock to it, trust me on this Things like medals are the major reason for why stuff like small competitive tournaments or cups are popular in first place - because they offer some kind of reward; otherwise I doubt that many people would bother, really. <me included, heh>

take the 2018 video game route and give everyone a loot box for every time they level up in comp

sprays have nothing to do with sv_pure

You're wrong here actually - Quote from wiki page about sprays https://i.imgur.com/uBxNCAd.png

Just a reminder that the Tf2 wiki can be edited by literally anybody. You shouldn't use it as sole proof for something.

The same applies to any wiki, I dont get your point; anyway, there is no cvar that controls sprays on server, other than sv_pure - go play on sv_pure 1 server other than Valve,, and sv_pure 0 server, and see if sprays work on the first, to prove me wrong here. Even when you look at pure_server_whitelist_example.txt, you have the mention about sprays, which means sv_pure can affect those https://i.imgur.com/GVcEPIM.png

that's referring to sv_pure 2, which disables all custom user content including sprays, valve servers runs sv_pure 1, the default whitelist does nothing to sprays, but they don't work on valve servers because of sv_allowupload being disabled

Oh, that's fair, but nonetheless sv_pure can affect sprays if so set, no need for sv_pure 2; just needs sv_pure 1 with whitelist a bit modified - but thanks telling this, actually something I wasn't aware of

My point was literally what you read. Come on.

And yet for some ungodly reason, Engi's fall damage screams remain the same when using the fly set. Were the fall damage noises hacked in in some unique way?

If you mean "loot box" by effing Winter 2017 case I still have to buy a key for, then I'm going to quit Comp to preserve my inventory space.

considering robots also use pre-defined human ouchies, yes. it's static per-class

I know it's youtube comments, I know it's a single sample, but I really hope the TF Team is aware of just how good the Blue Moon Update was for the game, it's reputation and the community. https://i.imgur.com/1XSHeKk.png The view of TF2 has changed quite a bit over the last year or so, after MyM people were rather negative towards it, called it dead etc. but ever since the Blue Moon update dropped, it seemed to have taken a 180°, people seem to view TF2 back on it's legs again. Maybe it's just me, but snooping around in reddit, twitter and co. - that very much seems to be the case.

still love tf2 good or bad, the whackiness of the dialogues and the eldritch gmod vids keeps me going and play the game