TF2 General Chat and Speculation Station V9 - Sad Heavy Hours? Who Up?
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I think Banana Bay stole that.
I use a couple custom animations by Paysus. She does excellent work. I particularly like the Heavy animations because I can actually SEE my fucking minigun.
Unfortunately, Valve, disabled custom animations with MyM because they didn't like a set of animations that completely remove viewmodels in their shit-tastic official comp mode.
There is a way around this: load a map locally on launch. I use itemtest. However, there is a major problem here. One round on a Valve server breaks my viewmodels for Heavy. I have to restart the game on round end. This is somewhat irritating because I TF2 is a fucking pig to load, even on an SSD with a reasonably beefy CPU (i7 Haswell 4770k). I've grown used to the load times and having to restart as a side effect of actually being able to see my precious Energy Orb minigun.
Recently, TF2 has become insanely aggro with "your match is ready!" even on restart. Even when I exited during around end. It automagically rejoins. There's an abandon button, but I have like 2 seconds to click it because TF2 is locking up the rest of the time. Worse still the "abandon" button pops up an additional "Really? Abandon, think of the puppies you'll be kicking!" dialogue that I have a microsecond to click. Even when I successfully click it, more of then not, I've effectively visited a Valve server and my viewmodels are fucked. There is no option (AFAIK) to select "always abandon matches on restart."
No, I'm not uninstalling the Paysus animations, but I basically refuse to play Valve's shit-tastic casual mode at this point. This saddens me as they killed off any community server that runs the map I want to play (Doublecross) so fuck it at this point Paladins is looking pretty good.
Banana Bay > Hightower
I gotcha, bro.
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V9 Sad Heavy Hours? Who Up?
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hightower only exists to showcase what happens when the full potential of scout and sniper is unleashed
Scout gets destroyed by Heavies and sentries on Hightower.
well of course overhealed heavies beat scouts head-on
sentry counters scout? shocking.
You can actually play well with any class in Hightower if you're good enough at that class.
Doesn't really matter. Same goes for every map imo. The only time a map affects class balance are the maps with huge chokes where Engineer's can just put one thousand sentries and not let anyone go through. Gold Rush is the perfect example, one of the most horrible payload maps imo.
A Heavy does not need to be overhealed to take out Natascha and shut Scout down completely.
are you admiting you whined about scout all these years for no reason then? when all you had to do was take out Natascha and shut Scout down completely.
No, because Natascha's slow mechanic was previously exploitable prior to Blue Moon. You could wiggle your way out of it before, and now you can't.
honest question, is surfing minigun knockback also an exploit?
Really? Because it is at least possible to solo-cap on Banan Bay if you do want to play the objective, unlike Hightower.
Merry Skinssmas
Hightower is plebe-tier.
HARVEST is the REAL DM fest.
Since cat-bots the map has never been the same
I haven't seen catbots on Virginia servers since they first began to spring up.
After that initial ban wave, they disappeared.
speaking of which, I've not seen catbots recently
I know the guy moved on to lagbots at one point, but those don't work either... did he finally give up?
Of the 5 servers I run, one is Harvest and one is Hightower. I can say with 99.44% certainty that as toxic and awful as the community that prefers Hightower as their map of choice, the Harvest community is an order of magnitude worse. When I check the kick vote, SMAC (anti-cheat) and chat logs, the amount of bad behavior on Harvest is staggering. We have a custom server plugin that does bad things to people who use certain words in text chat. A bundle of sticks sets the player on fire and jarates them. The N word kicks them with a vague error message (reliable channel.) The number of instances of chat_filter (the name of the plugin) triggering in the log files on Harvest outnumbers our other servers combined. This is significant because Harvest is the second or third most popular server we run. Our own fork of Highertower greatly exceeds it, yet has a fraction of the instances.
Harvest is an overfull dumpster that's on fire and floating down a river of raw sewage. The map is a bar magnet for the iron filings that are shitheads in TF2.
I'll add this to the OP if you want me to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkS_NSwTAcg
"Everyone wins but Heavy." sadheavy.jpg
I decided to buy a wallet from the Valve store in order to see if the products were actually quality.
Here is what was marketed:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/113126/e155cdae-4945-4d1f-9f82-b188ec43336c/wallet.PNG
This is what was received:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/113126/435a95a9-287c-439a-89f1-b5a1c88137f9/IMG_1278 (2).JPG
There was an extremely obvious pink tint, one which obviously was not marketed. I did leave this package in the mailbox for a few days, however, and the terrible Texas heat could've caused the tint, so i decided to check the product info in order to deduce if this tint was the result of my own stupidity.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/113126/3c76bbb4-45a3-4387-b01a-9ddf62cdd9f1/desc.PNG
No warning.
Bottom line: order products from the Valve store with caution
OP is now updated.
Sure, just add the link to the v5 thread.
I am pretty confident catbots are dead
Rip catbots - the scourge of the TF2 community
It's cute when meds in Valve comp switch to Vaccinator because they can't bother to try playing normally so they instead go for an OP medigun just so their team can win.
Sniper is stinky and probably reeks of piss.
There, I said it.
It's pretty busted, but I've got a counter for you.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Znsnm7aXXJ0/maxresdefault.jpg
No joke, that's what one of my team mates did in one of the earlier comp matches.
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