TF2 General Chat and Speculation Station V12 - Miniguns are SCARY - look it up - Games

My bet is on 17th or (and?) 18th.

Every year we start saying "TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT!!!" like 2-3 weeks into October and get upset when the update inevitably doesn't drop, even though they have never released a Halloween update earlier than the 26th. The first ever Scream Fortress literally dropped on October 29th, two goddamn days before Halloween itself. Each one of these updates lasts a week or two and the majority of it bleeds into early November. Save yourselves the disappointment and don't even think about getting hyped until next week at the absolute earliest. Until then, go re-read the comics or watch some horror movies or Halloween specials (I personally recommend The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror). Or play some Overwatch, since their Halloween thing has been up for a few days now.

uh no no one thinks it's the night. being the hype from the 25th and onward.

Literally the same page.

Correct.

And then immediately after posting this, Facepunch had a stroke and died for a few days. Yoof. Couldn't have timed it better if you knew it was happening. Anyway, on topic, did anything happen while FP was RIP, or was it just the usual radio silence?

have you checked the tf2blog?

Fair enough. Then again, not everything gets posted to the TF blog.

Thank christ Facepunch is back up. I really thought it was over, there.

I'm in the same boat. I'm not sure of any other good TF2 forums out there honestly and dreaded to see if I had to rely on places like SPUD for news when I wasn't playing the game.

They're really going to do it aren't they? Postpone a Heavy update for a gimmick-ridden Halloween...

on what planet is the heavy update supposed to be close? there wasn't even any remote acknowledgement from valve that they're on it, like ever.

We have no idea that they're working on anything else besides allowing parties to be on seperate teams. A wishy-washy statement they made two years ago is all we have to go on for future development of this game.

We know they have people working on the game, and that's about it. I have a really bad feeling about this year though.

Just because they said at one point they were working on something doesn't mean it'll be done. We've seen that time, and time, again with Valve. They have abandonment issues.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/479803109825314832/501595058366316544/1539653441054.png

This. Valve doesn't announce anything until there's something to announce. We can expect Scream Fortress sometime around next-next weekend, since that's when Halloween updates tend to drop. There's a precedent. The Heavy Update was announced at the end of Meat Your Match and we haven't heard a word about it since; it's happening, but until we hear official word that it's happening soon, it's officially not happening anytime soon.

Hey, the Halloween gimmicks are fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FxGWMhqEFE pumpkin bombs were the best addition

I'm still waiting for the third Grordbort pack.

Is Grodbort even relevant anymore?

The dream is dead friend, time to move on.

Ya know it is gonna be Scream Fortress 10 this year. Perhaps we are gonna get something big? I mean it's just an idea but it's a more likely chance than anything else we have goin for us

the only thing people truly wanted from scream fortress was to remove halloween restritions, and people got it last year.

Not really, no. I'll use an example from another game - Rocket League. My IRL friends and I have been playing it to death. It's insanely fun, constantly gets content updates, and always has something happening, whether it be a summer update that adds a currency to spend on new cosmetics, or a new map celebrating the original game's tenth anniversary. Its new Halloween event just started. You know what's in it? 8 sub-par cosmetics that you have to grind a currency to get a chance to buy. Nothing else. No new maps, no new cars, no fun gamemode to try out. Needless to say, if we weren't playing the shit out of the game anyway, we wouldn't be bothering after this event. Same with this year's Overwatch Halloween. There are no changes to the Halloween event. It's just new cosmetics. I don't think Junkenstein was updated last year either, but at least the allure of Deathmatch kept me interested for a bit. I'm not saying Halloween needs a huge new gamemode or 50 new contracts and 20 different rewards for them. TF2 is a special case, unlike the aforementioned games, a big part of updates are, and have been for almost 10 years, the community. If we get new cosmetics, it'll be cosmetics from members of the community, and that's always something to appreciate. It just needs to be enough to actually interest people in a positive way. If your halloween update is just trying to urge people to put down another $10, then nobody's going to bother. A few simple Merasmissions, with a few new halloween war paints and maybe the chance to get an untradable version of one of the new cosmetics. A halloween reskin of a popular map with new features so it isn't just "different skin". Anything substantial.

over the course of like 7 years of scream fortress, we have enough halloween content for ages and for any kind of group, if it is boss-mangling people or people that like spells

If they use only community content for Halloween I really doubt it's taking up much of the TF2 team`s time. Choose community cosmetics, playtest some maps and get in touch with map makers, make some contracts. Probably doesn't take more than a week or two of time and causes a boost in player numbers. No reason not to do it.

Why does people enjoys ignoring the masive ammount of content we're already sitting on. as fluury mentioned, we have content for years to come already ingame - the only thing that was missing from the picture was getting rid of the halloween restriction for cosmetics. as the people from overwatch and dota 2 already found out, dumping so much content on a 2 week long event only spoils the playerbase to the point you're eternally forced to raise the bar more and more every year, eventually reaching a point were its a waster of workforce - hell, people already complains about the horde mode being restricted to timed-events with ingame loot that you can't get otherwise. if anything, i'm happy we can enjoy halloween shenanigans in tf2 once a month.

theory: the randomcrit video caused a massive debate in the TF Team that got so heated that it disbanded the video made the randomcrit discussion popular dane had facepunch as one of his inspirations for making the video the discussion was mainly lead for months by ASIC verdict: ASIC killed tf2

the tf2 team can't take critic-ism well. hmm.