TF2 General Chat and Speculation Station V13 - Heavy times - Games

Yea, but there's no reason to have MMR decay for anything beyond top ranks, which is (I think) what Dane is suggesting.

Fair enuff. Another thing he didnt mention was that I dont think people should be able to be thrown into the top 4 ranks of the first """"""season"""""" by placements. Make those gold ranks matter, slap mmr decay on em, and youll be grand.

https://youtu.be/auRWNcTogHk

I'd like to take this juncture to point out that the big 3 TF2 cheats (the "L" word, the "N" word and the "C" word) are all undetected. I've about given up on doing any more stupid Halloween contracts because I've encountered a cheater in say, 8 of the last 10 games. Three complete rage hackers, one pair of "legit" hackers (heavy/medic combo) that were not subtle at all (crits on demand is a dead giveaway) and the rest were ones trying to hide it but ultimately failing to do so. The fact that most of the event maps are complete phantasmagorical shitshows means it's actually easier to hide cheating. It's hard to spot the hacker when there's spells, bosses, crumpkins, pumpkin bombs, flying sawblades etc. Valve's attempt at phoning in this year's halloween event is weak, even by their standards. Oh, the other downside is that with much of the player base doing event contracts, it's even harder to find games on "niche" maps (like Doublecross). The few games I have managed to find in each instance (like 4 before I gave up) I was backfilled on to a team that was absolutely getting STOMPED. I'm good enough that I can keep 2, maybe 3 players out of my base on DC, but when other team controls the entire rest of the map, that point is moot. I think I'm rapidly approaching a nadir in TF2 where the game ceases to be fun, almost entirely due to the malfeasance and neglect of its publisher.

not using the whip. 0/10 please hand over your hat.

I wish I've had more opportunities to play the new maps this year. But Work and other life activities have been keeping me off the game as of late. I will admit though that I really like the new maps... and I definitely will say I'd like to see Player Destruction as an official none halloween game mode in the future because... Well... It's actually a lot of fun... Also... Getting a kick running around in my Mad Doctor set up on Medic for Monster Bash lol..

"L word", "N word" and "C word"? Lesbian, cunt and ni-...uh....THAT n word?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvrpblh7npM

Anyone know why my TF2 refuses to save any changes I make to it? It seems to just keep loading the same config.cfg over and over no matter how many times I change settings ingame.

Sounds like something that could be solved with Read-Only permissions. Either a config file that you want to change is refusing to change, and needs to be NOT set to read-only, or a file you've changed is getting overwritten on launch and needs to be set to read-only in order to keep it from changing to default values.

Taking a look, the entire cfg folder is set to read only. I'll try disabling that.

Reminder that it has been one year and 10 months since the last issue came out. The final comic issue is the last thing to look forward to in regards to TF2.

do you have -autoconfig or any -dxlevel in your launch options? you're only supposed to use those commands once

it seems wrong that the entirety of 2018 for tf2 comes down to "they buffed slow and they made dragon fury ass-tier" what a year

They made the Axtinguisher okay and we got Short Circuit version 7.

Shout out to the bi-monthly 6 issue comic that started in 2013 Jokes aside, I'm not like angry because it's a free comic and I don't wanna sound entitled, but jeez - not having a resolution this far out sucks.

I gotta say, the highlight of this halloween event for me has been Cursed Cove. That's an incredibly fun game mode, and I agree with Kitt above that I would LOVE to have that as a standard game mode! The map itself has some issues, in my opinion it's a little too small and the ship spawns in WAY too fast... needs at least another 30 to 40 seconds extra before it spawns. If you die around the time you're in there scoring points, then by the time you wait for respawn, get out, run to the enemy and start shooting, the music is firing up because the ship is just about to arrive again. Just too damn fast. All I've really played this Halloween is Frontier and Cursed Cove honestly, the rest of the maps felt pretty samey to things we've had in the past. Gravestone is cool, but I just tire of it so fast... Player Destruction gives me a rush I haven't felt in a long time. Shame so few Aussies are playing it - even at 7 or 8pm on a Saturday night, I queue forever trying to get a server and always end up being thrown into some asian server. By the way, is there any way to stop it from doing that? Sometimes the game doesn't even wait 30 seconds before putting me into an asian server, it really sucks. I would just want to disable that altogether and let my game queue as long as it takes for an aussie server to become available. Even better, being able to queue while playing a game would be really good, no idea why that isn't a thing.

Nope, just -novid

balance ought to be as frequent as medal updates.

It has to be my favorite PD map for just one reason, the capping area is not limited to the center or a corner of the map, one engie can't just build one sentry and deny the entire enemy team from capping anything like on watergate And even if a team is camping the ship's spawn, the ship goes through other areas of the map so the other team will always have a chance to cap

i honestly think the 35% of the data space TF2 have are all medals files

"The comic is the only thing to look forward to when it comes to TF2" excuse me,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Maybe steam cloud is restoring the old config? Setting nonuser files to readonly could cause problems after an update. They really should add PD in with the regular modes as it deserves to be there more than CTF. The gamemode seems to be pretty good for all of the classes. Not having the soul wallhacks exposing your location as spy, makes spy a little too good on it, but the alternative is worse. With it being one of the more complex gamemodes, it could really use a tutorial, virtually no one uses the soul drop key (L / intelligence drop key). It would be cool if there was a way to drop some of your souls instead of all of them, I'd love to distribute some risk to teammates rather than having to put all my eggs in one basket by either trying to trust a teammate with 10+ souls or feeling like I shouldn't be out going for picks because I can't risk loosing the amount of souls I currently have. The style of cursed cove reminds me a lot of Pier . I think the timing of the ship arriving isn't bad, but it should move a little faster, it's crazy that you can die in the underworld and still have time to enter it again on that iteration. Sentries shouldn't target through the ship, wrangler shooting through would be okay.

Well, today I learned that the medic cosmetic "Archimedes the Undying" is actually a parallel version of archimedes who died from the explosion of heavy's heart in Meet the Medic. And that, we can see him with a bandage around his neck in a comic made some time after. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/345516/aedda4bc-a188-4744-b8ec-1f97333bc527/800px-ShadowBoxers11.png

So my friend unboxed a Tesla Coil Wide-Brimmed Banditto and got a response from Steam Support https://clips.twitch.tv/TiredBraveBeefFeelsBadMan Because the case is glitched (creepy crawly and gargoyle ones as far as i know) they granted him a free New 2018 effect (Galactic Gateway) Banditto xD https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/237333/e4b17c19-388e-49ad-9142-80f1cfa3ed84/image.png Never I seen anything like this happening before, Steam Support is surely rocking it as of recently

N-no, you'll see! There's still the rest of November! They won't let us down! Optimism!

I'm sure we'll get a Smissmass 2017 Cosmetic Case ...that will continue to drop until August 2019.

"steam support" is probably just code for "Eric" in this instance tbh

Eric using all of the email forwarding skills he learned over the years to forward hats.

btw absolutely not related but could i talk with you privately regarding my ban on backpack? i tried to appeal but moderators don't care + now i am locked from posting on forums too. I donated a lot and got treated like that... kinda hopeless at the moment :c