Fit for a King - TF2 Blog Post - Games

Also new weapons are just too detailed for TF2's art style.

"Hey, lets make some cool, unique weapons for the game and give them some special effects, the balance them out with a very serious drawback and a few other not insignificant ones." "But sir, they're [I]those[/I] fans. Maybe you should do something else, like make it so it only holds one shot, and it might help if it set the player on fire when they used it. And perhaps reduce their health by 75 points." "What? Why? Its pretty well balanced already." "But you remember what happened last time we released anything without several serious drawbacks! We still haven't finished cleaning up the rubble on the east side of the building!"

One rocket opened, two more to go, hope the engi gets something though, I like the rocket launcher and the pistol is only really good for chokepoints.

[QUOTE=PSI Guy;31245161]The weapons are based on actual models of weapons you can buy. From a website. Just so you know.[/QUOTE] there's also a laser sentry thingy

[QUOTE=ABW;31241301]1. Do the charge shot with the Cow Mangler. 2. Taunt. 3. Congrats, you are now a Carebear.[/QUOTE] 1. Do the charge shot with the Cow Mangler. 2. Use director's taunt. 3. Congrats, you successfully preformed some sort of kamehame.

[QUOTE=MrParalegal;31245773]One rocket opened, two more to go, hope the engi gets something though, I like the rocket launcher and the pistol is only really good for chokepoints.[/QUOTE] that would be neat.

I kind of don't like the rocket explanation. Would there have been anything wrong with an off-screen mad scientist? I think a mad scientist would fit it more than a random rocket.

THE COW MANGLER On Fire: Enemy FPS dips to 10 FPS for 3 seconds.

[QUOTE=yellowoboe;31244690]Damn son. [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21171698/ctf_2fort0281.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Reminds me when you are in fallout: NV and you look directly up with a missile launcher or tesla cannon.

soldier = SPEHSS MAREEN!!! :v [editline]asd[/editline] engineer has dibs on last two GRockets.

[QUOTE=Riutet;31245661]There are no observable downsides to the new rocket launcher other than reduced ability to take out buildings, what are Valve thinking.[/QUOTE] Rocket jumping practically cuts your HP in half. Two rocket jumps and you're left with like 20 HP. EDIT: Although it looks like maybe that was just being weird? Others are saying it does normal damage.

[QUOTE=psyke;31244705]here's each classes unique "dieviolent" animation. set to some fitting music [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjK3VYqNS0s[/media][/QUOTE] Someone must make a zap-o-matic. RIGHT NOW.

I think I can see how valve balanced this gun. "Robin! We forgot to add a downgrade to the rocket launcher!" "Just do what we always do." "No crits?" "Yup." "Make it a laser too." "Good idea."

[QUOTE=comet1337;31247725]soldier = SPEHSS MAREEN!!! :v [editline]asd[/editline] engineer has dibs on last two GRockets.[/QUOTE] There are no more items.

[QUOTE=Smashman;31248106]There are no more items.[/QUOTE] You don't know that. There are two more grockets and they very well could contain more items.

[QUOTE=mastermaul;31244472]I don't care what they do to the fucking stats I just want them to make it less resource intensive, I haven't played since the update but all this shit i'm hearing about FPS drops scares me.[/QUOTE] Its rather crazy, I have a pretty alright gaming laptop that has always run TF2 without a problem and usually higher than 60fps, but whenever I see one of those new projectiles, FPS drops like crazy. Its really bad if you get a direct hit on your character because of the splash effect. When they're flying about in an enclosed space, its pretty terrible too. If I understood the numbers right, basically the shot itself has over 4k polygons. Thats about as much as the pyro, so basically, Valve's letting the soldier shoot pyros. To compare, the firstperson view of a gun in Crysis 2 is 6k polygons. Come to think of it though, with that odd afterburn, Valve is basically letting the soldier shoot pyros anyways. Oh, and for all you medics out there, its a terrible idea to try to Kritz a Cow Mangler Soldier. Doesn't work very well. Specially when most of your team is soldiers carrying the fancy new laserguns. EDIT: If you're interested, Recurrany has put up a mod to lower the particle count in the Emporium.

[QUOTE=PyroCraz3d;31248121]You don't know that. There are two more grockets and they very well could contain more items.[/QUOTE] There are not 2 more rockets. [url]http://www.teamfortress.com/grordborts/[/url] Look at the bottom.

[QUOTE=Smashman;31248106]There are no more items.[/QUOTE] I asked yesterday, he said "Maybe" Why must he be vague? :argh:

[QUOTE=Smashman;31248195]There are not 2 more rockets. [url]http://www.teamfortress.com/grordborts/[/url] Look at the bottom.[/QUOTE] That's where the day 2 link will go Believe!

[QUOTE=Smashman;31248195]There are not 2 more rockets. [url]http://www.teamfortress.com/grordborts/[/url] Look at the bottom.[/QUOTE] You don't know, and we don't know if this is the end. Stay fucking tuned is all I'd say.

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[QUOTE=PyroCraz3d;31248121]You don't know that. There are two more grockets and they very well could contain more items.[/QUOTE] If the other rockets contained other items this would be a daily update, and all the items would be released at only one time and not with small updates, I think.

[QUOTE=Psychopath12;31248216]I asked yesterday, he said "Maybe" Why must he be vague? :argh:[/QUOTE] Who said maybe?

[QUOTE=Liquidrocks;31248249]If the other rockets contained other items this would be a daily update, and all the items would be released at only one time and not with small updates, I think.[/QUOTE] ComicCon starts today

If we're getting anything it's cleavage flavored potato chips.

[QUOTE=Smashman;31248195]There are not 2 more rockets. [url]http://www.teamfortress.com/grordborts/[/url] Look at the bottom.[/QUOTE] well that does not make sense,where is 2 fort's rocket then?this the one which crashed on mountain.2fort's one crashed on a farm house.

[QUOTE=PyroCraz3d;31248252]Who said maybe?[/QUOTE] Robin.

[QUOTE=Smashman;31248345]Robin.[/QUOTE] You can never tell with Robin, so we might or we might not get weapons. I really hope we do, even if I don't have any of the new laser ones yet.

[QUOTE=Ducksink;31245598]So G was for Gun after all. Oh boy how did we not get that.[/QUOTE]You're dumb, it was for Grordbort.

[QUOTE=Smashman;31248345]Robin.[/QUOTE] Well with questions like these it is usually answered properly if nothing else is coming up. So I think we can expect more, but I'm not saying it is certain.