Major Update Speculation/Recap thread

[ned_ballad]

[QUOTE=psyke;32994421]i'm just waiting for various contributors to kick off when they get email/emails about possible inclusions to the update[/QUOTE]
did YOU get an email?

[Psyke]

[QUOTE=Corporal Yippie;32994448]im a titch worried about this

remember last time? two community hats got in, that was all

i would love it, but i'm not sure valve had enough time to get a lot of good items from NOTLU in[/QUOTE]

i think valve was just testing the water there

over time the community updates have been bigger in content it seems.
so it seems they don't worry so much about lumpin' alot of new hats in anymore

[Roo]

[QUOTE=Stoffy;32993601][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAR7Keq_iGY[/media]

Scariest Nostalgia I could find from my old Rayman days.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE][video=youtube;VpNxiCCElvM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpNxiCCElvM[/video][/QUOTE]

[Zannabluke]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1POKYrvlmQ[/media]

Too bad the game was a li'l bit short.

[Psyke]

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;32994474]did YOU get an email?[/QUOTE]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq3abPnEEGE[/media]

[ned_ballad]

[QUOTE=Corporal Yippie;32994448]im a titch worried about this

remember last time? two community hats got in, that was all

i would love it, but i'm not sure valve had enough time to get a lot of good items from NOTLU in[/QUOTE]
Halloween last year was coming off of a billion new items and the creation of the store. I think they were playing it really conservative that year because of how shook up the community already was.

This year however everything is settled, the Manniversary was small (hats and weapons wise) and we're eager for lots of new weapons and hats (and especially misc items).

[DJF]

Alright, I got my Sour Cream and Onion chips ready for tonight.

Can't fucking wait.

[ned_ballad]

one thing that concerns me though is the lack of a HLDS email. It seemed Tony was conditioning the HLDS to send out an email the day of the update, and since no email has yet to come out, I don't know.

It just seems so obviously tonight, but it's tough to say since there's evidence going both ways. I'm confident it's tonight, but there could be some serious doubt about it.

[Draqo]

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;32994578]one thing that concerns me though is the lack of a HLDS email. It seemed Tony was conditioning the HLDS to send out an email the day of the update, and since no email has yet to come out, I don't know.

It just seems so obviously tonight, but it's tough to say since there's evidence going both ways. I'm confident it's tonight, but there could be some serious doubt about it.[/QUOTE]

When I said "Trick or treat!", I was expecting treats not tricks!

[DJF]

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;32994578]one thing that concerns me though is the lack of a HLDS email. It seemed Tony was conditioning the HLDS to send out an email the day of the update, and since no email has yet to come out, I don't know.

It just seems so obviously tonight, but it's tough to say since there's evidence going both ways. I'm confident it's tonight, but there could be some serious doubt about it.[/QUOTE]

Still early in the day, maybe they're just late getting the e-mails out.

[Rigged237]

It's bizarre that I'm actually more excited that the TF2 canon is going to be expanded than getting new hats/weapons.

[Jomay]

[QUOTE=Zannabluke;32994511][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1POKYrvlmQ[/media]

Too bad the game was a li'l bit short.[/QUOTE]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUozK4yYwOY[/media]

[ned_ballad]

by the way all the youtube videos on this page makes this thread take like 20 seconds longer to load for me...

[Psychopath]

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;32994652]by the way all the youtube videos on this page makes this thread take like 20 seconds longer to load for me...[/QUOTE]I miss media tags working as they used to too.

[Sharc]

[QUOTE=Rigged237;32994624]It's bizarre that I'm actually more excited that the TF2 canon is going to be expanded than getting new hats/weapons.[/QUOTE]

The middlemann might finally be revealed. :v:

[DJF]

[QUOTE=Sharc;32994676]The middlemann might finally be revealed. :v:[/QUOTE]
Turns out its two people.

[VoiDeD]

Just to get the rumor juices flowing, I found something else that's interesting in the client binary of tf2.

[cpp]
__data:00EC4EC0 _g_szQualityLocalizationStrings dd offset aNormal
__data:00EC4EC0 ; DATA XREF: EconQuality_GetLocalizationString(EEconItemQuality)+13r
__data:00EC4EC0 ; "#Normal"
__data:00EC4EC4 dd offset aRarity1 ; "#rarity1"
__data:00EC4EC8 dd offset aRarity2 ; "#rarity2"
__data:00EC4ECC dd offset aVintage ; "#vintage"
__data:00EC4ED0 dd offset aRarity3 ; "#rarity3"
__data:00EC4ED4 dd offset aRarity4 ; "#rarity4"
__data:00EC4ED8 dd offset aUnique ; "#unique"
__data:00EC4EDC dd offset aCommunity ; "#community"
__data:00EC4EE0 dd offset aDeveloper ; "#developer"
__data:00EC4EE4 dd offset aSelfmade ; "#selfmade"
__data:00EC4EE8 dd offset aCustomized ; "#customized"
__data:00EC4EEC dd offset aStrange ; "#strange"
__data:00EC4EF0 dd offset aCompleted ; "#completed"
__data:00EC4EF4 dd offset aHaunted ; "#haunted"
[/cpp]

Haunted weapon quality? Anyone ever heard of that before?

And ned_ballad if you repost this on SPUF without crediting me again I'll have your head this time.

[Jetamo]

I feel like they were conditioning the HLDS so that they WOULDN'T need to forewarn everyone of the update, as the one thing they needed to do (register their servers) have already been done.

[Psychopath]

[QUOTE=DJF;32994730]Turns out its two people.[/QUOTE]

Or [i]three[/i] people, with the middle person missing!

[Jetamo]

[quote]Heads up.

Insanity is upon us.

We'll include the Halloween map cycle file that we're going to be using on about 70% of our Valve servers, so you can have an example for how you might want to configure your servers.

Your humble servant,
Fletch[/quote]

[zooey]

[QUOTE=VoiDeD;32994753]Just to get the rumor juices flowing, I found something else that's interesting in the client binary of tf2.

[cpp]
__data:00EC4EC0 _g_szQualityLocalizationStrings dd offset aNormal
__data:00EC4EC0 ; DATA XREF: EconQuality_GetLocalizationString(EEconItemQuality)+13r
__data:00EC4EC0 ; "#Normal"
__data:00EC4EC4 dd offset aRarity1 ; "#rarity1"
__data:00EC4EC8 dd offset aRarity2 ; "#rarity2"
__data:00EC4ECC dd offset aVintage ; "#vintage"
__data:00EC4ED0 dd offset aRarity3 ; "#rarity3"
__data:00EC4ED4 dd offset aRarity4 ; "#rarity4"
__data:00EC4ED8 dd offset aUnique ; "#unique"
__data:00EC4EDC dd offset aCommunity ; "#community"
__data:00EC4EE0 dd offset aDeveloper ; "#developer"
__data:00EC4EE4 dd offset aSelfmade ; "#selfmade"
__data:00EC4EE8 dd offset aCustomized ; "#customized"
__data:00EC4EEC dd offset aStrange ; "#strange"
__data:00EC4EF0 dd offset aCompleted ; "#completed"
__data:00EC4EF4 dd offset aHaunted ; "#haunted"
[/cpp]

Haunted weapon quality? Anyone ever heard of that before?

And ned_ballad if you repost this on SPUF without crediting me again I'll have your head this time.[/QUOTE]

It's the Dallahan!

[VoiDeD]

-snip- Ninja'd.

[TopHatLayton]

[hlds] Team Fortress 2 required update coming this afternoon‏

Heads up.

Insanity is upon us.

We'll include the Halloween map cycle file that we're going to be using on about 70% of our Valve servers, so you can have an example for how you might want to configure your servers.

Your humble servant,

Fletch

NINJA'D

[Jetamo]

TONIGHT IS THE FUCKING NIGHT HOLY FUCKING GOD IT BEGINS

IT BEGINS!

IT.
BEGINS.

[royaldanney]

[QUOTE=VoiDeD;32994753]Just to get the rumor juices flowing, I found something else that's interesting in the client binary of tf2.

[cpp]
__data:00EC4EC0 _g_szQualityLocalizationStrings dd offset aNormal
__data:00EC4EC0 ; DATA XREF: EconQuality_GetLocalizationString(EEconItemQuality)+13r
__data:00EC4EC0 ; "#Normal"
__data:00EC4EC4 dd offset aRarity1 ; "#rarity1"
__data:00EC4EC8 dd offset aRarity2 ; "#rarity2"
__data:00EC4ECC dd offset aVintage ; "#vintage"
__data:00EC4ED0 dd offset aRarity3 ; "#rarity3"
__data:00EC4ED4 dd offset aRarity4 ; "#rarity4"
__data:00EC4ED8 dd offset aUnique ; "#unique"
__data:00EC4EDC dd offset aCommunity ; "#community"
__data:00EC4EE0 dd offset aDeveloper ; "#developer"
__data:00EC4EE4 dd offset aSelfmade ; "#selfmade"
__data:00EC4EE8 dd offset aCustomized ; "#customized"
__data:00EC4EEC dd offset aStrange ; "#strange"
__data:00EC4EF0 dd offset aCompleted ; "#completed"
__data:00EC4EF4 dd offset aHaunted ; "#haunted"
[/cpp]

Haunted weapon quality? Anyone ever heard of that before?

And ned_ballad if you repost this on SPUF without crediting me again I'll have your head this time.[/QUOTE]

Oh yes. You got me something to be excited about.

[not_yet]

well, looks like they were just late with the emails

[ned_ballad]

[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/33571567/valvestuff/tf2/halloweenupdate.PNG[/img]

Edit: Friggin' Cructo

[Psychopath]

[QUOTE=Jetamo;32994792]TONIGHT IS THE FUCKING NIGHT HOLY FUCKING GOD IT BEGINS

IT BEGINS!

IT.
BEGINS.[/QUOTE]Whose voice to read it in?! I choose Dr. Weird!

Excitement!

[Zadrave]

Incoming update...
[IMG]http://images.wikia.com/gyropedia/images/c/cc/IT_BEGINS.png[/IMG]

[Stoffy]

I knew it was tonight, all along.