Major Update Speculation Thread V3: Tonight's the Night, forever and always

[dageek]

[QUOTE=tso;36383574]is that 'email valve people' page supposed to indicate that you successfully sent an email? I'd feel bad about spamming them. Send just refreshes the captcha[/QUOTE]

Yes, it will show you this screen: [URL]http://puu.sh/BRbh[/URL]

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[QUOTE=hogofwar;36383586]It did for me, if it refreshes the captcha you should try it again until it works, the captcha is a bit niggly.[/QUOTE]

that captcha isn't just niggly, it's the hardest fucking thing ever

[maxofsteam]

[QUOTE=Jetamo;36383599]He once banned my Flame of War DOTA item.

<333333333[/QUOTE]

How do you know?

[ned_ballad]

Valve's captcha is an elaborate riddle, created so that only the best may honor them with the privilege to send them an email.

[Armisael]

Is it bad that I really do want to see a flamethrower that covers people in jarate (or marks them for death or whatever)?

Flame of War
Enemy players are covered in jarate
-100% burn damage penalty
-50% damage penalty

Only pulls 2/3rds of the direct damage of the regular flamethrower, and no afterburn, but sets allies up. Good for dealing with groups, pairs well with the shotgun.

[wunderufl]

[QUOTE=hogofwar;36383560]I wouldn't say the beginning of hints, just a continuation.[/QUOTE]

While I agree with you that there've been quite a lot of hints from Valve flying around recently, I also think there are two stages of hype:

1.) Stuff showing up in the schema, ambiguous email responses from Robin&co.

2.) Stuff like the doves on the old TF2 blog/things showing up on maps, and, of course, blog posts.

While Valve is aware that hype from column 1 gets around to a lot of the hardcore fans, the vast majority of people who play TF2 are largely ignorant of them. If you don't frequent the forums or places like Reddit but you still play TF2 quite a lot, you'd have no way of knowing about them. That's why they start hype from column 2 on the eve of big updates, so they can catch the attention of a larger audience.

My current speculation is that "official" hype from column 2 is still a few weeks away, thus, the next big update is even farther away than that.

But I'm willing to be proven wrong aaaaany time now.

[Pie_Savvy]

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;36383645]Valve's captcha is an elaborate riddle, created so that only the best may honor them with the privilege to send them an email.[/QUOTE]
Even that which seems straight forward is actually complex mess of numbers which one has to solve within a given timeframe, unknown.

[ned_ballad]

it also can't be solved by pressing enter, one must move their right arm and click the send button. Enter is a trap answer, it seems correct, but it only amounts of failure

[ZVAARI]

I am not expecting anything tonight.
Maybe Thursday.

Either way, it's too late for Valve to release anything, because I stopped carring. Quantum Conundrum is out this Thursday. :dance:

[dageek]

[QUOTE=SLBros.;36383795]I am not expecting anything tonight.
Maybe Thursday.

Either way, it's too late for Valve to release anything, because I stopped carring. Quantum Conundrum is out this Thursday. :dance:[/QUOTE]

what if they release hl3

[Blargargh]

I'm probably just struck with a case of the nothing-going-right disease, but can anyone else launch TF2? Mine just says the game is not available, or the launching window just stays there. Staring.

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Edit: Post problem on FP > Problem resolves self. Kthnx :s

[Hogofwar]

[QUOTE=dageek;36383941]what if they release hl3[/QUOTE]

Then we all win.

[not_yet]

what worries me the most about a major update coming soon is the amount of the people actually on the tf2 team

[Exparagus]

On a non-depressing, hope shattering, joy killing note, ned, is there anything you can do about the Scottish Handshake not using the broken model when you get a crit?

[Croshi]

[QUOTE=Not_Yet;36384085]what worries me the most about a major update coming soon is the amount of the people actually on the tf2 team[/QUOTE]

They could always ask some of the Dota people to come over for a few days.

[ned_ballad]

[QUOTE=Exparagus;36384092]On a non-depressing, hope shattering, joy killing note, ned, is there anything you can do about the Scottish Handshake not using the broken model when you get a crit?[/QUOTE]
no

[BanthaFodder]

*be in Orlando*
"Huh, haven't checked Facepunch in a while... I wonder if the update has dropped...."
*check Facepunch*
[i]"We're not getting it this week."[/i]
[i]"I'm sure we're ATLEAST getting a comic."[/i]
[i]"GUYS, HOLY SHIT, AN E-MAIL."[/i]

God [b]dammit[/b] you guys...

[ned_ballad]

on a related note, I was poking around bodygroups and it seems that the reloading and ragdoolled weapons are using reversed projectile bodygroups, which is why the world models show Demoman and Pyro not loading anything when they reload, and then when they die, a mysterious grenade or flare is just floating there.

It seems it's suppose to be the opposite. The floating grenade makes the reload animation properly load grenades, while the death animation obviously doesn't need the floating grenade.

I just emailed Valve yesterday, so I think I'll wait for this a little before sending it, but I do think this is problem.

[editline]18th June 2012[/editline]

it's nothing I can fix either, btw

[COSTA]

Who can fix the Loch-n-Load iron-sights?

[ned_ballad]

[QUOTE=COSTA;36384214]Who can fix the Loch-n-Load iron-sights?[/QUOTE]

Only Valve or Swizzle

so... we're doomed

[NeoDement]

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;36384175]on a related note, I was poking around bodygroups and it seems that the reloading and ragdoolled weapons are using reversed projectile bodygroups, which is why the world models show Demoman and Pyro not loading anything when they reload, and then when they die, a mysterious grenade or flare is just floating there.

It seems it's suppose to be the opposite. The floating grenade makes the reload animation properly load grenades, while the death animation obviously doesn't need the floating grenade.

I just emailed Valve yesterday, so I think I'll wait for this a little before sending it, but I do think this is problem.

[editline]18th June 2012[/editline]

it's nothing I can fix either, btw[/QUOTE]

Ooooh that's interesting, that might be something I can do a temporary fix for people to download

[ned_ballad]

maybe, although if you just reverse the bodygroups, you might have a floating grenade in the idle animation.

I think they need to be revered on the code end of things, but you can try a fix.

[k2.]

if there is a big update today i will be so happy since its my birthday

[Zeos]

A good 4-6 hours until I either get excited or kill myself.

[ned_ballad]

shoot for 6 rather than 4.

Or even 8. After 8 I'd say we're done.

[NeoDement]

Nope reversing it hasn't helped it all, it just makes a grenade float in third person all the time and he loads nothing into the barrels

[Kegan]

[QUOTE=k2.;36384477]if there is a big update today i will be so happy since its my birthday[/QUOTE]

Happy birthday.

And yeah I'm praying we at least get a blog post today

[ned_ballad]

[QUOTE=NeoDement;36384528]Nope reversing it hasn't helped it all, it just makes a grenade float in third person all the time and he loads nothing into the barrels[/QUOTE]

how about when he dies?

[royaldanney]

[img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/24289720/mu.PNG[/img]

This makes me sad, angry and some other feeling I can't even name.

[NeoDement]

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;36384547]how about when he dies?[/QUOTE]

No longer visible when he's dead, but the collision model still acts weird as if the grenade is still there

[ned_ballad]

How do rocket launchers do it without the random floating rocket?