Major Update Speculation: V8: Rise of the Machines! - Games

So does Valve need to manually make the Xcom promos drop for all the people who preordered now? I dont think steam just detects that it passed reward level 2 and gives them out.

[QUOTE=Yukinari;37679901]So does Valve need to manually make the Xcom promos drop for all the people who preordered now? I dont think steam just detects that it passed reward level 2 and gives them out.[/QUOTE] I would believe so.

A Valve on the User Forums said they'll pass them out on monday.

[QUOTE=Shinx;37681588]A Valve on the User Forums said they'll pass them out on monday.[/QUOTE] Link to that post?

I don't see any Valve people posting on SPUF in a few days. It makes a little icon next to the thread and I went back 4-5 pages and only a few threads had Valve posters and they weren't about the promos

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;37681660]I don't see any Valve people posting on SPUF in a few days. It makes a little icon next to the thread and I went back 4-5 pages and only a few threads had Valve posters and they weren't about the promos[/QUOTE] Was posted today. [URL]http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2933557[/URL]

lol I just uncrated three Soviet Gentlemans in a row. What the heck Valve, it's like you don't want me to open crates...

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;37682402]lol I just uncrated three Soviet Gentlemans in a row. What the heck Valve, it's like you don't want me to open crates...[/QUOTE] Hey, at least you can science, or sell them away for loads of metal.

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;37682402]lol I just uncrated three Soviet Gentlemans in a row. What the heck Valve, it's like you don't want me to open crates...[/QUOTE] Be a friend, give me one.

Science got me the triad stunt helmet. wooo... wo... :(

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;37682435]Science got me the triad stunt helmet. wooo... wo... :([/QUOTE] Science [b]AGAIN![/b]

I gave the other one to my brother one of these days Robro, one of these days

Bam, zoom, straight to tha moon.

Does anybody want a fall crate? Are they even worth more than normal ones? I just got my first and only, surprisingly. Anyway, it feels like a shame to just let it expire, and I'm not really interested in any of the new items.

So...what would be needed for the heroes hachimachi to be made all class? Seeing as I can't get the humanitarian version

[QUOTE=igotopinions;37682869]Does anybody want a fall crate? Are they even worth more than normal ones? I just got my first and only, surprisingly. Anyway, it feels like a shame to just let it expire, and I'm not really interested in any of the new items.[/QUOTE] I think they're worth a reclaimed or something around there.

2 reclaimed, I heard. Could be wrong.

I wonder if we'll get new Halloween Store up or if they'll pull out the same art they've been using since we had Halloween and the store at the same time (no store in 2009, not even community items had been started yet! Wow!) [thumb]http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/thumb/b/bc/Halloween_Page.PNG/800px-Halloween_Page.PNG[/thumb][thumb]http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/thumb/c/c4/Halloween_Page_2011.png/800px-Halloween_Page_2011.png[/thumb]

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;37683571]I wonder if we'll get new Halloween Store up or if they'll pull out the same art they've been using since we had Halloween and the store at the same time (no store in 2009, not even community items had been started yet! Wow!) [thumb]http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/thumb/b/bc/Halloween_Page.PNG/800px-Halloween_Page.PNG[/thumb][thumb]http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/thumb/c/c4/Halloween_Page_2011.png/800px-Halloween_Page_2011.png[/thumb][/QUOTE] Wait...The Vudu Juju was buyable?

yep

Hmm...I know reskins are the great cancer of tf2 or whatever equivalent people would like to refer to them as, but am I the only person who wouldn't mind a reskin or two of the Medigun/Kritz/QF? I mean, all three that we have are Valve-made, plus if a reskin was made that had its own backpack...well, then we wouldn't have to have almost every Medic secondary mod replace the QF if it has its own backpack.

under no circumstances should we (or will we ever for that matter) get a Medigun reskin It's like a Sticky Bomb reskin, it's just way too important of a weapon to mess around with. It's no coincidence that most reskins are melees.

Aww, I suppose you're right.. I just wish that more Mediguns could be shipped. I know how hard they are to balance, but goddammit, there's a reason the Beta exists. Just really bamboozled why they won't -use- it.

The way I'd handle reskins... is to include them with new weapons. Something like two or three visual variations of new weapons, which I think would be the fairest balance between 'letting more people get stuff in' and 'profit potential.' Not including reskins again may be the better overall call, but if we had to do it, I'm in favor of the method that allows everyone a chance at a piece of pie.

Why not make every reskin be a different style of the weapon it's a reskin of? In most cases (excluding fish, sharp dresser, promos + the like), that's a perfectly fair tradeoff if you ask me. And if there's a holiday themed weapon, just make its holiday style only usable during that holiday. The pageking Corgis are powering this page. [IMG]http://gifs.gifbin.com/012011/1295000950_corgis-on-a-treadmill.gif[/IMG]

It's somewhat harder to restrict style availability. How exactly are you going to make sure that only CS:GO pre-orderers get the AWPer Hand style?

I approve of this pageking.

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;37682484]I gave the other one to my brother one of these days Robro, one of these days[/QUOTE] i got three robros in a row

[QUOTE=TheFishyG;37683898]Just really bamboozled why they won't -use- it.[/QUOTE] They won't use it because we won't use it.

[QUOTE=Kapellmeister;37685519]They won't use it because we won't use it.[/QUOTE] Well, I suppose if they put more things into it, people would be more inclined to use it, right?