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

[QUOTE=Atlascore;37263444]Yeah it's pretty lazy, at most it would take 5 seconds to allow blue + red on the same team, it's just a fucking texture difference.[/QUOTE] You severely underestimate the amount of work it would actually require to allow both teams to work together.

[QUOTE=Sardonus;37263578]so which do we wanna call as more dissapointing, Pyromania, or Mann Versus Machine? Agree for Pyromania, Disagree for Mann Versus Machine?[/QUOTE] I've heard (you know, because I can't play) that the gamemode is actually fun, despite petty things. I don't know why they made the bots gray in the trailer though.

[QUOTE=Psychopath12;37263588]You severely underestimate the amount of work it would actually require to allow both teams to work together.[/QUOTE] what were they thinking advertising it so heavily though

if you guys are bored waiting, do a solo game equip widowmaker do this [img]http://i.imgur.com/Yh960.png[/img] see how long you last have fun~

I like how when I hit "Start Search" nothing happens gg valve

[QUOTE=NeoDement;37263593]what were they thinking advertising it so heavily though[/QUOTE] To give off the whole feeling of it. I think they overdid it though.

oh lordie

[QUOTE=NeoDement;37263593]what were they thinking advertising it so heavily though[/QUOTE] yeah, no that really bothers me, that every piece of media shows RED and BLU side by side, a conflict that has lasted for a century, FINALLY put on hold to deal with the bigger threat. LOL NO RED VERSUS BLU

The fact you're unable to play doesn't make it a bad update. It makes Valve dumb for refusing to upgrade their damn servers. And while I do agree that it's very sad that there's no BLU, that is hardly an update ruiner, especially when the new gamemode is incredibly fun.

I'll judge the gamemode when I can play it later this year.

[QUOTE=NeoDement;37263593]what were they thinking advertising it so heavily though[/QUOTE] If I had to place money, I'd bet that the people doing promotional material didn't get enough contact with the programmers. The artists even made the robots and carrier blue, how can that sort of communication not happen between the people who were creating the video, comics, and lore? I know it's been in dev technically for more than 3 years, surely they should have noticed issues like that somewhere along the line.

It says 1053 empty servers but my friends and I have been searching for a server for ~10 minutes.

I cannot play. I just cannot. Why is there 5 empty servers if I cannot join them. And where went offline playing? I suppose I'll check that out tomorrow

Okay I got this guys. Red team just gave their extra uniforms to Blu, it's all part of a team-building exercise.

[QUOTE=Psychopath12;37263588]You severely underestimate the amount of work it would actually require to allow both teams to work together.[/QUOTE] No, I'm pretty sure he's right, a lazy way to do it would just have been to pick 4 out of the 5 classes and say 'right, these guys will always be blue in mvm, the other five will be red'. Not perfect but better than what we have now, don't actually need the players to be on two opposing teams.

All this hype and advertisement all just for a Fire-fight against Blu team. I kinda died a little inside.

Perhaps someone should compose a letter, asking why they decided to have only Reds as defenders, and why the robots are blue, and the tanks are blue. And the APC's. And by letter I mean email. Of course.

[IMG]http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/6945/9c129d8a7b514062b381319.png[/IMG] lul wut why can't I play why

[QUOTE=ZombieMannequin;37263627]Okay I got this guys. Red team just gave their extra uniforms to Blu, it's all part of a team-building exercise.[/QUOTE] I imagine BLU would protest if that were the case.

[QUOTE=Sardonus;37263611]yeah, no that really bothers me, that every piece of media shows RED and BLU side by side, a conflict that has lasted for a century, FINALLY put on hold to deal with the bigger threat. LOL NO RED VERSUS BLU[/QUOTE] Skin the RED team as purple, since they united (red+blue). And the robot team as gray.

valve really dropped the fuckin' ball with this one, apparently not like I can [I]play[/I] or anything. should've expected something to fuck up anyway

MvM is TF2's Diablo III.

[QUOTE=Mr. Magoolachub;37263628]No, I'm pretty sure he's right, a lazy way to do it would just have been to pick 4 out of the 5 classes and say 'right, these guys will always be blue in mvm, the other five will be red'. Not perfect but better than what we have now, don't actually need the players to be on two opposing teams.[/QUOTE] Then comes the issue of HUDs being miscolored, weapons and cosmetics using the wrong team skins (not to mention team color paints), and the disguise kit being completely confusing to use. It takes more effort than just "lol just have half of them use the BLU textures"

[QUOTE=Cyanlime;37263644]I imagine BLU would protest if that were the case.[/QUOTE] What you didn't see (in a mistakenly unreleased comic) was that Blu's leader lost to Red in a bout of rock paper scissors. LORE: SOLVED

What really bothers me about this update is that up until 8 months ago, Valve seemed to be all about quality. Since then, it feels like there are corners being cut at every turn when it comes to TF2 and Steam as a whole. Things don't have that Valve seal of quality feeling to them anymore.

When I try to shoot any bullet based weapons a red ball of crosses expands over my screen. I have no clue what caused this. [IMG]http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/541809953956411958/4556C515FF6C15918ADC8489255853FBA2BD5AF3/[/IMG]

You know, I just can't get excited for this anymore. No weapons, RED Vs Blu, and only 3 hats... Like, I know I should be on the edge of my seat but frankly I don't even care if I play anymore.

monoculus's health bar is gone they broke it :<

I knew that the first two days of hype would be followed with dissapointment, maybe i will learn the lesson during the next major update

Stop complaing about how buggy it is right now, they just implemented this into the game a couple hours ago and obviously haven't hammered all the kinks out yet, it's like when they first put the random item drop system in, that didn't work properly at first either, but it got fixed within a few days.