Major Update Speculation V5: Somewhere over the rainbow - Games

Thread is so slow without Ned

[QUOTE=Simski;36623161]I thought I'd share this for shits and giggles, I found this while googling "50's movie poster" :v: [img]http://www.autographsmovieposters.com/ToborTheGteat-HS.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Tober the Late. [sp]I hate myself for this[/sp]

[QUOTE=Blueleaf;36624086]Tober the Late. [sp]I hate myself for this[/sp][/QUOTE] Tobor

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;36620627]man, it still bug me the Winger doesn't have sounds. It seems so out of place and dated now that new weapons pretty consistently get new sounds :/ Same from Frontier Justice and Family Business, but with the Winger it's way more blatant now with the new pistol having awesome sounds. [editline]4th July 2012[/editline] Just take one of L4D or CSS 20384329 shotgun sounds for the Family Business and Frontier Justice, and give the Winger some kind of nice, powerful sounding shot.[/QUOTE] They gave the new SMG the TMP sounds from Counter Strike.

[QUOTE=HazzaHardie;36624046]Thread is so slow without Ned[/QUOTE] It's been slow ever since MtP.

Is it just me or have people been more quiet around forums and in TF2 about this update compared to the Uber update? I mean not just the updates themselves, but also MtM and MtP, it feels like people haven't hyped as much over MtP as people did last year over MtM. Kind of depressing, if you ask me.. :(

[QUOTE=Spagetto;36624769]Is it just me or have people been more quiet around forums and in TF2 about this update compared to the Uber update? I mean not just the updates themselves, but also MtM and MtP, it feels like people haven't hyped as much over MtP as people did last year over MtM. Kind of depressing, if you ask me.. :([/QUOTE] We had a lot of information to lead up to the Uber Update. Political Gamer visited Valve and got to see an early version of it, he interviewed Robin, we had the STS leak. There was tons of information leading up to it. Pyromania had very little information about it until it drew very close to release.

[QUOTE=Spagetto;36624769]Is it just me or have people been more quiet around forums and in TF2 about this update compared to the Uber update? I mean not just the updates themselves, but also MtM and MtP, it feels like people haven't hyped as much over MtP as people did last year over MtM. Kind of depressing, if you ask me.. :([/QUOTE] I think Valve made us wait way too long for MtP. They let our hype build up too much for such a short video compared to MtM. There were also more days leading up to MtM in the Uber Update with more item sets released. Altogether, Valve could have done a lot more with Pyromania.

IF they had shown some more of the hats and things before it was released like an extra day that would have been swell too

[QUOTE=alwaysrage;36624998]I think Valve made us wait way too long for MtP. They let our hype build up too much for such a short video compared to MtM. There were also more days leading up to MtM in the Uber Update with more item sets released. Altogether, Valve could have done a lot more with Pyromania.[/QUOTE] Exactly how I feel. Which is a shame, cos you know, this was their last meet the- short. We will hopefully get good updates in the future, but these short movies were something I always loved and now we really don't know if we'll see any Valve made TF2 shorts with the original voice actors in them. At least we(or well, hm..[I]some people[/I]..) got Source filmmaker, and so far many of the fan made SFM videos are looking great. That's actually the only thing I loved about this update, the rest of it..meh. Long story short, I just hope Valve will make more TF2 shorts in the future, having as many characters in the videos as possible doing awesome shit for several minutes. A trailer for the Tobor-thing..? TF2 cartoon..??

[QUOTE=Spagetto;36625091] I just hope Valve will make more TF2 shorts in the future[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=TF2 Blog]oh, hey, also: just because [B]this is the last meet the movie[/B], don't think it’s the last update you’ll see from us. we have big plans for the future of tf, so stay tuned [exclamation mark][/QUOTE] Guess that's out of the question. I wish they would've done a Meet the- short with Saxton Hale and the Administrator.

[QUOTE=alwaysrage;36625151]Guess that's out of the question. I wish they would've done a Meet the- short with Saxton Hale and the Administrator.[/QUOTE] Well obviously it's the last Meet the Team video, there's no more team members left. They can still do other videos, like the Mac video and stuff.

[QUOTE=alwaysrage;36625151]Guess that's out of the question. I wish they would've done a Meet the- short with Saxton Hale and the Administrator.[/QUOTE] Meet [b]Mr.[/b] Hale. Meet [b]Ms.[/b] [redacted]

[B]Uber Update: [/B] Weapons - 22 Weapon quality - Boring, "balanced" by playing around with stats, more Demoknight stuff, a new play-style for Soldiers and rarely-used situational Medic items Maps - 1 Cosmetics - 10 Meet the Medic: Incredibly overrated, IMO. Meet the Team videos are about meeting the team, all we learned is that the Medic is an unsympathetic, maniacal doctor who loves birds (like every cartoon's cold-blooded generic doctor with a foreign accent.) The whole video was centered around the construction of the first medigun, it might as well have been "Meet the Medigun." ARG - No Other: - Stranges - 2 taunt items, opened the gates for new taunts coming in the future - Free to Play [B]Pyromania: [/B]Weapons - 6 unique, 2 reskins Weapon quality - Scout set: new playstyle revolving around accuracy, Sniper set: new playstyle revolving around killstreaks, Bazooka: great new tool for roaming soldiers, shitty Pyro weapons for his own update Maps - 1 (a promising new gamemode) Cosmetics - 17 Meet the Pyro: Incredibly insightful while not taking away the mystery that makes the Pyro who he is. We're given an inside look to his mind and we're given the ability to speculate: what made him like this? Is this really what he sees, or an analogy for the joy he receives? Who's under the mask? We get Meet the Pyro while not knowing who he actually is, which is a hard balance to maintain, and Valve did an amazing job with it. ARG - Yes, an amazing and complex one at that that required the entire community's participation Other: - Source Filmmaker - Pyroland, which has opened the gates for new items that change based on what other players have equipped Personally, I think Pyromania was superior in quality, but the Uber Update was superior in quantity. Which would explain why people have more to talk about.

[QUOTE=Yukoviz;36625378]...shitty Pyro weapons for his own update...[/QUOTE] What the heck are you talking about? The scorch shot is brutal and extremely fun to use and the other weapons [sp]while being reskins[/sp] are also very effective :|

[QUOTE=Yukoviz;36625378] ARG - Yes, an amazing and complex one at that that required the entire community's participation[/QUOTE] HAHAHA The end result was pure shit though! Not even close to being worth it, unlike the Portal 2 one which was full of concept art and shit, this one had a single page of a script which was recycled when the update went official anyway, and we still never found out the end of the script when the update went live.

Well, the apparent ARG isn't even over yet.

We don't know the result because it's not done, as hog said. The capacitor and diary still have a role to play. And I don't understand how the fact that it wasn't finished is something to be happy about, would you read a mystery novel that had no ending? [QUOTE=Linda,Octupuss;36625463]What the heck are you talking about? The scorch shot is brutal and extremely fun to use and the other weapons [sp]while being reskins[/sp] are also very effective :|[/QUOTE] The Scorch Shot is okay, yeah, but other than that all we got was two reskins. I like them, don't get me wrong, but they're bad compared to what we could've gotten. There are some great Pyro sets in the workshop begging to be put ingame, one of which is Jalcober's.

[QUOTE=HazzaHardie;36624046]Thread is so slow without Ned[/QUOTE] I won 14 dollars at the casino :)

I still liked the Pyromania weapons more than most of the Uber Update ones. Seems more quality over quantity. The related media was about equal in my opinion but all the little fixes really put it over the top.

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;36625670]I won 14 dollars at the casino :)[/QUOTE] And how much did you lose?

[QUOTE=hogofwar;36625713]And how much did you lose?[/QUOTE] 10 dollar first time visitor gambling voucher plus penny and nickel bets, I didn't lose anything :)

You should raffle those two keys

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;36625738]10 dollar first time visitor gambling voucher plus penny and nickel bets, I didn't lose anything :)[/QUOTE] Those poor pennies. [SUP][SUP](confirm me as your friend)[/SUP][/SUP]

[QUOTE=hogofwar;36625513]Well, the apparent ARG isn't even over yet.[/QUOTE] But that's really only wishful thinking. I'd like for it to be true, but it's far more likely that the Diary and Capacitor were spared only because Valve noticed that people had spent so much on them. The fire damage probably meant that the Diary was intended for the Pyro, and the Capacitor probably for Doomsday. I hope I'm proven wrong.

[QUOTE=hogofwar;36625777]Those poor pennies. [SUP][SUP](confirm me as your friend)[/SUP][/SUP][/QUOTE] I'm not at my computer yet, but steam mobile seems to work, so okay

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;36625825]I'm not at my computer yet, but steam mobile seems to work, so okay[/QUOTE] I knew subliminal messages would work! [SUP][SUP]Give me your 14 dollars![/SUP][/SUP]

On one of my spins if I had bet a dollar, rather than a penny, I would have made 100 dollars, instead I only made 10 dollars from it :/

[QUOTE=Yukoviz;36625378][B]Uber Update: [/B] Meet the Medic: Incredibly overrated, IMO. Meet the Team videos are about meeting the team, all we learned is that the Medic is an unsympathetic, maniacal doctor who loves birds (like every cartoon's cold-blooded generic doctor with a foreign accent.) The whole video was centered around the construction of the first medigun, it might as well have been "Meet the Medigun." [/QUOTE] It was centered at what makes the ubercharge work and medics story, it was only the earlier ideas of MtM that was about the medigun (like the behind the scenes video)

I have this feeling that the capacitor and diary are simply not going to be important anymore and were only not burned because Valve knew people would get mad if their "rarer" items turned to ash