Major Update Speculation V5: Somewhere over the rainbow - Games

Fuck, no code. Never got mine, never will get it. Why would they miss my email?

You can follow the developments here as more people seem to confirm it becomes premium: [url]http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2787167[/url]

Odd, my comcast email never got the code despite signing up on day one (yes I checked spam) yet my gmail account that I signed up after the first wave of hats went out got it today.

Maybe I'm naive and optimistic (actually scratch that maybe part I'm both of those already) but this seems like it'd be a nice surprise for those F2P's who genuinely took enough interest to follow the blog and some of the surrounding TF2 media.

so if you sign up to adult swim's thing now can you still get the code?

[QUOTE=HazzaHardie;36636656]so if you sign up to adult swim's thing now can you still get the code?[/QUOTE] "Sign up [b]by 7/4/12[/b] to receive your code. Click here for full details."

[QUOTE=Problematic.;36636861]"Sign up [b]by 7/4/12[/b] to receive your code. Click here for full details."[/QUOTE] yeah I know it's just that they still have the option to do it so I wasnt sure

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;36636156]oh lawd, apparently Robot Chicken codes upgrade accounts to premium now.[/QUOTE] If I'm not mistaken, this would be the result of redeeming a Steam code as being a purchase for TF2 as far as Steam is concerned. Didn't Righteous Bison codes do the same thing when they were distributed?

[QUOTE=Psychopath12;36636936]If I'm not mistaken, this would be the result of redeeming a Steam code as being a purchase for TF2 as far as Steam is concerned. Didn't Righteous Bison codes do the same thing when they were distributed?[/QUOTE] I don't know about the Bison, but yes, registering the code is apparently being counted as making a purchase in TF2 [img]http://i.imgur.com/KTWAC.png[/img]

[QUOTE=Grimhound;36630598]Alright. Where to begin. Facts: The Capacitor and the Diary still exist. Some people here are still under NDAs with knowledge of things that will be in the game unrelated to Pyromania. We know Valve is working on some secret projects. Speculation: Endless. Foundry was the map where TOBOR was really brought to focus. Foundry has the The Crucible achievement. 137 kills. 137. 13/7. July 13th. July 13th is the last day of a week-long Robotics conference in Sydney, Australia that begins on the 9th. The Pyromania items expire on the 11th. We also, unrelated to the general line, have had Gaben himself openly discussing Steam's support for Linux. So that adds to the pot. If Steam comes to Linux, TF2 will be among the first things brought over. [url]http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/07/valves-gabe-newell-reiterates-steam-linux-support[/url][/QUOTE] I hope this does not spawn another earbuds-like promo item.

Does anyone know if they're planning on making them tradable in the future?

Got the Bazooka bug working once, destroyed a sentry. Haven't got it working since, though i have been hearing dings which I presume is the other team taking random damage.

Still don't have my code... this sucks.

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;36635132]odd, on some servers it seems CTF Crits still work, but Valve has them disabled on their servers... why?[/QUOTE] they probably still have the option but changed the default to be disabled.

[QUOTE=Archimedes;36636644]Maybe I'm naive and optimistic (actually scratch that maybe part I'm both of those already) but this seems like it'd be a nice surprise for those F2P's who genuinely took enough interest to follow the blog and some of the surrounding TF2 media.[/QUOTE] I don't think it's naive! Besides, if anybody deserves fun perks, it should be new people. They're the ones whose games pretty much just consistent of "Spawn, enter battlefield, die, spawn, enter battlefield, die" and so forth. We've got full backpacks and years of experience to play with. I think they're entitled to be thrown a bone occasionally.

Just give the codes some time. I freaked out because I hadn't got one on the 28th and signed up several email accounts hoping to get just one code (since there was a false rumor circulating that yahoo accounts wouldn't get them), and I got one for my university email already but none for my other gmail account, even though I signed up my gmail account first. I wouldn't worry to much about it: all the codes are genuine, so I expect this to be a craft hat.

[QUOTE=igotopinions;36637351]I don't think it's naive! Besides, if anybody deserves fun perks, it should be new people. They're the ones whose games pretty much just consistent of "Spawn, enter battlefield, die, spawn, enter battlefield, die" and so forth. We've got full backpacks and years of experience to play with. I think they're entitled to be thrown a bone occasionally.[/QUOTE] However, one cannot deny that it will be exploited by people who got multiple codes so they could get essentially a free premium account at no cost to them. If they're good Samaritans, they'll donate the codes to an F2P player who cannot afford to upgrade or give a friend an upgraded account as a surprise.

[QUOTE=dageek;36637043]I hope this does not spawn another earbuds-like promo item.[/QUOTE] Probably will, but the promo itself won't be treated like how earbuds are now.

[QUOTE=hogofwar;36637099]Got the Bazooka bug working once, destroyed a sentry. Haven't got it working since, though i have been hearing dings which I presume is the other team taking random damage.[/QUOTE] What [I]is[/I] this bug you're talking about?

[QUOTE=dageek;36637043]I hope this does not spawn another earbuds-like promo item.[/QUOTE] If it did, the linux 'earbuds' would be much more common, since everyone and their mother would probably install linux and get billions of the item on idle accounts. I know I would.

[QUOTE=Psychopath12;36637379]However, one cannot deny that it will be exploited by people who got multiple codes so they could get essentially a free premium account at no cost to them. If they're good Samaritans, they'll donate the codes to an F2P player who cannot afford to upgrade or give a friend an upgraded account as a surprise.[/QUOTE] eh, I usually just think of it the same way I think of idlers. As long as nobody else's game is adversely affected, why not.

[QUOTE=Psychopath12;36637379]However, one cannot deny that it will be exploited by people who got multiple codes so they could get essentially a free premium account at no cost to them. If they're good Samaritans, they'll donate the codes to an F2P player who cannot afford to upgrade or give a friend an upgraded account as a surprise.[/QUOTE] I'm doing that with my sister, I just signed up with another email now so I can give her the code. I'm hoping I did it in time.

Linux represent

[QUOTE=Clovernoodle;36637491]What [I]is[/I] this bug you're talking about?[/QUOTE] Overload your Bazooka in air multiple times and you have a chance of hurting other random people for no apparent reason. Yay, Page king. Have a raffle. [URL="http://tf2r.com/kxnbllo.html"]http://tf2r.com/kxnbllo.html[/URL]

This video says that the self explosion actually causes two explosions, and that when the explosion kills someone else it does half damage to you since you're only misfiring one rocket. [video=youtube;X5MJQYsxNZo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5MJQYsxNZo[/video]

the mini-crits on Heavy after he uses the GRU don't seem to work? I didn't hear any noise, and I was doing normal damage on hits. But he had the skull over his head

huh, wow, logged in to that raffle site and apparently I'm auto-banned for "possible alt accounts" oops, sorry for having two brothers. any way to appeal?

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;36638245]the mini-crits on Heavy after he uses the GRU don't seem to work? I didn't hear any noise, and I was doing normal damage on hits. But he had the skull over his head[/QUOTE] Well, it does work, but for me it happens that some Heavies have the skull above their heads, even though they don't have the GRU equipped.

[QUOTE=DatWut?;36638347]Well, it does work, but for me it happens that some Heavies have the skull above their heads, even though they don't have the GRU equipped.[/QUOTE] the mark of death is suppose to last a few seconds after your put away the GRU. It's at that time it seems it doesn't actually work and the mark of death is meaningless.

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;36638363]the mark of death is suppose to last a few seconds after your put away the GRU. It's at that time it seems it doesn't actually work and the mark of death is meaningless.[/QUOTE] I mean they don't have it in their loadout at all.