[QUOTE=arara199x;37216344]I'm playing Hero Academy. It's kinda like you described it, but it has a good layer of strategy underneath it. Each clan has 5 soldiers, and each soldier has specific abilities, all balanced. For example, the Council, which is the basic team - there's a Soldier which knocks back enemies, an Archer with improved range, a Wizard who conjures chain lightning and can hit up to 3 adjacent enemies at once, a healer and a fast ninja with improved melee combat. The TF2 clan has 9 soldiers, every one with their specific abilities from the game (spies crit from behind and are cloaked against range; scout runs fast, knock back against every attack; medic can uber people; engineer upgrade allies weapons, and so on)
Every move you do counts as a turn. Deploying new units count as a turn, walking, attacking, using items. And you have 5 moves per turn. After that, you send your turn to your friend and wait for his reply. You can test various strategies before sending. There are two ways of winning: by depleting the enemy deployable units or by breaking his crystals. So every turn makes you decide if you want to be defensive by healing a friend or aggressive by going all-out, deciding between deploying another unit or advancing with those on board, and risking the life of a unit to finish an enemy. It's lots of fun.
It's a port of an iOS game, but it actually features cross-platform multiplayer, so you can play against your iPhone-bearing friends. The iPhone version is free, and you spend $5 for each team you want to buy, while the PC game is $5 and comes with the Team Fortress 2 clan.[/QUOTE]
Ohhhhh That sounds interesting. A strategy game is something I have been looking for.
[QUOTE=Rageguy;37216489]I seriously think day 1 is today.[/QUOTE]
I do too. I feel like a comic is something Valve does as we arrive on the threshold of an update. Plus, a major update now would tide most of us over until Halloween 2012, and keep a good pace of updates about two months apart until the end of the year.
Raid - Halloween - Smissmas
[QUOTE=Rageguy;37216513]Why would you disagree? It's gonna happen because they're gonna ship the steam update and the TF2 one.[/QUOTE]
Are people thinking that something within this TF2 update will make use of something new in the Steam UI? And if so, what?
[QUOTE=SecretZX;37216526][IMG]http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=300x300&chl=TONIGHT%27S%20THE%20TINGHT&chld=H|0[/IMG][/QUOTE]
I hope so
[QUOTE=SecretZX;37216526][IMG]http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=300x300&chl=TONIGHT%27S%20THE%20TINGHT&chld=H|0[/IMG][/QUOTE]
What is it? I don't have anything to scan it with.
[QUOTE=wunderufl;37216552]Are people thinking that something within this TF2 update will make use of something new in the Steam UI? And if so, what?[/QUOTE]
Maybe view any Raid mode lobby that your friends are in without launching the game?
[QUOTE=Damian0358;37216581]What is it? I don't have anything to scan it with.[/QUOTE]
It says "TONIGHTS THE NIGHT"
[QUOTE=wunderufl;37216552]Are people thinking that something within this TF2 update will make use of something new in the Steam UI? And if so, what?[/QUOTE]
I don't really think so, but I think it would be something valve would do.
Maybe perhaps make replays upload like SFM videos?
Maybe there's something in store for us waiting for day 2 3 or 4?
Rainbows.
FIIINE
Valve usually releases announcements at 1500 EST, which was the time when they revealed the new Steam Community Beta.
I don't have any hope that anything else will happen today.
Except if there's something in the new Steam Community Beta that leads us to an ARG.
If so, God help us.
[QUOTE=Sardonus;37216594]turned all those shitty hats into THIS
>Vintage Tropy Belt
> Vintage Baker Boy painted purple
> Vintage Demofro
>Vintage Mining Light
the Vintage collection is complete.
Eat shit, hero's academy.[/QUOTE]
Really now Sardinus, keep your off-topic post outta here,
they're fucking annoying in both threads.
[QUOTE=Sardonus;37216594]turned all those shitty hats into THIS
>Vintage Tropy Belt
> Vintage Baker Boy painted purple
> Vintage Demofro
>Vintage Mining Light
the Vintage collection is complete.
Eat shit, hero's academy.[/QUOTE]
Hero Academy owns. Everyone on my Steam Friends List thinks I bought it for the TF2 hats :smith:
[QUOTE=Sardonus;37216594]Eat shit, hero's academy.[/QUOTE]
You are being awfully rude to a game that just helped you finish your collection.
[QUOTE=AtomicKirb;37216544]I do too. I feel like a comic is something Valve does as we arrive on the threshold of an update. Plus, a major update now would tide most of us over until Halloween 2012, and keep a good pace of updates about two months apart until the end of the year.
Raid - Halloween - Smissmas[/QUOTE]
Everytime a comic has been released, an update followed within about a max 3 days.
Also Valve started an ARG on Saturday and not during the week, and came in to work on Sunday also. Pretty sure they wouldn't do that if today wasn't Day 1.
[QUOTE=Sardonus;37216594]turned all those shitty hats into THIS
>Vintage Tropy Belt
> Vintage Baker Boy painted purple
> Vintage Demofro
>Vintage Mining Light
the Vintage collection is complete.
Eat shit, hero's academy.[/QUOTE]
Why would you get rid of your fabulous erotic gimp mask?
[QUOTE=arara199x;37216464]Kinda, but in Fire Emblem you had ONE turn for every unit, as well as a defined number of units per scenario.
Think Advance Wars, but with a global move count for all units. You can deploy an tank, or move a destroyer, or attack an enemy scout, but you only have 5 moves to make per turn.[/QUOTE]
Not to derail the thread, but TB did a good video on it
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uCSa1mRDZo&feature=g-u-u[/media]
[QUOTE=Croshi;37216632]Everytime a comic has been released, an update followed within about a max 3 days.
Also Valve started an ARG on Saturday and not during the week, and came in to work on Sunday also. Pretty sure they wouldn't do that if today wasn't Day 1.[/QUOTE]
so then today IS day 1
it all makes sense
[QUOTE=arara199x;37216608]Valve usually releases announcements at 1500 EST, which was the time when they revealed the new Steam Community Beta.
I don't have any hope that anything else will happen today.
Except if there's something in the new Steam Community Beta that leads us to an ARG.
If so, God help us.[/QUOTE]
That was 2 PM EDT, not 3
[QUOTE=arara199x;37216608]Valve usually releases announcements at 1500 EST, which was the time when they revealed the new Steam Community Beta.
I don't have any hope that anything else will happen today.
Except if there's something in the new Steam Community Beta that leads us to an ARG.
If so, God help us.[/QUOTE]
Most TF2 day updates update around 7-8 EST, except Pyromania because they wanted Meet the Pyro to come out before Day 3 (and Day 3 came out around 8 EST.)
This is WAY too early to expect anything from the blog. Wait til normal update time.
[QUOTE=Sardonus;37216594]turned all those shitty hats into THIS
>Vintage Tropy Belt
> Vintage Baker Boy painted purple
> Vintage Demofro
>Vintage Mining Light
the Vintage collection is complete.
Eat shit, hero's academy.[/QUOTE]
Despite them being pretty damn ugly hats that are a blight upon nature...
You could've got more than that. Plus this isn't exactly the place to discuss this.
SO! ON TOPIC: Tonight is probably Day One or HINTS towards a Day One.
Maybe a blog post made entirely of beep boops and blarpa barps that somehow get assumed as a language and end up saying NEXT WEEK WE STRIKE, ROBOTIC BRETHEREN.
Yeah, they can't leave us hanging!
[QUOTE=Goodwell;37216666]Despite them being pretty damn ugly hats that are a blight upon nature...
You could've got more than that. Plus this isn't exactly the place to discuss this.
SO! ON TOPIC: Tonight is probably Day One or HINTS towards a Day One.
Maybe a blog post made entirely of beep boops and blarpa barps that somehow get assumed as a language and end up saying NEXT WEEK WE STRIKE, ROBOTIC BRETHEREN.[/QUOTE]
Whatever, I won't post more about since it's not improving my rep by doing so.
[QUOTE=IrregularToasty;37216634]Why would you get rid of your fabulous erotic gimp mask?[/QUOTE]
Sardo isn't into kinky stuff. His loss.
Why does everyone think that its next week?
Wanna hear a horror story?
The release was just the comic.
And MvM wont come out till November.
Dun duuuuuuun.
-snip-
[QUOTE=Folseh;37216706]I hope you aren't saying what I'm think you are saying[/QUOTE]
"Shit man, I'm from florida, all kinds of crazy things come out of my mouth!"
So not to derail the thread, but as I waste time waiting for TF2 news, I'm noticing that the 3ds, when playing original DS games, seems to make them a bit blurry. Nothing to really ruin the system for me, but I thought I'd nit-pick.
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