Major Update Speculation XXVI: Much Ado About Nothing

[Wircea]

Get ready, everyone.
Tf2 hub and friend activity page getting filled with asshats showing off their half-assed skins incoming.

[Halflight]

[QUOTE=Snowshoe;48100975]See you tomorrow when you launch the game to try the new update.[/QUOTE]

You'd be surprised

[Zannabluke]

more interested in the rebalanced stuff than anything tbh

[Bites]

[QUOTE=Radaghast;48101123][B]Equalizer and Escape Plan[/B]
[I]Changed no healing penalty to 90% less healing from Medics while active[/I]

Clearly made for Competitive.
(Uber Building)[/QUOTE]

well, that.. and now you don't have to deal with soldiers sperging out and running away from you in pubs, as you chase frantically trying to heal them - they'll KNOW you're there and hopefully stick around for their buff like a good boy.

[Razi The Red]

[QUOTE=Hock;48101091][IMG]http://media.steampowered.com/apps/tf2/gunmettle/images/bg_01.jpg?v=103[/IMG]
Spy is missing from the screens behind Ms. Pauling :tinfoil:[/QUOTE]

Because he's under the desk.

[Jetamo]

So, some things to speculate on;

The picture of a comic Jay Pinkerton teased when he was talking about the differences of Photoshop/Illustrator turned out to be the comic for this update.

Conveniently, the stat-kill-tracker-thing on the Gun Mettle page shows itself as "499", which is coincidentally what tomorrow's update will be. The 499th update.

This first campaign will last for three months, conveniently ending just in time for October. Previous CSGO operations have had as much as a two-month gap(or usually just one) between them, so we can possibly expect another campaign by the end of October or in November. Or they might just save it for the December update.

The top left most monitor on the update page features a bunch of silhouettes - possibly of the cut-out target boards that have the shape of the classes.

The Boxtrot box and spy can be found over seven times on the update pages.

[Yikes!]

this would be nicer if the skins were just paint can style items that can be applied to any fitting weapon.

the fact that i cant put even one skin that might look good on my Spec KS strange minigun (name-tagged) bothers me

I wont lie, I like this one

[IMG]http://puu.sh/iKqQq/e17fed1fe3.jpg[/IMG]

but fuck if I'm gonna get rid of my sick mini just to look a little nicer

[Razi The Red]

[QUOTE=ikes;48101242]this would be nicer if the skins were just paint can style items that can be applied to any fitting weapon.

the fact that i cant put even one skin that might look good on my Spec KS strange minigun (name-tagged) bothers me

I wont lie, I like this one

[IMG]http://puu.sh/iKqQq/e17fed1fe3.jpg[/IMG]

but fuck if I'm gonna get rid of my sick mini just to look a little nicer[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I can't be bothered to give up stranges, killstreaks, named, or any combination therein for gaudy skinned, completely random when earned, duplicates.

[Radaghast]

The Classic needed a buff & Iron Bomber a whole new rework.

We can't get everything thought.

[DatGoldyDooly]

Wait till new year and there will be Fade Scattergun.

Anyway, its neverending circle. Long day without updates, Volvo seems to not caring at all, and boom they SUPRISE US.

Btw. we TF:GO now.

[Razi The Red]

[QUOTE=Radaghast;48101262]The Classic needed a buff & Iron Bomber a whole new rework.

We can't get everything thought.[/QUOTE]

Bomber MIGHT be okay, I need some hands on with it to determine that.

As for the Classic- I honestly don't expect that they're done with attempting to rebalance weapons just yet (or at least I'd hope not).

[Yikes!]

[QUOTE=Razi The Red;48101259]Yeah, I can't be bothered to give up stranges, killstreaks, named, or any combination therein for gaudy skinned duplicates.[/QUOTE]

if they did something like a "paint kit" item that was a little sprite of like a paint kit with brushes and whatnot, and all the base colors used in the skin, that would actually be kinda nice, so long as they keep the skins tame and not overly garish (though a few already kinda break this guideline, sadly)

getting a green and brown paint kit for this minigun would be nice, especially if it also worked on other items that had the same/similar color scheme, like the camo rocket launcher and whatnot, or the spy revolver and scout pistol that match could use the same kit.

Honestly if they handled skins better and made them more unique to TF2 it would be acceptable, but straight tacking on a CS:GO thing to TF2 was a really poor way to go about this

[Creeps]

"Hey guise! Remember that tf2 team? We fired them. But good news! New update is made by CSGO team."

Happy?

[The Kins]

[QUOTE=Creeps;48101299]"Hey guise! Remember that tf2 team? We fired them. But good news! New update is made by CSGO team."

Happy?[/QUOTE]The TF and CSGO teams have been in the same office for a little while now, apparently. I guess the crossover between the two extended well beyond the development of Matchmaking mode...

[Johnny Joe]

I feel cheated, they didn't say ANYTHING in the update page about that new twin force a nature I'm hoping for.

[Wircea]

[QUOTE=Johnny Joe;48101333]I feel cheated, they didn't say ANYTHING in the update page about that new twin force a nature I'm hoping for.[/QUOTE]

Classes sitting on a Force a nature chair taunt pls

[Snowshoe]

[QUOTE=Johnny Joe;48101333]I feel cheated, they didn't say ANYTHING in the update page about that new twin force a nature I'm hoping for.[/QUOTE]

I wish Ms. Pauling took the Twin Forces of Nature instead of these cruddy skins, honestly.

[Johnny Joe]

[QUOTE=Snowshoe;48101354]I wish Ms. Pauling took the Twin Forces of Nature instead of these cruddy skins, honestly.[/QUOTE]

I wish Ms. Pauling took the rest of that cola because they live in the desert and the last thing she needs is to get dehydrated while stealing hydrographic covered guns.

[Anderan]

I'm pretty happy with my strange rocket launcher as it is bit who knows, maybe I'll get one with a skin I like enough to justify sidelining it.

[Super Glue]

[QUOTE=The Kins;48101330]The TF and CSGO teams have been in the same office for a little while now, apparently. I guess the crossover between the two extended well beyond the development of Matchmaking mode...[/QUOTE]
Hats in CS:GO.

[The Kins]

[QUOTE=Super Glue;48101392]Hats in CS:GO.[/QUOTE][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Jal07BO.png[/IMG]

[PSI Guy]

i hope valve eventually adds a weapon combiner so we can have skins and keep our signed/unusual/farty weapons

also they should really limit weapon prefixes to like a single thing, just pick the highest value one as the dominant and have the others noted in the weapon description or something cause weapon titles are gettin unwieldy

also i hope there's an achievement for killing someone with their own gun

[Annoyed Grunt]

The weapon pickup thingy is... weird. I mean, what if I'm using a really obscure weapon (say, the Cleaner's Carbine)? What are the chances I'm going to find someone who

- Has the Carbine equipped
- And happens to have a "painted" one?

[Folseh]

[QUOTE=PSI Guy;48101412]
also i hope there's an achievement for killing someone with their own gun[/QUOTE]

"The Grass IS Greener"
[I]Kill a player with their own gun[/I]

[QUOTE=Annoyed Grunt;48101437]The weapon pickup thingy is... weird. I mean, what if I'm using a really obscure weapon (say, the Cleaner's Carbine)? What are the chances I'm going to find someone who

- Has the Carbine equipped
- And happens to have a "painted" one?[/QUOTE]
you'll be picking up THAT sniper's gun more likely than it needing to be the same weapon to pick up

[Evil_Knevil]

So this is one of the weapon unusual effects?

[img]http://puu.sh/iKtdU/a2bd9c40e1.png[/img]

[Annoyed Grunt]

[QUOTE=Folseh;48101442]"The Grass IS Greener"
you'll be picking up THAT sniper's gun more likely than it needing to be the same weapon to pick up[/QUOTE]

What does this mean? How am I supposed to pick his carbine if he doesn't have the carbine?
Now that I think about it, what are the chances that I'm going to kill him while he has the carbine active? This is a problem with all secondaries though.

[The Kins]

[QUOTE=Annoyed Grunt;48101454]What does this mean? How am I supposed to pick his carbine if he doesn't have the carbine?[/QUOTE]Simple: By picking up whatever he has equipped and temporarily replacing your carbine with THAT.

[Youme]

So, back to speculation: What time will they let us play with these new toys that we all hate?

[Annoyed Grunt]

[QUOTE=The Kins;48101462]Simple: By picking up whatever he has equipped and temporarily replacing your carbine with THAT.[/QUOTE]

You mean, for example, replacing the carbine with jarate?
I'm pretty sure it wouldn't work that way.

[Folseh]

[QUOTE=Annoyed Grunt;48101454]What does this mean? How am I supposed to pick his carbine if he doesn't have the carbine?
Now that I think about it, what are the chances that I'm going to kill him while he has the carbine active? This is a problem with all secondaries though.[/QUOTE]

you are picking up HIS weapon that is equipped.
So its like a scout using a FaN who kill a Soda Popper scout can pick up that scout's soda popper and use that as their weapon instead.
though i'm sure its only works class to class so a sniper cant pick up a demo's weapon (though I'm sure Valve being Valve will have a glitch where folks will end up picking up ANY weapon)

It could also be base on what weapon they had out when they die also, so a secondary weapon will only replace YOUR secondary if you two are the same class