Team Fortress 2 Classic V2 - Deathmatch mode when? - Games

[QUOTE=Mort Stroodle;47622593]I was thinking something for Meet the Merc that would emaphsize that they're all sort of incompetent and fighting each other in a huge disorganized brawl. Something like: A group of mercs is working next to a train. They're not fighting, they're loading stuff on, with one of them ordering others around, some holding shotguns like guards, but most just carrying crates onto the train. They're basically hired grunts, so they're just doing the heavy lifting. The crates are clearly labelled Mann Co., and we can seem some weapons inside. Then we cut to the spy crouching behind some crates. He disguises as one of them, and slowly sneaks in. He follows a merc behind a corner, then stabs him off-camera and the merc falls dead into frame, with a knife in his back. The "leader" would rush over, and notice the knife. He looks around suspiciously at all of the rest of them. Then he sees one of them smoking. He runs over to the smoking merc. He gestures angrily towards the dead merc, then points angrily at the smoking merc. The smoking merc shakes his head, scared. The leader merc takes a swing at him. He misses, however, and hits the merc behind the smoking merc. That merc gets angry, and lunges at the leader merc. This knocks both of them into a group of mercs, and a brawl ensues. The smoking merc backs away, scared, and stumbles over a crate. An RPG falls out of the crate, and the smoking merc picks it up. He tries to fire at the leader merc, but one of the fighting mercs knocks into him, sending the rocket off target. The rocket hits the big stack of crates on the train. Every merc pauses fighting. In the explosion, loads of different kinds of guns rain down on the group of mercs. They look at each other, and the[URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eDGD7kwsxM&feature=youtu.be&t=5s"] TF2 theme[/URL] starts playing. The lunge all lunge for the guns, and the firefight begins. We see them fight for a bit, showcasing the different guns. One merc chases another with a flamethrower. Another merc is spraying people with a minigun. Another merc is perched above everyone else headshotting people with a sniper rifle. Finally, it zooms out of the firefight, and we seen the group of the original 9 mercs, with the Spy joining them as they come into frame. They're all relaxing in lawn chairs, drinking beers, laughing and cheering as they watch the generic mercs beat the crap out of each other.[/QUOTE] What I like about this one compared to mine is that it: A) Made clear that other Mercs are fighting each other in the game mode. B) Made clear the other 9 classes are not involved in the game mode. Also, I'd love to see a shot where one of the Mercs is attempting to build a sentry, but builds a cobled mess combining a dispenser and a sentry. He scratches his head before getting shot.

[QUOTE=MasterofToast;47615290][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ffNvz1j.jpg[/IMG] Replaced Dark Red with Cream Spirit (Red), replaced Purple with normal Red, changed Green and Yellow to use the TF2C Green and Yellow textures, and changed Orange to Purple. Updated crowbar to yellow, moved Flamer (Red Cream Spirit) back, made Wrench (Blue), Sniper (Green), and Rocket (Purple) look at the camera, and fixed White's special hands. Last fix for the night. Edit: Moved White's hands a bit, fixed clipping on Brown's right hand, and made Blue look a bit more at the camera.[/QUOTE] If we want as much of a proper representation of the merch and his function i'd say avoid making it seem like he does [b]everything[/b] the other mercs do, as he for example would not build any sentries or buildings, and I'm pretty sure he woudln't use any of the other merc's meeles, considering those all have the basic same stats and are only different to fit the class itself, and im sure he'd have his own combat knife eventually. Try replacing the meeles with the scattergun, nailgun/syringe gun and shotgun perhaps? or any other generally fitting DM weapons, even if there ends up being multiple ones originally from the same class also the yellow guy could probably crouch if you want the guys behind him to show better and im not sure we should allow black or even that dark of a brown as actual choosable colors for deathmatch for the sake of keeping everyone equally bright and visible

[QUOTE=blaholtzen;47623634]If we want as much of a proper representation of the merch and his function i'd say avoid making it seem like he does [b]everything[/b] the other mercs do, as he for example would not build any sentries or buildings, and I'm pretty sure he woudln't use any of the other merc's meeles, considering those all have the basic same stats and are only different to fit the class itself, and im sure he'd have his own combat knife eventually. Try replacing the meeles with the scattergun, nailgun/syringe gun and shotgun perhaps? and im not sure we should allow black or even that dark of a brown as actual choosable colors for deathmatch for the sake of keeping everyone equally bright and visible[/QUOTE] I didn't think dark colours would make players hard to see. There aren't really any maps that have dark areas, and if it's a matter of blending in, there also isn't a lot of black walls and such.

[QUOTE=Hogie bear;47623641]I didn't think dark colours would make players hard to see. There aren't really any maps that have dark areas, and if it's a matter of blending in, there also isn't a lot of black walls and such.[/QUOTE] If we take this particular shot as an example, if you blur your eyes the black and brown guys become completely indestinguishable as characters among the others. Besides this it would generally go againt the rest of the games design to have completely dark players as an option. one way or another people will chose the color which blends in wiht the enviroment as much as they can as long as they have the option to, weather its black or the same shade of concrete that map happens to have. Id say we should only allow bright colors which are picked out in advance to be clearly distinguishable from any map setting

[QUOTE=blaholtzen;47623657]If we take this particular shot as an example, if you blur your eyes the black and brown guys become completely indestinguishable as characters among the others. Besides this it would generally go againt the rest of the games design to have completely dark players as an option. one way or another people will chose the color which blends in wiht the enviroment as much as they can as long as they have the option to, weather its black or the same shade of concrete that map happens to have. Id say we should only allow bright colors which are picked out in advance to be clearly distinguishable from any map setting[/QUOTE] I suppose it'd probably look more visually pleasing for bright colours than muddy dark ones. And sticking with the bright coloured playermodels that tf2 has makes sense.

[QUOTE=Mort Stroodle;47622593]I was thinking something for Meet the Merc that would emaphsize that they're all sort of incompetent and fighting each other in a huge disorganized brawl. Something like: A group of mercs is working next to a train. They're not fighting, they're loading stuff on, with one of them ordering others around, some holding shotguns like guards, but most just carrying crates onto the train. They're basically hired grunts, so they're just doing the heavy lifting. The crates are clearly labelled Mann Co., and we can seem some weapons inside. Then we cut to the spy crouching behind some crates. He disguises as one of them, and slowly sneaks in. He follows a merc behind a corner, then stabs him off-camera and the merc falls dead into frame, with a knife in his back. The "leader" would rush over, and notice the knife. He looks around suspiciously at all of the rest of them. Then he sees one of them smoking. He runs over to the smoking merc. He gestures angrily towards the dead merc, then points angrily at the smoking merc. The smoking merc shakes his head, scared. The leader merc takes a swing at him. He misses, however, and hits the merc behind the smoking merc. That merc gets angry, and lunges at the leader merc. This knocks both of them into a group of mercs, and a brawl ensues. The smoking merc backs away, scared, and stumbles over a crate. An RPG falls out of the crate, and the smoking merc picks it up. He tries to fire at the leader merc, but one of the fighting mercs knocks into him, sending the rocket off target. The rocket hits the big stack of crates on the train. Every merc pauses fighting. In the explosion, loads of different kinds of guns rain down on the group of mercs. They look at each other, and the[URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eDGD7kwsxM&feature=youtu.be&t=5s"] TF2 theme[/URL] starts playing. The lunge all lunge for the guns, and the firefight begins. We see them fight for a bit, showcasing the different guns. One merc chases another with a flamethrower. Another merc is spraying people with a minigun. Another merc is perched above everyone else headshotting people with a sniper rifle. Finally, it zooms out of the firefight, and we seen the group of the original 9 mercs, with the Spy joining them as they come into frame. They're all relaxing in lawn chairs, drinking beers, laughing and cheering as they watch the generic mercs beat the crap out of each other.[/QUOTE] I like the idea of Mercs being more like slightly incompetent henchmen who just do all the dull menial work like guarding and lifting crates.

[QUOTE=Mort Stroodle;47622593]I was thinking something for Meet the Merc that would emaphsize that they're all sort of incompetent and fighting each other in a huge disorganized brawl. Something like: -snoop-[/QUOTE] After the ending title card, a crit rocket shoot towards the original 9 mercs.

[QUOTE=ProtoMob;47623689]I like the idea of Mercs being more like slightly incompetent henchmen who just do all the dull menial work like guarding and lifting crates.[/QUOTE] They'd pretty much be the file and rank grunts who get all the work, the violent counterpart to the "army of pencil-pushers". The usual crew would be for cases where the professionals are needed to be called in, while the mercs are the cannon fodder. For my weeb comparison: think the one stars from Kill la Kill. (I can't think of any decent game comparison, maybe RTS grunts? I dunno)

Since everyone was throwing out their Ideas for a Meet the Mercenary video (if it's decided one will be made) I think it'd be better to stick with the original idea of the "Meet the" videos where they take place as an interview of sort with bits of random gameplay thrown in, as well as some animated scenes. It doesn't have to be awfully long and more like a minute or two short or so. I have a WIP script that i'd been working on for fun that sort of follows this idea but I'm not gunna post it mainly because I haven't finished the base idea for it yet as well as the fact that like 6 people just posted one too.

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Y7EfhAI.jpg[/IMG] Changed Black Merc to pink, changed Brown Merc to dark salmon, made Yellow Merc crouch a bit, replaced Blue Merc's wrench with a shotgun and replaced the toolbox with a random wooden box, gave Yellow Merc a scattergun, replaced Dark Salmon Merc's 6-Slot Grenade Launcher with the 4-Slot one, and replaced White Merc's bonesaw with a pistol. Thanks to the people that made suggestions for improvements. Edit: Made box smaller, changed Pink Merc to blue and Blue Merc to pink.

[QUOTE=MasterofToast;47625251] Changed Black Merc to pink, changed Brown Merc to dark salmon, made Yellow Merc crouch a bit, replaced Blue Merc's wrench with a shotgun and replaced the toolbox with a random wooden box, gave Yellow Merc a scattergun, replaced Dark Salmon Merc's 6-Slot Grenade Launcher with the 4-Slot one, and replaced White Merc's bonesaw with a pistol. Thanks to the people that made suggestions for improvements.[/QUOTE] I'd suggest having either purple or pink merc switch with blue, that way you have the four team colours right next to each other. Also pink merc is behind the crate by his feet, but infront at his arm, which looks rather weird.

[QUOTE=Suomimies55;47611427][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/wgCzoZw.png[/IMG] Nailed it.[/QUOTE] Now turn that upside down and you get Jamie Hyneman with a golden moustache. [editline]29th April 2015[/editline] Works better without transparency.

I want to see this in Meet the Merc [t]http://i.imgur.com/P8a5EBW.png[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/nXNzqzj.png[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/VcW671W.png[/t] Just him talking philosophical nonsense while ruthlessly brushing soldier's teeth :V

what the christ is wrong with the soldiers texture. Looks like the baby thing from pt.

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better [t] that. also, the last pic. Why did you have to choose black as a font color? so hard to make out.

That Gray Cartoon Pony used our Merc in the new gmod video [B]1:06[/B] [video=youtube;YZ1M6qB2-EE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ1M6qB2-EE[/video] [T]https://dl.dropbox.com/s/ffnexrk3gz1zrrd/tfcmerc.jpg[/T]

-Snip- Edit Guess gonna post some news pics of the map soon....

[QUOTE=The Yiffy Fox;47602126][video=youtube;2eXVfX2OwEQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eXVfX2OwEQ[/video][/QUOTE] This could be a good default primary for the merc. Either that or keep his primary slot empty and give him a pistol... Maybe that could be controlled with some sort of server setting or console command for the server owner or whatever?

[QUOTE=MrModez;47626608]That Gray Cartoon Pony used our Merc in the new gmod video [B]1:06[/B] [video=youtube;YZ1M6qB2-EE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ1M6qB2-EE[/video] [T]https://dl.dropbox.com/s/ffnexrk3gz1zrrd/tfcmerc.jpg[/T][/QUOTE] well, it IS on the workshop... Also, wanted to see how a certain persons voice sounded with the merc for fun. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWMev-GRopo&feature=youtu.be[/media]

[img]http://puu.sh/hvrWm/d988c92dcc.png[/img] [video=youtube;lE0VELeKlkw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE0VELeKlkw[/video] Hey look, a map pack! Yeah, you heard right, a map pack, not a map alpaca (the devs here are more of [url=http://i.imgur.com/Puws3P4.png][img]http://i.imgur.com/InfdjAf.png[/img][/url] folks to be honest). We're not [i]quite[/i] ready to reveal everything, though you'll hear about that soon and then all our cool stuff will be in the next patch for you (yes, you!) to play. We've been hard at work on this since about 2 weeks back, and I'm sure many of us are excited to play these maps and to let all of you play these maps. We have been focusing a lot on the official maps, but I can assure you that is not all that's coming out here (be prepared for some fresh 'Sandstorm and Nap' and a little more from your favourite 'Veterinary Prompt Son'). Anyhow, while fine tuning is going on, hold on to your [url=http://i.imgur.com/7fXVmmb.png][img]http://i.imgur.com/nkErmAm.png[/img][/url]

[QUOTE=TheRealRudy;47627085]That's making the Deadpool vibe I'm getting of him even stronger, in a good way.[/QUOTE] I Can try to make a sfm for introducing the characters however not sure about what anybody else would like to see. A meet the team thing for all characters in the tf2c style would take a long while but a trailer would still be mroe reachable.

Finally! I can't wait to play. [sp]Also. There are secret links. Use your amazing Filmcow knowlage to find them.[/sp]

There's a patch coming out soon by the way.

[QUOTE=TheRealRudy;47627085]That's making the Deadpool vibe I'm getting of him even stronger, in a good way.[/QUOTE] Had a go at animating him [IMG]http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/532892171296550044/9A50949884F8F8E0510B0CA106CC66799743ABDF/[/IMG] "Kill memememememememememe"

[QUOTE=Arxin;47627806]Had a go at animating him [IMG]http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/532892171296550044/9A50949884F8F8E0510B0CA106CC66799743ABDF/[/IMG] "Kill memememememememememe"[/QUOTE] Bloody brilliant.

[QUOTE=danielmm8888;47627536]There's a patch coming out soon by the way.[/QUOTE] Fantastic. [QUOTE=Arxin;47627806]Had a go at animating him [IMG]http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/532892171296550044/9A50949884F8F8E0510B0CA106CC66799743ABDF/[/IMG] "Kill memememememememememe"[/QUOTE] I love how fluid your animation is. How do you do that?

[QUOTE=Arxin;47627806]Had a go at animating him [IMG]http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/532892171296550044/9A50949884F8F8E0510B0CA106CC66799743ABDF/[/IMG] "Kill memememememememememe"[/QUOTE] Oh if only my phone could save gifs EDIT: oh boy oh boy I found a way to make it work, thank you based god

[QUOTE=Arxin;47627806]Had a go at animating him [IMG]http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/532892171296550044/9A50949884F8F8E0510B0CA106CC66799743ABDF/[/IMG] "Kill memememememememememe"[/QUOTE] I'm really loving this animation!

[QUOTE=Arxin;47627806]Had a go at animating him [IMG]http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/532892171296550044/9A50949884F8F8E0510B0CA106CC66799743ABDF/[/IMG] "NAUUUUUUUUGHHHTYYYYY"[/QUOTE] [URL]https://gifsound.com/?gif=cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/532892171296550044/9A50949884F8F8E0510B0CA106CC66799743ABDF/&v=2ibGU0EnksY[/URL] anyway to embed a gifsound(this wont work for me on chrome so use another browser if u have problems)?