TF2 General Chat and Speculation Station: Whiteboard Blues - Games

9/6 is either completely meaningless, or it was supposed to be the first day of the update but they had to delay it to another Wednesday.

[QUOTE=bananaslamma;52656528]9/6 is either completely meaningless, or it was supposed to be the first day of the update but they had to delay it to another Wednesday.[/QUOTE] If Dane is right and there was a time like 11:30 under the date my guess is they were planning on doing a playtest for their map at that time.

[QUOTE=Lord Exor;52656504]Saying it was a monopoly was a tad hyperbolic, but it is definitely the largest storefront, not simply one of many.[/QUOTE] As much as I am against monopoly, I think "monopoly" in digital distribution is kind of a good thing. I don't want to have 5 platforms to play games. It's inconvenient. Same with something like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon etc. It gets more and more inconvenient. Of course the problem is that [B]if[/B] something goes wrong, there is no competitor, which is what we see with Youtube.

I'm actually pretty sure SOMETHING was supposed to happen today, but due to unforseen circumstances, it had to be delayed last minute, most likely due to a game breaking bug or major exploit in the new jungle map/etc, or hell maybe even just the splash page art wasn't completely finished. I'd say just give it some time, could be tomorrow, could be next week, could be even later. I hope it's soon though because I'm about to get fucked by hurricane Irma and I'd love to get a little bit of tf2 in before I get hit by this shit

I'm still thinking it was something internal among the team, like choosing maps.

September sixth was the internal date for when they planned to begin work on their new Jungle map

IF we are rolling with 6 9 being the planned release but it got delayed, today is still available for a release. They did that with Tough Break. Got delayed, then released it a day later with both days at once.

[QUOTE=Fluury;52656606]IF we are rolling with 6 9 being the planned release but it got delayed, today is still available for a release. They did that with Tough Break. Got delayed, then released it a day later with both days at once.[/QUOTE] That would be a nice surprise

I don't know why, but I actually expect something to happen tomorrow. It just seems like the next likely day for release. Anyone else? If not then, then I really have no idea.

[QUOTE=bobpineapple;52656622]I don't know why, but I actually expect something to happen tomorrow. It just seems like the next likely day for release. Anyone else? If not then, then I really have no idea.[/QUOTE] I wish there was a skeptical rating. I've pretty much been skeptical since June

I want to make a lame joke about toweek being the week but honestly, I'm pretty sure the date is meaningless to us and we know as much as we always have

As a completely wishful thing, I hope there's a future update that adds new paint to the game. I'd kill for paint that is basically just Team Spirit for all classes but Medic and Spy, where it samples Medic's coat when worn on Medic and Spy's suit when worn on Spy. It'd literally only be for the sake of having matching class coloring for multiclass hats. Also Balloonicorn team coloring. That'd be perfect for the Pyro update.

i just want a white paint that isn't 255-255-255 and a black paint that isn't 0-0-0

[QUOTE=bananaslamma;52656683]i just want a white paint that isn't 255-255-255 and a black paint that isn't 0-0-0[/QUOTE] How about custom paint? as in you can make your own RGB code. that would be nice.

After Eight is already pretty black.

[QUOTE=TWKUK;52656694]After Eight is already pretty black.[/QUOTE] but its green.

[QUOTE=Ghostlier;52656678]As a completely wishful thing, I hope there's a future update that adds new paint to the game. I'd kill for paint that is basically just Team Spirit for all classes but Medic and Spy, where it samples Medic's coat when worn on Medic and Spy's suit when worn on Spy. It'd literally only be for the sake of having matching class coloring for multiclass hats. Also Balloonicorn team coloring. That'd be perfect for the Pyro update.[/QUOTE] The problem with new paint is that most community creators actually make the textures themselves for each paint, which is why some paints look different on some hats vs others. So if Valve were to add some new paint, Valve or the creators would have to go through every single paintable cosmetic and add in that texture for it. Not completely impossible but very annoying.

[QUOTE=bobpineapple;52656690]How about custom paint? as in you can make your own RGB code. that would be nice.[/QUOTE] Main problem with that is putting colors that are too red or too blue which could confuse people on paintable items that cover a large portion of one's head or body. I could see someone painting a Ninja Cowl to be the same shade of blue as BLU Spy's balaclava so that they can run around with their head exposed and nobody knows it's a RED Spy. Granted that's the only downside. After all, [url=https://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/thumb/4/49/Painted_Ninja_Cowl_2F4F4F.png/385px-Painted_Ninja_Cowl_2F4F4F.png?t=20120811191534]Slate is already kinda pushing the boundary there[/url], but it apparently isn't a big enough problem to change the color so whatever. Maybe they could create sliders that lock you out of having colors that are "too blue" or "too red."

[QUOTE=Serge Ivanov;52656706]The problem with new paint is that most community creators actually make the textures themselves for each paint.[/QUOTE] That's not how that really works, they don't make a different colored texture for every single different paint, that would be painful. I'll try to explain how it works in the simplest way; The main texture of the item has it's paintable parts/areas textured fully white, and then there is a "paint mask" which is a black and white texture which specifices which areas of the main texture get affected by the paint most, whiter means gets affected more and darker means less. The paint mask can differ alot from item to item, some items don't have full white as their paintable areas/mask but instead it's more washed out slightly darker white so the paint appears slightly darker even if the paint is something like lime or pink, but some items have full blown white for paintable areas so paints on those look directly the color the paint is.

i wouldNt want to spIll the beaNs evEn if i wEnt on a tour to vaLve,s officEs because people is Very mEan on the interNet

The worst part about this is that we now have literally no idea when the update will come. Next week? Next month? We have no leads.

[QUOTE=Petachepas;52656758]i wouldNt want to spIll the beaNs evEn if i wEnt on a tour to VaLve,s officEs because people is Very mEan on the interNet[/QUOTE] NINE EVLEVEN?

[QUOTE=bananaslamma;52656767]NINE EVLEVEN?[/QUOTE] wtf are you talking about

[QUOTE=Serge Ivanov;52656619]That would be a nice surprise[/QUOTE] I mean itd kinda ruin the hype flow but after this clown fiesta there really isnt a reason for further delay

Today is my birthday Could you imagine if the pyro update shipped and I got one of my workshop items in game? Best. Birthday. Ever.

[QUOTE=clearsky;52656765]The worst part about this is that we now have literally no idea when the update will come. Next week? Next month? We have no leads.[/QUOTE] Not true. We have "lots of time before october" :V

All I can think of is that this is how Valve killed Day of Defeat: Making sporadic promises about future content only to follow up with dead air and neglect.

[QUOTE=Fluury;52656812]Not true. We have "lots of time before october" :V[/QUOTE] I think he meant "plenty of time before Halloween, we'll fix this later" and not really hinting at a release date.

[QUOTE=Nebrassy;52656835]I think he meant "plenty of time before Halloween, we'll fix this later" and not really hinting at a release date.[/QUOTE] Im aware that his focus wasnt the release date, however its the only ETA we have.

I joked about it before but what if the 9/6 did mean 9th of June and it's just a really really old writing from june and they let it up to remind themselves of the delay :v: