TF2 General Chat and Speculation Station: Whiteboard Blues - Games

I mean, New Thread, New Poll. (This is my last poll, I promise) Optimistic - Day 1 Blog Agree - General Blog Post about a new feature or community feedback Dumb - Nothing happens and we're all just crazy [highlight](User was banned for this post ("How about no and you quit spamming the same poll, try actively contributing rather than asking for polls" - Kiwi))[/highlight]

[QUOTE=TcChallenger;52654777]I mean, New Thread, New Poll. (This is my last poll, I promise) Optimistic - Day 1 Blog Agree - General Blog Post about a new feature or community feedback Dumb - Nothing happens and we're all just crazy[/QUOTE] How many times in the span of a week can you repost the same poll

aaa new thread smell

no one in this thread will do anything if it's not today. there will be a few dozen posts ranting about valve's incompetence, how they're done with the game and how dane should be lynched. then they'll cool off, come back and just keep waiting.

CHOO CHOO MOTHERBISCUITS HERE COMES VIRTUALSODA WITH THE HYPE TRAIN :hypeisreal: [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Shitpost" - Kiwi))[/highlight]

I havent been keeping up with the specation, why do people believe today will bring something?

[QUOTE=prizepool;52654772]I feel like I have blue update balls. Please be 9/6.[/QUOTE] The TF2 team are infamous for "taking their time" with updates. I stopped getting blue balls after how long The end of the line update took. And what a disappointment that was. At this point I'm fine with it coming out whenever it does, although I still agree that the time it takes for the update to finally come out is a bit absurd. The TF2 team REALLLLLYYY needs to communicate better. If the update doesn't come out tonight then there will inevitably be backlash. That could of easily been avoided if valve dismissed the 9/6 thing as soon as it took storm.

[QUOTE=InfectedPotato;52654794]I havent been keeping up with the specation, why do people believe today will bring something?[/QUOTE] [media]https://twitter.com/danekevincook/status/903813734316965889[/media] Notice the capital letters, everyone is assuming NINESIX means day and month respectively. A.k.a 06.09.2017 which would be today.

I've finally dreamt about TF2 last night. I am now a true fan. It was something about the SFM being about the Pyro revealing that under the suit was literally nothing.

[QUOTE=Angemon300;52654808]I've finally dreamt about TF2 last night. I am now a true fan. It was something about the SFM being about the Pyro revealing that [B]under the suit was literally nothing[/B].[/QUOTE] We already knew that, though. [IMG]https://my.mixtape.moe/jdnsav.png[/IMG]

am I just dumb or would this be historically the first time ever we had an actual concrete launch date available to us prior to an update I just refuse to believe such a thing is happening right now after all those times it never happened.

[QUOTE=Demo-the-man;52654799][media]https://twitter.com/danekevincook/status/903813734316965889[/media] Notice the capital letters, everyone is assuming NINESIX means day and month respectively. A.k.a 06.09.2017 which would be today.[/QUOTE] Also, the context of this was that he visited Valve for a tour and the TF team had a whiteboard with the date 9/6 on it with a drawing of a jungle under it.

Looking at my poll/raffle, it seems people are steering to the optimistic side that something cool will happen today Let's hope.

These last 4 days have been painfully slow, so here's a question while we wait for the future's future. What from the things Valve has spoken about and the community has speculated will actually be included in the Update?

there is just too much valve dev interaction and weird shit in the last few days happening to not make me think tonight is something.

But [I]how[/I] the community would react if nothing (that means absolute silence) comes out tonight? My prediction is that it wouldn't be a surprice for majority of players (because the true majority are f2plays and definetly not us), so Valve wouldn't even have to worry about breaking their all-time known rules with any words regarding 9/6.

[QUOTE=Fluury;52654831]there is just too much valve dev interaction and weird shit in the last few days happening to not make me think tonight is something.[/QUOTE] If nothing happens today, I will be scratching my head as to what 9/6 meant.

Unrelated to the hype train, I had an odd experience on a Valve server yesterday. There was a sniper on the enemy team who was HSKing nearly everyone and getting lots of nub achievements (sadly, this part is not odd at all.) I check his profile and he had 0 hours in TF2. I began calling him out in text chat from my spawn. About 3 sentences in, my game lagged horribly. Not in the typical way that it does during connection issues, but I was unable to move or hear sounds. The red text "you will be disconnected in X seconds" never appeared, but I did finally time out. When my game recovered, I had a center screen pop up telling me I'd disconnected and timed out. The kind of message one usually sees when another user times out, but as a pop up. Is there a cheat that can cause other players to time out from a server, or were the two occurrences totally unconnected? Also, VNN, you're famous. The hacker's name was "Tyler's Butt-Chin." :qsex101:

Maybe it was a date for an internal playtest of the jungle map.

Any ritual you guys are doing to keep yourself from going mad? I'm reading through the past update pages. Edit: Holy shit I forgot that the backburner originally had no compression blasts and a +50 health stat, what the fuck.

[QUOTE=geel9;52654682][img]https://feen.us/wopfrg273m1eq2jnp7iv.png[/img] Update [b]100% CONFIRMED NO DOUBT WHATSOEVER FOR TODAY[/B][/QUOTE] He could have done us all a favor by saying it wouldn't be today.

Can we talk about how the new Pocket Pistol will heal 63 damage in 1.6 seconds? That's like, a medium health kit. With reload times included, scout gets a medium health kit every 2.8 seconds.

[QUOTE=Angemon300;52654845]Any ritual you guys are doing to keep yourself from going mad? I'm reading through the past update pages.[/QUOTE] Every morning I offer a sacrifice to Saxton Hale in order to appease the gods and ensure the update is a high quality one.

Let's play guess the update name? I am going with "The Tropical Update".

[QUOTE=CoolJosh3k;52654863]Let's play guess the update name? I am going with "The Tropical Update".[/QUOTE] Smissmas 2017

[QUOTE=Mort Stroodle;52654859]Can we talk about how the new Pocket Pistol will heal 63 damage in 1.6 seconds? That's like, a medium health kit. With reload times included, scout gets a medium health kit every 2.8 seconds.[/QUOTE] And? It's terrible burst damage, and the Pistol isn't exactly Revolver-level accurate. If the weapon turns out to be overpowered on launch, they can nerf it by reducing the damage. But I don't think it's overpowered at all.

[QUOTE=CoolJosh3k;52654863]Let's play guess the update name? I am going with "The Tropical Update".[/QUOTE] I'm hoping for some extremely inappropriate pun of tropical forests on fire. (edit: 100th post, woop)

[t]http://i.imgur.com/6KKzwtr.png[/t] Wait, thats not right... It should say THE DAY THAT DANE FRIES

[QUOTE=Blackavar;52654873]And? It's terrible burst damage, and the Pistol isn't exactly Revolver-level accurate. If the weapon turns out to be overpowered on launch, they can nerf it by reducing the damage. But I don't think it's overpowered at all.[/QUOTE] I never suggested it's overpowered, I'm just saying that could be pretty game-changing. Sneak up on one guy and you can heal back half your health, every three seconds. People are talking a lot about stuff like the vitasaw and panic attack but I haven't heard much discussion on the pocket pistol.

[QUOTE=Lord Exor;52654857]He could have done us all a favor by saying it wouldn't be today.[/QUOTE] Not only is that not how Valve operates, Jill is very likely the last person to ever tell me anything.