Team Fortress 2 General Chat - Oh Shit Edition

[IAmIroningMyDog]

Anyone know of a good, active Australian/NZ server that plays custom maps

omg

[[ToRn]]

[QUOTE=Citrus705;47280015]Anyone know of a good, active Australian/NZ server that plays custom maps

omg[/QUOTE]

If you ever find one, let me know.

Alternative Gamers used to host one, but that went downhill. They pulled the plug years ago. I miss it. It had a thriving community, always had like 2-4 admins on playing at a time, they were friendly and kept things under control.

As far as I know, none exist unfortunately. Or maybe they do but no one plays in em.

[Damoman]

[QUOTE='[ToRn];47280191']If you ever find one, let me know.

Alternative Gamers used to host one, but that went downhill. They pulled the plug years ago. I miss it. It had a thriving community, always had like 2-4 admins on playing at a time, they were friendly and kept things under control.

As far as I know, none exist unfortunately. Or maybe they do but no one plays in em.[/QUOTE]

Haha, it's still there.
It gets one player on average a month.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/PiYpB9B.png[/IMG]
The community self destructed when they kicked out one of the admins. People had an internet riot and eventually someone disabled comments on the steam group page and nobody remaining knows/cares how to fix it.

It's fun stuff.

[[ToRn]]

[QUOTE=Damoman;47280224]Haha, it's still there.
It gets one player on average a month.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/PiYpB9B.png[/IMG]
The community self destructed when they kicked out one of the admins. People had an internet riot and eventually someone disabled comments on the steam group page and nobody remaining knows/cares how to fix it.

It's fun stuff.[/QUOTE]

Oh that sucks. I really remember choosing to make it my new home. Custom maps and thriving community as I recall.

Sucks to see it self-destruct like that. They had quite a few servers running didn't they?

We really need more community servers in AUS. There's only a few that run a proper rotation.

"No Kids Here" and "Smurfys" are the only remaining communites to run a proper rotation. Tired of seeing 2fort, mario kart, trade, idle, achievement throughout all the rest of the community servers.

[Damoman]

No Kids Here is really good, I've been using their 23/7 Dustbowl Instaspawn Server as my main haunt.

But you're right, there is a hole when it comes to Custom Maps. It would be easy enough to repopulate the AG server but most people in their right mind would want to avoid all that drama.

[Trekintosh]

[QUOTE=Damoman;47280846]No Kids Here is really good, I've been using their [B]23/7 Dustbowl Instaspawn[/B] Server as my main haunt.

But you're right, there is a hole when it comes to Custom Maps. It would be easy enough to repopulate the AG server but most people in their right mind would want to avoid all that drama.[/QUOTE]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[chenhonkster]

There REALLY needs to be more Arena servers. All of them are either FF2/VSH/Prophunt/Dodgeball, or dead empty.

[editline]8th March 2015[/editline]

There's one sorta lively server in Finland that I visit but it's country restricted.

[Drury]

Anybody got a link to the old steampunk invasion TF2 art vault, with gifs of viewmodels and stuff?

[Damoman]

[QUOTE=Trekintosh;47280894]AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA[/QUOTE]

Hey
Hey Buddy
Hey
If you've found the best map why settle for second best-map?

[chenhonkster]

I unboxed a fucking Strange AWPer Hand!

[TheLonelyDonut]

[QUOTE=Anderan;47278891]I didn't even realize that was a thing.[/QUOTE]

I thought that it was still a mod.

[NO LOAFING!]

[QUOTE=Drury;47281071]Anybody got a link to the old steampunk invasion TF2 art vault, with gifs of viewmodels and stuff?[/QUOTE]

[URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1390341"]Is this it?[/URL]

[Cufflux]

[QUOTE=TwoYearLurker;47281563][URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1390341"]Is this it?[/URL][/QUOTE]

Wow, I was looking for that. Nobody knew what I was talking about in the TF2C thread.

[vnc]

I haven't seen any raffles in a while! So rate hearts for a Rail Spikes raffle, crafted by yours truly (unfortunately).

Ends tonight!

[FlyingScotsman]

Some interesting WIPs I found earlier. Someone might enjoy them once they're released.

[URL="http://gamebanana.com/wips/44353"]Scout Quake animations (Centered weapons)[/URL]

[URL="http://gamebanana.com/wips/44386"]Bots with improved Navs, can be used on other maps like Payload etc and has a built in weapon randomiser! (Now, each bot is truly unique regarding weapons!). [/URL]

[Rajikaru]

After spending a lot of time looking through cosmetic loadouts because being sick sucks, I'm starting to fall in love with Noble Hatter's Violet as a paint. It's really nice because it's purple and I love purple, but it's also really subtle and charming on a lot of cosmetics, and it's making me hyped.

[Metaru]

on the other hand, it seems that having a professional killstreak flamethrower is way off my league.

welp.

[[ToRn]]

[QUOTE=Damoman;47280846]No Kids Here is really good, I've been using their 23/7 Dustbowl Instaspawn Server as my main haunt.

But you're right, there is a hole when it comes to Custom Maps. It would be easy enough to repopulate the AG server but most people in their right mind would want to avoid all that drama.[/QUOTE]

Oh yeah I forgot about "No Kids Here". I do visit that Dustbowl server, but I mostly enjoy their Payload server. To me, a proper community server is one that runs a rotation, instead of 24/7 *something*, trade, idle, mario kart, achievement etc..

I myself occasionally visit 24/7 2Fort servers but when I want a change of scenery and some variety I prefer a server with some rotation ... which we lack of provided by the community.

Not exactly complaining, Valve servers do the job well, at least there's no douche admin or something.

[The Yiffy Fox]

Am I strange for never leaving VALVe servers when I play?

[Spectre1406]

All that empty Singapore Valve servers and not even a single sighting of Mann Up servers in the same country.

[vnc]

[QUOTE=The Yiffy Fox;47285277]Am I strange for never leaving VALVe servers when I play?[/QUOTE]

Not like there's many better alternatives out there.

[FlyingScotsman]

[QUOTE=Metaru;47284757]on the other hand, it seems that having a professional killstreak flamethrower is way off my league.

welp.[/QUOTE]

I bought a Professional Violet Singularity Fabricator from the market for £1.32. I looked at a Sniper Rifle one after I bought an Austrailium Sniper Rifle and that's £15+. [I]That's[/I] way off a lot of people's league. The flamethrower is small in comparison.

[Exhale]

Does anyone know if there is a command that remove the red/blue select glow when you hover over scottish resistance stickies? I still want the outline, just not the glow.

[Steel]

I seem to be having trouble buying Robocrates on the Community Market. It says they have orders up to sell but they don't display. Are there any other items that are broken, and who do I contact to try to get this fixed?

[FlyingScotsman]

[QUOTE=Steel & Iron;47286740]I seem to be having trouble buying Robocrates on the Community Market. It says they have orders up to sell but they don't display. Are there any other items that are broken, and who do I contact to try to get this fixed?[/QUOTE]

I get this sometimes. The Steam workshop also decides not to display things when I know there's stuff there (especially the Gmod one. Multiple refreshes is needed).

It's caused by Steam's servers going down for maintenance or they're getting more traffic than normal. Refreshing the page or viewing it in a browser tends to help.

[NO LOAFING!]

[QUOTE=Exhale;47286730]Does anyone know if there is a command that remove the red/blue select glow when you hover over scottish resistance stickies? I still want the outline, just not the glow.[/QUOTE]

I checked, and the VMTs for the stickybombs look like this:

"VertexlitGeneric"
{
	"$baseTexture" "models\weapons\w_stickybomb/w_stickybomb_d_blue"
	"$selfillum" "1"
	"$nodecal" "1"

	"$phong" "1"
	"$phongexponent" "5"
	"$phongboost" ".25"	
	"$lightwarptexture" "models\lightwarps\weapon_lightwarp"
	"$phongfresnelranges" "[0.25 0.5 1]"
	"$glowcolor" "1"

	// Cloaking
	"$cloakPassEnabled" "1"
	"Proxies"
	{
		"invis"
		{
		}
		"StickybombGlowColor"
		{
			"resultVar" "$glowcolor"
		}
		"Equals"
		{
			"srcVar1"  "$glowcolor"
			"resultVar" "$selfillumtint"
		}
		"Equals"
		{
			"srcVar1"  "$glowcolor"
			"resultVar" "$color2"
		}
	}
}

You can probably get rid of the stickybomb glow by removing the entire Proxies block so the code looks like this:

"VertexlitGeneric"
{
	"$baseTexture" "models\weapons\w_stickybomb/w_stickybomb_d_blue"
	"$selfillum" "1"
	"$nodecal" "1"

	"$phong" "1"
	"$phongexponent" "5"
	"$phongboost" ".25"	
	"$lightwarptexture" "models\lightwarps\weapon_lightwarp"
	"$phongfresnelranges" "[0.25 0.5 1]"
	"$glowcolor" "1"

	// Cloaking
	"$cloakPassEnabled" "1"
}

[Trekintosh]

I think the backburner should be mini crits, not crits.

[NO LOAFING!]

[QUOTE=Trekintosh;47288098]I think the backburner should be mini crits, not crits.[/QUOTE]

the backburner's crits are already unreliable because the crit area is so narrow

do you really want to make them even worse?

[QuickSnapz]

Just remove pyro

[Exhale]

[QUOTE=TwoYearLurker;47287651] Code [/QUOTE]

Oh cool, thanks. Just a shame that I have no idea what I am suppose to do with it :/