Major Update Speculation V35 - A Distinctive Lack of Communication - Games

[QUOTE=GetGrenade;51244165]If you have contracts showing up but have no progression you can do this: 1. Go to any other halloween map and finish it (I went to harvest_event since it's fastest) 2. After that go to the map you have mission on - mission progress should work now. 3. If it still doesn't work type "retry" in console to reconnect I've done steps 1 and 2 and finished my first mission After that I've tried to do second, but it stopped working. I've restarted my game, did steps 1, 2 and 3 and after that it worked. both missions gave me hat drop, spell page and no crate :( ALSO some people saying that progress resets if map is over, so you have to complete your mission before map ends. Can't confirm since I've finished both before round ended. Also I've did mine while TF2 api was UP, now its down again gg valve[/QUOTE] thanks didn't work

Yeah, I think it's because TF2 API went down, funny thing it worked fine for many hours prior and went down just as I wrote this thing, the hell valve. I've posted it on reddit too and it worked for someone though [img]http://puu.sh/rRMy7/4940af6615.png[/img]

I had a sinking suspicion that matchmaking was going to fuck with contracts and here we are.

I see they still haven't changed any of the troll ways in ghost fort... 1. Tickle heavies still can be used on truced players 2. Can't run through teammates, allowing you to troll around the big medkit or block spawn doors 3. Spies can sap any and all engineer buildings during the truce, engineers cannot remove sappers 4. Jarate can be used on enemies if that applies mini crits on all of the bosses attacks [t]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/242458830520453831/069385BBB326B27E3521DB784AB1EBCB901EFA50/[/t] Guy went spy and kept sapping all our teleporters and dispenser during a match so I went tickle heavy and kept him laughing the entire time till he got mad hah...

I don't know if you should be terribly concerned about the sanctity of your game experience when you have to fight a wizard every 3 minutes while your heads are big and gravity is low

whatever happened to gifts?

[QUOTE=VenomousBeetle;51244522]whatever happened to gifts?[/QUOTE] Replaced by Ghost Gargoyles, those give souls and help you during Merasmissions.

fucking lame is there a feasible way of getting the stuff from gifts? transmuting sounds like it'll just eat away at things [editline]22nd October 2016[/editline] either way that pretty much eliminates all the incentive I was looking forward to each year

[QUOTE=VenomousBeetle;51244552]fucking lame is there a feasible way of getting the stuff from gifts? transmuting sounds like it'll just eat away at things [editline]22nd October 2016[/editline] either way that pretty much eliminates all the incentive I was looking forward to each year[/QUOTE] Merasmissions or Transmuting (I don't reccomend that option). Now I wouldn't mind that if Merasmissions would be more frequent.

First they destroy hat drops and then halloween gifts go too? Are they trying to hurt any item incentive to just play? It's an enjoyable game to play but it was a lot more fun knowing that the time I was wasting playing the same thing again and again might randomly pay off.

[QUOTE=pipantarctic;51244566]Merasmissions or Transmuting (I don't reccomend that option). Now I wouldn't mind that if Merasmissions would be more frequent.[/QUOTE] And also working?

[QUOTE=VenomousBeetle;51244584]First they destroy hat drops[/QUOTE] To be fair they've fixed that long time ago. I've gotten 5 hat drops so far this year along with a giftapullt and some paint.

Oh, well thank god for that

[QUOTE=VenomousBeetle;51244584]First they destroy hat drops and then halloween gifts go too? Are they trying to hurt any item incentive to just play? It's an enjoyable game to play but it was a lot more fun knowing that the time I was wasting playing the same thing again and again might randomly pay off.[/QUOTE] Valve is more or less doing [I]the exact opposite[/I] of what the community wants. I wish I was lying. I don't have any expectations for the next Halloween update.

don't you guys remember what they said about halloween gifts [URL="http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=14798"]a few years back[/URL]? they've never been happy with them as a system because it made the game more about grinding for items than actually playing for fun for a lot of people. remember what it was like joining a ghost fort server every day just to claim your gift, hope it's a spell, and sell it on the market, while ignoring all the gifts on the other maps? it's too bad that it ended up killing items like spells, though. they should've made the contracts drop untradable spells alongside the other "classic halloween items", that would've been a good compromise.

That's not how it felt at all

[QUOTE=TwoYearLurker;51244669]don't you guys remember what they said about halloween gifts [URL="http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=14798"]a few years back[/URL]? they've never been happy with them as a system because it made the game more about grinding for items than actually playing for fun for a lot of people. remember what it was like, joining a ghost fort server every day just to claim your gift, hope it's a spell, and sell it on the market, while ignoring all the gifts on the other maps? it's too bad that it ended up killing items like spells, though. they should've made the contracts drop untradable spells alongside the other "classic halloween items", that would've been a good compromise.[/QUOTE] Is it really that hard for them to make Halloween gifts [I]restricted to Valve-only servers [/I] ? And, I suppose that the other part is true, but I'm sure they didn't have to remove gifts altogether..they could've made a compromise

Glad they replaced my "grinding" with totally not grinding these pointless fucking souls What the hell is grindy about free shit every 3 hours? [editline]22nd October 2016[/editline] That's some ass backwards logic Hey you know that time based gift thing? Too grindy, why don't we make arbitrary points that don't do anything that you have to repeatedly complete tasks for?

[QUOTE=VenomousBeetle;51244690]Glad they replaced my "grinding" with totally not grinding these pointless fucking souls What the hell is grindy about free shit every 3 hours?[/QUOTE] I am guessing you forgot about the entire "HALLOWEEN GIFT FARM SERVER" bullshit we had. Yeah, the idea is shit but it's sorta justified.

[QUOTE=Demo-the-man;51244705]I am guessing you forgot about the entire "HALLOWEEN GIFT FARM SERVER" bullshit we had. Yeah, the idea is shit but it's sorta justified.[/QUOTE] They don't even work, it was a pointless thing to use

[QUOTE=VenomousBeetle;51244711]They don't even work[/QUOTE] Contracts? Yeah, those are bugged. Better fuckin' finish them in one life BEFORE THE ROUND ENDS if you want your haaaat. FOR FUCK'S SAKE. oh fuck you mean the servers They did, actually. I sat on one for a while when gifts were around. bite me i found pootis funny back then

That's the thing, contracts are the only reason i'm even willing to play my time out this halloween and those are completely broken still so why bother at all I've played these modes a million times and matchmaking has been crucified even more by their fantastic design choices, it's like valve is intentionally waiting out everyones patience

No I'm talking about those stupid idle servers They don't really do anything because you had to be properly registered and gift grabbing required activity. The most they could do is be a glorified trade server which isn't bad because people are still having fun together [editline]22nd October 2016[/editline] If you used one that worked it was quite a few SF's ago [editline]22nd October 2016[/editline] Plus the 3 hour cool down interval makes it sort of pointless

[QUOTE=Punchy;51244730]That's the thing, contracts are the only reason i'm even willing to play my time out this halloween and those are completely broken still so why bother at all I've played these modes a million times and matchmaking has been crucified even more by their fantastic design choices, it's like valve is intentionally waiting out everyones patience so the game can die[/QUOTE] I am starting to believe that this was INTENTIONAL and is supposedly making contracts harder. help

I think in actuality giving out anything for free isn't profitable for them so they stopped.

did they learn anything from drug dealers? you offer free shit then they WANT to buy shit when they're not getting free shit, its basic stuff [editline]22nd October 2016[/editline] you cant just not give free shit [editline]22nd October 2016[/editline] plus they fucking make money whenever I sell something so why not give me something I can use to get something to sell

[QUOTE=Whiskered;51244008]Being first Halloween in overwatch. Don't forget that they also had Olympics event and will have for sure Christmas event. Their ARG made me nostalgic about pyromania update. I am still staying tf2 though but valve's incompetence is beyond imaginable.[/QUOTE] Didn't the Overwatch ARG suck or something?

So are they just going to leave Contracts broken for the entire weekend? [QUOTE=TectoImprov;51244799]Didn't the Overwatch ARG suck or something?[/QUOTE] Most of the Community is displeased with it, yeah.

scream 8 has literally no effect on me because I've already had my little personal outcry on scream 7 i mean tf2 updates will eventually die out. just gotta be at peace with that what bugs me however is valve is too scared to actually tell their community "we're done with X". better keep the ~suspense~ and do nothing instead of come out honest and clean

I must've either forgot about scream fortress 7 or not given a fuck but I didn't realize gifts were gone till today. [editline]22nd October 2016[/editline] I'm gonna guess I was too busy bitching about Payday's microtransactions and playing MGSV while finishing school to even touch the game