Major Update Speculation V35 - A Distinctive Lack of Communication

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[QUOTE=Stric_Matic;51243408]Since you're posting here, i'll take the opportunity - any chance you could get Valve to use the name Brimstone on the map's loading screen instead of Fifthcurve Event? And maybe add some images to said loading screen?
I know it's nitpicky perhaps, but officially accepted maps with missing map images and improper names on loading screens just bothers me a bit, like they're still left in a community-map state.

Also, I think Hellstone has some grammar/spelling errors at the beginning, when BLU are given instructions on what to do with the ghost (he has some Finnish name, right?). Could you perhaps have someone proof-read that?

Sorry if I'm bothering you over trivial things :)[/QUOTE]

It's fine. To my knowledge, there are images in the Brimstone loading screen. Atleast i did submit them to Valve along with other files and i just checked to be sure. They display to me. As for loading screen name, I can ask for whats up with that, since Ghost fort is Ghost fort and not lakeside_event. I'll inquire this when i submit a bugfix for the map. Just waiting over the weekend if griefers find anything.

Hellstone grammar errors were fixed few weeks ago with the bugfix update to the map. Eric was kind to "proof read" those. I'm not a native english speaker so things happen. Sorry. Also, yes the ghost has finnish name. Thanks.

[Stric_Matic]

Just to check - those of you that have contract reset/progress issues, do you have a Soul Gargoyle from last year fully-leveled up or is this also happening to people who only got the item this year and haven't fully leveled it yet?

[Whiskered]

Okay.
I'm done with this.

This event just made me buy overwatch.

GG Valve.

On serious note and some speculation.
Along the Mayann community update in FAQ it was said that valve does not accept skins (yet). It was implied that they do have in plans adding skin workshop. We also know that there will be another campaign, possibly later this year. Do you think they will ship skin workshop with it?

[ApertureXS200]

the overwatch halloween event wasn't any better either but oh well, they aren't greedy like Valve knowing they atleast made the effort to give a crate containing 4 item at each level up and you can buy item with money given by crate.

[Lavalamp]

this update was perfectly fine

why are you people acting so cranky

[Slip Nip]

[QUOTE=Kitt Stargaze;51241712]Well, got the effect I wanted from 12 multi-class crates... Not a Merc's mohawk per say but I'll take it over nothing lol.

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Maybe I can be lucky and someone will trade me the Merc's Mohawk with this...[/QUOTE]

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Me too! :joy:
Mine's glitched

[Oizen]

[QUOTE=ApertureXS200;51243830]the overwatch halloween event wasn't any better either but oh well, they aren't greedy like Valve knowing they atleast made the effort to give a crate containing 4 item at each level up and you can buy item with money given by crate.[/QUOTE]

The overwatch one worked on day 1.

[Kreepis]

[QUOTE=Slip Nip;51243845][IMG]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/245836711539524482/5800A5FBBEFFDFD01E799D8FA432BC760B091C4C/[/IMG]
Me too! :joy:
Mine's glitched[/QUOTE]

I really want a Hat with that effect.

it's the only hat effect that's actually good this year.

[CommodoreKong]

[QUOTE=Whiskered;51243741]
On serious note and some speculation.
Along the Mayann community update in FAQ it was said that valve does not accept skins (yet). It was implied that they do have in plans adding skin workshop. We also know that there will be another campaign, possibly later this year. Do you think they will ship skin workshop with it?[/QUOTE]

Valve accepts community made skins for Counter Strike Go, I have no doubt they'll eventually take community made skins for TF2.

[Nebrassy]

I don't care about contracts, just let me play, haven't got a good match since the update went live, was trying to playing for the past 2 hours, only got 1 game which was already done, and no good community servers running new maps

[Whiskered]

[QUOTE=Oizen;51243848]The overwatch one worked on day 1.[/QUOTE]

Exactly.
Here main even are the missions which probably won't be working until Monday.

At least for me thees missions are main point of interest in this year's Halloween event.

[Slip Nip]

Btw does anybody know if the unique stranges/austalliums have been fixed yet?

[Kreepis]

The way Valve Handled the Unusual effects this year is pretty much the direct opposite of last year:

in SF7 the effects you could get were ONLY on a certain number of hats and unobtainable on everything else.

in SF8 the effects you can get were the ONLY ones unboxable from any crate.

[Vincentor]

[QUOTE=ApertureXS200;51243830]the overwatch halloween event wasn't any better either but oh well, they aren't greedy like Valve knowing they atleast made the effort to give a crate containing 4 item at each level up and you can buy item with money given by crate.[/QUOTE]

Except that the overwatch update added more content than the tf team worked on for the past 3 years combined.

[Whiskered]

[QUOTE=Vincentor;51243994]Except that the overwatch update added more content than the tf team worked on for the past 3 years combined.[/QUOTE]

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.

[Zadrave]

[QUOTE=Vincentor;51243994]Except that the overwatch update added more content than the tf team worked on for the past 3 years combined.[/QUOTE]

You forget that TF2 is pretty much ancient and Valve doesn't really care about it anymore as much as they used to. Of course the Overwatch update is going to be better.

[Trumpatriach]

I wonder if Valve straight-up lied to us when they said [I]"Fixed Merasmissions not counting progress"[/I]

[Oizen]

[QUOTE=Zadrave;51244011]You forget that TF2 is pretty much ancient and Valve doesn't really care about it anymore as much as they used to. Of course the Overwatch update is going to be better.[/QUOTE]

I don't think expecting something to work upon arrival is a lot to ask for.

ESPECIALLY when its just recycled content thats worked just fine in the past.

[Zadrave]

[QUOTE=Oizen;51244016]I don't think expecting something to work upon arrival is a lot to ask for.

ESPECIALLY when its just recycled content thats worked just fine in the past.[/QUOTE]

I know, but what do you expect from a 10 year old game that has been on a downward slope for years?

You're never going to get perfection, nor satisfaction, from any of TF2's recent or upcoming updates.

As much as people want Valve to do a thing, if they ever do said thing, they will only get it half right, which is why I am expecting nothing from the upcoming Pyro update.

[ned_ballad]

I wonder why they dropped the keyless crates.

I was going to open 10 chests last night, but I can't and won't be able to for awhile now due to how rare the chests are.

I don't get making chests rare. How does that make more money?

[Demo-the-man]

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;51244050]I wonder why they dropped the keyless crates.

I was going to open 10 chests last night, but I can't and won't be able to for awhile now due to how rare the chests are.

I don't get making chests rare. How does that make more money?[/QUOTE]

People start wanting more crates cause they are, you know, rare.

[Punchy]

[QUOTE=Zadrave;51244026]I know, but what do you expect from a 10 year old game that has been on a downward slope for years?

You're never going to get perfection, nor satisfaction, from any of TF2's recent or upcoming updates.

As much as people want Valve to do a thing, if they ever do said thing, they will only get it half right, which is why I am expecting nothing from the upcoming Pyro update.[/QUOTE]

There's no discernible reason for the content to be this garbage. The TFTeam is, to our knowledge, at least somewhat competent coders, artists and writers. With plenty of other employees they can call in for help if needed. And yet valve still fucks up every update. They're like a 5 year old dog who didn't get trained correctly when it grew up. It has every possibility to correct its mistakes, but it just doesn't. You can't explain why it fucks everything up, even when it gets punished for it now, all it remembers is that it got away with mistakes before so it will continue to do so until it dies.

[editline]22nd October 2016[/editline]

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;51244050]I wonder why they dropped the keyless crates.

I was going to open 10 chests last night, but I can't and won't be able to for awhile now due to how rare the chests are.

I don't get making chests rare. How does that make more money?[/QUOTE]

I don't understand this either. I splurged money on overwatch halloween because of how easy they make it to just buy and open boxes. Yet for TF2 I don't even have the option to do so, It will be the end of the event and i'll barely have more than 20 crates.

[Magypsy]

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;51244050]I wonder why they dropped the keyless crates.

I was going to open 10 chests last night, but I can't and won't be able to for awhile now due to how rare the chests are.

I don't get making chests rare. How does that make more money?[/QUOTE]

It's another experiment by Valve: how many hoops and disappointments can you make a customer go through before they give up and stop playing your game?

[Kitt Stargazer]

[QUOTE=Kreepis;51243859]I really want a Hat with that effect.

it's the only hat effect that's actually good this year.[/QUOTE]

I'm a little sad they didn't consider Yellow. Which is the traditional color for Stars.

I can work with Purple though, just gotta find someone who will trade me for the hat I actually want it on lol.

On a side note though, I wish Max's head had a style option to just have the ears and not the rest of the hat.

Still haven't gotten any contracts yet... Oh well I guess...

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[Oizen]

The same reason they attached arbitrary levels of "Rareness" to the items inside the cases.

People buy more of this shit when they think they can get something "Rare", and thus Assassins Grade was born.

[Zadrave]

I like how they tried to sell it to people saying "Hey look guys, double unusual chance!" even though the crates being rare make it for that fact, like they think we're stupid.

[Nebrassy]

The crate is rare because no one can do the contracts

[GetGrenade]

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

[HoundFromHell]

Does anyone here know why this keeps happening?
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It flickers between bright and dark when i walk around the map. And it has been happening for a few weeks already.

[Fluury]

[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]

Tried it, didn't work. Does anyone have better success?