TF2 General Chat and Speculation Station V6 - Year of the Guard Dog SURVEY IN OP - Games

For a change of pace, here's a picture of John Patrick Lowrie at the new Valve Studio. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/132767/9a9990e0-5c0f-462e-8ae9-7b9909a0dd37/image.png https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/132767/5689a9f1-2942-4d51-80e9-96cf28836e73/image.png For dota 2's pudge.

Curious how team switching will work in casual based on the greyed out keep parties on the same team option.

That's good news, actually. Means that we should be getting new voicelines for the next major update. iirc, the strike ended or reached a settlement of some kind before Jungle Inferno launched, but seeing as that was one of our first major updates without any new ingame voicelines, it seems clear to me that the strike had an effect on it. Now that we have TF2 voice actors back in the studio, I think we can expect to see some new voicelines from our favorite mercs whenever the next update comes out.

The impression I get from b4nny and the explanations the dev team's given for certain changes is that they collect large amounts of data over a long period of time and then add changes based on that data to the next Big Update, which their data tells them people like more than small balance updates. I personally really don't like this system and it ends with some bad changes, but JI was a big step in the right direction IMO. I imagine whatever they assess to be the best flame changes will come with the next update. Also, small housekeeping since we have the new forum: I'm Jonii from the old forum Geel, I was going to shoot you a PM today but I guess Newpunch doesn't have them? Just wanted to say a quick thanks for all you do for the TF2 community.

I hope they add team switching, CSGO casual has it, It has autobalance as well. Comp changes that would be good, besides placements and elo: Make it like CSGO/Dota 2 where you "ready" in the menu, not in game Add a separate rank medal name along with the current, like Rank 18: Death Merchant (Australium) for more intuitive rank names Seperate comp stats, like the MvM ones Add the tournament team stats when spectating Less/none settings restrictions Add blood money rewards to buy exclusive war paints

if anything, a more elaborated stat page for each class.

I wish griefers/exploiters understood the negative impact they have on TF2's health and would cut that shit out. I've had many friends who try to get back into TF2 only to be deterred by stupid bullshit like that one Short Circuit exploit or general high toxicity.

Exploits don't bother me as much as hackers. I've been trying to get back into the game but I would say 1/3 games of mine has had a hacker in them.

Oh, hackers know full-well what they're doing at this point. Efforts like cat-bots, wherein it's not even an actual player ruining the games, are straight-up people trying to kill TF2. It fucking blows.

I wouldn't mind this, and also make it that data is only collected on actual casual matches... Well hell, why not have a page set up for each type of game mode... Casual, Competitive ( if they ever get it fixed ) or Mann vs Machine, on actually valve servers. They're kind of pointless if you can completely screw over your stats on a community server.

as long as pro.xxkillerxx2007 becomes the 5th spy on defense say goodbye to any community effort. the only time hackers were effectively cut out of anyone's experience was on community servers, but only because you could actually summon someone to instantly ban the offender and get rid of the issue.

Random thought I had, if a themeless update were to release next week, which 4 community maps do you think should be added, and which 4 do you think would be added?

With that little warning, it could be any nearly final map on the workshop. Shoreleave, Overgrown, Haarp, Stoneyridge, Hadal, Reckoner, etc. Without knowing what they're looking for, it's hard to predict.

I'm only familiar with community payload maps, but Metropolis, Cashworks, Volcanic, and Fifthcurve are ones I can remember liking.

I just want Sulfur, man

What happened to pl_tapline? It looked promising. I'd really like to play this map.

I think you may be looking too deeply into their motivation.

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/2312/6d44a663-7f57-4eef-8f49-f898c3bf7317/Fluury insanity.png OK, I have done it. Seriously though, RGL.GG is saying they're distributing the European Prolander Cup medals this week, knowing that Titanium Tank admins previous week said that medals are coming soon, we might get this balancing/fix/medal cap increase/Titanium Tank and Prolander medals minor update this week. Or we will get just medals lol

It'll be medals.

https://i.imgur.com/L1jdMec.png 1 killstreak spy cicle kit that itll be more than that, rate asshole to enter fuck the haters

it better have the TT medals just so all the people asking "I beat tour where medal" can quiet down for a moment

Why don't you stop acting like that, and actually read? How this response: Supposed to answer any of the things I asked over here:

i just entered out of impulse and cynicism, but I just realized I already have a spec killstreak on my spy-cicle oh well i'll find a baby spy main to give it to

A bit evil for the TF2 Team to say that the medal changes will come next update, considering people are not too keen on +400 day waiting periods. Quite a few of them are also simple number changes like the Operation Titanium Tank's distribution limit and what not, so I don't see why those can simply be hotfixed in a small patch.

We aren't talking about a Major Update, but just about a patch.

I find it doubtful that the next update will be just a patch, however, since we haven't gotten a substantial update in a few months, and the few patches we had didn't have much substance. It seems that they're holding the medal and gameplay fixes for the next upcoming update, considering that they could've fixed the Operation Titanium Tank's medal distribution limit among other bugs on a normal thursday in a simple patch, no?

How many times are we going to go a long time without updates only to get a small patch at the end before people realize that long gaps without hotfixes has absolutely nothing to do with a major update incoming?

it'll be a patch..

Maybe they are to lazy to do that?

that would be amazing laziness, even from valve