Team Fortress 2 Thread

by **SonicTempest** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 07:20

What's your Steam username?

by **Vincent Draconis** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 19:40

SonicTempest wrote:What's your Steam username?

Ah, that would be "SigmaDraconis". No space.

by **SonicTempest** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 19:55

In which case I already added you to my profile

by **Vincent Draconis** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 17:49

Alright, cool. Just to make sure, what's your Steam username?

by **SonicTempest** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 23:59

'SonicTempest84'.

I actually went off and did some grinding with Tard for some of my Pyro weapons (the Flare gun and Backburner). The Backburner is awesome but now my stats page is a joke. 40 kills in one life as Pyro, lol.

I'll be earning my Axetinguisher the old fashioned way. At least, once the pyromania in the servers has died off. In the meantime I'm playing some of the other classes I've been neglecting (Heavy, Engineer, Sniper, Demoman).

by **Fuu** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 19:54

the recent update rationalize a bit the requirements to get the medic weapons(10, 16 and 22 achievements). Infact i have 2 of them now, which is a surprise since i never actually tried getting achievements. I guess in the long run most are doable!

And yes while i don't care much for achievements i think stats are nice, it's better to have them clean!

by **PenPen** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 13:29

You guys should check out my medic stats, it's totally off the charts.

I need a stats reset!

by **Vincent Draconis** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 23:36

Yeah, it was good timing for the Medic unlock requirements being lowered as I started playing Medic more toward the end of last week and managed to get that useful Blutsauger. Then I was able to get some more achivements for the Kritzkrieg earlier today. 100% Criticals for 10 sec. would be useful in certain situations, but it's nothing I would replace the Medigun's invincibility ÃœberCharge with in most cases. I can't wait to get that Ãœbersaw.

As for the Pyro, I only need to put in a little more time for the achievements needed for the Backburner, which I'll probably end up using more than the vanilla Flamethrower. I won't miss the Compressed Air too much.

by **SonicTempest** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 21:37

Hints in the .gcf files suggest the next set of unlocks are for the Heavy and the Sniper:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/s ... ost7809580

So they're releasing them for a class and its counter-class at the same time? That might be a good way to avoid class spam, I guess.

The pyromania seems to have died down in the meantime, and I'm finding that my kill rate with the Pyro has gone way up. <3 my Backburner.

by **SonicTempest** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 03:32

http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=1670

Valve confirms that the next pack is for the Heavy!

They've also given some of the criteria they've been considering while designing the Heavy unlocks. Pretty interesting stuff.

by **Vincent Draconis** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 05:47

That was a good read. It's interesting seeing a developer go into such detail regarding one specific area of their game and making that info public.

If anything could get me into game development, it's the work and thought involved in solving various problems in the games themselves.

by **Vincent Draconis** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 23:30

So I killed someone with the Pyro's Hadouken earlier today (twice, even!). That's great and all, except that the OMGWTFBBQ achievement for it didn't register. Has anyone else run into a similar issue with this or any other achievements?

by **SonicTempest** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 00:14

I've run into that problem with Portal achievements, but never with TF2. Hm.

by **PenPen** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 13:54

It's weird but I haven't been playing TF2 unless it's weekends. Guess I'm getting old.

For the hadouken thing I did by sneaking up to a medic right after their uber and hadoukened him right afterwards. I got the achievement.

Did you get any other achievements in that server? There's chances that it's probably...
1. The server doesn't have that Valve protection thing on and or enabled sv_cheat (allowing noclips etc), achievements would be disabled.
2. You did the kill after the game is done and is in the bonus round. I don't see that it's done during the bonus round, though.
3. Somehow the Steam client is 'disconnected' and thus achievements are disabled.
4. IT'S A BUG

by **Vincent Draconis** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 09:51

I noticed that any other credit for achievements that I should've gotten weren't counted. It was probably the server and/or the Steam client issues I was having that day. Oh well, I'll just try it somewhere else.

Anyway, some TF2 community questions were answered. Aside from saying they're having fun with Meet the Pyro (not that it's coming up next), there's a bit regarding that changes may be coming for the Demoman.

Q. Some people are saying that the stickies for the demo are to strong. To the point where 3 stickies can remove a sentry, a dispenser and a full health Engie. Is this something that can/is being addressed or is it classed internally as â€œbalancedâ€?

We agree that theyâ€™re a little too overpowered right now. In fact, internall, we refer to them as â€œwinbombsâ€. We havenâ€™t reached a decision on what weâ€™ll change yet, though.

Demoman's stickies are quite strong. I hope they're only nerfed and not castrated for whatever tweaks are made, because I really like using those. Abusively, almost.

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