I kind of like the new way of getting weapon unlocks. Before people would be spamming the same class in order to get their achievements and use their new precious weapons, but now there's no real incentive for a team to go all snipers of spies, since it won't help them unlock their weapons any faster, nor will they necessarily have gotten all of the new weapons yet.

The fact that which weapon you get is completely random is quite gay, I admit, and also the duplicate items are just a fucking waste of time tbh. I've been lucky and only received 1 duplicate weapon, the kritzkrieg, and the very first weapon I got was the huntsman, which is really fun to play around with. Headshots with that thing are epic, especially mid-air.

I'm off for tonight, was great fun, and I'll probably resume the action tomorrow

Dgtl

Canada889 Posts

May 23 2009 04:52 GMT

#64

This new system for unlocking weapons is stupid.

Every 30 min (about) you have a 50/50 chance of getting an item, but even if you get an item there is only a 20% chance of it being an item from spy/sniper update. They say the average person will get 20 items, but my friend has played for 10 hours and only gotten 1 item. Its stupid really. They should make it so that for the percentage of the achievements you unlocked for a class the drop rate of the corresponding item would be the percentage of the achievements you have for the class. But, if you had 100% you would automatically get all the weapons and have your percentage dropped to 50% to avoid item hording. That could also work if you got all the items in any other situation.

paper

13197 Posts

May 24 2009 04:45 GMT

#65

it's ironic how valve discontinued achievements for items partly to discourage farming them when people who never farmed them before are now playing achievement_idle servers rofl.

Dgtl

Canada889 Posts

May 24 2009 05:01 GMT

#66

I know, Valve is almost as dumb with TF2 as Blizzard is with WoW.....

jingXD

United States283 Posts

May 24 2009 05:05 GMT

#67

On May 05 2009 11:42 paper wrote:
Best FPS Config Ever
m0re

Sorry, fps noob here. What does this link mean?

Do I copy "http://more.pp.fi/tf2/configs/autoexec.cfg" into my "C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\<user id>\team fortress 2\tf\cfg" (replacing <user id>)?

What are the advantages of this config?

Realpenguin

8253 Posts

May 24 2009 05:11 GMT

#68

On May 24 2009 14:05 jingXD wrote:

Show nested quote +

First, backup the entire cfg folder just in case.
Then put the autoexec.cfg in it. When you run TF2, it will automatically run all the commands in the config.

The config should improve your FPS a lot, but will make your graphics uglier. Make sure you read through the entire config, because there are some launch options you need to input.

If you need the FPS boost, but can't stand the bad graphics, find the line mat_picmip in the autoexec and change it to 0.

Also, you can see m0re's alias/binds/class configs if you want to get into scripting.

jingXD

United States283 Posts

May 24 2009 05:16 GMT

#69

On May 24 2009 14:11 Realpenguin wrote:

Show nested quote +

First, back up the entire cfg folder just in case.
Then put the autoexec.cfg in it. When you run TF2, it will automatically run all the commands in the config.

The config should improve your FPS a lot, but will make your graphics uglier. Make sure you read through the entire config, because there are some launch options you need to input.

If you need the FPS boost, but can't stand the bad graphics, find the line mat_picmip in the autoexec and change it to 1.

Also, you can see m0re's alias/binds/class configs if you want to get into scripting.

Thanks for the info, Realpenguin. I thought FPS stood for first person shooter config, lol.

I occasionally play:
Steam ID: jingXD
Country: US

Realpenguin

8253 Posts

May 24 2009 05:21 GMT

#70

On May 24 2009 13:45 paper wrote:
it's ironic how valve discontinued achievements for items partly to discourage farming them when people who never farmed them before are now playing achievement_idle servers rofl.

I left my computer on today for about 10 hours on a achievement_idle server and got the Dead Ringer, a THIRD Bonk Energy Drink, and a second KGB.

Bring back the achievement system ~~so I can farm all my unlocks with bots on the first day~~ please

krazymunky

United States727 Posts

May 24 2009 06:35 GMT

#71

got TF2 with Orange Box when it first came out and only just started playing it.
need to learn how to use spy. not sure how it really works.

steam ID: krazee munky

eatmyshorts5

United States1530 Posts

May 25 2009 22:24 GMT

#72

Ugh idled in achievment_idle for like 20 hours and got 10 items. Unfortunelty 7 were dupes -_-

zizou21

United States3683 Posts

May 25 2009 22:26 GMT

#73

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=93932

Klive5ive

United Kingdom6056 Posts

May 26 2009 00:03 GMT

#74

Wow the dead ringer is so awesome at the moment. I'm tearing it up.
Hopefully it'll be a while before they get round to fixing it, meanwhile I'll enjoy my 8 second invulnerability.

Bac

United States53 Posts

May 26 2009 02:08 GMT

#75

I would like to know of any interest in forming a competitive tf2 clan. Figure we'd name it something starcraft related, and then proceed to rape our way through cevo-f because we juice up on starcraft before all our matches. I would prefer if the people who show interest would have some competitive experience(at least some scrims or what not-highlander even) but if not no biggy, every game in the world is easy compared to starcraft. Paper it would be nice if we could get that up on the OP so people could see it right away. Thanks

Steam ID [US] : The Black Guy or Bac

Milton Friedman

98 Posts

May 26 2009 18:20 GMT

#76

Dead Ringer is overpowered D:

The only class I ever play is medic, and I have all the unlockables. Medic doesn't seem terribly popular on public servers; I guess people want to get more "involved" rather than play a support role. But the number of times I've helped a team win a round is why I like it - you know you're the reason for success!

Makiva

88 Posts

May 27 2009 01:03 GMT

#77

TL iD: Makiva
country: USA
steam id: tempo24

prOxi.Beater

Denmark626 Posts

May 27 2009 01:05 GMT

#78

Agreed. Medic is a really fun class to play, despite the fact that your patients will be doing most of the killing. Medic is all about movement and cooperation, which makes it really satisfying to play, IMO