Official Team Fortress 2 Game Nights (PC)

I suffered through a roll on snowy, hoping for more fun times, then the server went from 24 to 8 to DeGroot. Alas.

pgroce wrote:

then the server went from 24 to 8 to DeGroot.

Well, there's your problem.

If I'm healing a spy and he backstabs me why don't I get an assist?

EvilHomer3k wrote:

If I'm healing a spy and he backstabs me why don't I get an assist?

Probably the same reason you don't get points for taking your own teleporter.

Queueball wrote:

Ah, there's the update notice. http://www.teamfortress.com/mechaupdate/

New demo nade launcher looks smexy.

ukickmydog wrote:
Queueball wrote:

Ah, there's the update notice. http://www.teamfortress.com/mechaupdate/

New demo nade launcher looks smexy.

Hmm, you're right it looks kinda neat... What what whaaaaat, a new medigun? : O Wonder how it works...

I had this going on on dustbowl. At least one gate would be like this at the beginning of each round. I was sad that I couldn't shoot through them.

IMAGE(http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/1100267727376372123/30A81C4954594280EA631DEFAA8F7407AD3EF028/)

iaintgotnopants wrote:

I had this going on on dustbowl. At least one gate would be like this at the beginning of each round. I was sad that I couldn't shoot through them.

Huh. I wondered what you were talking about. It looked normal on my screen.

ukickmydog wrote:
Queueball wrote:

Ah, there's the update notice. http://www.teamfortress.com/mechaupdate/

New demo nade launcher looks smexy.

Yeah the demoman has a serious lack of explosive weapon options to choose from. I am really interested in this one.

So could someone enlighten me on how MvM works, regarding the tickets? What benefit is there to paying money to play on the super-special servers?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/20...

TF2 Holiday Pack on the Steam store

http://respawn.timdenee.com/

Mind = Blown

Kraint wrote:

So could someone enlighten me on how MvM works, regarding the tickets? What benefit is there to paying money to play on the super-special servers?

You get a badge that tracks how many 'tours' you've completed and at the end of each tour you get a bot killer weapon, which is just a normal or strange weapon with a metal heavy head on it. There are various tours and various types of metal heads (silver, gold, blood, rust, carbonado, diamond). Most can be had cheaply through trading if you actually want them.

Gonna to have to join tonight, haven't played in a long time. Also going to be using a 360 controller since, hey, it is better than using a track pad.

$20 for three holiday items? Yeesh Valve. I'll take my chances with crates $2.50 at a time like the idiot I am!

EDIT: $20 is the SALE price! Good God

MyBrainHz wrote:

$20 for three holiday items? Yeesh Valve. I'll take my chances with crates $2.50 at a time like the idiot I am!

EDIT: $20 is the SALE price! Good God

I'm not looking forward to how much the Adult Swim pack is going to be.

Smerrry Smissmas Everyone!

iaintgotnopants wrote:

I'm not looking forward to how much the Adult Swim pack is going to be.

Yeah, no misinterpreting their intentions with that one:

Adult Swim wrote:

The Adult Swim store is coming soon to Steam with a boatload of new Adult Swim DLC to buy.

C'mon, marketroids -- you could have phrased that with a bit less unabashed avarice.

Update time.

Valve wrote:

Team Fortress 2

Team Fortress 2
- Australian Christmas has begun!
- Added community-contributed winter event items
- Added Naughty and Nice winter keys to the Mann Co. Store
- Mann Vs. Machine
- Added a new tour of duty with unique loot:
- Operation Mecha Engine, with 3 new advanced skill missions
- New map mvm_bigrock
- New Engineer Botkiller items
- Added new Engineer robot
- Added new Strange Filter items to the Mann Co. Store to support community map makers
- Added new checkout dialogs and taunt-activated effect to raise awareness for Community Map Stamps
- Added +context_action command (defaults to X for controllers). This will use the action slot if your Canteen contains a charge and will taunt otherwise3
- Added +attack3 command (defaults to middle-mouse button)
- Added Adult Swim items to the Mann Co. Store
- Fixed an exploit that allowed players to be permanently invulnerable
- Fixed the Pyro's airblast not working correctly when facing downhill
- Made Force-A-Nature pushback more consistent
- Updated pl_barnblitz
- Fixed various map exploits
- Updated sd_doomsday
- Fixed various map exploits
- Updated the localization files

Valve follow up email wrote:

Sorry, we forgot part of the notes:

- Added three new community weapons
- The Vaccinator
- The Loose Cannon
- The Rescue Ranger

Added +attack3 command (defaults to middle-mouse button)

Huh?

Queueball wrote:
Added +attack3 command (defaults to middle-mouse button)

Huh?

ooo

edit: updating private

Pants, what HUD is that?

The Vaccinator
Special-Attack: Cycle through resist types.
While healing, provides you and your target with a constant 10% resistant to the selected damage type.
+50% ubercharge rate
-66% overheal build rate
Ubercharge provides 75% resistance to a selected damage type. You are healed for 25% of the matched incoming damage on your heal target.

The Rescue Ranger
Alt-Fire: Use metal to pick up buildings at a long range
Fires a special bolt that can repair buildings
-34% clip size
-50% max primary ammo
Marks self for death on building pickup

The Loose Cannon
Cannonballs have a fuse time of 2 seconds - fuses can be primed to explode earlier by holding down the fire key
Cannonballs push players back on impact
Cannonballs do not explode on impact
-50% damage on contact with surfaces

Lame, why did valve make the crafting materials 3 of the same kind of weapon. I won't likely have these weapons for a while.

The Vaccinator sounds interesting, although a standard uber still sounds like it's better overall.
The Rescue Ranger really don't seem that useful for most situations. Maybe to quickly move a level 3 gun to somewhere hard to get.
The Loose Cannon sounds like a long range poofer.

The medi-gun sounds interesting to me. The shotgun doesn't interest me because I don't care about my buildings when I play engy. The cannon sounds like the new useless flare gun except with delayed explosive damage that you can escape from instead of fire damage.

FlamingPeasant wrote:

Pants, what HUD is that?

omp hud

edit: The last bit of this update is taking forrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeevvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeer.

Sourcemod is broken, shocking I know. I'll see what I can do about the private server.

Also, naughty crates are going for about $2 right now on the market. I sold mine in less than a minute.

EDIT: Bought the new Penny Arcade RPG with the proceeds, which is on sale for $2. Thx Valve!

MyBrainHz wrote:

Also, naughty crates are going for about $2 right now on the market. I sold mine in less than a minute.

EDIT: Bought the new Penny Arcade RPG with the proceeds, which is on sale for $2. Thx Valve!

Are they worth opening or...?

SM is working on private now. Waiting for NFO to update the pub.

MyBrainHz wrote:

SM is working on private now. Waiting for NFO to update the pub.

Pub is updated, working on SM.

Also if anyone unlocks the new sniper hat and doesn't want it let me know what you want for trade.