Official Team Fortress 2 Game Nights (PC)

Nyles wrote:
boogle wrote:
Gaald wrote:

16? Wow that is insane!

Yeah.....I'm a twitch guy. Bad.
It comes from years of Source clanning.

What kind of mouse and pad do you use? Anything special?

Logitech MX518 on my birchwood desk.
That's it.

I'm still hoping we get classic well on here.

Also any chance of getting a "rockthevote" on the server just in case map rotation goes wonky one day?

boogle wrote:

Logitech MX518 on my birchwood desk.
That's it.

No pad, huh? I've never found an especially good pad, but I got tired of wearing down the right side of the desk.

Mordiceius wrote:

I'm still hoping we get classic well on here.

Also any chance of getting a "rockthevote" on the server just in case map rotation goes wonky one day?

We had the vote mod but jakeleg was having trouble getting it to work properly.

No no no. Vote mods always come up before a map is going to end. Rockthevote is different. With that you type 'rockthevote' in chat, and after a percentage of the players do, a votemap starts. That way if we keep getting the same maps looping or just get maps that arn't suited for so few players or whatever, we can change it at the start instead of having to play through it.

I tried out both of the classic ctf_well maps and I wasn't really impressed with either of them. I'm pretty burned out on CTF as it is anyways. As for the other map suggestions, we just changed the rotation a few days ago. I want to give the current set some time before I change it again.

Sourcemod/metamod is not working on the server - as I understand it, sourcemod is currently pretty buggy with the Orange box engine. When I have some time, I will try to work on setting it up again. Hopefully they will fix it or Manimod wil get updated so that it works on the Orange box engine.

Nyles wrote:
boogle wrote:

Logitech MX518 on my birchwood desk.
That's it.

No pad, huh? I've never found an especially good pad, but I got tired of wearing down the right side of the desk.

I used to use an old scotttrade pad, but it kept getting beat up and everything, so I started just using the desk.

Devmani wrote:

Is there any interest in playing the TFC version of 2fort at all I got the map and was checking it out, it's just as I remembered it. Well minus the conc jumping of course.

I'd have to check it out. You have a download link?

boogle wrote:
Nyles wrote:
boogle wrote:

Logitech MX518 on my birchwood desk.
That's it.

No pad, huh? I've never found an especially good pad, but I got tired of wearing down the right side of the desk.

I used to use an old scotttrade pad, but it kept getting beat up and everything, so I started just using the desk.

You can also pick up one of those hard surface gaming pads. I have a similar one and it's definitely better than your average cloth/rubber pad.

LupusUmbrus wrote:

Great times last night everyone. I started the night pretty weak (was having trouble just holding 1:2 Kill/Death ratio the first few rounds) but was having a blast by the night was out. The sniper rush on castle was great fun, and the 2v2 Heavy boxing matches had me nearly falling out of my chair laughing. The voice work for the Heavies never fails to crack me up.

The heavy slug-outs was a blast. I am almost too embarrassed to actual admit this, but I have been playing so much medic in pure heal mode in these public servers that I actually set my highs in kills and damage just using fists as a Heavy. Pretty pathetic, huh? But fun and funny.

As Pharacon can attest, I can get lost in even the classic maps, so anything new would be equally fun and confusing for me too.

Can't wait to be out there again!

At the moment I'm using an MX518 as well with one of these Func Industries pads the F30.R one. Works pretty well, only problem I've noticed is that it's discolored my desk where it sits, I now have a mouse pad outline

nsmike wrote:
boogle wrote:
Nyles wrote:
boogle wrote:

Logitech MX518 on my birchwood desk.
That's it.

No pad, huh? I've never found an especially good pad, but I got tired of wearing down the right side of the desk.

I used to use an old scotttrade pad, but it kept getting beat up and everything, so I started just using the desk.

You can also pick up one of those hard surface gaming pads. I have a similar one and it's definitely better than your average cloth/rubber pad.

For some reason I doubt that these lead to increased performance.
I'd like to see some study measure its effect on bugout speed and hence sensitivity.

Fun games tonight again. The highlight was probably the medic+spy as heavy attack me and MyBrainHz did on point B at Gravelpit. Nice comedy value and I believe we actually managed to clear the point.

For those that wondered, this is the scope you get in DX8, no distortion, a.k.a. lens effect, and much better contrast in dark areas. (Disclaimer: no AA, fugly settings yada yada)

I must say that on my first night of real Stan's involvement, wow, what a difference. A lot more thought, back and forth, and strategy. I remember winning one round on a last second charge where I popped uber with something like 12 seconds to go. Ran out and we were on fire as the point was taken. Fun stuff. Lasted over 7 minutes as a medic during one stretch with over 5k healing. A lot of give and take.

I tried a heavy later and man is it a different world. It's like starting a new game all over again. Wow, was I terrible.

nossid wrote:

Fun games tonight again. The highlight was probably the medic+spy as heavy attack me and MyBrainHz did on point B at Gravelpit. Nice comedy value and I believe we actually managed to clear the point.

For those that wondered, this is the scope you get in DX8, no distortion, a.k.a. lens effect, and much better contrast in dark areas. (Disclaimer: no AA, fugly settings yada yada)

Yeah, sure, the scope is what you were showing off there. Mmm hmm. Not the pile of dead Blue team members, and the list of kills at the top right.

omg! that looks so horrible! why why do you play at DX8? You get use to the scope effect

Pharacon wrote:

Now you will look at this and see its just Shyn that has just killed me, then you will notice the game is over, then you will notice my team won : This is like 3 seconds after we won....

I've been seeing strange things like this since the latest patch. Anything with a splash damage component (rockets and grenades) seems to be real susceptible to lag/delay now - commonly shows up like this with delayed death long after the visual effect has happened or as stickies apparently not detonating on command as a demo.

I'm still somewhat confused on what maps I should have downloaded in the first place. Can we make this thread an event with links to the maps we all agree on up top, or am should I get off, or in this case on, my ass and start trolling like the rest?

Grenn wrote:

I'm still somewhat confused on what maps I should have downloaded in the first place. Can we make this thread an event with links to the maps we all agree on up top, or am should I get off, or in this case on, my ass and start trolling like the rest?

Actually Grenn, Jake keeps this thread updated with all of the custom maps to download. Just keep checking there.

ShynDarkly wrote:
Pharacon wrote:

Now you will look at this and see its just Shyn that has just killed me, then you will notice the game is over, then you will notice my team won : This is like 3 seconds after we won....

I've been seeing strange things like this since the latest patch. Anything with a splash damage component (rockets and grenades) seems to be real susceptible to lag/delay now - commonly shows up like this with delayed death long after the visual effect has happened or as stickies apparently not detonating on command as a demo.

Actually what happen on Hydro I was helping cap the point and you where launching rockets into it. We capped and I stood up in celebration only to catch the 4th rocket to the face! The funny part is I got watch the rocket coming but I did nothing to avoid it as I was happy we won

Pharacon wrote:

The funny part is I got watch the rocket coming but I did nothing to avoid it as I was happy we won :)

Definitely an event to savor; its a rare occasion for any of my rockets to ever make contact with anyone other than me

Fun times last night. Shade and I had a few pretty good runs with a Heavy + Medic combo, although I usually end up dying pretty quick as a heavy. Subaltern had my number last night with clean shots to the head.

Also, is it just me or are crits just weird? There was a point last night where I would crit every other landed shot with the chaingun.

nossid wrote:

Fun games tonight again. The highlight was probably the medic+spy as heavy attack me and MyBrainHz did on point B at Gravelpit. Nice comedy value and I believe we actually managed to clear the point.

For those that wondered, this is the scope you get in DX8, no distortion, a.k.a. lens effect, and much better contrast in dark areas. (Disclaimer: no AA, fugly settings yada yada)

You were tearing me apart last night nossid. I wish they hadn't taken the ability to to quick switch after a sniper shot. It feels unresponsive to me now, initially I thought it was lag. Either way, had some good games last night everyone!

Pharacon wrote:

omg! that looks so horrible! why why do you play at DX8? You get use to the scope effect

It started out of necessity, since my graphics card didn't support anything but DX8. Recently I've gotten hold of a slightly newer one, but I'm so used to it by now that I don't want to switch and with gameplay as good as this you really don't notice or care about it. Also, see the disclaimer.

I had the server re-installed by the provider today as it had been crashing recently and the map rotation has not been functioning correctly. I have switched back to a stock map rotation for the time being until I am sure everything is running smoothly.

nossid wrote:
Pharacon wrote:

omg! that looks so horrible! why why do you play at DX8? You get use to the scope effect

It started out of necessity, since my graphics card didn't support anything but DX8. Recently I've gotten hold of a slightly newer one, but I'm so used to it by now that I don't want to switch and with gameplay as good as this you really don't notice or care about it. Also, see the disclaimer. ;)

I lowered my graphics settings so I could kill Gaald easier, but don't tell him that I did it.

fstarta wrote:

Also, is it just me or are crits just weird? There was a point last night where I would crit every other landed shot with the chaingun.

Your crit chance goes up as you kill more people. It's to encourage killing sprees. Also since it's random you sometimes get a lucky streak regardless.

Echoblade wrote:
nossid wrote:
Pharacon wrote:

omg! that looks so horrible! why why do you play at DX8? You get use to the scope effect

It started out of necessity, since my graphics card didn't support anything but DX8. Recently I've gotten hold of a slightly newer one, but I'm so used to it by now that I don't want to switch and with gameplay as good as this you really don't notice or care about it. Also, see the disclaimer. ;)

I lowered my graphics settings so I could kill Gaald easier, but don't tell him that I did it.

Exploit

WiredAsylum wrote:
Echoblade wrote:

I lowered my graphics settings so I could kill Gaald easier, but don't tell him that I did it.

Exploit

I wish I had a screenshot when Gaald took his anger out on me when I joined his team. I think the entire team was meleeing me to death.