Official Team Fortress 2 Game Nights (PC)

I played around with the Saharan spy set and the dead ringer tonight. It wasn't as bad as I expected.

I just ran a test to see if I've gotten better since I started playing only about 7 weeks ago.. used to be fighting Easy Bots would give me a 5-10 k/d ratio and now it's up to 25-10!

Good games tonight. I just have to say that Steel is a server killer. Killed the pub and the private in one night. Managed to find a decent server later in the night that wasn't full of douche pubbies. In fact the admins were actively kicking pubbies. Last map voted was Nucleus.

Also, they were running source mod with no problems and had a great voting system. It was pretty standard, but the top two maps go into a runoff vote after the main vote. Evilseed got the name of the voting mod, maybe we can try it out.

It also used 5-9 as the voting buttons to avoid hitting a weapon select instead of voting.

Nosferatu wrote:

]My favorite was the Mega TF mod, dropping a mag mine under the spawn door and watching the heavy get crushed by his own door.

I really miss that mod sometimes. Proxy mines, jetpack scouts, airstrikes, and all the ridiculous drop items classes had. Here soldier pick up this ammo pack, oh wait it stole all your ammo and now we knife fight.

i38warhawk wrote:

Evilseed got the name of the voting mod, maybe we can try it out.

The guy on chat said it was called "map vote extender" but I dont see that anywhere. One called Galileo looks close to what it was doing.

i38warhawk wrote:

It also used 5-9 as the voting buttons to avoid hitting a weapon select instead of voting.

I approve of this TF2 update.

Getting pings on the pub server in excess of 250 ms instead of my usual 50. Is this happening to everyone or am I just special today?

I was getting similar rubberbanding on the pub that I had occasionally on the private last night. Might need to restart my network.

EriktheRed wrote:

Man, I really want to play some TFC. It has been so long. We ought to have a TFC game night sometime.

It's been forever since I've played TFC. I'd be down for a TFC game night for sure.

I just got me one of those fancy name tags and, since I play soldier the most, I'm thinking of naming my rocket launcher. My first idea was "Radical's Answer"

Thoughts?

I like the idea of incorporating your own name into weapon names.

cyrax wrote:
i38warhawk wrote:

It also used 5-9 as the voting buttons to avoid hitting a weapon select instead of voting.

I approve of this TF2 update.

Yes this sounds awesome. Even though we have !revote capability, there's a small time window to do that, and let's be honest if you were choosing weapons you are probably too busy fighting to stop and type that in.

Sorry about the abrupt exit, my computer decided to overheat. Yippeeee

I just wanted to say that Psych is a jerk for nominating Hydro and then leaving the server when it won the vote

Fxeni wrote:

I just wanted to say that Psych is a jerk for nominating Hydro and then leaving the server when it won the vote ;)

The hydro and 2fort joke voting has got to stop!

Better hydro and 2fort than goldrush, dustbowl, or thundermountain.

maps.

Fxeni wrote:

I just wanted to say that Psych is a jerk for nominating Hydro and then leaving the server when it won the vote ;)

Hahahahahaha! I am the greatest!

I need to start a Thundermountain appreciation group. Map is great, y'all are a bunch of haters.

We need the instant runoff vote mod. I'm honestly a little tired of a map winning with less than a quarter of the server voting for it. Hydro won with five votes on a full server.

Junebugz wrote:

I need to start a Thundermountain appreciation group. Map is great, y'all are a bunch of haters.

If I want to spend an hour and a half on one map, I'll play Left 4 Dead.

Psych wrote:
Fxeni wrote:

I just wanted to say that Psych is a jerk for nominating Hydro and then leaving the server when it won the vote ;)

Hahahahahaha! I am the greatest!

Then you wonder why I greet you with bullets and/or fire. It's exactly this sort of thing that causes it.

iaintgotnopants wrote:
Junebugz wrote:

I need to start a Thundermountain appreciation group. Map is great, y'all are a bunch of haters.

If I want to spend an hour and a half on one map, I'll play Left 4 Dead.

Well there is that. Is there a way to split em up? I am a strong believer in the first to parts of that map. I dunno I just really love payload maps.

iaintgotnopants wrote:

We need the instant runoff vote mod. I'm honestly a little tired of a map winning with less than a quarter of the server voting for it. Hydro won with five votes on a full server.

They exist, evilseed and I were playing on a server the other night that had a much better voting mod then what we are running.

Might help eliminate the repetitiveness of the maps that has peen coming up lately.

I don't understand why people vote for maps like ThunderMountain on the pub. You may like the map, but you know it's going to kill the server, so what's the point?

Then again, there are non-server-killer maps like 2fort that pubbies will play but many Goodjers absolutely refuse to play. They argue that it's a grind and that it's impossible to score. Bullsh*t. It can get turtle-y at times, yes, but the past few games we've played on it have resulted in wins, often times close wins of 3-2. Yet even when it gets a good majority of the vote some of the admins will change the map to something else before giving it a chance. The truly dumb thing is when some goodjers complain incessantly about the map even while there's a great, high-scoring game going on right then.

Give 2fort a chance, I say. And when on the pub, vote for maps that won't kill the server so that we can all ruthlessly slaughter and taunt pubbies. Save the odd maps for private night. Except castle. Delete that damn thing.

I don't think 2fort is a grind, I just think it's a sh*tty map.
That's probably just my natural hate of non-hilarious CTF maps.

Same goes with well. Some people will complain about it even while a good game is going on. Well is a fine map with some very enjoyable aspects. I play whatever map wins the vote whether it's 2Forts, Well, Castle, or Circle Jerk.

EvilHomer3k wrote:

I play whatever map wins the vote whether it's 2Forts, Well, Castle, or Circle Jerk.

This. I play when I can and am having a good time regardless of the map. I would have stuck around for Hydro last night because it *can* be fun, it just *usually* ends in a never-ending grind. But I had to get up early this morning and needed to get to bed.

On a different note: I actually tried yesterday to get into the "light'em up with the Degreaser then axetingusher'em" pyro style, but it was way too frustrating for me. My extremely poor melee skills coupled with poor ability to change weapons on the fly made for an less-than-awesome experience. I then went back to the old BB and things went back to pretty great.

I guess I *am* the easy button.

Quick weapon switch is your friend!

FedoraMcQuaid wrote:

I don't think 2fort is a grind, I just think it's a sh*tty map.

Yup, I have no problem doing something more fun than playing hydro or 2fort. Like I did last night when we switched to hydro.

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is lot better paced in these later chapters. Instead of spending 30 minutes or more on each level, levels are of varying length, and I just finished one which was all a game of customized chess.

cyrax wrote:
FedoraMcQuaid wrote:

I don't think 2fort is a grind, I just think it's a sh*tty map.

Yup, I have no problem doing something more fun than playing hydro or 2fort. Like I did last night when we switched to hydro.

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is lot better paced in these later chapters. Instead of spending 30 minutes or more on each level, levels are of varying length, and I just finished one which was all a game of customized chess.

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