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Xander77 posted:Are the gifts dropping again, or is it just that the Halloween stuff is re-enabled without server commands? If you're looking for trading fodder, avoid 2013 (helltower) At least last year that stuff was untradable for some stupid reason. I think 2012 (Lakeside with Merasmus and Wheel of Fortune) has the best drops for trading. Lots of miscs, spell effects are cool and there are some sweet sets, fairy heavy being one of the best. 2011 had a smaller drop pool, but there are some good costume sets there too. The presents drop in "first come, first serve" basis on 2011 so be warned. Btw, is there going to be some goon server set up for mainly drop/achievement grinding? I have prety much all that I want from old events but newer players might have trouble with some things on random servers, particularly killing Merasmus.
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I meant to try a bunch of events last ngiht but ended up screwing around in helltower for ages. Haunting snipers during the end phase is great fun. Anyone know how I get more pages for my spellbook? I found an empty spellbook and captured the last point in a bunch of games but it remains empty 
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Brasseye posted:I meant to try a bunch of events last ngiht but ended up screwing around in helltower for ages. Haunting snipers during the end phase is great fun. Anyone know how I get more pages for my spellbook? I found an empty spellbook and captured the last point in a bunch of games but it remains empty Spellbook pages are one of the things you can get from the presents that spawn occasionally in Helltower.
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Oct 23, 2014 09:11
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boo_radley posted:and whatever that godawful special delivery map is that nobody ever plays, ever. sd_gloomsday
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Oct 23, 2014 09:15
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What are the customizers that drop in helltower? I got one but it's not in my inventory.
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Oct 23, 2014 09:39
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Note to players who are looking for spellbook pages and other stuff that come from the present boxes: The presents (and bosses) only appear when there's enough players on the server. I think the required minimum is 6 players or so. So no loot grinding by yourself on an empty server.
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Oct 23, 2014 10:16
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IncendiaC posted:Some of the 2013 drops (like the bird heads) have extra voice lines and are amazing. The Haunted Hat and the Second Opinion are my personal favourites. Scary Hat is my favorite hat in the whole game. "We did it, scary hat!! We did it together." 
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Oct 23, 2014 10:24
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Laputanmachine posted:Note to players who are looking for spellbook pages and other stuff that come from the present boxes: Is there a limit too? Tied to your normal drop amount per week?
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Jusupov posted:Is there a limit too? Tied to your normal drop amount per week? It's not tied to your normal drops, and if I recall someone worked out how to game it; something about playing for two minutes, collecting it and then ignoring the game for an hour maybe? edit: would it be that loving hard for quickplay to stop seeing servers if there is less then 5 minutes on the clock ffs
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Oct 23, 2014 11:06
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I hope this year's Hallowe'en map is just koth_sawmill_event with the ghost going hog wild spooking people. Harvest was the best Scream Fortress
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CoolCab posted:It's not tied to your normal drops, and if I recall someone worked out how to game it; something about playing for two minutes, collecting it and then ignoring the game for an hour maybe? I don't think it's an hour now. Played a bunch in the morning and took a break. Haven't seen any in helltower or lakeside.
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oddium posted:I hope this year's Hallowe'en map is just koth_sawmill_event with the ghost going hog wild spooking people. Harvest was the best Scream Fortress Yeah reloading Helltower reminded me that Helltower is an awful map. It fixes exactly one thing wrong with Hightower (the backsliding carts) while adding a large number of serious issues; Snipers have a sight line that sees almost the entire map by standing on top of the large healthkit building, spells make everyone dramatically more lethal while the respawn times are still very long, literally nothing that happens during the tower section of the map matters in the slightest towards the outcome of the game because overheal doesn't do poo poo against lava (or any other instakill) and anyone with two functioning braincells comes equipped with something that causes knockback. The breaking strategy is (was, maybe they fixed it) to wait in spawn with a quickfix uber. Bring on Booculus.
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Oct 23, 2014 11:35
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I was just on a lakeside event server that had that spellbook dropping thing enabled, and turned up to 100% (so every death drops a spell)  This is already the best Halloween event yet and it's still a week away
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For a long long time, I've had a website that works similarly to backpack.tf (no where near as good looking though) but it displays TF2 items you DON'T have. I used it when I was heavily into TF2 trading and trying to collect all of the hats in the game, before they added the most recent 150 hats and completely shattered my expectations. I "finished" adding all the features I wanted to, and in some sort of pseudo "might as well release it!" I figured I would bring it up here. If you're interested in seeing if you've got all the weapons, all the hats, or all the Halloween pieces, you might find this useful. The site is https://www.missing.tf I predict I will be using it to keep track of all the new Halloween costumes when they drop, and figured maybe one or two of you might want to as well.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Just played a round on lakeside_event trying to get spells and I had a spy scarecrow face drop. Neat that they're dropping from last year's thousand cosmetics instead of those stupid souls. What the hell, the voodoo souls are awesome. Collateral Damage posted:Doomsday is fun and I'm sad they haven't made any more Special Delivery maps. Chalk that up under "Good ideas that get added then abandoned." I genuinely hope its Doomsday too, it can be a pretty fun map if there are zero minisentries, and its gimmicky enough for tf2 halloween. Please Valve, I simply want anything apart from loving 2fort. khwarezm fucked around with this message at 13:33 on Oct 23, 2014 |
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Collateral Damage posted:Doomsday is fun and I'm sad they haven't made any more Special Delivery maps. Chalk that up under "Good ideas that get added then abandoned." No no no. sd_boosday.
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Slime posted:No no no. sd_boosday. That's the Cinco de Mayo custom map.
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Oct 23, 2014 13:38
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 If Valve would only add one Halloween item this year, it has to be this. Please. 
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Slime posted:No no no. sd_boosday. CoolCab posted:That's the Cinco de Mayo custom map.  I am hoping for cp_dustboowl myself, but as long as spells are active I'll be happy with whatever.
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Magypsy posted:
Well, that's the dumbest thing. I will take 5.
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khwarezm posted:it can be a pretty fun map if there are zero minisentries The same can be said of many maps.
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I started playing CS:GO last week. They have stickers that you can put on weapons. Hats for guns. I need these on heavy's minigun, on the barrel so they spin around when I fire. Maybe on baby sentry as well. Please Valve, I'll buy 10!
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Oct 23, 2014 14:07
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Brasseye posted:The same can be said of many maps. Hey, I can't help it if mini-sentries are a balance mire that can effectively ruin every KOTH map in the game.
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CoolCab posted:Bring on Booculus. koth_spookleus  I wonder if they'd consider throwing community-made halloween maps into the game alongside the fancy yearly valve-produced one. Just adding them to the Halloween map rotation and enabling presents on them or something, without any big fancy boss or new spell mechanics.
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Why did they forget to add the voodoo-cursed item crafting thing, if they were gonna make voodoo-cursed items a drop on lakeside_event? I've got a bunch of cursed items and I want to craft them. Custom blueprint doesn't seem to work either.
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Gabriel Pope posted:Some people regard scrambling as an admission of weakness and failure--they'd rather stick it out and see how far they can get "on their own" than admit that they need a few teammates who can pull their own weight. They're dumb, but I can kind of see their point of view. I get more annoyed than I ought to when someone calls for a scramble in a game that my team is narrowly losing. Is someone from Valve's TF2 Team still reading this thread? I was blathering on about how badly Valve servers needed a vote option for class limits; 2 weeks later they added one. Regrettably their option limits combat classes, making it worse than no class limits at all. So thank god that vote is disabled by default. C'mon Valve. No one is complaining about too many soldiers and heavies on their team. It's the spies and snipers and engies that make people want to leave or switch teams. Playing a combat class is very unfun when the other team has 3x as many combat classes as yours. The simple solution is class limits for support classes only.  (And obviously never limit medic.)
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cp_granalprobe pl_boowater pl_ghoulrush Maps that already exist. 
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When are they gonna add some kind of optional halloween mode checkbox or something so I can pal around with my brain maggot forever?
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You could always try using an Eternaween thingy, or if you know the guy who runs the server, get him to bung "tf_forced_holiday 2" into his server config or the console. I honestly think these days all items should be allowable at all times and instead there should be a console command to turn them off client side, or force them off on the server for competitive stuff. (hypothetically tf_show_items 1=none 2=not halloween 0=all items)
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khwarezm posted:Hey, I can't help it if mini-sentries are a balance mire that can effectively ruin every KOTH map in the game. Seems like they ruin my fun every time I play scout  but I can kind of appreciate that theyre useful on some maps. Anyone using them on king of the hill needs to be put to death though.
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I can understand restricting some of the more silhouette-skewing items, but depriving me of my Dead Little Buddy is a stark crime and frankly Valve should be put away
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I'd be more sympathetic to the whole silhouette argument if not for the fact that there are a bajillion non-halloween silhouette-loving items edit: just change the halloween only property to one like pyrovision where if you have an item with it equipped you can see other items that have the same property. juggalo baby coffin fucked around with this message at 15:53 on Oct 23, 2014 |
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Oct 23, 2014 15:51
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I suspect the halloween-only property has a lot to do with the fact that you can get costume items for free and there would be less demand for items from Mann Co if everyone could get a million cool cosmetic items by poopsocking during Halloween.
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Otacon posted:If you're interested in seeing if you've got all the weapons, all the hats, or all the Halloween pieces, you might find this useful.  all those festive stranges
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Oct 23, 2014 16:06
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Ah. I see I can put that Sentry Quad-Pumpkins spell on my Gunslinger. 
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oddium posted:I can understand restricting some of the more silhouette-skewing items, but depriving me of my Dead Little Buddy is a stark crime and frankly Valve should be put away yeah. When I saw someone running around with it I just quit out to the marketplace on the spot.
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Why aren't there Spooky weapon reskins alongside Festive ones, gaben
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obviously there are spells but I can't bring myself to care when those are only enabled during halloween. I want spooky scary stuff all year round dammit half the halloween stuff doesn't break with the "look" of tf2 any more than festives(or of course crazy unusuals)
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