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TF2 doesn't seem dead to me, there are always full and almost full servers with people better than me (not hard)
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ropesnake posted:^ tf2 has been dead for years now and it happened at the exact moment when 90% of the community servers vanished. Yeah, most of the community servers I played on here in Australia (Anarchy, DoP, alt gaming) are all gone. Smurfy is the only decent one left that isn't just trade/idle maps and saxton hale.
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Nov 17, 2014 09:59
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To be fair, a 7 year old game isn't going to have the peak of community owned servers as it used to. I am curious to see how TF2 will fare if Overwatch turns out to be any good.
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Nov 17, 2014 10:16
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Today I spent a round just destroying two scouts who proceeded to cry that I was obviously cheatin, but apparently if I owned an unusual I wasn't cheating! I do not own an unusual, so I guess Gaben is going to come to my door and arrest me for TF2 hacks. The best thing was that I was using the FaN, a weapon that I goddamn hate using because it makes firing while jumping lovely and the knockback that's usually pretty pointless since if you get enough damage to knock them back you probably would have finished them with another anyway, and you've just gone and give them some distance between you.Pepsi_TV posted:hey airblast you got a unusual ? if yes your not cheating if no youre cheating
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Nov 17, 2014 12:45
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Has anyone seen anyone using the RoflBox or whatever hack it is that spams the hack in chat every 3 seconds? I've not been playing a lot of TF2 lately, but a few months ago there was a week or two where every other Valve server had one of those taunting-while-speedhacking-constantly-critting-superheavy hackers. Are those days in the past? Is hacking still a big deal on public servers, where it's so common for new players to see hackers, and automatically assume that anyone better than them is automatically also a hack-user?
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Nov 17, 2014 13:02
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I've only ever seen one guy who I could comfortably say was hacking. A heavy who would kill us within a second on the other side of the map if he had line of sight on you.
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Nov 17, 2014 13:05
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HoboWithAShotgun posted:I've only ever seen one guy who I could comfortably say was hacking. A heavy who would kill us within a second on the other side of the map if he had line of sight on you. I tend to catch one or two every night I play, if you're killed by a default sniper I've found there's an excellent chance. If you get killed by midair headshot or something and see default in the killcam, spectate them a bit: they'll often give themselves away by flipping around and nailing a cloaked spy.
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Nov 17, 2014 13:13
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Otacon posted:Has anyone seen anyone using the RoflBox or whatever hack it is that spams the hack in chat every 3 seconds? I've not been playing a lot of TF2 lately, but a few months ago there was a week or two where every other Valve server had one of those taunting-while-speedhacking-constantly-critting-superheavy hackers. Are those days in the past? Is hacking still a big deal on public servers, where it's so common for new players to see hackers, and automatically assume that anyone better than them is automatically also a hack-user? I see them occasionally. I ran into one a little while back that aaaalways landed with his scattergun, and then went heavy and literally every single time I entered his field of view I was instantly greeted with a hail of minigun fire. And that was one of the less obvious ones. The more obvious ones use the type of hack that has them constantly twitching around, basically trying to look around them constantly so the hack can lock right onto anyone around them.
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Nov 17, 2014 13:22
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I don't get why people think TF2 is dying. As long as people keep spending money, Valve will keep updating the game.
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Nov 17, 2014 14:22
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Yeah, doesn't TF2 still bring in more money despite having like 1/5 the playerbase of DOTA?
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Nov 17, 2014 14:52
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  This right here is why I hope TF2 doesn't die. Pipe aiming on an air target to juggle him until his invincibility wears off. gently caress your Dotes.
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Nov 17, 2014 15:01
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Magypsy posted:I don't get why people think TF2 is dying. As long as people keep spending money, Valve will keep updating the game. I was being melodramatic, but over the past month it really has become vastly harder to find populated non-Valve servers that aren't instant respawn and/or 32 man bullshit.
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Nov 17, 2014 16:02
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Gabriel Pope posted:I was being melodramatic, but over the past month it really has become vastly harder to find populated non-Valve servers that aren't instant respawn and/or 32 man bullshit. Only the past month? Try since 2011 when quickplay was put in the game. Populated+quality community servers all but disappeared at that point.
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Nov 17, 2014 16:35
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Gabriel Pope posted:I was being melodramatic, but over the past month it really has become vastly harder to find populated non-Valve servers that aren't instant respawn and/or 32 man bullshit. I think that a significant part of this is that Valve has increased the number of official servers as part of quickplay. It used to be fairly hard to find a PST Valve server, but now there are what, two dozen? I miss my community servers, but not enough that I'm going to join a new community server and put up with whatever weirdo bullshit they want to run people through.
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Nov 17, 2014 16:37
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Baron von Eevl posted:Yeah, doesn't TF2 still bring in more money despite having like 1/5 the playerbase of DOTA? 
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Nov 17, 2014 17:56
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xzzy posted:Only the past month? Try since 2011 when quickplay was put in the game. Populated+quality community servers all but disappeared at that point. It wasn't when quickplay first came out; it was when valve added the option to filter between community and valve servers but defaulted the option to just valve. I kind of wish they would let some custom maps be allowed in quickplay, just so people have a reason to search for community servers again.
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Nov 17, 2014 18:21
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The Kins posted:From SteamDB: Sorry, what's that measuring? Number of players, or money?
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Nov 17, 2014 18:26
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Number of players. If you check Steam's stats on any given day, DOTA tends to have about 10x as many players and CS:GO about 3-4x as many players as TF2.
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Nov 17, 2014 18:28
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mango gay touchies posted:Every month that valve doesn't abandon TF2 to work on dota full-time is a small miracle i'm not sure why people keep parroting this dumb poo poo when if you ask any players of any valve ip they'll probably go 'i wish valve would work on this game instead of [other game]'. all it really comes down to is valve's weird as gently caress desk-scooting model and they're not going to drop anything because they can more than afford to keep developing everything while still making bank.
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Nov 17, 2014 19:52
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For those of you who like the Demoman to be about demolition and not pirates, knights or demonstrations, there's an excellent new set up on the workshop, and an amazing new stickybomb launcher.
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Nov 17, 2014 19:58
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BillehS posted:It wasn't when quickplay first came out; it was when valve added the option to filter between community and valve servers but defaulted the option to just valve. I kind of wish they would let some custom maps be allowed in quickplay, just so people have a reason to search for community servers again. The server browser is better than quickplay anyway*, but can you really blame Valve for doing this? There were (is?) so many lovely servers running with fake bot counts that exist solely to get ad views from players, not to mention all the servers with "premium" perk garbage. Imagine being a brand new player and getting this poo poo instead of a "real" TF2 server: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaxEvEwJt7g Or being killed repeatedly by an engineer who can build 3 sentry guns or a soldier with a 20 clip rocket launcher or whatever other perks you could buy. I wouldn't be surprised if new player retention went way up after Valve defaulted to their own servers for quickplay. *Even using the server browser was becoming a pain in the rear end back then; unless it was a Valve server or you knew the server was legit you had a 75% chance that the server you were trying was just a garbage ad server (remember when old threads had methods to block/bypass Pinion in the OP?)
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Nov 17, 2014 20:12
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Now I remember why I switched to valve servers. I don't care about skill levels, I only play this game to shoot some mans for half an hour. Most community servers are complete garbage last time I checked.
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Nov 17, 2014 20:23
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Quick play did not ruin tf2, 24/7 servers did.
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Nov 17, 2014 20:29
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FWD. FWD. FWD. RE. posted:The server browser is better than quickplay anyway*, but can you really blame Valve for doing this? There were (is?) so many lovely servers running with fake bot counts that exist solely to get ad views from players, not to mention all the servers with "premium" perk garbage. Yeah, it was unfortunate that quickplay was abused like that and I don't blame Valve for making the change. It's just unfortunate that many of the community servers I use to visit rarely fill up anymore.
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Nov 17, 2014 20:39
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ColHannibal posted:Quick play did not ruin tf2, 24/7 servers did. While those servers suck, they have existed for as long as TF2 has so I don't think that is an accurate claim.
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Nov 17, 2014 20:41
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Magypsy posted:For those of you who like the Demoman to be about demolition and not pirates, knights or demonstrations, there's an excellent new set up on the workshop, and an amazing new stickybomb launcher. Give me a sticky where launcher detting only blows up the last sticky fired, but any other of your stickies caught in its explosion explode with it letting you get some weird in between of stock and SR.
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Nov 17, 2014 20:46
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Dr. Dos posted:Give me a sticky where launcher detting only blows up the last sticky fired, but any other of your stickies caught in its explosion explode with it letting you get some weird in between of stock and SR. I like this idea and think it deserves some research. Either do it like you described ("last in first out") or like the existing sticky launcher behavior ("first in first out"). Maybe have it so you can only have two live stickies at a time, so firing a third blows one up the same way that firing a 9th blows one up right now. That way you could keep the existing right click behavior that blows all of them up.
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Nov 17, 2014 20:54
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Dr. Dos posted:Give me a sticky where launcher detting only blows up the last sticky fired, but any other of your stickies caught in its explosion explode with it letting you get some weird in between of stock and SR. So it'd work like bomberman's bombs then.
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Nov 17, 2014 20:59
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It's a meme in the comp community that "tf2 is dead" because people have constantly stated this since pretty much the start. TF2 is a loving solid game that is unique amongst shooters. There is nothing even close to it for what it does. Even if overwatch is good I bet people still play tf2 as well.
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Nov 17, 2014 21:39
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Sometimes it is difficult to tell how hard I should roll my eyes when people talk about how the third most played game on Steam is dead
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Nov 17, 2014 22:08
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It's dead inside.
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Nov 17, 2014 22:59
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Well if this year's Halloween is anything to go by, then I can't disagree with you. 
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Nov 17, 2014 23:40
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I hope the next Halloween thing is Gorge or 5Gorge done up like a Haunted House.
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Nov 17, 2014 23:48
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Watch it be ctf_boofort, tc_hydro_spooky or a terrible official map Valve will have made between now and next October but purple with skeletons everywhere.
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Nov 17, 2014 23:50
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Magypsy posted:Watch it be ctf_boofort, tc_hydro_spooky or a terrible official map Valve will have made between now and next October but purple with skeletons everywhere. Or it could be something awesome like rd_asteroid_event (I can't think of a punny name, sorry) with a bunch of Sci-Fi/Horror B-Movie monsters or something.  Who doesn't want to run around a haunted moonbase??
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Nov 18, 2014 00:09
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My favourite thing in tf2 is playing on a server with other regulars and someone on the other team is having a really good game and then I try to shut them down and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't but it's exciting!! shoutout to my boy 'babby' who did a sick 180 noscope midair rocket on me when I was bombing his medic. It bounced me over the cliff on upward and I yelled I R L. tf2 aint dead, tupac aint dead, gently caress the haters. peace.
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Nov 18, 2014 00:16
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If you want to know what's really killing TF2, it's the Valve servers suddenly adding 200 to everybody's ping every night.
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Nov 18, 2014 03:41
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TF2 is not dead he just went home.
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Nov 18, 2014 04:26
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CoolCab posted:Sorry, what's that measuring? Number of players, or money?
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TF2 got about 10x more fun for me since I learned to rocket jump. Last night I jumped through the window overlooking the final point in part 1 of thunder mountain & killed everyone up there, probably my favourite thing Ive done in the 250 hours or so Ive played 
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