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They could have made a festive Solemn Vow with a santa hat on or something, but no. BONESAW.
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I can't wait to craft away my backscatter
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Dec 23, 2014 03:02
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I want all of it. Except the Bonesaw.
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Dec 23, 2014 03:03
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IronicDongz posted:I can't wait to craft away my backscatter I can't wait to bomb some dodongos Demomen with the new launchers vs melee-only Scouts with the Bominomicon, all named "Dodongos." Or else just swarming some pub server as the Dodongos, I'm fine with that too.
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Dec 23, 2014 03:07
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As an owner of s. gunslinger and s. kritz, I'm extremely glad of those festives.
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Dec 23, 2014 03:08
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Holy poo poo this new mode is completely broken and hilarious. I love it.
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Dec 23, 2014 03:16
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Guys I heard TF2 was dead.
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Having played a quick round of the Mannpower beta, vampirism is crazy overpowered. Getting all the damage you deal back as health is practically a permanent quick fix uber, you can only really be taken down by snipers, spies or crits as long as you're dealing damage. I'd probably only drop that for the 30 seconds of crits.
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Zero! posted:Having played a quick round of the Mannpower beta, vampirism is crazy overpowered. Getting all the damage you deal back as health is practically a permanent quick fix uber, you can only really be taken down by snipers, spies or crits as long as you're dealing damage. So what you're saying is that I should play heavy in Mannpower since the grappling hook basically eliminates his mobility weakness and he becomes unkillable with powerups.
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Dec 23, 2014 03:18
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Lol the new mode is basically an in-game RTD server plugin, I love it.
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Dec 23, 2014 03:18
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Stranges from crates are very rare this year so far - 1 in 15 to 1 in 20 is what I'm hearing. I opened 5 Naughtys, no stranges (and no festive shotgun  ) and I guess that's about normal. Now to wait an entire week before being able to attempt to sell the duplicate festive revolver.
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Fojar38 posted:So what you're saying is that I should play heavy in Mannpower since the grappling hook basically eliminates his mobility weakness and he becomes unkillable with powerups. If you're playing heavy make sure to get the speed power up, it increases your fire rate, and basically eliminates spinup time. Thanks Internet fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Dec 23, 2014 |
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Dec 23, 2014 03:21
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So what's the deal with the Panic Attack shotgun? The way the description reads it's like a shotgun version of the Beggars Bazooka?
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LogisticEarth posted:So what's the deal with the Panic Attack shotgun? The way the description reads it's like a shotgun version of the Beggars Bazooka? Pretty much. The idea seems to be for Soldiers or Heavies who run out of ammo for their primary, and need to kill one target specifically. So it doesn't look like it has as much all-around usefulness as the normal shotgun.
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Dec 23, 2014 03:31
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Gotta love it. I've been playing with the iron bomber for about an hour, lots of fun - now no item servers. Can't even access the market - goddammit Valve.
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Dec 23, 2014 03:31
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Anyone else getting flashbacks of that James Bond game where you had the grappling hook watch? Cause I'm just running around like mother loving spiderman, objectives be damned. (I think it was on PS2)
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Dec 23, 2014 03:40
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Theta Zero posted:Pretty much. The idea seems to be for Soldiers or Heavies who run out of ammo for their primary, and need to kill one target specifically. So it doesn't look like it has as much all-around usefulness as the normal shotgun. It's clearly for playing fat scout.
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Theta Zero posted:Pretty much. The idea seems to be for Soldiers or Heavies who run out of ammo for their primary, and need to kill one target specifically. So it doesn't look like it has as much all-around usefulness as the normal shotgun. Its usage is limited (like the escape plan) in this aspect, but it fires crazy quick when you're on low health. It's no 60% move speed increase but you could output a decent bit of damage if you land your shots. Landing your shots is definitely the hard bit though, it's difficult to know when exactly the gun is going to fire so you have to play tracking the other player like a pistol/minigun instead of flicking on click.
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It fires quick, but you still have to take the time to load it. It's been 1 hour but I think it's pretty garbage.
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Dec 23, 2014 03:43
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Caddrel posted:The stock grenade launcher has six barrels. Six chambers  Collateral Damage posted:If the scout has taken even a miniscule amount of damage they still get oneshot by the LnL I actually really like the new LnL. A bit less oneshot power, but the extra pill is a slight boost to overall DPS to counter. I think it's a bit less demanding on the user, it's more spammable now at combos/chokepoints/etc.
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i want that fuckin pyro black knight set where is my holiday sock obama?
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Dr. Dos posted:It fires quick, but you still have to take the time to load it. It's been 1 hour but I think it's pretty garbage. From what I'm hearing, the general consensus is that the new weapons aren't very good. From just what I've seen, a lot of the upsides don't seem worth the downsides. But it's better to release an underpowered weapon and fix it later than break the game with a broken one and fix it when people are likely to base their playstyles solely around the original.
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Dec 23, 2014 03:50
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I don't get why they're so determined to make the demoman bad at the only thing he is good at but at least this one isn't as stupid as the last one was.
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cock hero flux posted:I don't get why they're so determined to make the demoman bad at the only thing he is good at but at least this one isn't as stupid as the last one was. the only thing he is good at being everything?
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The new shotgun definitely seems underpowered but I think the two new demoman weapons are pretty good sidegrades. The grenade launcher lets you actually have reliable rollers, rather than having them randomly bounce everywhere, and a 0.2 second faster arm time on the stickybomb launcher doesn't sound like much but it makes it a lot more viable as an offensive weapon. Being able to destroy enemy stickybombs with a launcher that actually works as an offensive weapon is pretty huge too. The inability to make traps is also huge, and the damage penalty hurts it a bit, but from the quick playaround I had with it, it seemed like a super solid sidegrade. Edit: Making the demoman more focused on playing offensively is really good for the flow of the game in my opinion. If the scottish resistance was buffed to be as good as stock but purely at defensive play, it'd be horrible to play against. Zero! fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Dec 23, 2014 |
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Dec 23, 2014 03:59
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It looks like everyone else had the same idea I did because the beta servers are almost all heavies.
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FirstPersonShitter posted:the only thing he is good at being everything?
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Demomen and Soldiers are both mained exclusively by big dumb babies.
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Holy poo poo this is fun, zipping around, detaching and airstrafing around spewing haste rockets from my original is giving me serious nostalgia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw9Tz_toBSg e: anyone know when these stockings are supposed to drop?
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a cock shaped fruit posted:I love how they are so deathly afraid to release a festive Kritz. Could have at least given us a festive quick-fix! Oh BTW this is the first year Engie and heavy and soldier didn't get dedicated festives, I just noticed if fear of upsetting the economy is effecting what festives they make available with the medic then they have a huge headache with the Engineer, he has no loving weapons and the Gunslinger, PDA, pomson and widowmaker are all locked in valuable crates.
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Heavy definitely needs some balancing in the new game mode because this is ridiculous.
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IronicDongz posted:I can't wait to craft away my backscatter
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I don't know if it was just the server I was on, but getting to 10 captures seems to take way too long.
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I love the new demoman primary. The downsides are negligible and the upside has a surprise bonus of being super hard to airblast against. If a pyro airblasts the iron bombs on their way down, it'll still plant right at his feet anyway and maybe kill him all the same. Also the fact that the pipes just sorta plant right where they land makes it super good for filling a choke point with bombs and not letting anyone through safely. It is nicer than I expected and I may use it in place of the standard pipe launcher. A solid sidegrade. EDIT: It is also significantly better for pipe jumping with than the default, making it the go-to pipe launcher if you want to sticky jump around while also using a shield. Not only because the pipes plant right where you shoot them, but also because they deal 10% less damage if they self-detonate! gnome7 fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Dec 23, 2014 |
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If every class has a grappling hook, explosive jumping and scouts seem kind of less useful. Mobility is free! At the very least the grapple-retract speed should be proportional to your run speed.
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Ditocoaf posted:If every class has a grappling hook, explosive jumping and scouts seem kind of less useful. Mobility is free! It retracts faster with the haste and agility powerups, so it run speed affects its somehow.
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PSA: they disabled skyboxes and you can get to all sorts of sneaky places.
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The grappling hook is loving rad. Heavy is crazy good because of it, though. Some things I've noticed about the update. Agility gives you more ammo in a clip. Demo has eight pipes, for example Heavy gets like 400 health or some bullshit with vampirisim and warlock, which is insane. Even more after you start killing people with vampirism Lock n' Load isn't that useful Precision makes explosives fly much faster. Like, the regular rocket launcher is faster than the direct hit. Scouts with agility don't seem to go faster with full Baby Face's Blaster charge, it seems like it's set to max speed either way The crit power up does not overwrite a normal one so you can have the damage boost and crits at the same time This update is unquestionably the best and most fun in a long time for me, but they do need to balance some stuff.
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