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I was kinda worried that would be the case. Other than the few people I've added playing in pubs over the past few months, I have exactly 2 steam friends who play TF2, and they've both been in the competitive scene for years and are already on established teams. I guess I'll wait and hope that Valve gets their poo poo together with their competitive matchmaking.
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Dropping the defense contracts requirements confirms what I was saying. The team doesn't actually play TF2, and has no idea how difficult and fortuitous those have to be.
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Yeah, the amount of "defend the point" objectives you need is just silly. First of all, you have to be the first on the point to (sometimes) get it to trigger, and when it does actually trigger, it seems there is a 50-50 chance of it actually updating in the tracker. I got done with most of the actual cap objectives in a round or two, but is still at 3/30 or 4/20 on most of the defend objective ones. I wonder how they came up with those numbers. Edit: And of courses every map contract seems to have some kind of variation of these bonus objectives. Broken Cog fucked around with this message at 08:42 on Oct 25, 2017 |
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At least they actually fixed it this time instead of waiting 6+ months. Something tells me they only play 6s internally, where getting a kill on a capping enemy is way more common than 12v12 pubs.
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Were teams full of Soldiers & Demomen during the WAR! update? I imagine that would've been a lot worse than all the Pyros, even with fewer unlocks around. At least we have the Vaccinator nowadays.
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ArfJason posted:invis watch has always been supremely good That's the thing. The dead ringer is annoying, but it doesn't make a bad spy suddenly good. They still had a lot of downtime if their DR got triggered, but now it takes so long to recharge and they're so vulnerable without a cloak while it's recharging that the DR now runs into the same trap as the cloak and dagger of encouraging spies to be poo poo and useless.
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Butt Detective posted:Were teams full of Soldiers & Demomen during the WAR! update? I imagine that would've been a lot worse than all the Pyros, even with fewer unlocks around. At least we have the Vaccinator nowadays. Except that teams full of demomen and soldiers are very effective at playing the objectives in TF2.
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I've got the advanced "heal 500 health within 1 second" contract for the Amputator. Is it bugged? I keep playing my jaunty tune near a cart of point full of injured teammates, and nothing is happening.
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I just played the longest game of banana bay ever, it would never end, and I finally got the last 5 kills with the dragons fury so I never need to touch that crappy airblast having piece of crap again, nobody was pushing the bomb and I couldn't just wait it out cos they were reaaallllly good about kicking idlers, so I had to actually carry on and it finally blew up and I'm done and it didn't let me turn it in, it completely ignored it. The beep beeped and the text went yellow in game but when I opened my pda it still said 2 out of 3! Fix your poo poo valve you fat nerds.
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Xander77 posted:I've got the advanced "heal 500 health within 1 second" contract for the Amputator. Is it bugged? I keep playing my jaunty tune near a cart of point full of injured teammates, and nothing is happening. The contracts are kind of hosed in general. Even when they're not bugged they're asking for way too goddamn much. Extinguishing people with the jetpack is not gonna happen because of how they've crippled afterburn. also lol with how poo poo afterburn is now the degreaser feels like a straight upgrade to stock again
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Oh they changed the contracts... now I only have to extinguish team mates with the thermal thruster 6 times to complete the contract. I'd already done it 15 times, valve. thanks for resetting that one.
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Still having fun in this game a decade later. The best part of the update is the new flamethrower particles which are accurate. I've had fun with the contracts. The trick to doing a defense objective is to get with a friend to double your chances of proccing it. If you don't have any TF2 friends, just ask for one in a pub. Every two or three games, there is a 12 year old who is as good as you, even if you're amazing at this game, and he'll happily play with you at any loving hour. The price will be someone talking your ear off.
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Can you get strange/unusual paints from the contract rewards or is that a pay-only thing
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8 Ball posted:Can you get strange/unusual paints from the contract rewards or is that a pay-only thing I think it's pay only. The keyless cases don't offer any note at the bottom of random extras.
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I grabbed the PASSTime contract thinking it'd be fun to play again. I can't find a match. 
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The only thing I don't like about the new flame particles is that you can't see poo poo through them if a flaming pyro is coming straight towards you.
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Broken Cog posted:The only thing I don't like about the new flame particles is that you can't see poo poo through them if a flaming pyro is coming straight towards you. you can't see poo poo if you're the pyro either
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Zoolooman posted:Still having fun in this game a decade later. Hi Zoolooman! :o)
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Reiley posted:Hi Zoolooman! :o) Reiley! <3 Come play the Tee Eff Deux (after 5:30 CST because work).  It now has robust partying features that actually work for up to 6 folks who wanna be a gravel gang. Edit: Do you wanna join my gang? Zooloo fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Oct 25, 2017 |
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Haven't really played TF2 in a few years, but is this Jungle event replacing Halloween completely?
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All signs point to yes. They're actually fixing the Jungle update which is probably taking most of their time. If they at least don't enable the old halloween maps and such though, there will be blood.
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There's apparently hints in the code that they've hooked up the old Merasmissions to the Contracker, so odds are something small will happen.
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iroguebot posted:Haven't really played TF2 in a few years, but is this Jungle event replacing Halloween completely? The update is called "Summer" in the files so Halloween is still months away!
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Scream Fortress is up http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=34052
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Zoolooman posted:Reiley! <3 Come play the Tee Eff Deux (after 5:30 CST because work). Completely off topic but is there a bigger picture of your icon? Slark is the best So the warpaints can't be applied to items you already have but instead you get a brand new item? I wanted to see if I could put it on my rocket launcher with lights Dr. VooDoo fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Oct 27, 2017 |
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I know I'm like a week late, but when I first read the original patch notes for the update I was thrilled to see they didn't kill the amby by adding bullet spread to the its first shot. But jfc I did not realize just how small a range that 1200 hammer units is. Not being able to hit headshots past 1200 units makes this thing is essentially useless now. The stock revolver is now better in almost every application. Even the medium range amby headshots only do like 60 damage. At the same range, you could pop out 35-40 damage per shot with the stock, and I imagine the dps would be comparable to hitting every headshot as quickly as possible with the ambassador. The new amby only fills the niche in which you need to deal high damage to that scout you ran into while rounding a blind corner and not much else. I can't see it being a viable weapon anymore.
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The Ambassador "you don't expect to get headshot by not-a-Sniper" line was one of the dumbest patch note reasonings I have ever read with my own two eyes. A truly baffling justification for neutering a skill-based weapon. e: Also removing all crits from the Guillotine because getting killed by it "seemed random", despite it and the Sandman having two different parabolic arcs that I'm trying very hard to line up in sequence on purpose, it's not an accident that you ate that crit pal.
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Tale posted:I know I'm like a week late, but when I first read the original patch notes for the update I was thrilled to see they didn't kill the amby by adding bullet spread to the its first shot. But jfc I did not realize just how small a range that 1200 hammer units is. Not being able to hit headshots past 1200 units makes this thing is essentially useless now. The stock revolver is now better in almost every application. Even the medium range amby headshots only do like 60 damage. At the same range, you could pop out 35-40 damage per shot with the stock, and I imagine the dps would be comparable to hitting every headshot as quickly as possible with the ambassador. The new amby only fills the niche in which you need to deal high damage to that scout you ran into while rounding a blind corner and not much else. I can't see it being a viable weapon anymore. Yeah, as I mentioned earlier, none of the spy changes really seemed well thought out. It all seemed like kneejerk reactions to community complaints with some extremely shallow excuses. It's a bit disappointing, because it gives me the feeling that there's no one on the TF2 team that actually cares about spy balance anymore. Edit: I found a clip that shows the current state of the Amby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXqzL_iFXj8 Broken Cog fucked around with this message at 02:34 on Oct 27, 2017 |
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Reiley posted:The Ambassador "you don't expect to get headshot by not-a-Sniper" line was one of the dumbest patch note reasonings I have ever read with my own two eyes. A truly baffling justification for neutering a skill-based weapon. Completely removing the skill cap on a weapon that has an extremely high skill cap is loving retarded. I can see why the team thought nerfing these items was necessary (especially for f2p players), but they cocked up all three spy items that they changed. In the case of the ambassador, I think if it dealt normal crit damage at any range (three times the normal damage at that range, capping at 102 damage), that would have been a fair nerf. At maximum range the ambassador does 17 damage, so a headshot doing 51 at that range seems perfectly reasonable to me. Broken Cog posted:Yeah, as I mentioned earlier, none of the spy changes really seemed well thought out. It all seemed like kneejerk reactions to community complaints with some extremely shallow excuses. Some guy in a YouTube video I was watching earlier said that it's obvious that the TF2 team doesn't actually play the game other than like private 6v6s they host for stress tests n poo poo. They've been on point with bug fixes and stuff this past week, so once all the major kinks with the updates are finally ironed out, they may return to things like the ambassador to shore them up based on community response.
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Yeah, they completely squandered all of the cool stuff that the spy adds to the game, such as
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Straight White Shark posted:Yeah, they completely squandered all of the cool stuff that the spy adds to the game, such as being fun to play
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I still haven't seen a single diamondback Spy despite it being the obvious choice now that the Amby is pretty much dead. I'm mostly just seeing stock revolvers and stubborn DR Spies using the L'Etranger.
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Yeah, the stock revolver is still really good, and I'm honestly surprised the Diamondback wasn't the one to get a rework instead of the Amby. It's probably, as you said, because very few people actually use it. Enforcer is still just a worse revolver, and there is literally no reason to use it in its current state.
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Is there a point to finishing every single contract? Or at least every primary objective?
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Xander77 posted:Is there a point to finishing every single contract? Or at least every primary objective? Yes, get more stars, needed to unlock contracts. Basic contracts cost one star to unlock, some cost two or three stars, and some super bonus require many more. E.g. the Hot Hand pyroland contract requires 9 stars, which means you actually need to have completed all the bonus objectives of all the other contracts.
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I don't think there's any point in doing the Halloween bonus contracts since they only need 1 star to unlock, you just need 1 or 2 extra stars to unlock multiple paths at once.
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nielsm posted:Yes, get more stars, needed to unlock contracts. Basic contracts cost one star to unlock, some cost two or three stars, and some super bonus require many more.
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