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Played a few rounds in the last few days. The bots are an annoyance, but it seems like people are pretty on it about kicking them almost before they're out the spawn doors. It's an embarrassment to the game for sure, but it's still more or less playable. Wish I had something better to say though.
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Maybe it's wishful thinking but I do feel like there's at least slightly fewer conventional aimbotters playing now that the spam bots are flooding the servers. Having the cheaters announce themselves for a quick kicking is a step up, sort of?
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Jun 13, 2020 18:38
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There are a bunch of people using that new thing that auto-kicks bots now and there is going to be a scandal the next time a ban wave goes out and Valve accidentally Vac bans the people who were policing their game for years
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Jun 14, 2020 06:03
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quote:June 16, 2020 - TF2 Team Hey look, they're trying.
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Jun 17, 2020 01:00
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They should use the SA model and make the game free to play but if you ever eat a ban you need to pay  to start a new account
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Jun 17, 2020 01:10
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Just permanently ban anyone that posts a racist screed in text chat From life in general ideally, but also you just know if they were hardware-banned from dota they'd care about it a lot more than just getting that one account banned from tf2.
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Jun 17, 2020 01:18
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Here's something that I've run into: I'll join a game, and after a bit, I'll start hearing some offensive mic spam. However, looking in the corner to see who's name it is, I see that my username and avatar is showing up as the person speaking, even though I don't have a microphone set up currently. I thought maybe it had to do with Windows 10 automatically hooking into application that have mic support, but even after toggling it off, it kept happening. I asked in text chat in one game, and apparently, there are 'mimics' that will copy your name and spam the mic. It was suggested that changing classes would help, but I'm worried someone's going to copy my name and start spamming something offensive, and I'll get banned as a result. For the time being, I've turned off voice chat in-game, so I don't hear anything, but for all I know, your name will still get picked, and you just won't be able to see it.
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Jun 17, 2020 19:34
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If you see a bot spoofing your name, immediately go to the menu and call a vote to kick them. You cannot select yourself on the game's vote kick interface, so there is no risk of calling a vote on yourself this way, but if a teammate tries to call a vote on them they have a 50/50 chance to pick you instead. So you really want to try to beat them to the punch (in addition to generally wanting the rear end in a top hat gone ASAP.)
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Jun 17, 2020 19:43
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I was complaining about all this bot account hacker nonsense in my last post over 2 months ago. Sorry to repeat everyone else but yeah it's still unplayable right now. I tried to play a week ago and I sent an actual email to gaben who I'm sure no longer reads that e-mail like he did back in the days. No response from gaben@valvesoftware.com. Tried to play again for about 10 minutes, 3 servers tonight. Still unplayable. When Valve made TF2 officially F2P they also made a promise to be vigilant about this poo poo. Well over a month of unplayable TF2 has happened... over a month ago. So what? Just competitive? How do you think an ongoing competitive scene can exist in a game that is also absolutely UNPLAYABLE TO ALL CASUAL USERS.
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Jun 20, 2020 09:19
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Sanctum posted:I was complaining about all this bot account hacker nonsense in my last post over 2 months ago. Sorry to repeat everyone else but yeah it's still unplayable right now. I tried to play a week ago and I sent an actual email to gaben who I'm sure no longer reads that e-mail like he did back in the days. No response from gaben@valvesoftware.com. Have you tried creators.tf or other similar servers?
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Jun 20, 2020 09:31
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I also pretty much only play on Creators or other community servers now. I’ve been on them since November and have only ran into two cases of cheaters/greifers. A simple “/call” in chat had them kicked in under a few minutes and permanently banned. That said valve has released two updates targeting the cheaters. I think it’s the VAC team that’s slacking (they are having similar problems in CSGO with aimbots as well)
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Jun 20, 2020 12:56
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I've run into a new issue this morning where I seem to get lag no matter what server I join. I'll be trying to move somewhere, only for the game to hang, and then I jump to a new point. It seems like it's something on my end, but I don't know what it could be. I tried playing a game in training mode, and ran into no problems. Could it be related to the bot issue?
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Jun 20, 2020 13:50
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If you open the console with ` (the button below escape) you can type "net_graph 1" to show basic networking stuff. Put "net_graph 0" to turn it back off.
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Jippa posted:If you open the console with ` (the button below escape) you can type "net_graph 1" to show basic networking stuff. Put "net_graph 0" to turn it back off. Doing that right now, and it looks like the 'in' variable is where it's hanging, because the number will freeze. I honestly don't know what I should be looking for, or what I should do to fix it.
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You can try changing the number to 2/3/4 as well for more detail. Try it on a server you think you should have quite low ping.
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Jun 20, 2020 14:50
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Jippa posted:You can try changing the number to 2/3/4 as well for more detail. Try it on a server you think you should have quite low ping. I tried 'net_graph 2' and captured some screenshots:  The area highlighted by the arrows is what would come up when I got the lag hits. I dunno what it represents, though. The good news is that I was able to fix the problem by rebooting my computer. Dunno why that fixed it, though. I'm guessing either something was running in the background that was interfering, or I just needed to restart it (I left it on sleep mode last night, so I'm thinking maybe it was a memory thing.)
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Jun 20, 2020 15:17
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For my computer at least I've found that if I don't restart it at least once every couple of weeks then stuff like Team Fortress 2 will run like crap Though to be fair my computer is a ten year old laptop
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wait you lot are just leaving your computers on all the time?
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Jun 21, 2020 08:23
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Dabir posted:wait On a laptop, closing the lid puts it in sleep mode. That's not the same as shutting down, so across a month until next reboot for updates you'll easily accumulate many days of uptime. Similar, I also put my desktop PC in hibernation at night instead of shutting it down.
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Jun 21, 2020 08:37
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I only shut(restart) down my pc when windows is bugging me about updates
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Dabir posted:wait The number of times I've cold-booted my computer in the last year I could probably count on one hand I have more than one laptop so if I know it's gonna be in sleep mode for more than 3-5 days off of the charger, I'll actually shut it down, but it's exceedingly rare Windows 10 recently introduced a weird feature that nukes sleep time to ~22 hours on most laptops unless you modify some very specific settings
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Jun 21, 2020 10:25
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nielsm posted:On a laptop, closing the lid puts it in sleep mode. (Says someone who literally never voluntarily turns off his computer)
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i feel like I'm communicating with a parallel universe here give your computers a rest, gently caress
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Computers can't get tired In fact most computers nowadays are designed to be on 24/7 and will just do their housekeeping when there hasn't been any input for a while
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I close my laptop so my kids don’t mess with my work stuff, and my desktop stays on until it needs restarted for an update. I do turn off my monitor, but that’s more out of habit than anything.
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Dabir posted:wait Usually, I'll turn it off before going to bed, but some times I'll just put it on sleep mode, even though the boot time isn't that long. I think there have been times where I've done it two or three days in a row, and I think that might have been the case when I started having issues with TF2. I've heard that it's more power-efficient or something to just leave it on sleep mode, but I think the way it works is that if you don't do a shutdown or reboot every so often, it doesn't clear memory properly, or applications never stop writing to the disc. It also might not pick up new changes until it does a check or proper refresh. I feel like it's healthier for the overall life of the computer if shut everything down, because it effectively 'flushes' all the background processes down. Otherwise, everything is just sort of suspended. Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 02:19 on Jun 22, 2020 |
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Max Wilco posted:I feel like it's healthier for the overall life of the computer if shut everything down, because it effectively 'flushes' all the background processes down. Otherwise, everything is just sort of suspended. actually nowadays when you tell the PC to "shut down", windows is actually doing what's called a "hybrid shutdown". All applications are killed but the kernel itself hibernates to shorten startup time the next time. functionally it is not really any different than logging out the machine but leaving it running. User stuff is killed, kernel stays up. You are only truly shutting down the kernel if you (a) do a restart, (b) the system hard-crashes or powers off abruptly for some reason, (c) you command an advanced shutdown through recovery, or (d) you explicitly go out of your way to turn hybrid shutdown off.
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Does that mean I'm messing up my machine every time I switch the surge protector off after a shutdown?
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I turn everything off at night at the mains because I'm a weirdo that can't have any light in my room when I try and sleep. That flashing led thing when the computer is on standby is so bright it's crazy.
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Jippa posted:I turn everything off at night at the mains because I'm a weirdo that can't have any light in my room when I try and sleep. That flashing led thing when the computer is on standby is so bright it's crazy. I used to do the same mostly because my surge protector has a stupidly bright blue LED, til I found the cloth thing that blocks it out.
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Just open up your case and unplug the power light from the motherboard header.
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Put a small piece of duct tape over it
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lol if you don't have Enrique use his body to block any unsightly LEDs
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Jippa posted:I turn everything off at night at the mains because I'm a weirdo that can't have any light in my room when I try and sleep. That flashing led thing when the computer is on standby is so bright it's crazy. loving THIS and we ran out of electrical tape before the quarantine. gently caress poo poo goddamnit
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Earlier today I played a game, and while it had a few bots in it, it also had an "Anti-Bot Bot." It was an aimbot, but it only ever fired at people on its bot whitelist. It repeatedly spoke in chat telling who the bots were, and once the bots had been kicked it quit the server. It was amazing.
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Gwyneth Palpate posted:Earlier today I played a game, and while it had a few bots in it, it also had an "Anti-Bot Bot." It was an aimbot, but it only ever fired at people on its bot whitelist. It repeatedly spoke in chat telling who the bots were, and once the bots had been kicked it quit the server. It was amazing. Its come to this and its loving hilarious. God speed antibot bot
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Gwyneth Palpate posted:Earlier today I played a game, and while it had a few bots in it, it also had an "Anti-Bot Bot." It was an aimbot, but it only ever fired at people on its bot whitelist. It repeatedly spoke in chat telling who the bots were, and once the bots had been kicked it quit the server. It was amazing. This is an excellent story
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Jun 22, 2020 23:58
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Might as well use the possibility of infinite TF2 throwaway accounts for good
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Valve give the bot a unique hat and make them a place in the game. We can blow them up on a vaguely bat themed reskin map in October.
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There are also Medic bots now, which is really weird. Supposedly they'll play voice clips randomly to seem human. Maybe I'm stupid, but I don't see why Valve can't just require you pass a captcha once per account before you can do matchmaking.
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