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Thumbtacks posted:is that just a random chance when something drops or do you ahve to add something to an existing weapon? you have to pay money for them in some way, either by unlocking crates or doing MVM, you're not gonna just get one there's weapons that come as strange, and there's also strangeifiers that you can add to existing weapons(including stuff that is like, vintage or whatever if you want to keep that quality and get stat tracking) but you always need to pay money for it
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Thumbtacks posted:is that just a random chance when something drops or do you ahve to add something to an existing weapon? There's different types. Some of them drop from the microtransaction crates. You can also get a stat clock from somewhere and apply it to some warpaint (read: skins) weapons. In either case they don't drop naturally. I am personally not any good at playing the weird little economy so I usually just trade metal for stranges.
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Also not every weapon or weapon reskin has a Strange variant(for example none of the weapons introduced during Jungle Inferno have Strange variants) and some are more valuable than others(for example a Strange stock Rocket Launcher is pretty cheap due to how common they are, but a Strange The Original is going to be on the pricey side due to being relatively rare and also being highly desired)
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Gwyneth Palpate posted:It's no longer an unconditional stunlock in the same direction every time. You have to aim it. Aim straight down to blast people up into the air... for some reason. I'm also a big backburner guy and you're using the airblast either to close space or to cover an escape, or to get a sick fuckin reflect kill (this always takes precedent over everything else). I loathe pyros that use the basic flamethrower or the degreaser and do nothing but spam airblast, totally wasting your class's potential
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I see. I'll figure it out eventually, I suppose. Honestly still trying to remember how to play and what classes I enjoy, but I'm getting back into it a bit.
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there's definitely some weird ways to interact with turrets and some equipment that seems interesting, will need to mess with it more. i know in overwatch you can kinda play an offensive torb style, not sure how well offense engineer works but i imagine if you're good enough at it you can be a real pest
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If you're playing kinda normalentire style on offense the biggest things to do are getting a tele up and putting a dispenser somewhere your team can regroup for a push. The sentry is really just there too protect those buildings. The other form of "offensive engineer" is to be aggressive with sentry placement. It's exciting but not always effective, and you have to approach it knowing your sentry will not last long. Gunslinger is an easy way to do that, it doesn't do crazy damage but against a single enemy it can often catch them off-guard enough that they need to decide whether to go after the sentry or you, and whichever one they choose they will also likely die. If you're feeling really spicy you can do this with a level 2 regular sentry, it's tough, does a ton of damage (especially against single targets) and deploys much faster than a level 3.
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Thumbtacks posted:there's definitely some weird ways to interact with turrets and some equipment that seems interesting, will need to mess with it more. i know in overwatch you can kinda play an offensive torb style, not sure how well offense engineer works but i imagine if you're good enough at it you can be a real pest It works pretty well. Engineer's my #2 class (pyro #1.) Lately I have been using rescue ranger, pistol, and Jag on offense. I mostly stick to level 1s and maybe 2s if I can find the metal. Level 3 takes too long to redeploy. Keep moving the sentry up and around, heal it from range, and add damage with the pistol.
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Thumbtacks posted:there's definitely some weird ways to interact with turrets and some equipment that seems interesting, will need to mess with it more. i know in overwatch you can kinda play an offensive torb style, not sure how well offense engineer works but i imagine if you're good enough at it you can be a real pest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c977-5lBJu4 It'd be exaggerating to say that UD single-handedly kept the playerbase alive with his community servers at the height of the bot crisis, but he played a significant part. girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Jul 16, 2023 |
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wow i forgot about uncle dane, this is perfect. will watch this now and see how it goes. actively resisting the urge to buy a bunch of cosmetics
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Well I'm playing this again. Are most people on uncletopia these days? Someone get Hadlock to remake the LCs.
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I am broke at the moment but if we can raise $99 (that would pay for ~3 months of server time) I'll put together an Atlantis + Lemuria private server thing sunday night and manually whitelist the first 100 people
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I think I played Engineer more than anything else, just for the sheer utility of getting people to the front line faster and securing the area you take. So the patch added a handful of new maps? I see people talk about TF2 again for whatever reason, did it do anything more? I'm happy to see some life breathed into this again.
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The Goon Fortress 2 Discord is fairly quiet, but open to anyone wanting to arrange some TF2 events!
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Thumbtacks posted:wow i forgot about uncle dane, this is perfect. will watch this now and see how it goes. actively resisting the urge to buy a bunch of cosmetics As posted upthread, $2.50 in refined metal gets you dozens of hats on scrap.tf. Go wild.
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Aeble posted:So the patch added a handful of new maps? I see people talk about TF2 again for whatever reason, did it do anything more? I'm happy to see some life breathed into this again. Edit: That last one probably needs "supported" in heavy air quotes, all four of the VSH maps are horrendously buggy. girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 10:57 on Jul 16, 2023 |
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i feel like i *should* play engineer because it's fun, but the flames the flames call to me
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why is it that when you complete an objective for a star sometimes you just don't get it even when it says +1 star? very annoying
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Hadlock posted:
legendary Known Hat Scammer hadlock at it again... serveme.tf has servers you can temporarily rent for a few hours at a time for free and even schedule blocks of time you want specific servers So if you wanted to do a few trial runs of a LLJKg0on tf2 communityserver that might be good FREE start for planned events that you could get going ASAP I also have a lifetime na.serveme.tf premium account and would be happy to lend you an extended Premium Server Rental with rcon, custom map uploads, etc just yell at me on steam https://steamcommunity.com/id/Warpy/ Thumbtacks posted:why is it that when you complete an objective for a star sometimes you just don't get it even when it says +1 star? very annoying you have to finish the round before it's actually completed
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Haha hell yes, Star_ is streaming the game right now. According to steam charts a quarter of a million people played this week. TF2 lives again!Dieting Hippo posted:The Goon Fortress 2 Discord is fairly quiet, but open to anyone wanting to arrange some TF2 events! Definitely joining this to squad up. CJacobs fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Jul 17, 2023 |
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i play on the uncletopia east coast servers most nights still
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CJacobs posted:Haha hell yes, Star_ is streaming the game right now. According to steam charts a quarter of a million people played this week. TF2 lives again! Hit it’s all time peak this last week, apparently. The only downside to the servers is that I can’t work on contracts on them.
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CJacobs posted:Haha hell yes, Star_ is streaming the game right now. According to steam charts a quarter of a million people played this week. TF2 lives again! the funny thing is that the update didn't even really do anything, a bunch of people were just waiting for an excuse to start playing again
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am I understanding weapons correctly? you can't get strange weapons without a box, so the best option is probably to get it off the marketplace, and they can come with any random stat tracker so i need to confirm and see which stat i want tracked on the gun i'm buying, and also the level/rarity is random and irrelevant unless i want to spend money for status, and also they can come with skins and unusual effects? how many of those can i actually control? like say i wanted a degreaser that can track number of enemies killed or set on fire or something, and i want it with a fun effect and a specific skin. do i need to look for that exact combination, or buy like a degreaser that tracks kills + a skin + a way to add the unusual effect?
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Every strange tracks kills (except for mediguns that count ubers instead), if you want to track other stats then you need a stat clock to attach to it. approximately nobody is selling stranges with pre-attached clocks so don't really bother looking, just get the stat clock you want separately if you want a weapon skin on your kill-counting weapon then instead of a "vanilla" strange weapon, you need to look for strange war paint to create that weapon (or for someone selling that particular strange skin directly). you can't take a vanilla strange weapon and add a skin, nor can you take a skinned weapon and make it strange. if you want to add killstreak counting with other visual effects then you need to get a specialized (coloured sheen when you have a killstreak) or professional (same coloured sheen, plus an effect for your character's eyes) killstreak kit for that weapon i think that's it, but i could easily have gotten something wrong because it's not particularly simple. Jabor fucked around with this message at 05:54 on Jul 17, 2023 |
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oh yeah and if you want any sort of fun novelties like shooting out pumpkins instead of rockets during halloween ... you can't, they removed the ability to do that. you'd have to trade for one of the limited supply of existing items that have that effect.
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I see. I think I saw someone yesterday with a flamethrower with a skin, kill tracker, and it looked like it was snowing? I assume that was approximately $800
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I do wonder why they haven't reintroduced the Halloween item spells in some manner or another, should be easy enough to do even with how few people work on the game these days
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Warpy posted:legendary Known Hat Scammer hadlock at it again...  I take offense at this sir, please retract any such statementsI'd rather just run an aws instance than deal with three layers of tech support, as a goon I rarely  Once everything is setup in AWS with a VIP (so the server ranking info stays the same)I can just mothball the server/config and restart it again (Christmas holidays, covid2, etc) without much effort. I can see a scenario where the server(s) are online for 2-3 weeks per quarter, with some set in stone Highlander matches everyone can count on. There's enough technical knowledge here we don't need to outsource to xyz hosting company If you ever played stabbytown on cs:source, that was my server. Not going to talk about battlefield here
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Geight posted:CP_Steel was updated pretty substantially, it's going to be interesting to see how it plays now 15 years of new weapons and meta have an affect on old garbage. It needed a spring clean.
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Jabor posted:oh yeah and if you want any sort of fun novelties like shooting out pumpkins instead of rockets during halloween ... you can't, they removed the ability to do that. you'd have to trade for one of the limited supply of existing items that have that effect. that part in particular sucks because i'm pretty sure i had a green fire flamethrower and traded it for something inconsequential back when there were a thousand of them, god knows what that would be worth now
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drrockso20 posted:I do wonder why they haven't reintroduced the Halloween item spells in some manner or another, should be easy enough to do even with how few people work on the game these days They seem to consider the in game economy at least partially with decisions like that and if they ever brought back the old spells it would wreck absolute chaos (amusing chaos, but still). I did hear somewhere that spells were very taxing on the game's stability so it probably wasn't the best idea in the first place and explains why they dropped them after only 2 years. khwarezm fucked around with this message at 02:46 on Jul 18, 2023 |
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Fishbus posted:15 years of new weapons and meta have an affect on old garbage. It needed a spring clean. The changes look good! I'm interested to see if highlander leagues start using this new version or if they stick with what they know.
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Geight posted:The changes look good! I'm interested to see if highlander leagues start using this new version or if they stick with what they know. I went in with the thought that they will not, despite fixing most of their gripes. Because they have this odd quirk where if it isn't exactly what they play now, then they won't care. Fixes were both for pubs and comp, since putting some effort into alleviating spawn camping will do a lot of good things to casual players. I didn't do 100% of what they asked because a lot of the 'fixes' were really just making Solider/Demos better and disguising it under 'bugs'. It'll be good if they did, but it's such an ingrained pattern I will not be sad nor surprised if they don't. Fishbus fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Jul 19, 2023 |
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If nothing else, that one-way door you put on red spawn at A is going to ensure your entry to the gates of Heaven, no matter what the comp players decide.
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resistentialism posted:can I still stand on the barrel and put a pistol bullet into it and then somehow phase into it Yes, and now you can do it with 2 barrels
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Geight posted:If nothing else, that one-way door you put on red spawn at A is going to ensure your entry to the gates of Heaven, no matter what the comp players decide. For sure, it was needed. What is comp gonna do about it? Not defend A? lol
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Fishbus posted:I went in with the thought that they will not, despite fixing most of their gripes. Because they have this odd quirk where if it isn't exactly what they play now, then they won't care. Fixes were both for pubs and comp, since putting some effort into alleviating spawn camping will do a lot of good things to casual players. I didn't do 100% of what they asked because a lot of the 'fixes' were really just making Solider/Demos better and disguising it under 'bugs'. new_cp_steel_pro_v2_final
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