Powerlord

The TF2 Blog just detailed which hats carry over: Mann Co. Cap Prince Tavish's Crown Pyro's Beanie Fancy Fedora Master's Yellow Belt Tyrant's Helm ...and of course the potato hat, although they failed to mention that.

I'm... somehow not surprised that they have an in-game store for co-op outfits. I noticed that six of my TF2 hats also crossed over, including my Unusual Fancy Fedora. Makes me wonder if it has particle effects on this side.

Yes, and I had to tab out of the game to see the email that told me this was here. So, in your face Rama!

Portal 2 just started decrypting for me. Looks like I win this one, Rama!

pre-release is less than an hour now, but Killing Floor only moved the clock by 5 minutes (thanks for the troll, Valve). KF should have bumped the timer all the way down, as Super Meat Boy knocked off like 2 hours right before it.

No, but apparently there is an Easter Egg level (of the literal type) in the PC/Mac version...

They're being consumed as we speak. Valve also said that they'll give you something if you have all 36 prior to Portal 2 launching, which also has the implication that they all go away when Portal 2 launches.

From what I've heard, no.

Yes. Both kf.ocrtf2.com and kf2.ocrtf2.com are currently operating. Usually, it's just the former.

If you've played since Thursday's update, you know why. Edit: For some reason, the server updater is updating a bunch of sound files. I'm not sure why, but it's taking longer than expected to complete because of this. Edit 2: Servers are back up.

Updating servers now.

I just launched it about 15 minutes ago. I was at work when the acceleration started, and I'd left Amnesia running while I was away (it steals your mouse focus, so I only run that one while away or sleeping).

Updated Mapchooser Extended to 1.4.2 so it stops saying koth_badlands is a Custom map. Thank god Mapchooser Extended 1.5 is moving this to an easy to modify text file.

Updated from the dev versions of MetaMod and SourceMod to the latest stable versions (since they now work). You shouldn't see any obvious differences with these, but I like to keep on stable versions instead of dev/beta versions for obvious reasons. Also: Does anyone know if the game crashes less often if you disable Multicore Rendering?

GameStop has nothing to do with Steam and wouldn't affect the Steam launch date. It was just GameStop being GameStop. And where did the URL to the Portal 2 Countdown Clock come from? "The Audio Clues did lead to a QR code. It leads to an ApertureScience.com URL with a countdown to 4/15 9:00 AM. " Audio Clues? Oh right, the 21 audio clues in the Potato Sack pack games.

Each Portal 2 campaign (single player and coop) is supposed to be twice as long as the original. Also, it's only $45 for the Steam version if you preorder it.

Updating now.

This is a repost of a post I made elsewhere, but still: As strange as it sounds, today's announcement from GLaDOS was that Portal 2 would be unlocked earlier based on the number of CPU hours clocked in the 13 games in the Steam potato pack. This means, by playing the PC version of any of these games, you help unlock Portal 2 on Steam early: 1... 2... 3... KICK IT! (Drop That Beat Like an Ugly Baby) AaAaAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity Amnesia: The Dark Descent AudioSurf BIT.TRIP BEAT Cogs Defense Grid: The Awakening Killing Floor RUSH Super Meat Boy The Ball The Wonderful End of the World Toki Tori Currently, the charts show that Killing Floor is the game in most need of players, while The Wonderful End of the World is in least need. To that end, I have spun up both OCRTF2 Killing Floor servers. They are: kf.ocrtf2.com kf2.ocrtf2.com

You are aware that everything pointing to an early release came from those games and the related ARG in the first place? Edit: TF2 servers are being restarted (with the votes still disabled) to address an issue with the Melee Only plugin... which should now work again.

By the way, those complaining about a lack of bonuses for preordering Portal 2: TF2 Companion Cube Pin... it's the page you get for clicking the Orange portal halfway off the screen at the bottom of the Hatless Update page on their site. Also: Server has been updated with dev versions of MetaMod and SourceMod to get them back up and running. Also updated the SDKHooks extension, as the old version no longer works as of this version. This extension is used by HLStatsX CE for tracking. Having said that, even without MetaMod/SourceMod, the servers are a bit unstable. I've disabled the TF2 built-in voting in case that was causing the instability. SourceMod's voting should work, though. If the servers crashes, the built-in votes will come back up, as I manually toggled the cvar in the consoles (and if it crashes, that didn't fix the issue). Also, I fixed the nominate list. You're welcome.

Nextmap vote disabled, as the server crashed shortly after someone reported on the TF2 server list that it's crashing servers, too. Also, the Portal 2 Countdown clock refers to one last puzzle, available presumably when the timer reaches 0 and it heavily implies that it will affect Portal 2's release date.

MetaMod or SourceMod is currently broken and has been disabled in order to stop the server from crashing. It will be reenabled whenever these are fixed. In the mean time, I'm leaving the TF2 built-in votes enabled and enabling the nextmap vote.

No idea how it works. Oh, also... Portal 2 countdown clock on the Aperature Science site. Which is yet another hint that Portal 2 is being released on Steam tomorrow rather than Tuesday, since it's counting down to 9am PDT tomorrow.

By the way, sorry I haven't been playing much TF2 lately. I got into the whole Valve ARG thing. Oh, did I mention I now have all 36 potatoes? It looks like that's all of them, because I now have a gold potato by my name in my Steam profile. Also, let me know if the server is crashy or glitchy. I may need to remove Metamod/Sourcemod if there are problems related to them in the newest update.

Updating BLU and RED now. We will be disabling the built-in map voting as, having tested it in Beta, it is inferior to the SourceMod votes we use now. Provided SourceMod is working post-update, that is.