Powerlord

Wow had super discounts on the base game and first two expansions around Christmas that lowered the entire game so far to $20 ($5 for base, $5 for Burning Crusade, $10 for Wrath of the Lich King). Unfortunately, it looks like that's done. Oh, and Cataclysm hasn't really been on sale, since it just came out two months ago. As for me, my Internet connection has been suckier than usual this week, and I have another appointment with a tech on Monday. Dunno how much I'll be on TF2 this weekend. Basically, I lost patience with it on Steel when I lagged and died because of it, lag went away when I was respawning, then returned as soon as I left my spawn room. In other words, I'd done absolutely nothing for the last 45 seconds, 30 of it against my will.

Riftwalker Kill an enemy within 5 seconds of you traveling through an Engineer's teleporter.

Yeah, I edited my post to add in the crafting comment before you replied.

I doubt it has unique stats, as that goes against Valve's promo item design philosophy. Edit: Maybe not... according to the TF2 official group: "The Sharpened Volcano Fragment and the Sun-on-a-Stick will be obtainable through crafting after the Rift pre-order period ends." Anyone can earn it, it's a standard General achievement, but it unlocks a hat in Rift via a promo code.

Actually, according to that page, it's identical to the Axtinguisher. Speaking of which: Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM) -Further improved engine handling of server queries. Team Fortress 2 -Added Rift promotional items ---New items: Sun-On-A-Stick and Sharpened Volcano Fragment. ---New achievement: Riftwalker ---Updated several more models with optimizations and new LODs. -Fixed seeing a partial health bar in the upper left corner of the spectator menu. -Fixed the control point progress bar not being aligned properly when using cl_hud_minmode 1. -Fixed the The Essential Accessories hiding the Scout's hat/headphones. -Updated sounds for the Brass Beast. -Updated the Scottish Resistance stickybombs to always glow if they will be detonated by a right-click, including the stickybombs under the Demoman's feet. -Changed default crosshair to be more opaque, like the custom crosshairs. -Fixed some missing surfaces on the bottom of the Pyro's mask. -Fixed the assister's name not being listed in the Fish humiliation and kill notices. -Fixed the Force-a-Nature not drawing correctly in the character loadout screen. -Engineers who hit teammate's sentry guns with their wrench now get kill assists from that sentry. -Made the Jag gift wrappable. -Fixed seeing a badge on the player when a noisemaker is equipped. -Fixed particle effects on the Hustler's Hallmark. -Added FCVAR_DONTRECORD flags to 'bind,' 'bind_mac,' 'unbind,' 'unbind_mac,' and 'unbindall' so they can't be recorded into a demo (fixes having your keys changed when you watch a demo). -Updated Cp_Granary ----Added a new entrance to the mid Red/Blue ramp rooms. ----Clipping, lighting and perf improvements. -Tournament mode HUD fixes ----Fixed seeing an empty alert tray under the stopwatch timer. ----Fixed a bug where the time for the tournament mode stopwatch wasn't being displayed. ----Fixed the countdown when both teams are ready always reading "0 seconds"

Not long, seeing as how he's already second. Of course, right now I'm first... but I doubt that'll remain... I just had some REALLY good rounds as Spy yesterday. Anyway, the stats page is currently having trouble resolving what countries people are from. I'm going to try to find out why that is. Edit: It was missing a geolocation file. I think it's fixed now, but it doesn't look like it'll correct the current entries. Edit 2: OK, this time I really think I've got it fixed, but it won't fix old data. Granted, we only really have data from yesterday, so no big loss. I also took the time to bump up the award for deploying an Ubercharge from 1 point to 5 points. Edit 3: Turns out your flag will be fixed the first time you log in.

I traded my Circling Heart mask for a Confetti Mask plus a boatload of metal. Looks kinda funny now with both. Now, I just wonder if I should craft the metal into new hats or just save it towards another unusual... I mean, I'm sitting on like 16 refined metal now.

Fine, I've added a TL;DR section to that post now. >:/

That's because the max slot count has been off by one for ages. Which I now fixed. Seriously, didn't you read that part?

Since Bark was nice enough to bump this for me while I was editing my last post, I'll repost what I was editing in: I've also done a nasty, hackish type thing to make it so that the server always displays a max player count of 24. This is due to TF2 not counting bots as players on the server, yet increasing the max player count when SourceTV's bot is enabled. TL;DR Max slot count was off by one, it's fixed now. NOTE to reserved slot holders: This means you must now use the console to connect to a full server! For example: connect blu.ocrtf2.com

Stats have been reset. As part of this reset, Medic assists have been bumped from 3 points to 5 points. I'm not sure how this is adjusted in terms of skill, though.

That's not a surprise... a lot of people have Left 4 Dead 2.

Speaking as someone who bought an extra set and tried to buy a second... it takes a lot of good hats to do it unless you find someone who doesn't know their value. It's the reason I no longer have my v. Procedure Mask or v. Whiskered Gentleman.

Whew, I have a Hustler's Hallmark again. It felt strange having only a crappy hat for Demo following my unusual trades. I was able to clear out a few of my unwanted hats for it, too! Of course, my old Hallmark was vintage, whereas this one isn't, but that doesn't really matter to me. Also, Bark, if you're reading this, I didn't mean to ignore you yesterday, I was busy when you sent that and then I accidentally closed my Steam PMs window... I keep forgetting that it's a tabbed window.

Well, these ARE rather low-tier unusuals. And figures, now that I have the two I currently have, someone offers me a Purple Energy Le Party Phantom for my Max Set + Earbuds... I could almost cry. (Max Set and multiple earbuds were involved in getting the two I have now.) (Having said that, a pair of unusuals are worth more than a single one, no matter how good it is.)

So yeah, this is what my Spy currently looks like: It looks kind of goofy, but that's both an Unusual Le Party Phantom with Circling Heart and Unusual Fancy Fedora with Circling Peace sign. I should probably turn on anti-aliasing if I'm taking screenshots... whoops. Edit: Sorry about the lighting, this was in cp_frontier's third BLU spawn room, which has bad lighting in it.

Did anyone take a screenshot of the overlapping heart and peace sign hats? I want everyone to see how ridiculous it looks.

Whoops, I meant to mention Scouts in my last post... guess I forgot to go back and edit the Heavy part before posting.

Sometimes it's just bad luck. Sometimes it's because the other team only thinks there's one Spy on your team, and they stop Spy Checking once they know you're dead. Sometimes it's because certain loadouts work better in certain situations. I don't know about you, but I'm constantly adjusting my loadout as Spy to take into account how the enemy is playing and what isn't working. Some of my best rounds have been when my team was overall doing poorly... mainly because the other team's not expecting it. I'll point you to the round in pl_upwards the other day... the one where you were playing Medic and I got 13 backstabs (or was it 12...) in a single life. My team was losing badly on that one. I seem to recall you using the phase "Carry your whole team why don't you?" or something to that effect. (You misspelled Direct Hit.) But yeah, Huntsman arrows from nowhere suck. As a Pyro, I've found that the flamethrower + Axtiguisher works a LOT better than just a plain flamethrower against a Heavy. A Heavy with a Medic is a bit harder, but that's also 2 on 1. On an un-overhealed Heavy, flame once, Axtinguish twice will kill them. Heavies are also extremely vulnerable to Spies. While Frogg is usually good about Spy checking, I've seen him screw up quite a few times... and certain maps allow you to drop down from above to stab.

If anyone's giving away free crates, I'll take them. Also, a reminder: If there are no objections to stats reset by the end of Saturday, I'll be taking time on Sunday to reset them. I'll make sure to copy our current per-server settings, since I've forgotten how to make it not show the score thingies otherwise. Edit: Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM) Improved engine handling of server queries This is a minor update, but servers have been restarted because it modified an engine file.

Due to a lack of demand, KF Server #2 has been shut down. KF Server #1 is still operational.

FYI: The entire game server has been rebooted. Hopefully this kills the lag we've been seeing.

Oh yeah, if you haven't seen it, there's a new Monday Night Combat with a special TF2 spin in it.Also: Want to buy the robot that can open crates without keys.

I was told in the past to leave it up for atmuh's team, despite me never seeing them use it. Unless you schedule some special event on it, it will likely remain empty. Speaking of which, I keep an extra up-to-date copy of the server around for events.

Servers have finished updating and been restarted.