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And yet it seems to work against a lot of people... even Frogg.

Note: If you have 5 or more achievements, you can already unlock the first hat on the Treasure Hunt page... and you can upgrade it later. Oh, and the UnderGarden thing apparently allows the demo to be used for it.

Ergh, given the current list of objectives, I'm revising my expectations... I'll definitely get the first treasure hunt hat, but the second is... iffy.

It's actively benefiting the other team and preventing your own team from progressing, so yes. Feel free to /slay anyone you see doing this. We're not an achievement farming server either.

Pictures of the first two hats were added to the TF2 Wiki, but apparently the third hat wasn't in there... unless it's seriously going to look like a giant question mark. Bounty Hat, Treasure Hat, Hat of Undeniable Wealth And Respect The difference between the first two hats is that the treasure chest is closed on the first and open (with a particle effect of coins spilling out) on the second.

A required update for Team Fortress 2 is now available. The specific changes include: - Added the hats for The Great Steam Treasure Hunt. - Fixed a bug that enabled players to weapon switch away from the Iron Curtain during spin down.

Yay for a queue length of TWO THOUSAND, estimating two hours to log in. Which, of course, means I'll be disconnected long before the queue is done and lose my place.

Poker Night is all of $5 ($3 today and tomorrow). Speaking of which, getting the Heavy's new minigun is one of the objectives for today/tomorrow. One of the others requires that you own R.U.S.E. and chances are that anyone who bought an RTS around the time R.U.S.E. came out got Starcraft 2 instead.

It's time for the great Steam Treasure Hunt! Personally, I think this is ridiculous. The only way to get the best TF2 hat from this hunt is to complete every objective in this treasure hunt. And most objectives involve owning different games. I figure I have a large enough Steam library that I might get one or two of those hats, but definitely not the third.

So, now that the Highlander server is no longer needed, I should shut it down? Too bad it didn't happen a few days ago, or we could have kept the CS:S server. Then again, NO ONE used the CS:S server during November (according to stats). Oh right, I booted the CS:S server to steal its IP for the TF2 Beta server.

So yeah, after plr_nightfall_b1b crashed BLU tonight, it has now been upgraded to plr_nightfall_rc1. P.S. I still think plr_nightfall sucks.

Before I forget, since the BETA server doesn't have map voting (see previous post mentioning SourceMod), the mapcycle on it is this: cp_5gorge pl_goldrush koth_nucleus cp_granary ctf_turbine pl_badwater cp_5gorge plr_pipeline koth_viaduct cp_granary ctf_doublecross pl_upward In other words, either 5gorge or granary appears every third map, since these are the maps that changed in this beta... I was trying to avoid adding in other cp maps because of this. There is an event scheduled roughly three and a half hours from now on BETA (8pm EST / 5pm PST / 1am GMT).

I changed it the day you said you checked it every day, and I've seen you on since then. Anyway, as for the Beta server: For whatever reason, your backpack contains: - All the achievement unlock items (including all 3 Natascha variants) - The GRU - The entire Saharan Spy set including Fez - Any unlocks from other games and preorders (the Poker Night ones are missing their names) cp_5gorge is a symmetric (push) CP map with the normal gorge layout mirrored at the former second (now middle) point. One minor change is that right half of the middle point room is now a mirror of the left half, meaning that the right staircase to the point is now reversed, and there is a ledge running up above the right side. The forward (third) spawn room is to one side of the fourth point... to the right from the perspective of the attacking team that has capped 4 points. This may make recapturing said point quite difficult. The first and fifth points are between the middle and right spawn doors, near the building that has the health pack in it. Edit: OCRemix TF2 BETA is now passworded. Password is: ocremix

So.... beta.ocrtf2.com:27015 / 206.217.135.93:27015. Just don't try it with non-Beta TF2. Also, according to the MOTD, Brushfire no longer smells. So much for checking the MOTD every day, Brushfire! That was in there for weeks without you noticing!

Passwords are built into the server software, so I can create one without it. Of course, there's no telling how long Valve will have the TF2 Beta running for. I saw it was updated today, but they didn't bother releasing any patch notes... or even telling us that we had to restart any servers (we would have, because it updated cp_5gorge).

So, is there actually demand for a Beta server? Keeping in mind that SourceMod isn't supported (without modding SourceMod, and I'm not sure what that entails), so it wouldn't have reserved slots, rtv, or any of that fun stuff.

I'm already running the server installer, so we'll at least have an install of it should we choose to (we have lots of space on the server, so even if we don't use it, installing it doesn't hurt).

A required update for Team Fortress 2 is now available. The specific changes include: Team Fortress 2: - Added check to prevent control characters from user-provided item names and descriptions (replaced with spaces). - Fixed a control point bug where players could capture points that were already owned by their team. - Fixed a server crash caused by kicking a player that isn't fully connected. - Fixed Spies being able to destroy sappers using the "destroy" command. - Fixed Engineers being able to destroy sapped buildings by issuing the command directly in the console. - Fixed an issue where team colored hats were showing up improperly when previewing the Team Spirit paint on them. - Fixed an issue where SourceTV clients were seeing their local player/duel stats in the scoreboard. - Updated the player_hurt event to always set "damageamount" even if the attacker is the world (falling damage). - Updated items: ---- Many hats have had their appearance while painted improved. Paintable hats should now appear less like solid blobs of color and retain more of the character and texture of the hat. ---- Integrated several improvements to contributed items provided by their authors. ---- Made the following items paintable: Sergeant's Drill Hat, Pyro's Beanie, "Dangeresque, Too?", Whiskered Gentleman, Safe'n'Sound, Trophy Belt, Frenchman's Beret, Camera Beard, Max's Severed Head, Alien Swarm Parasite, Ellis' Cap, and the Horrific Headsplitter. ---- Sam & Max items and the Portal 2 Pin are now Gift Wrappable. Also, there's a new TF2 Beta starting. New to it are: Three Natascha variants: * -40% damage * -25% damage, -25% health * Spin-up/down time increased, slowdown-on-hit effect falls off over distance. Map changes: * cp_granary: new entrance added into the RED and BLU mid ramp room. * cp_5gorge: 5 CP version of cp_gorge. Misc balance changes: * Players being healed by a medic are immune to movement-impairing effects generated by hit-scan weapons.

I've... [thread=28828]suggested[/thread] that the forums be upgraded to a newer version, but it's been largely ignored. Despite there being a large number of security fixes in addition to being able to watch social groups in newer versions.

He did? What gave you that idea? IJ probably talked to him over Steam.

When you said you were making some changes, I figured you were making a FEW changes. This is WAY too many, and just glancing at the list, many of them are questionable as to why they've been changed (Gunslinger, Frontier Justice, Ambassador, L'Etranger, Saharan Spy just from the two classes I play the most)

The Orange Box is $7.50, for roughly the next 24 hours (until 10am PST Monday) only. If you were thinking about buying TF2, but hadn't decided yet, today would be a good time to get it.

and it's now available at level 30. I assume this is intentional... I bought it for my only character on this server.

WoW and its previous expansions are now on sale through the Battle.Net website. WoW is $5, BC is $5, and WotLK is $10. Prices good through November 30th. You can also gift them to people.

Given peoples tendency to hate custom maps, partly due to download times, this seems like a bad idea. You can't, that would cause clients to be kicked because they don't have the same version of the map that the server does. Or they'd have to download them. Lose/lose either way.