Top Gun Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 ...they're kidding, right? The only time I've ever had more than one Refined at a time is when I worked my way up to two for the Headtaker. Hell, I just finally got back to one right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiyobi Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 "You should've preordered Rift..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brushfire Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Preorder a game that doesn't have hats? Never. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bark Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Preorder a game that doesn't have hats? Never. But it does have a hat! you get it from killing someone in TF2! How's that for a meta cross over? how about you should never pre-order a game that beat Palladium Books in a court of law? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidDrone Posted March 5, 2011 Share Posted March 5, 2011 I feel the need to thank those of you who have trudged through what I still feel is a trainwreck of a map not once, not twice, but three times. (Bark assures me it is not, in fact, a trainwreck, but I'm my own worst critic.) While the last week and a half has been incredibly hectic for me, I managed to squeeze in the time to work on Stage 2 enough to be comfortable with publishing it. Even then, I will freely admit that I cut corners where I felt they were unnecessary and didn't affect actual gameplay. Mostly the lack of proper roofs and the fairly obvious and abundant texture fighting wherever two brush faces share an edge. (Dropbox Link) For those of you who like pictures, I present for your viewing pleasure: Point 1A Point 1B Point 2A Point 2B Copypasta of the changelog: -Added a fuckton of rock models to point 1A to break up the squareness. -Also displaced a bunch of terrain and added a new building near BLU spawn. -Shrunk the balcony over the death pit. -Changed the garage layout between 1A and 1B. -Extended the high ground at point 1B. -Gave RED an extra spawn exit for Stage 1 that leads to the basement of point 1B. -This exit is not useable by BLU during Stage 2. -Changed several health and ammo amounts and locations. -Added Stage 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussellChamp Posted March 5, 2011 Share Posted March 5, 2011 I feel the need to thank those of you who have trudged through what I still feel is a trainwreck of a map not once, not twice, but three times. Ooh! Hurray! I enjoyed beta testing the previous incarnation of this map (and quarry) for you and will gladly do the same again here. The displacements make 1A look a lot nicer than the straight ramp, too! Will reply as soon as I do a run through... (Also, did this project have a thread at TF2Maps?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidDrone Posted March 5, 2011 Share Posted March 5, 2011 Ooh! Hurray! I enjoyed beta testing the previous incarnation of this map (and quarry) for you and will gladly do the same again here. The displacements make 1A look a lot nicer than the straight ramp, too!Will reply as soon as I do a run through... (Also, did this project have a thread at TF2Maps?) It did (does?) but I haven't updated it in ages. I will once I get Stage 3 up. So...about a year? (Terribly slow mapper, right here.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerlord Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 I'm going to do some testing this week to see if I can fix some issues with Mapchooser Extended... minor things like teaching the Announcer how to count correctly. I'll likely also merge in some updates IJ did to the translations file, and maybe... JUST MAYBE... get it to show a percent sign when it's supposed to ("cp_dustbowl won with 70 of 21 votes") Edit: I probably should have mentioned I put Paranoid's map on the servers Saturday morning shortly after he posted it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Gun Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 I'm going to do some testing this week to see if I can fix some issues with Mapchooser Extended... minor things like teaching the Announcer how to count correctly. Aww...but I like her goofy counting fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerlord Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 Aww...but I like her goofy counting fail. Technically, I think I've already fixed it. I just need to test it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidDrone Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 I'm going to do some testing this week to see if I can fix some issues with Mapchooser Extended... minor things like teaching the Announcer how to count correctly.I'll likely also merge in some updates IJ did to the translations file, and maybe... JUST MAYBE... get it to show a percent sign when it's supposed to ("cp_dustbowl won with 70 of 21 votes") It's been brought up ingame that even though the vote keys start at 4, it still disables 1-3. I've been on servers that seem to time the plugin to start a vote only when a round ends, which doesn't exactly fix the issue but does make it nearly invisible. Should this be looked into? Edit: I probably should have mentioned I put Paranoid's map on the servers Saturday morning shortly after he posted it. <3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenogu Labz Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 Even simpler would be to place it at round setup (although koth maps would get a bit of pain that way). EDIT: ...derp. That's what you just said. >_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerlord Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 It's been brought up ingame that even though the vote keys start at 4, it still disables 1-3. I've been on servers that seem to time the plugin to start a vote only when a round ends, which doesn't exactly fix the issue but does make it nearly invisible. Should this be looked into? I'm pretty sure this is a limitation of the Source engine's in-game menu system, which SourceMod uses to pop up vote menus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerlord Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 Updated mapchooser. Consider it a late birthday gift... wait, you're supposed to give me gifts on my birthday, not the other way around! Among things changed are: The announcer finally knows how to count, even if she counts a little fast sometimes (SourceMod uses inaccurate timers). I spent several hours ironing out issues with Runoff votes. If no one voted during a runoff vote, there was a 2/3 chance that it would cause all map-related SourceMod tools (rtv, admin map change, etc...) to stop working until the map changed. Fixed now! Fixed where it wasn't showing percent signs where it should have. No more "53 of 21 votes" sillyness. Updated colors.inc to fix both performance issues and add additional colors options. I'm not sure why we'd ever want olive colored text for the mapchooser, but at least it's an option now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussellChamp Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Updated mapchooser.Consider it a late birthday gift... wait, you're supposed to give me gifts on my birthday, not the other way around! I guess it's more of a hobbit birthday, then! (Happy birthday, btw!) Also, thank you thank you for the fixes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brushfire Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Updated mapchooser.Consider it a late birthday gift... wait, you're supposed to give me gifts on my birthday, not the other way around! Among things changed are: The announcer finally knows how to count, even if she counts a little fast sometimes (SourceMod uses inaccurate timers). I spent several hours ironing out issues with Runoff votes. If no one voted during a runoff vote, there was a 2/3 chance that it would cause all map-related SourceMod tools (rtv, admin map change, etc...) to stop working until the map changed. Fixed now! Fixed where it wasn't showing percent signs where it should have. No more "53 of 21 votes" sillyness. Updated colors.inc to fix both performance issues and add additional colors options. I'm not sure why we'd ever want olive colored text for the mapchooser, but at least it's an option now! Lets get the HLStats Messages to pop up again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerlord Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Lets get the HLStats Messages to pop up again. That was actually part of the config we copied from the old server. It's actually a per-server setting in HLStatsX. I'm personally not against it, but I seem to recall people complained about how much it spammed. P.S. My Internet connection is sucking harder than usual this week, so no clue how often I'll be on. Need to talk to my roommates about switching to DSL... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerlord Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 A new TF2 update named The Shogun Pack is coming soon. 8 new items that will be available for preordering Total War: Shogun 2, purchasable through the Mann Co. Store, or through the random drop/craft system. From the images on the update page, they look suspiciously like hats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerlord Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Updates to Team Fortress 2 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) Added check to prevent multiplayer servers from transmitting 1 as their maxplayers value to connecting clients Fixed clients being able to use particle exploits on sv_pure servers Team Fortress 2 Added The Shogun Pack items Fixed the "Best Little Slaughterhouse in Texas" Engineer achievement not counting Wranger and Mini-Sentry kills Updated several more models with optimizations and new LODs Updated the Blighted Beak with a creator submitted fix Servers restarted. And I read the update notes about the maxplayers wrong, our maxvisibleplayers fix will stay like it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleck Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 oh my god oh my god lifesteal knife Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidDrone Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 The Kunai leaves the Spy with 60 max HP, which lets him be oneshot by a noncrit melee. (Except the Scout's and another Spy.) Apparently the life leech brings him up to 180 overheal, but I'm not convinced it's worth it unless it doesn't decay or something. Although I'll still be looking to get one for obvious reasons. Other weapons are a Soldier Banner (Buffed teammates get life leech on hit), a Scout melee (-90% damage, hit target takes minicrits, limit 1 target at a time), and a Soldier/Demoman melee (Full HP regen on kill, cannot put weapon away until making a kill). And the Medic has a Geisha hairdo. Seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Gun Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Welp, here we go again. I finally craft one of the Rift items, and they announce a bunch of new crap. Just like the last two weapons updates. Woo. Seriously, though, I don't have a massive problem with Valve adding new stuff to the game (even though we're starting to approach critical-mass levels here, especially if you're a new player), but for crying out loud, at least give us a bit more time between these additions. Or if you won't, then maybe it's time to give the drop rate a significant boost. I play fairly frequently, and I'm always running way behind metal-wise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Secret Agent Man Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Dear Valve, Please stop whoring a good game to sell other ones. Sincerely, A former TF2 enthusiast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidDrone Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Or if you won't, then maybe it's time to give the drop rate a significant boost. I play fairly frequently, and I'm always running way behind metal-wise. This. I'm still trying to get some of the Australian Christmas items. IMO they should stop adding new items and start trying to balance what's already there. Razorback, Dalokoh's Bar, Unspellable Claymore, Pyro in general, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerlord Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Second TF2 update. Servers are being restarted now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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