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At this point, I'm honestly wondering whether or not we're going to get the Halloween-themed Artpass Contest map in time for, well, Halloween.

For that matter, isn't it about time our paper bag masks started working again as well? :???:

I just wish valve would make all of the stupid hats (Gibus, Parasite, Paper Bag) craftable.

Oh and Valve finally let me craft a hat that doesn't piss me off to high heaven.

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New TF2 Blog entry: Couldn't ya see the bloody bombs?

Basically, it's another contest, but this time to fill in the bleeps in Meet the Demoman. They're giving out awards for best clean entry, best not clean entry, and most accurate.

Edit: I'm surprised they haven't made a recipe to combine Backbiter's Billycock, Scotman's Stovepipe, and Professional's Panama to make Towering Pillar of Hats.

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New TF2 Blog entry: Couldn't ya see the bloody bombs?

Basically, it's another contest, but this time to fill in the bleeps in Meet the Demoman. They're giving out awards for best clean entry, best not clean entry, and most accurate.

Edit: I'm surprised they haven't made a recipe to combine Backbiter's Billycock, Scotman's Stovepipe, and Professional's Panama to make Towering Pillar of Hats.

I'll be mad if they do, since the Panama was the first hat I ever got (and promptly crafted away since I hardly ever play Sniper), I have my own Billycock, and my friend has a Stovepipe. (Although he loathes Demoman so I could probably relieve him of it for practically nothing.) But I'd still be missing that Panama.

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I'll be mad if they do, since the Panama was the first hat I ever got (and promptly crafted away since I hardly ever play Sniper), I have my own Billycock, and my friend has a Stovepipe. (Although he loathes Demoman so I could probably relieve him of it for practically nothing.) But I'd still be missing that Panama.

All three of those are fairly low popularity hats... generally considered the worst of their class hats (well... Trophy Belt is actually the least popular Sniper hat, but Panama is a close second), although that would change if they could be crafted into a Towering Pillar...

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Given how long I've played, I should probably know this already, but why is the pillar considered a "good" hat? Is it rarity? The silliness of it? The almost sarcastic take on Hat Fortress 2? Or just that it makes snipers have to think about where they're aiming?

It's just as rare as any other hat, save for the FUCKING mining light. I feel the TPH does have that Hat Fortress 2 feel that you mentioned though.

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It's just as rare as any other hat, save for the FUCKING mining light. I feel the TPH does have that Hat Fortress 2 feel that you mentioned though.

I have an extra Mining Light...

Also the Towering Pillar can't be crafted except for the generic random hat recipe, which makes it somewhat more rare than the class-specific hats, which you can use 4 Refined + Class Token to improve your odds of getting.

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A required update for Team Fortress 2 is now available. The specific changes include:

Engine (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)

- Removed the rate limit for the "status" command when entered into the server console.

- Fixed an exploit that allowed people to send fake server messages to clients.

- Significantly improved engine vertex compression (large reduction in per-model memory usage).

Team Fortress 2

- Added TF2Maps.net Art-pass contest winners:

- Mountain Lab

- Mann Manor

- Halloween 2010 Event

- Mann Manor is haunted by the Horseless Headless Horsemann.

- Random gift drop in Mann Manor.

- 4 new Halloween achievements.

- Added new Halloween hats.

- Added a new Halloween weapon.

- Added Gift Wrapping of gifts to the store.

- Added Custom Description tag to the store.

- Added the community created "Swamp Theme" assets, so all maps can use it:

- See http://swamp.tf2maps.net/ for full details.

- Updated cp_coldfront with the latest changes from the community creator (Icarus):

- Improved visibility on last CP.

- Moved second CP slightly closer to the attacker's side.

- Added cover for players queuing up the health pack on the second CP.

- Improved clipping on the zig-zag ramp to middle CP.

- Teams that capture the middle CP are now awarded with faster spawn times.

- Added a health penalty to the Rocket Jumper.

- Added the Sticky Jumper for Demomen to practice jumping.

- Fixed the Sandvich charge meter.

- Fixed glows not drawing correctly when using antialiasing on some computers.

- Improved the checks that trigger mp_scrambleteams_auto.

- Added console commands to initiate trades directly (cl_trade/cl_trade_steamid) to help people running trading servers.

tl;dr: Second Annu-Hell Scream Fortress Hauntdead Halloween Special with 4 new achievements, new hats, and weapon. Also, Artpass update.

Moutain Lab and Mann Manor will be added to our votelist immediately after the server finishes updating.

RED's default map is being switched over to Mann Manor.

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Just wanted to say the Interactive TF2 video they posted about in the blog is pretty entertaining.

Wow...that was amazing! I'm gonna go back and play the other paths while the patch is downloading. I always loved "choose your own adventure" stories.

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If anyone is curious as to how the halloween items work here's a breakdown:

-Hats (masks) are found in the randomly spawning gift boxes.

-The pumpkin head hat is recieved after killing the headless horseman

-The unusual metal is recieved if you melee the headless horseman right as he's about to die.

-The Headless Horseman's Axe is crafted with: Unusual Metal + 2x Refined Metals + Scotman's Skullcutter.

-The axe is a permanent item, the rest are halloween only.

:P

enjoy

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If anyone is curious as to how the halloween items work here's a breakdown:

-Hats (masks) are found in the randomly spawning gift boxes.

-The pumpkin head hat is recieved after killing the headless horseman

-The unusual metal is recieved if you melee the headless horseman right as he's about to die.

-The Headless Horseman's Axe is crafted with: Unusual Metal + 2x Refined Metals + Scotman's Skullcutter.

-The axe is a permanent item, the rest are halloween only.

:P

enjoy

Is the axe even any good?

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If anyone is curious as to how the halloween items work here's a breakdown:

-Hats (masks) are found in the randomly spawning gift boxes.

-The pumpkin head hat is recieved after killing the headless horseman

-The unusual metal is recieved if you melee the headless horseman right as he's about to die.

-The Headless Horseman's Axe is crafted with: Unusual Metal + 2x Refined Metals + Scotman's Skullcutter.

-The axe is a permanent item, the rest are halloween only.

:P

enjoy

What about the Saxton Hale Mask, which you have to craft for an achievement? It's the only one I'm missing achievement wise.

P.S. Demo Charge n' Targe plus Skullcutter is handy for the unusual metal achievement.

P.P.S. Something's currently wrong with reserved slots and/or the server's player count. It's reporting 23/24 slots used when all 24 (plus the bot) are on, plus it's not letting reserveds on even then.

Edit: According to SPUF, to get the Saxton Hale hat, you need to craft together all 9 class Masks.

Edit 2: There's an updated version of the extension out Reserved Slots rely on. I'll install it soon (it'll likely crash the server if I change it while people are playing).

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It's an eyelander that looks way more awesome.

The TF Wiki says you can craft the Unusual Metal plus 4 Refined to get one of the 4 new halloween hats instead... keeping in mind that you can't get multiple Unusual Metals.

Those hats are:

Spine-Chilling Skull (all-class)

Voodoo Juju (all-class)

Horrific Headsplitter (all-class)

Cadaver's Cranium (Heavy)

These four hats are also in the TF2 store for $9.99 each, but the Skull and Juju are only for sale during the Halloween event. These hats can be worn at any time, not just during the Halloween event.

Edit: Paranoid may find this funny... I noticed I'm only one day shy of having the Gold L'Etranger kills award on HLStatsX... meaning I've gotten the daily award for it 10 times.

I guess Paranoid and I are the only regulars that use it, though.

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