Oh man, hyped. The Pyro ARG was awesome, sitting up 'til 3 AM in IRCs watching people crack it... good stuff.
Didn't the Secret Diary also not burn up? Anyone tried tinkering with that?
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Valve starts Team Fortress 2 ARG - [Teaser Comic Unlocked]
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Oh man, hyped. The Pyro ARG was awesome, sitting up 'til 3 AM in IRCs watching people crack it... good stuff.
Didn't the Secret Diary also not burn up? Anyone tried tinkering with that?
The gaming event of our generation right there.
Time to boot up the game again I guess.
PetriP-TNT
Member
Valve does the best ARG's. Oh man, I am hyped and I don't even play TF2
butter_stick
Banned
Is there a server where people are taunting each other? Got a high five + capacitor so I can join in the fun.
SniperHunter
Banned
sadly these updates don't cut it for me anymore...i'd rather have team fortress 3 :/
lol *farts on this post so hard pants rip*
Suspecting it'll be horde mode too - and if the map in the secret room is anything to go by, it could be that Team Grey will sabotage a game mid-match, and the three locations are the maps in which they'll target. Red & Blue team will have to deal with the bots whilst focusing on their objective at the same time. (My guess anyway)
I did. thats the will but completed (what was smudged now revealed). seems bad blood with gray and zeph. mann. wonder whats the deal.has anyone clicked on the upper blood stain? it leads to http://www.teamfortress.com/mannwill/
which shows this:
just love the lore behind TF2
balladofwindfishes
Member
The fires are off in foundry. The smokestacks on dustbowl are on fire.
SniperHunter
Banned
really bro? You never got tired of it? I unistalled it earlier this year....I had been playing it on and off ever since the beta was released.
I accumulated about a 1000 hours since the beta
balladofwindfishes
Member
SniperHunter
Banned
DX11, destructible environments, bigger maps and inclusion of vehicles. It would be incredible!
guess we will have to wait for Source 2.0
SniperHunter
Banned
I think vehicles could fit in the universe perfectly...the engineers would have more stuff to do (rebuilding destroyed environments or fixing vehicles), the spies could sabotage vehicles etc...I don't play CoD and never liked kill-streaks to be honest.
But destruction and vehicles would fit in big time. Team Fortress 3 will happen at some point in the future and I hope those things are included in it.
EmCeeGramr
Member
good i hope dustbowl burns to the ground
dark_inferno
Member
What about a Dota like mode? Bots = Minions
Just writing down my thinking
Just writing down my thinking
Monday Night Combat already tried to do this with both versions, didn't it?
MrNyarlathotep
Banned
Christ, I don't want any of that shit in a Team Fortress game.
It's fundamentally different to what the game is about, and if thats the sort of thing you're after there's already a bunch of games that do exactly that and also play fundamentally differently to TF2.
SniperHunter
Banned
yea but if Valve did, it would be fucking amazing!! Try to imagine it in your mind.
try to imagine how those features fundamentally break all the design principles of tf2.
SniperHunter
Banned
well that's what a sequel is all about, coming up with new ideas.....I am not talking about a mod for TF2.
Anyway I am excited about this robot update, I might reinstall the game after I am done with these calculus exams. Sorry about the derail.
EmCeeGramr
Member
Why would you want the best map in the game to burn down?
dustbowl was garbage that people only played because there was nothing else to play at launch, gravelpit got old, well was visually boring, and nobody understood 5cp yet so they didn't play granary
All maps will be destroyed by Gray's robots and the only one left will be 2fort.
Rickenslacker
Banned
Taking in how Team Fortress plays, I don't know how you can just say vehicles and bigger maps are an improvement to the series. In fact it sounds pretty awful.
Rickenslacker
Banned
Look right there it says it's bad right in the name. QED
Prophane33
Member
The lore that seems to be built up around this game made me very reticent to try it; however, once I did I still couldn't see what the big deal was. It's a "zany" attempt at the class/role based FPS, personally I've found Counter Strike: Source to be a heck of a lot more interesting, though I understand not all shooters have to be serious business. It's just that some of the more bizarre game types are poorly explained, and In the interest of full disclosure, it seems like everyone I ever play against is some sort of expert at the game, which makes it very hard to get into; so that may play a part in my overall aversion to it. I do like that (similar to Counter Strike) a lot of people use voice chat (something missing from games like Battlefield or CoD (PC)), which would add room for strategy and teamwork if the game wasn't so crazy. So, in summation: Seems like it could be an OK game but if you haven't already put a thousand hours into it now is definitely not the time to jump into TF2.
If anyone has any good advice (or a noob-friendly server to suggest) I'm all ears.
If anyone has any good advice (or a noob-friendly server to suggest) I'm all ears.
HyperCubed4
Member
That sounds pretty horrible. TF2 is unique because it doesn't have (or need) any of that. Also, it's pretty damn balanced because of it; even the addition of another class would potentially throw that entire balance out of whack. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
butter_stick
Banned
Why would you want destructible environments in TF. Come on.
Rickenslacker
Banned
TF was actually the original class/role based FPS AFAIK, but the zany came into TF2 naturally just from looking at how absurd things like rocket jumping are.
There's a very low barrier to entry with the game, but jumping into it now I can understand that there's a lot of info to be frontloaded especially with all the sidegrade weapon unlocks all over the place muddling up the learning process and obfuscating class roles. If you have any specific questions, head over to the Community thread and people will be glad to help.
balladofwindfishes
Member
Like last time each combination is a byte order. Archimedes is first for example. The people o are great at this are working hard to piece the bytes together and making good progress.
Whatever comes out, they're pretty sure won't be an image like last time
Whatever comes out, they're pretty sure won't be an image like last time
Motherfucker.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Please release soon
The meet the pyro teaser was up on the main page for months before it was released
Is it just me or does TF2 take a really long time to open and load maps? I just started it up for the first time in months to try the new map
edit: TF2 is pretty great, especially the art style, but I got bored of it very quickly. It just doesnt have that special something like TFC did for me
edit: TF2 is pretty great, especially the art style, but I got bored of it very quickly. It just doesnt have that special something like TFC did for me
For a normal developer, sure, but this is Valve we're talking about.