Well if they didn't have that everyone would just set up farming servers for doing their contracts, like when the first set of unlocks came out.
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TF2 Gun Mettle Update - CSGO style Skins for TF2 weapons and new maps
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Well if they didn't have that everyone would just set up farming servers for doing their contracts, like when the first set of unlocks came out.
It's always like that after a big update.
There is a new permanent* HUD element that says "2 inactive contracts, press F2 to learn more", and when you press F2 it will tell you that the contracts are inactive because contracts are only active on Valve servers.
But then once you're on a Valve server and the contract is active (with a little progress bar), it never updates and just sits at 0
*Is there a way to disable it? I haven't gone digging
Oh well, thanks. Guess I'll skip this then.
RandomExpletive
Member
According to other users if you reload the hud (hud_reloadscheme should be the command) the number will update
Mac or PC? Mac's seem to dislike this update (mine included)
Not until Monday at the earliest.
SoulUnison
Banned
Wait, so you can't actually earn any of the updates new weapons or skins without paying 6 bucks?
*sigh*
Noooo, thaaaanks.
*sigh*
Noooo, thaaaanks.
Demigod Mac
Member
Does yours crash often with a "SIGBUS" or "SIGSEV" error?
RandomExpletive
Member
Wait, so you can't actually earn any of the updates new weapons or skins without paying 6 bucks?
*sigh*
Noooo, thaaaanks.
I already paid for this game once
CountAntonius
Member
The hud that has the contracts in game doesn't actually seem to update, you probably are still getting credit/points for the contract.
Glitchesarecool
Member
Is it true they limited some of the jumping/surfing ability in the game?
there's no such thing as a 3 in the Valveverse
balladofwindfishes
Member
I rebooted TF2 and my progress on my challenges reset
I love you Valve
I love you Valve
Completed both of my initial contracts with bonuses... some of my Sniper contract got rolled back one time after leaving a server, but otherwise it was fine. Needed to reload my hud to get points to update and restart the game to get the "turn in contract" prompts though.
Hopefully it's just an oversight and they fix it. :X
They vastly simplified the way self-damage explosions work, probably related to the banner changes. Basically you get the max push off of any part of a blast, so that throws off all techniques like skips, ctap, pogo, walljumps, etc. Airstrafing/surfing feels the same to me though.
Hopefully it's just an oversight and they fix it. :X
Yea I felt like I was getting too high off this weak black box jump.
How do I find this? I see where I can specify a game mode, but I don't see where I can pick a specific map to play on
RandomExpletive
Member
wow those jump changes feel super weird...
If you click show servers it will let you choose the map.
Yeah the servers are having a lot of problems right now. Some people say restarting the game will let you submit your contracts but for some people that has reset the contracts.
balladofwindfishes
Member
they fixed the Family Business having negative firing speed instead of positive. They accidentally reversed the value.
CountAntonius
Member
Same. sell them while they are still worth over 50 cents. next week they'll be worth 3.
I got a sniper rifle skin that I sold for 4. Almost paid for the pass already. Gonna do my pyro contract tomorrow.
Robot Pants
Member
Jesus.
Csgo model proven to work.
HL3 is never coming out
Csgo model proven to work.
HL3 is never coming out
Got a dumb looking shotgun skin and pistol skin.
Is there any chance to get strange unusual variants from contracts or is that just from those cases?
EDIT:
Restarting worked for me actually, shame it isn't applicable to everyone.
Is there any chance to get strange unusual variants from contracts or is that just from those cases?
EDIT:
Restarting worked for me actually, shame it isn't applicable to everyone.
It crashes constantly, usually after a death or when toggling the scoreboard. Looked at Reddit and SPUF and it's been a known issue since the patch went live hours and hours ago.
Apparently impacting Linux as well.
Glitchesarecool
Member
Fucking boo. Best part of being a soldier/demo.
balladofwindfishes
Member
they're fixing it tomorrow
yeah its new
did my contracts and immediately made the pass money back by selling the guns
tomislav is op
that is all
Demigod Mac
Member
I had an endless back and forth with Valve support on those.
They tried to blame everything but the game.
Finally I clean installed OS X and TF2 on a spare drive and booted from it - still got the crashes. After that they admitted it's a bug with VM getting overloaded.
Is your GPU Nvidia, perchance?
How did you make that much? Someone else mentioned like 50 cents from each drop.
Also my first contract is the soldier one, and the bonus points require 30 airshot kills. I haven't managed to get a single reserve shooter kill yet, and most of the time I either instantly kill someone with a rocket or they don't bounce in the air at ALL. This seems like it will take ages. ;_;
Doctor Ironic
Member
For about a year with a combination of the GRU, Tomislav, and Sandvich, you could turn the Heavy into a class that was bad at nothing. Tomislav completely eliminated your need to pick and choose your engagements, and therefore you didn't even need a shotgun to switch to - not to mention that the damage ramp-up on the minigun is so insane that the Heavy actually consistently does more DPS at close ranges than the supposed "close-quarters king," Pyro. The GRU eliminated your slowness, and back then, the downside for them was that you'd lose health continually while using them, as opposed to the modern "take minicrits while using them." Since you didn't need a shotgun anymore, you could just take a sandvich, and also back then, picking up your own thrown sandvich didn't refill your sandvich meter, it just instantly gave you 150 health - which is way better than sitting still for three seconds to gain 300. An instant heal meant the damage taken from the GRU was negligible.
Valve eventually nerfed all three of these items, but at that point the damage had been done. The only real problem minisentries had was that yes, it was bullshit that it started with 100% of its health even when it hadn't finished building - which meant taking them out as anything except a Demoman was super irritating.
God, this kind of statement is so dumb. It's game balance discussion. People are going to have different opinions on what's OP and UP. Deal with it.
That was my point because of the earlier posts. Doctor Ironic didn't like heavies, other people didn't like mini sentries, and ElTopo didn't like pyros.
Since it was a discussion of game balance, we all 3 had different opionions on what's OP and UP.
*edit* Or even what's fun and not fun.