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TF2 Engineer update incoming?

it's pretty amazing how much movable sentries change the gameplay. Admitted, there's 80% engies on teams now, but still, it's gonna change things. Progress for the attacking team is much more secure with the movable sentries.
 
Not sure if they'll keep buildings through teleports, but if so then it's pretty easy to build a level 3 sentry at spawn, then teleport and plop it down there.
 
Papercuts said:
Not sure if they'll keep buildings through teleports, but if so then it's pretty easy to build a level 3 sentry at spawn, then teleport and plop it down there.
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Word on the street is that this is the case.
 
Sciz said:
Updating is going slowly and with great difficulties. I'll put out an announcement via the Steam group when it's functional again.
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what is the password? :-(

Nevermind . . . I figured it out. :D

Stuck downloading a map . . . what kind of map is that?
 
got the wrangler and the shotgun already. wrangler is a laser pointer :P

but god DAMN does the sentry feel weak, power wise. and the missiles don't feel like they shoot more often at all.
 
Sober said:
Trying to play but people are trying to farm their achievements =\
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You're trying to play the day of a class update?
 
Yikes, the engie seems overpowered now.

How will any competent engie ever let his sentry die to stickies again? You can just grab it when you see them flying in.

Trying to play but people are trying to farm their achievements =\
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The trick is to take a little break, 3 or 4 days until things settle down. Then you can go back to playing normally and get your achievements at your leisure.

Although, I have to admit, this seems worse than normal. A lot worse. I suppose the last two were double class updates, so that helped.
 
The problem with mine at least, is that the game can't connect to Steam at all. None of my load outs are loading, it says I have 0 achievements, and the reason I'm being booted is because that VAC thing can't connect to Steam.
 
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Diablohead said:
The new shotgun is rather nice, it holds 4 crits max and has the guitar taunt.

Need sleep now!
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Dunno about that, I just got 12 crits stored up off of carrying my lvl3 all over yukon :D
 
ColtraineGF said:
The game crashed on me, then updated:lol

Apparently, they fixed some crash related to carrying stuff...?
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Apparently, trying to demolish a building that you were currently carrying would crash the server. Not official, but considering both of the servers I was on crashed tonight, I can see it being true.

Anyway, engi is my least-played class, but what I played tonight was pretty fun. Got the first milestone, but I don't have an opinion of the Frontier Justice yet since I never got any revenge crits (11 engies = sentry getting repaired instantly. I have a feeling that they'll nerf the ability to move buildings, however, as it seems a bit overpowered IMO. Oh, and they'll probably fix the glitch that allows you to build a mini (shielded) Lv. 3 sentry.
 
I think I might just use the achievement unlocker. Valve hasn't reset achievement since the medic update and its just too long/boring to use bots/maps to farm those achievements.
 
Damn game crashed on me!

Wonder how this draggin around sentries will play out in the future. Could turn out a bit broken.
 
Engineers everywhere! With movable sentries it's kind of like chess or something (until someone goes demo and ruins the fun).
 
Yeah, I had at least 7 revenge crits at one point. It kind of got madness once Java had to leave for a bit, but it took an hour or two of coordination to farm the three achievement levels, plus I thankfully had an ambassador lying around for the other wrench.

Right clicking to fire rockets is fun, though I don't know how useful the wrangler will be. The little sentry seems like it'd be weak. You can apparently upgrade and repair buildings with the power glove, or at least I -think- so. The shotgun is probably good if you're a good shot. The guitar taunt is awesome. The glove taunt is pretty crazy.

Moving buildings seems neat!

Lkr said:
taking forever to dl this map on the gaf server :(
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I don't know how much longer that map will be up, but try to get the map from a different server or filefront. http://www.filefront.com/13879004/achievement_scout_turbov9.bsp
 
Blizzard said:
Yeah, I had at least 7 revenge crits at one point. It kind of got madness once Java had to leave for a bit, but it took an hour or two of coordination to farm the three achievement levels, plus I thankfully had an ambassador lying around for the other wrench.

Right clicking to fire rockets is fun, though I don't know how useful the wrangler will be. The little sentry seems like it'd be weak. You can apparently upgrade and repair buildings with the power glove, or at least I -think- so. The shotgun is probably good if you're a good shot. The guitar taunt is awesome. The glove taunt is pretty crazy.

Moving buildings seems neat!


I don't know how much longer that map will be up, but try to get the map from a different server or filefront. http://www.filefront.com/13879004/achievement_scout_turbov9.bsp
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thanks dling now

what is the name of the new map btw with the engie update?
 
speculawyer said:
This kinda sucks. There are no good games. just 10 engies v. 12 engies. :lol
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XA, Fragnet, and Lotus set of servers, all have limits on Engineers. All 30+ people but 2-3 engineers max. So it still works out pretty nice.
 
I think its time to spy.
 
I had 20 revenge-crits with the new shotgun. I just looked at the counter and was like "wuh?", then proceeded to get the 3 crits without dying achievement.

I took some pics, I'll post them in a bit.
 
Fun for about 10 minutes, until the Demo spam gets overwhelming. Blind pipe shitting is a fun thing to lose all your work to, and now that people on offense are playing to win, it's just a wall of pipes with some stickies mixed in.

bounchfx said:
got the wrangler and the shotgun already. wrangler is a laser pointer :P

but god DAMN does the sentry feel weak, power wise. and the missiles don't feel like they shoot more often at all.
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It's hard to tell when it's shooting, the sound feedback isn't clear in the normal chaos. You fire missiles manually with Right-Click, even just exclusively if you feel like.
 
This will probably be the only time I'll post here on the gaming side this year, but motherfucking finally! Engie is my most played and I'm pretty pro at it (:lol @ spies). Updating right now!
 
I know most people probably know this but turn on your damage sounds and numbers in the multiplayer menu, it makes it much easier to know when you're hitting enemies and it sounds ever so satisfying.

Wrangler is awesome, and coupled with the minisentries the engie can really lay down some suppressive fire in a moment's notice.
 
Anyone else not being able to launch TF2 no matter what they do? I've tried every server, deleting a small TF2 file and all and it just says "Steam servers are too busy, try again later" :(
 
BuddhaRockstar said:
I know most people probably know this but turn on your damage sounds and numbers in the multiplayer menu, it makes it much easier to know when you're hitting enemies and it sounds ever so satisfying.

Wrangler is awesome, and coupled with the minisentries the engie can really lay down some suppressive fire in a moment's notice.
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Crit flamethrower hits sound so god damn good.
 
Oh, I forgot to mention:

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There's a trick/exploit to where glove users can still build little Sentries and upgrade them to Level 3.


Rickard said:
Man, they're never going to release meet the medic.
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If Bill is any judge, they'd sooner kill him off.
 
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