Team Fortress 2

[Psychotic Ninja]

Yeah last I heard, the economy is going downhill. Doesn't really bother me, never really got into the whole economy thing.

[rairii]

This game is officially dead. Either Valve is trying to appeal to the CS:GO crowd since that game gets like 5x the daily amount of players TF2 does or they're intentionally trying to kill it. They buffed the loch n' load, which was already broken beyond fucking words, and then they nerfed the Powerjack which had no balance issues in the first place.

But the best part, the best part is that now you can no longer collect ammo from fallen weapons. You have to pick the fucking weapon up replacing your own primary. I doubt I'll be playing this game much after quite possibly the worst update in TF2 history.

 

That said, I'm still working on a TF2-related SFM project involving a certain David Bowie song. I'll post it here when I get that finished up. I may fucking hate the game as it is but I still love what it was before Valve totally lost it.

[Descriptor]

Yeah last I heard, the economy is going downhill. Doesn't really bother me, never really got into the whole economy thing.

That's not too surprising. I mean, heck, just look what happened to Greece! TF2 was just practice.

 

Also, as crappy as this update sounds, I'm not to bothered by it, since I haven't been playing in a while, either.

Honestly, I'm more dissapointed by the the fact that the new comic wasn't a new Ring of Fired chapter.

I mean, jeez, who knew Valve Time extended into comics, too?

[Blightmare]

I just played for a short bit and you still get ammo from fallen players it just drops the weapon AND an ammo box. Still not sure how I feel about the whole lootable weapon thing.

[Psychotic Ninja]

It's a great way to test weapons out if/when they just wont bloody drop. Also, yes, they also drop medium ammo box's, which is about how much ammo you normally would have gotten.

[rairii]

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just gonna leave this here

[Zaraki]

[Jek Jek Roo]

I wasn't playing for along time. Maybe a year or something. I heard the whole game is broken (not saying that trading is no fun anymore since I have to log in for email every time I wanne change weapon with someone. WTf. Did this gone so bad? anyone willing to play with me from time to time? I could try again tho, but idk. It seems broken so much since then.

[Blightmare]

One thing I would like to do would be vanilla duels. If anyone was interested it'd basically be a 1v1 with vanilla loadouts only. Could be fun and is a nice even playing field (at least as even as it gets)

[Jeb_CC]

One thing I would like to do would be vanilla duels. If anyone was interested it'd basically be a 1v1 with vanilla loadouts only. Could be fun and is a nice even playing field (at least as even as it gets)

 

I'd be interested! Not right now though, no. XD I can't play TF2 at school, as awful as that is.

[Reverend_UshankaCat_]

I recently bought the Orange Box for PS3, so I might even start playing TF2 again

[Jek Jek Roo]

Idk but... Haloween event starts. I think I will farm or chill a bit for some items.

[Riley Hawk]

Does anyone still play this? I stopped playing around 2013, after racking up about 2,000 hours. I tried joining a server recently but it looks awful. Guns were all weird and every server was simultaneously a trade server.

[Zaraki]

[rairii]

Ah, finally! Another big TF2 update! Pyro is finally getting some much needed balance changes and they all look ama-

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PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY COMPLAINING ABOUT THIS?

[BTGBullseye]

Yet another reason for me not to play it again... Just when I was considering doing so...

[rairii]

I seriously doubt you were considering playing again

But not only were funk's clips horrible (he hardly knows how to use the class it seems, let alone the weapon), but he hardly gives any real meaningful reason as to why the phlog buff is bad.

[Scampi]

I seriously doubt you were considering playing again

But not only were funk's clips horrible (he hardly knows how to use the class it seems, let alone the weapon), but he hardly gives any real meaningful reason as to why the phlog buff is bad.

 

I've played with the new Phlog, and believe me, it's bad. I believe that the phlog will always be one of 'those' weapons, weapons that will always be hated not matter what. The new Phlogistonator charges faster than before and the complete invulnerability provided during taunting allows it to be used way too aggressively. If you have full 'mmph', you can WM1 right into the thick of it and pop the invuln as an immediate and easy refresh when things go south. This is how any Pyro wielding this weapon can cause massive amounts of damage and chaos without the corresponding amount of skill needed you'd expect. It's a shame Funke didn't mention this.

[UndeadNecro]

I seriously doubt you were considering playing again

But not only were funk's clips horrible (he hardly knows how to use the class it seems, let alone the weapon), but he hardly gives any real meaningful reason as to why the phlog buff is bad.

 

I've played with the new Phlog, and believe me, it's bad. I believe that the phlog will always be one of 'those' weapons, weapons that will always be hated not matter what. The new Phlogistonator charges faster than before and the complete invulnerability provided during taunting allows it to be used way too aggressively. If you have full 'mmph', you can WM1 right into the thick of it and pop the invuln as an immediate and easy refresh when things go south. This is how any Pyro wielding this weapon can cause massive amounts of damage and chaos without the corresponding amount of skill needed you'd expect. It's a shame Funke didn't mention this.

 

Well, they DID buff the Phlog. Honestly, buffing the Phlog just goes to show you that they have no idea what they're doing. They also debuffed demoknights which is ridiculous considering it required more skill than luck (yes, it is effectively 1/2 hit kill with charge but it's pretty hard to set up instakills with demoknight). Honestly, I don't even know why people complain about them. It's like complaining about random crits, which I still think is bullshit personally because I'm 99.99% sure that every death I can remember is the result of a crit. It's just too common to call random. The changes they made to Pyro overall are just atrocious.

 

Then there's the toxic community that starts fights/instigates/annoys others for no reason other than "lol internet u mad nub" but that's just something to bring up to shame people in general. That's not the end, though! Then there's people than complain about people suck (which includes me aka I suck) in PUBS (because who expects pubs to be filled with people who just want to have fun and not play, gee I 'unno, COMPETITIVE? Nope, not logical at all), and Valve official servers, even. Hell, it seems like custom servers get annoyed on purpose.

[Scampi]

I must say, within the last few months I seem to have been doing the opposite of everyone else: enjoying TF2 more. Really, I still love this game to bits! I hear all this talk of horribly unbalanced weapons, hackers abound, toxic groups of people and all manner of issues. But... I don't think I really suffer from any of it. I find the weapons to be OK at the moment. There are some weapons I think are truly useless, and would love to see rebuilt, but I have never recently been prevented from having an enjoyable experience or winning by a single weapon. Not since the Tough Break Phlog, but that's fine now. If I find someone is using a certain weapon well, I can always just counter it and everything works. About hackers, I see very few. When they are present, it's fun to watch them run about twitching madly, their chat slaved to advertise lmaobox, until they are quickly vote-kicked. And if they somehow stay, I just switch servers, no problem. And the toxic community? I find more that often than not, it is barely an issue worth noting. Someone spams lenny in the chat? I don't care, I hardly even read the chat. Someone says 'get rekt' after they kill me? Why on Earth should that matter to me? I have never gotten into a real argument or negative conversation with anyone in TF2. Just yesterday, someone humorously gave me a 'lap dance' as I was sitting in my Relaxo chair in the vents on turbine. We started talking and now we're friends. This sort of thing happens to me all the time, and I ONLY play valve servers. It can't just be good luck. Now, TF2 does have issues, but none of them are game breaking at all, at least to me. TF2 needs a spring cleaning update that focuses solely bug, UI, animation, and other types of inconsistencies and errors, as well as better optimization. And it does bug me how many cosmetic items break the art style (If I were to make one update, I'd end up putting Halloween restrictions on most cosmetics). But these issues don't prevent me from playing TF2 and having a blast while doing so. I still think this game is amazing, and it will take a lot more than what I've seen so far to dissuade me.