Team Fortress 2

I love this event. These random gifts are a blessing.

Fuck the players though. Aim for the boss you jackasses.

Anyone else notice the presents are less frequent than before? I only got at least one present before calling it a night each time.

The presents cooldown is just really long. A new one spawns 3 hours after you get the last one regardless of the map. Fortunately, it's every 3 hours in real time, not every 3 hours in game. I turn on TF2, get a present at Helltower, then get off, only to get on 3 hours later for the next gift. Really easy to farm once you get the timing down.

And my first Pile of Curses gave me a Haunted Voodoo Soul!

I've missed a lot of this game. What happened after the Robot Hat update?

What like. Lore wise, or gameplay wise?

Gameplay wise, new weapons and new taunts. There were whole weeks of pandemonium where people did nothing but conga instead of shoot people.

Lore wise, Grey Mann won and the mercs are planning to strike back at him, the Soldier has a Soviet girlfriend, the Sniper's real name is Mun-Dee and he's not actually Australian. Also, there is something about a train and a moonbase.

edited 27th Oct '14 3:31:39 PM by Jinxmenow

You forgot that The Medic is a traitor and working for Grey Mann now, while the Engineer is now working directly for the Announcer. Also, Australium is almost gone, and many Australians are already suffering "Withdrawals" (AKA, they're turning into normal people), which is odd because I thought Australiums effects where permanent, but whatever...

Not to mention that the Team Fortress Classic team (accompanied by the Team Fortress 2 Medic) hired by Grey has successfully tracked down the heroes and the shit is about to hit the fan.

And it turns out Sniper's real parents are both absolute assholes

Also, New Zeland is evidently Atlantis AND Krypton at the same time.

Heavy has three sisters and they're all hot amazons, Soldier is dating one and Scout's crush on Miss Pauling has escalated into full-on infatuation. Also, Spy is almost certainly his dad.

Also the Administrator is actually over 150 years old and is also using an Australium-powered life extension machine.

That was apparently built for by by the Engineer's family who's probably been in on the whole Gravel War thing since the beginning.

So, I thought up a minigun for the Raygun sets.

The good news:

• It has lots more ammo than the stock minigun.
• If you aren't firing or revving it, it regenerates ammo.

The bad news:

• You can't collect ammo from any source besides the cabinets.
• Revving drains ammo, firing does that AND fires it, so it drains DOUBLE.

So it's a variation of the HLH that regens ammo and has no flames then. What makes it better then stock besides having more bullets?

I still say the Pyro needs a Jetpack.

I haven't quite figured that out yet.

Amen to that.

I am betrothed by this game again.

That's kind of the sort of thing you should try to figure out first when making new weapons. Though the Heavy can eat through ammo really fast, he can also kill really fast, meaning that any decent heavy can simply pick up the weapons dropped by his fallen enemies for ammo.

Not to mention that regenerating ammo over time would encourage players to sit in a corner for a minute after every encounter while waiting for their ammo to fill up. That's not something you want to encourage in this game.

Now, maybe if, instead of regular bullets, it fired penetrating lasers, meaning that each bullet can hit multiple enemies. That's something I'd be interested in, and the ammo limit might just be enough to keep it from being completely OP.

edited 28th Oct '14 3:16:23 PM by Kayeka

That is a good idea. I wonder if a "light" version, with less damage and fire rate but less fire-up time and faster walking speed, would be good.

I've only heard of people getting engaged through Portal 2 out of Valve's catalog.

So after 4 days of trying I finally make it to loot island just to have some bastard kill me right before the cage opens.

I desperately await the day technology advances enough that you just reach through the internet and strangle people.

Well TF 2 does have the item "Something Special for Someone Special" (Or something like that), a $100 entirely digital diamond ring.

Great. I logged into TF 2 on my laptop, took forever to connect to a server, and the gift disappeared as soon as I got in! How long would it take for me to find it again if I didn't get it?