Team Fortress 2

What was going to happen? Sorry, I don't keep up with the updates that much.

We were promised a map, and they "Kinda-Sorta" promised weapons.

People were hyped for the new weapons and map, but the only weapon we got was a reskin of the default melee and the map was scrapped because it was "Too Confusing" which is silly because it's basically just an ordinary CP map with a different timer style.

Not to mention we'd think it would count for the annual Australian Christmas event. Not that I'm disappointed, because I'll be out for a week on the holidays.

The EOTL map still exists, (James Mc Vinnie will offer it for download soon) it just won't be part of the official servers.

edited 9th Dec '14 12:04:21 PM by harryhenry

In Valve's defense, we've got //several// updates seemingly looming on the horizon. Spy VS Engi, Smissmass, and this. Can't really blame them if not all of them are Uber Update tier in sheer amount of new stuff.

The best we can hope for is that Smissmass is good, since it should be coming out soon-ish.

They said this update will run until Jan 5th. Is this taking the place of Smissmas 2014, or will they have both events at the same time?

@Beaver: Aside the new cosmetics and reskinned melee, the only new thing we got was a game journal which counts how many ducks you collect from killed players. A journal which you have to pay for. And means nothing in-game, not like a Strange or a Killstreak. It's just a dumb minigame.

edited 9th Dec '14 2:42:57 PM by Tuckerscreator

It's a fucking skinner box is what it is. Like seriously? The DOTA 2 version of the event actually gave players cosmetics so there was an actual reason to do it, and only one person in a match needed to possess the item for the event to start.

EOTL-inspried map could have easily been an Attack/Defend map, where anytime Blu captured a new point, the train would start up and move forward, with control points being more like roadblocks. Wouldn't have to be that confusing, though I guess it'd be decently difficult to make and balance.

Ah well. Like I said I wasn't expecting much from this update, and we've still got future big updates to look forward to. Wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the "scrapped" stuff is simply being retooled for the next update.

edited 9th Dec '14 3:08:03 PM by HeavyDDR

STAR_ does some TF Bingo.

I do hope his annoyance at the repetitiveness doesn't mean he's hitting TF2 burnout. I get the feeling End of the Line won't make him any happier; he wasn't very pleased with Halloween 2014. And it is alright to weep at the very, very end.

If he is, I don't blame him. I'm starting to feel it too.

Read a post about how EOTL might signal the start of Valve handing over the reins of the TF 2 content production to the community and washing their hands of the whole thing. Hope it isn't the case.

TF 2 IS starting to get Stagnant because Valve refusing to try new things. Blah blah balance balance confusing , fuck that, I would like to see new weapons and maps that do interesting things gameplay wise than just play with cosmetics. We don't need cosmetics anymore Valve, they should be the side dressing not the focus.

Also cp_snowplow is no more confusing than cp_steel. Get your fucking shit together valve.

edited 9th Dec '14 5:59:48 PM by PippingFool

They could have at least thrown it into the beta map list.

Just had a great match: every round, we'd decide on a meta, and everyone (for the most part) played as that. SMG sniper, Boston Basher scout, phlog Pyro, battle Medic, Caber Demo...

Skial recently introduced Class Wars servers where two classes, one for each team, duke it out. It'd be cool if it could choose what weapons you use to change up the metas too.

Woah woah wait, why are you playing on a Skial server?

Also, there we're people telling me that EoTL is going to be multi-day. I'm still waiting for yesterday's big update. (No, the one that fixed some issues yesterday but didn't add anything doesn't count.)

Pipping Fool: And cp_steel is one of my favorite maps because of the complexity. By contrast, 5CP maps usually bore me to tears. (Asymmetric maps are easier to suffer from imbalance, but even so I would rather play Dustbowl over Snakewater or Process any day.)

Because regular visitors I enjoy playing with return to them often. The ads are annoying, but the returning guys are fun.

Having witnessing "duckstreaks" in action, I can now say seeing flashing notifications about them is so annoying. At least killstreaks warned you about dangerous players approaching.

edited 10th Dec '14 9:57:17 AM by Tuckerscreator

I play on them cause the latency is good.

One of my first favorite servers was Skial. Then I realized the server was full of bots when some real players showed up and I suddenly wasn't having fun anymore.

Oh, well that makes more sense then. You could always be playing on worse servers.

Like this one time, I went to this server with my friend (can't remember the name of the server, but it was 24/7 2Fort, and he was choosing what we played today), and it forced +forward, +attack, +attack2, and reset my view model's FOV. D:<

edited 10th Dec '14 10:01:04 AM by valozzy

I don't usually play on there when there's bots, unless I want to test out a new weapon or I'm really bored and feel like watching things walk themselves into my Sentry.

An interesting perspective on the relationship between Valve and its fanbase, and how the "End of the Line" update affects that. Don't be scared by the video name, it's not an angry rant.

For the uninformed, why was End Of The Line so hyped?

See the second post on this very page, but to reiterate:

Valve informed us it would ship with a map, and we received an update while waiting from the guy behind the short that they were making weapons as well.

Given we have only received 5 new weapons this year, all from the bread update (And one was the Tide Turner), and everything else was reskins or hats, and the only map we got this year was Merasmus's carnival... you can see why the promise of a new map and new items was tantalizing.

edited 10th Dec '14 12:56:07 PM by ultimatepheer