Damn…you missed the $2.50 Halloween sale huh?
Protip: At $20, TF2 is possibly the best value in gaming you will ever get.
Yeah.
I don’t have a credit or debit card, but I got a Mastercard gift card for my b-day. Don’t feel like spending $20 on it, but that’s because I’m a cheapass.
understandable.
probably will have to wait until the next class update…or when Valve fuckin feels like it.
Holidays!
I really can’t understand the appeal of cp_orange_x3 if you are not a sniper. They should just put Xs on all the other classes. Seriously. I tried it for the first time a couple of days ago and man… what a shitty map. I don’t understand why there are so many servers that use it.
- It runs on everything. It’s probably the only thing my 6200 can handle consistently.
- It’s often dropped onto “fun” servers with oodles of mods that end up making it fun, even with an unbalanced amount of Snipers.
- The open spaces make it great for target/spy practice.
Really? My framerate drops quite a bit when I get to the large open area. Maybe it was because I was playing on a maxplayer server… and you should try playing at a smaller resolution to help improve your fps. Before I fixed my PC I was playing at 640x480. Its was pretty sad but after a while I got use to it.
Actually I have to mention this company:
It’s what most competitive teams use including my own. So if it’s good enough for us, it should be great for you.
yeah usually there are a lot of people on the pubs running that cp_orange map. anybody over like 15 drops my FPS to like 30 or 40. my shitty pc is shitty though.
Im looking into competitive play in this game. I see that the standard team is a medic, demoman, 2 scouts, and 2 soldiers. I saw omfgninja’s spy and sniper(godlike)
Im looking for some videos of high level engie/heavy play. anone know of any teams I should look out for?
So I have a weird problem with my TF2. I installed it on my new, beefy laptop, but the thing is, in any given game type, it doesn’t show the “objective” in the HUD.
That is, when I’m playing CTF, the location of the two intels doesn’t appear in the bottom. Similarly, the Cart doesn’t appear in the bottom during Goldrush. Anybody know how to resolve this problem?
Despite what I said yesterday, I’m thinking “to hell with it” and buying TF2 anyway. So if I do, I shall post in here later tonight.
2nding Jammar’s recommendation on AI servers. They’re the best out there and prices are solid.
I’d also be down to play TF2 with some SRKers. My team kicked the bucket and I could use some chill TF2 outside of huge pubs. My steam acc name is “GetThere1Time” and steam name is “GetThere d-_-b” An invite to the SRK steam group would be awesome.
Check out Riemu’s frag vid: http://www.pldx.com/movie/56/4KHeavy_Movie/
Not really insightful into how to play competitively but entertaining all the same. Heavies can replace a soldier in comp but that’s more of a euro thing. Competitive engie play is map situational and pretty straight forward.
Edit: Have you tried an FPS config to fix your FPS problem. My computer is shit but I can make TF2 look like Doom and squeak out 60 fps.
nice man thanks. I was playing this team in arena that had a 2 heavy+medic combo that was pretty godlike, until I figured out that the medic needs to be taken out first lol.
also I was looking at some configs today and now im using this one
http://forums.clanfec.com/index.php?showtopic=1023
I have a nvidia 6200 also (having PCI standard slots only fucking blows) 2 gigs ram, and intel pentium 4 and Im getting about 60 fps constant because of this config.
So here’s my first map idea:
A KOTH map (though it would also work for arena).
Forest level, w/ trees and all.
Point is on top of a hill in the middle of the map.
Overlooking the stages are platforms on either side.
It’s a pretty simple idea, but I think there’s a lot of potential there.
lol you always post right after me.
sounds a bit too simple though. Hopefully you can beef it up as you work on it.
Well, I did it.
Bought TF2. I’ll be on this weekend.
You deserve a medal doc. :tup:
Maybe this weekend we should set up the TF2 Server with some of those maps from the TF2maps.net contest and try em out? Could be fun : )
Watch out for how easy it is to snipe.
I was thinking about that, but I think that the trees (and crates, if I felt like it) would offer enough cover that it wouldn’t be broken. Not only that, but much like 2Fort, a good portion of any sniper’s time would be fighting off other snipers. I was actually more concerned with soldiers and demomen. They’d get a chance to straight up WWI mortar people. But snipers would be able to handle them both from the ground and from the other platform, I think.