Well you’re just a lucky guy then. I’ve got around 200-300 hours into the game and have gotten 1 hat drop, shooter’s sola topi (sniper.) It’s the same with most people. Reddit’s trade forum members keep saying this over and over.
Promo hats are worth a ton.
Here’s my steam profile if you guys want to get some games in, I’m an admin in an LA based server just so you know the matches will be orderly.
Well, after the latest update, I’m not crashing any more. Which is good.
Still get horrible hiccuping and freezing and crap on entering a server, but that goes away after a few deaths or so.
Will Monoculus (!) still be around after tonight? Or will he only appear on full moons/Halloween like the Horsemann?
Also, probably the last update until Christmas, which is fine, I guess. This one felt like there was something missing.
I’m trying to learn how to rocket jump horizontally (not high jumping) to apply that into my game, but I can’t seem to do. I’ve practiced it a ton with the rocket jumper and I can’t get it down. Anyone got any good Soldier experience to help with that?
It’s easier to do off a wall. But one of the mistakes I see a lot of RJ’ers make is that they look straight down to RJ rather than off to the side a little. By looking down to the side, you can adjust how horizontal/vertical you jump by how far behind yourself you look.
I don’t know if I’m describing it that well, though … these days it’s just muscle memory…
Yeah, I was spectating someone doing stuff like that and doing it off a wall. Really solid soldier, I think my problem now is that my mouse sensitive is too low so I can’t flick. But, I’ll have to get used to a higher sensitivity and try again.
Add my account genocide_cutter to the steam group.
its not letting me join the the SRK server
bump…
For a while I was thinking that the detonator was an upgrade to the flare gun. Was using that thing for a week, but still had a decent amount of kills with it. Stickin’ with the fg now though.
Second Australian Christmas update:
http://www.teamfortress.com/truemeaning/
http://www.teamfortress.com/australianchristmas2011/
I smiled when I read the weapon effects. I’m not a big fan of weapons that just move stats around (Fists of steel, Bushwacka).
Also, Valve did gems before Capcom made it mainstream… 
http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Gadget_Token
Well, I don’t like to jump the gun here on things before they’re actually released/get playtime in the actual game, but the Third Degree sounds annoying. SPUF is all up in arms about how the new Pyro stuff promotes going solo, punishing teamwork, etc. I’ll wait to pass judgment, but that one weapon in particular sounds like it’ll lead to a whole lot of Pyros blindly rushing into Heavies to kill their Medics. Which is fine as a Heavy, I guess. I’ll just have to disconnect from my Heavy now when I see a Pyro somehow get the jump on the Heavy. And seeing how part of the Pyro’s mantra is getting to the enemy in the first place, maybe it’s alright. But that new Engie particle rifle’s Über draining effect, now that sounds annoying, if not a little gimmicky.
All in due time. It happens every update. We don’t even know how the weapons will work yet.
And lol at my stupid long post about the Pyro Reserve Shooter on the last page. Barely anyone uses it now.
I cannot wait to see the Holiday Punch in action.
i saw the holiday punch in action. it looks awesome.
also some unannounced parts to the update:
Hey guys can you add me to the steam group? My id is markofwarcraft. I’m gonna play more often as soon as finals finish up.
Holy shit, 1 hour 15 minute-long Foundry match. I thought it would never end.
Found a bug today that I didn’t find on SPUF. My friend was Heavy and did the high five taunt, but somehow got stuck in it. It was like Civilian or the slide around while taunting glitch, except he was sliding around in the “ready for a high five” pose. He could shoot his minigun, too, so you had this Heavy smiling with his hand raised with bullets coming out of him. Stupid me didn’t take a picture.
A bug?
Update…
[LIST][LIST]
[/LIST]
[/LIST]
http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/12/20/ladies-brace-yourselves-secret-wedding-ring-item-added-to-team-fortress-2/
Oh wow…
as part of the first major update since the christmas special ended, all the new holiday/steampunk themed weapons are now craftable via recipes
I really hated getting stabbed by the Spy-cicle…
Today’s update:
Ha.