Ragnoros
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schild
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Saw it about an hour ago, worst one yet. Funny, but not good. Seemed rushed.
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eldaec
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Christ - having half the population as medics is one thing - but pyros....
Remind me not to play tf2 for a few weeks.
Edit: Video was fine though they seem to be getting shorter - "I think his mate saw me.... yes... yes he did"
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« Last Edit: June 17, 2008, 11:49:05 AM by eldaec »
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MrHat
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I liked it.
The rifle sound makes me hard in the groin area.
Christ, I need to play some games.
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Samwise
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Rock Paper Shotgun pointed out that we can see one of the new pyro guns in this video:  Please oh please oh please let it be a napalm grenade launcher. |
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Johny Cee
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Okay. No one chuckled at the montage where the sniper kept drinking coffee, and the level of yellow fluid in the jars behind him kept going up?
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Samwise
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I thought the whole thing was awesome. Schild said he thought it was funny, but not good. Whatever that means.  |
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Prospero
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The Demoman with the broken bottle in his eye made the whole thing worthwhile. Also the final billboard: FOAD camping fun all year round
The rest was gravy. Tasty gravy.
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Triforcer
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Rock Paper Shotgun pointed out that we can see one of the new pyro guns in this video: Please oh please oh please let it be a napalm grenade launcher. Please, no. The worst thing they could do is give more classes explosives. THere is enough spam from demos as it is, if most other classes get explosives the game will become nothing but nade spam. |
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Prospero
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« Last Edit: June 18, 2008, 07:54:12 AM by Prospero »
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Samwise
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Got A Light?: Ignite an enemy Spy while he's flicking a cigarette.  |
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schild
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Got A Light?: Ignite an enemy Spy while he's flicking a cigarette. That's probably the easiest achievement to get, ever. It just requires having _one_ friend. |
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Ragnoros
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BarbeQueQ: Cause a dominated player to leave the server.  |
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schild
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While very punny, it should've been "Cause a dominated player to switch to Pyro."
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Prospero
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More good news; you get the unlockables at 15, 20 and 25 achievements.
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Samwise
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Got A Light?: Ignite an enemy Spy while he's flicking a cigarette. That's probably the easiest achievement to get, ever. It just requires having _one_ friend. All the achievements are easy if you orchestrate them. I just can't fathom how they ever thought this one would happen in any sort of non-lame (fun, challenging, or surprising) way. I mean, if the achievement is "find a friend who'll let you kill him," just call it that. I've never seen anyone do the cigarette-flicking taunt outside of their spawn. EVER. I didn't even know it existed until someone told me about it. At least there aren't going to be any unlockables riding on it this time around. |
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« Last Edit: June 18, 2008, 09:01:40 AM by Samwise »
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Triforcer
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CTF_Turbine going in makes me very, very happy. Probably my favorite 3rd party map. I've never played Fastlane. EDIT: My reaction to the Backburner is that it seems a wee bit OP, given that you flame most people from the back anyways and an extra fifty health makes you the second fastest class in the game with the health of a soldier. Given that Pyro buffs impact one class more than any other, I think its only fair Spies go next. Random things I would suggest: 1) Revolver replaced with extremely slow-loading one-shot (two extra ammo) silenced pistol that does not drop disguise. 2) 7 second invisibility that removes collision detection/clipping with enemy buildings and characters. 3) Sapper on a low ammo charge (two or maybe three) that takes appreciably longer for an engineer to remove. 4) Remove ability to disguise, but grant one throwing knife able to instakill that can be thrown from invisibility. 5) Prop Gun- remove revolver, but get to fire fake projectiles/flame/etc. when you are disguised as that class. In all likelihood though, we'll end with something stupid like a revolver that always crits from behind  |
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« Last Edit: June 18, 2008, 10:00:02 AM by Triforcer »
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eldaec
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CP_Fastlane
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A control point map with five points, in the style of Badlands. You fail Valve marketeers, you fail hard. |
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Megrim
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Got A Light?: Ignite an enemy Spy while he's flicking a cigarette. That's probably the easiest achievement to get, ever. It just requires having _one_ friend. All the achievements are easy if you orchestrate them. I just can't fathom how they ever thought this one would happen in any sort of non-lame (fun, challenging, or surprising) way. I mean, if the achievement is "find a friend who'll let you kill him," just call it that. I've never seen anyone do the cigarette-flicking taunt outside of their spawn. EVER. I didn't even know it existed until someone told me about it. At least there aren't going to be any unlockables riding on it this time around. Are you kidding? That taunt is probably my favourite! |
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Samwise
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Have you ever used it at a time when there was the remotest possibility of an enemy pyro being on the same half of the map as you?
It's one of my favorites too, but for stuff like deathcam taunts (which is the time you're most likely to be caught with your pants down) most people taunt with the weapon they have out rather than taking the time to switch to a new one. And nobody runs around with the cigarette case in their hand because you can't see anything that way.
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Megrim
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Whenever an opponent discards a card, Megrim deals 2 damage to that player.
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That's pretty much exactly what i mean - i specifically switch to the case in order to use that taunt.
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One must bow to offer aid to a fallen man - The Tao of Shinsei.
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Samwise
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I suspect you will be very popular in the weeks to come.
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Der Helm
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Is this life yet ?  |
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eldaec
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Is this life yet ? Is that a philosophical question? |
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Der Helm
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Is live this yet ? |
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Prospero
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Nope, sometime this evening, PDT.
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Prospero
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Oh, and apparently the hadoken taunt is now an instakill attack.
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Samwise
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Oh, and apparently the hadoken taunt is now an instakill attack.
My life has new meaning. |
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Prospero
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Make with the burning. It's live.
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KallDrexx
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rofl this is awesome. I've gotten kicked from 3 servers for owning people as an engineer cause everyone's an idiot and keeps going pyro. |
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Samwise
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Yeah, every server seems to be in turbo achievement grinding mode at the moment. Might need to wait a few days.
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Triforcer
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If anyone wants to do achievements in an organized, two person setting (can't get quite all, but can get at least 20-25 of those easily) come to Triforcer's Hippie Funtime Server and we'll switch off giving achievements.
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HaemishM
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Goddamnit, I want to stab the fucking achievement whores right in the motherfucking eye. Got on a server last night and was absolutely innundated with Pyro FOTM achievement whores. Both the flare gun and the new flamethrower are mean fucking weapons, the flare gun especially so.
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Prospero
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I spent most of last night as a demoman blowing up pyros after they "cleverly" blew my stickies aside with their airgun. The best thing is now not only can I blow up pyros with sticky fields, I can rob them of all their ammo. Life is good.
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Samwise
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I got OMGWTFBBQ just now. It was one of those moments that was so that I had to stop playing for the night because it couldn't be topped. I had thought that when I got it, it would be by sneaking up on a sniper and hadokening him in the back. I was wrong. Instead, I got a heavy. IN HIS FACE.  |
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