Interesting developements in TF2.

[hool10]

• There is now a plugin for a server that will ban you from a list. If you get logged by earning an achievement on an achievement server, you are banned from playing on the server. Essentially this is a real problem because some guy is taking matters into his own hands and is banning people who have a life. Even worse there is like a wall of shame with Steam ID's and the link to their profile. http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=814001
• The "hidden" Ultra High graphic setting in TF2: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=674001
  
  
• The Sandman has been banned from the CEVO league: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=814183 There has been justified harsh criticism of the unlock like it stuns ubered people for example which is game breaking.
• Valve has been creating more bugs since every patch: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=814181 On a side note I have noticed this too as well including L4D. Not only that but the loading times get longer and longer. L4D is not multi-core as well.

Yes, I do realize every URL is from steampowered forums. I lurk there to see what other people are saying mainly.

 

[PimpinPenguin]

The Picmap command is quite old. It does beg the question of why Valve doesn't use the highest one for the very high settings. Why have it there but don't allow people with the systems to handle it selecting an Ultra high mode, why hide it?
I've used it for a long while and it does make a difference with minimal frame lost especially if your already getting over a 100FPS.

Valve really do have to rebalance The Sandman. What were they thinking allowing you to stun Ubers? So many times i've come against an Uber pair, i stun the Medic breaking the Uber allowing teammates and Sentrys to finish them before he can re-engage. Also i think the Sandman should arch like the Flare Gun it's far to easy hitting a target with. When i first heard about the Stun i thought it would make you all dizzy messing up your aim and balance not disabling you for a couple of seconds.
Atleast now i know why i was getting raped by Scouts using Natasha, i heard Valve had fixed it yet when i used it no one seemed to be slowed down.

L4D is most certainly Multi-Core, it uses all 4 threads on my Quad evenly, unlike TF2 which only uses Core 1.

 

[Eejit]

The idiocy represented in those threads reminds me why I don't visit the steampowered forums.

 

[Omnomnick]

^Abit of that.

 

[hool10]

The idiocy represented in those threads reminds me why I don't visit the steampowered forums.

While the original topic is good, the rest I don't read. I

 

[Eejit]

While the original topic is good, the rest I don't read. I

...don't even finish sentences?

Come on, it's not even as if you said Candlejack, why di

 

[MJ12]

Yes, I'm sure that "wall of shame" is going to get people feeling really embarrassed and ashamed!

I think it's very interesting how games are no longer just games, but some form of social status, and that people actually care outside of it just being a multiplayer game you play with your buddies.

Kind of sad actually.

 

[morgs]

Yes, I'm sure that "wall of shame" is going to get people feeling really embarrassed and ashamed!

I think it's very interesting how games are no longer just games, but some form of social status, and that people actually care outside of it just being a multiplayer game you play with your buddies.

Kind of sad actually.

So true.

 

[Sheepo]

I don't see anything wrong with banning a single weapon if the people in that community think it's gamebreakingly overpowered. Autobanning people who have gotten any achievements in any achievement server is pretty ridiculous though, and I hope that l337 counterstrike-ish mindset won't spread in the TF2 community.

 

[Adabiviak]

... I see ktimekiller in there.

This guy's beef with achievement farms is a little nutty, methinks.

 

[-Psy-]

They broke Natascha again. Interesting how they've managed to break it 3 times.

 

[Eejit]

It would be a pretty nice time to have heavies using Natascha too

 

[CyberPitz]

Well, I guess it's good that Hool isn't complaining about how VALVE broke something in the L4D forum...

The achievement guy is ****ing nuts. I'm all for getting achievements the right way, but banning? Geez.

 

[Sledgehammer]

So, by accident, you join an achievement server, get Race for the Pennant, and find yourself banned from a large amount of servers. I think it's a flawed system.

 

[Sheepo]

^Although that is incredibly unlikely something like that is very possible. I doubt I'm the only person to go into an achievement server for fun and happen to get an achievement while doing so.

 

[hool10]

Well, I guess it's good that Hool isn't complaining about how VALVE broke something in the L4D forum...

Fixing a bug when it's not fixed, and then breaking things is what brought down BF2 and DICE. The Heavy unlock, fixing sniping through the gate at spawn for the 3rd time, and fixing the Smoker is making me question Valve.