Low Violence mode?

[fede22]

Hi (im new here), the other day I realized that when I was playing Team Fortress 2, there were no Gibs, blood, or any other violent content whatsoever. I wan't to clarify that I do NOT live in Germany, but my game is still being forced to run under the low violence mode. I tried deleting the "team fortress 2 low violence.gcf" but steam re-downloads it again. The game's and steam's language are both english.

I would like to know if there is any way of enabling the violent content in my game again, as im running the english version. Thanks!

 

[Laivasse]

Do you get this on every server you connect to? Sometimes it's down to a server side setting, I occasionally end up in low violence games myself.

 

[fede22]

I could try that, could you name a server you know it has high violence?

 

[fede22]

(sorry for the double post) I hope you dont mean the party mod. In those servers gibs are replaced by gifts, etc. What I am talking about here is that in a normal server, I still don't get any gibs. I am currently re-downloading the game again.

 

[tschumann]

I think someone in an earlier thread said deleting ClientRegistry.blob would fix things.

 

[Laivasse]

Sorry, I didn't mean the party mod. I mean the low violence gibs mode where you get cogs and springs instead of blood and gibs. Sometimes I get that in a game even though most of the time I get gibs.

Almost every server I connect to is the standard level of violence though, so if you're connecting to like half a dozen and they're all low violence then there's something wrong.

 

[fede22]

Deleting the ClientRegistry.blob didnt work (it helps when you have slow downloads, though). I find it very strange that steam is downloading the low violence gcf when my game is not in german. It sucks.

 

[Laivasse]

I have on occasion heard other people complain about this, but I don't remember what the solution was if there was one. Shot in the dark: you're not using a proxy or anything that would confuse Steam into thinking you're in Germany or anything right?

 

[OmegaX]

I remember having this randomly happen in CS:S. When you killed someone they would get on their knees are surrender. How lame.

 

[fede22]

^ Lol. I am using a router, can that be the reason?

 

[Druckles]

I remember having this randomly happen in CS:S. When you killed someone they would get on their knees are surrender. How lame.

Holy cool, that's awesome!

 

[jerkasaur]

I remember having this randomly happen in CS:S. When you killed someone they would get on their knees are surrender. How lame.

That's like, what the hell..?!

 

[Laivasse]

^ Lol. I am using a router, can that be the reason?

Not a chance.

 

[fede22]

Well, i tried running the game in spanish, but that didn't help. If i backup my steamapps folder and reinstall steam, do I have any chance of fixing this?

EDIT: 13 GB. This will take a while.

 

[fede22]

Nope it didn't work. Apparently, the problem is with my account. I am now hoing to try using a friends account and see what happens.

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

Valve Software: Enabling low-violence content for low-violence users.

 

[fede22]

unfortunately yes.

 

[fede22]

PROBLEM SOLVED COMPLETLY: Though the answer isn't very practical, this is what I did: I logged in with a friend's account that didn't have the problem, steam updated some files, then I relogged with my account and I had the gibs enabled again. Thank you guys for your help, I'l be staying in these forums, I like them.