Team Fortress 2

No longer annoyed with TF2, for now…

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Yesterday Scream Fortress officially launched (and it’s fixed under Linux now too w00t!), perfect way to start my next set of timeoff and on a gray rainy day no less!

This year there isn’t a Halloween boss to defeat, instead we get bumper cars! I was rather surprised when people first talked about it because as crazy as TF2 gets I never really expected bumper cars to appear in the game. But there they were all ready and rearing. Also they had to change up the drop system for gifts due to the idlers who like to take gifts for themselves. This year it’s just two cauldrons of gifts (6 gifts total) and a drop every 3 hours on the other Halloween maps. I can live with that.

I’ve still been doing a lot of pubbing to get gifts. Pissing people off with how I play because unlike most people I don’t stick with just one class. I tend to change if we need a pyro, heavy, spy etc. Been making so many kids rage that it’s been pretty funny. I’ve also been recording my adventures just in case something happens. At the end of all this I might make a Halloween collage video. 😀

I’ve been slightly annoyed with TF2 lately.

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It’s been almost a month since Valve broke TF2 for AMD GPU users under Linux, forcing me to main under Windows until this gets straightened out. Then tonight when I went to get a Halloween gift from one of the servers I didn’t get it due to some kind of bug. I guess this has been happening for other people too. You run up to the gift, the gift vanishes, and then when the round ends it tells you the gift has vanished… wtf?

I’m not going to demand Valve deliver a gift to my doorstep or anything, but things just haven’t felt right with TF2 lately. Hopefully when the main Halloween event starts things look a bit better. There are quite a few on github who have been complaining about not being able to play TF2 due to their GPU and getting annoyed that they can’t participate in the event unless they swap to the Open Source drivers, which cause quite a few people to take a huge dip in performance compared to AMD’s drivers. Someone even got sick of waiting for Valve that they sold their R9 290 and went with NVidia. You’d think if you’re wanting people to play on the Linux platform that you’d want one of the most popular free FPS games to be working on all hardware, and to make it a high priority.

The gaming is strong in this one.

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I put my elevator source server back up last night. It’s amazing how so many people will login and stay on for sometimes an hour, two hours… And all you do is just stand in an elevator going floor to floor watching things happen. I mostly see kids on their who haven’t reached puberty which is the norm for garrysmod. I guess if any parents want to find a cheap babysitter for their 12 year old child they just need to make them play elevator. They’ll stay there all day and all night…

On another note Scream Fortress is in full motion now. I’ll probably be playing that a lot to get some of that spooky swag.

Oh, and last night I finally defeated Handsome Jack in Borderlands 2. Guess it’s time to break into the DLC. 😉

Played a bit of MOULa last night. Somehow stumbled upon 26 people in the city instead of the usual 3 or 4 that I see when I can be arsed to open up the game. Turns out there was some kind of tour going on that lead to kirel. I always forget how horrible the voice chat was in that game until someone decides to open their mouth. Voice chatting sure has come a long way since then. I’m thankful for VoiP.

Also did some more Saints Row the 3rd last night. Playing the mission where you’re acting in a movie. I kept getting annoyed with that mission due to my homie the purple space princess getting stuck in certain areas. Might pick up on it in a bit if I’m up to the task. Or do another mission entirely.

The obligatory catching up thread

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There’s a lot I could have been blogging about, but I’ve just either been too tired or not in the mood.

UNTIL NOW!

Of course I haven’t been ignoring the blog. I have been updating the features, even included a nice new steam stats plugin so you can check out what I’ve mostly been playing. Still sucked into Borderlands 2. I even leveled up to 32 last night! Space Engineers has been an interesting experiment. Reminds me of Garrysmod in space with minecraft elements. Speaking of Garrysmod I’ve been running a new cinema server which is pretty cool. It lets you get together with friends to watch things on sites like YouTube, blip or whatever place you want to watch stuff in cinema maps. It’s a fun way to share crazy links, which my group of friends and I seem to enjoy doing in mumble and IRC. Been also playing a bit of Saints Row the third on and off. That game is pretty funny. And of course TF2 which goes without saying. My TF2 servers have become pretty popular, especially Mann vs Machine. In fact on a daily basis I notice people on and off of MvM, regular TF2, CS:GO and L4D2 is usually getting some healthy use. And once on awhile the two gmod servers get some traffic. Especially during the weekend. Never expected the servers to become quite that popular. Even our steam group has grown a small bit. 😀

Already put in for my next vacation. Hopefully I’ll have off during Halloween for some funtime. Also continue my job searching. No luck yet on that front yet btw. But I’m not giving up yet. I’m still determined to get out of there. It seems like everyday when I go to work they find another way to make the employees more miserable, especially with the new rules being put into place by our store manager. I like how you can get written up now if you’re caught not smiling… Yeah, that’s an actual rule. Even if no customers are around if you’re caught with no smile on your face you get into trouble. I didn’t believe it until I saw the email. I’ll save the rest of that BS for another post and another day. It’s my weekend right now and I don’t need to raise my blood pressure.

You Can’t Do That On XBox! “TF2 Hallowen Special”

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Halloween draws near, lets have a look at some fun selection of TF2 maps to really enjoy during this lovely season.

All maps in this episode:

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