Welcome to the Team Fortress 2 Thread 14!

This thread is just to discuss Team Fortress 2. So Discuss. Or the Pyro will Phlog you. A lot.

Team Fortress 2 is free to play! You can download the game from Steam.

Previous Threads:
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1203597-team-fortress-2-thread/
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1205594-unofficial-team-fortress-2-discussion/
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1207210-unofficial-team-fortress-2-discussion/
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1212396-unofficial-team-fortress-2-discussion/
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1222392-unofficial-team-fortress-2-discussion/
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1225615-unofficial-team-fortress-2-discussion/
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1228859-unofficial-team-fortress-2-discussion/
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1232981-unofficial-team-fortress-2-discussion/
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1242092-unofficial-team-fortress-2-discussion/
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1247376-unofficial-team-fortress-2-discussion/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1316984-rarity%E2%80%99s-deluxe-hat-simulator-2/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1373398-unofficial-team-fortress-2-discussion/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1376655-unofficial-team-fortress-2-discussion/

What is Team Fortress 2?

Team Fortress 2 is a mainly multiplayer online first-person shooter with hat-based elements. It is mostly team based (Thus Team Fortress) and, thus, different from all the "lone wolf," "Kill everything you see" shooters that seem to dominate the market nowadays. Granted, killing things is fun, but if that's all you do you probably won't have much fun or win very often.
There are nine classes, three class types: Offense (Soldier, Scout, Pyro), Defense (Engineer, Demoman, Heavy), and Supportive (Sniper, Medic, Spy). Each class has a unique role and look, you will never confuse two classes.
There is a crafting and trading system (And hats), item drops, and an in-game, micro-transaction store that provides the game's revenue since it is now F2P.
Hit one of the people on our list up if you want to get started, I'm sure they'll be glad to help!

Useful Links:
http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.tf2items.com/
http://tf2stats.net/

Player List so far:

Steam:
SimpsonFly - SimpsonFly
Expresate - vaultenergy
Webster52402 - Webster52402
Terducken - Terducken
AKA_Thunder2 - PDS1995
The Gate Keeper - Raiden304
pandaman77 - Guitarzero33
Skoomaholics Anonymous - kodiak_jack97
Hungry Donner - http://steamcommunity.com/id/hungry_donner
Gamemastr35 - Gamemastr35
Orzorn - 8ogart
Skyrimus - Skyrimus
Solid_moose - NixonsGhost
Riverstyx - WouldYouKindly197
sbr - sbr32
.FallOut3. - thebigpwn
Holy Assassin - Svengarde
Kothre - President Reagan
Nemal - Hardcorist
Rogue721 - mancoal
Xetirox - Death of Gods
Robbio - robbio2000
Smert - Avalla'ch
brightside454 - Naturalnuts
powermapler - powermapler
Morrowindfan - RetroCorn
Spamfest - 509alex
mirglof - mirglof
Aila - Aiylah
Kira Yamato - firebos7
Peace Bullet - Shadowsam13
Reneer - Reneer
wolfpup - Wolfpup
Johnnybegood - jiverocker
MadCat221 - MadCat221
Shifty - Shiftyanbaov
Boradam - Taraian
Texnshasta- Texnshasta
Honey Badger - dbhuawa
Cecilff2 - [Cecilff2] Cecilff2
tgl1992 - tgl1992
The Tamriel Terror - Hexa Edge
Hellmouth - Hellmouth 497
Gheart - Gheart8003
El Barto 227 - El_Barto_227
Sir Radont - Radont


Please submit your ID similarly to this example: Forum Name - Steam ID

Message me your Steam IDs so I can add you to the list!

can you add El_Barto_227 to the player list?

Several fun rounds as an engineer today, although I still haven't broken my "engie zone" problem. I am coordinating with fellow engineers now, but I still don't pay sufficient attention to the battlefield as a whole.

Also, I encountered a really weird problem today, and perhaps someone can explain. I kept having my teleporter exits blow up while I was upgrading them. They weren't being destroyed by the enemy, and I was twacking them with my wrench so it's not like I accidentally opened my PDA and blew them up. Several times a fellow engineer was upgrading them at the same time, is there some glitch were they pass level 3 and get destroyed?

It's happened to me before. It seems to happen most often when the teleporter is near a wall or object of some sort. It may be self-destructing, thinking itself out of the level or clipping into something.

Ah, they were all against a wall. I bet it's connected to the recent glitch where you can end up stuck to a wall.

Yes, it is doing it deliberately. It does it when placed somewhere the player may have a clipping issue. Some people used to put them under stairs/wherever, and when people came through they would all get stuck. It was Valves attempt to fix this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV3BpNODtNA

Exactly what happened to me a few weeks back.

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I've bound it to my J key.

I don't know about recent. It's been happening for months.

Can you change my ID to vaultenergy, which is what it really is, then have my username listed as [CC]Expresate?

You're Expresate on here, so you'll be listed as such.

"Damaged Capacitor" added in today's patch. How did it get damaged? Who damaged it? What is a capacitor? Better get your tickets ready, because the mystery train is leaving the station. Or did it already leave? Another mystery!

"6/22" is found written on the item itself, I expect SPUF will be abuzz.

Although http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/June_19,_2012_Patch are pretty mysterious, and they don't all seem robot-related.

I was building next to the door to an enemy spawn room (which they weren't using at the time). They open automatically for their team, but you can get trapped if your on the other team (or at least you could before).

All that mystery is sure making me curious!

That banana peel needs to be a hat.

Might as well add me to the list, my Steam ID is TheMP3

There's nothing in the link

I got 3 of the mysterious items.

What's this update, and this event that's going on or something?

Already, damn you're lucky

Personally i can't get any rare stuff EVER, it's always the same [censored] i get

I've found 4 barn planks. 2 of them in the same drop(I also got a reggaelator in that drop)

None of them are rare. Save the Secret Diary, but it's starting to drop.

They could be Valve trolling for an upcoming update, or it could be the new economist screwing around. Anyway, they're all useless as it is. Except for tricking traders out of their items.


Anyway, I'd still like to collect them. I have the lint, the goldfish, and the barn door plank. Anybody have any spares?

Havent gotten any items yet but from what I have seen, one gets them when they find any other item.

The secret diary is burned. Pyro origins?

Another hour of TF2, and nothin'

Hope I get something soon!

EDIT: TF2 updated again. I cant find what updated though...

So I was an engineer with a good spot at a bottleneck, getting lots of kills and just generally keeping them from using the front way into base. The other Engy had his sentry up watching the cart which was very close to the end. I guess he got bored or jelous of the fact that I was actually getting kills because he moved his base and set it up right next to mine.About three minutes later they pushed the cart into home and won.

Why don't people seem to understand that even if you aren't getting a lot of kills you're still helping the team via area denial? Seems like it would be obvious.

• Fixed an exploit related to the listdeaths command
  
• Updated the localization files
  
• Updated bot navigation files for maps 2Fort, Gravel Pit and Dustbowl
  
• Equipping the http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Eliminating_The_Impossible now shows new descriptions for the Goldfish, Pocket Lint, Cheese Wheel, Banana Peel, Barn Door Plank, Secret Diary, and Damaged Capacitor.

I guess it really does reduce mystery solving time by up to 88%," huh! I wonder if this means the Dual-Purpose Fruit set will one day actually reduce the chance of hunger by up to 13%


I almost take pride in the lack of kills I get with my sentry. My record for teleports in one life? 52. My record for sentry kills? 8. Now there's certainly something to be said for the front line engineer who helps cap, but I'm quite happy setting up a nest no one wants to mess with while helping get everyone to the front lines.