Team Fortress 2 free weekend

[Denis W. Veteran]

If I go to File > Backup games in Steam and select TF2, the amount of space reads 6622 MB. I'm assuming the files are delivered to you compressed, so the amount of bandwidth required might be a bit less.

[david]

My steam folder is 10.5 GB (11,275,039,044 bytes)

Downloading the Pre-Load. 800kb/s :)

Edited May 2, 2008 by djlegion

[D!ABOL!C]

Be ready to play on servers with at least 6 medics. It's great if you are offensive class. I have 100+ hours as medic, but now I don't play as one because there so many. Fortunately medics run to you if you are a Pyro or Heavy.

[:: Lyon ::]

Oww.. I only have 3 Gigs left for this month's quota..sux (only have 18 Gb total per month)

[Dane]

This free weekend might actually help balance the teams for a bit......Stupid having seven medics on one team....thats another topic for the other thread though lol.

Anyone playing for the free weekend, have fun! you'll like it!

[ANova]

I've been using steam since its inception during the very early beta days and I have to say it really is a pile of crap.

Slow, bloated, duplicates game engine files due to the file structure and it constantly breaks something whenever a new update comes out (which you have no choice in refusing). That and I can't stand the activation, DRM, connection to the internet to play a single player game horse****.

Valve really cannot leave anything alone, Steam has probably gone through more updates and changes than all the games put together in the last 10 years. Alot of good stuff was replaced with crap and everytime it has I lost favorite servers and settings. Imo, steam is nothing more than a steaming pile of **** and I stay away whenever possible.

Edited May 4, 2008 by Colin-uk

[Doli]

5 medics in the spawn area doing nothing but trying to get the double uber achievement while the fort is left to a sniper, pyro, and soldier (me). Good times.

[Guest]

This free weekend might actually help balance the teams for a bit......Stupid having seven medics on one team....thats another topic for the other thread though lol.

Anyone playing for the free weekend, have fun! you'll like it!

7 medics on one team? God, the last time I played nobody wanted to be a medic...

[Dane]

7 medics on one team? God, the last time I played nobody wanted to be a medic...

Yeah, when there is 11 people on the team, and seven medics, it sucks.

[GrimReeper]

Hell yeah. If only more developers did things like this. Pre-loading at 2MB/s :D

[OblivionStalker]

The free gaming starts in one hour. Get ready everyone. :)

[Dc'1]

I've already got it anyway :)

[Blackhearted]

So since it has started now what are some good servers for someone who is unfamiliar with the game?

[GrimReeper]

Depends where your from. I'm a Aussie and Internode runs some good servers with decent players in them usually. You could join but if your not a aussie your ping may suffer.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Yeah, Internode runs some great servers.

[+Tantawi Subscriber²]

Thanks for the heads up, hasn't loaded Steam since a long while :D

[Jimmy0]

Hopefully this free weekend will encourage people to buy the game and bring some flesh blood into the game.

I know in the clan I am in that some members are thinking of buying it after playing it today.

[Andre S. Veteran]

Late this afternoon Steam was "too busy to handle my request". I was expecting that, with the huge influx of noobs this event was going to cause. And when I say noobs... we were on red, goldrush, and some guy on the team kept wondering why nobody tried to push the cart back, and bothering me with setting my teleporter exit, when I was dead... :laugh:

[Mathachew Veteran]

I've been using steam since its inception during the very early beta days and I have to say it really is a pile of crap.

Slow, bloated, duplicates game engine files due to the file structure and it constantly breaks something whenever a new update comes out (which you have no choice in refusing). That and I can't stand the activation, DRM, connection to the internet to play a single player game horse***.

Valve really cannot leave anything alone, Steam has probably gone through more updates and changes than all the games put together in the last 10 years. Alot of good stuff was replaced with crap and everytime it has I lost favorite servers and settings. Imo, steam is nothing more than a steaming pile of **** and I stay away whenever possible.

Granted it has had many problems in the past, but today's build of Steam is unlike anything you have described (except for the favorites). The only thing that I have ever seen get "broken" as a result of an update is my ability to connect to servers because they haven't been updated. I can see Steam being slow on old systems, but I can't see this bloat you are referring to. It currently sits at 10MB of memory usage while minimized. For comparison, Thunderbird is sitting at 18MB. Duplicate game engine files? I don't really see that in m Steamapps folder atm, but I do see various files for each game that I have, a necessary "evil" so to speak. Activation for HL2 a few years back for me took a few minutes, but when I did it for the Orange Box back in November it was a matter of seconds, so this "activation, DRM" babble is just that, babble.

With all that said, when is the last time you've used Steam? All but one thing you're complaining about doesn't exist today.

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

I've been using steam since its inception during the very early beta days and I have to say it really is a pile of crap.

Slow, bloated, duplicates game engine files due to the file structure and it constantly breaks something whenever a new update comes out (which you have no choice in refusing). That and I can't stand the activation, DRM, connection to the internet to play a single player game horseshit.

Valve really cannot leave anything alone, Steam has probably gone through more updates and changes than all the games put together in the last 10 years. Alot of good stuff was replaced with crap and everytime it has I lost favorite servers and settings. Imo, steam is nothing more than a steaming pile of **** and I stay away whenever possible.

No wonder you're from another world. STEAM isn't as bad as you think. I haven't had any issues whatsoever, other than the occasional clearing of my favourite servers. And that's not even a real problem. In your last paragraph, you make it seem like updating software is bad. What if I said Microsoft can't leave anything alone because they constantly make patches and updates to their existing software? It may seem like something dumbfounded in your world, but it's quite reasonable in mine. STEAM, in its current form, is a wonderful content delivery platform. Kudos to Valve for coming up with the idea and implementing it. They're geniuses!

Now, about this free weekend thing. I've told as many friends as possible about it and they didn't seem too eager to try it. I guess they weren't too fond of downloading gigs and gigs of game data just to play it for two days.

[Blackhearted]

Well the weekend has ended, albeit it's a bit early, it should go till midnight to be honest. While it wasn't bad and was kinda fun, even though i suck at anything but sniper, i'm not really sure if it wowed me enough to buy it.

[OblivionStalker]

Well, remember that Valve will be further developing the game. They have only updated the Medic class. Eight classes remain, meaning new map is coming with every class update, and hundreds of new achievements.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

I don't know about a new map with every class update, But I would love to see some new maps (ctf_well was ok, but I prefer entirely new maps, like Goldrush)