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[Denis W. Veteran]

This was posted on my TF2 community's page. Check out this badass player:

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/7656119...54247/stats/TF2

This guy was given the banhammer already, but his Steam page is wide open for anyone to see. :laugh:

[Nagisan]

This was posted on my TF2 community's page. Check out this badass player:

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/7656119...54247/stats/TF2

This guy was given the banhammer already, but his Steam page is wide open for anyone to see. :laugh:

When was he banned? It says he has played 50 hours in the past 2 weeks, so either he was banned today or a few days ago (with a bunch of playtime before then) or he is not banned.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

He might be temp banned from Steam, or the Community, but that's it.

I was talking to the guy who posted the steps required to get access to the DoD:S beta before Valve had put it up (like a week before hand), his punishment was a 2 week suspension from Steam Community. Valve will only ban you from Steam if you do something really, really bad (faking stats is nothing)

[Denis W. Veteran]

When was he banned? It says he has played 50 hours in the past 2 weeks, so either he was banned today or a few days ago (with a bunch of playtime before then) or he is not banned.

By 'ban' I meant banned from our community servers via Sourcebans, not a Steam ban.

[Guest]

Why are all the SpecialAttack servers 32 players? They used to be 24 :(

I hate 32 players servers :(

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

When can we expect the content update? According to a post on the TF2 website, the content is already "done" on the PC. They're simply working on the Xbox 360 version. It's been two weeks since they last posted and I'm itching for some new content.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

The sniper update won't be for a while.

When they say the content is "done", they're referring to all the other content that the 360 hasn't gotten.

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

The sniper update won't be for a while.

When they say the content is "done", they're referring to all the other content that the 360 hasn't gotten.

Gotcha.

[Vice]

Darn those XBOX360s!

[clx]

cool, i have been looking for a bball server :) will check it out if i remember

[ViZioN]

cool, i have been looking for a bball server :) will check it out if i remember

Yeah I've been quite enjoying playing bball over the last week! :)

Oh and the TF2 thread has now broken 100 pages :rofl:

[Minimoose]

Why are all the SpecialAttack servers 32 players? They used to be 24 :(

I hate 32 players servers :(

Yeah, annoys me as well, I'm just playing on our bball servers and our no-crit (20 slot) server really. Problem is that I want to play with the other SpA chaps and chapettes, so sometimes im forced to go on the 32 slot servers, people still seem to play on them though (also they are probably easier to fill up and keep filled).

[ViZioN]

Yeah I dislike the 32 player servers too. I get low FPS and its a spam fest. Minimoose I didn't think all the SpA servers were 32 players? I'm looking at #2 now and its 26 slots.

[Nagisan]

The sniper update won't be for a while.

When they say the content is "done", they're referring to all the other content that the 360 hasn't gotten.

Any guesses on when the "In addition, we've got another update in the works that should be done before the Sniper, and that one will include some new content for all classes." content will be here? I rarely play sniper so I'm more excited to see what new content all the other classes will be getting.....chances are it will just be new sounds or animations or something disappointing in some way.

I kind of doubt it can be new weapons as well because the current loadout system only supports changing between 2 weapons....unless they change that to support more I doubt new weapons will appear.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

No idea, wouldn't mind more voice taunts though, the current ones are getting stale.

I would love for them to fix the HWM models though (The pyro "holds" the intel at his feet)

Edited April 16, 2009 by The_Decryptor

[Guest]

HWM models?

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

HardWare Morph models, they're a separate set of models with high quality facial animations (similar to the "Meet The *" videos)

They can run on hardware or in software, they're only called "hardware morph" since they're more resource intensive than the standard models, so they're only enabled by default if you have a matching ATI card. You can enable them via these 2 cvars (whack them in config.cfg or autoexec.cfg)

mp_usehwmmodels "1"
mp_usehwmvcds "1"

[Vice]

HardWare Morph models, they're a separate set of models with high quality facial animations (similar to the "Meet The *" videos)

They can run on hardware or in software, they're only called "hardware morph" since they're more resource intensive than the standard models, so they're only enabled by default if you have a matching ATI card. You can enable them via these 2 cvars (whack them in config.cfg or autoexec.cfg)

mp_usehwmmodels "1"
mp_usehwmvcds "1"

They don't come on at all unless you have an ATi card? So even if you have like a GTX295 it wont come on?

First time I even knew it had HWM.

[Blackhearted]

^ I think better questions would be ones like.. "how much of a performance impact do those higher quality models bring?". As we know how kinda, uh, subpar this games performance is.

[Vice]

Really sub-par ? Runs fine for me even with everything on max and 16AA and 16AF @ 2560x1600

[ViZioN]

I'd never even heard of those HWM models. My FPS is a bit shaky as it is on bigger servers so I think I'll leave those disabled for now :p

Really sub-par ? Runs fine for me even with everything on max and 16AA and 16AF @ 2560x1600

Well of course it runs fine for you, look at the rig you've got! Core i7, 12GB ram, and 2 GTX260's... I know you're running at a very high resolution but its not as if TF2 is a newly released game with very high end graphics. I hope they add to the multi-core rendering that they've already added. I don't think I'm getting nearly as big a performance jump than when I used mat_queue_mode 2, although it's not crashing any more.

[Vice]

I'd never even heard of those HWM models. My FPS is a bit shaky as it is on bigger servers so I think I'll leave those disabled for now :p

Well of course it runs fine for you, look at the rig you've got! Core i7, 12GB ram, and 2 GTX260's... I know you're running at a very high resolution but its not as if TF2 is a newly released game with very high end graphics. I hope they add to the multi-core rendering that they've already added. I don't think I'm getting nearly as big a performance jump than when I used mat_queue_mode 2, although it's not crashing any more.

Yeah I suppose but even when I had a single 8800GTX it still ran quite well @ 2560x1600. I always thought the game was quite good performance wise especially when compared to Oblivion, GTA4 or Crysis.

[ViZioN]

Yeah I suppose but even when I had a single 8800GTX it still ran quite well @ 2560x1600. I always thought the game was quite good performance wise especially when compared to Oblivion, GTA4 or Crysis.

On the whole the performance has been pretty good for me also. I think I've still got the settings quite high. I only really get significant FPS drop when there are lots of players on the screen, which can be a bit annoying sometimes. Although saying that some maps are better than others. Haven't played GTA4 but I heard it runs crap :p

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

They don't come on at all unless you have an ATi card? So even if you have like a GTX295 it wont come on?

First time I even knew it had HWM.

They're only enabled by default if you have a matching ATI card, forcing them on just does the calculations on the CPU (it already is, now it's just doing slightly more)

^ I think better questions would be ones like.. "how much of a performance impact do those higher quality models bring?". As we know how kinda, uh, subpar this games performance is.

I haven't seen any, I still get around 100fps or so (The water shader with the ripples is a much bigger performance hog, takes my FPS down a whole lot)

I'm on an e6300 (1.86Ghz), 2GB of ram and a 8600GT with 512MB of VRAM.

[Mike]

Yeah I suppose but even when I had a single 8800GTX it still ran quite well @ 2560x1600. I always thought the game was quite good performance wise especially when compared to Oblivion, GTA4 or Crysis.

You can run TF2 quite well on an old card (I used to run it on a 6600GT), it's the CPU that TF2 uses more and I'd expect my 3800x2 to get more than 30fps in a game like TF2.