official Team Fortress 2

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

The instant the gate opened, I got sniped by a blu sniper, and team balanced.

[Minimoose]

:laugh:

[ViZioN]

lmao awesome :laugh: Have to do that on SpA!

[Scirwode]

Can someone explain something to me please? Ever since I bought Orange Box, I struggled to play TF2 at 800 x 600 with medium low settings. I always felt my notebook was a bit slow in this regard (Intel Core Duo 1.83 GHz, 2GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 7400) but since it was sufficient enough for me I didn't really complain, considering most of the time I could do my work just as well and my friends weren't really that lucky in getting a notebook with a similar specifications as mine.

Fast forward to today, I've only just restarted playing TF2 again but I've always launched Steam to update it. When I launched TF2, I couldn't join any of the servers as it says I needed the Steam Client Beta. All right then, exit and restart into the Beta version. When I launched TF2 again, I was amazed how fast it went in. Even more amazing was when I selected my native resolution, 1280 x 800 at medium high settings, the game was still playable with a little bit of lag, but still playable whereas before it was just a slideshow! Mid lows were about 15-20 while the highest is 30 which is good enough for me. Multicore rendering which came out a few weeks ago was also turned on but it never seem to make a difference. This time however is much different and I am now enjoying TF2 in a whole new way.

Whatever Valve did was certainly good enough for me :D !

Scirwode

[Minimoose]

@Scirwode: The multicore rendering was released before it was completely ready (It was kind of a beta), so I guess that some of the work they did after it was released improved it for you.

Oh yeah it's SpecialAttacks third birthday, so this week we have been having extra SpA points for your time played (so you can buy reserved slots, maps, spray permits, class limit immunity just for spending time on the server). Also we have party hats :fun:

[ViZioN]

Haha cool! I've not been on much because I'm stuck in the middle of final exams right now but they'll be done by the 7th! Mind you after that I won't be in any fit state to play TF2 for a few days :D

[Minimoose]

Good luck with the rest of them ;)

All my TF2 time has been taken up by pcw's, since SpA warteam 1# had a 2 week break and we sucked after it, so we went into some extreme training :D So I haven't been able to enjoy much of the birthday stuff either :(

[Minifig]

So just out of curiosity .. what server do the Neowinites usually play on?

Do we have a regular server?

Do we have a Neowin clan? {NW}?

[SinghKing]

Is it not possible to invite friends thru steam?

Theres no option for invitation when I'm in game.

[John Freeman]

Is it not possible to invite friends thru steam?

Theres no option for invitation when I'm in game.

You mean like invite to game your in? Or invite someone your playing with to be your friend?

For the first just click that triangle thingy next to your friend name and choose invite to game. If it aint there you have to go offline in friends and then online again. Invite to game should appear then.

And to answer previous question - as of now im only playing in Festers Place. Amazing regulars/community, even though it is 32 player, alltalk server.

[ViZioN]

So just out of curiosity .. what server do the Neowinites usually play on?

Do we have a regular server?

Do we have a Neowin clan? {NW}?

Normally I'm on the SpA servers...see the link in Minimoose's sig. The servers are hosted in the Netherlands so your ping might be a bit high. And for your other question I'm pretty sure there isn't a Neowin clan :p

[Pajter]

Oh Netherlands. Should try those servers once. :D

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

New update released.

Team Fortress 2

• Updated cp_egypt with changes based on player feedback, added additional health/ammo and updated routes
  
• Additional character loadout menu changes to support future features
  

Also, Valve have a great sense of humor.

//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// TF2 MMO
"TF_MMO_LFG"		"Looking For Group"
"TF_MMO_Quest1"		"You must kill %s1 %s2 to complete this quest."			
"TF_MMO_Monster1"	"Boars"
"TF_MMO_Monster2"	"Rats"
"TF_MMO_Monster3"	"Bats"
"TF_MMO_Monster4"	"Wolves"
"TF_MMO_Monster5"	"Spiders"

}

}

[Minimoose]

:laugh:

But seriously I hate the idea of adding hats/weapons that will give people different bonuses. Cosmetic is cool, but they shouldn't just randomly change the genre of a game after it's release :)

[John Freeman]

LMAO. Thats hilarious. Imma go grind my boars.

[Minimoose]

[rant]Stupid valve and their silly flawed systems[/rant]

They decided to delist all our servers on a certain IP address because one server was getting below the connections threshold, the reason; bball2. We have 3 servers running bball2, all of which are very popular, but no one plays bball for ages because it's not that kind of mod (It's pretty much a fun/warm up mod). So they decided to delist 9 of our servers since one was underperforming due to running a mod which is likely to be under the threshold anyway. Bloody idiots :/

It took them long enough to tell our leader that they had been delisted as well, we were wondering why our daily connections had gone down by about 30-50%. Supposedly they have been relisted, but that might mean we have to take the bball servers offline so it doesn't happen again.

Respect for valve: -10

[SinghKing]

You mean like invite to game your in? Or invite someone your playing with to be your friend?

For the first just click that triangle thingy next to your friend name and choose invite to game. If it aint there you have to go offline in friends and then online again. Invite to game should appear then.

And to answer previous question - as of now im only playing in Festers Place. Amazing regulars/community, even though it is 32 player, alltalk server.

Thanks. I ment when I'm in a server and I want to invite friends into the same server. That offline trick worked.

[EmuZombie Veteran]

May I present, the Dustbowl Picnic. :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uontIy_rdU.swf

[Elliot B.]

May I present, the Dustbowl Picnic. :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uontIy_rdU.swf

"This video is unavailable" :(

[EmuZombie Veteran]

"This video is unavailable" :(

Give it some time, i just uploaded it, youtube is still "processing" it ;)

Edit: its ready now :D

[John Freeman]

"In Soviet Russia food is weapon" and "We gonna eat our way to victory" :D Lmao, that was just great. Btw - what server is it?

[EmuZombie Veteran]

"In Soviet Russia food is weapon" and "We gonna eat our way to victory" :D Lmao, that was just great. Btw - what server is it?

Lotus Clan 24/7 Dustbowl US. 65.60.32.29:27015

You can find me there on almost a daily basis :)

[spy beef]

Lotus Clan 24/7 Dustbowl US. 65.60.32.29:27015

You can find me there on almost a daily basis :)

I love Lotus Clan servers!

[John Freeman]

US.... *shakes fist*

[Golferjim]

I have been of the game for like a week since I was capped and honestly my skill has dropped so much its insane ><"

With this new patch that came out I was getting so excited as I hadnt really been looking around on the internetz to see whats new.

So I thought that was the sniper pack with all the goodies etc :(

Question: Anyone have any Nz/Aus Servers they would recommend to play on.

I have a few that I thrash all the time but there just like 24/7 2Fort and there fine and all but it would be great to play with some Neowin memberes :)