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[Guest]

Most of us have none!

You lucky basterd :p

[Denis W. Veteran]

I found this absolutely hilarious..

That was brilliant! :laugh:

.... poor pyro though. :cry:

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

I played for 4 hours tonight on a single server and during that entire time I got 1 item.

From what I've been reading, I should have gotten 4 items in that time, could it actually just be broken? (more than normal I mean)

[McCordRm]

That was brilliant! :laugh:

.... poor pyro though. :cry:

The best part was the, "I think he should keep his healthy addiction" and it turns out to be a spy. Awesome!

[giantpotato]

I played for 4 hours tonight on a single server and during that entire time I got 1 item.

From what I've been reading, I should have gotten 4 items in that time, could it actually just be broken? (more than normal I mean)

That's not how the system works as far as I understand. Every hour you have a 60% chance of finding something and a 40% chance of finding nothing so you're not guaranteed to find something every hour, that's just the time a that the random drop algorithm runs. If you're lucky you have a chance to get up to 4 items, if you're not lucky you'll get nothing at all.

[Pc_Madness]

I played for 4 hours tonight on a single server and during that entire time I got 1 item.

From what I've been reading, I should have gotten 4 items in that time, could it actually just be broken? (more than normal I mean)

Normal items are rewarded based off play time as far as I'm aware? If you play 60 hours a week you have a far higher percentage than someone who plays 10.

[LingeringSoul]

That video was hilarious. "Me and the fat guy are here to help you stop." That heavy just can't get any respect!

As for the drops, 1 item in four hours is a little strange. I'm not sure how the item system works, but what PC_Madness is saying could definitely explain a lot.

[giantpotato]

This explains how the drop system supposedly works. http://tf2wiki.net/wiki/Item_drop_system

I seem to get drops at about those intervals, so it seems accurate as far as I can tell.

[Nagisan]

Normal items are rewarded based off play time as far as I'm aware? If you play 60 hours a week you have a far higher percentage than someone who plays 10.

Yes but at the same time they are random, you could play for 100 hours in a single week and get no items while someone could play 10 hours and get 4 items, granted such a scenario would be highly unlikely, it would be entirely possible with a RNG.

[Minimoose]

Normal items are rewarded based off play time as far as I'm aware? If you play 60 hours a week you have a far higher percentage than someone who plays 10.

Umm well, that's only because of you getting 6 times more item rolls than the other guy. It isn't like an exponential graph.

Someone who has played for 100 hours in total has the same chance of getting an item within the next hour as someone who has play 1 hour in total.

[Mikee99]

New class update: http://teamfortress.com/post.php?id=2851

A guard dog?

Edited September 22, 2009 by Mikee99

[Mathachew Veteran]

A guard dog? What the heck!? Hope they're yanking our chain...

Edit: actually, http://guarddog.50webs.com/ is the resulting domain, so I won't put to much stock in this. Also note the footer, which is all blurry, the digg link doesn't work, and all the "links" at the bottom of the page go to an email address. Fake.

Edited September 22, 2009 by Mathachew

[Mikee99]

A lot of people are saying it's fake. Although, Valve is known to pull some fast ones. The Jarate which was first an April Fools joke became a reality.

[Denis W. Veteran]

Valve's at it again, screwing with our heads. :pinch:

[logancable]

lol, "I'M COMING FOR YOU, YOU SON OF A BITCH"

According to Kotaku, Valve is acknowledging a fan's concept:

http://kotaku.com/5364667/you-know-what-te...eeds-guard-dogs

Edited September 22, 2009 by diablos.son316

[mounty]

Whether it's true or not, this is the sort of BS that happens when devs actually listen to their sycophantic fans

[Minifig]

It's fake guys .. :)

[Dance.]

Engineer unlockable. You heard it here first.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Just started playing this again, would stop if dogs were true (annoying as sin in WaW), but I had already read the article on Kotaku yesterday and knew it was fan made ;)

[Denis W. Veteran]

I don't get why everyone's up in arms over dogs in the game. That said, there is confirmation from Robin Walker himself that it won't be in the game.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

People are upset because they can't/won't read.

Valve likes community creations, they often give community creators things, the guy who wrote the idle program has a special knife for the spy in game, people who made maps get special rocket launchers, etc. Somebody made the page and sent it to the Valve guys, the Valve guys liked it so they linked to it on their blog with a funny letter.

What's more notable but apparently nobody cares about, is that Valve is going to implement an official way for custom content to get into the game (because people keep making their own hats and e-mailing them to Robin Walker)

[Nagisan]

People are upset because they can't/won't read.

Valve likes community creations, they often give community creators things, the guy who wrote the idle program has a special knife for the spy in game, people who made maps get special rocket launchers, etc. Somebody made the page and sent it to the Valve guys, the Valve guys liked it so they linked to it on their blog with a funny letter.

What's more notable but apparently nobody cares about, is that Valve is going to implement an official way for custom content to get into the game (because people keep making their own hats and e-mailing them to Robin Walker)

He got the Community Knife for creating the TF2 Backpack Examiner, allowing anyone to look at anyone else's backpack if they know their steam name/steam community ID, not for creating the idler.

As for the weapons, they get a weapon of their most-played class (typically the main weapon, in the case of spies, the knife is seen as their main weapon). I have heard they are able to email Valve and request trading in the weapon they have gotten for a different weapon, but do not know how true that is.

[Descartes]

Just made myself a spray to post above dead spies' bodies :p

[Srugie Veteran]

Just made myself a spray to post above dead spies' bodies :p

Haha! Nice one.

[ViZioN]

Pretty cool spray, Kuraj :)