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[Athernar]

Oh boy, here we go again. Latest TF2 update snuck rockets into the skyboxes of certain maps:

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/596943197185586541/395E73F39326E8EEFA797941110CC4AA54B66949/

More info:

http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Grockets

[Pajter]

I don't understand. A sign of a new update like with the doves?

[Athernar]

I don't understand. A sign of a new update like with the doves?

Most probably. The Uber update was going to be much bigger than it was, but ended up being broken-up due to filesize limits.

[xendrome]

I certainly know what you mean, but I wouldn't say that many private servers have premium and etc. As a general rule of thumb avoid Saigns, nightteam and lotus servers; they generally have a terrible reputation in the TF2 community for pay2win plugins, childish admins and so on.

As for myself, I'm a very regular TF2 player. I've played since the original 07 beta, run my own server and the TF2B backpack viewer.

We've been over this 2 pages ago... and I am going to stand by my statement until someone proves me wrong. LotusClan servers do not have any "pay2win" plugins or special bonuses for subscribers, besides fancy colors on hats and nick names... I've been playing on their servers for 2 years and I wouldn't still be playing there if this was going on, as I am not a donator.

I can't speak for the Saigns or nightteam servers however.

[Ayepecks]

I don't understand. A sign of a new update like with the doves?

It's a sign of something, most likely being another update. They wouldn't simply add it for no reason... this is Valve we're talking about here, they love all this viral stuff they expect their fans to find.

[Xtreme2damax]

I just started playing TF2 and got a few achievements. I could host a TF2 server on my home connection for Neowin since the official server is down.

[Athernar]

We've been over this 2 pages ago... and I am going to stand by my statement until someone proves me wrong. LotusClan servers do not have any "pay2win" plugins or special bonuses for subscribers, besides fancy colors on hats and nick names... I've been playing on their servers for 2 years and I wouldn't still be playing there if this was going on, as I am not a donator.

I can't speak for the Saigns or nightteam servers however.

They still have terrible kiddy admins that ban people for being better than them.

Not to mention fake player counts.

[Denis W. Veteran]

About those rockets, someone brought this up:

Those rockets look like the headcrab shells in Half Life 2.

[Xtreme2damax]

I set up a server for Neowin on my home Fios connection, if anyone would like to join and play add neotfserver.dyndns.org to your favorites in the server browser. I intend to keep the server up for as long as I can, I don't foresee that it will go down anytime soon or even within the next year. Let me know if there is any lag, I am using a basic configuration atm so additional tweaking may be necessary.

[Minifig]

About those rockets, someone brought this up:

Those rockets look like the headcrab shells in Half Life 2.

Except.. no they don't:

Headcrab Shell:

TF 2 rocket:

[Denis W. Veteran]

I wasn't the one that came up with that and I forgot how the HL2 shells looked like.

Still, it's a really remote possibility that Half Life is involved in this.

[Elliot B.]

Spy!

[Athernar]

There was a "Mystery Item" added slyly in a schema update last night. So far it seems to just be a cloned level 30 shotgun with a different name.

[_neutrino Veteran]

IDK im just hoping the Pyro gets an update soon, been waiting a long time (Pyro is the only character I generally play as)

[Minifig]

Still, it's a really remote possibility that Half Life is involved in this.

Oh I agree. I think it might be the rocket you shot Gnome Chompski up in.

[Ayepecks]

I wasn't the one that came up with that and I forgot how the HL2 shells looked like.

Still, it's a really remote possibility that Half Life is involved in this.

Honestly, I don't think it's even a remote possibility. When Valve uses other games to hint at one of their games, they're blatant about it. The art style is Team Fortress 2 all the way (as it should be), so I think it's safe to say it only involves Team Fortress 2, personally.

[Athernar]

If you want to theorycraft, you'll probably want to think about Poopy Joe, the monkey astronaught that Mann Co shot down in the WAR! update.

[Xtreme2damax]

Not sure if I was just playing against anyone here on the TF2 server I set up, if so I'm sorry for leaving in a hurry, I had to run and do something. If anyone here has been playing on the server I set up, please do let me know if there is any lag or any other issues.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

And the rockets have been revealed to have been carrying WETA licensed ray guns for the Soldier.

http://www.teamfortress.com/grordborts/

*purchases furiously*

[Doli]

I guess this will makeup for the boring items the soldier got in the last update and its cheap to craft.

I guess we should expect more crazy items like this now that tf2 is f2p.

[x-scratch]

i need a black box if anybody has one to spare My link thanks in advance

[Ayepecks]

I guess this will makeup for the boring items the soldier got in the last update and its cheap to craft.

I guess we should expect more crazy items like this now that tf2 is f2p.

Boring? I really thought the Liberty Launcher and Reserve Shooter were both legit.

I have to say, though, I've never been a fan of the items that don't fit with the setting of Team Fortress 2. Sc-fi lasers? Eh.

[Denis W. Veteran]

Crafted both of them, and my god they're ****ing hilarious :rofl:

Think rocket and demo spam was bad enough? How about lasers flying around everywhere? lol

[Sir Topham Hatt]

I have decided not to bother with buying items.

I have also noticed that I "find" less items now it's f2p which is a shame. They should try and bring everyone up to the same standard.

But hey, I paid for the game, no way am I paying ?7.00 for a single gun.

[Xtreme2damax]

Can you get the weapons and items without paying though? I remember someone saying that you can get the weapons or items just by playing the game, no need to purchase anything.