Team Fortress 2

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Elliot B.

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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.

The game features random drops which you can craft (combine) (using a 'recipe') to create weapons, hats etc. but it can be slow.

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Athernar

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I can't wait to be able to craft them :D

They are very fun to use, slightly less when used against you.

I certainly enjoyed the immediate post-update gameplay, but I can't help but feel that once the novelty wears off it'll not be quite as cool.

I also bought the mutton chops, well worth it.

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Sir Topham Hatt

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Well, after spending another ?18 odd (on keys to open those stupid boxes) I am giving up.

It would have been nicer to give those who spent money buying the game a ?10 gift voucher to use in the store or something. But the game is slowly annoying me as:

> You should be able to interchange weapons so if I have the Tomislav (Heavy) gun, then I can spelt it back to the Brass Beast and whatever else it was.

> Less random drops these days so how boring.

> You needed the Black Box to get the next "new" gun for the Soldier, but now the latest gun needs the black box!

> You can't craft or trade items bought, so they are stuck with you forever.

> The price of some of those hats - well, I don't think so!

> To get a new hat, you need two old ones. 2 for one on their part isn't a good deal!

Such a shame :/ Especially as I had the Black Box, then upgraded it to what I thought was the mad 5000 gun, but it turned out to be something else. If anyone has anything like the Black Box to trade, give me a shout.

Also, is there a way to increase the amount of random drops you get? Play on a server with a short spawn time with the scout or something? Or is it achievement based? Are there servers which encourage drops or are they all just the same?

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Ayepecks

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Well, after spending another ?18 odd (on keys to open those stupid boxes) I am giving up.

It would have been nicer to give those who spent money buying the game a ?10 gift voucher to use in the store or something. But the game is slowly annoying me as:

> You should be able to interchange weapons so if I have the Tomislav (Heavy) gun, then I can spelt it back to the Brass Beast and whatever else it was.

> Less random drops these days so how boring.

> You needed the Black Box to get the next "new" gun for the Soldier, but now the latest gun needs the black box!

> You can't craft or trade items bought, so they are stuck with you forever.

> The price of some of those hats - well, I don't think so!

> To get a new hat, you need two old ones. 2 for one on their part isn't a good deal!

Such a shame :/ Especially as I had the Black Box, then upgraded it to what I thought was the mad 5000 gun, but it turned out to be something else. If anyone has anything like the Black Box to trade, give me a shout.

Also, is there a way to increase the amount of random drops you get? Play on a server with a short spawn time with the scout or something? Or is it achievement based? Are there servers which encourage drops or are they all just the same?

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Why would you spend that much money on keys to begin with?! :blink: I don't understand... what did you think you would get?

If you bought the game, you get numerous benefits non-paying customers don't have. And, if you bought the game, chances are you have had the game long enough that you already have an impressive weapon stash, whereas the F2P players do not. I'm really not seeing the loss anyone incurred for buying the game (especially when most people bought it bundled).

The point of the item system in Team Fortress 2 is tradeoffs. Everyone weapon has a tradeoff, and it's the same in crafting. If you want to get something, you better be prepared to make a tradeoff to get that item. If it's worth it to you, you will. If not, then don't bother.

All servers have the same drop probabilities. In fact, it really isn't the servers. It's the game itself. Read this.

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sava700

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I was lucky.. I saved several black boxes and B backups for some odd reason so as soon as last night hit I crafted all of them into the new Laser Weps and sold each for 1 Ref EACH!!!! I managed to find a few more black boxes on another account last night which was funny and sold them for 2 Rec each. People are hard up for them....I love it, I get the new stuff...hit a few trader servers and make a killing in one night!! :D

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Ayepecks

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How do you craft items/weapons? I'm still pretty new to the game and am learning so I don't know a lot of things.

Go into your items, then click crafting. It'll be the second button (the window opens to the first button, where you can craft scrap and things like that). Scroll all the way to the bottom and there's the blueprint for the new weapons.

If you're a free to play player (read: haven't purchased anything), you won't have all the blueprints, however, so you won't be able to craft all the weapons.

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Denis W. Veteran

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Has anyone experience almost frequent GPU driver errors (the ones that force Windows to restart the driver, causing the game to freeze for almost half a minute)? They've been happening almost daily for me.

I've got a GeForce 8800 GT running Forceware 275.33. Recently one of my VRAM heatsinks fell off; I'm not sure if overheating VRAM chips can cause these problems.

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AimLXJ

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Has anyone experience almost frequent GPU driver errors (the ones that force Windows to restart the driver, causing the game to freeze for almost half a minute)? They've been happening almost daily for me.

I've got a GeForce 8800 GT running Forceware 275.33. Recently one of my VRAM heatsinks fell off; I'm not sure if overheating VRAM chips can cause these problems.

It's fine here with my 560 Ti and had only one crash throughout some years and that crash was due to high overclock :rofl:

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Athernar

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Has anyone experience almost frequent GPU driver errors (the ones that force Windows to restart the driver, causing the game to freeze for almost half a minute)? They've been happening almost daily for me.

I've got a GeForce 8800 GT running Forceware 275.33. Recently one of my VRAM heatsinks fell off; I'm not sure if overheating VRAM chips can cause these problems.

I used to have the same problems.

I fixed it by dumping nVidia and jumping ship to AMD and getting myself a 5850.

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+Majesticmerc MVC

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Has anyone experience almost frequent GPU driver errors (the ones that force Windows to restart the driver, causing the game to freeze for almost half a minute)? They've been happening almost daily for me.

I've got a GeForce 8800 GT running Forceware 275.33. Recently one of my VRAM heatsinks fell off; I'm not sure if overheating VRAM chips can cause these problems.

If your crashing started after your heat sink fell off, I'd probably be inclined to think that that is probably the cause. I've had TF2 crash plenty in the past, but it's never given crashed my drivers without there being a hardware problem.

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Chasethebase Veteran

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So, yesterday I uncrated what it seems the most useless strange weapon ever - Strange Charging Targe. I mean, cmon!

Unlucky, that's easily the most difficult to level up due to the fact that it's hard to get kills with one normally.

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