Cubit
3241
well shoot. i don’t understand the new weapon drop system at all. as a test (heh) i left my game running all night on an idle weapon drop server, and when i woke up i had no new items. i got one early on after the update, but now i’m running on probably 10-12 hours of playtime with no drops. this is either karma, or the system is borked. hmmm.
p.s. i have been connected to steam friends in the overlay the whole time.
Yeah, I’ll try one of those servers. I lock on to Steam and Friends when I start Windows, so that wasn’t the problem.
Most of the idle servers were not connected to steam all night due to an update.
Cubit
3244
OMG. That’s really quite cool.
Cubit
3246
it works too. just got an item.
Pretty ingenious solution there. I’m reluctant to do anything until Valve fixes the system and it’s up and running the way they intend, but if that doesn’t happen soon, I’ll probably give that a go.
Well, tonight I got two items just playing, so my hope is rekindled.
They were even fun to try.
I’ve been playing this game religiously since Nov 08 and I overjoyed with the current random unlocks. Since the patch I have gotten 2 items that I had no intention of grinding or achieving for, the boxing gloves and Bonk! and picked up a Huntsman as well.
Now if I could just get that random ubersaw I’d be set.
Jab
3250
it’s been about a week or so since my last unlock, granted I haven’t been playing every day but I really want the razorback. I just hope that this random system means that Valve will start adding in a bunch of items and such with each patch.
Adree
3251
I threw in the towel and have been leaving TF2 running on an idle server in 640x480 with all the settings to low, unlocked 8 items today.
Apparently more tweaks were done last night, according Kotaku(can’t find other source).
Unless something substantial is changed(like adding back milestones), I don’t think this can be fixed, as it is fundamentally flawed(reference: Warhammer Online).
Did I miss something? What are these random unlocks/items everyone’s referring to?
Cubit
3254
in the most recent update, they changed how you unlock new items. instead of the old achievement system, now you get the items randomly while you play. personally i like the change, as most of the good items were too far beyond my skill to get.
Jab: I did’t get a single unlock in the two days we were playing on the GWJ and QT3 servers, and I believe it’s because there were errors with the connection to steam. Things seem to be working fine now - I’ve got two huntsmen, a fourth goddamn sandvich, and a second FaN and sandman. Now if I could just get a backburner and blutsauger! I was also delighted to, totally unexpectedly, get the Supreme Soviet achievement and the final Heavy Milestone. Now to punch some people!
I think a better system would be to say you get one new item every 100 points, but make the item random (so that not everyone has to play the same class to get the new items).
Still some element of luck of the draw, but you have a good idea based on your points each round of how long it’s going to take you, when the next unlock is coming up, etc. And no more idling or achievement unlock servers. There would be servers built for players to farm points, but that sounds suspiciously like “playing the game” to me. ;)
Harkonis has been really good about letting me know if the server isn’t connected to Steam anymore, but in case anyone else sees it, just let me know and I will update and restart it.
Adree
3258
I want to say they upped the droprate because I’ve gotten like 6 different items today (and about the same amount of dupes) but I may have just been lucky.
I can’t connect to any servers at all! Everyone is having fun except me! I SEE YOU GUYS HAVING FUN IN THERE. I SEE YOU GUYS IN GRIMEDGE.
Stop it.
It feels upped to me as well, I’ve gotten a lot more stuff today. All of it dupes, but, hey, stuff.
