There may be players with orders of magnitude more hours of play time than me.
But I’ll have a medal.
Thanks Bret37.
Boo no more medals.
I like the FaN changes, I suspect I’ll be a little more effective as Pyro against Scouts again.
Yay and boo. I think it’ll prevent me from absent mindedly backstabbing while cloaked and help me be not quite the least effective spy ever.
The Engie teleporter repair changes are interesting. I think they make a lot of sense from an Engie’s perspective. It makes spies running to the back a less devastating tactic, and might even discourage spawn camping a little as a result, which I think is probably a good thing. I can also see if from a perspective that totally failing to repair still destroys teles, but its not really fun to run across an empty level, and this reduces that a bit.
Is the medal displayed on your character or something?
There’s a new “misc” slot in addition to the hat slot. The medal is the first misc body accessory.
I tried checking the TF2 forums but didn’t come up with anything. I was playing a pyro last night and spychecking around a sniper with a huntsman. Lo and behold, he fires an arrow, while my flame thrower was over him, and a flaming arrow shot out. Firstly, is this new? Secondly, is this purely cosmetic, or is there an actual effect like additional damage or immolation like the flare gun? Anyone?
It’s not new, I think it’s been there since the Hunstman was released. I think it lights the target on hit, and it gets a special “flaming arrow” kill icon.
I think the arrow will stay lit until it’s fired, or the Sniper cancels the arrow being drawn.
The arrow stays lit in flight. Thats cool to know though. I guess because I recently started playing Pyro and I never play sniper I just hadn;t seen it yet.
Thanks for the info!
I think (not sure) you can actually light a friendly sniper’s arrow mid-flight as well.
Jab
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Did they ever improve the drop rates of the hats? I decided to play for a few hours last night and I never got a hat drop, but I did see one person with a hat unlocked.
Just played the new sawmill king of the hill map, and it was a great time. They’ve also added new losing animations. You run around with you hands waving in the air, it is hilarious.
Also, the pyro sort of…poses. If there was any doubt remaining.
I read that you can blowback an enemy sniper’s arrows, but I’ve never had the opportunity. Has anyone pulled this off?
Yea, I’ve done it a couple of times. It is not easy. Arrows are a hell of a lot faster than rockets.
You can also do it with the scouts baseball. I haven’t managed that one yet but I did find that on rare occasions thrown projectiles can connect in mid air. Coming down the 2fort sewer stairs as a sniper I met a scout at the bottom. I threw my jarate, he launched his ball and they hit mid air and ricocheted off each other. That is super rare though, I’ve only seen it that one time.
Strato
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That feature has been around since the sniper/spy update as well I believe, but very hard to pull off. I’ve only ever seen it happen once.
Also, just noticed that now you can’t stun ubercharged enemies with the sandman, the scout achievement the Big Hurt conditions have been changed to stunning two medics ready to deploy their ubercharge.
Just something else that didn’t appear in the release notes I think.
I managed to get in earlier when they were giving away the soldier’s medal. I wore it proudly while playing last night, thinking that I’d finally have something to stand out. I got my first non-weapon drop too. It was… the soldier’s medal.
Sigh.
Edit: Apparently it just took a few deaths for it to show up, so it’s not actually duplicated. Hooray!
True. PL_SwiftWater is a great map. How that map keeps being ignored is beyond me.
Can’t wait until next week and my schedule changes for the the start of school and I can play more.
-Tim
Cyranix
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Is there a special reflected-arrow kill icon?
Make sure you’re always signed into the Friends bit of Steam. For while I didn’t bother with it because of all the invites, but I’ve never had a weapon drop while signed out.
