4081

Has anyone else been getting random frame rate drops? I’m running quad core win 7 computer and it seems that the game stutters, seems to happen more frequently when there are spies cloaking and decloaking .

4082

So what servers do you guys plan on? Just started playing and I’m horrific.

4083

Newbs TF2 is a nice server for me, and sometimes I hit Sons of Bedlam’s rotation server. Find yourself a 2fort server at a low ping, I’d suggest, and get the feel for it all. Then…eh, just play. It’s not the kind of game worth getting too competitive over, especially as most servers don’t even keep a real total beyond “Yay, we won this round!”

4084

With the sorts of things Valve has done with Team Fortress and the effects on the community, I can not help but wonder if there is a psychologist either on the payroll, or writing a thesis on behaviour of gaming communities.

The hat thing was more than enough to sit back, and wonder what goes through people’s heads. I had one guy I barely know last night ask me if I had Bill’s Cap, before changing his steam nickname advertising the fact that he was willing to buy Bill’s Cap. Good luck to him I guess.

4085

I’d love that hat. Alas.

4086

The Scout and Sniper set bonuses (25 health and headshot immunity respectively) are what I’d call pure buffs. There are tradeoffs built into the weapons, but those are meant for the weapons themselves. Imagine having only the weapons equipped; Somebody who has the entire set including the rare hat has a straight up advantage over you.

And yeah, I’m not that worried over it. The Pyro and Spy bonuses are better examples of design and I’d expect the others to eventually turn into something similar too.

4087

This may belong in the technical forum but what the hell - I used to see dozens of results on the server browser, but now it takes forever to refresh and comes back with maybe 10 servers. Any idea what may be causing this.

4088

They have one. He gives ideas about Steam sales and shit.

4089

Are we counting the three years of free considerably sized updates in this?

4090

2 years, if you count the free PC map packs and updates for MW1 and WaW.

4091

I wonder, though. Now that we have people paying for items, I can see a lot more rage resulting from dropping the +25 health off the scout set that somebody paid $15 dollars for versus dropping the health bonus off the backburner that nobody paid anything for.

4092

Tried buying something a few days ago and when checking out was told that checkout was currently unavailable. Two days later, same story.

I assume Valve doesn’t refund money in the wallet? But I can just buy Steam-games with it instead, right?

4093

Correct. Steam wallet funds can be used to buy anything on Steam.

4094

I bought L4D2 Tuesday when the Mac version was released, played a little TF2 last night and lo and behold, Valve sends me Ellis’ Hat and a frying pan as TF2 gifts for purchasing the game. I like Ellis’ Hat but I am loathe to wear any other headgear now other than the Grenadier’s Soft Cap, since that gives you actually bonuses (as Soldier, but I tend to mostly play soldier).

4095

i think they are trying to feel the market out with the pricing right now, seeing what the sweet spot is. sort of like blizzard selling the sparkle pony for $20 just to see if they could get it.

4096

Hey, I got the cheater’s lament. And I cheated like crazy with that app.

4097

Surprised this hasn’t been mentioned yet. Hope Valve keeps doing it. Stark raving lunatics buy the items and normal people can find them or trade for them. It’s sorta like what Blizzard wanted to do with Starcraft 2 only not as stupid since everyone can get the new goodies without spending money.

4098

Nice payday for those modders/builders though.

— Alan

4099

Holy crap. That’s a lot of $17 hats.

4100

what the F did they do with that soldier contest