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Turra posted:So the winter noisemakers work again! Last year I had it bound to go off whenever I fire, but is there a way to just have it go off all the time after waiting or something? Bind the use of it to WASD. Also I just got out of a match where a Engy was using the SS and it 100% shuts down any and ALL Kritz pushes. Flat out you cannot do anything. Until you say gently caress that guy and just blow his team up instead.
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MeinGott posted:Bind the use of it to WASD. bind "mouse1" "+attack; use_action_slot_item" bind "mouse2" "+attack2; use_action_slot_item" bind "SHIFT" "use_action_slot_item" bind "CTRL" "+duck; use_action_slot_item" bind "ALT" "use_action_slot_item" bind "TAB "showscores; use_action_slot_item" bind "space" "+jump; use_action_slot_item" bind "q" "lastinv; use_action_slot_item" bind "w" "+forward; use_action_slot_item" bind "a" "+moveleft; use_action_slot_item" bind "s" "+back; use_action_slot_item" bind "d" "+moveright; use_action_slot_item" bind "e" "voicemenu 0 0; use_action_slot_item" bind "r" "+reload; use_action_slot_item" bind "1" "slot1; use_action_slot_item" bind "2" "slot2; use_action_slot_item" bind "3" "slot3; use_action_slot_item" bind "4" "slot4; use_action_slot_item" bind "5" "slot5; use_action_slot_item"
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Dec 20, 2013 21:05
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Reiley posted:I think that's intended, its like a close-range damage stream but outside of that its worthless. I'm sure it's much more balanced on not-2fort pubs. Rename yourself THOR THE ODINSON and say you're hunting cyclopes. Then kill all demomen.
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Dec 20, 2013 21:06
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I just got a Delivered Giftapult Package This package was delivered by Giftapult from a random online stranger. You can open it from your backpack. http://steamcommunity.com/id/otacon/inventory/#440_2_2173528429 Wacky! Zany! Thanks for the gun, random online stranger!
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Dec 20, 2013 21:13
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The Short Circuit seems kind of ridiculous now but part of me wants it to stay that way. That poor thing's been waiting for this kind of limelight for years 
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Dec 20, 2013 21:17
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The #1 Fan set now has a consistant theme and there's a good reason to use it all in a single set! Be able to jump everywhere. 
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Dec 20, 2013 21:18
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Wow, don't uber a soldier if the other team is using the Short Circuit. I just shut one down HARD. I wouldn't even let the poor guy rocket jump 
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Dec 20, 2013 21:27
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Otacon posted:bind "mouse1" "+attack; use_action_slot_item" My noisemaker thanks you. 
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Dec 20, 2013 21:30
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Dr Pepper posted:The #1 Fan set now has a consistant theme and there's a good reason to use it all in a single set! I want them to add itemset tombstones for everything, especially the #1 Fan set though after these changes.
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Dec 20, 2013 21:31
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I just gave the Short Circuit a quick run before work, and it's pretty brutal. If you get the drop on a Demoman or a Soldier without a Shotgun, you can decimate them. They're not fast enough to run away and you're quick enough to stay out of their melee range. I know that they're trying to make the new festive weapons more distinct this year, but they're really, really gaudy. I feel bad enough about my tacky Ubersaw from last year, but the only one I really like this year is the Wrangler. I'm sure that'll be the most expensive one. Edit: Oh, the GRU look quite nice, actually! They're very classy in black, like the Ambassador. The Sapper is a bit much, I was hoping for a Red-Tape Recorder that plays cheesey Christmas songs. Magypsy fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Dec 20, 2013 |
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Dec 20, 2013 21:34
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Aw It's such a shame that the TF2VR item says it conflicts with other hats. It's a pair of glasses damnit 
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Dec 20, 2013 21:34
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Oh tf2 lords, let us join a server for mann up and not this ???? thing all the time.
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Dec 20, 2013 21:54
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Servers are going up and down more than a fat guy drowning in the ocean. If you want to "play" tf2 (wtf is that?????) you'll be better off trying again later.
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Dec 20, 2013 22:04
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Are you a bad enough dude to create a Collector's Festive Flare Gun? http://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/440/Collector%27s%20Festive%20Flare%20Gun%20Chemistry%20Set Oh, and while the servers were up and the shop was working, I managed to uncrate a strange festive Eyelander. It looks like a plastic toy sword! 
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Dec 20, 2013 22:05
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looks like the strange short circuits and anything else short circuit are about to get a lot more valuable.
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Dec 20, 2013 22:10
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Use the Short Circuit around the cart on payload offense. Free metal from the cart + minis + no-rocket-zone = a huge pain in the rear end for the red team.
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Dec 20, 2013 22:16
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If you're parked behind a Lv3 Sentry, standing on your Lv3 Dispenser, can you equip the SC and use tape to hold down M1 and walk away? That's the question.
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Dec 20, 2013 22:19
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The Soda Popper's new feature actually has the potential to make Scout useful in Payload and A/D maps. I just quad-jumped over a Demoman's sticky bomb trap and shot him in the back. He had no idea how to handle that.
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Dec 20, 2013 22:20
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The change to the Soda Popper is amazing and serves as an aerial alternative to the BFB at the tradeoff of being what's more or less the crappiest scattergun damage-wise. Well worth it!
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Dec 20, 2013 22:28
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Yeah, if you've got the Winger out you can get some amazing height and distance. On the wide open maps you can just float over any explosives class no problem
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Dec 20, 2013 22:32
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I love these refurbished items. I wonder if, after a couple rounds of refurbs, they'll be introducing new ones (the easter egg teasers suggest but then there's always the Scout Detail)
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Dec 20, 2013 22:35
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I got a non-Strange Festive Jarate and that nice all-class top hat from the crates. At least with the former I'll know someone will be buying them up to make a Collector set, so it's good that they found a use for those other than clogging up the item schema. Afterwards I sent my old Pyromancer Mask off via catapult, and the person who received it had a [Pyroteam] tag in their name, so clearly I did good this Christmas. Also that Short Circuit spam is viciously loud, holy hell.
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Dec 20, 2013 22:36
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Reiley posted:I love these refurbished items. I wonder if, after a couple rounds of refurbs, they'll be introducing new ones (the easter egg teasers suggest but then there's always the Scout Detail) The Soda Popper in particular is a completely different weapon now. I'm thinking of just wiping the kills off the Strange one I have to start fresh.
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Dec 20, 2013 22:38
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The Short Circuit buff sounds awful. It basically makes it impossible for Soldiers or Demos, the two classes who are best at breaking sentry nests, to break a sentry nest.
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Dec 20, 2013 22:39
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LAY-ZX posted:The Short Circuit buff sounds awful. It basically makes it impossible for Soldiers or Demos, the two classes who are best at breaking sentry nests, to break a sentry nest. Team co-ordination is the best at breaking sentry nests. It'll just be harder for demomen and soldiers to Rambo them down now.
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LAY-ZX posted:The Short Circuit buff sounds awful. It basically makes it impossible for Soldiers or Demos, the two classes who are best at breaking sentry nests, to break a sentry nest. This has always been the case though. It's just that it was so terrible as a weapon before that it wasn't worth it either way.
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Keep in mind they would have to sub out the Wranger to use it, so it's not really any worse than what you'd be dealing with anyway.
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Also it chews through metal fast, so while it does shut down soldiers, the engie is pretty much only has the advantage for only about ten seconds, and if another class shows up, he screwed.
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Dec 20, 2013 22:44
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I feel like the immediate reactions to the Short Circuit are somewhat kneejerky. The big reason the old Short Circuit sucked was because even if you were using it well you couldn't hope to keep up with a Soldier or Demo's firing rate because the thing was just so drat slow. And if an Engineer runs around trying to rambo you with the thing just shotgun him or melee him because he's gotta be in melee range for the thing to damage anyway. You just treat a Short Circuit Engie like a Pyro.
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Strange Short Circuits just jumped up an entire Ref in worth.
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Dec 20, 2013 22:58
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If you guys don't want to have to fart around in valve servers, feel free to hang out in mine. 74.91.112.13:27015
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Fojar38 posted:Team co-ordination is the best at breaking sentry nests. It'll just be harder for demomen and soldiers to Rambo them down now. Requiring teamwork to get poo poo done is a great thing to put in a game. Requiring teamwork to take down one person is not fair and shouldn't be a real thing. If you want it to require teamwork to kill a sentry then it should require teamwork to keep one alive, not just a lone engineer tanking the poo poo out of it with cheesy weapons.
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RareAcumen posted:Strange Short Circuits just jumped up a whole Ref in worth. They don't have strange Short Circuits yet. Also, there's pretty much no reason for a Blu engie on a Payload map to not run the Short Circuit now. He can just sit on the cart and basically be immune to explosive spam.
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RareAcumen posted:Strange Short Circuits just jumped up a whole Ref in worth. I have a feeling Genuines will ramp up in price for a while, then drop off again once folks realize a key for one is a stupid price, kind of like the strange Quick-Fix (though that ended up finding a good middle ground price at 3.33 ref). I wonder how Soda Popper prices will be affected by the change to it. It's currently at 5 ref because you could just cheese a bunch of easy crit kills to build it up. Now that you actually have to do some fancy maneuvering to get a kill with it, I wonder if people will value it less.
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Opened 5 Naughty Crates, got 4 festives and 1 Strange Festive Sapper. Listed the 7 Naughty Crates I had left on the Steam Market - going rate was 11 cents each. After many retries, I finally got them all listed for $.10 Refreshed the Crate page, prices have since jumped to $.25 for each crate. Whoops!
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This is where people learn the value of keeping at least one of every weapon, even the lovely ones.
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Holy poo poo, all three soldier backpacks working in tandem on a hard push will absolutely destroy any defense. I waa running Backup soldier with a Concheror and Banner soldier and we managed to pull off the backpacks at the same time on Viaduct and we absolutely steamrolled the other team. Smissmas miracle indeed, Valve. 
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Lori posted:Requiring teamwork to get poo poo done is a great thing to put in a game. Requiring teamwork to take down one person is not fair and shouldn't be a real thing. If you want it to require teamwork to kill a sentry then it should require teamwork to keep one alive, not just a lone engineer tanking the poo poo out of it with cheesy weapons. There's still a large opportunity cost of time involved in getting a level 3 set up, though. Without the Wrangler shield or Short Circuit projectile clearing stopping you, busting sentries is laughably easy as either explosive class, and both defense options still make the Engineer even more of a sitting duck. If there are flanking routes in the map (and any good map should have them), then it doesn't require a tremendous amount of effort for a team to send a lone saboteur to stop the Engineer from even getting the chance to set up.
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Magypsy posted:It's the buff nobody was expecting! Oh my god. It's like a taser-based chainsaw. The smissmas circuitsaw massacre. 
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Lori posted:Requiring teamwork to get poo poo done is a great thing to put in a game. Requiring teamwork to take down one person is not fair and shouldn't be a real thing. If you want it to require teamwork to kill a sentry then it should require teamwork to keep one alive, not just a lone engineer tanking the poo poo out of it with cheesy weapons. It does require teamwork to keep one alive. If I don't have teammates actively helping to defend my stuff then I'll almost never get a full sentry nest built, much less keep it alive against a co-ordinated push. Plus Engineers typically need to pay attention to a bunch of things in order to maintain the sentry nest, including spy-checking, repairing, watching ammo, keeping metal up, and keeping an eye out for incoming pushes. It's not hard to catch the engineer distracted by something else, and if they have to concentrate entirely on stopping rockets and grenades coming at them then most likely they're also vulnerable to a backstab or headshot, and good luck trying to get rid of rockets and grenades while also keeping your sentry repaired or knocking sappers off of it.
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