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I was pleasantly surprised when I accidentally equipped my voodoo-cursed Pyro soul along with my Filamental last night:
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| # ? May 24, 2013 14:29 |
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| # ? May 25, 2013 12:54 |
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Cheater's Lament + Googol Glass Eyes + Filamental = the best.
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| # ? May 24, 2013 14:54 |
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Well I finally acquired my first unusual a couple of days ago - a Stainless Pot with Haunted Ghosts effect. It's not a Tyrant's Helm but I'm proud to be a member of the ghost gang nonetheless. With that said, I wish I had bought a Medic unusual now, since it always falls on me to play medic on my favorite servers  
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| # ? May 24, 2013 15:08 |
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The Electronaut posted:Cheater's Lament + Googol Glass Eyes + Filamental = the best. Am I the only person who doesn't like the Googol Glass Eyes? They look great as a still, but the pixel pupils just slide around like the old Eyes, which looks so much worse than if they'd had a solid jiggleboned pupil and tucked it behind a white grid so the pixels would lighten and darken without actually moving. It wouldn't be exactly like real pixels but it also wouldn't make me VERISIMILITUDE RAGE ARGH
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| # ? May 24, 2013 15:37 |
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I don't like them, and to be totally honest, I never even noticed that they change or move, or whatever. There's just not really anything gripping about them that would make me use them in a loadout.
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| # ? May 24, 2013 15:53 |
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I think it's a cute name, but I don't care for the way they look either. Filamental looks amazing and is the best pyro thing there is, though.
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| # ? May 24, 2013 16:06 |
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Parachute posted:Thanks for the advice, guys. It looks like I'm definitely going to have to go the "buying keys" route and will end up spending $25 on a hat or so. I've got plenty of Unusuals for sale, stranger.  http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...hreadid=3507625
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| # ? May 24, 2013 16:40 |
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Captain Invictus posted:I've got plenty of Unusuals for sale, stranger. Haven't seen you a while, stranger! I think we used to be Steam/WOW friends like a decade ago...Let's rekindle some of that magick. Edit: Holy cripes those are some great/expensive hats, but none are what I'm looking for, sadly. I'm hoping to try to find a Tam O'Shanter, a Stove Pipe, or a Glengarry bonnet, and those go for ~10/20 keys depending on the effect according to backpack.tf. Parachute fucked around with this message at May 24, 2013 around 17:07 |
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event over!
White Dog Eggs fucked around with this message at May 24, 2013 around 23:02 |
| # ? May 24, 2013 22:18 |
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I just started to play again after pretty like like 6 years of not playing. I played a lot when the game first came out, but stopped before the items were out there. Can you drop your own items that you pick up and equip? Can you find really rare stuff, or are those only from crates / buying them? I assume there is no other way to get keys other then $ or trading? What should I do with boxes if I cant open them? What are some items to look out for in hopes of being able to get a bit of a supply of items to stop around with?
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| # ? May 24, 2013 22:48 |
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Twinkie Fat Sac posted:I just started to play again after pretty like like 6 years of not playing. I played a lot when the game first came out, but stopped before the items were out there. Can you drop your own items that you pick up and equip? Can you find really rare stuff, or are those only from crates / buying them? I assume there is no other way to get keys other then $ or trading? What should I do with boxes if I cant open them? What are some items to look out for in hopes of being able to get a bit of a supply of items to stop around with? 2) The only rare items you can get directly through (equally rare) drops are salvaged crates and two strange parts 2b) Salvaged crates can be sold for multiple keys if you don't plan on opening them. They only contain rarer strange weapons that will probably not be re-released (apart festives) and are also pricier. 2c) Of course, you can always open any crate and hope you do roll that lucky 1% chance of an unusual hat, those can get very valuable if extremely lucky. 3) Keys can be only obtained through trading or by buying them in either the Mann Co. Store or the Community Market. 4) Crates you will not open you can delete, give them away or just trade them for something you want, some non-salvaged crates are actually not thrash because they have a better chance of getting a valuable item if opened.
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| # ? May 24, 2013 23:18 |
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Twinkie Fat Sac posted:I just started to play again after pretty like like 6 years of not playing. I played a lot when the game first came out, but stopped before the items were out there. Can you drop your own items that you pick up and equip? Can you find really rare stuff, or are those only from crates / buying them? I assume there is no other way to get keys other then $ or trading? What should I do with boxes if I cant open them? What are some items to look out for in hopes of being able to get a bit of a supply of items to stop around with? Item drops just appear in your inventory when you're playing, you get a set number every week and they drop at intervals of roughly 1 hour (?) of playtime. Most common drops are weapons, which are mostly side-grades to the stock items but you can also get cosmetic items like hats and other miscellaneous clothing. Hats/miscs can be worth a decent bit, but the most valuable stuff is: Limited edition items from various promotions, hats with special visual effects (only from crates) and "Strange" items which count kills and other statistics (only from crates). 2 weapons from the same class can be crafted together into "scrap metal", 3 of those makes a "reclaimed metal" 3 of those makes a "refined metal", colloquially just referred to as scrap/rec/ref. Most weapons go for 1 scrap, most hats go for one to a couple of refined. Strange weapons are all over the place. There are a huge number of community sites with pricing information and trading centres to aid players in trading, so make use of those if you want to get into trading. The TF2 wiki is your friend! http://backpack.tf/ http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Main_Page
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| # ? May 24, 2013 23:19 |
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Attention anyone who uses the TF2B icons: we just pushed V9 last night. It contains all of the Don't Starve and on items, including the Robotic Boogaloo stuff! Grab it here.
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| # ? May 24, 2013 23:21 |
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Arnold of Soissons posted:Filamental looks amazing and is the best pyro thing there is, though. Pretty much this. I was pleasantly surprised when it was my third uncrate. To be honest, though, I don't play Pyro that much and was thinking about trading it, due to it being worth 2 keys at the moment, but I just can't do it. If I do play Pyro, I wanna play Pyro in style.
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| # ? May 24, 2013 23:25 |
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starfish prime posted:Well I finally acquired my first unusual a couple of days ago - a Stainless Pot with Haunted Ghosts effect. It's not a Tyrant's Helm but I'm proud to be a member of the ghost gang nonetheless. With that said, I wish I had bought a Medic unusual now, since it always falls on me to play medic on my favorite servers A fine hat. Wear it proudly. 
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| # ? May 24, 2013 23:42 |
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Did they make the flies more visible for the fly unusual effect? I've got it on a killer kabuto and I swear I'm seeing it more than I did about a year ago. (Speaking of unusuals, I had forgotten I have a circling peace sign gentleman's gatsby. I basically can't NOT use the Kritzkrieg anymore when I can be bothered to play medic.  )
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Ciaphas posted:Did they make the flies more visible for the fly unusual effect? I've got it on a killer kabuto and I swear I'm seeing it more than I did about a year ago. I forget how long ago but they made flies and fetti more noticeable quite a while ago. I may be the only person in the world who wasn't really happy about the changes to fetti (Now falls all around the person instead of directly down from the hat) because I got a lime g.fetti demofro just so I could name it "Unusual Weedfro" with the description "I got nugs fallin out of my hair!" p.s. Stainless Pot w/ Haunted Ghosts bros 4 lyfe
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| # ? May 24, 2013 23:50 |
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What's the ETA on crates providing consumables to add unusual effects to hats? 
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White Dog Eggs posted:event over! High shovel!
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| # ? May 25, 2013 00:09 |
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A night or two ago I ran into a random Harvest server where to my surprise, my team not only had six Soldiers, but only one of them was a rocket jumper. Unfortunately I didn't have a lot of time to hang around and play, but for what little I did I could only go Kritz Medic.
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| # ? May 25, 2013 00:15 |
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Anarch posted:Managed to get in for a few pallets, and dropped a few of my own. It was a pretty cool little event, I ended up with 45 robocrates (and a fuckload of normal crates).
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| # ? May 25, 2013 00:33 |
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Cybershell posted:Stainless Pot w/ Haunted Ghosts bros 4 lyfe starfish prime posted:a Stainless Pot with Haunted Ghosts effect There's maybe 21 of these in the entire world, and three or more of them are held by goons. :salute:
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| # ? May 25, 2013 00:37 |
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Family Business shotty Heavy is a surprisingly entertaining gimmick. Nobody expects those two extra shots; I was even surprised. It's like having limitless shotgun ammo, after getting used to the regular 6-shot version. It's good for catching players off-guard. I can't decide which gloves to pair it with, as you don't want to be taking mini-crits for the speed, but Fists of Steel slow weapon switch could be painful.
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| # ? May 25, 2013 01:04 |
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Go full mobster and rock the Eviction Notice. Use a mafia themed textbind after every kill.
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| # ? May 25, 2013 01:17 |
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Line Feed posted:Go full mobster and rock the Eviction Notice. Use a mafia themed textbind after every kill. Punch ragdolls on the floor while everyone waits for you to start picking teams.
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| # ? May 25, 2013 01:53 |
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Gotta say, playing TF2 for the first time since the steampipe and wow it's 100x faster to launch and connect I'm usually the first in now where I used to be the last.
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| # ? May 25, 2013 02:16 |
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Uncle Enzo posted:Huge gif ahoy  Eavesdropping on Enemies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwZj7MtPJOU&hd=1
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| # ? May 25, 2013 03:28 |
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You know, I like Foundry, but I don't like it when it is crawling with engineers on both sides. I was in two long games of Foundry that both ended in a stalemate thanks to all those engineers. Do they feel like they accomplished something? Do they feel pride in their transgressions? Do I have to keep being the only guy on my team that's actively trying to destroy their sentry guns and not, say, run into them over and over again as a Pyro or Scout like the rest of my team was doing? I got second place out of the stalemate. The first place score topper was a Phlog Pyro somehow dominating everybody on my team except me, because I didn't just walk into his crits a dozen times. And that's how Valve server push maps are played.
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| # ? May 25, 2013 06:28 |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0iVYuMK1I0 Here's a dumb replay from Rutas yesterday.
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| # ? May 25, 2013 07:32 |
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nerdbot posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0iVYuMK1I0 Activating the High Five is like turning Pubbie Magnet on.
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| # ? May 25, 2013 08:24 |
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Well, I found a new peak in Pyro gameplay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePXL91VzWWQ Airblast is one of the best mechanics to be around in an FPS. Edit: Dear god. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lr-pOXErY0 Bonus points for the best use of the Short Circuit I've seen SkySteak fucked around with this message at May 25, 2013 around 08:45 |
| # ? May 25, 2013 08:42 |
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Airblast feels like it locks player movement more than it should to me, compared to surfing explosions and poo poo.
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| # ? May 25, 2013 12:54 |
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Holy poo poo, that Short Circuit play  It's a pretty decent weapon when you remember it exists. Like, even when I equip it I forget why I have it there and what it does.
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