TF2: 2nd Halloween update

In Short:

• 50% off the game

Always nice

• Boss

Ai controled, it's the guy in the pic. chases you around with a giant axe at scout speed and 1 shots anyone.

• New achivements

Pretty much like last year, some of them earn you the new items.

• New lvl4 metal

Dropped by boss, used to craft all the new items, but limited to 1

• New hats

The boss head and the paper bag masks are event based. The others are available in the store and you can craft one of 2 of them, but it's random so u don't get to pick which one.

• New weapon

You can use the metal to make the Boss' axe for the demoman. Stat and effect wise, it's the Eyelander, just looks different.

Refer to the TF2 Wiki for the recipes.

Couple of things

As I hinted before, I was working on a TF2 hat, yesterday i finished it

I've submitted it to Valve as "The Buffoon's Bells", Although if it does get picked, they might change the name.

I'm looking for ideas for another hat to make, if anyone has good ones let me know.

If anyone's intrested in seeing how that hat looks ingame, i made a gibus replacement version of it and i can upload it on my next post if someone's interested.

On a sidenote, Skype sent me this email about their new version today, which i fixed.

The video feature on Skype always uses the latest Direct X version, in the case of Skype 5, it uses Direct X 11.

In fact if you're using XP, you're losing features with this new version, it's a direct downgrade.

I can understand games using the latest direct X, but a chat app? It's not like it does anything amazing or unheard of either.

Soul Reaving Samurai

I don't think I'll ever get tired of how easily Gary can pass himself off as a reference to some other character due to his generic design.

My secret project

Shhh... It's a secret.

Oekaki is down indefinitely

Cable guy came by to upgrade my connection and he replaced the modem. It's a fancy ass wireless modem that acts like a router too, and i don't know how to get around it to host stuff.

As an apology for the Oekaki being down, have a funny video:

Pumpy loves naked girls

...but he's not very smart nor tactical about it.

Finally done collecting the new crap

It took a long time, but I'm finally done getting all the new items with the obvious exception of the set hats.

Said hats are a big issue on the steam forums right now.

If you don't know, with the last TF2 update, Valve fucked up, again, and created the concept of sets. In a FPS, giving players a stat boost for using a specific loadout seems unnecessary unless you want to openly admit these new weapons suck, which I'm assuming they don't.

The "no limit to buildings" bug briefly came back yesterday

And to me, the entire problem is the concept of set bonuses.

But to others, the problem is the fact that those sets include a hat to b complete, a hat that, by itself has no stats, but with the other items magically provides some. So in a way, the hats provide stats, and thus, affect gaming, and thus, should b made available easily.

Since this makes perfect sense, Valve thought otherwise.

I've made a topic on the steam forums explaining how insane the cost of the new items was and how crafting any of the new items is totally unrealistic: here.

In short, it should take 52 weeks, 1 year, to save items to craft all of the new hats. hats which affect gameplay.

Another guy made a similar topic here addressing that issue along with some other ones.

I love freezecams like this.

Valve has done some incredibly poor choices when it comes to TF2 (DROP SYSTEM!), but this might have been the last straw seeing as it involves money. They can't easily go back on the set bonuses without having people who bought it in the shop being horribly pissed.

But honestly, these people are a minority, and they obviously have the money to spend so i don't feel sorry for the at all, some of them even brag on having tons of money.

It'd b nice to b able to enjoy an update without valve implementing an annoying MMORPG element into the game to make it less and less enjoyable.

On a side note: Useful link if you're thinking about painting a hat.

Pollyanna

This is a song about optimists, and how stupid you are for being one.