Team Fortress 2, and my ideas for it

Agreed, I enjoyed it more than the other updates perhaps because it meant there was no specific class being rushed with and spammed in an attempt to use weapons/do achievements. The hats weren't really that good of an update themselves as the drop rate was so low, but the addition of KOTH, CTF Sawmill and the gameplay changes provided a good distraction for a long time.

On the subject of weapons, I'm still very much excited for the GRU and PDQ.

The only two weapons I like from the update are Jarate and the Cloak and Dagger. Jarate was a nice way for snipers to be more involved with their team and the cloak and dagger enhanced an already possible play style for the spy.

The Dead Ringer is just another annoyance and mild unbalance to the game, it promotes direct combat for the spy which he just isn't intended for. When I'm killed by the huntsman or ambassador I always feel I was cheated out of being alive. To quote the tf2 blog:

'Our starting theory was that, for death to be a positive experience, players had to feel like they could have avoided dying if they'd done something different'

Which I can honestly say never happens when I'm killed by either of the weapon mentioned. Maybe that's just me though.

Also the razorback was disappointing, not necessarily bad but I would've much preferred a melee weapons replacement.

This post has been edited by OmegaK on Nov 6 2009, 03:46 PM

The ambassador?

Dude, the ambassador is fine.

Revolver > Ambassador

Yeah, ambassador encourages the spy to pick his shots carefully.

Huntsman, however, I can agree with, even though I love using it. When I can spam arrows into the distance and randomly get a kill something's wrong.

Apparently Apoc, the 4chan party van server uses your hats.

If the huntsman was less "accurate" it would be a much better weapon.

The purpose of the dead ringer is to allow the spy to sneak behind enemy lines easier, not engage in direct combat :s

Sneak behind enemy lines easier? You mean like the other two watches?

On the whole ambassador thing, Regular kills from it are fine. Headshots however. are not. The way it was described on the update page actually made me believe they'd changed it last minute before release. I got the idea it would reward those for being accurate by doing more damage, yet if you missed you'd have to pay the price of time.

even though the current ambassador does still work similarly to that, 99% of headshots are due to luck and lag compensation.

This post has been edited by OmegaK on Nov 6 2009, 04:04 PM

No, you just run right up to where the enemies are and active it

damage reduction really helps when you're walking right in the line of fire(unless the line is literally of fire)

the other watches require you to sneak around the sides

Out of Interest, was there a definitive consequence settled for the GRU, or not? I seem to remember there was a version which drained 6 health when you had it out, one that did reduced damage, and one which did damage to you whether or not you had it readied (which would be silly as it'd encourage heavymedicing moreso for a weapon that is designed for the heavy to be versatile in melee, in which case he'd just use the KGB aided by a medic).

the purpose of the dead ringer is to cause a distraction when chased by enemies obviously

I'm glad someone's using my hats. I'm surprised it hasn't gotten more downloads by now.

dead ringer is best for being the most annoying spy an enginerd could ever ask for

One last crazy-ass skin for the road:
http://www.fpsbanana.com/skins/76576

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPb5b7cxeK4

We should play some of these sometime.

The initial release was absolute hell. Remember when spies could headshot your legs? And the sandman/FAN were bad until the most recent update for them. Of course as a career scout you'll disagree but for anyone else that doesn't main Scout and liked to be ubered and mobile at the same time, it was p. rough.

um... what

Also yeah, forgot how bad the Ambassador was at the beginning of the update.

This post has been edited by Lupo on Nov 6 2009, 04:55 PM

let's not forget taunting while cloaked

http://www.tf2items.com/profiles/76561197999468432

one of the most visited pages today OF ALL TIME today

1100 views or so. lol

edit: also i can't find my hats in game. it shows up on the tf2items.com page but not on my backpack. weird

This post has been edited by PSI Guy on Nov 6 2009, 05:45 PM