Author Topic: Team Fortess 2 now FREE (Read 17946 times)

SixthAngel · « **Reply #25 on:** July 23, 2011, 02:28:16 PM »

I like that they release updated weapons and stuff but the updates are ridiculous. The current update is something like 3 1/2 gigs. That's almost an entire freaking game and it only seems to be bugfixes. Not only are some of them huge but I get smaller updates every other day, its pretty annoying.

SixthAngel · « **Reply #26 on:** August 04, 2011, 02:32:01 AM »

I really like Team Fortess but Steam continues to be horrible.

I go to buy my first game over the weekend, Vampire the Masquerade:Bloodlines on sale for $5 bucks, and Steam won't go through with the sale and confirm my credit card. This is the same major credit card that was accepted for Minecraft and I was able to use to renew my drivers license online last week. Steam can't confirm it for apparently no reason at all and keeps telling me to try again in a few minutes. Shitty updates and stuff is okay but when Steam can't function as a store, which is the entire point of the damn thing, it is pathetic. I opted out of contacting customer service because the last time I did it took them over a week to respond with something that was too late to help. This is unacceptable from a videogame store. As far as I'm concerned there should be someone I can call but if email is the only way to do it the mail should be back the same day. With the deal officially over I will now probably not try to buy anything from the store for a long, long time and certainly won't be getting anything I was on the fence about.
That means no friends list in TF2 for a long time :-[

Morari · « **Reply #27 on:** August 04, 2011, 11:43:43 AM »

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines is hands down one of the best RPGs ever made! The dialogue and voice acting is still leagues beyond a lot of games today. Sadly, the game had a rocky development cycle thanks to the woefully underdeveloped Source engine. This shows through in a few places, such as clunky combat scenarios and the entire last act of the plot. If you're a fan of the property (I've been playing the P&P game for over a decade!) then you should check out VtM: Redemption as well. I know it's available on Good Old Games at least.

As for your specific troubles. I've never had any issues like that. There are still plenty of reasons to hate Steam DRM though.

Ceric · « **Reply #28 on:** August 04, 2011, 12:11:41 PM »

*shrug* I can't say I can hate Steam DRM because I just download Steam Login and my new computer is ready for my games.

Morari · « **Reply #29 on:** August 04, 2011, 12:46:42 PM »

They would have been ready quicker if you had just popped in the disc though. Steam is ridiculously slow to download most of the time, and downright pathetic if you have more than one thing going on with it.

Ceric · « **Reply #30 on:** August 04, 2011, 01:59:15 PM »

Quote from: Morari on August 04, 2011, 12:46:42 PM

They would have been ready quicker if you had just popped in the disc though. Steam is ridiculously slow to download most of the time, and downright pathetic if you have more than one thing going on with it.

True. I wish they get rid of the download cap or whatever is throttling. I have a 24mb/sec (Normally get about 21mb/sec) Why am I downloading at 100-300kb/sec

SixthAngel · « **Reply #31 on:** August 04, 2011, 09:01:18 PM »

Quote from: Morari on August 04, 2011, 11:43:43 AM

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines is hands down one of the best RPGs ever made!

Rubbing salt in the wounds.

Morari · « **Reply #32 on:** August 04, 2011, 09:32:17 PM »

:P :P :P

If you ever get around to purchasing it, make sure you download and install the Unofficial Patch. Thanks to the brilliant community surrounding the game, it has seen several fan patches to fix additional bugs, re-enabled cut features, and even add some new stuff. There are other great mods as well, but they come down to interest and taste, whereas the Unofficial Patch is essential.

Morari · « **Reply #33 on:** August 05, 2011, 12:19:47 PM »

There's some pretty cool items for TF2 right now. They come with various Bethesda and iD games, which are all on sale during QuakeCon.

The Quake1 rocket launcher is particularly appealing...

ShyGuy · « **Reply #34 on:** August 06, 2011, 02:53:25 PM »

Quake 1 invented the rocket jump, right?

Morari · « **Reply #35 on:** August 06, 2011, 09:44:57 PM »

Yep, and is still the most infamous rocket launcher to ever grace a game. It's visual style, speed and splash damage still makes it the weapon of choice in QuakeWorld.

Of course, it's even more fitting seeing as Team Fortress started out as a Quake1 mod. :)

S-U-P-E-R · « **Reply #36 on:** August 07, 2011, 05:39:49 AM »

*one-shots freshly spawned guy*

What do I gotta buy to get the classic RL?

Morari · « **Reply #37 on:** August 07, 2011, 11:41:42 AM »

Quake IV.

If you haven't played it before, it might be worth the $20. It's definitely the weakest game in the Quake series. There are some good mods out there that try to further emphasize the squad based gameplay. The co-op mods work particularly well. The multiplayer runs almost exactly like the coveted Quake III Arena once you throw a few tweaks at it. :)

S-U-P-E-R · « **Reply #38 on:** August 07, 2011, 04:28:59 PM »

Yeah, I played through Quake IV back when it was new, so I'm not gonna drop 20 bucks on it unless I suddenly become rich.

SixthAngel · « **Reply #39 on:** August 07, 2011, 09:24:41 PM »

They may have suckered me into actually buying something from the Mann Co. store. I didn't realize free players have an item limit of 50 and I reached the limit the other day and now have been deleting all my duplicates. Since some of the items change the gameplay a lot I may pick up something. I see guys playing with the Dead Ringer and I really want it, but I would rather buy something cheap and unlock it later.

Does anyone know what the absolute cheapest thing is? Looking online it seems to be keys. Assuming the shop works for me is it really true that I need to put 5 dollars in my "wallet" instead of just buying something? That seems like stupid xboxlive points stuff and I don't really expect it on the PC.

S-U-P-E-R · « **Reply #40 on:** August 07, 2011, 09:51:41 PM »

I think the cheapest item is 50 cents. If you buy keys, I'll give you a couple crates to open if you don't have any, because I have a mountain of them

SixthAngel · « **Reply #41 on:** August 07, 2011, 10:21:53 PM »

Since I have to plunk down 5 bucks already I'll probably go for a key and take you up on that offer. I had some crates but I deleted them all because they were just wasting my limited item slots. Can crates be any item or are they limited to specific ones? Its frankly pretty ingenious of them to have several roadblocks you hit while playing the game to see which one brings you to buy something. I'd be upset but this game is well worth the pittance I'll put down.

Can I buy games with stuff in the wallet or just Mann Co. crap? I would really like my leftover money go to a future purchase instead of hats and keys.

On the game itself. Who at Valve thinks that "no random crits" is a big negative? They can save your ass sometimes but a weapon that you know is going to critical hit somebody or do something else every time is so much better since you can plan your attack around it. For example, I can't see myself ever using the regular shotgun for the engineer when sentry kills give you critical hits with the other one.

tformsopti8 · « **Reply #42 on:** August 08, 2011, 08:30:21 PM »

This is very interesting. They are giving the game away but hoping to make money on in-game item purchases. I don't really like micro transactions.

Morari · « **Reply #43 on:** August 08, 2011, 09:35:30 PM »

There are really quite a lot of titles going that route. Most are MMOs though.

I guarantee that Valve has made more than a respectable profit off of Team Fortress 2. Giving it away at this point is more to to promote Steam anything. Same with Alien Swarm. As is, I haven't noticed anything in the MannCo store that can't be acquired simply by playing.

SixthAngel · « **Reply #44 on:** August 09, 2011, 01:19:42 AM »

Quote from: tformsopti8 on August 08, 2011, 08:30:21 PM

I don't really like micro transactions.

I hate them too. Everything is available to you without buying with a few caveats.
Items are given out randomly and given for gettting certain achievments to pay and non-paying people. That might mean that the item you really want might take some time to get but you can get it for free.
The free version is limited to only 50 items. Now this is a lot of items but there are many more in the game. You can delete some if you want to get others.
Free members can't initiate trades to get new items.
Hats don't seem to randomly drop but they don't effect gameplay at all.
With any purchase no matter how small you get bumped to the paid version so it costs as little as 50 cents. Whenever Valve can sort out their problems with me paying I'll do it once and get bumped up.

SixthAngel · « **Reply #45 on:** August 11, 2011, 09:57:31 PM »

They fixed my problem sort of. I can now buy things from the store but only from a specific version of the Steam website. I can't even use the Steam client to buy things making it just a bloated piece of drm/ad machine. They sent me an email saying they fixed the problem with a link that said "use this to complete your purchase." I thought that it would lead me to a place where I could finish buying the sale item from the weekend. Nope. Just a new link to the store, what I wanted to get no longer exists.

Can I take you up that offer for an item box SUPER? Steam ID spinningcats

S-U-P-E-R · « **Reply #46 on:** August 15, 2011, 07:53:20 PM »

I kinda want a cool soldier hat and the Quake rocket launcher if someone wants to trade theirs for some other hats or something!

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