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I don't care at all that it's piss, but with the amount of community rage they should probably just change it to beer or something else instead.
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I think piss is fitting because they're turning him into a survivalist hunter type and he's using all the resources he can. I had no idea people would get so "pissed" off about it.
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plus it's a reference to Meet the Sniper, where you see all these jars of piss in his tower

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i wonder if you just run over ammo boxes to refill the jar.....or if you have to do it another way (with full animations)
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i wonder if you just run over ammo boxes to refill the jar.....or if you have to do it another way (with full animations)
why not cut the middle man and just have sniper pee on bad guys?
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Valve just shot themselves in the foot.

I don't know how much the rest of you know about FPS culture (I'm an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. It's not like it is in MMORPGs where you can become successful by being an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. If you screw someone over in an FPS, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.

What this means is the FPS public, after hearing about this, is not going to want to purchase Team Fortress 2, nor will they purchase any of Valve's games. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but Valve has alienated an entire market with this move.

Valve, publicly apologize and remove Jarate from TF2 or you can kiss your business goodbye. i demand

...What?
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Whoa, I think they really sunk the backburner more by giving the regular flamethrower a few buffs (can remove afterburn with airblast, airblasting shit while kritzkrieged returns the shit as critical shit.)

I mean, the damage boost was pretty wonky to pull off before and also really insignificant but now the regular has another attribute to it that raises it above bb. Also afterburn just got even more useless.


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I'm still updating so I can't tell so please confirm this: Spy can now do a spycrab taunt with the disguise kit?
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...What?

You Heard Me!! I do NOT like Jarate.

That’s right, you have the young gaming with the old(er), white people gaming with black people, men and women, Asian countries gaming with the EU, North Americans gaming with South Americans. Much like world sporting events like the Wolrd Cup, or the Olympics will bring together different nations in friendly competition, (note the recent Asian Cup; Iraq vs. Saudi Arabia, no violence there) we come together. The differences being, we are not divided by our nationalities and we do it 24-7, and on a personal level.

We are a community without borders and without colours, the spirit and diversity of the gaming community is one that should be looked up to, a spirit and diversity other groups should strive toward.
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Man, thanks to all the homos bitching about getting all the new shit through achievements you no longer get them through achievements but rather, through luck. So thanks. Thanks a lot.

Now the achievements are like in any other game: pointless. And you can't work to get all the new stuff, you just have to wait instead for an undetermined time (I was playing 1½ hours and one guy in the entire server said he got a new weapon).
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I'd rather have it this way than achievement farming.
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Yes.
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 May I borrow your earpiece? 'This is Scout, rainbows make me cry! Over!'

That’s right, you have the young gaming with the old(er), white people gaming with black people, men and women, Asian countries gaming with the EU, North Americans gaming with South Americans. Much like world sporting events like the Wolrd Cup, or the Olympics will bring together different nations in friendly competition, (note the recent Asian Cup; Iraq vs. Saudi Arabia, no violence there) we come together. The differences being, we are not divided by our nationalities and we do it 24-7, and on a personal level.

We are a community without borders and without colours, the spirit and diversity of the gaming community is one that should be looked up to, a spirit and diversity other groups should strive toward.
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The unlock system is starting to annoy me a bit.

At least I have the Dead Ringer though, which is pretty cool.
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You know, the only FAULT with tieing the items to achievements was that the achievements were ridiculous for the most part, like, one million fire damage (I'm barely past the 500k although I've played pyro now and then ever since the pyro update came out SUMMER LAST YEAR), 2000 assists on heavy, uber a soldier who kills 5 people with the rocket launcher, 100 underwater kills with heavy where both you and victim need to be underwater (note the lack of water in 9 out of 10 maps in the game) etc. dumb shit.

I haven't really researched the current achievements but they seemed pretty easy and something you would do in the process of just playing the game normally. Like headshot 10 snipers, this is something you do normally, a fair amount too. Get 3 headshots in a row, again, easy and you can get this by just playing the game not even knowing about the achievement.

But it made sense that you EARNED the new guns, instead of just waiting forthem to appear for you, and apparently with the current system you just wait for them to appearand you might even get ones that you already have so uhh...

It's great if you just bought the game or are trying itbecause of the free weekend deal but it's still really dumb because you have ZERO control over it. There's no way to make the % higher afaik.

Fortunately I've heard rumours of them going back to achievement based items after the free weekend is over so all is not lost.
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Anyone else having a problem connecting to a server? Every game I try to get into, I get some error message stating that the server is forcing consistency on a water.dx8 file; or some such nonsense.

I was able to play fine earlier today, game gets patched; then I cant play. Fun.
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Servers need to be updated? idk.
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The whole random drop thing lacks any kind of elegance, it's just baffling that valve would chose this half assed solution.
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man, I've played a lot yesterday and today and I've gotten one blutsauger and axe, both which I've already had for a year. And it's completely mindless and random, there is absolutely nothing you can do about it.
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3 blutsaugers, 2 FaNs and 1 axetinguisher. You know, they knew before they released this that you can't trade yet so why would you allow duplicates at this point. All they do is they hinder you from ever getting the new content which really blows because I play spy a LOT and all the new shit for snipers offers more interesting gameplay that isn't just point n click borefest.
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Yup, just played my first few hours of this update and this new unlock system definitely blows. At least give people weapons based on what they've been playing or something, I can't understand how they thought complete randomness might work.