Team Fortress 2

[Waffuru]

Here's the changes for release, including the past 2 days updates.

Changes/Additions
Improved driver checks for various cards that can have problems with specific driver versions
Various updates to Russian and Polish localization
Spies can no longer reload their revolver while cloaked
Demomen grenades now collide with players and Engineer buildings after the first bounce, but still won't explode on contact
Improved startup network initialization to catch issues with server firewalls popping up in the background
Bug fixes
Fixed loading screen and intro movie showing up on Windows Vista with full screen AA
Fixed a sound corruption issue which could cause audio popping
Fixed achievement storage issues that caused a problem with the Head of the Class achievement

Changes/Additions
Team Goals panels stop appearing after you've played a map several times
At map time limit, Sudden Death now only kicks in if teams are drawn
Sudden Death only starts in CTF mode if both flags are at home
Team Fortress 2 stats are only gathered when playing a real game
Added the player class counts in the class selection dialog
Bug fixes
Fixed Heavy minigun exploit
Various fixes to localized text
Changes/Additions
Added a warning for when paged pool memory is low
Bug fixes
Fixed certain crashes with paged pool memory
Fixed some prediction errors with player avoidance
Fixed columns and row bunching up in server browser
Fixed a rare bug where the wrong launcher.dll was being used to launch the game
Fixed teleporter/spawn doorway exploit

[Super Buu]

For some reason which nobody knows, we can now play online games on the university network. So hit me up sometime, just bear in mind that I SUCK SUCK SUCK at online FPSes, and still barely know the classes.

[Waffuru]

whats your steamid so i can friend you

[Rem-13]

I'm gonna get in on this as soon as I stop having slow loving sex with portal.

[Super Buu]

Waffuru's added me, but steamid's Gregorz for anyone else that wants to add.

I played this for a good few hours tonight, and actually had fun once I got to grips with it. Watching people run into your turrets repeatedly dying over and over is fun. As are killing sprees with the Heavy. 8)

[Waffuru]

I'm going to start playing again now that I'm done with Portal (and it's cake, delicious cake).

[Alura]

Portal is meh for me. Kinda repetitive.

I couldn't give my opinion on TF2 because...I can't play it right. It lags like fucking hell. I have DSL (which plays wonderfully on Halo 3), but I can't seem to find a game on TF2 that doesn't lag at a ridiculous amount

[Super Buu]

Portal is meh for me. Kinda repetitive.

Get out.

Anyway, are you sure it's not your computer lagging as opposed to the internet? I had to turn mine down from the 'recommended' settings. Suddenly my aiming became a whole lot better.

You wanna get good at FPSes, play them with lag for a week and then take it away. It's like the gaming equivalent of weighted clothing. True story.

[Waffuru]

I'm gonna guess you're playing it on 360. I've heard they're having lots of lag issues with the 360 version, so hopefully they'll get it sorted out before too long.

[Alura]

Yea, I'm on 360. I'm glad it's not just me.

And don't get me wrong, the gameplay in Portal is fantastic, I guess I just expected it to be a little more...action-adventure.

[Super Buu]

I've been playing loads more of this, and now I'm at least somewhat proficient with all the classes. My biggest pet peeve, though, is when I'm in a team that really needs say, a Heavy or a Medic, and we have 4 of another class. Once I was on a team where I was the only person who wasn't a sniper or an engineer =(

Also I saw Waff and Metal Teemer in a game, but you guys didn't notice me. =P

[Waffuru]

Rumor is that Portal is going to tie into Half life episode 3. There are some tie ins with ep2 but nothing major. So that will be much more action-adventure. Portal has always been marketed as more of a puzzler/platformer than action based.

[Super Buu]

It'll probably tie in in terms of story, but I doubt the portal gun is going to be usable like everyone's hoping. It's tough enough on an engine to make portals in small rooms, which is why Portal was all fairly enclosed areas. It would be cool, but I don't think it'll happen personally.

[Waffuru]

It's not really as bad as you'd think. The portals are small enough that I don't think it would really make a huge impact, and they would have time to optimize it. I don't think the technology is going to be the issue.

[Rem-13]

I've played a bit of TF2 and ... I suck.

But I'll get better! I'm best as medic right now.

I play as Moses or Visser.

[Waffuru]

are you loboswim1?

[Alura]

The lag has been fixed with the latest update (for me, anyway) and I'm loving it so far.

[Waffuru]

wish I could play online with you Burter ;_;

[Rem-13]

are you loboswim1?

No? My ID is Netaba

[Waffuru]

I searched for Moses and got loboswim1.