Everyone probably knows that melee glitch that’s being used by players more and more these days with annoying effect in versus games. Just be glad most can’t do this.

Okay, it might be entertaining to see in a match, but you’d be pretty pissed off when you find you can’t jump the bloke as long as he’s looking at you.

Among other things I got myself a G11 keyboard for Christmas, and the script functionality is pretty nice. While I was messing around with them I found out timings for melee attacks and this interesting bit came out of it. Don’t ask me how it’s done, it breaks versus and you’re pretty much a douche if you use this against people.

Oh and there’s a WeGame version up too.

I have a fairly large ego here and I have a bone to pick with you snipers. Yeah, we’ve discussed 2Fort’s Sniper minigame several times. Enough of that crap, I don’t think you’re aware that it happens on every map in existence.

The sniper is one of the most powerful classes, 100% critical hit once charged? I’m there. That’s why my main class is Sniper, because I know a secret. I know that a sniper can kill any class in the game in one shot. You knew that already, right guys? I don’t think you did. Otherwise I wouldn’t hear Mr. E-Cop telling me to switch classes. You know what? Screw you, a sniper could kick you in the teeth. Continue reading »

Rarely do you see unofficial custom animations in source games, mainly because not only is it hard to decompile, edit and recompile animations, but it is also hard to make an animation look good. Motion capture solves the latter, quickly capturing human motions in a fluid manner, however coming across someone who has access to that technology and is interested in it’s applications in machinima is not something you’d expect to happen a lot.

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Alright, the first part of my little contest is over, and I’ve picked my three finalists. I want to thank everyone who entered- you have my gratitude.  Well, here they are:

1) Saturday Night Fever Doctor by Chucrute,

2) How The Mighty Fall by Sajin, and

3) Sup ‘Yall by DaveRhodes.

Voting ends at the end of the day on Sunday (for me, which is Pacific time).

Now, GO! Vote! Democrafy! Please!

So with the recent major patch, valve added a red glow to critical kills in the death notices. I’ve heard some people think they look dull the way Valve designed them, so I decided to spice things up.

Since they’re kind of easy to make, you can post a crit icon request in the comments, and I’ll see what I can do about it. I will include it in the pack the next time I update it.

Also, latest update removed the overheal crosses on disguised/cloaked spies. Valve just critted my fun as a medic.  

Update: FPSBanana also canned my less known tourettesguy soldier soundpack due to it being split into two parts. Since it’s so big I had no choice but to take it off their site.

You can download the archive here, and there’s installation instructions in the rar.

And if you’re wondering what other things I’ve skinned, check this, this and this out.

Well, this one certainly took us by surprise as it only has been up on the Official TF2 blog a day or two ago, and I haven’t heard of it until it came up on steam.

• The Engineer’s teleporters can now be upgraded to level three. It will recharge faster the higher level it is
• The Engineer’s dispensers can now be upgraded to level three. It will give out metal and heal faster as it is upgraded
• Spies will be able to recharge their cloaking ability by picking up ammo off of the ground or from health cabinets

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Hello, and welcome to Manta Engie. Allow me to introduce myself: my Steam name’s “D7-spuzman00″- but I’ll be going by spuzman here.

I’m a member of the Division 7 clan in TF2- come to our server, hang out. Most of us aren’t dicks. The IP’s 8.6.3.173:27015 and we have a Source TV running on it as well (sometimes). Hopefully that’ll be it as far as shameless plugs go, because I know you don’t really care.

Anyway, I haven’t got L4D yet, because it costs money. Which I do no have. Hopefully, I’ll get it for Christmas and then I can enjoy it with all you lucky people who have it already.

So, for my first real act as a writer here, I’m going to start a contest for all you peoples out there.

Here’s the subject: Deathcam shots. You know, that thing where it zooms into somebody after they kill you, and a small option pops up: to take a screenshot so you can go back later and remember the humiliation of being killed for the fifth time by some jerk.

Anyhoo, post a picture you’ve taken in the deathcam in a comment on this post, and by the end of the day tomorrow I’ll make another post with my three favorites, and we’ll have voting then. The winner will get, I don’t know, something. Probably just kudos and my gratitude for participating. Maybe EvilDaed will put it in the banner or something, I don’t know. That’s up to him.

There are no limits to how many photos you can submit, but each person will only be allowed one picture into the final three.

Well, to kick the contest off, here’s my entry (which will not actually be up for nomination to prevent a conflict of interest).

I look forward to seeing your entries!

Some might remember this soundpack for the soldier I did a few months ago. It didn’t really get noticed, which was kind of intended as it was a joke among friends. Then someone had the idea of a tourettestank. Long story short I came up with this crap:

Sounds funky, but it’s kinda funny. Get it from FPSBanana.

And in other news, there’s an even bigger version of the Mass A.I. vid up at PldX. Go check’em out, it’s a nice quality site.

Also, have some more movie stills.