Thoughts on the update. I haven’t posted recently since I didn’t think that me just ranting on a website would be interesting to people, but it looks like my lack of updates has been noticed.
Well, let’s start with the bad first. The first thing that’s annoyed me a lot was the fact that the weapons from the update are hard to obtain now. The crafting recipes have been purposely made expensive in terms of items so that people would get frustrated into buying the new stuff. Most recipes ask for two reclaimed, and the demoboots require the new soldier boots. This just feels insulting to anyone that’s been playing the game recently because their drops have been capped for the week too. Feels like another cash-in.
In the long run I think free to play is going to damage TF2. They’ve said they’ll be keeping an eye on people who use F2P as an unlimited source of accounts to be used for hacking on TF2, but let’s face it, the only thing VAC has going for it is the threat of losing the ability to play multiple games online. There’s also plugins already out that only let premium players join servers. This is going to splinter the community, which might not have fun consequences.
On the flip side F2P means tons of newbies on the servers. It feels like playing TF2 years ago when people were still figuring everything out. This is probably going to get boring fast, but who knows, maybe it’s just a great time to try out that ridiculous loadout you were thinking of and do stupid things while getting away with it.
Speaking of stupid things, new patches always introduce new bugs. The demoman can now cancel his charge and retain his energy, and he can charge midair. There’s a fun little bug that’s sort of hard to do that lets you leap across the map at high speeds. There’s also an easier thing to do which involves aircharging into an incline, but I’ll get to those later.
Can’t think of a lot else now. The main thing on my mind is just GIMME THOSE DAMN WEAPONS, VALVE
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