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

Other than that, two games I got recently were Brink and Terraria. While Brink was hyped quite a lot, it turned out that several things that the devs have talked about weren’t true at all. Not to mention the amount of tech issues people were having at launch was amazing. Meanwhile Terraria costs four times less, and you could call it a 2d Minecraft ripoff. But it’s fun as hell, and comes with a lot of things that Minecraft should’ve had. I ended up spending a lot more time playing it, while Brink turned out to be not as interesting. Am I the only one that thinks that multiplatform games usually turn out kind of bad on the PC?

Also, no Saxxy vid from me. I had an idea which might come to life later on, but the submission process Valve put in looks kind of awkward. Yeah, I haven’t tried it yet, but damned if I wouldn’t rather screw around with the oldschool console commands!

What I would like to know is why Valve decided to include a teaser for some unrelated movie coming out some time in the future. Of course they got paid off to do it, but it feels like this doesn’t belong in the game at all, even if it’s in the extras section.

Also, I’ve heard there’s people complaining about the cash shop similar to the one we all know and love (heh) from TF2. Come on, this isn’t half as bad as the mann shop back there, you can’t even buy items in Portal 2 that influence the gameplay in any way. ‘Course, even with me deciding I won’t spend any money on it, I’d still like to have some of those custom gestures.

Oh, and I’m also really glad that they’ve decided to keep the spraytag system in co-op. It’s something I’ve been really enjoying ever since HL2 came out.

Well, at least we definitely know we’re getting Portal 2 early now. I suppose we’re all going to leave our games open now.

Meanwhile there’s rumors Portal 2 may be coming out very early – like 7 hours from the time of this post early.

The TF2 community is kind of humorous right now in it’s current state. What’s even funnier is that they took one of my worst models and appraised it at 4 dollars. I mean, I’d hand it out for a tenth of that price – look at those horrible proportions and textures!

I really wonder how Valve is going to pull off releasing another two ‘Meet the’ videos. Probably going to outsource it to someone making gmod videos.

Oh well, at least Portal 2 looks fairly interesting.