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

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.

Edit: Man where that title at?

Late edit: As you might’ve read in the comments, the items don’t lose their status after being traded. Not like this is a good thing.

A few comments on it, I guess. I started making the video before New Years, but I forgot why I kept delaying it over and over. You’ll notice that the demoman still had 100hp when he equipped it back then, and I sort of liked that. Now with the new change the demo effectively starts with 87 hp, but he takes half falling damage. It’s like they promote bad jumps instead of giving folks an incentive to use controlled, low angle jumps.

Well, it’s not like you get a good k/d with this setup anyway. You can substitute the sticky launcher for the jumper, since after you splode your nade you’ll want to get back to base soon anyway. It’s all good fun either way.

EDIT: Man, I could’ve sworn I posted something here about the new patch. Where’d it even go?

EDIT: The wiki got hacked, you can’t really make sense of what’s written in the articles, but I left the link up there for the curious ones. I’d warm up the script blocker if I was you.

EDIT2: The wiki’s back up now.

Basically all you do is install the game, and you can play around with two map versions and three new natascha variants. They’ve nerfed ol’ natty quite hard for some reason, it never seemed overpowered, but people complained a lot about it. Must be something about the fact that you just die over the same distance only slower. You also receive all the weapons from the start, but you don’t get any random drops. Should be worth a try.