TF2 Sniper Update

Calabi · 30 May 2009 at 16:05

Thank goodness, valve added the achievements. I got the bow five minutes into a match. I like it!

Squark · 30 May 2009 at 16:11

Now that that has been sorted I just want some hats.

Klo · 30 May 2009 at 16:13

This hasn't worked for me at all. I've got 15 achievements for the spy, but the milestones are still locked for me =/

Squark · 30 May 2009 at 16:15

Klo said:
This hasn't worked for me at all. I've got 15 achievements for the spy, but the milestones are still locked for me =/

I had that, I just played for a while then it randomly achieved them all

just Scott · 30 May 2009 at 17:06

I got all my unlocks once I earned another sniper achievement after the update. I think that's what triggers it. Might've been a coincidence tho.

DampCat · 30 May 2009 at 17:36

It's just randomly when the server decids to update you. I got all mine at once between maps during the load screen.

Lydzor · 30 May 2009 at 17:39

I also got my unlocks once I got a new achievement. I assume this refreshed the system or something.

Blackhawk47 · 30 May 2009 at 18:58

Just got and had a play with the Ambassador and Cloak & Dagger. I prefer the normal revolver but the clock and dagger is quite interesting to play with.

Though i really want the sniper's bow.

Souness · 30 May 2009 at 19:09

DampCat said:
Wait.. wait...

they lowered the number of achievements needed for the milestones to 5, 11 and 16. Wow. 5 for milestone 1? that's a real milestone out of what, 38?

Are there people out there who are really so bad at this game that they cant get the 20 achievements they needed for all 3 unlocks?

According to global stats:
http://www.steampowered.com/status/tf2/achievements.php
40% of players have never got the achievement
"Hard to Kill
Get five kills in a row without dying."
... which you can get pretty much by dumb luck if you play the game longer than an hour.
This leads me to believe when valve nerfed the achievement system, they are catering to a crowd that virtually never plays the game (maybe these are the people who play for the free weekends then don't buy it).

I would much prefer they catered to the smaller fraction of people who actually play the game seriously, but apparently they are more concerned with attracting fresh faces than making the game a more rewarding experience for the real players.

Kreeeee · 30 May 2009 at 19:34

Souness said:
I would much prefer they catered to the smaller fraction of people who actually play the game seriously, but apparently they are more concerned with attracting fresh faces than making the game a more rewarding experience for the real players.

Welcome to the real world of running a business.

FrenchTart · 30 May 2009 at 19:35

Kreeeee said:
Welcome to the real world of running a business.

Exactly...

Souness · 30 May 2009 at 23:35

Dressed in a suit and fedora, the man entered Chopard on Place Vendome and reportedly made staff hand over 15 pieces of jewellery at gunpoint

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8075392.stm

I wonder how long it took him to get those unlocks?

He must've looked something like this: http://tf2wiki.net/wiki/File:Spy_fedora.png

domthecondom · 30 May 2009 at 23:52

I found my love for this game again

wahoo

CrowK · 31 May 2009 at 01:59

Souness said:
He must've looked something like this: http://tf2wiki.net/wiki/File:Spy_fedora.png

/Forwarded to interpol

Tunney · 31 May 2009 at 09:42

I'm pretty sure someone was cheating on a server that I visited last night.

I was standing dead still with the Cloak and Dagger enabled. He makes a straight bee line for me and hacks me down with the sniper machete.

Anyone else noticed this?

Turtles · 31 May 2009 at 10:43

Tunney said:
I'm pretty sure someone was cheating on a server that I visited last night.

I was standing dead still with the Cloak and Dagger enabled. He makes a straight bee line for me and hacks me down with the sniper machete.

Anyone else noticed this?

It'll have been a total fluke or there will most likely be some explanation of you bumping into someone earlier / taking damage and someone on his team telling where the spy might be.

There's always an explanation for these kind of things when you're a spy, sometimes it seems like their cheating but usually it's blind luck

Tunney · 31 May 2009 at 11:15

Turtles said:
It'll have been a total fluke or there will most likely be some explanation of you bumping into someone earlier / taking damage and someone on his team telling where the spy might be.

There's always an explanation for these kind of things when you're a spy, sometimes it seems like their cheating but usually it's blind luck

I could imagine it being blind luck once, but it happened twice in a row. I was standing far away from anyone and he headed straight in my direction with machete out. Both times, he started swinging before collision detection would have revealed my position and both times hitting me with the first swing.

Perhaps it was blind luck. I swapped classes anyway after that.

ins0mn1ac · 31 May 2009 at 12:31

I was playing the other night and I think I'm a pretty good Spy, topping the team is no problem but there was one Pyro, no matter what he'd run straight at me, EVERY single round. I'm sure he could see me all the time there's just no way he was randomly finding me as I was being very careful. There were a few other people playing Spy later on in the night saying he was doing the same. Seriously rage inducing!

Klo · 31 May 2009 at 12:44

It is possible if you were shown for a second to predict where a spy will be, I've done that quite a few times, and I'm sure for them it would seem like I'm cheating or something.

However, if it happens more than a few times, I guess it is cheating.

4p · 31 May 2009 at 12:48

I was using cloak and dagger in a corner and this one sniper just came upto me and hacked my down a good 2-3 times :/

Was too good to be a legit player, unless there is some kind of bug.