Interfering dev's

Anim · 27 Sep 2007 at 18:00

It seems the TF2 developers just had to meddle, friendly fire is now globally turned off which breaks the demo class

why they couldnt just leave it as an option i have no idea but its a really stupid move for competetive play imo.

silversurfer · 27 Sep 2007 at 19:00

Its still a beta?

KNiVES · 27 Sep 2007 at 19:03

It's because the spy class was just overpowered with friendly fire.

misterjingo · 27 Sep 2007 at 19:04

And supposedly the pyro was broken with FF on too :\

Aod · 27 Sep 2007 at 19:12

KNiVES said:
It's because the spy class was just overpowered with friendly fire.

how?

toString · 27 Sep 2007 at 19:16

Because no one could shoot team mates to check if they were a spy. With FF off - you can shoot your team and not cause damage, and instantly see if it's a enemy spy..

On the other side, it makes it very difficult, if not impossible as spy, as everyone will be shooting each other to check... and 100x more so when you are near a sentry.

Aod · 27 Sep 2007 at 19:43

okay, i see. that makes the spy class completely underpowered though?

Kainz · 27 Sep 2007 at 19:44

The devs said that TF2 was never designed with FF in mind so it was going to be removed all along.

toString · 27 Sep 2007 at 19:49

Aod said:
okay, i see. that makes the spy class completely underpowered though?

Yeah unfortunately/fortunately.
I don't see a lot of ways to get around it really - while maintaining a good balance.

Psyk · 27 Sep 2007 at 19:52

Damn those devs meddling with their own game

*shakes fist*

(if they didn't meddle at all they wouldn't have even made the damn thing)

sniffy · 27 Sep 2007 at 19:54

I don't like FF but I fail to see the point in removing it. If you don't like FF, don't play on a FF server

Inoshishi · 27 Sep 2007 at 19:54

Good move imo.