TF2 Engineer Update

flasher · 11 Jul 2010 at 09:33

Strange, left the game running on the menu screen last night for a good couple of hours, just to see if this works and when i came back for a go, on the first death i got 2 drops.

As far as i can tell it works, unless i was realy lucky.

JamesU2005 · 11 Jul 2010 at 10:16

So can you idle on an empty server in spectator mode?

Antar Bolaeisk · 11 Jul 2010 at 10:41

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flasher · 11 Jul 2010 at 10:55

JamesU2005 said:
So can you idle on an empty server in spectator mode?

Not tried that, but i know it works on the menu screen.

JamesU2005 · 11 Jul 2010 at 12:16

Anyone else yet to get a hat? Played over 130 hours of TF2, still not a single hat drop

Squark · 11 Jul 2010 at 14:52

JamesU2005 said:
Anyone else yet to get a hat? Played over 130 hours of TF2, still not a single hat drop

Nor me

just Scott · 11 Jul 2010 at 16:16

JamesU2005 said:
Anyone else yet to get a hat? Played over 130 hours of TF2, still not a single hat drop

I've got quite a few, but I've played over 700 hours now. I've had:

3 camera beards
Hotrod
Respectless rubber glove
Professional's Panama
Master's yellow belt
Vintage Tyrolean
And I wasted 4 reclaimed metal and a scout token on a batter's helm, the only scout hat I hate.

Almost saved up for a soldier hat now though, just need to get 1 more reclaimed metal.

Mahnsikir · 11 Jul 2010 at 16:46

JamesU2005 said:
Anyone else yet to get a hat? Played over 130 hours of TF2, still not a single hat drop

250hours

eek

and got my first hat drop last week. Been able to craft one as well and I got a camera beard when it was a weapon class drop.

Gerard · 11 Jul 2010 at 17:19

Anyone know why the assist system in this game still seems so stupidly random? I can slap a heavy with a few rockets, then have an engineer hit him with a shotgun to finish him off, yet most of the time it fails to give me credit for doing any damage at all and the engineer gets the kill. :confused:

Arjun806 · 11 Jul 2010 at 18:36

H2F Scott said:
I've got quite a few, but I've played over 700 hours now. I've had:

3 camera beards
Hotrod
Respectless rubber glove
Professional's Panama
Master's yellow belt
Vintage Tyrolean
And I wasted 4 reclaimed metal and a scout token on a batter's helm, the only scout hat I hate.

Almost saved up for a soldier hat now though, just need to get 1 more reclaimed metal.

Ha before when people used to idle, I never did so it took me a very long time to get enough metal to make a hat. I had planned to make a soldier hat and used my 4 metal + class token. Accidentally used the wrong token and got a spy hat, not even the Fedora either

Klo · 11 Jul 2010 at 19:04

110 hours, never got a hat. Still a long way off crafting one as well =/

JamesU2005 · 11 Jul 2010 at 19:06

I expect there will be some form of trading system eventually.

Hotwired · 11 Jul 2010 at 19:11

726 hours and one hat drop.

Ghastly Gribus
Professionals Panama
Glengarry Bonnet
Prussian Pickelhaube
Texas Ten Gallon

I played a while before drops and only rejoined just before they screwed idling for items. Doctors hat was a drop, Gribus was just from fragging someone who had it a few times and the other three were random crafts... which uses so many frickin items its annoying.

JamesU2005 · 11 Jul 2010 at 19:16

I can understand that hats are suppose to be rare, but the drop rate does seem rather unbalanced.

iviv · 11 Jul 2010 at 21:02

Two hat drops, had the camera beard for aaaages, and about a month ago I found the hotrod, which is being shown off now

And during the hunt for the wrench I crafted a saucepan hat for the soldier. Think I prefer Max's severed head, though.

Geckovich · 11 Jul 2010 at 21:27

Hat drops do seem a touch rare.

I have 3 close friends, a girlfriend and myself who all play regularly (at least a few hours a week) yet not one of us has had a random drop.

One friend and myself have managed to craft a hat each and we all have the "award" ones, but no random drops!

We must have close to 1000 hours playtime between us.

neoboy · 11 Jul 2010 at 21:31

I just got a scout helmet and have some of those other silly hats, think I've 5 combined.

Oxygen · 12 Jul 2010 at 14:04

OMG - it's finally arrived ! ... just my luck to stop playing a month ago as i was fed up waiting for the engineer update only to see this thread now.

Can't wait to go home and play, after the Soldier, it's my 2nd favourite class.

Hats ! ..don't get me started. Just about saved up enough refined metal for a class specific hat but never had a random hat drop in over 1000hrs playing

iviv · 12 Jul 2010 at 17:11

Geckovich said:
Hat drops do seem a touch rare.

I have 3 close friends, a girlfriend and myself who all play regularly (at least a few hours a week) yet not one of us has had a random drop.

One friend and myself have managed to craft a hat each and we all have the "award" ones, but no random drops!

We must have close to 1000 hours playtime between us.

Only play insta-respawn servers? As you only get drops when you're dead, insta-respawn servers don't give you time to recieve the drops.

ins0mn1ac · 12 Jul 2010 at 18:32

iviv said:
Only play insta-respawn servers? As you only get drops when you're dead, insta-respawn servers don't give you time to recieve the drops.

Is that true? the server I play on usually is insta respawn and I've played TF2 since I had it on pre-order for example. I've not got a hat apart from the crappy gibbus/halo thingy.