TF2 Sniper Update

It's just annoying to see loads of people running around with the new weapons that you don't have and may never get, I've played a few hours since the update and got nothing other players have huge amounts of weapons. At least with the achievement way you new you were getting somewhere. Valve wanted to get rid of the achievement servers, thats just given birth to idle servers.
 
Durzel said:
I don't get why people are making such a big deal out of the unlocks.

Here's a pro-tip: You're still playing the same game you were presumably enjoying before the update/unlock change came out. If you still mained Soldier, Demo or whatever before the update - guess what, they're still in the game and they still play the same as before.

People saying about how the game is suddenly "ruined" or "unplayable" or whatever when something is added to classes they don't even play (or play competently) just boggles the mind.

Sniper and Spy require an above-average level of skill (particularly Spy imo), if you sucked at playing either of them before the update you're still going to be mediocre with them with the new unlocks.
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The point is that people are not being rewarded like they were before. Me, for example. I played 48 hours almost solid (some breaks for demigod) and recieved nothing until late last night... and that was something i already got a year ago. I got 30 achievements in those 48 hours, which means i should have got 3 new weapons to be having fun with. But no.

Then you get players who are just sitting in the spawn area, off walking their dog or eating their dinner or doing a poo, and they're getting 2 new weapons in half an hour for just sitting there (i saw this happen in one game).

You must understand that after an update, people are excited to use the new features. It's not about it being "the same old game" as you put it. That's not the point. The point is being given lots of shiny new things and then being denied the use of it.

And what exactly was wrong with the old system? Achievement servers? oh noes! hello idle servers. They must have seen that coming. All Valve needed to do was disable achievements on custom maps. Sucks but, not half as much as this new unlock system.
 
fini said:
48 hours solid? Could I suggest playing (and caring) a little less?
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You can suggest whatever you like. I dont care *that* much. It's bank holiday weekend. I've got nothing to do. I slept, had dinner, walked the dog twice, popped in to town for some lunch, and then i puncuated that with some TF2. That ok? :)
 
DampCat said:
You can suggest whatever you like. I dont care *that* much. It's bank holiday weekend. I've got nothing to do. I slept, had dinner, walked the dog twice, popped in to town for some lunch, and then i puncuated that with some TF2. That ok? :)
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Personally, as your new life coaches, I think we need to get you out excercising more...have you tried the run 25km achievement with the scout?

That will get the old ticker going! ;)

Perhaps we need to get you working on some solid life goals...have you actually managed to get every single achievement across the board yet? If not then, sadly, you must have a life and thats not really acceptable :D;)

Anyways, I played hardcore yesterday. I managed to get the two spy watches which are good fun. Upon more testing the feign death one is ok but not great. The one where you can stand still is REALLY damn good fun. Played that a bit more last night and as an "average" spy, I found it really decent.

I also managed to get the Sandman which I already had and something else...I think it was Natasha or Sandwich, which I already had again.

Was tempted to put myself in an AFK server overnight, but thought better against it as I will more than likely get them all at some point anyway.

The system apparently has a chance of an unlock every 30minutes for you, dunno how accurate that is. I managed to get two last night within an hour easily.
 
I_M_Weasel said:
It's just annoying to see loads of people running around with the new weapons that you don't have and may never get, I've played a few hours since the update and got nothing other players have huge amounts of weapons. At least with the achievement way you new you were getting somewhere. Valve wanted to get rid of the achievement servers, thats just given birth to idle servers.
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surely it wouldn't be too hard to patch out the problem of idle servers? Make it so you have to be actually doing stuff etc for the time to count.
 
At 5am thismorning i got my second new unlock, the pee jar.

Few hours sleep (Insomnia is win) and im off again for another 19hour marathon :(

Stupid system.
 
Knubje said:
Personally, as your new life coaches, I think we need to get you out excercising more...have you tried the run 25km achievement with the scout?

That will get the old ticker going! ;)

Perhaps we need to get you working on some solid life goals...have you actually managed to get every single achievement across the board yet? If not then, sadly, you must have a life and thats not really acceptable :D;)
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116/239 :(
 
Darkmage88 said:
surely it wouldn't be too hard to patch out the problem of idle servers? Make it so you have to be actually doing stuff etc for the time to count.
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Well I'm "idling" by having my engineer looping through teleporters using the "+forward" console command.
 
You know, the best thing they could've done was just give all the weapons to everyone. No need to achievement farm or pointlessly idle and a big level playing field.
 
analog said:
Or come join me here: 78.158.192.141:27017 got 3 jarates now :rolleyes:
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I'm not joining random servers because the monkeys that generally host them keep changing maps or have no clue what they're doing so I have to babysit the game when I'm meant to just leave it idle overnight.

Edit: I was on that server earlier, but occasionally the server resets which is stupid for an idle achievement server.

Psypher5 said:
why dont people just... play the game. :P
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Because the chances of me getting the items when I only play for an hour a week are very small.
 
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Kreeeee said:
I'm not joining random servers because the monkeys that generally host them keep changing maps or have no clue what they're doing so I have to babysit the game when I'm meant to just leave it idle overnight.

Edit: I was on that server earlier, but occasionally the server resets which is stupid for an idle achievement server.



Because the chances of me getting the items when I only play for an hour a week are very small.
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Seen people up to at least 9 hours :/

Its never changed maps just sit and spec since everyone else just runs around being a pain.
 
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