I'll be the first to admit that I have no idea what this is about.

^In the video game 'Team Fortress 2', the chaingun wielding 'heavy' character has access to a healing item called the sandvich. The downside to using the sandvich is that you are defenseless during the time it takes to eat the sandvich, and you also make loud eating noises that give away your position. The person in this video tricked one of his opponents by making those chomping noises with his own voice, thereby luring him into an ambush.

Genius!

Heavy ftw!

Dysto, you play TF2 ???

Om nom no*bang*

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>> ^gwiz665:
Om nom no bang


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^ Vaguely symbolic and synchonistic, or is it just me?

I don't want to get all mushy here, but gaming has really reached a new level.

This is equivalent to soldiers faking the pinging sound the M1 Garand makes when its out of ammo in order to draw out their enemy.

I knew Om nom'ing could be lethal!

Unfortunately I bought Orange Box for Xbox360 before I got a new computer that could handle TF2. Xbox360 TF2 has none of the cool new weapons/items that the computer version sports. I am jealous.

Fucking all-talk servers!

>> ^legacy0100:
Dysto, you play TF2 ???


I play it on XBL.

>> ^Jaace:
Unfortunately I bought Orange Box for Xbox360 before I got a new computer that could handle TF2. Xbox360 TF2 has none of the cool new weapons/items that the computer version sports. I am jealous.


They had a nice update for Left 4 Dead recently, I'm not sure why valve isn't sharing the love with TF2.

^ http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=2394

Spy must have a shitty sound card or speakers. Character phrases (like "Om nom nom") are localized in 3D space while all-talk is not. So the spy should have been able to hear that the second "Om nom nom" was not coming from any particular direction.

^alright, time to go outside and see some daylight

^ I got shit to do on the computer. For reals though, I am currently mired down in more work than I can handle, and don't see any possibility of really getting out from in front of this computer any time soon. Currently in yesterday's clothes as I "slept" in front of the computer last night!

^Hey buddy, you gotta wash them balls every once in a while.

>> ^Jaace:
Unfortunately I bought Orange Box for Xbox360 before I got a new computer that could handle TF2. Xbox360 TF2 has none of the cool new weapons/items that the computer version sports. I am jealous.


You should just wait for a deal on steam and get TF2 again. The orange box was on sale last weekend for $10, and I remember seeing TF2 on sale for ~$5.

Kind of related - I was playing Rune Quake 3 against a friend a few months ago and he had thrown down some ice traps. Now, whenever you hit an ice trap, you get stuck in place for 20 seconds or so, and it alerts the other player by saying "You froze player!" It won't say where you are, just that you got froze. So you kind of have to remember where you put them down, so you can run back and get the frag.

So I hid in a good spot with the traps in view and actually typed in chat "You froze VSBM". And didn't you know it, here he comes running around the corner looking for my frozen body and I blasted him. It was only afterwards he said the thought something was funny about the message, but he couldn't put his finger on it.

And if you've never played Rune Quake 3...HIGHLY recommended. Once you get the gameplay down, you can't go back to vanilla Q3.

>> ^EDD:
^ http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=2394


I'm sure the rest of you have noticed this too - but isn't it funny how TF2's development is the "best ever" implementation of "episodic gaming", compared to the dragged out Half Life episodes?

Just don't buy fps games for consoles when you can get them on the PC... there's never any excuse

Also, this is just quality updates, i find it hard to call new weapons for each class episodic. Anyone who wants to try and keep their game popular does this sorta thing. It's just that we're so used to shit companies releasing broken games and then spending 12 months releasing a patch which is also broken (namely EA) that we don't expect quality updates anymore. Hooray for valve - the only gaming company i trust anymore!

TF2 is not "episodic" by any definition. "Episodic" means a story is told through a serialized narrative. Adding a character class is just an upgrade/DLC, not an episode.

Yeah HL2 is getting a bit silly, since it looks pretty certain there will be more than two years between Episode 2 and Episode 3. On the other hand, the games are so good when they come out, I'm happy to let Valve take their time. I've never enjoyed a single player game so much as HL2 and the HL2 episodes.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
>> ^Jaace:
Unfortunately I bought Orange Box for Xbox360 before I got a new computer that could handle TF2. Xbox360 TF2 has none of the cool new weapons/items that the computer version sports. I am jealous.

They had a nice update for Left 4 Dead recently, I'm not sure why valve isn't sharing the love with TF2.


Lol thats funny, as every L4D player has been bitching that TF2 gets all the love with content updates all the time with L4D having to wait months for it's one update.

Now it has got it and we have TF2 players whining because L4D got all the love. HAHAHA


I play both, love both. That fake out in the vid is pulled off perfectly.

I bought an extra copy of Orange Box when the price was $9.99. That is an absolutely insane price to charge for so much entertainment value.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
>> ^legacy0100:
Dysto, you play TF2 ???

I play it on XBL.


oh xbox...STEAM is the true way to play.

left4dead rocks too. *brag* I beat it all on expert *finish brag*

I just noticed this was sudden death and so the trickery won the round.
Style bonus.

This is on the nom nom nom server, I've played there before.

>> ^StukaFox:
Fucking all-talk servers!

Exactly what I thought too. Alltalk is the worst feature EVER. Why listen to a bunch of geeks shouting when you can listen to even more distraction coming from the enemy team also??

I actually don't use voice anymore, I can't mute the entire enemy team in alltalk servers, I can't keep the enemy team from hearing me, etc., voice is just poorly implemented in these games.

Besides, I've come to realize that voice is unnecessary about 60-80% of the time.

For many months I've been playing L4D and TF2 with voice disabled, a lot less aggravation that way and I can always type in or use binds for anything important I need to communicate.

I hardly ever see servers using alltalk anymore. When it first came out I think alltalk defaulted to on, and most server admins didn't change it. Then it was patch to default to off. This particular server, as I sad in my post above is called nom-nom-nom. I've actually played there a few times, and they didn't have alltalk enabled when I played except one time. An admin enabled it because it was mostly regular players and they turned it on so they could talk with one another and have a good time. I see nothing wrong with that.

I find voice comms important, especially in TF2, when playing serious. If you're on a team that has good communications you're more likely to have coordinated attacks and defenses rather than everyone running around doing their own thing.

I can see how you get by without using voice in L4D, I've played a lot of games where I'm the only ones using it, but when I get in a game where all 4 are using it, we do much better than when I play with people who don't.