Team Fortress 2 Update Released
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That dustbowl glitch will be that way for at least 2-3 more years until dustbowl gets a _pro version that valve picks up.
It is NEVER EVER as simple as "Should've been fixed a week after the engine went public." there were probably so many more bugs of higher priority, the easiest thing is to work around such an esoteric and specific bug.
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Imagine Valve adding weapons that actually improve the game instead of making it more annoying for everyone. Kritzkrieg, Flare Gun, Direct Hit, Sandvich, etc.
I was hyped before every update, now I just hope they haven't broken anything important again.
for me, TF2 used to be a really great game, it still is in some regards but it was different. What was great about early tf2 is that you automatically knew what you were up against, you identify the class of the opponent and you automatically knew what his options were. You could make a very solid decisions on the potential engagement and bail out if you know you are at a disadvantage or aren't feeling confident. bailing out usually meant falling back to your teammates who who are better equipped to deal with the situation. This promoted teamplay.
Nowadays you'll run into a someone, you'll quickly identify which class it is but that information is not as meaningful as it used to be. who knows what wacky loadout your opponent might pull off, your ability to make decisions is simply not as effective in 2016 tf2. You're basically playing blind and the game devolves into a rock/paper/scissor meatgrinder.
Engagements played out very differently. For example, playing soldier, you had a very good idea of how many rockets you needed to kill any of the classes. Given the amount of rockets in your launcher, you could quickly math up and figure out if you could afford an engagement or not. nowadays it's really hard to get a read on exactly how many rockets you'll need since there are a lot of health modifiers and damage resistances.
I have fond memories of the original tf2 and it kinda saddens me that this game is now gone. not that today's tf2 is bad or anything, it's just 2 different games in my mind.
woah didn't mean for this to be this long, oh well...
I'm confused. Do you people mean to tell me that being able to get outside the map isn't caused by accidental gaps in geometry that were overlooked, but something that can just happen in any map just by crouching in certain spots and... what, just phasing through solid walls?
Exactly. Welcome to Source Engine. After 15 years in development. With 10+ big games being released.
Here's SourceRuns' wiki article on it. While they describe how to do it with just the crouch button, something you can't do in TF2, the rest of the explanation is still the same for all Source games. In TF2, you just have to find somewhere to crouch under and let the game do the uncrouching for you instead of you releasing the crouch button before pressing it again. Other than that the technique is the same.
Oh wait, so this is similar to how you can phase through a ceiling if you crouch under something and then taunt. Except without actually taunting. I dunno, maybe they couldn't fix it on a fundamental level, but they could probably patch in a hack that prevents what you do to trigger it.
Yes, except that taunting is harmless trough floors (with the exception of the Equalizer/Escape Plan taunt granting immunity to the taunt for the Soldier but being deadly to the person on the other side of the floor).
You could always ask where, and then clip off the offending areas.