Team Fortress 2 Patched

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  It took me one day of playing to get the Pyro achievements. It's not that hard. : Wisp!
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    You MUST have farmed, though. Getting the last unlock is taking me a while (though I'm only playing a hou... : Vangoghs Ear
    • Define farmed... I played TF2 as a pyro for a couple nights in servers that were a max of 4 pyros per tea... : TheNiXXeD
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      No. I played for about five hours on a public server and got it. I wasn't communicating with friends to h... : Wisp!
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        Five hours? In one day? ouch... : CyCo_PL
        • Meh...it's lame but I had been on vacation and read about the update on Shacknews and was pretty excited ... : Wisp!
  • I got Milestone 1 mostly from playing on Thurs night. I was out of town all weekend and got Milestone 2 ... : smegmar
• You didn't pay for WoW? : OmegaRed59
• Grind mindlessly to get even a single unlock? I'm sorry to be cruel but you must suck SO BAD at TF2. : SFtheWolf
• I have several with no grinding but I don't have all of them. They just kinda highlight your epic moment... : IHATEDUST

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• I'd agree with that. I don't have the time or the inclination to "work" for them--I just want to have fun... : Attica Blue
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  Yeah, I ended up unlocking most of them with farming. It would be way more satisfying to just legitimatel... : sneak
  • Also, Pyro is my new favourite class. A class I previously played like half hour of (just enough to get t... : sneak
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  They are a way to gently pull players into playing differently. Or join acheivement servers anyhow. : cineris
  • The weapons themselves "gently pull players into playing differently." You don't need these foolish unlo... : thief
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  So playing the game normally, and getting a new weapon as a bonus now and then - you know, actually tryin... : Lunaran
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    I guess it's fun and rewarding if you're into that--to each his own and so on--but what if you're not? If... : Attica Blue
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      How are you screwed? You don't have any less than you did before, and the unlocks aren't exactly gotta-h... : Lunaran
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        At the bare minimum, they provide an advantage in terms of versatility. Aside from that, some of the unl... : Arcanum
        • But look - the time it takes to learn how to properly play as one of the characters is far more than the... : thesubtlesnake
  • You don't need a new weapon as a bonus. Seeing an achivement spring up from merely just playing is rewar... : thief
  • Quite a few of the Medic achievements would basically never be gained in normal play. They're very defin... : Arcanum
  • Agreed. I'm almost at the third unlock after playing off and on for the past few days. They aren't that... : Zips
  • The problem is when somebody WANT that weapons because hey, they've just been killed by that. So they'll ... : zehh
  • Achievements are pointless. I am going to have to agree with thief on this. : OmegaRed59
• true.. this just so how stupidly arbitrary they are and meaningless. : magicfucker
• I agree. The current system just fucks up the game for a week or so. : Vangoghs Ear
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  I strongly disagree. The achievements (since the pyro update anyway) give people sorely needed training i... : SFtheWolf
  • ha -- training to play a class properly? What? You learn to play by playing. With the backburner you'l : thief

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• yea, its pretty difficult to scroll past what you don't want to read : finalthrill
• What? Just move along ffs, I dont visit the Valve site along with quite a few people I expect so this is ... : nodebug
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  I like it, and who visits the Valve site? : OmegaRed59
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    i get all my gaming related news here...you go away : .frame
    • not you OmegaRed59, 2point4:) : .frame
  • Clearly you all don't use steam, because if you did then you would know the patch notes are right there ... : datim
  • I'm not always playing on Steam (can't when at work anyway) and I personally like seeing what has changed... : Jaradakar
• It's good, in a way, as it gives us a central place to discuss changes. Also it's easily the most played... : mrwolf710
• Thanks for the patch notes! I read up on it at work and often just let it patch without reading them at h... : blanktarget
• The patch notes are great! I happen to enjoy reading them or getting them in my RSS feed when Valve's RS... : Zips
• I agree to an extent. For something major like the weapon adding updates, I like to see a changelog and d... : SFtheWolf
• I like knowing that the game has been patched, it tells me to open steam, but maybe we don't need the who... : IHATEDUST
• I disagree, because it's TF2. The game has a big following here, and in addition to providing a heads-up ... : frib

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  No, you are so wrong. Valve has it right. If you want that stuff go play CoD4 or ETQW then. Stay out o... : mrwolf710
  • o_O : razlebol
  • mrwolf is right, you are wrong mrwolf. : maldoror
  • double o_0? : noobja
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    Whatever, you're such a troll. : mrwolf710
    • Not necessarily. He could be schizophrenic on a time-share. : AlexW1203
  • oh wow, so busted. : Big Luke
• etqw's arent persistent i thought : dantastic
• Uh, no, that's terrible and doesn't even need a counter-argument to be shot down, sorry. One wolf to anot... : SFtheWolf

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  Well, at least it reduces the reason for farming it. Achievements should be the goals in themselves. When... : zehh
  • I agree, I just like having something to aim for, over a long period of play, and it's a shame Valve have... : thesubtlesnake
• The people who play medic primarily will though... it's not for everyone (including me). : TheNiXXeD
• There was no incentive to get the achievements at all a few months ago yet people still liked them. The q... : tidic
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  I only farmed the pyro stuff that I was unlikely to achieve in-game (3 & 6 axekills on one life, etc), an... : AxeMan808
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    Related note: is there a way to clear off my Pyro Kills/Points/Damage records to get them back to normal-... : AxeMan808
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      This is a good question. There used to be a button to clear your stats, but I can't seem to find it anymo... : Dusty_Slim
      • They took it out with a patch some time ago. : OmegaRed59
      • yeah i was looking for this too...lol i remember there use to be a way to do it : neodoom
    • I believe there's an option when you check your stats through the menu. But it resets ALL stats not just... : Lob
  • It took me 2 nights of playing to get the axe... I don't see why it is that big of a deal personally. Py... : TheNiXXeD

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  I wish they had an edit button, sorry about the typo : donkeycrock
  • Yeah, it sucks... the forum demands a copy editor's dedication to spelling before committing to post. ... : heartsauce

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• You just wasted over 60 GB's of Valves bandwidth for nothing. I'm sure there was nothing wrong with the g... : -sk-
• Right click on the game in Steam > Properties > Local Files > Verify Integrity of Game Cache / Defragmen... : sneak

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• Lol yeah i had this one stupid achievement left to do for ages. : Hoax
• Yeah everyone was getting milestone 3 after they died last night. : Jonathan