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  why bother at this point? : WhatIsThisFor
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    (i mean why bother farming since there is no reward) : WhatIsThisFor
    • if you like achieving achievements without the achievement : RikiTiki2
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    You need to play either sniper or spy to unlock their weapons, regardless of this bizarre drop system. : Link.
    • Wait, this is wrong. You can get the bugged up to shit random weapons drop when playing as any class. It'... : Link.
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  Someone should ban all these people for ruining your good time. : ashkie
  • I could but I'm not petty like that : n0v4
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    Ask Brad Wardell for tips : notd665
    • lol : Gary the Llama
    • hahaha : mittense
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  playing the updated class = achievement farming? : feek
  • aparently, even though yo uget fuck all for the achievements now, not happy about that one. : Dschinghis Khan
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  fuck valve. fuck. this random drop shit is the worst idea. god damnit why did they have to ruin the perfe... : DrFlammable
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    what is that random drop thing? : Enigme
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      have you ever played a rpg? : DrFlammable
      • haha you must be in good mood, nvm then. : Enigme
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      now you dont have to farm achievements in an achievement farming map or not bother and just get owned by people that had to farm them. instead they just drop on the ground randomly

      May 21, 2009 9:47pm PDT
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      now you dont have to farm achievements in an achievement farming map or not bother and just get owned by... : dantastic
      • Or drop on the ground when on the class select screen or walking around. : Link.
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        A lot of people seem to have this mentality that the unlocks are upgrades and if you don't have them you ... : FlamingGimp
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          A lot of people also want to try the new stuff.. : Scoots06
          • I'm not sure what you mean. I wasn't commenting on whether people want to use the unlocks, merely that n... : FlamingGimp
        • You're right you could get by with the default weapons, but then I think back to the COD games. It's not ... : PointlesS76
        • *most* aren't, but some are very situation useful. Few are very comparable that's true, but I dunno - th... : kainen1
  • The fucking Internet had to complain and now we've got random drops for weapons. THANK YOU, PEOPLE WHO ... : DrWaffles
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    Whatever the system is, I suspect we're not seeing it properly due to Valve's servers being so broken rig... : Alice O'Connor
    • NO SPONGE U ARE WRONG VALVE $UX DEY ARE RUIN GAEM THIS IS NOT SOME RPG ffffffffffffffff : DrWaffles
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    LOL it just means you can't jump on a random personal farming server with lakren and Harvester and gay ar... : RyDogg1
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      Also means I can't use an achievement unlocker to cheese the unlocks. : Link.
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        Is it really that big of deal? It's not like any of the unlocks gives you any real advantage over any on... : RyDogg1
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          Uh, last time I checked, the medic and scout weapons vastly change how each class plays. The medic unlock... : Link.
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            No really, I have all the unlocks with the medic via just playing and I rarely use them. The only one I ... : RyDogg1
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              Really? The ubersaw is incredible comboed with the standard medigun. : Link.
              • i like the bonesaw more. if i'm pulling out my melee, i need to max damage because it's already an emerge... : RikiTiki2
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              Oh, and barely anyone uses Bonk because giving up the pistol for a scout is murder. Similar with the stun... : Link.
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                Actually, it gets used even in competitive matches, though not how you might think - it's just a cheap wa... : Felraiser
                • i like using it to go invincible when my team loses : RikiTiki2
    • all of the reasons this post is stupid have been discussed elsewhere in this thread and i am too tired to... : DrFlammable
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    Yeah, it's a huge overreaction to a problem that never existed. (Almost all of) The unlocks are either wo... : Felraiser
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      Further, people who say it's a good thing because you don't "have to grind anymore" are idiots. This IS t... : Felraiser
      • This post makes no sense. : FlamingGimp
      • So just playing the game is a grind? What the fuck man. You are going to play the game anyway. How the he... : pyide
      • Yeah I disagree with you there. Farming achievements is not fun, but playing the game is. Even worse is h... : datoo
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        I don't understand the point you are trying to make here. Valve simply opened up an option freeing the n... : kainen1
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          But the achievements are, for the most part, stuff you will achieve eventually anyways if you play the cl... : thenoodleincident
          • exactly how i feel. : Dschinghis Khan
          • Achivements have always been meanlingless. "You should hire me because of my TF2 unlocks..." "Hey ba... : ghost in my shell
          • They always were. It's unfortunate that you got your head wrapped around they're relative 'value' but Va... : kainen1
        • The problem is "eventually". Previously, f you wanted a specific weapon badly enough, you could get in on... : swampangel
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    What does it matter? They should just give everyone all the weapons right at the start then it is up to t... : trelain
    • Because people like obtaining rewards for time/effort : thenoodleincident
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    i agree, what was the mother fucking point of them releasing the achievements if they were just going to ... : Dschinghis Khan
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      because some people like to get achievements I dunno. I like the drop system because farming achievement... : kainen1
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        but last night i wasn't farming them, i was getting them legit, and i didn't get anything for it, and whe... : Dschinghis Khan
        • yeah well for the record I think they should still be unlocked using the standard achievement path...not ... : kainen1
  • I like the idea, but I haven't seen it in practice yet so I can't really judge. For someone like me, who ... : mittense
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    I haven't paid any attention to the latest update. the new spy/sniper stuff are drops now, instead of bei... : maulla
    • all previous unlocks can be dropped now...like loot dropping in an RPG. Doesn't matter what class you p... : kainen1
• Public server I played on had limits on snipers (1) and spies (2) which frankly was not such a bad idea. : Geoffrois
• They should just give all of them to everyone from the start or remove them from the game. : SockMonkeh
• cloak and dagger is really cool man, its like a new style of spying, you move from point to point like it... : Chandler55
• I really only play TF2 a few matches here and there, but I've yet to unlock a single weapon in any class,... : freakynipples69