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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... : 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..

          May 21, 2009 10:58pm PDT
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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