TeamFortress2 Info

So what makes everyone think this game is gonna be sooo great?It's using the same engine as HL (wich I think is bitts and pieces of the Q1 and 2 engine)and by the time the game actually shipps(in 2 more years)the graphics are gonna look very dated*cough*dk*cough*.Once again hype is going to ruin this game because it will not be what everyone thinks it's going to be.The only diffrence in this game and DK is that everyone hated DK from the get go,because of JR's arrogant ways.Of course TF2 will be team based and all but still,more hype,more hype.

The pyro will be in Team Fortress 2: Brotherhood of Arms

Halo (Can I play it in 1st person??)
$44.99
Ship Date: 09/08/00

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Tribes 2
$44.99
Ship Date: 09/29/00

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Duke Nukem Forever
$44.99
Ship Date: 11/01/00

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Team Fortress II
$49.99
Ship Date: 01/15/01

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Sorry, there is no number 2, except maybe in your toilet.

Thanks!

-Lex

I think the idea of true player classes is long overdue. What is needed is a true global encumberance system. Those that think the idea is exclusively for RPG games need to think again.

1. Weapons, armor, and inventory should be affected by individual item weight and size. SoF started to do something like that with their sized weapon inventory setup. Especially in team-based combat, it ain't a one man show anymore, so you are forced to depend on your teammates to win. Carrying shitloads of ammo, armor and weapons should at least slow your ass way down, if you even can move at all. Once again, SoF does try to utilize some of that feeling with their damaged player=slower player movement system. Raven just didn't go far enough.

Thanks!

-Lex

2.

yo tomservo,

after playing a bunch of Soldier of Fortune I agree that a dotless sniper rifle might seem cool, but the dot is way too useful to go away.
It allows your teammates to see that you've set up shop in a given area, and good teammates will bait enemies into sniper range so you can take pot shots at them from a distance.
It's also just plain cool to see friendly sniper dots crawling across the terrain, and NOTHING beats having some fools trying to gang up on you, you're back-pedaling spamming in vain as your last points of health slip away, thinking
'If there was only ONE of these guys...'
- you see a friendly dot roaming the ground and run for it, bringing them into range, and just as they close in on you a red dot appears on the forehead of one of em - BANG! - your friendly neighborhood sniper evens the odds for you
That shit rules.
Snipers are evil enough as they are having the dot, and I sure as hell don't wanna be the one running into areas they are camping out in without having the dot to give me the heads-up.

The 'pyro' is still in, he's just not officially called a 'pyro' anymore. The volumetric flamethrower should be cool.... :)

The spy also sounds wicked. I've read he has the ability to 'cloak' (go invisible/blend into his surroundings) when he stands still for a short period of time. Imagine some sniper setting up shop in front of him unknowingly, and then the garrot gets dropped around his neck. Suhweet.

The only thing that kind of has me concerned is the (apparent) focus on rifle/machine guns as the primary fighting weapons among the majority of the classes. Hope they diversify the weapons a la TFC.

I want this game so badly.

i want to have sex with tf2.

this game is the reason i go on living. i don't care how long it takes. valve is no stranger to surpassing the hype. look at half-life. how many people care that is was 1 1/2 years late. it owned everyone (what do you mean, everyone? EEEVVVEEERRRYYYOOONNNEEE!!!). this game will once again send game companies back to the drawing board. and for those of you wanting an updated tf/tfc, you're out of luck. from what i can tell so far, it will be far different. it's looking more and more like tfc combined with counter-strike every day.

pup (valve's little bitch)

Im sorry but TF2 is no Daikatana.

Yes both were delayed but the big difference is that TF2 will be fucking awesome and Daikatana is pathetic.

Only a few more weeks untill WF for q3 and Perfect Dark for nintendo 64
wooooohoooooo, ahem, OT sowwy

TF2 was supposed to be out with quake2.. that makes it over 2 years overdue. It was going to be released in Feb 98, I believe. Then the switch to half life, as a mod.. Then they were going to be part of the game.. then they wanted to be a different game..

yadda yadda.. they might as well license the halo engine.

My god,this game is in the MIDDLE if development!!Uh,this game was supposed to have been released a year ago......can u say DaikaFortress 2??

*sob*

I played as a pyro 90% of the time back in the good old days of TF.

I guess it didn't fit in well with the more realistic style of TF2.

Pyro better be good. Pyro rocks.

I don't care how many snipers there are, they are all the same when they are on fire.

Is TF2 supposed to have any single-player modes? Call me crazy, but I've never gotten attracted to TF or TFC or Q3F or anything like that. The game looks neat, though.

"Sniper Rifle: .... But (sigh) it still has the red dot."

WTF??
come on Valve, its a fucking Sniper Rifle for God's sake.... put a SCOPE ON IT WITH CROSSHAIRS, not just the laser sight.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
(bedtime)
-Tom "snip0r" Servo-

Steve why dont' you just spit it out and tell us what kind of graphics engine TF2 is using, and how it compares to Tribes2, Halo, etc. Puuleeeaze.

How do I get karma?

JeffK has some indepth info on TF2's Competetor....... TEEN FORTRESS 2

http://www.somethingawful.com/jeffk/teenforetress2.htm

Valve, why do you conspire to rob me of a social life every year? I am your bitch Gabe Newell!!

Oooo..."Valve sector". Sounds plenty erotic.

I no likey HL!