Comments on: Pyro Pyro Pyro

By: Chewbacca

Chewbacca — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:06:18 +0000

>I spent an hour on a Heavy the other night destroying a Medic achievement farming server because I hate the idea of them, but eventually got banned after 85 kills

Heartless you nob – just cos you don’t agree with achievement farms doesn’t give you the right to dictate to others what they can and can’t do. I guess you must be american.

BTW – I was healing you for 20 of those kills. Thanks!

By: Lars Balker Rasmussen

Lars Balker Rasmussen — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:53:51 +0000

SCOOP! The TF2 blog interview in full:

“Hi Robin! I assume there will be an RSS feed soon? Bookmarks are so 20th century.”
“Yep.”

By: Lars Balker Rasmussen

Lars Balker Rasmussen — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:01:30 +0000

@itsallcrap: what Seniath said. I was just being subtle.

Edit: I wrote to Robin Walker – let’s see how that goes..

By: RodeoClown

RodeoClown — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:01:03 +0000

I made an RSSpect feed for the site.
It will alert you whenever a change is made (but you still need to go through to the site).

http://www.rsspect.com/rss/teamfortressblog.xml

By: Seniath

Seniath — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:35:29 +0000

What the?! There’s no RSS feed. Fail.

By: itsallcrap

itsallcrap — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:51:23 +0000

I still use bookmarks… only for the toolbar at the top of Firefox, so they effectively become buttons, but it’s the same basic thing.

Also, the way to kill an emeny with a pyro taunt is to switch to the shotgun first – he does a Ryu-style fireball.

By: Lars Balker Rasmussen

Lars Balker Rasmussen — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:32:58 +0000

There’s now a TF2 blog. Yay. Hopefully RPS is going to follow it for us: “Bookmark this page”. Seriously? In 2008? Are you shitting me?

By: RichPowers

RichPowers — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:17:22 +0000

Got 23 achievements tonight on an achievement server. Need a good admin to keep the llamas out, though.

I’d much rather have people grinding away on achievement servers than disrupting regular games with achievement shenanigans.

By: Tomzor!

Tomzor! — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:23:46 +0000

@Crash T
‘“Kill an enemy with a taunt.” WTF?’

Actually, it’s OMGWTFBBQ.

By: wyrmsine

wyrmsine — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:00:09 +0000

I just gave TF2 a go with the Pyro, and I’ve gotta say, 90% Pyro matches (lol matches) are FUN. Especially when you take Sniper. Although the dude running around with the Axetinguisher, reminding everyone “It’s legit! Didn’t cheat!” was a little sad, assuming it’s true. Dude, go outside…

The Air Blast is a fantastic addition. The Backburner is stupid overpowered (given TF2′s definition of “back” is a lot sloppy), but that Air Blast… mmm-hmm. Stupid soldier, tricks are for Pyro!

ETA: yeah, the medic achievements were stupid-hard, and I’m unhappy that I had to wreck my modest legit stats just to try a weapon. The Pyro achievements seem a little more realistic; you won’t (or shouldn’t, see:go outside) get a new weapon in a session, but you will get them, and I imagine it’ll be a nice surprise.

EATA: Also, it seems Valve didn’t track any of the pyro stats. All of mine were at 0 to start…

By: sigma83

sigma83 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:18:30 +0000

They’ve removed the damage drop-off from the flamethrower so now it’s equally lethal from all distances.

Mind these distances are still really short, but still :P

By: KBKarma

KBKarma — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:12:21 +0000

Out RIGHT now.

Pyros aplenty. So I’ve got a 60-point boost towards my Infernal Medicine achievement. :D

My brother got annoyed at one point. So he went Soldier.

Interesting fact: the taunt is an INSTA-KILL.