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By: Order227 » Blog Archive » Pyro Pack: a review pt.1

Order227 » Blog Archive » Pyro Pack: a review pt.1 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:30:03 +0000

[...] spent more time working on the last few medic achivments I have left. Because of all the pyros, I was able to get “Infernal Medicine”, [...]

By: madlep

madlep — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:51:49 +0000

@tf player – it’s based on the total number that you have unlocked.

If you get 1/3 then you get the first item, 2/3 gives you the next one, and you get the last one when you get all of them apart from two (I think)

By: tf player

tf player — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:18:24 +0000

wot achievements unlock which weapons??

By: RegnumMortis

RegnumMortis — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:25:36 +0000

Isn’t the “Heal under fire” icon a BurgerKing’s Stacker?

By: Wormbrain

Wormbrain — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:36:09 +0000

I’m wondering if “Save Falling Teammate” would require a mid-air uber.

I share most of the concerns already voiced here. Promoting grinding like this just to get the achievement will likely cause major shenanigans.

Reminds me of SWG when everyone started grinding all professions to unlock the Jedi. Basically ruined the economy.

By: Nick666

Nick666 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:04:17 +0000

WHat if 2 mates go on a server and take it on turns to allow each other to get these achivements. Not sure about this update

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:25:26 +0000

@Murdoc

The issue with the vtf files of the new achievements is that they’re version 7.4, while the only versions VTFEdit (the program commonly used to convert VTF files into other file formats) will only open 7.1-3 files.

Conveniently, the only difference between 7.3 and 7.4 is some minor changes to the data structure (purely additions, so the image is in the same place). This means if you get your hands dirty with a hex editor you can manually change the versions back to 7.3 and then extract them normally

By: Murdoc

Murdoc — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:33:37 +0000

@ anon

they are not in the original place that i happened upon them anymore. i downloaded that GCFScape program that Madlep referenced and found them your way too (after i posted here).

I couldnt seem to get the images out of it when looking via GCFScape though. it was only the first time i had used that program though.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:53:39 +0000

P.S. it would also probably be necessary for everyone on such a server to get on Vent so that the “opposing” teams could communicate with each other.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:46:57 +0000

I would think that if this ends up being as bad as many think will be (i.e. Medic shenanigans for the sake of achievements rather than actually enhancing play), people will start setting up servers specifically to get achievement points. For example, people would log in and both teams would work together to get achievements for everyone (e.g. Blue scout would stand around letting the medic needle him, Blue player would be allowed to dominate red player and then the dominated Red player would hook up with a medic to get the revenge kill, etc…). I think this would be a good way for the community to “fight back,” so to speak.

By: GoldMatenes

GoldMatenes — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:01:14 +0000

I’m thinking some of those names are arbitrary.
I think what they look like is a bit different…
For example:
I think “Heal huge” is 10 consecutive syringe kills.
“Assist pyro” looks like “Keep a pyro alive while he sets 8 people aflame.”
“Assist heavy” looks like “Keep a heavy alive while he beats 4 people to death with only fists”
“Heal grind” is probably something to the effect of “stay alive for X rounds.
Still not sure what to make of “heal under fire”.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:46:01 +0000

@Murdoc

The achievements are still inside of the gcf files (unless I’m misunderstanding you, and you’re talking about getting them of steamcommunity.com).

The achievements are located in the Team Fortress 2 Materials.gcf file at the path: tf/materials/vgui/achievements

By: madlep

madlep — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:50:47 +0000

@Ninjahedge – there’s a bit of a discussion on that at the Control Point Forums http://deadworkers.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=999

My guess is that they wouldn’t:
“I’d be guessing no as well, but for a different reason. Mainly just that they are designing and tweaking the achievement conditions as they go, and they wouldn’t have been collecting the data up until now to track if you have satisfied the conditions to collect the achievements.

Valve are logging some details already, but a lot of these are very specific, and I doubt their logging goes down to enough detail to support defining arbitrary achievements postdated back since the game came out.”

By: Ninjahedge

Ninjahedge — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:22:07 +0000

I wonder if these achievements are/could be retro active….

If someone HAS bonesawed XX people already, or killed a spy they accidentally healed, they should get SOME credit for it!!!

By: -F- Ultrablue

-F- Ultrablue — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:54:04 +0000

Thanks for the great find. I’m nearing 200 overall medic hours and I can’t wait for this to go live! Linked your article from my website’s forums.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:54:26 +0000

when they first did that update you could look at these in your achievement list, i read them on steam long long ago.

By: Murdoc

Murdoc — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:38:19 +0000

you cant get to the medic achievements like that anymore either.

maybe shouldn’t of said how i found them.

oh well

By: Murdoc

Murdoc — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:35:57 +0000

I was having a look at the weapon models this afternoon too. all the grenades and things that didnt get used, and a load of random unused melee weapons too. the nail gun looked quite cool too.

I didnt see the giant syringe that you were talking about, so went back to look now and the folders have been moved.

there used to be a sub folder within the weapons folder that had all the TF2 models in, but it has now gone. and when i click on the recent models thing, i get an error when i try to view the TF2 weapons.

maybe Valve have had a bit more of an update and hidden them somewhere new!

crafty bastards!

By: Spike

Spike — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:22:30 +0000

Nice find, good work man.
I wonder if maybe the (giant) syringe is going to be an unlockable, since it is already in TF2’s archives, (badly) textured and everything…

I’m not a fan of unlockables too… Can only hope Valve will do a good job…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:35:50 +0000

syringing scouts isn’t that hard… you just need to aim higher than where they are, and in front of them Do it all the time as a medic myself.