Atomic Spark Films has put together a nice little video for the Pyro in the style of the other “Meet The…” videos. It’s not the official one we’ve been hearing rumors about for a while, but it’s still pretty cool.
Cheers to onlinegamer.se for spotting the vid and linking it.
madlep on February 27th 2008 in machinima, pyro, team fortress 2, the funny, videos
Alex Petraglia from Primotech has reported on the talk given by Jason Mitchell, one of Valve’s leading graphics engineers, on Team Fortress 2’s art style and visual technology. There is a lot of interesting stuff in there, especially if you’re interested in the game development side of things.
The real payload though, are the details on the “Meet The Scout” video that should be out in the next couple of weeks from Valve. There is even an MP3 recording of the whole session. Although you can’t see the Scout video, you CAN hear the audio of it – albeit a little muffled. Skip forward to about 43:00. They play it again a little later in as well.
There is a separate write up just on the Meet The Scout video as well.
“Grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother…I hurt people.”
There seems to be a lot of Heavy abuse by the sounds of all the screaming.
madlep on February 27th 2008 in machinima, news, scout, team fortress 2, valve
The boys from over at Digital Jedi have uncovered what is potentially the single most awesomefully excellent set of TF2 wallpapers.
Kill Death Ratio has kindly mirrored the whole lot.
Personal favorite has to be the standout group shot of the Team Fortress 2 crew rocking out to a packed mosh pit. After messing with Garrys Mod for a bit, I’ve got a lot of appreciation for setting up this kind of shot.
More proof the pyro is a born rock star
madlep on February 26th 2008 in community, team fortress 2, the funny
Pie21 has been doing a LOT of work over at TF2 Strategy.com. There’s a bunch of excellent Team Fortress 2 class strategies and tips for… well, pretty much everything really.
Welcome to the TF2 Strategy Class Guides index. Here you will find links to all the class related strategy guides on tf2strategy.com.
Each comprehensive class guide features a full overview of each class and their weapons, the roles that the class fulfills best, in-depth strategy regarding the various methods of play, a content-rich roll of tips to improve your effectiveness in combat, and an article detailing specific strategies to utilise when engaging each class of enemy.
Each page of every guide is also infused with crops of vibrant TF2 screenshots to more effectively illustrate the issues under analysis, all linking to full size, high resolution versions presented in our very own TF2S Gallery. This is designed not only to more fully express important strategic concepts, but to enhance your reading experience as you wade through the veritable swamp of considered text.
While you’re there, check out the Gallery page as well. Some nice screenshots in there. I snagged a few for my wallpaper collection 
madlep on February 26th 2008 in community, how to, tactics, team fortress 2
This is hilarious. I’m not gonna say much, just listen to it. The audio is slightly NSFW, so do yourself a favor and listen to it with headphones on.
Totally proves that TF2 Is a Satanic Fascist Hate Murder Sex Simulator
madlep on February 25th 2008 in heavy weapons guy, medic, team fortress 2, the funny, videos
Not quite the normal fare for ubercharged, but this is pretty cool all the same.
Shawn Kinkade has written an article on what Team Fortress 2 can teach you about running a business. Maybe there are a few aspiring entrepreneurs out there that would benefit from this.
Just like this sniper is about to learn the hard way, if you don’t keep your head up and look around, bad things can come up and give you a nasty surprise!
A lot of people I know are what I would call ‘crisis junkies’. They thrive on finding fires and do a great job of managing those fires and putting them out…then they move on to the next fire. Sometimes, when there’s not a fire, they’ll start one just so they can put it out.
It’s a great skill set to have, but if you can’t pull yourself away from the details on a regular basis and look around you, you are going to have problems. It’s not easy to do, but it’s the single best thing I know of that will help you consciously grow your business.
There’s not necessarily anything wrong with starting fires though. I reckon the other thing to learn from TF2 is that a lot of the time sneaking up behind your competition, running in, setting everything on fire, causing chaos and confusion, then getting out quick can be quite fun and productive.
madlep on February 24th 2008 in tactics, team fortress 2
Dominic from over at Something Emporium has produced a set of mock tips on how to play the medic in TF2. These guys must have found my secret game play techniques book…
When you’re met with such criticism, you have a few options. The poor medic laughs it off. The mediocre medic just keeps on playing. Let me educate you as to the technique of the AWESOME medic.
Have a pen and pad sitting beside your keyboard. Any time anyone (yes, _anyone_) criticises you, mark their name down. Put it in nice, bold lettering, so that you can see it at a glance.
And the next time that player is calling for a medic, the next time that player is on thirty health and burning rapidly away to zero, the next time they’re looking directly at you and want nothing more than to be healed, the next time their screams of “MEDIC!” fill your chat window: that time, turn your back on them. Find the nearest scout or sniper, and heal them instead.
madlep on February 23rd 2008 in community, medic, tactics, team fortress 2, the funny
Josh from The Serious Nerd, has written up a great tips list for lovers of the point and click adventure known as “playing sniper”.
The coolest part is the illustrations to go along with it
Absolutely essential for all Snipers is the fast weapon change. When turned on, you won’t bring up the list of weapons when you press 1, 2, or 3 trying to switch. This is very important because when you suddenly find yourself being attacked when you’re zoomed in with your Sniper Rifle, you’ll need every second you’ve got to turn around and start sinking bullets or blades into the guy. Pressing the button twice to change weapons is just simply too slow, so make sure you turn on the fast weapon change in the options menu.
Just remember to use this power for good instead of evil.
madlep on February 20th 2008 in community, how to, sniper, team fortress 2
No, I’m not talking about the Badlands inbreds, but to an exciting new gamemode and map recently released by citrusmirakel – a “circular control point” map called… Circlejerk.
The idea is that it’s control style play like Granary or Well, but instead of capturing points in a linear motion, they are arranged in a closed circle:
The map works with different mechanics then standard CP maps, with four CPs laid out in a circle, and each team is trying to attack the point to their right while defending the point to their left. The map’s been fairly popular on a couple servers, though I do wish a couple more would give it a shot (hence the e-mail).
I haven’t had a chance to play it yet, but I think I’ll have to go and check it out.
You can go download the map from PoE Can’t Aim! Here’s a few screenshots to whet your appetite.
madlep on February 19th 2008 in community, maps, team fortress 2
Another week, another Control Point. This time they’re discussing the map that is the most underrated IMHO – Hydro. A lot of people don’t like playing it, probably due to the complexity and constant changing of sides. I’m kinda a fan, but its hard to find full servers running it due to its lack of popularity, so I don’t actually get to play it that much.
Shoutout to the Control Point guys for referring to ubercharged.net as being better than google, and for referring to me as crazy, insane, and mad.
You can go download it from Control Point. Be warned though, the Spencer impersonation sounds like Pinocchio from Shrek (you’ll know what I mean when you hear it).
This week the podcast is a bit leaky from the breaking of dams in Hydro, and of course Spencer missing in action. But instead of putting the podcast on hiatus, we decided to bring it to you with just the 3 remaining hosts. Click!
Here just a few more tidbits you can expect:
- Map: Hydro
- New Music: The Device has been modified by Victims of Science
- Link: TF2 Media Round Up
- New (FUN) Server sponsored by TimeSquared, creator of Jack of all Blades & Industrial Revolutionary
- TF2 Wiki: Control Point Podcast page.
- Soon to be on SourceTunes!
- Listener Contributions
- and much much more!
Download – Episode 17 (85:38)
madlep on February 19th 2008 in community, tactics, team fortress 2
