Comments on: I’m Totally Gonna Ubersaw So I Can Critzcrieg And Blutsaugher Your Ass - Medic Crap Announced (Finally)

By: Kurt

Kurt — Fri, 16 May 2008 02:11:30 +0000

I think achievements are a good idea but not to unlock weapons. I brought the game thinking everyone had the same chance as everyone else. (even valve said it was newbie friendly, which is now rubbish as if you can’t use a weapon, you won’t know what it can do! i.e. I wonder why the medic’s health is going up even though I keep shooting him?)

Achievements should just be fun things to try and achieve because you want to, not because its not fair if you don’t!

By: Nordic

Nordic — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:56:10 +0000

The achievment have changed slightly. I think Valve realized that ten million healing points was a bit much, so now it’s 1,000,000.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:20:15 +0000

woah, wait a minute, are these serious? I’ve never heard of these, and they sound particularly crazy. I don’t even know about the 36 achievements. I’m a 360 version owner, so I’m wondering: have these changes not yet been released, or do owners of the xbox version miss out completely, like we do for new maps and party mode?

By: sigma83

sigma83 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:22:10 +0000

Someone’s forgetting the existence of the Critzcrieg.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:40:10 +0000

The achievement isn’t to uber a scout, it’s to have the ubered scout kill 4 people. Uber a class that’s not worth ubering, and have them kill 4 people in ten seconds? Yeah right.

These achievements range from difficult to impossible, and linking the weapon unlocks to them makes it even worse.

I’ll be farming these achievements on a Duel_Duel server with my friends, not putting up with this BS for achievements, especially when working to get them won’t help the team.

By: Pinko

Pinko — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:54:49 +0000

So I play scout, right? Almost exclusively. Greatest class ever.

And I’m gonna get ubered!!! WOOOOO! One of the achievements is to uber a scout, so I’m basically gonna be the coolest, happiest little scout ever!! Of course, there’s also the “Kill Fifty Scouts with a Needle Gun” one, so… crap.

By: Dred Pyrate

Dred Pyrate — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:44:43 +0000

The names of the new weapons are German, or at least partially. I guess it makes sense cuz the medic is German. “Blutsaugher” means “bloodsucker”, while “Critzcrieg” is a play on “Blitzkrieg”, which means “lightning war”. So it’s kind of like “crit war”.

I did like your joke about the crack-smoking Valve employee tho, so I’m not trying to be Mr. Correcty McCorrectypants.

By: Nordic

Nordic — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:15:47 +0000

More than likely, there will be servers that disable unlockable weapons and class-specific achievments in the “custom” section.

I’m gonna stick to those.

By: John

John — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:49:35 +0000

Yeah, another vote for Don’t Worry over here. I think the unlockables seem neat but not overpowered.

As for new achievement servers popping up, well… I just don’t think too many people will muster up the effort to do that. In the end, I think only a handful of people will run around Ubersawing enemies instead of healing.

By: Takar Blackangel

Takar Blackangel — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:56:28 +0000

I’m with Luke on this one. Valve is known for it’s quality games. Logically, they won’t destroy everything they set up with this update. The unlockables doesn’t seems too OP. Not even the Ubersaw. What is NOT said in the article here, is that the Ubersaw is 20% slower than the regular Bonesaw, which was probably the slowest melee weapon of the game.

And even if players find unbalances, Valve will be sure to fix them up quickly. I have faith, and I find the lack of yours disturbing :P.

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:20:16 +0000

It wasn’t so long ago people were decrying Valve for messing with the “classic TFC”, now they’re accusing them of being evil villiains out to destroy our beloved game.

If it was anyone but Valve, I’d be seriously worried about balance here. But it IS Valve, and they usually know what they’re doing (and always fix it rapidly if they don’t). If it comes between Valve (who gave us the game) and some dude on the internet “doubting it”, I know whose side I’m on!

The only downside will be the scummy servers set up where people line up to manufacture the achievements and get the full loadout. On the downside, they’ll get the extra equipment before us. On the upside, we’re not them, and I think we’ll agree that “playing the game” always works out better than “lining up for four hours to ‘achieve’ something arbitrary”.

Scoring achievements is always enormous fun, and a huge new list will really freshen up the game. Which is the point - people are crying “it’ll change the game!” - but the makers are working to keep the experience fresh and new and interesting. Figuring out new strategies is BETTER FUN than just running your perfected Dustbowl 101 pattern again and again.

By: Suraj

Suraj — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:36:01 +0000

We had a discussion about the “double uber/critzcriegs as a standard tactic” yesterday and guess what the critzcrieg medic is not invulnerable. So he is a mere mortal ready to be popped.
Unless one holding Uber is juggling those two which reduces the uber time even further.

TF2 just got a lot of interesting from strategy point of view.

By: n00bie51

n00bie51 — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:28:57 +0000

Not only are these Achievements absurd but I dislike the idea of unlockables in TF2 and these look like they’re going to alter the TF2 we know and love - hopefully for the better, but I doubt it.

By: Timothy Scheel

Timothy Scheel — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:51:26 +0000

Good luck getting all the achievements anytime soon…

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52249

By: Susej

Susej — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:29:34 +0000

Well, that looks way OP… I’m gonna have some fun getting ubered by a clanmate, bonesawing four times (lolezmode?), ubering the mate, him bonesaw 4 times… see where I’m going with this?