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| Ray & Fussbett liveblog the TF2 release by Ray of Light 06/30/2011, 9:13am PDT | ||||
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| But first a milestone of my own! Total Play Time: 2222 hours.
Respawn on 2fort can take up to 30 seconds, with killcam. You ought to try it because the depth of play cannot be matched. Sometimes, late in a 3 hour match, I will note to myself something like "there are only 45 minutes left! That is barely enough time to do what we need to do!" And then, if it gets done, I feel very rewarded. Time capsule liveblog log follows. September 17 2007Ray: true or false: Microsoft's gaming keyboard is named "Reclusa" Fussbett: TRUE Ray: correct Fussbett: Razor names their keyboards after spiders. Fussbett: Of which the Recluse is one Ray: ohh Ray: a boomslang is a snake! Ray: what a day of discovery this has been Fussbett: The Razor Tarantula is really nice looking actually. Fussbett: BUT REGARDLESS the Reclusa is hilarious. Fussbett: That brainstorming meeting was adjourned early. noun, Social Worker Join Date Jun 2002 Location: Portland, Oregon XBL Gamertag: noundamus Posts: 2,928 wrote: Ray: is he talking about passing on the orange box?! Fussbett: (In case you think there is some geometry involved, it's regarding the "Orange Box" from Valve costing $45) Ray: ok that's what I was afraid of and he must be insane! Fussbett: Did you play HL2 or ep1? Ray: no Fussbett: fuck, that really is the deal of the century for you then. Fussbett: Did you pre-order Orange Box? Ray: I tried to recover my password today so that I could Ray: but that was a big mess Ray: so, no [got "Primeval Warrior" badge anyway --ed.] Fussbett: YOUR LOSS, TF2 IS AMAZING Ray: I'm not surprised Fussbett: Just kidding, Valve decided to not release it until 11:00pm PST or something some guy wrote: Fussbett: Who is this guy, you? Ray: I would never acknowledge they were too hard Valve employee Erik Johnson speaking in a Shacknews group chat room wrote:Fussbett: Linux >:( Ray: after all the things Linux has given us, no one could've guessed the next thing would be a 12 hour TF2 delay Ray: TF2 "installing" now Ray: it's been at that for 3 hr Fussbett: TF2 is pretty big. I think gigs, based on how fast my free HD disappeared in the last day Ray: it said 7GB installed Fussbett: wow Ray: with all the HL2 games turned off Fussbett: wow! Ray: so I show up in the Caltrops member list but on "My Groups" it says I belong to none. What is this about? Fussbett: Here's the dirty secret: there is not much benefit to these groups, I think Fussbett: your friends list is more important Ray: it's empty Fussbett: yeah, friend up Jhoh and me and shit. Fussbett: The friend system is really nice now (ie: almost as good as the Xbox360) Fussbett: Friend come online it'll show you and then you can click to join their game. Fussbett: ...and then it says the server is full, usually. Fussbett: But the thought is there. Ray: so have you played tf2? Ray: as of now Fussbett: yeah last night Fussbett: I'm a little sleepy now. Ray: I hope this beats my previous steam experience, wherein the download time exceeded the total playtime :( Fussbett: haha Fussbett: What game was that, HL2? Ray: yes + CSSource Ray: I didn't play hl2 single player, only the DM Fussbett: there's your mistake Fussbett: Did you eventually start up Bioshock? Ray: no :( Fussbett: You might have to face the fact that you don't like video games. Fussbett: On the subject of TF2 disk space on Qt3.... Reed Spinning Toe Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Boston, MA Gamertag: Reedx Posts: 751 wrote:Ray: haha noob Fussbett: my posted reply: Wait until you discover Bit Torrent. It will blow your mind. Fussbett: I saw myself running around at one point. Fussbett: It was a fucking spy! Fussbett: But I had a good 3 seconds of confusion. Ray: goddamn spies! Ray: I had a scroll bar in the middle of my screen for a round Fussbett: "Did I switch to third person camera?" Fussbett: Whoa, can the spies turn into scrollbars? Ray: shooting it did nothing Ray: so my short review is that the respawn+transit : shooting shit ratio is way off Ray: but I could see myself liking the game eventually Fussbett: in your old age Fussbett: Have you played a round of 2fort yet? Ray: I did play 2fort yeah Ray: I don't remember it Fussbett: 2fort seems small to me, which is why I bring it up Ray: I will seek it out next time Ray: you know what is responsible for this slowness BTW? Quake II. Ray: it was too fast and the weapons too powerful and "Quake like" became synonymous with "mindless" and now, 12 years on, still no one dares to make a fast FPS Ray: also a (cartoonish?) hit indicator would be nice Ray: Q3 plays a sound when you hit something Fussbett: They can't all be Quake 3, Ray! Ray: I did like that team Caltrops was able to run the server Fussbett: Yeah, after some warm up rounds, we're all good at video games, it turns out. Other people are not? I guess? Team Caltrops steam rating wrote: Fussbett: Those jokers Fussbett: I'm at like 2 Ray: that is for the whole Caltrops group Ray: I'm at 4.2 Fussbett: Oh, well good for us. Fussbett: It's based on playing time, and we've got three shut-ins, so things are looking good. Fussbett: Four if we count you. Ray: I'm a daywalker Fussbett: I just made ICJ our Player of the Week. Fussbett: I feel he deserved it. Ray: I saw that and approved Ray: getting back to the slowness, their fear of making the players move fast spills over to all elements of gameplay, notably the sniper class with his tiny FOV and and long, jarring reload animation qt3 wrote: Fussbett: Some people are shooting TOO much in TF2 Ray: the map design leaves much to be desired! Ray: I'm guessing it's because having more than 5 enemies on screen would bog the framerate Ray: see also: non-adjustable FOV Ray: forums say it is fixed at 75. This BORDERS on gay Fussbett: I'm a fan of fixed FOV, so I can't agree. Fussbett: contests of skill need rules. Ray: "fixed at 75" is way way worse than "fixed" Ray: 120 would be nice. 90-110 would give a tip of the hat to legacy 4:3 users, and still be pretty standard. 75 is inexplicable Fussbett: I'm sure people are crying about the Xbox360 being to blame Ray: yes :( Ray: and this I don't understand, as it's clearly the jews who are at fault Ray: OR, a nice compromise would be 75 in the middle 90% of screen, with another 40 degrees of view squeezed into the outer 10% of screen Ray: to simulate "peripheral vision" Fussbett: That sounds processor-intensive for little gain Ray: those outer bands would have low resolution -- minimal rendering effort Fussbett: Low(er) resolution, but still lots of calculations to get the image to be reduced... plus I'm imagining some post process, like a blur, to make it seamless with the center rather than startling Fussbett: It's never done outside of sniper scopes, so there must be reasons. Ray: no one has thought of it Ray: I believe T&L cards can do this squeezing in hardware Fussbett: While it's easy to believe you're the one brilliant FOV mind operating today, I must err on the side of caution. TF2 release notes, some days later wrote: TF2 release notes, some years later wrote: |
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500!!! by 01/31/2011, 5:15pm PST  Ray & Fussbett liveblog the TF2 release by 06/30/2011, 9:13am PDT How much of the 2222 is on 2fort? NT by 06/30/2011, 11:51am PDT 22222MUCH!!!! LOL by 06/30/2011, 1:21pm PDT What do you think of some of the expanded 2fort designs? by 07/04/2011, 2:21pm PDT 2fort has simple needs by 07/06/2011, 2:11pm PDT GLOSSARY: correct names for everything in 2fort, in order of appearance by 07/06/2011, 2:59pm PDT Look for ctf_2fort_engipower or swamp_2fort. NT by 07/06/2011, 3:15pm PDT I've passed 1000 hours on League of Legends in a year and a half =( NT by 07/01/2011, 6:09am PDT Is that a TF2 map? NT by 07/06/2011, 3:08pm PDT It's 10 people on the same map every game, so it's also 2fort NT by 07/07/2011, 3:32pm PDT |
