Archive for the ‘Newbs’ Category
Jib&Koans Contest Results!
Posted on: March 1st, 2009 by Bionic DingoThe Jib&Koans Contest of Awesome feature the newly aquired Newb Points is complete.
The first place winner will recieve a TF2Newbs tshirt and a pick of one of Koans games second and third place also recieve a tshirt, as well as the top ranking admin.
This contest was a lot of fun, and it really changed the way the game was played. The purpose of this contest of course is to promote server #8 (which i’m sure you all see how badass it really is now..) and to promote team play which we’re all about.. and Gggly playing engy for an entire match unprompted shows me this contest was indeed a Huge Success!! Verry niice
Newb Points Final:
| 83314 | 3051 | you guys (Ggglygy) | First, Tshirt
| 82966 | 2882 | .S9 eekozoid {N} | Second, Tshirt/Grand Prize
| 85120 | 2473 | yaaawn {OSS} »AIDS« | Third, Tshirt
| 83370 | 2062 | {N} YOOOOOOOOOOU GUIZ |
| 83316 | 1847 | [N] NFreak | »AIDS« |
| 83447 | 1789 | i?» Li{N}k: 160/1000 TK’s — | Top Admin, Tshirt
| 83317 | 1697 | [N]{OSS} Andy <3 Ali | »AIDS« |
| 83161 | 1402 | {N}{OSS} Steven.S9 | »AIDS« |
| 91569 | 1163 | mikeyr22 |
| 82849 | 1063 | |N| Jib... ---[] |
| 82993 | 1033 | [N] Crouton Magillicutty |
| 86812 | 1021 | [N]Koben{OSS} |
Congrats to Ggglygy, Eekozoid, yaaawn, and Link for being badasses
So there you have it. Good thing the Ggglygy Contest Clause was in affect for this. Sec.4-Par.2 Clearly states that the grand winner of a previous contest cannot be the grand winner of a future contest.. Basically Gggly seems to find a way to win everytime. He doesn’t get the Grand Prize.. BUT, He still gets a tshirt, and he seems pretty pumped about that. Congrats to Eekozoid for winning the Grand Prize, he puts in a lot of work for #8 and his dedication showed during this contest. Glad to see the newcomer yaaawn finishing up in the ranks, he’s a well respected player on the server. And last but not least big ups to Link for taking the admin challenge, and coming out on top.
Big thanks to all of those who took part in this competition, and if you didn’t get your hands on some Newbs gear – don’t fret because this is the first of many of these to come.
This update by Jib, reminding you to stay classy San Diego
Server #8 Contest Update – 8 days left!
Posted on: February 20th, 2009 by octo dhdFor information on the current contest see: http://www.tf2newbs.com/forum/index.php/topic,1915.0.html
Server #8 is 69.12.108.39:27015
Here are the current standings:
- .S9 eekozoid {N}
- nø-pulse` Ggglygy [N]
- {N}{OSS} Alex Chilton (JF)
- yaaawn {OSS}
- [N]{OSS} Andy <3 Ali | »AIDS«
- [N] NFreak »AIDS«
- {N){OSS} Steven | »AIDS«
- [N] .S9 StrongBad36x
- [BnH] LeeTagger
- [N]Koben{OSS}
- mikeyr22
- {N} Scott Eats Bullets
- deprecated
- i?» .S9|Amadeus {N}
- Marco
- (JF)Verrah
- [LPF] The Big Boss
- [N]{OSS}SniperDrew [SP]
- Riot ¤ Happy.Smiles
- ejc
There is plenty of time left to win a prize. Remember that points are awarded for different things! Although the totals in HLstatsX are being used in the point totals, your actual ‘skill’ points are not significant so dying does _NOT_ hurt your points. It is entirely possible to win this contest with a <1000 skill point total. The majority of the points are awarded for events that signify team work, map goals, and time spent on the server. So get in there, get dirty, die a few hundred times grabbing that intel, or capping that point and make us proud.
With these flares, I shall guard you
Posted on: February 18th, 2009 by Scott Eats BulletsThere’s been a somewhat disturbing trend here on the Newbs servers the past couple days. More and more pyros have been taking to the sewers to defend, armed only with that most finicky of weapons. I’m talking about, of course, the flare gun.
I’ve mostly seen this in the sewers on 2fort, but I’m sure it’s happening other places. Since I haven’t seen it in other maps yet, this post focuses solely on 2fort.
Let’s take a moment to digest that. You’re playing defense, launching flammable objects into an area that not only contains easy access to water, but also contains a medkit, and is also a common route for medics (due to the usual lack of snipers in the area).
Let’s think about what this means to you, the pyro. Any of the above can end burning in a matter of seconds. Burning is your bread and butter, your raison d’etre (pardon my French). Burning people is what you do best, and in most cases, you do it very very well.
So why purposefully make your fire weaker? Why settle for an occassional hit, those times when the flare doesn’t mysteriously curve into a wall? Why settle for burning that can be removed in a matter of seconds? Why help those medics build their ubers?
Seriously, there’s a reason that heavy is just standing there letting you pop flare after flare into him. He’s not being intimidated. He’s not worrying about what you’re going to do to him. He’s laughing at your tiny baby gun, and the medic behind him is savouring the delicious scent of sizzling bacon and crackling medigun. Breakfast of champions.
Also, ammo. You get 16 flares. After that, you either have to find a dispenser or run up to the resupply, because there’s very little chance you’ve killed something to pick up its ammo. Your entire purpose can be replaced by many different classes, all of whom either have more ammo, do more damage, or have more reliable aim. In some cases, all of the above.
“But Scott,” you might say, “I get a ton of assists as a flare gun pyro!”
Maybe you do. Fire is fire, after all. But really, how many of those assists come from snipers headshotting the burning guy? I’m willing to bet that if the answer isn’t “all of them”, it’s “most of them”, where the assists not coming from snipers come from spies instead. These people don’t need your help, and your flare didn’t tip the balance. No, that guy was dead as soon as the sniper zoomed in, or the spy uncloaked. All you did was make them uncomfortable.
One final reason playing defensive sewer-spamming flare gun pyro isn’t such a hot idea: you open yourself up to the most humiliating way to die. Worse than the heavy taunt from around the corner. Worse than the bodyshot wallsniper with a medic. Worse even than the non-crit engie pistol.
I’m talking about the reflected flare.
Yes, a pyro with the air blast can reflect your flares back into you. You get rewarded with this little beauty:
The rarest kill icon in the game. The most humiliating way to die.
Do you really want that?
Flare gun defense is not a viable strategy.
Yay a Team Fortress 2 Update – Oh no it broke a bunch of things :(
Posted on: February 17th, 2009 by octo dhdToday there was a new TF2 Server update released -
- Ultimately reduces damage done by sticky bombs to enemies <512 units from the Demoman
- Added a warning dialog to the loadout screen telling clients when the server they’re on could not get their loadout
All of these things are great, and I’m glad that Valve also fixed some other bugs/exploits (‘Protected several more commands from client exploitation’). Unfortunately they also changed one other item which has a much broader impact than any of these other fixes. The decided to update players STEAM_ID’s to be like the L4D Steam IDs. I’m sure theres a great reason for this update (maybe its required for use with the new steam cloud stuff) but unfortunately they didn’t give any sort of warning that they were going to make this change. On the surface it seems like a pretty innocent / simple change but the impact is far reaching.
Lets use my steam_id as an example:
Until today it was STEAM_0:1:5809658 after this update it was changed to STEAM_1:1:5809658 (notice the 0 changing to a 1). This seems pretty insignificant until you realize that a lot of things that happen on a server are tied to this identifier, and until recently a lot of these were hardcoded for the STEAM_0:x:XXXXXXX format. One of the major things that this disrupted were bans. The ban list is just a text file with a list of steamid’s in it. Now that the ids have changed (even a little) makes the old bans not match any longer – effectively unbanning everyone. The solution to this of course is to update the list so it uses the newer notation, and to update other software like HLstatsX CE, Sourcebans, sourcemod (used for admins, reserve slots, etc) to newer versions which matches people based only on the x:XXXXXXX portion of their steamid.
So if you noticed the stats down for a little while earlier, or that there were some banned players on, or that your reserve slot not working, or your admin abilities suddenly disappeared this is why. I have upgraded most everything, so heading forward there shouldn’t be any more problems. =)
. Octo