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Hat Fortress 2 (Updated OP!)

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  • Alex WilderAlex Wilder Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Hey You wrote: »
    Welp, looks like I got screwed out of being in that swamp pack from the tf2 post yesterday. Tf2maps said I would be apart of it, but it looks like they picked up one of their buddies koth maps instead. Unfortunately all the mappers over there are up each other's asses when it comes to making maps and the ring leader is youme (the guy who make hoodoo, the worst map ever.) I'm guessing they decided I wasn't cool enough to be apart of the group even though I feel I have one of the best koth maps out.

    Ok, I'm done venting.

    Lol, I didn't know you made Moonshine. Great map!

    Alex Wilder on
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  • JauntyJaunty Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    nealcm wrote: »
    Jaunty wrote: »
    davincie wrote: »
    The Tropy Belt is actually the best sniper hat, more hats should be like it.

    You keep forgetting that the Panama is the best hat.

    As someone who attained this hat by crafting two stupid trophy belts I can back this up. It's stylish and still allows for a properly executed kukri-taunt, the best and most demoralizing taunt of them all.

    wow, you got two trophy belt drops?

    laughin my ass off over here

    The Random Number God is a loathsome and spiteful beast

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  • SuMa.LustreSuMa.Lustre Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    i say you should teabag valve with moonshine because "9 out of 10 PAers love moonshine. The 10th guy is Goose or something."

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  • JauntyJaunty Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    you guys are awfully choosey about something a lot of people haven't even found one of

    my policy is: if it's a hat, and it's mine, I wear it

    My policy is if it's a hat, it's mine, and it's not that accursed batter's helmet, I wear it.

    Jaunty on
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  • xzzyxzzy Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Hey You wrote: »
    Thanks guys, I'm glad I'm apart of a tf2 forum that supports their members. <3 you guys :cry:.

    Your map is in the rotation on the reddit server. Just in case you care.

    Not 100% sure it's the actual final version though. It's koth_moonshine_rc, and I had to delete the _rc from my maps folder and download it, seems like I had a different release from one of the testing nights.

    xzzy on
  • DeMoNDeMoN twitch.tv/toxic_cizzle Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    So much hate for the Batter's Helmet.

    I find the way the light bounces off it to be captivating.

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  • BethrynBethryn Unhappiness is Mandatory Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Grass tastes like pancakes, birds suck, sun does not look good here; brother, I'm a freaking blur.

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  • JauntyJaunty Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Hats that are somehow less desirable than the camera beard:
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  • PMAversPMAvers Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    xzzy wrote: »
    Hey You wrote: »
    Thanks guys, I'm glad I'm apart of a tf2 forum that supports their members. <3 you guys :cry:.

    Your map is in the rotation on the reddit server. Just in case you care.

    Not 100% sure it's the actual final version though. It's koth_moonshine_rc, and I had to delete the _rc from my maps folder and download it, seems like I had a different release from one of the testing nights.

    If memory serves, _rc had a bug and he fixed & re-uploaded, but with the same file name. (Which is, in retrospect, a *horrible idea*.)

    I'm guessing some copies of the bugged version made it out in the wild, so there's technically still two different versions with the same file-name floating around out there.

    Probably not a bad idea to get a new version out there anyway, since it sounds like the materials in the swamp pack were updated & optimized for better framerates.

    EDIT: More importantly, though, there needs to be mans on server later tonight. Got a few maps that would like to be played.

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  • savooipeerdsavooipeerd Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    The fact that the Trophy Belt is just the regular hat with teeth on it is what makes it so good. It's a subtle difference, something that gives the wearer a unique identity without disrupting the coherence of the game's overall design.

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  • MrDelishMrDelish Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    The fact that the Trophy Belt is just the regular hat with teeth on it is what makes it so good. It's a subtle difference, something that gives the wearer a unique identity without disrupting the coherence of the game's overall design.
    the trophy belt doesn't change much

    hence why it's boring

    MrDelish on
  • savooipeerdsavooipeerd Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    MrDelish wrote: »
    The fact that the Trophy Belt is just the regular hat with teeth on it is what makes it so good. It's a subtle difference, something that gives the wearer a unique identity without disrupting the coherence of the game's overall design.
    the trophy belt doesn't change much

    hence why it's boring

    I'm sorry you are incapable of appreciating subtlety and the elegance of simplicity

    I truly am

    savooipeerd on
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  • DeMoNDeMoN twitch.tv/toxic_cizzle Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    pish posh

    DeMoN on
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  • Flippy_DFlippy_D Digital Conquistador LondonRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Savoo probably knows more about graphic design than you guys you guys

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    moonshine is a goddamn fantastic map, and is easily the best koth map I've played

    and I am a man who loves him some koth

    TheySlashThem on
  • DeMoNDeMoN twitch.tv/toxic_cizzle Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I took Illustration and Design for three years, which is like Graphic Design but way cooler because not only do we illustrate but we also do technical drawing and flash animation and 3D modeling.

    Adding some teeth to an already existing hat isn't some artistic statement. It's lazy.

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  • CarbonFireCarbonFire See you in the countryRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    moonshine is a goddamn fantastic map, and is easily the best koth map I've played

    and I am a man who loves him some koth

    Moonshine and Sawmill are by far my favorites. If Moonshine doesn't get officialized it will be a travesty.

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  • BarrakkethBarrakketh Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    nealcm wrote: »
    Jaunty wrote: »
    davincie wrote: »
    The Tropy Belt is actually the best sniper hat, more hats should be like it.

    You keep forgetting that the Panama is the best hat.

    As someone who attained this hat by crafting two stupid trophy belts I can back this up. It's stylish and still allows for a properly executed kukri-taunt, the best and most demoralizing taunt of them all.

    wow, you got two trophy belt drops?

    laughin my ass off over here

    I've crafted a trophy belt.

    In the process of getting rid of it I crafted my third Fancy Fedora gonk.gif
    I've found five damned picklehaubes.

    Barrakketh on
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  • Raoulduke20Raoulduke20 Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I also love moonshine. It's my favorite koth map and I'm always excited when it comes up on other servers.

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  • xzzyxzzy Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Flippy_D wrote: »
    Savoo probably knows more about graphic design than you guys you guys

    People know what video game hats they like best better than Savoo does, however.

    Which is probably why Valve put more than one in.

    xzzy on
  • iowaiowa Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    the fundamental effect of hats is to make the person look frumpy and retarded.

    the football helmet does this best.

    ergo the football helmet is the best hat

    iowa on
  • DeMoNDeMoN twitch.tv/toxic_cizzle Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Barrakketh wrote: »

    I've crafted a trophy belt.

    In the process of getting rid of it I crafted my third Fancy Fedora gonk.gif
    I've found five damned picklehaubes.

    Jesus Christ, you are like some kind of black hole that all hats get sucked into. How many have you found? 30?

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  • xzzyxzzy Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I still haven't gotten a hat, aside from the gibus and the lament. I even started idling last week.. I'm up to 200 hours in the past 2 weeks and not a single fucking hat. I have 2 refined metal though. So in another 200 hours I'll probably be able to make a hat!

    Seriously, this drop system is fucking retarded.

    xzzy on
  • savooipeerdsavooipeerd Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    DeMoN wrote: »
    I took Illustration and Design for three years, which is like Graphic Design but way cooler because not only do we illustrate but we also do technical drawing and flash animation and 3D modeling.

    Adding some teeth to an already existing hat isn't some artistic statement. It's lazy.

    The original hat looks good so a slightly different version of the original still looks good, it doesn't need to be artistic or radically different.

    Throwing out all the previously estabilished design principles and characterizations because it's easier to think of a wacky, zany hat than to create something that actually fits thematically with the existing content, that's lazy. (this does not apply to the Panama by the way, I personally think it looks kinda ugly but there is nothing really wrong with it design-wise)

    xzzy wrote: »
    People know what video game hats they like best better than Savoo does, however.

    Which is probably why Valve put more than one in.

    I actually know very well which hats I like best.

    savooipeerd on
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  • DeMoNDeMoN twitch.tv/toxic_cizzle Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    xzzy wrote: »
    I still haven't gotten a hat, aside from the gibus and the lament. I even started idling last week.. I'm up to 200 hours in the past 2 weeks and not a single fucking hat. I have 2 refined metal though. So in another 200 hours I'll probably be able to make a hat!

    Seriously, this drop system is fucking retarded.

    I think they seriously turned down the drop rate during an update in the past two months or so. In the past I could play for a few hour and get maybe 3 items. Now if I idle for 7 hours, I might get 2.

    DeMoN on
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  • DeMoNDeMoN twitch.tv/toxic_cizzle Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    DeMoN wrote: »
    I took Illustration and Design for three years, which is like Graphic Design but way cooler because not only do we illustrate but we also do technical drawing and flash animation and 3D modeling.

    Adding some teeth to an already existing hat isn't some artistic statement. It's lazy.

    The original hat looks good so a slightly different version of the original still looks good, it doesn't need to be artistic or radically different.

    Throwing out all the previously estabilished design principles and characterizations because it's easier to think of a wacky, zany hat than to create something that actually fits thematically with the existing content, that's lazy. (this does not apply to the Panama by the way, I personally think it looks kinda ugly but there is nothing really wrong with it design-wise)

    They could have easily made a hat of similar design without it being so blatantly similar to the original.

    DeMoN on
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  • BasilBasil Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Look at the man in my signature.

    You think he's going to stand for a hat without teeth on it?

    Do you think he's some kind of sissy?

    Basil on
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  • JauntyJaunty Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Barrakketh wrote: »
    nealcm wrote: »
    Jaunty wrote: »
    davincie wrote: »
    The Tropy Belt is actually the best sniper hat, more hats should be like it.

    You keep forgetting that the Panama is the best hat.

    As someone who attained this hat by crafting two stupid trophy belts I can back this up. It's stylish and still allows for a properly executed kukri-taunt, the best and most demoralizing taunt of them all.

    wow, you got two trophy belt drops?

    laughin my ass off over here

    I've crafted a trophy belt.

    In the process of getting rid of it I crafted my third Fancy Fedora gonk.gif
    I've found five damned picklehaubes.

    Holy shit
    I mean goddamn

    I'd tell you to buy a lottery ticket but then you'd probably get struck by lightning.

    Jaunty on
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  • BarrakkethBarrakketh Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    DeMoN wrote: »
    Barrakketh wrote: »

    I've crafted a trophy belt.

    In the process of getting rid of it I crafted my third Fancy Fedora gonk.gif
    I've found five damned picklehaubes.

    Jesus Christ, you are like some kind of black hole that all hats get sucked into. How many have you found? 30?

    I think more than that, but I don't want to crawl through my item history to get an exact count. Crafting them also fucks up the counting.

    I had 17 non-freebee hats before the WAR update. Since then I've found another Vintage Tyrolean, Backbiter's Billycock (pretty sure I didn't craft it), another Stovepipe, Stainless Pot, another Tyrant's Helm, and three Picklehaubes. I may or may not have found others, and then there were the ones I've crafted (dupes ahoy!).

    I have four refined metal currently but am saving it. I could try for the Pyro's Beanie but I'd probably get a dupe because a) shitty luck, and b) I already have the Respectless Rubber Gloves and the Brigade Helm. No engi tokens means I can't try for the Texas Ten Gallon, but I do have the Engineer's Cap to hold me over until I find one.

    EDIT: I forgot, I've also found an Officer's Ushanka and a Tough Guy's Tuque.

    Barrakketh on
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  • DeMoNDeMoN twitch.tv/toxic_cizzle Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    An example of a pretty damn good Sniper hat from FPSbanana. Most of the hats on that site should be uploaded to the community page.

    http://www.fpsbanana.com/skins/screens/81613?img=http://image.fpsbanana.com/ss/srends/81613a.jpg

    Barraketh, when item trading is put in, I will gladly take any of the bazillion hats you don't want. I'll trade you for a sanvich.

    DeMoN on
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  • Quaz and WallyQuaz and Wally Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    iowa wrote: »
    the fundamental effect of hats is to make the person look frumpy and retarded.

    the football helmet does this best.

    ergo the football helmet is the best hat

    This is truth! I used to gun for the Ushanka, but then I realized I could look retarded! After getting the Football helmet I got the Ushanka, and I still haven't unequiped the Football helmet yet. It is indeed the best.

    Quaz and Wally on
  • JauntyJaunty Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Barrak

    What
    The
    Fuck

    Jaunty on
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  • .Tripwire..Tripwire. Firman Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Calling them lazy is pretty harsh given the work they put into additional content. If they released the hat update and it only consisted of the trophy belt, then you might have a point.

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  • xzzyxzzy Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    DeMoN wrote: »
    xzzy wrote: »
    I still haven't gotten a hat, aside from the gibus and the lament. I even started idling last week.. I'm up to 200 hours in the past 2 weeks and not a single fucking hat. I have 2 refined metal though. So in another 200 hours I'll probably be able to make a hat!

    Seriously, this drop system is fucking retarded.

    I think they seriously turned down the drop rate during an update in the past two months or so. In the past I could play for a few hour and get maybe 3 items. Now if I idle for 7 hours, I might get 2.

    They did mention they want to reduce the effectiveness of idling.. but apparently haven't done shit to improve the effectiveness of playing the game.

    I can appreciate the logic behind wanting the hats to be uncommon, but they were put into the game last May and there's still a bunch of people who have none? That's bullshit. It gets even worse when assclowns like Goomba have four of the stupid things.

    It's not even that I care about the hats, I don't measure my self worth based on how many are in my inventory. It's just the system is so goddamn stupid I can't understand why they bothered to implement it.

    xzzy on
  • Flippy_DFlippy_D Digital Conquistador LondonRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I think we can all agree we hate Barraketh.

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  • Roland_tHTGRoland_tHTG Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    xzzy wrote: »
    I need a macro that I can use to spin 180 degrees, spray on the wall behind me, spin 180 degrees again, and taunt. It has to do all this in between the time I kill someone, and they get the freeze cam.

    I don't know if I could come up with a spray that could properly humiliate someone but I'd certainly try.

    Spinning an exact number of degrees is really difficult to set up with scripts, even if you find a way to lock down your fps. It's just not very consistent. You'll just have to be pro enough to do it manually.

    I need a script that I can use that will admintrace spray everyone I just critrocketed.

    Roland_tHTG on
  • JauntyJaunty Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Flippy_D wrote: »
    I think we can all agree we hate Barraketh.

    Jaunty on
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  • davinciedavincie Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    DeMoN wrote: »
    An example of a pretty damn good Sniper hat from FPSbanana. Most of the hats on that site should be uploaded to the community page.

    http://www.fpsbanana.com/skins/screens/81613?img=http://image.fpsbanana.com/ss/srends/81613a.jpg

    Barraketh, when item trading is put in, I will gladly take any of the bazillion hats you don't want. I'll trade you for a sanvich.

    Like the hat.

    Also Barraketh you got no reason at all to whine, ever again.

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  • iowaiowa Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    xzzy wrote: »
    It's just the system is so goddamn stupid I can't understand why they bothered to implement it.
    this is another reason why the football helmet is the best. in some sense, it encompasses the hat system itself.

    iowa on
  • nealcmnealcm Alvarian AlvarianRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Jaunty wrote: »
    Barrak

    What
    The
    Fuck

    he doesn't actually play this game, he has been sitting on an idle server for over forty thousand hours, though.

    his longest life as scout is 1,471,310 minutes.

    and ten seconds.

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