Working on a retheme/reorginazation of the blog. Working on having every map having it's own page with download links, screenshots, and the ability to leave comments on them.
90% of comments will be "this map sucks"
i guarantee it
That 5 point map we played last night was pretty terrible.. cp_indulge.
Map randomly changes themes, you'll be walking through a wood structure, enter a door, and suddenly it's a concrete spytech theme. Or there's that horrible looking stone texture being used for a building's foundation.
Worse than that though is the map is fucking swiss cheese. It seems like there's a half dozen or more routes between each point, the whole map is a big cluster of buildings jammed together with little to no open areas.
Then to seal it off, lots of weird ledges and jumps. You run out of spawn, drop down into a little gully, then gotta run your ass over to the ramp on the other side and climb back up. It feels like you waste too much time just to get to a doorway that should have been a 5 second run.
I should start mapping again, but it's been so hard to want to reopen hammer after such a long break from it and all the time I put into that plr failure really whipped out all my drive to map. Maybe I can just continue on with my plan to make the ctf and 5cp versions of moonshine.
Any bets on when the Engi update will hit? Coming soon = 5 weeks from now from now?
I don't consider your plr map a failure. It made plr more fun than any other plr map at least.
My problem with mapping is I just got too much shit on my plate. The Reach beta is going, Skate 3 is about to come out, I'm spending an hour a day at the gym, I have to maintain an 8 hour work day, I got tv shows to watch, I got musical instruments to play, there's programming I want to do, I got meals to eat.. it's just really hard to fit mapping into the 5 hours a day of personal time I get.
Working on a retheme/reorginazation of the blog. Working on having every map having it's own page with download links, screenshots, and the ability to leave comments on them.
90% of comments will be "this map sucks"
i guarantee it
Which is a shame. I've been really happy to see all the time PMavers has put into his server. There has also been a good bit of really decent looking maps that have come out lately that he has on his rotation that I'm excited to play. I'm going to write a blog on tf2pro today about a custom map watchlist of maps that could and probably will get picked up by Vavle. (I've predicted about 85% of the maps they picked so far)
I'm also calling for a zissou night tonight on Honc. Maybe I'll whip up a poster for it. (or I'll get Littleboots to do it)
I should start mapping again, but it's been so hard to want to reopen hammer after such a long break from it and all the time I put into that plr failure really whipped out all my drive to map. Maybe I can just continue on with my plan to make the ctf and 5cp versions of moonshine.
Any bets on when the Engi update will hit? Coming soon = 5 weeks from now from now?
That's exactly how I feel, Hey You.
I still want to do a payload/king of the hill tug-of-war map, but I never did get around to figuring out how to tweak the entities to do what I wanted.
And since I can't play anything bigger than a flash game until Tuesday or so, I'm getting kind of antsy.
My problem with mapping is I just got too much shit on my plate. The Reach beta is going, Skate 3 is about to come out, I'm spending an hour a day at the gym, I have to maintain an 8 hour work day, I got tv shows to watch, I got musical instruments to play, there's programming I want to do, I got meals to eat.. it's just really hard to fit mapping into the 5 hours a day of personal time I get.
I hear you here, man.
Pretty much everything except programming. I guess replace that with recording. Reach, BC2, Skate 3 (we should 'throw down' when it's out, yo), trying to get some more of my map done, drumming, working out, working (when it's stable, but that seems like it's about to ramp up pretty sharp here soon), and trying to be social at some point.
Plus I have to share my PC with my wife (I built her one out of some old parts, but she got spoiled on my gaming rig and can't handle using the slower machine.)
I feel so behind on my map, but I guess its not like I'm in a contest or anything. Hell, it probably won't get played much anyway.
I try not to be a pocket medic but if the only choices I have going into a fray are 2 pyros, a scout and a heavy, I am going to follow the heavy around. Of course if there are cries of MEDIC! I will heal them but my primary focus is keeping that heavy alive.
That's not pocket medic-ing, though, that's just sticking with the best option. Generally as long as you are keeping people moving into battle overhealed somewhat and healing those that need it, I wouldn't consider it being a pocket medic.
i was messing around on an arena server the other day and had a pyro jumping around me spamming medic while i was healing a heavy at 100 health who was IN THE MIDDLE OF FIGHTING PEOPLE when he jumped through a doorway and the pyro was yelling at me for heals, while he was behind the team not fighting anyone
I try not to be a pocket medic but if the only choices I have going into a fray are 2 pyros, a scout and a heavy, I am going to follow the heavy around. Of course if there are cries of MEDIC! I will heal them but my primary focus is keeping that heavy alive.
I like to focus healing on flankers occasionally, especially if I know they're decent. Then instead of "Oh no, ambush pyro" it's "OH NO AMBUSH PYRO AND MEDIC".
Working on a retheme/reorginazation of the blog. Working on having every map having it's own page with download links, screenshots, and the ability to leave comments on them.
90% of comments will be "this map sucks"
i guarantee it
That 5 point map we played last night was pretty terrible.. cp_indulge.
Map randomly changes themes, you'll be walking through a wood structure, enter a door, and suddenly it's a concrete spytech theme. Or there's that horrible looking stone texture being used for a building's foundation.
Worse than that though is the map is fucking swiss cheese. It seems like there's a half dozen or more routes between each point, the whole map is a big cluster of buildings jammed together with little to no open areas.
Then to seal it off, lots of weird ledges and jumps. You run out of spawn, drop down into a little gully, then gotta run your ass over to the ramp on the other side and climb back up. It feels like you waste too much time just to get to a doorway that should have been a 5 second run.
it probably also helps to not have one team composed of half scouts as if they are just trying to get the map over with
a) the people you're healing show some appreciation, which they fucking should. Also,
b) the people you're healing are good about keeping you alive. And, though not as important,
c) the people you're healing are pretty good. At the very least you'll have the satisfaction of knowing you're keeping those people alive to keep doing what they're doing. Also note I said 'people' and not 'person' because pocket medics are a blight to their team.
I'm thinking 'pretty good' here should be something else, maybe 'competent.' It sucks when you have no one to heal because they can't manage to stay alive long enough.
I believe that you have several valid points, but that C is only valid if you are playing on a server where "a" and "b" are both in effect. To clarify, in pub games where most people either camp a spot or run endlessly into the meatgrinder being a good and proper team medic isn't much of an option.
I generally heal one 'main' person, usually a heavy/soldier/demo, but whenever they aren't under heavy fire I'll overheal everyone around me. And heal up anyone at low health providing my current healee isn't also at low health.
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That 5 point map we played last night was pretty terrible.. cp_indulge.
Map randomly changes themes, you'll be walking through a wood structure, enter a door, and suddenly it's a concrete spytech theme. Or there's that horrible looking stone texture being used for a building's foundation.
Worse than that though is the map is fucking swiss cheese. It seems like there's a half dozen or more routes between each point, the whole map is a big cluster of buildings jammed together with little to no open areas.
Then to seal it off, lots of weird ledges and jumps. You run out of spawn, drop down into a little gully, then gotta run your ass over to the ramp on the other side and climb back up. It feels like you waste too much time just to get to a doorway that should have been a 5 second run.
Any bets on when the Engi update will hit? Coming soon = 5 weeks from now from now?
My problem with mapping is I just got too much shit on my plate. The Reach beta is going, Skate 3 is about to come out, I'm spending an hour a day at the gym, I have to maintain an 8 hour work day, I got tv shows to watch, I got musical instruments to play, there's programming I want to do, I got meals to eat.. it's just really hard to fit mapping into the 5 hours a day of personal time I get.
Which is a shame. I've been really happy to see all the time PMavers has put into his server. There has also been a good bit of really decent looking maps that have come out lately that he has on his rotation that I'm excited to play. I'm going to write a blog on tf2pro today about a custom map watchlist of maps that could and probably will get picked up by Vavle. (I've predicted about 85% of the maps they picked so far)
I'm also calling for a zissou night tonight on Honc. Maybe I'll whip up a poster for it. (or I'll get Littleboots to do it)
Goddammit I have not played a single game on Trainwreck. Which is a fucking crime!
That's exactly how I feel, Hey You.
I still want to do a payload/king of the hill tug-of-war map, but I never did get around to figuring out how to tweak the entities to do what I wanted.
And since I can't play anything bigger than a flash game until Tuesday or so, I'm getting kind of antsy.
I hear you here, man.
Pretty much everything except programming. I guess replace that with recording. Reach, BC2, Skate 3 (we should 'throw down' when it's out, yo), trying to get some more of my map done, drumming, working out, working (when it's stable, but that seems like it's about to ramp up pretty sharp here soon), and trying to be social at some point.
Plus I have to share my PC with my wife (I built her one out of some old parts, but she got spoiled on my gaming rig and can't handle using the slower machine.)
I feel so behind on my map, but I guess its not like I'm in a contest or anything. Hell, it probably won't get played much anyway.
Woo pessimism!
Disable downloads of custom sounds in the settings.
that wont fix whatever the error is on the server thats making it serve the file repeatedly
But it'll make you not download custom sounds from any server and custom sounds are the stupidest thing.
This. I was so happy when I found you could turn that feature off.
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First, even though I have TF2 set bound to save jpg screenshots, my screenshot folder was a mess of .tga as well as .jpg.
second, my screenshot folder was frickin huge.
third, Llama
I like to focus healing on flankers occasionally, especially if I know they're decent. Then instead of "Oh no, ambush pyro" it's "OH NO AMBUSH PYRO AND MEDIC".
I accidentally goomba'd Teriferin yesterday while shadowing him as a spy. I'm still laughing about it.
I believe that you have several valid points, but that C is only valid if you are playing on a server where "a" and "b" are both in effect. To clarify, in pub games where most people either camp a spot or run endlessly into the meatgrinder being a good and proper team medic isn't much of an option.
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...I have no idea why it'd even be *trying* to make you download it. Never have run custom sounds...
EDIT: kek. Apparently the sound files were supposed to be for the Goomba Stomp mod... but I never actually uploaded them to the server. <_<
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That should explain it. :P
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I have no idea what the what that other game was, but hey....you say potato, I say potat.... Damn that doesn't work when typing.
Anyway, whatever that game is... it can't be any worse that what I replaced it with.
I think this is more due to PLR being inherently broken than anything you did or didn't do for your map.
What is farmville?
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I was so confused when you originally goombaed me, guar. So. Confused.
Be warned, this may blind sight.