You crazy bastards and your crazy bastard monitor resolutions. 1280x1024 is where it's at.
I've tried 1920x1080 on my 37" LCD and that's hard to see. I can't imagine 1920x1200 on any kind of desktop monitor.
EDIT: Then again, I wasn't sitting as close to it as I do my usual 19" monitor. :P
I've got a 24" Dell 2407WFP-HC and reading text on it is just fine. It's clearer than my previous monitor, the tried and true Samsung 19" 955DF CRT. Which also had amazing clarity at it's native resolution (1280*980).
The only thing that can make this monitor a bit hard to read text with isn't the resolution, but just how bright the panel is. Which is easily fixed with custom picture settings.
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It's been so long since I've posted here, I've removed my signature since most of what I had here were broken links. Shows over, you can carry on to the next post.
Damn you team fortress, making me drop the intel so someone faster can cap it in the final race. I picked up and walked most of the way on 2 of our intel caps but didn't get to return one
Bind a key to the function "jpeg" to save them as .jpgs
Could you elaborate, please?
In the console of Team Fortress 2 (developer's console must be enabled in the game options, it's under one of the Advanced... buttons, press the tilde [~] key to activate it in game) type in:
bind "f5" "jpeg"
Where f5 is the key you'd like to assign to saving jpeg screenshots. Pardon my lack of knowledge, I'm not sure if taking a jpeg screenshot will move the HUD info as it does with the regular screenshot function, perhaps someone else knows.
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For people who were interested in my wallpaper, I hope these might satisfy you for however brief a moment!
1280 x 1024 (the resolution I, and sane people, use)
1900 x 1200 (bigger than my house!)
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Suds, if you were serious about wanting it cropped that way, here's a .png version:
It's been so long since I've posted here, I've removed my signature since most of what I had here were broken links. Shows over, you can carry on to the next post.
The PA servers may not be pefect, but every time I go on a pub there is always terrible co-ordination, fairly new/unexperienced players and complete idiots. At least on the PA servers we all want to enjoy the game and make it fun for each other, plus all have a lot of experience with the game. At the worst times we can get one sided games with a bit of stupid chat but at the best times we can get some fucking epic, fun and well balanced games in that require and have real teamwork. Hell, even LOSING to you guys is fun sometimes, plus sharing our exploits via this thread is always a bonus.
I never seem to shake my fist at the screen and verbally abuse a dumb player on the PA servers.
I'm having a hell of a lot of fun playing defensive scout, even if I know I'd probably do more good as a demoman.
Running through the offense and hanging out in the first part of stage 2 of Dustbowl and just ambushing people and harassing them is so goddamned fun, plus it sort of feels like I'm helping by slowing their pushes too. It has so many healthboxes around that you can run circles around people and live for a pretty good amount of time.
I've noticed more and more there just seems to be a guy on each team who likes to bitch incessantly about everyone else on the team.
"Why aren't you guys pushing forward?", "We really need to move up.", "Why isn't anybody else doing anything?", "so-and-so what are you doing, that's wrong", etc.
Despite all the whining that apparently we aren't even trying to win, we usually do win and do so without this guy even being near the cap or the top of the team points when it's over.
Seriously, we're trying to win too so shut up.
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I've noticed more and more there just seems to be a guy on each team who likes to bitch incessantly about everyone else on the team.
"Why aren't you guys pushing forward?", "We really need to move up.", "Why isn't anybody else doing anything?", "so-and-so what are you doing, that's wrong", etc.
Despite all the whining that apparently we aren't even trying to win, we usually do win and do so without this guy even being near the cap or the top of the team points when it's over.
Seriously, we're trying to win too so shut up.
I hate to shout at people but all I could think of while playing on a pub server yesterday was WHEN I'M ON FIRE AND IN FRONT OF YOU AND YOU ARE PLAYING WITH A MEDIC AND I HAVE NO HEALTH AND MY CHARACTER IS SCREAMING THAT HE IS ON FIRE AND OBVIOUSLY NOT HAPPY WITH THE SITUATION AND I'M PRESSING THE ASK FOR MEDIC BUTTON AND YOU ARE PLAYING AS A MEDIC WHO IS LITERALLY DOING NOTHING AT ALL I WOULD APPRECIATE A LITTLE ATTENTION THANK YOU VERY MUCH PLEASEHTNANKSBYE
On PA I know someone is eventually going to be kind enough if they are not too busy to help me out in that situation but those other kind of asshats really didn't care about the other team members.
I've noticed more and more there just seems to be a guy on each team who likes to bitch incessantly about everyone else on the team.
"Why aren't you guys pushing forward?", "We really need to move up.", "Why isn't anybody else doing anything?", "so-and-so what are you doing, that's wrong", etc.
Despite all the whining that apparently we aren't even trying to win, we usually do win and do so without this guy even being near the cap or the top of the team points when it's over.
Seriously, we're trying to win too so shut up.
You are being really general here. There is good communication too. The way you are talking, it makes it sound like we should all stop communicating. I say a few of those lines at various points in a game if I think it's necessary and the team isn't doing it, although I don't say silly shit like "Do you want to win or not." or "Why isn't anybody else doing anything?".
I don't want people to think they shouldn't talk at all.
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(PSN: Morninglord) (Steam: Morninglord) (WiiU: Morninglord22) I like to record and toss up a lot of random gaming videos here.
I die to burning with medics nearby on PA servers all the time
This was a specific case for me on the pub, at least I know if I burn to death in a PA server the medic was probably doing a good job elsewhere instead of probably just staring at my flaming black scottish persona and lol'ing.
I never feel like I have to blame the PA dudes for messing up, at least I know they try.
EDIT: someone who plays as a spy a lot, rename yourself 'An enemy spy' and see how well you do. I'm just imagining the rare occasion of another spy disguising themselves as a member of your team and using that name without realising it, then getting caught by a paranoid player for it, hehehehe.
I die to burning with medics nearby on PA servers all the time
Frustration is being a medic who just helped beat a random pyro rush and is helping heal up the team waiting for the push to begin, having 30 health, spamming the medic button and watching the other medic keep the (unhurt) heavy's health topped off as he stands there and watches me crumple and die. I swear I survived for ten seconds, just staring at him.
I am very bad at healing the specific person I want to heal, especially if they are a faster class, there are a lot of people bunched up, or if everyone is moving around. So like, if you're a scout and we're all capping a point and jumping around? Sooo hard to heal. Sorry.
I die to burning with medics nearby on PA servers all the time
Frustration is being a medic who just helped beat a random pyro rush and is helping heal up the team waiting for the push to begin, having 30 health, spamming the medic button and watching the other medic keep the (unhurt) heavy's health topped off as he stands there and watches me crumple and die. I swear I survived for ten seconds, just staring at him.
That medic's name is forever burned into my soul.
Yeah. Whats also really funny in a maddening way is when some scout with 110 health comes up and takes a healthpack right infront of a medic who is burning to death.
I die to burning with medics nearby on PA servers all the time
Frustration is being a medic who just helped beat a random pyro rush and is helping heal up the team waiting for the push to begin, having 30 health, spamming the medic button and watching the other medic keep the (unhurt) heavy's health topped off as he stands there and watches me crumple and die. I swear I survived for ten seconds, just staring at him.
Speaking of which, I keep grabbing sceenshots of spies who have killed me while still invisible. I'm getting suspicious that they are using the glitch as it just seems to be the players who play spies a lot more than most PA-ers, eg, ones who are always labeled 'spy' when you look at their name.
Its pretty difficult to detect if they are doing it or not. They could just cloak right as soon as they kill you, and its kind of hard to detect at all if other people are doing it normally unless they just completely annihilate a heavy or a soldier the second they take out their melee weapon.
actually, should probably test that. get a buddy to stab you and right click right after he does, and see if the kill cam "shows" a transparent spy or a translucent one.
I've noticed more and more there just seems to be a guy on each team who likes to bitch incessantly about everyone else on the team.
"Why aren't you guys pushing forward?", "We really need to move up.", "Why isn't anybody else doing anything?", "so-and-so what are you doing, that's wrong", etc.
Despite all the whining that apparently we aren't even trying to win, we usually do win and do so without this guy even being near the cap or the top of the team points when it's over.
Seriously, we're trying to win too so shut up.
You are being really general here. There is good communication too. The way you are talking, it makes it sound like we should all stop communicating. I say a few of those lines at various points in a game if I think it's necessary and the team isn't doing it, although I don't say silly shit like "Do you want to win or not." or "Why isn't anybody else doing anything?".
I don't want people to think they shouldn't talk at all.
I'm fairly new on the servers, and it seems to be spotty. There are games where I'm on a team full of people who want to joke around, and don't bitch at each other when we lose. Those are awesome. That's what I expected from PA.
Then there are games when people just fly off the handle, as though we are playing for money. Those games suck, and I have no idea why fuckwads like that aren't verbally shut down by everyone else. I don't know that the server is "going to the dogs" but there is a lot of really unnecessary negativity.
As far as people telling the team when to push, and whatnot, I don't think there is anything wrong with that. You've gotta communicate on some level in a team game.
Its pretty difficult to detect if they are doing it or not. They could just cloak right as soon as they kill you, and its kind of hard to detect at all if other people are doing it normally unless they just completely annihilate a heavy or a soldier the second they take out their melee weapon.
actually, should probably test that. get a buddy to stab you and right click right after he does, and see if the kill cam "shows" a transparent spy or a translucent one.
If it helps I could post the screenshots if you can tell from that, but I'll edit the names out as I could be wrong and don't want to start a witch hunt here. I'm probably wrong but I just get this nagging feeling that I'v been screwed over in an unsportsman like fasion when I see that happens. That topping off the bitterness of backstab is always a downer.
Then I forget my worries, go pyro and start torching dsiguised spies, and laugh. Oh how I laugh.
Its pretty difficult to detect if they are doing it or not. They could just cloak right as soon as they kill you, and its kind of hard to detect at all if other people are doing it normally unless they just completely annihilate a heavy or a soldier the second they take out their melee weapon.
actually, should probably test that. get a buddy to stab you and right click right after he does, and see if the kill cam "shows" a transparent spy or a translucent one.
If it helps I could post the screenshots if you can tell from that, but I'll edit the names out as I could be wrong and don't want to start a witch hunt here. I'm probably wrong but I just get this nagging feeling that I'v been screwed over in an unsportsman like fasion when I see that happens. That topping off the bitterness of backstab is always a downer.
Then I forget my worries, go pyro and start torching dsiguised spies, and laugh. Oh how I laugh.
I don't play Spy much anymore, but I like to cloak right after a kill for escape purposes and also just to change disguises and the like. Nowadays, I'm a Pyro burning everyone. :P
Here's something fun for you all to try. Play as a spy, find a server with me in it, then stand in front of me or to the side, uncloak and then quickly cloak and run off. I'll be the one spinning around, firing wildly and spamming the 'spy' voice command.
Nothing freaks me out more than spies I KNOW are there. I once hid in a corner in a small room after that happened, only to find the spy cloaked, trying to get into the corner I was trying topush my way past him into so he couldn't backstab me, so I flipped out and hit him with my shovel, killing him. It was just like out of the 'meet the soldier' video.
But ye be warned, freak me out too much and you will have a really pissed off trigger happy pyro on a witch hunt to contend with.
Ok, so I got a big confidence boost from playing Medic tonight. Even got to Ubur a Spy (Bama) and another Medic (TFS) for antics while defending. GOOD times.
I was sniping when i heard the oh so familiar (for me, spy fiend) decloak noise.
I turn around, facing a wall, and i get backstabbed.
Fucker crouch declocked right infront of me as i sniped.
Sneaky bastard.
That is so awesome. I was fucking around as a spy today, and I found that I was able to destealth very close to just about any sniper, and not get caught. But I will have to remember this trick.
Also, I've found that when I play Spy, I am extremely streaky. I will either get top 3 on a map, or I will barely score a point. It's really weird.
I enjoy playing a medic but apparently the proper time to uber is some mystical summit you have to spend years training in tibet to achieve. I get people bitching about when I uber all the time. It seems like ubering when you're in the middle of the enemy camp and your heavy/pyro/whatever is taking an absurd pounding from turrets/enemy is a poor idea.
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500x80 and a .png and it's good to go. Someone else step up to the plate and I'll upload it.
I've tried 1920x1080 on my 37" LCD and that's hard to see. I can't imagine 1920x1200 on any kind of desktop monitor.
EDIT: Then again, I wasn't sitting as close to it as I do my usual 19" monitor. :P
The helmet is magnetic, apparently:
Spot can see into your soul.
An odd graphical glitch I got the other day. Sort of interesting.
Some more light bloom would be good.
I thought this was a cool looking picture. Mainly because of the spy in the back.
The demoman takes a leisurely walk.
I've got a 24" Dell 2407WFP-HC and reading text on it is just fine. It's clearer than my previous monitor, the tried and true Samsung 19" 955DF CRT. Which also had amazing clarity at it's native resolution (1280*980).
The only thing that can make this monitor a bit hard to read text with isn't the resolution, but just how bright the panel is. Which is easily fixed with custom picture settings.
But the video card can't, so I'm playing at 800x600.
In the console of Team Fortress 2 (developer's console must be enabled in the game options, it's under one of the Advanced... buttons, press the tilde [~] key to activate it in game) type in:
bind "f5" "jpeg"
Where f5 is the key you'd like to assign to saving jpeg screenshots. Pardon my lack of knowledge, I'm not sure if taking a jpeg screenshot will move the HUD info as it does with the regular screenshot function, perhaps someone else knows.
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For people who were interested in my wallpaper, I hope these might satisfy you for however brief a moment!
1280 x 1024 (the resolution I, and sane people, use)
1900 x 1200 (bigger than my house!)
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Suds, if you were serious about wanting it cropped that way, here's a .png version:
Some buttsecks for you sir. *Secks!*
My enormous girth allows me to propel myself several feet into the air to get access to the flag.
Also lol at musanman bitching out the team when he doesn't even realize that we were ahead of them.
I never seem to shake my fist at the screen and verbally abuse a dumb player on the PA servers.
Running through the offense and hanging out in the first part of stage 2 of Dustbowl and just ambushing people and harassing them is so goddamned fun, plus it sort of feels like I'm helping by slowing their pushes too. It has so many healthboxes around that you can run circles around people and live for a pretty good amount of time.
"Why aren't you guys pushing forward?", "We really need to move up.", "Why isn't anybody else doing anything?", "so-and-so what are you doing, that's wrong", etc.
Despite all the whining that apparently we aren't even trying to win, we usually do win and do so without this guy even being near the cap or the top of the team points when it's over.
Seriously, we're trying to win too so shut up.
Done.
Bah I am beaten.
I hate to shout at people but all I could think of while playing on a pub server yesterday was WHEN I'M ON FIRE AND IN FRONT OF YOU AND YOU ARE PLAYING WITH A MEDIC AND I HAVE NO HEALTH AND MY CHARACTER IS SCREAMING THAT HE IS ON FIRE AND OBVIOUSLY NOT HAPPY WITH THE SITUATION AND I'M PRESSING THE ASK FOR MEDIC BUTTON AND YOU ARE PLAYING AS A MEDIC WHO IS LITERALLY DOING NOTHING AT ALL I WOULD APPRECIATE A LITTLE ATTENTION THANK YOU VERY MUCH PLEASEHTNANKSBYE
On PA I know someone is eventually going to be kind enough if they are not too busy to help me out in that situation but those other kind of asshats really didn't care about the other team members.
You are being really general here. There is good communication too. The way you are talking, it makes it sound like we should all stop communicating. I say a few of those lines at various points in a game if I think it's necessary and the team isn't doing it, although I don't say silly shit like "Do you want to win or not." or "Why isn't anybody else doing anything?".
I don't want people to think they shouldn't talk at all.
This was a specific case for me on the pub, at least I know if I burn to death in a PA server the medic was probably doing a good job elsewhere instead of probably just staring at my flaming black scottish persona and lol'ing.
I never feel like I have to blame the PA dudes for messing up, at least I know they try.
EDIT: someone who plays as a spy a lot, rename yourself 'An enemy spy' and see how well you do. I'm just imagining the rare occasion of another spy disguising themselves as a member of your team and using that name without realising it, then getting caught by a paranoid player for it, hehehehe.
Frustration is being a medic who just helped beat a random pyro rush and is helping heal up the team waiting for the push to begin, having 30 health, spamming the medic button and watching the other medic keep the (unhurt) heavy's health topped off as he stands there and watches me crumple and die. I swear I survived for ten seconds, just staring at him.
That medic's name is forever burned into my soul.
Yeah. Whats also really funny in a maddening way is when some scout with 110 health comes up and takes a healthpack right infront of a medic who is burning to death.
> turn on light
Good start to the day. Pity it's going to be the worst one of your life. The light is now on.
It's probably my name.
Speaking of which, I keep grabbing sceenshots of spies who have killed me while still invisible. I'm getting suspicious that they are using the glitch as it just seems to be the players who play spies a lot more than most PA-ers, eg, ones who are always labeled 'spy' when you look at their name.
actually, should probably test that. get a buddy to stab you and right click right after he does, and see if the kill cam "shows" a transparent spy or a translucent one.
I'm fairly new on the servers, and it seems to be spotty. There are games where I'm on a team full of people who want to joke around, and don't bitch at each other when we lose. Those are awesome. That's what I expected from PA.
Then there are games when people just fly off the handle, as though we are playing for money. Those games suck, and I have no idea why fuckwads like that aren't verbally shut down by everyone else. I don't know that the server is "going to the dogs" but there is a lot of really unnecessary negativity.
As far as people telling the team when to push, and whatnot, I don't think there is anything wrong with that. You've gotta communicate on some level in a team game.
If it helps I could post the screenshots if you can tell from that, but I'll edit the names out as I could be wrong and don't want to start a witch hunt here. I'm probably wrong but I just get this nagging feeling that I'v been screwed over in an unsportsman like fasion when I see that happens. That topping off the bitterness of backstab is always a downer.
Then I forget my worries, go pyro and start torching dsiguised spies, and laugh. Oh how I laugh.
I don't play Spy much anymore, but I like to cloak right after a kill for escape purposes and also just to change disguises and the like. Nowadays, I'm a Pyro burning everyone. :P
Nothing freaks me out more than spies I KNOW are there. I once hid in a corner in a small room after that happened, only to find the spy cloaked, trying to get into the corner I was trying topush my way past him into so he couldn't backstab me, so I flipped out and hit him with my shovel, killing him. It was just like out of the 'meet the soldier' video.
But ye be warned, freak me out too much and you will have a really pissed off trigger happy pyro on a witch hunt to contend with.
I turn around, facing a wall, and i get backstabbed.
Fucker crouch declocked right infront of me as i sniped.
Sneaky bastard.
I love your accent.
Great, now all his posts are going to sound like Peewi Herman to me.
[Jurassic Park]Clever girl[/Jurrasic Park]
That is so awesome. I was fucking around as a spy today, and I found that I was able to destealth very close to just about any sniper, and not get caught. But I will have to remember this trick.
Also, I've found that when I play Spy, I am extremely streaky. I will either get top 3 on a map, or I will barely score a point. It's really weird.