Somebody just posted a thread on the Steam forums about how they got 10,000,000 healed in 3 hours. It's been deleted, but here it is:
I HAVE NO BALLS.
It's pretty obvious that this achievement will be massively farmed within days to the point that it has no meaning. Valve can't ban people for doing this, because it would mean banning everybody that plays on servers with silly settings.
Fucking hell. Thats redonkulus. I was already in a bad mood for various reasons, but you have made it worse. THANK YOU ZEK. THANK YOU VERY FUCKING MUCH.
Come on man, I know it's nice to have bragging rights but it's totally ridiculous to keep actual game content hidden from people that haven't played one class for 200 hours, especially something that's a considerable gameplay advantage. You can brag about having done it for real, but don't get upset that people who play other classes want to unlock everything too.
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Somebody just posted a thread on the Steam forums about how they got 10,000,000 healed in 3 hours. It's been deleted, but here it is:
I HAVE NO BALLS.
It's pretty obvious that this achievement will be massively farmed within days to the point that it has no meaning. Valve can't ban people for doing this, because it would mean banning everybody that plays on servers with silly settings.
Fucking hell. Thats redonkulus. I was already in a bad mood for various reasons, but you have made it worse. THANK YOU ZEK. THANK YOU VERY FUCKING MUCH.
Come on man, I know it's nice to have bragging rights but it's totally ridiculous to keep actual game content hidden from people that haven't played one class for 200 hours, especially something that's a considerable gameplay advantage. You can brag about having done it for real, but don't get upset that people who play other classes want to unlock everything too.
At the same time though I don't think you should have it handed to you in 3 hours of playing the medic. I think a compromise of 2-3 million points for the achievement would be best. Granted people would probably still farm it.
Come on man, I know it's nice to have bragging rights but it's totally ridiculous to keep actual game content hidden from people that haven't played one class for 200 hours, especially something that's a considerable gameplay advantage. You can brag about having done it for real, but don't get upset that people who play other classes want to unlock everything too.
No... I view these achievements as something that is solely for bragging rights. Theres are reason they set that healing up so high... so that very few people would get it, and it would be a long term goal for someone. Not a goal you can accomplish in 3 hours with some friends. The people who do multiple classes could easily get the 18/32 achievements for their classes, and set the 36/36 as something to work toward. It would make it damn impressive when they got more than one, too. Now the achievements will mostly be about who can figure out how to fuck with the system first.
I think I'm in the minority here, I guess. I liked the idea of this system... and I hoped it would take a little longer before someone broke it.
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Zen VulgarityWhat a lovely day for teaSecret British ThreadRegistered Userregular
edited April 2008
I'd probably farm the 10 fucking MILLION points.
Nothing else, though.
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edited April 2008
They just want more people to play medic, and that's what's happening.
Come on man, I know it's nice to have bragging rights but it's totally ridiculous to keep actual game content hidden from people that haven't played one class for 200 hours, especially something that's a considerable gameplay advantage. You can brag about having done it for real, but don't get upset that people who play other classes want to unlock everything too.
No... I view these achievements as something that is solely for bragging rights. Theres are reason they set that healing up so high... so that very few people would get it, and it would be a long term goal for someone. Not a goal you can accomplish in 3 hours with some friends. The people who do multiple classes could easily get the 18/32 achievements for their classes, and set the 36/36 as something to work toward. It would make it damn impressive when they got more than one, too. Now the achievements will mostly be about who can figure out how to fuck with the system first.
I think I'm in the minority here, I guess. I liked the idea of this system... and I hoped it would take a little longer before someone broke it.
It's one thing for achievements to be insanely hard for bragging rights. When they tie it to an actual weapon - a really good one at that - all bets are off. Everybody wants to play with the ubersaw and doesn't care nearly enough about your bragging rights to go without. If it took a hundred million healed instead, would you cheat for it?
Yeah, it's not like anyone thought you're awesome cause you have that achievement.
Really? Damn. I thought everyone was clapping like a seal for me and my awesomeness. I'm sad now.
If it took a hundred million healed instead, would you cheat for it?
Well... that is even more ridiculously high. I don't think anyone would stick with TF2 long enough to reach that goal. If it was even 30 million, I could say yes... I would go for it. And I'm serious here, I would not cheat for that.
100 million... I'd be on that server though.
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edited April 2008
Mandalore's going to do it legit because he actually plays medic all the time.
If it took a hundred million healed instead, would you cheat for it?
Well... that is even more ridiculously high. I don't think anyone would stick with TF2 long enough to reach that goal. If it was even 30 million, I could say yes... I would go for it. And I'm serious here, I would not cheat for that.
100 million... I'd be on that server though.
Well to most of us, it might as well be 100 million. With my current proportions of class play times, I would have over 3,000 played hours before getting that achievement. I sure hope I never play that much TF2 in my lifetime. So it's either I give Valve the finger and inflate my score, or I don't get the ubersaw period. And that doesn't help anybody except the other team when I'm playing Medic.
One more post before I'm out... I can see your point. Having weapons that you realisticly may never have, just because you like several classes, would be rather annoying.
But look at it from my view, too. I stick mainly to Medic for months, a class I love playing, and I think its safe to say I'm one of the better medics on the server. I have more hours in medic than alot of people have in TF2. (Thats kind of sad, also) Then, I'm teased for months about exclusive content for Medic.
Then, its said that one of the achievements will be 10 million healing... something only ONE PERSON IN THE WORLD has accomplished. And I find out that I'm not very far off from that goal! I think to myself that I could be one of very few people to EVER reach that goal, let alone I could very well be one of the first.
And then you post that. And the number becomes meaningless. The achievement becomes meaningless. The Ubersaw goes from something that only a dozen people may ever get, to something that everyone who plays on Mariokart can have.
ShogunHair long; money long; me and broke wizards we don't get alongRegistered Userregular
edited April 2008
Well my headphones broke. My only option for sound at the moment is with some ipod earbuds. So yeah I may be out of commission for a while. Finals in a week or so anyway.
Just bought this off Steam; couldn't really resist when I saw how much it was going for. I'm a sucker for these teamwork games, but I just suck so incredibly much. But I can't wait to try it out.
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edited April 2008
Look, Manda, anyone who wants any of the achievements for any class to get any of the upgrades for those classes, will get them. Its that simple. And they'll do it however they want.
Somebody just posted a thread on the Steam forums about how they got 10,000,000 healed in 3 hours. It's been deleted, but here it is:
I played on this server: Capture the Server - Teddy Ruxpins Random Chaos Mario Kart 24/7.
IP: 72.233.81.10:27018
The server has like unlimited ammo, 50 health per second, theres no limit on how many sentries you can have, and every hit is a critical. Any who, medics are like invincible on the server, the only thing that can kill you is if you fall too high or if you get backstabbed by a spy. Since there is no health limit on the server you can just heal people as long as you want and it still counts, and since weapons shoot a lot faster on this server, your medigun will heal a lot faster. Sometimes you can heal for around 3000 per second. If you really wanted to you could just sit in spawn and heal people but I found it to be faster if you just stick with a soldier or heavy. This morning before I started, the amount I had healed was 600,000, and now I have all 10,000,000 points.
PROOF:
Note that if you go OVER 1 million in one sitting, the counter on the scoreboard will reset back to 0, but don't worry because it still counts.
It's pretty obvious that this achievement will be massively farmed within days to the point that it has no meaning. Valve can't ban people for doing this, because it would mean banning everybody that plays on servers with silly settings.
Oh god that's going to piss me off. It's bad enough I have an inflated engineer score.
One more post before I'm out... I can see your point. Having weapons that you realisticly may never have, just because you like several classes, would be rather annoying.
But look at it from my view, too. I stick mainly to Medic for months, a class I love playing, and I think its safe to say I'm one of the better medics on the server. I have more hours in medic than alot of people have in TF2. (Thats kind of sad, also) Then, I'm teased for months about exclusive content for Medic.
Then, its said that one of the achievements will be 10 million healing... something only ONE PERSON IN THE WORLD has accomplished. And I find out that I'm not very far off from that goal! I think to myself that I could be one of very few people to EVER reach that goal, let alone I could very well be one of the first.
And then you post that. And the number becomes meaningless. The achievement becomes meaningless. The Ubersaw goes from something that only a dozen people may ever get, to something that everyone who plays on Mariokart can have.
Its just a game, yeah.
And now its just an ubersaw.
I can completely understand this point of view and it makes me for the injustice of what was going to be a hard earned reward turning into a 3 hour medic farming achievement.
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Eh, mine's 15, and I specifically remember being on a role and knowing that I would never get that lucky again.
Yeah but I see you playing different classes all the time. I only play scout because its the only class I really love to death. I do only have something like 70 hours in as scout but I feel like it should be better than 13. I think I just play too aggressively for a class that is so fragile to damage.
I actually think Dustbowl is a good map. However, trends in classes has led to a lot of people now going demo. With 3-4 demos on 3rd part defense, spamming nades into the doorways and laying sticky fields it's almost impossible to cap now. Was it that demo video that started everyone going demo? I remember at launch I used to play demo exclusively solely because it was the only class that frequently had no one playing it.
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Come on man, I know it's nice to have bragging rights but it's totally ridiculous to keep actual game content hidden from people that haven't played one class for 200 hours, especially something that's a considerable gameplay advantage. You can brag about having done it for real, but don't get upset that people who play other classes want to unlock everything too.
At the same time though I don't think you should have it handed to you in 3 hours of playing the medic. I think a compromise of 2-3 million points for the achievement would be best. Granted people would probably still farm it.
Nothing else, though.
It's one thing for achievements to be insanely hard for bragging rights. When they tie it to an actual weapon - a really good one at that - all bets are off. Everybody wants to play with the ubersaw and doesn't care nearly enough about your bragging rights to go without. If it took a hundred million healed instead, would you cheat for it?
Really? Damn. I thought everyone was clapping like a seal for me and my awesomeness. I'm sad now.
Well... that is even more ridiculously high. I don't think anyone would stick with TF2 long enough to reach that goal. If it was even 30 million, I could say yes... I would go for it. And I'm serious here, I would not cheat for that.
100 million... I'd be on that server though.
Well to most of us, it might as well be 100 million. With my current proportions of class play times, I would have over 3,000 played hours before getting that achievement. I sure hope I never play that much TF2 in my lifetime. So it's either I give Valve the finger and inflate my score, or I don't get the ubersaw period. And that doesn't help anybody except the other team when I'm playing Medic.
PM Alabsterslim? I think his name on the forums is Suds.
But look at it from my view, too. I stick mainly to Medic for months, a class I love playing, and I think its safe to say I'm one of the better medics on the server. I have more hours in medic than alot of people have in TF2. (Thats kind of sad, also) Then, I'm teased for months about exclusive content for Medic.
Then, its said that one of the achievements will be 10 million healing... something only ONE PERSON IN THE WORLD has accomplished. And I find out that I'm not very far off from that goal! I think to myself that I could be one of very few people to EVER reach that goal, let alone I could very well be one of the first.
And then you post that. And the number becomes meaningless. The achievement becomes meaningless. The Ubersaw goes from something that only a dozen people may ever get, to something that everyone who plays on Mariokart can have.
Its just a game, yeah.
And now its just an ubersaw.
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This is why we can never be together
It was The Ubersaw. One of a dozen in the world? Now it'll be as common as Marioka... nevermind. No one gets poetic license.
POETRY IS NOT DEAD
TOXIC IS MY FRIEND
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Medic, here I come!
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I forget this every time.
A bat for the scout thats able to knock away rockets/nades, anyone?
Steam id: skoot LoL id: skoot
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I can completely understand this point of view and it makes me
Yeah but I see you playing different classes all the time. I only play scout because its the only class I really love to death. I do only have something like 70 hours in as scout but I feel like it should be better than 13. I think I just play too aggressively for a class that is so fragile to damage.
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I'll say again what I saw when this was released: It needs class limits.
Max 2 engies/demos? Fun game. No limit? Turret/Nade spam, possibly the least fun I've ever had in a FPS. Crits don't help either.