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TF2 owners can give away Three-Day Guest Passes! They expire on September 20th, so use them soonish.
Welcome to Team Fortress 2.
What is Team Fortress 2? It is a team-based, first-person shooter that offers nine distinct classes to play as. TF2 requires players to work together to achieve objectives such as point control or objective theft. Work together, or fail.
Unlike many shooters, TF2 streamlines the process, making it very easy for new players to learn the ropes yet remain compelling to the hardened veterans. The game also features a very stylized look that sets it apart from the competition. If the movies The Incredibles and Austin Powers had a violently awesome lovechild, it'd be Team Fortress 2.
How to obtain Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 has two purchasing options. First is the Orange Box package for $39.99. That includes new puzzle game Portal and the what's been released of the Half-Life 2 Saga so far (if you already have HL2 and Episode 1, you can give them away! Use this thread for that). If you are just itching for Team Fortress 2, the game is available alone for $19.99. Both can be found on Steam or in retail stores.
And get the PC version. Seriously, you are going to be LONELY otherwise.
Penny Arcade Servers
If you wish to join us for gaming ons, join the PA Steam group! Ask for an invite in this thread. In addition to the main PA group, if you're interested in trying out fun new custom maps, ask for an invite to the PA Honk group. You don’t need an invite to either group to play with us, but it can make organization easier.
All of the PA servers listed here try to be relaxed and we're not going to harass you for sucking (well, maybe a little). You might hear about “scrims†in this thread, which is where our PA folk play in competitive games. If you are interested in that sort of thing, just speak up and one of our competitive players will help you out. The following servers, however, are for casual play.
Just remember, don't be a dick! And have fun shooting mans.
Server Details:
Job's server
66.55.142.242:27015
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jonxp's server
tf2.finalmeasure.com
Donate
Job and jonxp’s servers are straight-forward games consisting mostly of official Valve maps that are popular with the PA crowd. Some high-quality maps from PAers are included, but only official modes are in the rotation here.
PMAvers's server (custom maps)
208.167.246.56:27015
Download pack for custom maps
(Unzip to Steam\steamapps\<your account>\team fortress 2\tf\maps)
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The House of Non-Conformity sticks with custom maps and modes that are player-created. A server for those always looking for something new.
Cake Army & Penny Arcade TF2: Knowledge is Flour! - Demitri's Chicago Server
209.246.170.75:27015
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The Cake Army / Penny Arcade joint server has some interesting characters as well as a mix of both stock and a bunch of close-to-valve-quality customs.
66.55.142.242:27015
Donate
jonxp's server
tf2.finalmeasure.com
Donate
Job and jonxp’s servers are straight-forward games consisting mostly of official Valve maps that are popular with the PA crowd. Some high-quality maps from PAers are included, but only official modes are in the rotation here.
PMAvers's server (custom maps)
208.167.246.56:27015
Download pack for custom maps
(Unzip to Steam\steamapps\<your account>\team fortress 2\tf\maps)
Donate
The House of Non-Conformity sticks with custom maps and modes that are player-created. A server for those always looking for something new.
Cake Army & Penny Arcade TF2: Knowledge is Flour! - Demitri's Chicago Server
209.246.170.75:27015
Donate
The Cake Army / Penny Arcade joint server has some interesting characters as well as a mix of both stock and a bunch of close-to-valve-quality customs.
Server owners: Please PM me if there are any changes to your servers.
Password for all PA servers: wang
Meet the Team
Class Videos. They are awesome.
A list of "How-to-Play" videos.
Features
Look on the Bright Side: If your "round" is a personal best (most damage inflicted, kills made, time alive), the game will let you know when you die.
Capture the Moment: Kodak invites you take a screenshot of your murderer.
Taunts: You can do several short animations. They depend on your class and current weapon. You temporarily enter a third-person view when this is done, and you can’t cancel it. Some taunts can even kill players if you catch them unawares.
Critical Hits: Some shots do more damage. These shots, when fired, will glow, make a crackling noise and a satisfying “CRITICAL HIT†will pop above your target (if they land). If you are racking up kills, your crit rate will temporarily increase to around 20% or so.
Some Critical Hits are conditional. For example, the Pyro’s Backburner always gets a crit when attacking from behind.
OH BOY! PATCH TIME!
Valve is so nice. We are getting free “Class Packs†that feature achievements and unlockable weapons for a class (among other goodies). Three have been released so far:
Medic
Pyro
Heavy
Other Fun Stuff
Team Fortress 2 Merchandise!
Penny-Arcade's TF2 Shirt
Official TF2 Statistics
TF2 GriefingPart 2
More TF2 costumes
Garry's Mod TF2 pictures
Screenshots!Penny-Arcade's TF2 Shirt
Official TF2 Statistics
TF2 GriefingPart 2
Note that this is the kind of shit that will get you banned from our servers.
Game developers wear TF2 costumesMore TF2 costumes
Garry's Mod TF2 pictures
You can find them in Program Files\Steam\steamapps\<account name>\team fortress 2\tf\screenshots .
Type bind f5 jpeg into your console to take screenshots as .jpg instead of .tga. Use Paint.NET to convert .tga files to another format.
UPDATEJonXP is making buttons for PAX!UPDATE
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showpost.php?p=6085144&postcount=1659
PAX is Eight Days Away!
For those of you that want to find me, look for this hat:
Come tell me the password, and we shall have good fun (and you get a button!). For those of you of the legal drinking age in the US (21), there seem to be a number of bars in the area, and perhaps we could all meet at one...say...Saturday evening? That'd be swell. I'll make sure that all you yungins get a nice tall glass of milk, too.
I should be easy to find during the show, especially if you come to the BYOC area and shout "JonXP!!!".
Also, for those of you who want to know, my backpack style camera bag that I will be wearing will have a large [+] on it.
jonxp wrote:To recap: I'm making 100 of them.
When they come in I will be sending one off to each person who has donated to my server as of an e-mail I sent this weekend. After that I will be handing them out to you guys at PAX. Then the remainder I will try to find some cool way to give out, but most likely will be on a first-come first-serve basis via e-mail.
To get one look for the guy at PAX wearing the one on the left, and tell him the password to get the one on the right. You know the password.
PAX is Eight Days Away!
For those of you that want to find me, look for this hat:
Come tell me the password, and we shall have good fun (and you get a button!). For those of you of the legal drinking age in the US (21), there seem to be a number of bars in the area, and perhaps we could all meet at one...say...Saturday evening? That'd be swell. I'll make sure that all you yungins get a nice tall glass of milk, too.
I should be easy to find during the show, especially if you come to the BYOC area and shout "JonXP!!!".
Also, for those of you who want to know, my backpack style camera bag that I will be wearing will have a large [+] on it.
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Won't work, PA servers have sound mods blacklisted. Otherwise just extract them from the GCF and change the names.
Also hell yeah, fanarts.
EDIT: Second Post : /
Also Arenas are fun.
Health Kits are less common in arena, and the maps are smaller than in other modes.
I would need to rewrite quite a few things for it I think, I will look at it during the weekend when I have more time.
But thank you for doing that, because thats a great OP. Anding seeing as it was you, I still stick to my saying that the Medics do all the work in TF2. You didn't update the screenshots though, tsk tsk.
Not yet, I have still kinks to work out and not enough time to do it. Plus, I don't know whats happening on the server side of things.
EDIT: Awesome OP, it has been a while since we saw a new one.
blu dot.
Surprisingly, I haven't come across huge amounts of Heavies on teams, unlike the Pyro update. I don't quite mind playing against a Natascha-wielding Heavy, though, since I'm usually far away enough to be able to duck into cover.
I'm just expecting an achievement for the Scout which is something like "Kill x Heavies eating a Sandvich" now.
I heard it was a damn good cop.
Valve REALLY needs to make a TF2 movie. I have no idea how you would structure a plot around characters that are on both sides at the same time but damn.
The other thing is I wanted to fuel the Pyro gender fire a bit. Forgive me for igniting a few tempers if I am politically flammable in my theory, but has anyone become aflame with the notion that the Pyro isn't female, he's just flaming? It is 2008, is it not acceptable for people to have heated interactions with the same sex in a video game?
oh god I'm so sorry
caffron said: "and cat pee is not a laughing matter"
And TF2 Wiki had the pics. It was very perfect. When I made the original OP back in beta, we didn't even have TF2 Wiki yet, so this was an overdue change. Like I said in the old thread, the other OP was ten pages long in Word, and the new one is five. Hooray for trimming.
Second billing on our patch is an insult.
Edit fucking brain
Wrong!
I had never noticed that until you said that... bah. Always treated as a second-class class, just because we aren't on the front lines! (Well usually)
C'est la vie. The glory goes to the Heavy, but you and I know who got him there.
I need to get my sea legs back. Pubbies might be the least embarassing way.
Also, with all the heavy spam going on it's a great time to get pyro and medic achievements.
Personally I can't wait for engy. Mobile sentries GO!
Seeing that sandwich just makes me hungry.
Thanks for posting the pic. I was REALLY surprised that I actually managed to get that on the first try. I knew the only way to get the achievement the way I wanted was by boxing someone, but that lucky crit came through.
All in all, I think today was good day for Sandvich photo opportunities. Not only is he good cop, he is very photogenic.
Edit: Also thanks to Cervetus for providing the Uber. We make good team!
The knife that's in your back says otherwise.
Spying so much funzies.
OM NOM NOM 2: THE NOMENING
A tribute to all those diligent spies, throwing themselves into their work.
Best for last: OH SWEET JEBUS
Ka-Chung!
Ka-Chung!
Also spy is so awesome.
Find the Nat sounds in the GCF files, export them, rename them to the same as the Sasha sounds, put them in the directory you just fished them out of, except you don't put it in the GCF, if that makes no sense, which it does, Tough.
If the Sash files are called Heavy_firing1.wav and in the sounds/weapons folder in the GCF, you need to make a sounds/weapons folder in your TF folder and put the renamed Nat files in there.
I'll post up the exact directions and file names later. BUSY BUSY BUSY!
Really needs to be Scout IMHO, they're pitifully low on the stats now because they're lackluster in almost every popular map.