TF2 : The Unlockables Thread

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Rahulrulez said:
how to get unlockables, will Achievement_idle map help me to give it?
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Yeah, there are a host of idle servers with modifications like water and wat not. . just join any [ remember to sign in FRIENDS] and minimize the game so it doesn't load your graphics card [one guy's card went kaput because of 12 hrs long rendering] and go to sleep. . you stats wont get affected as youll be dieing every now and then. :rofl: :rofl:
 
it's also important to join a VAC secured, pure server otherwise you won't unlock anything. another thing is that the server admin should disable kick on idle (a lot of server ops don't). basically, the server op should know what he's doing... and it's easy to figure out the good servers from the rest of them.

i unlocked almost everything in a single 20+ hour session on a server. and now starhub is dead so most of the servers we used to play on are gone :(
 
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:( :( :( .. just got transferred last week to Hyderabad ..left my system at old home... wishing that they won't stop this thing before i get my system.. :( :( :(
 
I had all my unlocks the day before yesterday. payload race is so much fun !!
valve has done a good job on the updates...now all we need to wait for is the demo, soldier and engineer unlocks.
FYI, soldier and the engineer are my two most played classes with soldier over and the engineer nearing 200 hours.
 
WELL, as to much expectations VALVE has reintroduced the MILESTONE-Unlock tie-up so now people can GRIND for their weapons in achievement servers :|

Its good in a way , now that people will actually play !!!:gun2:

PS : Valve has said in their UPDATE news that they are really busy with preparations of E3 that starts this JUNE. . now according to my intel they have only one project in hand rite now , and that is HL2: EP3 !! So we mite just get a trailer out of them this E3. . .oh i cant WAIT !!!:muahaha:
 
doug lombardi also mentioned portal 2 in an interview sometime last year. and they could be working on unannounced games as well... besides, e3 isn't just for displaying WIP games... they will be there trying to get other publishers/developers onto their steam distribution platform. so it's entirely possible that episode 3 won't even be mentioned. let's hope i'm wrong though..
 
Just found this really interesting INTERVIEW from VALVE , about the "Meet The " series and a possibility of a Full Fledged "Meet The " Movie which the community is demanding since ages [ or since the game came out anyways] :

A bit long but worth a read for VALVE FAN BOIs :
After the smashing success of some promotional Team Fortress 2 videos, we thought it was time to 'meet the movie-makers' at Valve and see how far this thing is going to go.

Valve Software's fans have long had a basic demand: make great games. But these days, the Meet the Team animated shorts released since the launch of Team Fortress 2 and showcasing seven, so far, of the game's nine characters, have fans asking for something else: Dear Valve, please make movies.

"The number of people at this point who want us going off and making full length movies and that sort of stuff has got to a point where it's hard to ignore," an under-the-weather Team Fortress 2 designer Robin Walker said during a conference call interview with Kotaku late last week.

Yes, it's come to dreams of movie-making for the seemingly can't-fail studio behind beloved gaming hits such as Team Fortress 2, Half-Life, Portal and Left 4 Dead.

"We're not ready to announce anything along those lines, but I don't think there's a person in this company that wouldn't love to see a full-length TF movie or even a 10-minute movie," Valve writer and TF2 video contributor Erik Wolpaw said. He was on the call with Kotaku from the Valve's office in Bellevue, Washington. "I'm not just being cagey. I'm a little bit removed from these kinds of things. But they keep giving us a little bit more rope with which to hang ourselves, so who knows."

Feature films might be a flight of fancy for now, but to even joke about such things shows how far Valve has come in the two years since the studio released Meet the Heavy, the first of what have been seven increasingly elaborate shorts. The movies are so popular that even fake fan-made ones like an amateur take on the eventual Meet the Medic short has garnered 800,000 views on YouTube. The shorts have added character and flair to a multiplayer shooter that could well have had far less background and texture.

The clips have their origins as audition scripts for the voice actors who played the likes of the Heavy, the Sniper and the rest of the characters in the game. The first video in the series, May 2007's Meet The Heavy, is almost word-for-word what Valve used to cast its actor. That Heavy video was made on the heels of a Portal video used to promote the personality of that game. Walker remembered his team's headiness with that the Heavy video, thinking it "was the greatest thing we had ever seen."

The videos proved not just fun for fans but influential for the designers. "It helped everyone on the team get a little bit more in tune with who that particular character was, so we just kept knocking them out and they kept on being popular," Wolpaw said. As an example of how the videos influenced the design, Walker said that the Heavy's first upgrade, his health-empowering sandwich "came almost directly out of the movie… We felt the movie had justified and created a way for us to have a 'sandvich' in the game and have that action [of eating it] make any kind of sense in our game world."

Jarate, the martial art of Team Fortress 2 involving thrown jars of urine, also was birthed outside the game, a little through the Sniper's movie and a Valve comic strip. Walker said that its introduction to fans through those non-game projects set up a perfectly understandable context for his game design team to introduce a gameplay element they desired, a "short-range enemy de-buff." No need to invent something new for that. Jarate was already in the fiction and ready to be implemented. Walker sees this as one creative end of Valve helping build the work of the other. "It's the natural result of having other creative folks messing around in the same sandbox. It's really hard not to see what they come up with and want to use it."

The videos also helped the game's technology. Valve used Meet the Heavy to test the facial animation system the studio was developing for TF2. According to Walker, the new system "allowed our characters to have a much greater range of expressions than we were able to do in Half-Life… We wanted a test case for that." Ultimately, what they got to work in the Meet the Team videos is what would display for players running the game itself at its highest settings. Walker recalled that team's pleasure about "the expression on the Heavy at the end when he's shooting and screaming." It was no fake. "It wasn't this thing that the coolest bit in [the movie] was something that would happen in the game."

As they videos have progressed they've drifted from their audition script source material. The newest one, Meet The Spy, uses none of such scripts. "We try be a little more ambitious with each one leading up to Meet the Spy, which was definitely the most ambitious," Wolpaw said.

Two videos remain: the Pyro and the Medic. Wolpaw denies that that's due to any disdain for those classes. The Heavy was a random selection for first video, as far as he can recall. Collaborating with the animators — who he describes as "unsung heroes" who have done 95% of the work to make these videos — concepts for all nine characters have been conceived. When possible, the videos were synced to the introduction of character class updates. "Personally the Pyro is my favorite," Wolpaw said. "It's pretty much logistics. As far as I know, nobody out there hates the Pyro." (Joked Walker: "We all hate the Sniper, not the Pyro.")

Walker likens the evolution of these short movies to the iterative improvements Valve and other game studios make with their games, improving their systems, sharpening their talents and extending their ambitions with each release. That's the reason the first videos were so much simpler than Meet the Spy and why further progress is still assumed at Valve for Meet the Medic and Meet the Pyro: "We're certainly not going to backslide at all," Wolpaw said.. "That's our plan. They may be elaborate in ways you're not necessarily expecting." (The Meet The Medic rick-rolled video on YouTube, by the way, does not count as a "way you're not necessarily expecting.")

The popularity of the Meet the Team videos suggests that a strategy of supporting a game with post-release videos would benefit other games. Walker said it would only make sense if it was part of a solid business plan. "If we were just doing these movies for Half Life 2 two years after making the game it wouldn't make a lot of sense," he said. "It would be hard for us to justify the cost of producing them. When we tie it to the strategy we have with TF2 of continually updating the service ... it makes a lot more sense." What the videos do, he noted, is give ways for people who don't even have Team Fortress 2 yet to get some entertainment from the game. And that may turn them into TF2 players and customers.

In addition to the Medic and Pyro videos, Valve is also expected to tap its team involved in the shorts to create a Team Fortress 2 comic. Valve co-founder Gabe Newell announced that plan in February during his keynote of the DICE gaming summit, but those on the call with Kotaku said they were not ready to announce further plans yet.

As for when the Medic and Pyro videos are coming out: stay tuned, is all Valve will say.
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Source: Kotaku - Valve Dreams Of Team Fortress 2 Movie, Divulges 'Meet The Team' Origins - Meet the team
 
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teh f**k >.< I have like 1 row of unlockables! Howd you get so many :S

unlocked Jarate and the bow today btw. Cant figure out how to kill with the bow :no:
 
The bow takes a few hours to get used to and after that it's fun. Shoot an arrow from medium range towards a bunch of enemies and u'r almost sure to hit one :lol:

And tackling scouts at short range is also easier.
 
Ambar said:
teh f**k >.< I have like 1 row of unlockables! Howd you get so many :S

unlocked Jarate and the bow today btw. Cant figure out how to kill with the bow :no:
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Everyone has like 1n half rows of unlockables already, since they were released like a century ago :hap5: . . rest is just by idling :).

PS : Its not so much the killing with the Bow, its the sheer insult you instill on your enemy by taunting and dancing in front of his PINNED up helpless CORPSE !!! Oh Yeah that is Y the huntsman was MADE !!
 
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