Team Fortress 2 Goes Gold Rush - Kotaku Comments

Team Fortress 2 Goes Gold Rush

Trai_Dep — Thu, 01 May 2008 11:40:54 MDT

@Kanik: polygons, bro. LOTS of polygons. :)

I liked the gameplay in that it really forced everyone, including snipers, to keep on the move. It's very fluid and dynamic.
The only complaint is I make a left when I should be making a right and end up at the destination instead of where the cart is. Yup, I've only played on session. Can ya tell? :D

Trai_Dep

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xiphos — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:25:44 MDT

OMFG!! Did Kotaku just create a Time Paradox or something?

xiphos

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sm_twinz — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:15:46 MDT

I know this is happening to others but...

WHY AM I UNABLE TO PLAY!!

Every time I want to play gold rush, hl2 crashes. I hate a little part of Valve with a passion until they make a patch.

sm_twinz

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Hoshnasi — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:37:50 MDT

This update at 11:00pm last night was the only thing that pulled me away from GTA 4.

Uber charging a heavy and getting "Blunt Force Trauma".... Awesome.

Hoshnasi

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nolanvoid — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:55:29 MDT

@Bahamut: Works like a charm!

I feel.. dirty.

nolanvoid

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Bahamut — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:11:36 MDT

I dunno if they've fixed this yet, but if you don't want to bother farming achievements for weapons they prob. should have just made available in the first place, this is what you do:

1)Find a server with 'all_talk' enabled and join the game
2)Open the console
3)Type 'achievement_unlock_all'
4)Plug your ears, since it'll play the Achievement sound layered x 36

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PissedPS3Fan — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:23:17 MDT

@Kanik: I guess you never went through the developer commentaries. They explain the desert choice in the commentary version of Hydro, I believe.

To boil it down, it has to do with making the environment neutral. It makes much more sense when the devs explain it, though.

PissedPS3Fan

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Kanik — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:56:55 MDT

What's with the desert setting? They should come up with a vietnamese jungle map.

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purplegeneral — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:42:28 MDT

what's the point in everyone playing medic just to unlock weapons they probably won't use when they get back to their normal classes?! how slightly frustrating.

even more frustrating is that i'm away all week and so can't get onto the new map or start unlocking achievements for aaages :(

very excited though. bring it on from monday :p i love playing medic.

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Rubiximus — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:30:26 MDT

The new achievements are pretty sweet, though some of them are obviously meant for controlled environments. So make some friends or something.

Or, you can just force all of your friends to help you get them during the free weekend. (When I saw that in the update news I immediately thought of who I know that doesn't have it and came up with nobody that I would actually want to play the game with. So I guess this doesn't help me too much...)

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bighit006 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:22:40 MDT

i really cant believe valve did all this hard work but than screw it up by leaving a bloody console command in there...nice

bighit006

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crunks — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:17:30 MDT

Too many people are using the cheat to unlock all the achievements. :(

crunks

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Ruisu — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:04:28 MDT

Hope this comes to PS3

Ruisu

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bonecows — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:03:09 MDT

I've played the new map today and it's great, I love the role push the cart premise. The new heavy lines are awesome, I really lol'd the first time I heard them.
I play mainly as a heavy so today was a great day for me as at any given time I had at least two medics healing me. I broke a lot of my personal records as a heavy.

@HaiducFolken: I have noticed that too. I thought maybe it was just my connection that was kinda bad today, but maybe it's not my connection afterall.

bonecows

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fumar — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:34:37 MDT

I legitimately got the ubersaw and its the bomb. The 2 achievements at 12 achievements and 24 also count towards your 36 for the ubersaw, so you don't need to do 2.

fumar

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dilpickies — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:54:53 MDT

Well, that didn't take long. Just got off a server where they were passing around the achievement unlock code for use within the console. What a buzzkill.

dilpickies

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if_deez — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:01:03 MDT

crap! now i have to try to play GTA IV and TF2, my weekend is full

if_deez

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vantesaur — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:50:23 MDT

@Jaziek: Pretty sure they're getting designed so the average player can get first unlock no problems, a decent player with the class can get second unlock but you have to be really hardcore (or spend a lot of time on a stat padding server) to get the third unlock. Medic is one of my mains and I can get the majority of them quite easily, but there are a couple that are just way too involved for me to care about trying to get. I don't care about the ubersaw anyway, at least for medic it seems to go unlock 2 > 1 > 3.

Usually when you whip out the saw you are just trying to get as many kills/assists as possible in your final seconds of life, so something that requires 4 kills for one uber seems kind of useless in most situations.

vantesaur

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TheTimeRanger — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:41:36 MDT

And what about us Xbox Users?

TheTimeRanger

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Fyren — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:32:45 MDT

TF2 is in indefinite hold till GTA gets burnt out.

My gaming rig is on standby for the next couple of months.

Fyren

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clintonskneecap — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:18:53 MDT

@Youlikeyams: i'm a fanboy because PCs get new content for free? keep fishing

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OuNin — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:50:15 MDT

@lolgumshoe: The Medic achievements and Gold Rush are the best things that've happened for Spies.

OuNin

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Youlikeyams — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:47:54 MDT

@clintonskneecap: oh no, it's the fanboy attack.

Youlikeyams

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Youlikeyams — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:47:42 MDT

@Arkley: lol.

Youlikeyams

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clintonskneecap — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:37:24 MDT

this is why pc's are better. Great map even better new gameplay mode. Great job Valve.

clintonskneecap

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Jaziek — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:19:45 MDT

@Tyber_Zann:

some people... like... other games?

The medic achievements look goddam impossible. Although if they do this for every class, you'll really be able to tell who specializes in what.

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inn1t — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:53:33 MDT

Valve is really, really, really, really slow in releasing content for the consoles. I've pretty much dropped TF2 for the 360 because of it's nonstop repetitive nature. Push out a few maps for us consolers, please.

inn1t

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ServiceMaster — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:39:23 MDT

Of course they do this right when GTAIV comes out... they couldn't have done this last month when I wasn't playing anything! (Except TF2 of course).

ServiceMaster

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D Mitsuki — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:34:04 MDT

@Shad: then its a good thing source games run on very old graphics cards isnt it :D, i cant afford a new graphics card ever and i'd rather not be laughed at so i wont even say the graphics im runing the games on and did you really think consoles would have mod's of things nice severs with no match making best graphics and sniper vs heavy match's?

D Mitsuki

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Shad — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:03:46 MDT

@D Mitsuki: I don't know, mabey Valve said it was going to be the same and the PC version. And I can't afford a new graphics card ever year.

Shad

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HaiducFolken — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:49:14 MDT

The servers were also much more laggy than usual, maybe it's because of the 20+ ubers that were deployed at the start of every map.

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The-Blur — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:45:50 MDT

It took me half an hour to find a server to let me on. They were all pretty full. The map is pretty fun and I'm stoked about all the achievements.
The only problem I have is that everyone is playing medic and not alot of people are good at it. I'm gonna wait for another week before I begin my crusade for the ubersaw.

The-Blur

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D Mitsuki — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:27:24 MDT

@Shad: What drove you to buy a source game on a console in the first place, mabey its your fault not there's...

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ZhouYu — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:25:41 MDT

New map/gametype is absolutely ace, especially hearing the new dialogue lines (play the heavy for a while and tell me you don't laugh :P). Also I managed to get a game where I was the only heavy on a team of 8 medics :D. We happily held one of the points for ten mins before some demo guy unloaded all 8 det nades in the middle of the confusion.

ZhouYu

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D Mitsuki — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:25:24 MDT

wow this is confusing, aparently the articles get twisted so one second im reading about team fortress 2 the next sombody really hates gamestop and will not stand for it, i thought they were actualy comparing the awesomness that is tf2 to teh gheyness that is gamestop, i was gunna bonesaw there ass's

D Mitsuki

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NullsRevenge — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:14:41 MDT

Not all the servers have updated yet. But it is pretty fun. At first there is alot of medics on the servers I have played on. With everyone being a medic it is easier for the other classes to kill the medics so it ends up about evening out. At least it has in the games I have played tonight.

The new map/gametype is a lot of fun.

NullsRevenge

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HaiducFolken — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:13:35 MDT

I just played goldrush for 3 hours, freaking awesome.

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Shad — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:00:54 MDT

I loved Valve forever, but since I bought the console version the only reason I will buy stuff from them is because of Half-Life. I'm not buying anything else from them.

Shad

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Nessman — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:45:12 MDT

the 360 version has been left in the dust :(

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Naelok — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:42:59 MDT

I've got the Blut-thing already. Not a particularly good weapon, but I guess it's good for retreats.

Naelok

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latinogamer — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:31:37 MDT

GTA4 or TF2.....you are killing me gaming gods!!

latinogamer

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redgopher — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:29:47 MDT

Hot damn, Payload gametype is AWESOME! I just bought the PC version yesterday since I was tired of people on Xbox Live being retarded... SO much better. And plays great even on a 3 year old video card!

redgopher

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Replica23 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:58:36 MDT

@Adrock4: "And still no word on console maps! Fantastic."

Maybe because Microsoft still refuses to distribute these updates free of charge? Valve could let them do it and then when asked by LIVE users why PC gamers don't have to pay they can say, "ask Microsoft".

As for the PS3, the Orange Box (and TF2 with it) were ported by another company. Valve has expressed their disinterest for the PS3 in general and I would be surprised to see additional content show-up, though you never know.

Replica23

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Estel — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:53:12 MDT

This is my GTA4.

Estel

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Adrock4 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:52:32 MDT

And still no word on console maps! Fantastic.

Adrock4

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BigChiefSmokem — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:26:29 MDT

i was reading the GameStop article but hadn't seen this one so now off to Steam i go!

BigChiefSmokem

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ggodo — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:25:44 MDT

So there's a free weekend of a game that I want to buy, but haven't had cash and time in the same place for, having a free weekend, the only weekend in the foreseeable future that I won't have time to play it during? So cruel, Valve, so cruel.

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BauerStyle — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:25:15 MDT

wow, exactly the picture i was thinking of to go with this, as always kotaku you are on point

BauerStyle

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willyolio — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:24:26 MDT

damn i hate friend achievements. i'm an internet loner by nature!

willyolio

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trunks651 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:23:10 MDT

Now there are going to be 1000s of Medic's running about every server. Time to go Heavy once again...

trunks651

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Michael McWhertor — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:20:16 MDT

Sorry, we're having some issues, with these two posts. Everything should be cleared up in a sec!

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Jnkzm4 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:19:49 MDT

@akashhhhh:
ok this is exactly what is happening at gamestop right now. Pretty much GameStop is not caring about reserves for grand theft auto 4 because its that "HOT" of a title. The company is saying that sell grand theft auto to all ppl that walk or ppl that had it reserved. For the store that sells the most to walk up customer(those who didnt reserve it) that store in each region, every employee will recieve a copy of gta4 for either 360 or ps3. I think its messed up but then again its a business move. I've said too much. But once again i must lol.

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mike566 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:19:08 MDT

@Deebo's Bike: Click the TF2 Update comment page.

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Deebo's Bike — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:17:08 MDT

It's true for regular editions, not the collectors which is the one most stores are short on. I don't know a single store that was shorted on regulars.

Also, I'm confused at the TF2 comments. lol

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Taodyn — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:16:33 MDT

When are companies going to understand that times have changed?

This isn't the 80's or 90's here. It's not like this was going to stay covert or that they can still fool the consumer base.

We're not stupid and companies need to stop treating us like we are. This entire incident smacks of a disrespect for customers in general.

Taodyn

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kommanderk — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:16:07 MDT

the tf2 article links to the gamestop article

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Jnkzm4 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:16:04 MDT

LAWL!!!! Thats all true but for those that had the limited edition reserved are only those who get it....wow i wonder who the hell sent that to yall....although there are some store i think that got extra 360 limited edition copies. But seriously...lawl!

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Heyyou27 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:15:55 MDT

I bought my copy at a local Meijer because Gamestop doesn't open until 10.

Heyyou27

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2NinjasTapedTogether — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:15:42 MDT

Uhhh... what's up with the comments?

In other news... dick move, Gamestop. Dick move.

2NinjasTapedTogether

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akashhhhh — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:15:19 MDT

What is even happening?

akashhhhh

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Eville1 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:14:34 MDT

@Mainman:

I lawled.

Eville1

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Thorn — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:14:19 MDT

Whoops. Something's wrong at Kotaku HQ. TF2 article disappeared, this one appears in its place, but all the comments that were made while the TF2 article was up are now on this article instead. Oops! :)

Thorn

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Arkley — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:12:55 MDT

What does this have to do with TF2?

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Tyber_Zann — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:57:33 MDT

Did someone forget to tell Valve that some game called GTA IV came out today? Just a thought.

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lolgumshoe — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:57:03 MDT

No point in trying to get the medic things, considering EVERYONE will be playing a medic.

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sluissa — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:56:50 MDT

Now is the time on Sprockets we heal.

Seriously... I'm prepared to see servers full of nothing but medics.

sluissa

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blehh — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:55:53 MDT

what about us ps3 tf2's? =(

blehh

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kathartik — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:55:51 MDT

and the consoles *still* go without... *sigh*

kathartik

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Mainman — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:54:53 MDT

Gentlemen, begin hammering your 'E' keys and/or right thumbsticks.

Mainman