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Yeah, it changes a bit depending on who you recruited. If I remember correctly, the scenes that show two characters will change if you only have one of them.

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Nice. Gonna do that massive write-up you were considering earlier?

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Woo, Team Fortress birthday.

Apparently the ball can be destroyed with the short circuit. Hah.

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Felt something here in Berkeley, but I didn't really realize it was an earthquake until one of my roommates said something about it.

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25. PL_Barnblitz: Barnblitz is the newest map of the bunch, arriving alongside the Uber update. Unfortunately, the final point is pretty bad. It’s just a mess of sentries and spam, and it’s not terribly fun for either side. As attackers, you have to knock down multiple sentries while surviving in areas that are somewhat easy to spam. As defenders, you’re usually stuck inside the barn, waiting for attackers to come to you—trying to exit the barn can frequently get you killed.

So the final point is bad, what about the rest of the map? It’s…well…just kinda there for the most part. The first point is alright, but it gets rolled over quickly unless teams are uneven. The second point is located in a spammy tunnel, so that’s kinda lame. The third point is actually somewhat interesting, as the barn located along the tracks provides some cool height advantage and a genuinely interesting area for flanking. I kinda feel like they should have emphasized this part of the map more, as it’s easily the map’s strongest point.

Overall, the map is just kinda mediocre with a bad final point.

Unique/Interesting/Memorable features- I’ve said enough about the last point, so I’ll just reiterate that the barn alongside the tracks leading to the third point is pretty cool. The height advantage combined with the opportunities for flanking make this probably the only place on the map that every class can make good use of.

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Yeah, Wrexsoul was from Cyan's dream. He caught me off guard, especially since I went in with a non-optimal party and didn't realize there'd be no way to switch party members out once in the dream.

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Seafoam Green posted...
what do you think is the best one?

hard to say off the top of my head...do you have a link to your photobucket or something? it's been a while since I've seen some of these

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Uh, I'm pretty sure that picture is misleading. It seems to be showing the locations of seismographs used to collect data for the site rather than where earthquakes have taken place recently.

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not bad

it's not my favorite style I've seen you do, but I do like it

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Mantreads. Both are fun, though.

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Economizers are pretty rare, yeah.

I think I just beat up Brachosaurs in the forst to get some, but I don't know if I ever got more than two.

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what

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Yeah, Human Revolution is a prequel. And it's not even out yet!

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Hey, merging with Helios was my choice as well. Seemed like the best option.

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dinobot19 posted...
Do you still think this after that amazingly close scrim last night?

That scrim completely changed my mind. Expect the top 8 to be the various configurations of Hydro.

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So no more write-ups then? I can't tell if you're enjoying the game or not.

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I disagree

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Oh god, I thought Coldfront wasn't gonna be cast.

"Let's see if he's gonna get his rollout right. NOPE."

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It does more damage than the normal "fight" command, and even more damage if you have a spear equipped, I believe. Basically, your character jumps into the air, and is offscreen for a while (evading most attacks). Then they come back down and hit whichever enemy you had them target.

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192.168.1.1 in browser

There's a chance that they saved the password so it autofills, and they can access the router and check its settings from there.

If not and they can't remember the password, gotta reset.

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Man, I'm not very good at demo despite him being like my second or third most played.

Also, during that last match I went to taunt with my caber when the scout was hitting me with the Fan O War. Then I remembered caber has no taunt, so I just stared at him a bit, then saw Phase was there and hit him with it. Worth it.

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Also, nice attempt by Silver to kill the engy with his sentry.

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Oh man, that cast.

He comments that Biscuit needs to hold on to that 100% uber on the last point, and then I see Phase in the distance. And that goes exactly as you'd expect.

He also comments that with Die-no down, he won't be able to protect his team from a spy, and immediately a spy emerges and backstabs Biscuit.

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The hell? Who votes for these jokes? Do none of them like FF6? Screw that.

Biscuit 2012

Change you can believe in

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26. PL_Frontier- It starts out like a normal payload map, then you get to that hill. That. ****ing. Hill. The uphill portion of the map forces you through a tiny, easily-spammed area, usually watched over by a sentry gun. There is exactly one other route, and you still have to pass through something of a chokepoint that can be locked down. Granted, if you can get through this side route, your flanking options dramatically increase, but…ugh.

Maybe other people have had different experiences than me (since I think I’ve seen people praise this map), but to me this is an average map that is dragged down by the uphill portion. I was actually prepared to rate it a bit higher, but I hadn’t played the map in a while and remembered the hill section being bad. So I joined a server that was running the map just to refresh my memory. Yep, terrible. Maybe should’ve rated this even lower.

Unique/Interesting/Memorable features: The train, Lil’ Chew-Chew, will kill people if at least 3 people are pushing it. Neat. The train and the map actually seem designed together to facilitate ambushes at certain points. Oh, and the area behind the final point is kinda cool; it allows for quite a bit of sneakiness, as it’s very hard for defenders to see attackers approaching from that area.

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Haha, I didn't even bother with that shield until my second playthrough even though I found out what you had to do with it during my first playthrough.

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Tetris, maybe Portal 1.

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Wait, the Arrested Development movie is still happening? I kinda figured it was canceled by now.

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Hard to say. The game becomes pretty non-linear after you get the airship in the WoR.

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Aww, Sabin holding up the house didn't do anything for you?

I thought that part was great. The rescue itself was a bit annoying, but eh.

Also, the airship theme in the World of Ruin is awesome.

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Unsnop

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Just out of curiosity, does the Short Circuit allow you to get rid of sticky traps that are close but you don't have line of sight to (around corners, through a doorway, etc.)? I doubt it does, but it'd be neat.

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Don't drop the game. The Floating Continent is the worst part of the game. Well, okay, maybe the second worst, but the other part of the game that's the worst is optional.

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Yeah, the scene where he dies is better.

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JeffreyRaze posted...
This is information I really think should only be used on a second playthrough personally.

Yeah, I agree

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Yeah, it's 173 if damage spread is off. You can go higher or lower (never less than 150, I believe) if damage spread is on.

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Probably too late for this. I was too late for the first topic too.

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Uh, pretty sure it's hitscan.

I find it a bit lame that it gives more damage to full-charged bodyshots. As if those weren't annyoing enough.

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came in to mention the tacos, saw that the first post covered that

good job guys

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Warned? That kind of moderator reaction seems a bit...STRONG.

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According to the wiki page for the Short Circuit:

"This weapon does not distinguish between enemy and friendly projectiles and will vaporize both."

That seems like quite a huge oversight. It also sounds pretty funny. That's a nice sticky trap you've got there...zap.

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Machina : Reclaimed + Righteous Bison + Sydney Sleeper

Diamondback : Reclaimed + Frontier Justice + Dead Ringer

Widowmaker : Reclaimed + Reclaimed + L'etranger

Short Circuit : Reclaimed + Scrap + Gunslinger

Original : Scrap + Scrap + Reclaimed

The Original has a recipe now!

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http://www.teamfortress.com/deus-ex/

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27. CP_Mountain Lab + CP_Mann Manor- Not too much to say about this one. It just feels a bit uninspired, and the Halloween gimmick is about ten times more interesting than the map. The map itself is fairly linear, and it gets pretty boring after B is capped, as the map is limited to hallways and smaller rooms at that point.

Unique/Interesting/Memorable features: The Headless Horseless Horsemann is the most notable feature. It's the first official "boss" in TF2, and people have speculated that the upcoming "raid" game mode might have similar boss characters. Still, it seems like he’d work way better on a symmetrical map rather than this one.

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Iamdead7 once mistook a black guy for a different black guy. He wondered for a while if this made him racist. He's still not sure.

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28. CP_Steel- Steel is a rather unique map, but being unique doesn’t make it good. The layout makes it particularly confusing to newcomers, though that’s usually remedied after a few rounds. Point E being open for capture at all times is interesting, though this rarely offers more than a distraction before C is captured.

My main problem with Steel lies with points B, C, and D. Point A is alright, and point E works just fine as the main point. B, C, and D, aren’t terribly interesting to approach, though. There tends to be a lot of explosive spam when fighting near these points—B is especially bad about this. Overall, the gimmick of the map is more interesting than the map design itself.

Also, two other things about Steel that bug me: The gate from B to C opens incredibly slowly, which seems rather unnecessary, and you can burn people through the A to D door, an exploit that has existed forever. Here’s a video of said exploit: To my knowledge, it still hasn’t been fixed.

Unique/Interesting/Memorable features: The gimmick of the map, Point E, is actually pretty neat as an idea. It’s also notable that this is one of the only maps I can think of where something triggers on the map when RED wins, rather than BLU—the rocket takes off and sucks anyone nearby into the pit.

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29. CP_Egypt- CP_Egypt was introduced in the Scout update and stands as further proof that the Scout update totally sucked. It’s not as bad as Junction, but it’s certainly not a good map either. Still, Egypt is notable for introducing the Egyptian theme, which is also seen in Lakeside. It also has some interesting use of vertical space for 2-1 and 3-1.

The problem is that you don’t really spend a whole lot of time in these interesting areas. A lot of time on Egypt is spent in the much less interesting tunnels/corridors trying to grind multiple ubers because the last point of each stage is so easy to turtle on. While 2-1 and 3-1 are somewhat interesting, attackers generally take those points fairly quickly (especially 3-1), then run into a wall on the second point of the stage.

Unique/Interesting/Memorable features- The Egyptian theme, complete with TF2-style hieroglyphs:

The huge height advantage defenders get at the beginning of stage 2 and 3 is also kind of cool/memorable. Oh, also the doors that open at the start of the round.

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Prediction: Next Minecraft update delayed due to Quake 3 practice (and possibly a celebratory vacation if they win).

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