Abandonian Team Fortress 2 Server Discussion
 

Thanks to the efforts of Phreeze_lu, Abandonia now has (for the time being, at least) its own Team Fortress 2 dedicated server! Given as there isn't a proper thread to discuss the server, its map rotation, etc, I've decided to create a thread dedicated to such things.

In order to find our server, you'll need to add the server address 212.117.167.50:27500 to your list of favorite servers. If you don't know how to do this, please read the instructions below:

Given as there's quite a lot of stuff in Team Fortress 2, I highly recommend looking at the Official Team Fortress 2 Wiki for a complete and comprehensive guide to everything TF2. Also, the folks at PC Gamer have put together an excellent, multi-part guide to playing Team Fortress 2. You can find their guide here.

Current map rotation:
ctf_2fort
cp_freight_final1
ctf_turbine
ctf_well
ctf_doublecross
cp_yukon_final
cp_badlands
pl_goldrush
cp_egypt_final
cp_degrootkeep
koth_harvest
cp_gorge
pl_badwater


Two things I'd like to post here, to get the talk officially underway. You may speak about the AB's TF2 server or TF2 in general.

And with this, I'd like to take the moment to ask.....does anyone have a spare Eyelander? Would love to have them. I can trade them for my spare junk:

Claidheamh Mòr (The second Demoman sword)
Ubersaw (Secondary Medics bonesaw. Builds ubercharge on hit, but it slower to swing)*

*Items marked with star are also available if you complete enough achievements. Just saying it so you wont later feel that you have been ripped off if you receive them by this way.

And after that whoring out, some warnings:

When browsing at the server lists, you might have found servers listed under name Nighteam and Saigns. Despite the fact it looks like a proper playground, its not.

Both servers have their own "Premium" plugin. If you pay the server owner, you become their "premium" member.

This is what premium players get in their servers:

http://www.nighteam.com/index.php?do=premium
https://www.saigns.de/premium/index.php

So in other words, if you pay, you get a free pass to cheaters hell, giving you the unfair advantage over everyone else. Imagine how fun it would be playing against a premium player? I advice putting these servers on your blacklist, or at least add the words saigns and nighteam in tag removal on your server search.

Also, there's bots in both of servers. Their own bots, which purpose is to just take space. Seriously.

Yeah those servers are pretty stupid, also the game is balanced differently so for instance demoman has 6 grenades instead of 4 etc. Steam won't count anything you do on these servers in statistics.

How often are you supposed to find new items? it seems rather slow to me, I can't imagine having enough spare to craft things unless I wanted to concentrate on a single class. I find the whole item thing rather odd really, it can be a little unbalancing too, especially on that melee only map (medieval one?)

You receive new items between 30-70 minutes, in an 10 hour cap. The cap resets every Thursday. Crates and items received other ways dont count towards the cap (and dueling minigames too, I think).

Sure?

Positive. It says so in the wiki.

Looks like I need to focus on a couple of classes then, if I ever want to craft anything. No way I'll be playing it long enough to kit out all of them!

anybody cann tell me what the name is of the Sword for the Demonman which allows me to "charge towards an enemy an slash him" ?? i've found several sword but not that one !?

i've also some items to trade, 50 in total which i'm converting to scrap if noone wants a specific item ^^

Any melee weapon will do, but its actually the shield that has the charging attack. Both Chargin' Targe and Splendid Screen have charging (used with second mouse button) which can be activated any time. Splendid Screen has longer charging, while Chargin' Targe offers more protection against fire and explosions.

Also remember that Ali Baba's Wee Booties allows you to turn while charging, while normally you just charge straight where you look at. This will cost you your Grenade Launcher and, If you have sticky launcher replaced with shield, you no longer have any explosives at use. This item combo is more preferable in Medieval mode, were guns and explosives aren't allowed, but I've seen a lot of good Demoknight players who rely on their melee weapon alone, and they're quite deadly kind of players.

Tried Prop Hunt mode with Total Anarchy yesterday, and it was quite fun...and very different compared to normal game. You can find the Prop Hunt servers by clicking the game tab.

In Prop Hunt, there's two teams: Hunters and hunted. The hunted are turned into different kind of props and then their job is to stay alive. Hiding, running away, pretending to be a real prop, trying to get to unreachable places....all viable tactics.

Meanwhile, the hunters have to find out the prop players. In default, this team consists of Pyro's. Shooting makes you lose health, which prevents constant flamethrower spamming. Hunters have to kill all the prop players to win and props have to stay alive to win.

The servers use custom maps made with the mod in mind. They're full of hiding places and props, making it easier to blend in.

Its really cool and fun. Check it out!

-fasted up downloadspeed for maps
-increased downloadable filesize so you can actually download the map (which was bigger than the net_maxfilesize ;) my fail)

:OK:

Also, the Pyro can use his flamethrower as a jetpack if neccesary

Anyone up for a group game this Saturday? After playing lots of TF2ware and Prop Hunt, I feel like Im getting a bit rusty on basic TF2 and what better way to get the rust off is than playing with people you know?

No front page news this time.

hm perhaps later in the day, going to watch the football games on german Sky

I'm up for it. I have to work on Sunday so I'll be stuck at home Saturday evening as a hangover-prevention mechanism :)

I'll be there probably

Yes! Post a time here or on the Steam group.

Few things you might want to fix with the server Phreeze:

Balance out some of the map timing. I dont know if its just because its more fast paced, but a game in Degrootkeep doesnt last that long and game in egypt make takes waaaaay too long. See if its weird somehow.

Also, last game we wanted to change the map ourselfs, but none of us didnt have anykind of admin powers over the server. Another way to switch could have been to start a map vote (rtv or something), so...

1. I was thinking that perhaps you could bestow me the admin powers as well?
2. Find some sort of map changing/voting system that players can activate during the game, if they arent happy with the current map and enough players want to switch it immediately.

+1

should do that ;)

map timing isn't modifiable per map. it's a general setting as far as i know :mhh:

A big new update just arrived. With lots of new features and hats.

Also, people are getting Manniversary packages with free stuff in it, so check your backpacks folks! I've heard someone say that they're in limited quantity, so dont be disappointed if you cant seem to get it.

But hey, at least I got one! It had a special kind of hat inside.

Every Manniversary package has the Paper Hat inside, and a 10% chance of getting another, nicer hat

The Most Epic TF2 Battle
 

I'm not sure how to begin this properly, but...
Tomekk [HUN]: "Hour after hour the party fought, but the metallic legions had no end..."
TheChosen: Until the savior in an ancient Samurai Helmet arrived
Tomekk [HUN]: "And, as if a light appeared at the end of their tunnel, two heroes, no, angels strode down onto the battlefield to push back the infernal legion."
LordTracker: "With their swords of flames, they cut apart steel..."
Tomekk [HUN]: "..and their names will forever be remembered. They became legends."

Cythe Gaeta and Xennified.

It was another boring day. Tomekk asked if I wanted to play some TF2. I sure hell did wanted to blast robots... But this much? Well, since TC was late, I decided to see the outside world, while TK played some League of Legends.
About an hour later, we gathered in a Team Fortress 2 Mann vs. Machine group with The Chosen (Scout), Tomekk (Mechanic), and TotalAnarchy (Demolition Man).
The initial matchmaking failed, Steam could not find a proper server because it didn't let me join. We tried again. After chatting, or rather mocking each other for a few minutes, we were on a server curious to murder.
There were four of us, The Four Horsemen of Apocalypse, the T-Team (TC, TK, TA, TR), and two unrelated dudes. We managed to reach wave 3 without much of problems, but then somehow a scout must have got the bomb into the base while we were focusing on heavier units, and the strangers ragequitted.
So there were four determined gamers looking forward to play a few maps of MvM. It seemed that the game is very difficult if there are only four players. Steam didn't bother letting two players join us unfortunately. We crawled failed wave after wave to the final one, with always having some little nuisance standing in our way - Sentry Busters, Elites, Spies, you name them. We even had a lot of fights over who caused the defeat, but we've overcome these problems, and united we stood right until wave six.
Things were becoming rough even despite everyone must have had a thousand bucks so far and all major upgrades. Three Giant Heavies with Medics, three Giant Rapid Demolitionmen, two Giant Damn Pyros, one Battle Tank, infinite amount of Scouts, Pyros, Heavies, Demomen, Spies, everything this game features.
First we tried whether we could heal my Heavy by asking Tomekk to put a dispenser near a corner right in front of the entrance - I was seriously lacking ammo and health at this point. It was of no use, as soon as the giants entered I was blasted to pieces. We then moved to the top of a nearby building, having Tomekk build a sentry, a dispenser, and a teleport exit there. I couldn't really tell what happened in which wave, but as we failed wave after wave even the unexperienced TA managed to learn about TF2, not to mention me, who discovered the use of canteens only halfway through the match.
The idea was that I used Uber power ups because we had no Medic, but it seemed it was of no use, so began to use Crits instead. TA placed sticky bombs at the entrance, and TC hid close to the battle so he could run in and grab the cash. I was on the roof with TK taking cover, and using my Crits canteen to deliver as much damage as possible to the Giants. I could only carry three at a time, but I went back to the base to get more, or died and respawned. The dispenser healed me, along with a useful power up that gave me up to +8 HP pers seconds. I had nothing to do but hide on the roof, activate Crits, and blast as many robots to pieces as I could before they blew us up. Sentry Busters made our life difficult, but I could usually get back from the bar in time. We had to learn it's no use to focus on the tank until we destroyed every other unit. It was quite a chore, Heavies had a half dozen or rather more Medics, who we had to destroy in order to be able to harm the robots they healed.
We then ran back to the shop to purchase more crits to be more effective during continously shooting the tank, but we either didn't have enough cash, time, or ammo.
No matter what we tried we didn't have enough luck, the tank always survived our attacks, and delivered it's lethal package.
We totally lost it along with TA, who found a maniac laughter taunt, and seemed to have it's hotkey stuck until the game ended. I shot TC's legs to make him dance, TK begged for us to kill the Sentries before he was blown up, TC tried to calm down TK. We could have been in this hell until dawn if it wasn't for Ms. Fortuna to finally smile upon our bloodshed.
Two strangers decided they would like to play some TF2 that night. We saw they were trying to connect, so we didn't press F4 to signal ready and begin countdown until they spawned. I put in Impaled Nazarene - Armageddon Death Track into my music player, cranked up the volume to 11, and while TK gave his tribute to Nickelback, they chose to be a Soldier and a Medic. We nearly cried. From then on it was a piece of cake, with scrap metal dressing. Unfortunately I was shot in the beginning along with the Medic, but respawned, and literally murdered, mutilated, and lynched the raging mobs of robots. After the last pyro was disintegrated, we shot the tank as long as we could. It was getting close to the hatch, began to lower it's pneumatic arm to drop the bomb, and I've no idea what would have happened, but we managed to tear it to screws, literally torturing it.
Blessing our saviours, we bid farewell to these unsuspecting people, who were our heroes, only by logging in Two Minutes to Midnight.

For those who can't believe what I've just told above, I've made screenshots of the victory, and you can ask anyone mentioned above for making sure I'm in no way lying about this.

I couldn't lie... it was the best game of TF2 I ever played... Thank you folks.

It was definitely one of the best and most frustrating games of TF2 I've ever had. We stuck together through waves of robots, tried different tactics and ideas but we always got overrun by them, especially at final round.

The thing is, its actually a piece of cake in my opinion...when played on a full team of 6 players who know what they're doing. There were only 4 of us and despite we pretty balanced team there were too many of them.

When those two players arrived, it was really a godsend. Both identified themselfs as new to this gamemode (although the soldier one had a nice painted hat which is a sign of some experience, no offense to all free players out there), but they still turned out to be big help.

So next time when we'll play, I want a full 6 person team.

Also, for those who have no idea what are we gushing about, Team Fortress 2 has just had a new big update recently where they added a totally new co-op mode. In case you still havent played Team Fortress 2, go do it now! Its still free!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/440/

I have tryed the co-op and completed a couple of levels, nice :OK: