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Re: Fortress Forever
Posted by Yak_Fighter on Fri Sep 14th at 9:24pm 2007


Hmm, apparently I mistook you for somebody who was a regular at the Snarkpit. Won't happen again I assure you. Sorry if experience and general knowledge is 'bulls**t' to you. Guess what, I played TFC extensively, FF is a source recreation plus progamer tweaks, I somehow think I have far more knowledge of FF's gameplay than you do of TF2's gameplay.

I guess I shouldn't have assumed you actually played TFC when it was good, since if your profile is to be believed you were 9 years old when TFC was released. So while you were working on your cursive handwriting I was in a clan actually playing the game before it turned to garbage through the very things FF is trumpeting over TF2... unless you actually were playing TFC and was the king of the lunchtable...

Let me make this even clearer for you: TFC core is fun, it has serious issues however which ruined it. FF is TFC's core, without changing the serious issues and instead embracing them.

As of 5:15pm EST, props to barely beating Garry's Mod on the first friday of your mod's release, I'm sure the player population will skyrocket once Monday rolls around.





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Posted by reaper47 on Sat Sep 15th at 2:17am 2007


You're more oldskool than us, alright. Happy? Can you stop hulling every single post of yours in a s**t cloud now?

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If you cut the TFC melancholy, FF is still an outstanding mod. From what I played so far, I like the changes they did, although this is indeed TFC2 and not TF2 (keeping - and admittedly polishing - every detail of TFC). I have no problem with that. It's good at what it tries to be.

I agree with the grenade spam, though. I'm quite looking forward to TF2's nade-free gameplay, although I'm afraid that's just the tip of a huge iceberg of features cut for potentially confusing players who refuse to do any form of tutorial.






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Posted by French Toast on Sat Sep 15th at 2:30am 2007


Alright yak_fighter, I give up. You have a huge e-penis. Congrats.



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Posted by Yak_Fighter on Sat Sep 15th at 4:21am 2007


For f**k's sake that wasn't what I was saying. I'm tired of trying to explain simple concepts such as 'game being fun until flaws are discovered and then exploited to their fullest, to the detriment of the game'.



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Posted by Le Chief on Sat Sep 15th at 4:44am 2007


Wow, internet argument. How about you both buy halo3 and you will be happy.





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Posted by Natus on Sat Sep 15th at 11:08am 2007


Aaron you're just fueling the fire.

I got the game working now and it is pretty fun my keyboard is also broken so i cannot use punctuation




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Posted by French Toast on Sat Sep 15th at 3:43pm 2007


Meh, punctuation's for wimps anyways.



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Posted by RedWood on Sat Sep 15th at 6:29pm 2007


I gave it a try. I only played a few games but it got crazy. Good fun. It's badly in need of a patch though. I also noticed a few over lapping displacements. Weapons seem a little unbalance and i don't understand why some classes need two shot guns. Sniping will be next to impossible for this game. I'd like to see how it stacks up to tf2.


Reality has become a commodity.



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Posted by omegaslayer on Sat Sep 15th at 7:21pm 2007


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Wow, internet argument. How about you both buy halo3 and you will be happy.

Welcome to the pit arron. And dont play with gasoline around an open flame...because in the end your just gonna get burned.






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Posted by RedWood on Sat Sep 15th at 9:58pm 2007


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Reality has become a commodity.



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Posted by Naklajat on Sun Sep 16th at 2:01pm 2007


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Posted by Pvt.Scythe on Sun Sep 16th at 5:46pm 2007


I've found FF much more fun than TFC in the past. So I take it as a success. As for the grenade spamming, I haven't really suffered from that since most of the maps are quite sizeable(minus the bases). <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif"> I think I've found another substitute until PVK II gets an update or Empires 1.08 comes out... Dystopia is getting boring because of Baron von Lez's constant GL spam that simply makes me want to choke the guy personally...



''Everyone wades in s**t until they're competent enough to walk on it. Jesus style.''
Dystopia - Empires



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Posted by Le Chief on Mon Sep 17th at 7:12am 2007


Rofl @ Redwood and Baron. I should have thought of that.





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Posted by Riven on Mon Sep 17th at 2:02pm 2007


Personally, I have enjoyed FF so far. There's a respawn bug that happens sometimes after you die at an angle, you respawn with that same angle, as if you placed your info_player_start in hammer at an angle. All you have to do is die again strait-up, and that should fix it. I've only found that it occurs when you're lagging really badly (which I get a lot with this university connection).

Beyond that though, I think that this mod is really well constructed and the same tactics that made TFC so popular are continuing to propel FF. This is truly a community mod, and I appreciate that. They tried to stay as true to the original while at the same time not trying to be a complete carbon-copy. I think they did an excellent job. (Especially with the level design!)

Also, in one hour TF2 beta will be released, so since I already installed it, I'll be playing some of that later today! I can't wait!







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Posted by DrGlass on Mon Sep 17th at 4:53pm 2007


its TF2 ready to play yet? I cant...

I was playing FF thee other day, very cool. Its very solid and fun.




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Posted by reaper47 on Mon Sep 17th at 5:23pm 2007


Yep, I almost forgot, TF2 is out today!

FF was received by the community pretty much the way I expected but for TF2 I have no idea. It'll be quite a surprise.






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Posted by omegaslayer on Tue Sep 18th at 5:19am 2007


Anyone else having steam trouble? I see no where where it says plat TF2 beta. I tried checking the forums, but they're down or having trouble or something. I guess I'll check back tomorrow. I imagine the forums are getting overloaded or the steam network cant process all the TF2 beta requests or something.





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Re: Fortress Forever
Posted by Crono on Tue Sep 18th at 6:14am 2007


They said (two hours ago) that they're having trouble with the Linux server distributable, the Win32 is ready and if they can't get the Linux distribution working in the next couple hours (around now) that they'd just release the Win32 server and the Linux one when they figured out the issue.


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by Rumple on Tue Sep 18th at 6:53am 2007


Its arrived, decrypting now, however people are reporting it doesnt load :S


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Posted by ReNo on Tue Sep 18th at 9:57am 2007


I just had a wee shot of it in the office, and it seems pretty damn awesome. Looking forward to my lunch break <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">






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