From looking at them, it appears that a player going through them all will be an excellent medic - answers calls from his teammates, spreads ubercharge between a few people, saving teammates from near-deaths by fire or falling, and generally kicking ass

I believe that this is directly linked to the statistics that show Medic the least played class.

Mossad was the home for Israeli TFC, and there is no reason why it shouldn’t be the home of TF2 in Israel - Especially seeing the way the community is treated by other gaming websites.

Go visit and join the fun!

We’re planning on adding achievements to all of our games you touched on in your mail. We’re just now coming out of the post-shipping haze, so these should start showing up on Steam pretty quick here.

We’re also planning on adding a bunch more to TF2, starting with an achievement pack for the Medic in the next week or so.

Erik

Kudos slugz on steampowered forums.

Obviously, what we need to properly convince them is a free weekend - four days of FREE TF2 for them to try it out, and for us to shove a critical rocket into their faces.

In a Email correspondence, Mike Morasky from VALVe told me:

I’ve heard talk of a free weekend but can’t say exactly when it’ll happen. Just know it’s in the works.

Thanks for writing and spreading the word about TF.

So don’t give up just yet! The chance for everyone to see just how much TF2 is worth is getting near!

Every time a bug gets really annoying, it gets crushed within a few days, so gj VALVe there, I suppose some of these bugs would also annoy us if we realised they were there.

Highlights include:

• Engineers no longer score for traveling in their own teleporters (I actually saw someone that built entrance near exit, did nothing for a long time, and stopped only when he got 25 points.)
• Various fixes for stats not saving (That one really annoyed lots of people)
• Added nice freeze effect for the “jpeg” command

The full list of changes:

• Improved paged pool memory tracking
• Fixed crash on importing spray logo that claimed to be a valid jpeg file, but wasn’t
• Fixed Medic’s uber-charge stats tracking
• Fixed a bug in scoring Engineer building destruction
• Engineers no longer earn points for using their own teleporters
• Freezepanel hud improvements now trigger on usage of the “jpeg” command
• Fixed Spies exploit enabling them to attack while disguising, without losing disguise
• Fixed Spies being able to attach sappers through thin walls
• Fixed several melee weapon switching exploits
• Fixed exploit that allowed players to teleport with the intelligence
• Fixed a client crash related to MP3 playing
• Improved client handling of stats when a connection couldn’t be made to the stat servers. Fixes several cases of stat loss

The meaning of this is that better, prettier, stronger custom maps are on the way!

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Update: It’s available NOW as an update to the source SDK. Official news release.

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(Thanks: DigiQ8 at halflife2.net)

Finally it’s here, our own TF2 server:

tf2.clancya.org:27205

This is a neutral server to us, located in the UK, so now we can host various games, including ESL league matches!

If you are interested in a CM, challenge us using the “Challenge C-YA!” form or if you want our server to act as a neutral server for your CM, contact one of the admins at: #c-ya @ Quakenet.

• Some crash fixes
• An improved death cam
• Improvements to player avoidance code - the one that make me slip off the top part of Dustbowl point one
• Improvement of the code that decides who to move in auto balance - Was usually me
• Fixed “Very High” texture detail not being saved
• Fixed the am-I-cloaking-or-decloaking-whats-going-on thing when Spy runs out of cloak
• Fixed the random Spy backstab even when enemy is facing away (the swing and pray method)
• And lots more

Here’s the full list:

• Improved compatibility for direct sound
• Deathcam screenshots now move the player id panel to the lower right,
  and hide other hud elements until the freezecam fades
• Improved autobalance calculation code when determining who to switch
• Improved networking compatibility for some routers
• Fixed a crash during level init related to model loading
• Fixed issues on Dustbowl and Hydro that could occur when a server
  emptied in the middle of a round
• Fixed a bug in the clientside player avoidance code, and smoothed it a
  little more
• Further crash fixes related to paged pool memory usage
• Fixed scoreboard team scores label getting cut off
• Engineer buildings now explode when the Engineer dies during sudden
  death
• Fixed a spy backstab exploit where you could stab a player who was not
  facing away from you
• Fixed flailing at the low end of the cloak meter when the player gets
  uncloaked automatically
• Fixed texture detail level setting “Very high” not being preserved
• Improved various error messages, and added links to steampowered
  support pages
• Fixed scoring problem where destroying a buildable added a phantom
  point, not attributed to any scoring bucket but still included in total
  score
• Fixed honeypot server problems
• Fixed a rare crash caused by a medigun losing its owner
• Fixed an exploit that allowed disconnected medics to continue
  ubercharging their target until they timed out
• TeamMenu now disables the spectate button if mp_allowspectators is
  zero
• Added a missing “cannot_be_spectator” localization string
• Re-added class count numbers above class buttons for non-zero classes,
  in addition to the class images
• Removed prefixes (tc_, ctf_, etc.) from map names in various places
  where they’re printed
• Fixed some edge cases where grenades could go through player or
  buildings
• Fixed rocket/grenade explosions being able to impart damage through
  thin ceilings
• The Engineer’s “build X” commands will now behave properly when bound
  directly to keys

 The thing is, there is no default bind for the “quit” action, definitely not F10. And the console is turned off by default.

True, most of us the experienced gamers enable the developer console on first thing as soon as we get a VALVe/Half Life game, by going to options->Keyboard->Advanced. And bind F10 to quit, like it has been since WOLF3D.

But those that know what a console is, and how to turn it on, will not type “quit” into it, no matter how many times you tell them to. And if someone sets the keyboard shortcut F10 to quitting the game engine, then he won’t press it because you ask him what it does.

Lamers, stop embarrassing yourselves and making yourselves look like idiots. Stop wasting my precious reading time - I have a medic to disable.

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What stupid lamers did you encounter?

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