Clan C-YA

A practice match against dG.urself was held tonight at our TF2 Server, we played dustbowl and beat them 2:0.

Good game!

Scores: 1, 2.

Good news all,

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.

A lot of people wondered what is the meaning of Team Fortress 2 shifting out of Beta - Well apparently one major difference is that updates don’t come once every two days, but once every two weeks. Today’s update brought us:

• 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

Rules in Germany prohibit advertising and shelf presentation of video games that glorify violence, or display violence.

In Half Life, the German version, everybody bled Green, and marines were robots.

In Team Fortress 2, the Gibs turn into this:

(click image for full picture)

This is basically VALVe saying, this is how exploding non human robots look in the TF2 universe - Hamburgers, springs and rubber duckies flying about.

(Note: the above picture was taken by only substituting very few of the gib models into the low violence ones - in full low violence mode there is no blood)

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Some people actually favor these humoristic gibs to the not-so-pretty bits of bones that are usually rendered, so this is how you achieve that:

First, download and install GCFScape.

Second, locate your SteamApps directory - It should be in D:\Program Files\Steam, or at the location you installed Steam into. In that directory you should have a file named “Team Fortress 2 Low Violence.gcf”.
If such a file does not exist, try changing your steam language into German, restart Steam, and set it to English again.

Open two windows - One of GCFScape, and one of your native TF2 folder (SteamApps/username/Team Fortress 2).

It should become immediately apparent that the folder trees are very similar, and are parallel - The basic system is that when the game needs to load a file, it will first look for the file in the real folders, and if it does not exist it will try to get the file from the GCF files.

That is how we can hook the Low Violence gibs over the ones the game wants to display.

In the Low Violence GCF there are three folders under the main “tf” folder:

• materials - This folder contains all the files that eliminated red blood.
• particle - This folder contains non-red blood particle effects, further removing blood.
• models - This folder contains all the funny gibs.

Each of these folders can be put under the native “tf” folder in order to achieve its effect.

Extract the files by selecting a folder, right clicking it and selecting “Extract”. Should be very native to whoever used a windows program before.

Load up the game and voila - you now have rubber ducks and license plates instead of intestines!

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Please tell us if you succeeded in following this tutorial, or ask for help in case you didn’t!

Perhaps you think these should be the default gibs for the game, more fitting the art style? Share your thoughts.