Clan C-YA

Interesting how VALVe make the demoman look good by showing gameplay footage from before the update that stopped pipes from exploding on second contact…

Currently available only in gamestop.

An update was issued tonight to TF2.

Changes include less Sudden Deaths - Those will now come only if the game only if teams are drawn, and in CTF only when the flags are home.

Also, the infamous Heavy bug was fixed, quite quickly considering the weekend.

The full list:

Team Fortress 2

• Fixed Heavy minigun exploit
• Team Goals panels stop appearing after you’ve played a map several times
• At map time limit, Sudden Death now only kicks in if teams are drawn
• Sudden Death only starts in CTF mode if both flags are at home
• Team Fortress 2 stats are only gathered when playing a real game
• Added the player class counts in the class selection dialog
• Various fixes to localized text

The guys over at Lit Fuse Films released their first machinima, titled Ignis Solus, starring our favorite class, the Pyro!

You can also watch it in Hi Res in Stage6!

We all like yelling MEDIC to the top of our lungs in TF2 by pressing E.

And Z->3 for GO GO GO is also convenient.

But storming into the enemy’s Intelligence Room as a Heavy, minigun ablaze, with the medic on 100% Über, then going for X->7 to yell “Activate Charge”, well that’s not really doable.

So here is a breakdown of the voice bind system in TF2. This guide assumes you know how to operate the console and use the bind command.

The basic syntax is:

voicemenu X Y

Where X is the serial number of the menu itself, with 0, 1, and 2 accounting for voice menus 1, 2, and 3 which are binded by default to Z, X, and C accordingly.

Y stands for the voice command itself, again starting the count by 0, not 1.

Let’s look at the menus:

So, if we look at the default bind for E, by typing in the console “bind e”, we will see it is binded to “voicemenu 0 0″ - That is because it is the first command on the first menu.

Further examples:

bind kp_rightarrow “voicemenu 0 5″ — bind the right arrow on the keypad to “Flank Right”.

bind shift “voicemenu 2 7″ — bind the shift key to the “Good Job” voice command.

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This can also be done through windows, by editing the file config.cfg which is found in the directory “D:\Program files\steam\steamapps\(your_username)\Team Fortress 2\tf\”.

Be careful though with what you do in that file - it holds all your binds and settings!

I hope you will improve your team communication skills by using this - putting that “Activate ÜberCharge!” bind (voicemenu 1 6) on the middle mouse key (mouse3) worked wonders on the enemy sentry gun!