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FF #38: W+Mouse

Brian — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:52:58 +0000

This week: Mint is left alone with Flonk. Eventually Highstepper wakes up and joins, in time to talk about Steam on the Mac. Which is funny cause he actually played TF2 this week... PLUS: The donation war update!

FF #38: W+Mouse
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http://www.tuaw.com/2010/03/07/gameinformer-portal-2-confirmed-for-mac/
Engy sorta update http://tf2.com/post.php?id=3539
http://www.ubercharged.net/2010/03/08/steam-on-mac-i-might-just-play-tf2-a-bit-more/
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FF #37: Mapping (with Mangy Carface)

Brian — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:08:47 +0000

This week: The awesome guests just keep on rolling! The gang is joined by Mangy Carface, creator of cp_yukon, pl_frontier, and many other quality maps to talk about the art and science of TF2 mapping.

FF #37: Mapping (with Mangy Carface)
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Donation Fortress 2 Update: North America is in the lead!

Portal update: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1169027
ESEA-I Season 5 Wrap up:http://www.gotfrag.com/tf2/story/44830/
ESEA-O rounds 3&4 happening this week http://stem.esportsea.com/?a=x.schedule&stageid=3111
Interview with Buick (part 2): http://communityfortress.com/tf2/blog/an-evening-with-keith-smerbeck-part-2.php
tgbf is shoutcasting BRING AMBALAMPS vs. yaug (gpit) at 11 EST: http://www.tgbf.tv/read.php?item=236
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zynpEW5i_QI Cool sigma heavy video
http://www.pldx.com/movie/1092/Ricco_Get_Domed_4/ (sniper)
http://www.pldx.com/movie/1090/Memories/ (demo)
Showing the Targe Protip: http://www.pldx.com/movie/1088/Fraglander/
The actual Targe protip post: http://www.gotfrag.com/tf2/forums/thread/424610/ (see post #17 for the script)

Donations

FF #36: TF2Lobby.com (with Floormaster)

Brian — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:39:00 +0000

This week: Jestr, Highstepper, and Mint are joined by Floormaster to talk about TF2Lobby.com, and his other... uhhh... "accomplishments". Floormaster is credit to podcast!

FF #36: TF2Lobby.com (with Floormaster)
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TF2Lobby.com

2Fort2Furious

News

CEVO map discussion was on Thursday. Buddah participated and... http://www.cevo.com/index.php?page=forum&func=viewthread&id=9865&forumID=2
Interviews with TheFragile (Pandemic) and CB (Muscle Milk) neither of which are interesting at all, only thing I noticed was that both of them really liked Viaduct/KOTH.
http://communityfortress.com/tf2/blog/interview-with-thefragile-from-pandemic.php
http://communityfortress.com/tf2/blog/interview-with-cb-discussing-tf2.php
ESEA Playoffs start tonight (cp_freight)- they're shout casting Lore's Merry Men vs. Area 51 on TGBF at 9est
http://communityfortress.com/tf2/news/tgbftv-lmm-vs-area-51-tonight.php
TWL playoffs are ongoing:
Div 2 bracket:
http://www.teamwarfare.com/tournament/default.asp?page=brackets&tournament=Team+Fortress+2%3A+Season+5+-+Division+2&div=1
Div 3 bracket:
http://www.teamwarfare.com/tournament/default.asp?page=brackets&tournament=Team+Fortress+2%3A+Season+5+-+Division+3&div=1
(no matches played in div 4 playoffs (lol) so.... don't worry about that one!)

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FF #35: Welcome Your Server Overlords

Brian — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:26:29 +0000

This week: Jestr and a hoarse Mint welcome Johnny Napalm, server admin for the CP servers to talk about getting and running a TF2 Server.

FF #35: Welcome Your Server Overlords
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FPS vs. Tick: http://forums.srcds.com/viewtopic/9947
Remote control: HLSW.org
Focus Fire Links: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=2419d186e65f0acdab1eab3e9fa335cae6551e89fae24386
HLDS: http://list.valvesoftware.com
orz blog: http://www.orztf2.com/blog

FF #34: Pots and Pouries

Brian — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:32:23 +0000

This week: Mint, Jestr and Highstepper are briefly joined by Panda to talk about CTF, bad maps, and Polish Fonts. Also, Mint talks about the coolest FPS he's ever seen.

FF #33: Foibles
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Podcast link (hopfully Mint will host this on the site): http://www.mediafire.com/?gtzamwgmddw
Demo link: http://www.esea.net/index.php?s=stats&d=match&id=1541547
Medic roundtable interview with ruwin, pure, and springer http://communityfortress.com/tf2/blog/medic-roundtable.php
Cevo rush tournament http://communityfortress.com/tf2/news/cevo-announces-nzxt-tf2-rush-tourney.php
Cevo season 5 map rotation announced http://communityfortress.com/tf2/blog/cevo-season-5-map-picks.php
Article about TF2 community (euro): http://www.cadred.org/News/Article/91901/
TWL div2/div3 predictions by Bodnocks http://communityfortress.com/tf2/predictions/twl-s5-week-8-predictions.php

FF #33: Foibles

Brian — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:47:11 +0000

This week: Mint, Jestr and Highstepper. And isn't that what's really important?

FF #33: Foibles
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ag scrim server -- http://www.gotfrag.com/tf2/forums/thread/422505/

tf2 recruit -- http://www.gotfrag.com/tf2/forums/thread/422556/

From Acid_cj : http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time

http://swamp.tf2maps.net/

FF #32: Don’t cross the stream

Brian — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:22:49 +0000

This week: Mint, Jestr and Highstepper record live in front of a stream chatroom... and talk about TF2 some.

FF #32: Don't cross the stream
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Show notes:

The Live Stream Locaiton
Robin Walker interview

TF2 Contribution site

Demo from Sigma's Protip

FF #31: Tributary

Brian — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:57:07 +0000

This week: Mint, Jestr and Sigma talk about the mini-update, the end of Control Point, and the beginning of Nation of Gamers. Also, apparently Mint is wrong a lot.

FF #31: Tributary
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6v9: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=437678&topic=53007753
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWMCVa2F2W8 -- worst hacking accusation ever
Buff Banner sounds: http://tf2wiki.net/wiki/Buff_Banner

FF #30: The Good, The Bad, and Mint’s Ugly

Brian — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:05:06 +0000

This week: Jestr's a regular, jump h4x, and we try a new feature (Good/Bad)

FF #30: The Good, The Bad, and Mint's Ugly
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Turbine Stage Glitch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLuGzx6fHlo
Chrono vid - doin it for the lulz http://www.wegame.com/watch/demo-hs/
Leia vid http://www.wegame.com/watch/nubcake-nubsauce-ii/
Unlock votes: http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/7671/clipboard02tr.png

FF #29: Are you sure it’s not pronounced “Tar-zhay”?

Brian — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:07:12 +0000

This week: Sigma is back with all the maths on the update weapons!

FF #29: Are you sure it's not pronounced "Tar-zhay"?
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http://www.wegame.com/watch/trap-here-guys/

Details on unlocks (by Sigma): http://commforums.com/unlock-details-t2768.html?t=2768
(also... range on buff banner is ~450 units, about the same as medigun's lock-on (but not the stretch))

Demo
- Eyelander
  - Health debuff
  - Maths
- Targe
  - Charge
  - Explosive Resist
    - Concept of Resist worries Mint
  - Crits
  - Terrible
- Scottish Resistance
  - 14 stickies
  - Pop by looking
Solly
- Equalizer
  - Faster
  - More damage
  - Ever a reason NOT to use?
- Buff banner
  - Charge by doing damage
  - Mini crits
  - Something with scripts or something that makes some people have to taunt to get back to a normal weapon
- Direct Hit
  - 70% smaller blast radius
  - 80% faster
  - 20% more direct damage
  - Mini-crits on airshot
- Gun Boats
  - Shocker, a bonus weapon that EITHER class could have used...
  - Pluses? Are there any? (less jump damage in CERTAIN circumstances)
  - Only awarded by random drop
Bugs
- Charge rage without buff banner
- Unlocks reset on resupply
- +reload messing with banner usage
- DH mini-crit on non-airborne target
- Mixed classes
- Unable to get unlocks
Koth bots
- Woo woo
Damage indicators http://www.gotfrag.com/tf2/forums/thread/420046/
New Maps
- CP Gorge
- CTF Double Cross
Crafting
- Really? Crafting?
  - http://www.tf2items.com/crafting/blueprints.php
  - 4 class items = Token
  - 3 Pri = Scrap
  - 3 Scrap = reclaimed
  - 3 reclaimed = Refined
  - 3 Refined + class Token = Hat
    - Do you get to pick?
  - 4 Weapons Same slot = Slot token
  - 1 Class + 1 Slot + scrap = The unlock for that slot
New Taunts and VOs
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBgiZshGzak