Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
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* Updated the Sharpened Volcano Fragment and the Sun-on-a-Stick so they can be traded
I noticed that it says nothing about crafting them.
So, the RIFT weapons in TF2 are craftable now, but they have ridiculously high requirements... Sun on a Stick requires 3 reclaimed metal plus a Boston Basher, the Sharpened Volcano Fragment requires 1 refined metal plus a Degreaser plus a Powerjack.
For the record, 1 refined metal = 3 reclaimed metal = 9 scrap metal = 18 weapons.
Also for the record, 3 refined metal = 1 random hat when crafting
In other words, you spend over 1/3 of a hat to craft the new weapons.
I seem to be stuck in the Sierra Madre hologram room (the one just before entering the Vault). I've rerouted the hologram patrols, disabled the alarms, but I can't figure out how to lower the force field to advance to the next part of the vault. Did I miss something?
Let's say I have a 5x5 wall that has redstone torches on each block on one side:
Is there a redstone circuit that would allow me to power every block in this wall, so that all torches turn off ?
I'm pretty new to redstone, so forgive me if this is obvious.
In IWBTG (I Wanna Be The Guy), the cut scene just before fighting Mike Tyson is incredibly long and irritating to watch on each replay. Is there any way to skip the cut scene?
I've downloaded the Crysis 2 demo through Stream, but when I try to run it I immediately get the error message
Failed to initialize the GameStartup Interface!
and nothing happens after clicking the "OK" button. What causes this problem, and how can I fix it?
In the Crysis 2 Demo, there are only 3 graphics options (gamer, advanced, hardcore).
Can I change graphics options manually, like I could do in Crysis?
Things like environment detail, anti-aliasing, anisotrophic filtering, shader quality, shadow, motion blur and so on.
Hi folks, I love playing Red Alert 2 Yuri's Revenge with the White Boy's Rules 1.5 MOD.
Two questions on this:
Q1. How can I play online against other human players?
What servers are there and how do I setup this?
Q2. Where can I meet other people online who also play Yuri's Revenge with White...
yknow, our tagging by game and some tags such as "spoiler" or "strategy" being so stupidly popular made me think that we would get really crappy automated twitter promotion
StackGaming is smarter than just picking the top tag however. Phew!
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Traditionally video games that are based on a movie (or tied to a movie's release) do not do well. I was just curious what the most successful / profitable video game based on a movie was.
Success I guess could be measured in terms of sales, reviews, or reception.
I don't know what's the format the internet commonly uses for Go moves, so I don't know how difficult that would be; still Jeff said that they're fine with considering adding js postprocessing steps.
@badp It can be of quite varied complexity. Some annotations are basically just graphics of a board position. Others allow numbering pieces in the order they were played. Others actually allow you to go forward and backward in game time.
In Battlefield Bad Company 2, which (if any) of the vehicle unlocks are working if you are not in the driver's seat, but e.g. in the tank's gunner position or as a passenger in a helicopter?
Some are easy to test (zoom, smoke), but do increased firepower and increased armor gadgets still modify t...
The information in the tooltip is noise for anyone who doesn't play WoW, but it's immediately recognizable to anyone who does play. If you were to implement it, you might want to limit it to certain tags if possible.
the script you embed just scans the page for links to *.wowhead.com and adds mouseover code to them which parses out the id of the object being linked to
@Powerlord sighs it's a laptop and its keyboard was in a horrible condition due to, er, unusual wear. Gotta replace it now while it's still in warranty.
bp@epsilon:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 7.0G 2.8G 3.9G 42% /
@Powerlord In short I hope they'll get back to me tomorrow saying the warranty doesn't cover the replacement of that part (it probably doesn't)
then I'll resort to calling the authorized dealer for this stuff, who won't make me wait laptop-less while the parts ship. (It also so happens that this dealer is in the middle of nowhere.)
Hi,
I remember when I tried a wireless mouse years back and it was horrible. It did not feel responsive enough in games. Should I consider buying a wireless mouse if it otherwise seems good?
The most important parts are going to be the stats, equip effects, and use effects, and they quickly get to a point where they would not fit in the space allotted.
Ok, normally when I hit level 5 I start searching around for a fountain to dip for Excalibur.
One common issue I have been noticing is that sometimes I will either unleash a water demon or an endless supply of water moccasins...both of which make short work of me.
I try reading all my scrolls...
Anyone knows how we can upgrade the vehicles in Prototype? You can see something like 0/1 and it says "consume the commander". What commander? I must have consumed 100s of people by now. I can't get to upgrade it through the upgrade screen.
(I'm right now rescuing Dana with an armored tank)
I'm having trouble making much on easy. Even if I get rid of all all army except a few(2/3) for each city I only just break even or make a loss. What is a good strategy for making lots of money?
I remember seeing a tech demo a while back for an engine designed to create cities procedurally, down to the rooms and furniture inside the buildings. It looked pretty cool, but I haven't seen anything of it since.
@FallenAngelEyes That's fine, when it's a big city, with real size. But when you've shrunk to city down to something that only vaguely represents a city, then at least make it all interactive.
I just downloaded the Crysis 2 demo via Steam. It launches ok, showed an intro movie, and lists a bunch of servers to join. However, every time I join a game it does the 60 second count down and gets stuck on the last second. The chat goes 'silent' so I figure maybe other folks are playing the...
@SteveV I'm not sure. The video I remember seeing was a ground-level view. The videos that come up in my search for "subversion introversion" show more of a bird's-eye view.
What would be really amazing is something like an Urban Minecraft engine. I can't count the number of times I've just been exploring in Minecraft, and I get to the top of the next hill and just ogle the scenery.
Hey did hotlinking imgur.com/whatever work before, or did it always need to be i.imgur.com/whatever ? I just fixed a question with broken images because it used the first type.
I think our design is great, except for the terribly generic "GAMING" in the header. (but that's due to a problem that has nothing to do with the design itself)
I mean, it's compliant and all that, but it runs everything through a proxy server that compresses images, and does some kind of funky server-side ajax and sends the whole page down again every time the page does an xmlhttprequest.
Which is great if you're on a Nokia 0010 that barely even supports html, much less javascript or xmlhttprequest, but why bother when you have MobileSafari?
It would be great to have Wowhead tooltips on world-of-warcraft questions. It requires linking this JavaScript, which in turn loads this script and this stylesheet.
The script scans the page for any links pointing to *.wowhead.com and adds tooltips when they are moused over that display the item...
@ArdaXi We're talking about item stats, not site names. To make a comparison with items you already have, or in order to figure out which of two items are better, you really do need to know primary stat, secondary stat, tertiary stat, sockets (including colors), and any special stats it has.
Almost every item and icon you can mouse over in the game displays a tooltip that looks exactly like the one Wowhead uses. That's why Wowhead displays them that way.
Not all of them are 300px-high monstrosities though.
Not sure whether I'm posting this question on the right site, but here goes.
I'm asking not about the Darwinia itself, but more about its bootloader which represents Conway's Game of Life. The game developers added one more rule about the game, no cell may live longer than 50 generations. This i...
So, suppose that you're starting your favorite server with a couple of friends/strangers/mortal enemies (Basically, the number of people on the server is 4 on 4 or less). Anyway, you've been doing well K/D-wise, maybe even picking up a domination or two when all of a sudden some of your opponents...
@Bob I can't read the entire question here, but off the top of my head: Change to Spy and backstab them. Change to Sniper and headshot them. Change to Demoman and sticky trap a door. Change to Engineer and build a sentry gun (which they'll have to Uber to take out).
> Now what? The main counters to such an atrocity are sniper/spy, and both are much less effective when there's only a handful of players on the server (because there's less distractions, enabling the enemies to focus on disrupting the support classes).
> Since almost nothing will beat that kind of firepower at close range, your only hope is to use hit and run tactics, and try to take out the medic. However, considering that the medic will try to hide behind his 450 health buddy, has his own healing factor, and will likely flee to a health pack given enough time, you'll likely have to try and take him out in one shot. Which will usually leave you shredded by the heavy.
> And even if you do get close to managing it, the medic uses an uber, and you're foiled anyway. Is there an effective way to dismantle this combo without sinking to their level and using your own cheap tactics? (ie: Your own heavy medic combo, stickybomb trapping a doorframe, etc.)
@badp Scouts die extremely quickly against Heavies at close range, but don't do much damage from a distance.
But yeah, trying to kill a heavy/medic pair at close range is a bad idea as anything but Spy and Scout. If a Scout can come up on the Medic without being seen, he can two-shot the medic.
I seem to be stuck in the Sierra Madre hologram room (the one just before entering the Vault). I've rerouted the hologram patrols, disabled the alarms, but I can't figure out how to lower the force field to advance to the next part of the vault. Did I miss something?
In IWBTG (I Wanna Be The Guy), the cut scene just before fighting Mike Tyson is incredibly long and irritating to watch on each replay. Is there any way to skip the cut scene?
I've downloaded the Crysis 2 demo through Stream, but when I try to run it I immediately get the error message
Failed to initialize the GameStartup Interface!
and nothing happens after clicking the "OK" button. What causes this problem, and how can I fix it?
In Magicka on the second chapter. In the beginning of the chapter there is a big green monster. what spells do I use to kill it?
In the Crysis 2 Demo, there are only 3 graphics options (gamer, advanced, hardcore).
Can I change graphics options manually, like I could do in Crysis?
Things like environment detail, anti-aliasing, anisotrophic filtering, shader quality, shadow, motion blur and so on.
Hi folks, I love playing Red Alert 2 Yuri's Revenge with the White Boy's Rules 1.5 MOD.
Two questions on this:
Q1. How can I play online against other human players?
What servers are there and how do I setup this?
Q2. Where can I meet other people online who also play Yuri's Revenge with White...
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Traditionally video games that are based on a movie (or tied to a movie's release) do not do well. I was just curious what the most successful / profitable video game based on a movie was.
Success I guess could be measured in terms of sales, reviews, or reception.
Hi,
I remember when I tried a wireless mouse years back and it was horrible. It did not feel responsive enough in games. Should I consider buying a wireless mouse if it otherwise seems good?
I'm having trouble making much on easy. Even if I get rid of all all army except a few(2/3) for each city I only just break even or make a loss. What is a good strategy for making lots of money?
I just downloaded the Crysis 2 demo via Steam. It launches ok, showed an intro movie, and lists a bunch of servers to join. However, every time I join a game it does the 60 second count down and gets stuck on the last second. The chat goes 'silent' so I figure maybe other folks are playing the...
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