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Any old Tfers remember [FOLD]?

A good friend of mine played with em for a long time.

I think the game is done really well. The pyro tweaks may have been a bit much, and I do expect the scout shotty to get a reduction in dmg or something. Too many times I get 2 shot as a soldier by a scout. Just the fact that people choose the class regularly to play defense kinda illustrates the flaw.

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Apparently I am slow to notice, but Episode Two is now preloadable on Steam. Portal has available been for a while now but it seems that Ep2 became available a couple of days or so ago.

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I remember [FOLD]........ I pretty much ate slept and breathed TF back in the day. I get so nostalgic thinking about it.

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Valve confirms Orange Box unlock time.

Not long to wait now then, I've been very glad of the time to play TF2 to death before the release, since I can now dive directly into Ep2. It will probably only last 6 hours anyway.

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So... Can I go to a store and buy this now? Like, will Wally world have it?

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So... Can I go to a store and buy this now? Like, will Wally world have it?

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I have no idea what Wally world is, but It should be instore today. I picked mine up at Gamestop.

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OMFG.. Portal is cool.

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I went to Walmart (Wally world), the guy said they had it. We walked over to the PC game section that I'd already browsed several times, they still didn't have it..

It's nice that Circuit City has it for $37. Sucks to be all those folk that pre-ordered it.

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Sucks to be all those folk that pre-ordered it.

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If you care about 10 dollars, I guess. The preorder allowed you to play TF2 like two weeks early, certainly worth it for me.

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Picked it up for $38 plus tax at Circuit City yesterday after work. Hopefully I'll get to installing it tonight. The last FPS I really played was TF on Quake 1 (!), so I'm expecting this to be a ton of fun.

Should I play though HL2 and HL2:E1 before I start HL2:E2?

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TF2 is awesome. I still play CS and haven't played TF1 or TFC in such a long time that I suck now but I really like the game and the graphics and animations are real nice. Hopefully I stop sucking soon.

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Picked it up for $38 plus tax at Circuit City yesterday after work. Hopefully I'll get to installing it tonight. The last FPS I really played was TF on Quake 1 (!), so I'm expecting this to be a ton of fun.

Should I play though HL2 and HL2:E1 before I start HL2:E2?

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yes, it is a continuing story arc.

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Meh. I'd probably pay extra to have something on steam. I prefer it over physical media.

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But... when you but it, and register the game to your steam account, you always have access to it over your steam account. Even if you throw away the discs, you can always download it if needed. Unless you are saying you're willing to pay more to create less trash. Which is noble in and of itself.

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The main point is that those who preordered played TF2 for two weeks ahead of the release date. That was worth more than $10 to me, no question.

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Ah, wasn't quite sure what waffle was trying to say there.

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Looks like I'll be playing this game most of the weekend other than during football. Poker will take a break. I need to get good at TF2.

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Im getting rdy to buy portal through steam right now, I dont really care about the other games but damn portal looks amazing.

EDIT: TF2 looks cool but I dont need another excuse to not play poker.

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Screenshot of me owning 2p2er ip freely (not sure of his 2p2 name):

http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/f...now/tf22p2.jpg

My scouting is top notch.

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And yet it looks like your team as a whole got WTFPWNED! Way to be a team player! =P

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Do we have enough people to get a 2p2 game going at some point? Server would be an issue but getting everyone as a steam friend then hopping on an empty server that everyone pings well too shouldnt be too hard

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And yet it looks like your team as a whole got WTFPWNED! Way to be a team player! =P

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True, we were being rocked. Plus 90% of my energy was focused on not being dominated by a 2p2er and then having a similar screenshot posted by him.

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Yeah hi that was me.

I hate that map, it sucks for pyros. I destroy scouts on dustbowl however.

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budgetcollegecook.blogspot is also a 2p2er, sort of. So there were actually 3 in that game!

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Ok Portal is [censored] sickkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.

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I think I'm going to download this today, I never played the first team fortress, but I likes CS a ton, I imagine I will like this. And we have agreed that the Orange Box is the best purchase even if we already have HL:2 and Lost Coast?

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OMG, I don't know how i haven't read this thread before now

I absolutely loved QTF and played it religiously during my youth for 10 hours a day. My love for it was only matched by my hatred for TFC.

I guess the consensus is that i"ll probably like TF2?

Can I buy it direct off Steam now w/o getting HL2 E2?

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..Yes? I think you can.

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TF2 is rediculously fun.

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I think I'm going to download this today, I never played the first team fortress, but I likes CS a ton, I imagine I will like this. And we have agreed that the Orange Box is the best purchase even if we already have HL:2 and Lost Coast?

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I had Ep 1 also and still think it was a great buy.

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If you can 'share' your unused codes to activate a product with a friend, I wonder if you could 'sell' your code to someone else.. (I only owned HL2, nothing else, so this game, at $40, was a damn sexy deal to me. Especially if I can sell a HL2 code for like $5-10. To the internet forum where I actually do those kinds of transactions!)

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XBL name: Impending d00m ... somebody please send me a friend request so I stop playing with total morons.

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Where are you seeing 40? It says 49.99 on mine? [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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$38 + tax. Circuit City. A few more hours at that price.

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Well.. This is discouraging.

Attempt #1: I adjust the settings to 'suck', start the game, <font color="white"> walk thru the first portal, go into the next room after that, stand on the floor button to drop the block thingy, pick it up, </font>and Windows locks up.

Attempt #2: <font color="white"> I flush the toilet, break the coffee mug, and chuck around the clipboard before walking thru the portal,</font> and then Windows locks up.

Anyone wanna buy a laptop?

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Well.. This is discouraging.

Attempt #1: I adjust the settings to 'suck', start the game, <font color="white"> walk thru the first portal, go into the next room after that, stand on the floor button to drop the block thingy, pick it up, </font>and Windows locks up.

Attempt #2: <font color="white"> I flush the toilet, break the coffee mug, and chuck around the clipboard before walking thru the portal,</font> and then Windows locks up.

Anyone wanna buy a laptop?

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Did you update your drivers? I had to before I could run TF2 without crashing.

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Best $50 I've ever spent.

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Yeah, after the first crash and reboot, I installed a newer gfx driver. To no avail. I've tried lower resolution, aspect ratios, and turning all the portal effects down to a bare minimum.

I wasn't even going to try to run HL2 on this anemic little machine, but I figured I'd at least be able to get Portal to work. (And it runs very smoothly while it lasts)

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Try updating as much software as you can. Windows update, chipset drivers, etc. You can also use Steam to verify the game files from the game menu. If it's still locking up it sounds like a hardware problem. Perhaps there's too much heat, you have overclocked components, or the PSU isn't quite up to task.

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Just bought it on steam because I'm lazy. Hopefully I will be able to play some tonight.