So long as there is Team Fortress 2
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Saxton Hale is a man’s man. Men want to eat like him and women want to, well ahem, I think the rest is obvious.
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You have no idea how close I came to calling this episode “Cheese Kast”. Ahem, now that that’s out of my system we can talk about what’s in the show. The Dishonored promo brings us two new items, the Lacking Moral Fibre Mask and the Whale Bone Charm. There’s SPUF anger generated by the Total War sale promo items which actually prevented fans of the games from getting such cool swag as the King of Scotland Cape and the Distinguished Rogue.
With only one in thirty thousand people affected by complete colour blindness it seems a little too small a population for the Valve guys to be working up a sweat to fix TF2 but that number grows to nearly 10% of the population when you include the much more common red-green variant. Right now, Logan the Monochromatic Bunny is asking you to sign his petition to get something done to make the game more accessible for him and those like him, (including Chronos).
Talking about appealing to the few, Valve are finally making the Steam experience on Linux a possibility. Red hats and Pocket Penguins for all!
Valve are up against the world this week, since they have evoked the wrath of the European Union’s Supreme Court over their updated terms and conditions.
We’ve got a couple of videos for you too. First a fan film following Gordon Freeman.
And Player(s) of the week goes to the guy(s) behind the TF2 remake in Minecraft.
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What do we have to talk about this week? How about we start with the update which, besides fixing a few things with MvM, Added in new promo items for Company of Heroes 2. Like previous promo items, these are only available if enough people pre-order the game. So if you want 2 hats and a badge, get pre-ordering now. On top of that, valve have finally let people look inside their sandvitch gifts. What sandvitch gifts you ask? the ones you could only get if you went to comic con this year. Shame, because the robo sandvitch looks amazing.
Outside of the update, we have 2 videos to show you. The first reveals the best way to roll out as a Demoman. Showing you all the best spots for stickies to go and how to get to the center point as quickly as possible. If doing things the best way possible isn’t your style, maybe you’d like to know how to fly across the world to be in the finals of i46 and then kill yourself instead of the medic. I know i like that video. I’ve had it on repeat for 3 days now.
Outside of that, we talk about how you can now download “Valve Presents: The Sacrifice and Other Steam-Powered Stories” for your phone or tablet. even though you can get all of the content for free on valves websites, this still costs $16.99….is that right? Then of course we talk creepy items. This week saw the deadline for Night of the living update submissions pass and next week sees the deadline for valve submitted items pass. So if you want your Halloween items to appear in game, you only have 1 week left.
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Saxton is back on form discussing your emails along with Tempest, Agro and Greaver of GTV fame. The Kiwi shoutcaster has much to say on how to get into shoutcasting. I think he may have enjoyed himself too much as he’s just kicked off his own video podkast.
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You’d think with just 2 hosts, We wouldn’t have a lot to talk about. But what actually happens is with out the other hosts to keep us on track, we can talk about whatever we want. it just so happens what we want to talk about it TF2. Lucky us. So we start by talking about how valve is reaching out to get hold of as many user-created halloween themed items ready for their upcoming halloween update. So if your an item creator, think haunting thoughts and get out there and make us some spooky items.
However the big news this week is all the leagues starting up again. UGC have started their 8th Highlander season and also pushed season 10 of their 6v6 league. Over at Ozfortress, they have launched OWL (Oz Winter League) with cash prizes for not only the top 3 teams, but for any Prem team that wins a MAP. Over at ETF2L, they have just started the 13th 6v6 season. But more impressively, they have also found a way to sniff out hackers and cheaters once and for all.
However if its SFM your more interested in, this week is critter week. What does that mean? it means that a large number of people are making short films based on the theme of “Critters”. Can anybody say headcrabs? However if your more interested in a Pick up group, then maybe you might want to take a look at the IRC Channel #TF2MIX. The idea is for even new players to be able to get into a pick up group and be part of the action.
For all you Mann vs Machine server admins out there, Have you seen mvmwaves.com? its a website that lets you design your own custom waves of machines. Trust us when we say its awesome. Then lastly we talk about the first 10 games that have been greenlit…..or greenlighted, we still don’t know how to say it.
Critter Week – New Pug channel – MvM wave script maker – First 10 games to be greenlit
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Summer is gone, and fall has started. With the turning of the seasons the leaves go from green to brown and TF2 drops another crate along with a special key.
Speaking of special, you really need to check out the Blimp Ruskeydoo was working on at KKC4. This thing is a super cool airship that floats behind you like a Balloonicorn. Quick heads up to anyone who’s entered Ruskeydoo’s UGC medal competition: they’ve had problems with their old servers and the old forum died. Good news is that they have an all new forum now, if you’ve submitted an entry before or are just hearing about it now head over to this post and (re)submit. The deadline has been pushed back so there’s still time to get your entry in.
Despite fixes Man vs Machine is no longer TF2’s focus, they’ve returned the game’s main menu backgrounds to normal.
There are three new items to celebrate the pre-release of XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
JimboMcB has given us a sneak peek at his new statistics website. It proves beyond doubt what we already knew, TF2 has the most thriving community in the Steamiverse.
However you may not be able to afford to splash out on keys and games after you’ve paid the $100 required to get your indy title on Steam’s Greenlight. At least the money goes to Child’s Play charity. It’s not like Valve needs the cash either. New York Times reports that GabeN blew $1m on a new maker workshop so they could create a Virtual/Augmented Reality headset in-house.
If you’re wondering what happened to your e-mails… Pat has officially handed the task over the Saxton. We record a new weekly show on YouTube answering your e-mails. Check out our first Saxton Mail video.
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We get so much e-mail now Postman Pat is refusing to work so he’s outsourced the job to Saxton himself. I suppose it makes a change from beating up hippies. Still, it gives us an excuse to cam-up and make a YouTube video out of it. Enjoy.
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