KritzKast

So long as there is Team Fortress 2

Category: podcast

  • 163 Community Hugs and Plugs

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    Valve may be on holiday, But that doesn’t stop us. It sure as hell doesn’t stop the community. So instead of talking about all the updates that happened this week, We’ve brought Comedian from Vanilatf2 along for the ride. Our first stop was talking about how Guild Wars 2 has taken a leaf out of TF2’s book while creating it new classes. Besides crediting Arena-net for this choice, It also makes us realize how influential this 4 year old game still is.

    Coming from the video creating mind that are MisterMild and Maxofs2D, We have 2 videos that are simply must see. KIA a short film about the relationship the heavy and medic have. Plus the short, sweet and highly humorous Shakespearean Medic. Check them both out on our YouTube channel.

    While valve have been on the down low, The competitive side of TF2 has been roaring with excitement. As ETF2L’s Season 11 comes to a climactic final, their second highlander season kicks off. Now with bigger prizes (even for the viewers). Speaking of prizes, Angels cup, is offering not only €750 for the winners, But also $300 for the best bug report on the unfinished map CP_Croissant.

    To add to all that, we’ve got VanillaTV’s Frag movies of the month and the latest news about past and future KLOC events. Top that off with 3 discussion starting emails, suddenly a bland week in TF2, turns into a full week.

  • 162 STAR saws

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    When we get guests on the show it’s a real gamble. Sometimes they are quiet as a mouse, other times we can’t shut them up. This time we had on STAR, the guy from YouTube, and the gamble paid off. He’s got just the right mix of sarcasm and wit that mixed really well with the regulars. It probably helps that he’s actually talented, this week’s cover art having been ripped from his work on deviantArt.

    All that was said with a straight face. Important to note because not everything that happened this week should be taken at face value. We aired on April 1st and as usual the internet was full of troll. More than a little came from the TF2 Wiki. It started with a Circular Circlesaw for Ricochet 2, continued with a fake hint at Half Life 3 in the form of the Heartwarming Headache and finished up with possibly the best “item we’ll never get”, the Crocketeer’s Cloak.

    Surprisingly, Valve decided to avoid the whole joke update and instead gave us 3 hats. The Dueler, the Philateler and the Gifting_Man_From_Gifting_Land. All of which exist for just one day on each head they land, then move on to the next person (to have spent a great deal of money on the store). We also have an instant of anti-troll on cp_gullywash_final1 where a ladder that looks like it should have been climbable has been removed. Or as the April Fool’s wiki would have us believe, it hasn’t.

    Lastly we have news of the TF2 Mix-up event so far making OVER 9000!! dollars for Child’s Play Charity, a discussion on this year’s Saxxy Awards and ranking for servers.

  • 161 Let Me Show You My Strange Parts

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    Go on, Show us your Strange Parts. By that I of course mean the strange parts that you can now add onto your Strange weapons. Such Strange weapons as the Sapper and Construction PDA. Yep, they both have strange version now available in creates. But to implement it, Valve added a Sapper and PDA slot to the Spy and Engie. Could this be the start of new types of weapons?

    While you’re pondering that question, Take a look at the new Items Making their way into the game this week. The Waxy Wayfinder for the Pyro, and the Scrap Pack for the Medic and Pyro. Want to get hold of them both? One you can by in the store, One is a promo item. Find out which is which in the show.

    However, the Big new this week is the finals of the South African KLOC event, hosted by 16BitTF. Agro even casted the finals with greaver and comedian. Take a look, Its one hell of a game. Just like the TF2-Mixup will be. I know we talked about it last week, but please take a look at it. Not only is it giving money to a very worthwhile charity, But it’s also your chance to play with an amazing group of people.

    Then we have a story for you all. Listen to the show for all the details, But lets just say it involves cookies, Saxton hale and Broken merchandise from valve…….and a recipe for Superglue.

  • 160 Hacking for hats and long quickies

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    The TF2 Mix-up website was launched this week. Featuring Robin walker, Notch, Freddie Wong, Nathan Purkeypile (Bethesda), Yogscast, Brian Brushwood, Veronica Belmont, CaptainSparklez and so many others. There are more of our gaming heroes on the match roster than Gabe Newell could recruit in a week of headhunting, probably. Despite this there’s still three slots left, to be filled by you. We tell you how on this week’s show.

    TF2’s Beta gets an update. In the long tradition of beta updates this basically means a bunch of fresh new nurfs for you to cope with. The Enforcer is slower to fire and trading now impossible.

    Back in the real game, Sniper gets a leather backpack, the Cozy Camper, complete with dangling piss jar and koala. Solider’s buff/rage meters are fixed and Pyro’s Phlogistinator gets a couple of nerfs. Whom ever guessed “QR code” as the language for “Updating localization files”, take a drink.

    Steam Powered User Forums ( or SPUF for short) finally have their own subsection just for the competitive players. This was largely the result of Ashkan, our player of the week, buiding a solid presentation to put before the Valve lot. Well done mate, though Extine pushing the point home can’t have harmed either.

    As for the quickies, we make a good shot at them being the longies:

    • Ruskeydoo reports on a worrying trend of item makers’ accounts being hacked to get at their self-made hats
    • Our Steam friend Lucky Luke shows us how your friends list now has a search bar
    • Tempest talks to mnemosynaut about his recent contributions to the game
    • Collection packs are added to Steam Workshop
    • rubixRandomHero creates some cute knitted TF2 friends

  • 159 This is a Nine Pipe Problem

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    We have a problem. Its one of those problems that can’t be solved instantly. We need to smoke a pipe to figure this one out. luckily for us, a new item entered TF2 this week that lets us solve problems by smoking nine pipes. unluckily for us, that will surly kill us.

    Until then, we can all play a game of bomberman. Thanks to Mecha the Slags newest server mod, We can all do so while playing TF2. His new server mod lets you play a Demoman based bomberman. If you fancy playing it, Head over to the server here.

    Meanwhile, this has also been the week of GDC, the Game Developers Conference. Last week we said that the steambox might make an appearance here. While yet to raise its console based head, Doug Lombardi made a statement on its possible existence that makes us scratch our chin even more than before.

    If that doesn’t interest you, then Maybe Joe Ludwig’s seminar about turning games FTP is the things for you. He explains why and how TF2 start to quadruple its profit by giving it away for free. Maybe that’s the reason that Gabe is now officially the 864th richest person in the world.

    Then to top it all off, we talk about how Laro Laro (the hardest working TF2 modeler) has been invited over to valve to meet the team. Plus your emails This week have been fantastic. Not only did we get a great piece of artwork (see above) But your emails spawned the new hit song…..Llama golfer.

  • 158 Lo-Fi World Tour

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    Well this was a week. We thought we’d seen it all, but we are always surprised by some of the things that manage to find their way onto the show. This week the big thing is simply a rumor. We could be talking about something that will never happen. But when that this is a steam console, its worth talking about. Plus with Valves track record, it would not be a huge leap of the imagination that this information was leaked out.

    If we can drag you back to reality for just a moment. Valve gave us a couple of things to talk about this week. The patch was all about the Teufort Tooth kicker. The boots that make you look more handsome that a cowboy wrestling a pig. Not only that, but valve blogged about a great web comic that you all need to read….yes even you Timmy.

    Maybe the biggest news is that the Kritzkast Lo-Fi Offclass Cup is going to be held in both South Afica and Asia. We always love it when different groups want to play with our ideas and make them their own. We love it even more when small or starting groups of gamers use it as a way to increase the number of people playing team fortress. With stunning posters from both 16bittf and Sandvichfort, we are hoping that people will have as much fun with the cups as we do watching them.

    Speaking of watching things, This week could almost be called the video of awesome videos. There were 3 wanted to talk about on the show this week. One of them taught you how to use the TF2 wiki. Yes we know. you might already know how to use it. but please check it out, its fantastic. The next is from Maxofs2d and is a trailer for his highly anticipated Earthbound Fortress 2 series. I hope it’s as good as the trailer makes it look. The last one is really a thank you from last week’s guest Dusty Old Roses. Want to see what we are like in public, this gives you a fairly good idea.

  • 157 The beard of Gabe

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    Female voice actress extraordinaire DustyOldRoses joins us this week to talk about her work on the female voices of Scout, Spy and Engineer.

    Crate 34 is destroyed and 39 takes its place with the super bright A Mann’s Mint and After Eight paints as possible contents. The Reggaelator gets 3 styles and the scout gets a new outfit, the Fast Learner.

    NECA are making offical valve toys, showcased at “2012 Toy Industry Association Toy Fair”, where someone stole the Demoman’s head, oh the irony.

    Speaking of the Scout; Nate, the original voice actor says he’ll do scout skits if he can get 100K subscribers.

    • Dr. Grordborts’s Medic and Scout Weapon packs are revealed:

       

    Just remember this, Tempest and Chronos had beards before Gabe made them sexy.

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