KritzKast

So long as there is Team Fortress 2

The Original TF2 Podkast

  • 228 Workshop is where the charity is

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    When we make these episodes, we record them on a Sunday and try and get them edited as soon as possible. However sometimes we talk about future events, only for them, to be released in the time it takes us to get the episode ready for public consumption. This is one of those weeks. Sorry to say we won’t be talking about the huge update that just dropped….however we will be theory crafting about the update.

    We will however be talking about the Special Effect Charity Set. A group of Item creators have been asked to create some items for the charity Special Effect. The result is a very nice set currently on the workshop. But with your votes, they can not only make it into the game, but all profits from them will go directly to charity. Can’t say fairer than that.

    In other steam news, You can now Link your Steam account with your twitch.tv account, if you have one. The main people who benefit from this are DOTA 2 players who get advantages from linking them together. However, we can foresee multiple cool features popping up with this move. Unlike the move ESEA made a month back, Which has now directly landed them with a lawsuit. To find out if this effects you, or just to find out more, follow this link. Actually, While your at it, Follow this link too. Its the latest episode of Work In Progress with Agro chatting to Tim from Ozfortress, Gamers United, TF2mixup and all manors of TF2 Events.

    Lastly are 2 very important announcements. The first is that the limited edition blu figures are available in the valve store. the other one is that TF2 is the best PC shooter of all time……who knew.

  • 227 1 shade of Kritz

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    specialGHmedic    Some weeks, no news happens at all, we struggle to find things to talk about and deep down, we all cry ourselves to sleep. This was not one of those weeks. We’ve had al kinds of things occur in the world of TF2 and steam. We start with the new item dropping. The Summer Claim Check. Nobody really knows exactly what its for yet, But we do know that it will be able to be cashed in for a “special crate” at a later date. The bigger news however is that item creators can now assign credit to a list of communities, tool creators, or guide writers that may have been a great help in making their item a reality. Valve posted a blog post

    In other news, The steam trading card feature has now gone live. So expect to see masses of trading cards up for trade. Trading not your thing? how about a Free for all event hosted by EdgeGamers. Its very simple, the aim of the game is not to work together but get more kills than your teammates. While it doesn’t involve what we think is the key part of this team based hat simulator, it does add for a fresh flavor on this game of ours. Still not got your intrest? How about a 72hour mapping contest hosted by TF2maps.net. Some of the resulting maps are very interesting and even add a few unique quirks not seen elsewhere. You have until July the third to get your votes in.

    Your waiting for me to talk about the ARG aren’t you? We’re not even sure there is an ARG, it depends on who you talk to. Ruskeydoo is convinced that the recent Korean voice patch for HL2 is clear sign of an ARG due to some of the tricks they left floating about. The recent discovery of newly added Korean notes in Surgeon Simulator also adds fuel to the fire. Even though the developers have claimed its not an ARG, that only makes people believe it more.

    Even with all of that, We still talk about TF2 Characters in Joe Danger, The best Wedding present in the world….from Valve. Plus we talk about the posibility of future updates to TF2 on the Xbox. There is so much to talk about it, its surprising that we can list it all on these show notes.

  • 226 A Slin Chance of Sleep

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    invite_sleepOut with the old style (crate #55) and in with the new (crate #59), I’ve got an answering machine that will talk to you. It says, “Hey, how you doing? I’m sorry you can’t get through. Why don’t you leave your name and your number and I’ll give you 7 new unusual effects”. Okay, that’s (probably) the last time I try and squeeze lyrics from a De La Soul song into the show notes. The effects are: Kill-a-Watt, Terror-Watt, Cloud 9, Aces High, Dead Presidents, Miami Nights and Disco Beat Down.

    TF2 has inserted itself into another game, this time it’s Surgeon Simulator 2013. The Heavy plays the role of the poor sap on the table and Medic plays the surgeon. Frankly, I think they missed a trick, the scout should have been the anaesthetist, BONK!
    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXzi7_m7g70?rel=0]

    There’s news that we may soon be getting a way to share our games on Steam. All we have are snippets of code for proof with no-one stepping forward from Valve to confirm or deny the story. I for one am looking forward to the chance to give my copy of “3D Ultra Minigolf Adventures Deluxe” to someone in hope they never actually return it.

    Ruskeydoo was a bit out of it this week having survived a couple of solid days of drinking. I too was on the back of a hard day’s night following TF2-25, KevinIsPwn’s marathon TF2 event in benefit of St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. We raised over $1000 but it’s not too late to donate what you can.

    The Highlander Nations Cup is starting up again. If you want to get involved, to represent your country now is the time to step up since applications end 8th July. There’s been several updates to the Trading Cards beta with booster packs, colour changes, XP for number of games purchased and an achievement showcase to name but a few.

    Lastly our cat in the tree story is a sleepy tale. Two TF2 livecasters from different continents raced against each other in the mighty sport of sleeping. ThePledge and Mr Slin going hell for leather in a match that Sezco saw fit to commentate on. This put meta in the meta.

  • 225 Kritztacular

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    kritztacular_kk225We are joined today by Dust Storm from Podtacular, the long running unofficial Halo Universe podcast. Why? Well we’ve very happy to have Podtacular join KritzKast in the PodKast network and we thought you’d like to get to know him.

    TF2 seems to be going through a fashionista phase at the moment. In the last week 18 news hats/miscs have been added to the game. The cross over with Gunpoint brings us the Crosslinker’s Coil. A pre-order of Total War™: ROME II will gain you 7 themed cosmetics to pimp out your classes giving them that look of battles long gone. Scout gets his leopard on with the Beastly Bonnet and the Cheet Sheet. Pyro is standing proud in the Centurion and Steel Sixpack. Demoman gets the Tartan Shade and the highly questionable Tartantaloons. finally medic proves his superiority over lesser men with his Hardy Laurel.

    We’re seeing the up side to all that work Valve put into their new workshop import tool. Only two days after implementation and a blog post requesting new submissions they’ve dropped 10 new items into the game. I wish Ruskeydoo was here to tell you what that means. It’s super impressive given that in the past it could take many weeks between a submission being accepted and finally allowed into the game. Personally my favourite is The Dark Age Defender. Every demoknight will be wearing it this season.

    We’ve got two big news stories in hats! Firstly, unusuals are now tradable in the Steam Community Market. Secondly we have 30,000 Steam members, 3,000 twitter followers which we are celebrating by giving out 300 lo-fi longawave hats to you guys.

    Speaking of hats, TF2 has caught the eye of The New York Times‘s Fashion and Style section. Apparently spending thousands on in-game items isn’t normal behaviour. Who knew? Anyway they got some of those people with hundreds of pairs of shoes that they’ll only ever wear once and won’t last forever to talk about how gamers are a bit frivolous. Well they’ve got us there. Maybe we should run around murdering pedestrians for petty cash. My bad, that’s Saints Row IV – soon to launch with TF2 skins.

    Our ‘cat in the tree’ story comes from Valve’s offices where they are wondering if you’d buy a sweater that looked this. Erm, is this a trick question?

  • 224 Hello Kevin and Goodbye Beta

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    Running with our theme of promoting people who do charity events, we have Kevinispwn on the show this week. He is planning on doing a 25 hour stream of TF2. Because 24 hours, just isn’t enough. It will be happening on June 22nd on the Kritzkast servers and stream. Just head over to kritzkast.com/live to watch it unfold.

    As much as we’d love to, we can’t make the show all about Kevin, especially when this weeks update dealt with so much. we got more ETF2L Medals in game, Valve put an end to the dreaded Interp exploit and we find out what are the final items in those Mysterious Promo boxes.

    We also give our reactions to the TV spot for TF2 that aired with the premier of the new series of Venture Bros. Along with that advert came TF2 items straight from venture Bros. Listen in and you’ll hear our opinions of both the items and the first TF2 TV advert

    Alas, it can’t all be good news. This week saw the offical end to the TF2 Beta. Yeah, that right, one of the first exclusives we got, has now come to a close. We look back at how it was used and discuss if this truly was the right time to turn it off.

    The big news this week comes from the competitive side of TF2, or rather the future of it. Sal and eXtine visited valve HQ last Monday, to talk about the future of competitive TF2. They bring back with them news that Valve are thinking of putting a Highlander lobby in the game. We talk about the merits and flaws of both HL and 6v6.

    Then, to round it all off there’s a not-in-anyway-expensive GamingHeads sniper figure. We must admit, they do look perdy, but none of us can warrant the second mortgage required to actually buy one.

  • 223 Breaking news: nothing happens

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    Yes this week has lots of things happened. However this isn’t the show for this week. Nope. This is the very late episode for last week and strangely enough, seemed like an empty week. That is until we tell you about the i49 qualifier games. A game where non-premiership teams can compete for free tickets to i49. If youre team wants to give it a ago, all the details can be found here

    Oh look, what is this. The next set of NECA Toys. Its the soldier and heavy. Its happening in july. Its almost like the cast of kritzkast have been given our favirote classes first. Thanks NECA. We also talk about the TV spot valve put out…..Actually we don’t really talk about it as when the episode was being recorded, it hadn’t aired yet. However you can listen to us guessing wildly and getting it completely incorrect.

    Over at TF2maps.net, they are doing another of their themed updates. For those who have not seen them before, its a project where people help make maps and mapping resources themed in a singular theme. This time the theme is Islands. hmmmmm. Get your thinking caps on and your butts over to TT2maps.net.

    Ever heard of IGL? Thats because they are event organizers that have just come onto the scene. Don’t worry, the way they are going about things, we think they will be very big very soon. So get you and your team on their Highlander Ladder as soon as you can.

    Our last item isn’t really TF2 Related. But it has the chance of being implemented in TF2. Overwatch. if your into CS:GO, check it out.

    We would also like to dedicate this episode to Andrew Scott Reisse, one of the lead developers on the Oculus Rift project, who lost his life last week aged 33.

  • 222 Toppling Toys

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    srsbusinessIts indigogo all the way this week with both US and Australia/New Zealand reaching their targets to bring teams to i49. While we’re on the topic of the UK’s biggest LAN party, someone is looking to set their friend up for a blind date there. Apparently she’s slim, about 5’6″ and into gaming. No words on how old she is but she is from Wales so take that into consideration before you apply.

    eXtv are back with their Top10 videos. This will have been the first for quite some months. From the same video factory there’s a round up of the 2nd hundred Moments of Glory. Watch out for the Lo-Fi toting pyro at the end.
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    There have been updates of course as well, but only little things like fixing the VR Mode for OSX users and making the Practioner’s Processing Mask into a neck item, not a face one. We’re more interested in what 3A have to offer with their blurry Heavy image. If their Portal 2 offerings are anything to go by we may be in for a treat.

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