"Whaaaaaa! Cry some more!" - The Heavy
For those of you who may still have your panties in a tightly knit bunch, Valve has come out and explained the how's and why's of their new item earning system in Team Fortress 2. After you've had a nice read there, I think that you'll find it hard to dispute what they said. Unless, of course, you're a thick-headed mouth breather. In which case, why aren't you playing Halo where you belong?

Sorry if I seem bitter but it's been a rotten day and yes, I'm taking it out on the stupid people.

On a lighter note, the Valve store has also put up some great new TF2 apparel and merch, so I'd recommend you check it out. Personally: I'm aiming for those Red vs. Blue mugs to show my ever-waning allegiance. They've also given yet another update that features off a fashionable new addition to the game: HATS!

-Shut up and play.
Randy "Dr. Randle" Marr

"Whaaaaaa! Cry some more!" - The Heavy
For those of you who may still have your panties in a tightly knit bunch, Valve has come out and explained the how's and why's of their new item earning system in Team Fortress 2. After you've had a nice read there, I think that you'll find it hard to dispute what they said. Unless, of course, you're a thick-headed mouth breather. In which case, why aren't you playing Halo where you belong?

Sorry if I seem bitter but it's been a rotten day and yes, I'm taking it out on the stupid people.

On a lighter note, the Valve store has also put up some great new TF2 apparel and merch, so I'd recommend you check it out. Personally: I'm aiming for those Red vs. Blue mugs to show my ever-waning allegiance. They've also given yet another update that features off a fashionable new addition to the game: HATS!

-Shut up and play.
Randy "Dr. Randle" Marr

-Shut up and play.
Randy "Dr. Randle" Marr

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Meh. I hardly ever play TF2 and the fact that it's easier to get the stuff the more you have played is stupid. The only thing that was going to get me to play was the ability to use the bow, but since I have to play forever to get the damn thing I just won't play at all.

At the moment, the new unlock system is the least of my worries. I was having the update error some people seem to be getting, where it downloads an update, but you go into the game, and there is no update, and I can't join any servers. So I verify the games integrity, it downloads the update and then I can play. But the next time I start steam, it downloads another update that completely deletes the the correct one, and have to verify the integrity to redowload the update again.

Then I figured that since it's an update problem it might be a problem with steam, rather than TF2, so I download the new beta client candidate, and then it wouldn't update at all. And this morning, steam won't launch at all. This is driving me insane. I want to play some TF2 but I can't!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love Valve. I'm hoping that this all works out as well as everything else they've done does. I'm one of the ones that plays a lot but has only gotten one weapon, but I know Valve will have it all fixed eventually - the bow for the sniper is sick enough for me.

The only thing I think they should have done differently is implement the trading feature with this update.  Then I wouldn't have to hear "Ugh that's my third Huntsman" 1000 times a night.