September 2016 – The Daily SPUF

New Humble Clickteam Fusion Bundle is an Amazing Deal

September 30, 2016September 20, 2017 aabicus 0 Comments clickteam fusion, developer, event, humble bundle

If you’ve ever wanted to make video games, even a little, then you should get the current Humble Bundle. Even if you’ve never made a game in your life, Clickteam Fusion 2.5 is the industry standard for code-free game makers, and the whole damn thing is available for $15 for the next 11 days. I’ve been making games in Clickteam Fusion ever since it was called Multimedia Fusion and I was in high school. It’s an extremely easy and very versatile game making platform that lets you make any 2D game you can imagine. As mentioned, you do not need to know how to code… [Continue Reading]

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The Second Dream

September 29, 2016October 25, 2016 Medic 0 Comments quest, spacey, warframe, weird

So I recently completed a certain quest in Warframe. The Second Dream. It’s an unusual quest and the latest in the Warframe story, which is insane to say the least. Then again, it’s to be expected. This is a game with space ninjas and guns and stuff. A note, this article contains spoilers on the Second Dream quest, so proceed with caution. Quests in Warframe are kinda weird though, they’re almost like optional side missions. Unlike the normal day to day activity, you just get quests by, well, uh, doing stuff. Apart from the first quest, which is partially a… [Continue Reading]

Things aren't as perky as they used to be...

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On Demoman in General

September 28, 2016September 25, 2016 Medic 0 Comments class, demoknight, demoman, discussion, ramble

Some articles sit empty for months or even years, never getting finished. Most of my articles don’t, but this one about Demomen has been ignored. When I wrote the title, I’d played TF2 and played Demoman and my mind was full of thoughts that quickly vanished. Some of those thoughts later appeared as a rant about Demoknights but normal Demomen just sat here. So let’s talk about Demomen! Except… I don’t know what to say. But I do know what I used to say. Demoman was the power house of the game. As much as Medic, if not more than… [Continue Reading]

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ctf_Hellfire

September 27, 2016February 4, 2017 aabicus 1 Comment ctf, humor, mannpower, maps, review, totally biased tripe

Hellfire is a Mannpower map added during the Scream Fortress 2015 event. I may be writing this article on Hellfire, but I refuse to even play it because I find Mannpower stupid. For all I know it could be a great map for Mannpower, but that’s like saying “I bet nail clippers are the least painful way to snap your teeth“. I just genuinely cannot get into Mannpower in any way, shape, or form, and since Hellfire is the only map in the game that’s Mannpower-exclusive (the other maps all being remakes of pre-existing TF2 maps) it’s the one map in… [Continue Reading]

Pure awesomeness. Unless you're on the receiving end.

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Poor Righteous Bison!

September 26, 2016October 25, 2016 Medic 0 Comments dat bison, grordbort, nerf, soldier, weapon

Out of all the Dr Grordbort weapons, I think it’s safe to say that the Righteous Bison was considered the most balanced and the most loved. Of course, the Dr Grordbort weapons have always been notorious for being unbalanced messes with tons of unneeded particles and all sorts of nastiness, but you can’t deny it, the Righteous Bison is an unbelievably cool weapon. The odd thing about the Bison is the fact that it has an unusual role among Soldiers. While a Shotgun is more of a close ranged self-defense mechanism and a close range Medic-protector, the Gunboats are designed… [Continue Reading]

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Why Additional Weapon Slots are Bad

September 25, 2016October 25, 2016 Medic 0 Comments demoman, engineer, grenades are bad, weapon slot

I see this pop up occasionally, mostly from the same person over and over on SPUF but also on SCUD and other places as well. The idea that giving the TF2 classes an additional slot for weapons is a good thing. Or that having an additional slot would open up for more, uh, stuff. Well, here I am, stamping on that idea. Additional weapon slots are a bad idea, and today, I am telling you why. Let’s get the first obvious reason out of the way first. We have a LOT of weapons in Team Fortress 2. Medic, Engineer and… [Continue Reading]

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Overwatch’s DVa

September 24, 2016October 25, 2016 aabicus 0 Comments dva, overwatch, tank

I’ve mentioned in prior articles that Soldier 76, Junkrat, and Lucio are my three favorite characters to play, and recently I’ve been attempting to find a favorite tank so I can fill any of the four roles on a team. I never thought DVa would be the one who finally clicked with me. TV Tropes has her listed under “mechanically unusual fighter” (not linking, you can thank me later) because she seems to be playing a completely different game from the other characters. While in her meka, she has a very versatile set of abilities; her boosters give her a huge speedboost, her… [Continue Reading]

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Mod it until it dies

September 23, 2016October 25, 2016 Medic 0 Comments Fallout, left 4 dead, modding, mods, non-tf2, Saints Row, Skyrim

“Mod it until it dies” has always been one of the unofficial taglines for the Elder Scrolls series, particularly Skyrim. Bethesda games in general have a lot of freedom not in the actual games themselves, but with what you can do with the games. From the look of your character, to badass armors to menus to entire gameplay overhauls, the Bethesda game modding community almost has a mod for everything. So when Valve and Bethesda tried to make money off community modders, under the pretense that modders could also make money, we kicked up a huge fuss. Bethesda games aren’t… [Continue Reading]

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Overwatch: Low-Effort Counters to Annoying Team Builds

September 22, 2016October 25, 2016 aabicus 0 Comments bastion, overwatch, zarya

Not my snappiest title, but basically I wanted to go over some picks in Overwatch that I’ve discovered after enough times getting frustrated by silly class consistencies. These tips are mostly assuming you’re in Quickplay solo-queueing, as even in a group of two there’s usually enough cooperation on your team that natural selection should weed the silly strats out. 1. Lots of Bastions and Reinhardts. The remaining players are usually Mercy. The bastions sit in front of chokeholds, the Reinhardts stand in front of the Bastions with shields up, and it seems like nothing can even scratch them. In this situation, I switch… [Continue Reading]

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The Best Skyrim Mod Ever

September 21, 2016October 13, 2016 Medic 0 Comments fun, modding, mods, open world, Skyrim, tip

… In my opinion at least… But really, with Skyrim, there’s mods for nearly everything. You can make combat super hard, you can wear awesome armours, you can turn into different animals, improve nearly any aspect of gameplay or, even can turn the game into some sort of weird sex simulator if you so desire, you can do nearly anything with it. But there are some mods you simply cannot live without. Rather than link every single mod I mention, I recommend going to Nexus Mods and choosing yourself. Modding is a personal quest, not something you should copy because… [Continue Reading]

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