I’m starting to like the Scout…

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Once again, extraordinary things are happening. Old paradigms are being broken and long-held beliefs challenged. My paradigms and beliefs, that is. I’m starting to like the Scout. A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of interviewing Aabicus about this class. I hadn’t been able to find anybody else who enjoyed Scout enough to learn how to play him properly. Like me, they believed he existed only to irritate and wasn’t worth the time. Aabicus thought differently. His remarks were positive and insightful. He explained the awesome synergy of the Flying Guillotine and the Sandman. He told us of the… [Continue Reading]

What is your favorite thread in all of SPUF’s history?

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Medic: See, that’s the thing, I have a crap memory and I can never remember the name of threads that I really enjoyed. The itsurblog threads have always vastly entertained me but quite often, I’ll only catch the tail end of fantastic threads. I suppose the Uprising thread in the Medic subforum has always amused me. It’s good to see a bunch of Medics all working together for a common cause rather than arguing over the Quick Fix. aabicus: Oh man, I’ve got some. Most of them are name-dropped in this thread or that one, but one that isn’t is… [Continue Reading]

Team Fortress 2 Updates, August 27th

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Hiya peeps. Just a quick post to chat about the recent updates. Turns out there were two of them. Before we start, here are the actual update notes: Added a new promo item Client/server memory improvements Fixed ragdolls not applying the ice/gold effect for cosmetic items Fixed the Australium Scattergun material looking pixelated Fixed some issues with clipped text in the localized versions Fixed the difficulty of the current challenge not displaying correctly in the MvM scoreboard Snipers can no longer jump immediately after firing a scoped shot Updated the materials for The Dalokohs Bar Updated the equip_region for The… [Continue Reading]

Chik-chik BOOM!

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Let’s go back in time, to the year 2013 AD. Think of what you have achieved and learned since that era. Have you found a new career path? Have you started playing some new games? Have you got Rebecca Black’s Friday out of your head yet? Well, up to that year I had little experience with video games. The main things I knew were that big pools of acid hurt, and that I couldn’t aim at all. Most important for this article, I hated shotguns. They made no sense to me, with their miniscule ammo capacities, horrendous reload times and… [Continue Reading]

What’s your most sentimental item?

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When it comes to playing the hat game, I take no shame in admitting that I’ve done a lot with it during my time playing Team Fortress 2. My backpack has become a mess of weapons and cosmetic items to help emphasize my vanity. Despite being a hoarder, I can safely say that I wouldn’t be heartbroken to see most of my collection go… with a few choice exceptions. I speak, of course, about the items with sentimental value; market value is easily displaced by the items that have some sort of meaning to the individual, and that meaning can… [Continue Reading]

Itsurblog: Final Score

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Itsurblog was a series of threads that ran from early 2013 to… well, I will explain that at the end. Itsurblog is without a doubt a milestone in SPUF history, where users got to know each other better, make friends and just generally have a nice chat. No topics were barred, so cosplay, soap, porn, maids, furries, bronies, fallout, and any and all combinations of these could all be spoken about at length, which of course they were because this is SPUF. In fact, the very blog you are reading was influenced by itsurblog, so there could be a place… [Continue Reading]

Phlogisticast Episode 5

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Hey look! A SPUF-related pod cast that has lasted more than a couple of episodes! Yes, really. Seriously. Anyway, the Phlogisticast has got its 5th episode out. In it, Dekky, Thunder and I talk about goodness knows what, mostly Pyro stuff. There’s also some really awful French accents, a chat with a real life Pyro and discussions about the normal Pyro stuff. On top of that, there are plenty of tips for playing Pyro. And on top of ALL of that, we discuss Black Mesa. Yay! You want to listen? Click here! Please excuse the fact that Dekky believed the… [Continue Reading]

The Big Earner: Not that much of a Big Earner

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When the Uber Update came out, it gave everyone except Engineer a set of weapons to work with. Pyro got shafted a bit by getting just one weapon, but it opened up a whole new strategy of det jumping, which is kind of big. But the downside of getting a whole new array of weapons, is that they all suck! Maybe they don’t. For this article, I’ll focus on the Spy sector. More specifically, his knife, the Big Earner. The Big Earner +30% cloak refilled on kill -25 HP penalty It doesn’t look like the penalty wouldn’t do much harm,… [Continue Reading]

Happy birthday, Team Fortress!

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Today, Team Fortress celebrates its 18th birthday! Now it can go out and drink and drive and all that… Depending on what country or state you’re in. Let’s hope that Team Fortress doesn’t overdo it and find itself at a police station or hospital. Anyway, happy birthday, Team Fortress! Hope you make it to the grand old age of 20! For fun, why not email the TF2 team and wish them a happy birthday in (virtual) person? Click here and send them a message! Try not to mention any bugs though. If you want to do that, send them a… [Continue Reading]

Finally, TF2 has gone mobile!

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Howdy guys! My name is Varun Iyer, and I’d like to share with you guys a mobile app that I specifically designed for TF2 Players.

Well, first of all I’d like to say that this was a project I started recently because I noticed that TF2 wasn’t going mobile. Specifically, features that many people use, such as trading, viewing their backpack, and price-lists for buying and selling items wasn’t available on mobile devices.

People had to rely on their, bulky, fat (no offense) laptops to simply know whether they got the widowmaker they were trading for.

Well, I can tell you that I’ve partially solved this problem, so let’s celebrate!

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Haha, well not yet. In all seriousness, I’ve released an app for Team Fortress 2 called “A Great App for TF2” that currently has a backpack viewer and has TF2 news loaded right on your phone. A couple of things to note about the backpack viewer though, it uses what is called a Steam-64 id  to find your backpack (if you don’t know what is,  please visit this site for more info). We are currently trying to figure out how to also incorporate steam login and how to add backpacks through steam usernames.

Though its still in its early states, I’m willing to put in the time and effort to deliver a innovative and helpful TF2 experience on your mobile device. These are a couple of the things you will expect in the next update (which will come out in ~2 weeks):

  • Pricelist (given by backpack.tf)
  • Backpack Info (total value of backpack, number of items, etc., also given by backpack.tf)
  • Searching and filtering through your backpack
  • (Maybe)Steam trading/Trade Offers

Please also note that there isn’t an Android version out there yet! Sorry for the inconvenience, but I’m working on it and will hopefully release it around the time of the next update.

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