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ESEA-Invite Season 16 Week 8 Standings and Playoff Scenarios

April 28, 2014 thesupremecommander 0 Comments 6cuties, 6v6, Blame Game, Classic Mixup, competitive, ESEA, Exertus eSports, froyotech, Invite, Rent-a-Homies, Street Hoops eSports, WELOVEANIME, yolotech

At the conclusion of Week 6, we only had one team eliminated from the playoff race. Week 7 brought crazy games, including the close upset of Exertus eSports over Classic Mixup on Sunshine. When the dust cleared, Classic Mixup had clinched their spot and three other teams were sent packing their bags. In the penultimate week of the season, we may see the final two LAN spots decided, with two teams comfortably in control of their own destiny and one needing a lot of help to get in. [Continue Reading]

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“Demoknight, Thou Shalt Not Increase Thine Turn Radius”

April 28, 2014 aabicus 0 Comments balance, demoknight, mourning, update

The balancing eyes of Valve, having recently fixed the first of two ways to increase your shield charge degree, have now gone ahead and nerfed out the ability to bypass the restriction with a controller too. This means that there is no way whatsoever to increase your turning radius beyond equipping the Ali Baba’s Wee Booties, and even then I cannot notice a difference with those things on. This has basically removed what little skill indexing Demoknight has. Many people (myself included) never saw why increased turning ability was somehow overpowered, considering you’re giving up the ludicrously powerful Sticky Launcher… [Continue Reading]

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Why Valve was Justified in the Removal of the Charge-Turn Exploit

April 27, 2014 Xcam901 0 Comments demoknight

It, as hilariously evidenced by the whole Reddit fiasco of April 2013, is quite easy to divide the SPUF community -or quite possibly the TF2 community as a whole. Nothing however, is more effective at this than the change of a long present balance issue. The booties exploit, while I do consider them that, were an exploit so firmly rooted in the balance of Demo-knight as a whole that they could be considered a balance issue. Valve however has done right in removing the charge turning. The issue of allowing exploits like this goes against past principles and actions that… [Continue Reading]

Community Announcements

Eyelander Eyestravaganza results!

April 26, 2014 aabicus 0 Comments demoknight, event, melee, SPUF

Eyelander Eyestravaganza has ended, and everyone had a blast! Ultimately, AdolfKirby took first, VenomousPastry took second, and Lord Yimzo took third! There were a LOT of heads rolling around in the end, and a number of people had moments of glory as a single beheading granted them 100+ heads in one go. The much-hypothesized event map turned out to be Turbine, which gave all of us a chance to try out Valve’s optimizing patches. Of special note is the little cart that allows anyone to reach that medium healthpack hiding on that ledge near the flag spawns, thousands of players… [Continue Reading]

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“Medic takes Bionicle characters and puts them in the roles of TF2 mercenaries”

April 26, 2014 Medic 0 Comments class, fun

On the request of a single person, I’m writing this article. For those of you who don’t know, Bionicle was a LEGO franchise that started in 2001 and ended in 2010. The story started off with a bunch of mechanical heroes called Toa, protecting small, child-sized robots called Matoran on an island paradise from all sorts of evil or misguided nasties and evolved into one of the strangest stories around. Enemies include mind-controlled animals, the just-doing-their-job Bohrok and the terrifying, somehow snake-like Rahkshi. Spoiler, the good guys win. For more information, Biosector01 has pretty much everything in it. What if… [Continue Reading]

Community Announcements

Eyelander Eyestravaganza!

April 25, 2014 aabicus 0 Comments demoknight, event, SPUF

================IMPORTANT INFO================ Where: The SPUF server When: Saturday 7:30 pm GMT =============================================== As you may have noticed, Demoknight recently received a painful blow in the mobility department. In honor of our fallen friend, the SPUF server is having a hack-n-slashathon starring everyone’s favorite haunted sword! RULES 1. Everyone who joins the server must play Demoman. It’s first-come-first-serve. 2. Map is a secret. Time is exactly 25 hours from the moment I posted this announcement, at 7:30pm GMT. 3. The only allowed weapons are Ali Baba’s Wee Booties, Bootlegger, Chargin’ Targe, Sticky Jumper, Eyelander, Nessie’s Nine Iron, and Haunted Headless Horsemann’s… [Continue Reading]

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A Plea From a Broken Sword

April 24, 2014 reima 0 Comments balance, criticism, demoknight, mourning, update

To the Developers of Team Fortress 2 and the player fanbase. Hello. As a figurehead in the Demoknight community (Yes, that’s a thing), I have been vetted by a few other Knight enthusiasts to make an official statement on the status which is our beloved demoknight. It appears the community has gotten mixed responses from the backlash of the changes to the Chargin’ Targe turning bypass involving a joystick. Probably leaning towards positive since our methods of execution were nothing short of exploiting. For a lot of people it was a cheap way to get a kill, the next best… [Continue Reading]

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OhGodPleaseNotBadwaterAgainPleaseNooooo!

April 24, 2014 Medic 1 Comment criticism, maps

Yes, that title is like that on purpose, because that is how I feel when I see Badwater pop up as the next map. I still think that when I see Badwater_Rainy pop up, but not quite as much, as I need to take a few seconds to rebind my swim up and swim down keys. Where does this hatred, where does this fear come from? Well, read on, I’m about to tell you. In my early days of Team Fortress 2, I quickly realized that Teufort is a bad map. I wasn’t so quick to work out that Junction… [Continue Reading]

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Mod Showcase: Randomizer

April 23, 2014 brickinator 0 Comments chance, custom, funny, luck, mod, random, randomiser, randomizer, showcase, unofficial

Welcome back to Mod Showcase. Brickinator here. Today’s article is about Randomizer- a plugin that combines the carefully crafted and immensely intricate balance system of Team Fortress 2 and defecates all over it. Any sort of tactics or strategy you had for each class has now gone out of the window because, in a Randomizer match, everything is down to chance. Using the word ‘chance’ to describe core multiplayer gameplay is like using the words ‘bloody and viscous’ to describe a urine sample, but Randomizer manages to pull it off. The first thing you need to realise with Randomizer is… [Continue Reading]

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Playing the Sniper Rifle in Team Fortress Classic

April 23, 2014 aabicus 0 Comments advice, guide, sniper, TFC, weapon

Aabicus, don’t you mean “Playing the Sniper”? No, I mean playing the sniper rifle. Because that is your job. Your life. That gun is a battlefield-stomping menace that boasts more flexibility and versatility than anything in Team Fortress 2. I know you think you’ve fought sniper rifles in TF2, but you haven’t fought a gun that can: *Charge and headshot from the hip *Charge-up damage infinitely *deal slowdown on bodyshot that never goes away (unless healed by a medic) *Deal knockback to friendlies, leading to the comical-looking but super useful “Sniper Jumping” technique *Gib on fully-charged headshot But believe it… [Continue Reading]