Steam has a “Treat” of a sale.  After I post this, you will have only 1 hour and 30 minutes to get your hands on one of the most hilarious fps games out there.  Team fortress 2 is on sale right now for a measly $2.49.  The sale will close at 1pm PDT. If you don’t have this game yet, GO GET IT NOW!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/440/??

In a Team Fortress 2 game mod of dodge ball, a user named “OobyDooby” goes on the mic to call the shots of the game.  Just listen to the hilarity of his words.  This guy should really to make it a career if he could be that funny.  Imagine him calling the shots of an exhibition match at MLG.

This has got to be one of the best Heavy Weapons Guy cosplay AND impersonations I’ve ever seen.  I hope he find that Spy and gets his Sasha back. Or maybe that host IS that Spy. Dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnn…….

Today’s update features a brand new game mode.  King of the hill.  How it works is that once the gates open and gameplay starts (*HORN*), the one capture point will be locked.  After a short time, it will be open for capture by any of the 2 teams.  Once captured, a timer will count how long they have it captured for.  The team that can defend their captured point for 3 minutes, wins.

If an enemy team is able to capture the point, their timer goes up, while the team that lost the point has their timer frozen.

Seems like its going a boat load of fun and a great challenge.  Already, I can’t wait for more updates this week.

Also being added is a King of the Hill map, “Koth Viaduct.” Go past the break for screenshots.

It looks like Valve’s Team Fortress 2 team is out with another week of patch announcements.  For day 1, they have announced new hats for each class to further customize their character.  To the noobs out there, sorry.  Hats are only for looks.  The cannot help your skill level. They have also added another arena map.

This update also comes with some funny hidden JPGs not found on the update webpage. We have posted the hidden JPGs below.

"Spy sappin' my.... body?!"

I never would have guessed that there would be so many Team Fortress 2 fans at an anime expo.  Valve products have nothing to do with the Anime culture, yet the TF2 cosplay was out in full force! Both women and men dressing as different character classes.  To check out all the TF2 cosplay, go past the break.

 

Take all the Funniest Home Videos from Bob Saget, replace his stupid voiceovers with Team Fortress 2 sound files and voice overs, and viola.  You get a whole new way to experience the old version of YouTube before it got on the internets.

It seems that Valve released a patch over night. What did they fix? The Ambassador and Dead Ringer:

• The Ambassador now does full critical hits on headshots, instead of mini crits
• The Dead Ringer now fully drains the cloak meter, even if the Spy leaves cloak early

It does not look like they did anything to stop people who leave their computers on idle while at work, sleeping or doing something else.  So, before they patch it, here is a guide from facepunch.com on how to start your very own idle server while you’re away.

1. First you have to download this map:

http://www.fpsbanana.com/maps/96284?qpost=5152611

No reason at all why you can’t use any other map but this map kills you so it seems like you’re actually doing something. Coupled with long respawn times you should only be killed once per hour.

2. Next you start your game. Normally when you start a listen server it will be lan so open up console with the ` or ~ key (if you don’t have console you have to enable it from controls) and type in:

sv_lan 0

This will make it so that it is a internet server and not valve. In your console it should say connected to master server. Next type in:

sv_pure 1

This makes it so that it will be VAC secured on the next map change. Next type in:

map achievement_idle

This is for the server to change map so it will be VAC secured. Important step! You must do this after sv_lan 0 and sv_pure 1 is typed in.

3. After you’ve done all these you need to type a few commands in console to prevent people from being booted and map changes. These are required commands:

mp_timelimit 0

This is so that there is no time limit and the map will not change.

mp_idledealmethod 0

This ensures that it doesn’t boot people out of the game. Some people usually get it defaulted to 2 which boots people if they are idle.

After those 2 commands are in all you have to do is AFK for a few hours and enjoy your free unlocks when you come back!

Here are some random commands you can do to make your AFK time easier.

mp_respawnwavetime 3600.0

This makes the respawn time 1 hour so if you are AFK 24 hours, you will only have 24 deaths.

sv_password fpftw

This is to set a password to the server. If you wish to change it or set one during the game. Obviously you can change fpftw to whatever you want for a password.

sv_pure_kick_clients 0

This is if your game is kicking people because they have skins etc.

mp_winlimit 0

Another command to make sure it doesn’t change level (the map can’t be won so it should be that way anyway).

sv_cheats 0

Just to make sure cheats is off so you can earn unlocks. You can’t earn unlocks without VAC secured and with cheats on.