The Revival of the TBA TF2 server

rtil · August 13, 2015 01:36 PM

Quote from: Dust on August 13, 2015 10:34 AM
I just think it'd be a nice challenge to try if we had enough players. Also I don't understand this mentality when people say something is for competitive, like are competitive players going to be mad when filthy casuals are playing their precious game mode?

people don't just say it is competitive play - valve specifically designed it for competitive play. in some games, "hard mode" isn't as fun as what was designed for the casual player.

i'm fairly certain the tf2 pro scene is non-existent - either way who cares if some pub disapproves of how we run our server.

i personally have never played highlander so i have no opinion on it, i was just giving my 2 cents.

BluPhoenix · August 13, 2015 08:57 PM

Quote from: rtil on August 13, 2015 01:36 PM
i'm fairly certain the tf2 pro scene is non-existent - either way who cares if some pub disapproves of how we run our server.

i personally have never played highlander so i have no opinion on it, i was just giving my 2 cents.

iirc competitive tf2 is predominantly both highlander and 6v6 format, the latter of which's team comp is:

a medic
a demo
2 soldiers
2 scouts

we could do highlander and 6v6 events on occasion, but i personally think we should keep it standard at 24 players w/ vip slots

Necronomitr0n · August 13, 2015 09:26 PM

another server would be cool, even if it will die in 3 months

slack · August 14, 2015 12:22 AM

yeah the server probably wont be around forever but it'll be fun while it lasts

bd648 · August 14, 2015 03:29 AM

i think i'd play sometime in the near future but at the moment i cannot grace you with my pyro power.

soup · August 14, 2015 09:05 PM

i like this, this is cute, i like this

RichChap · August 14, 2015 10:13 PM

lately when ive been playing tba tf2 its been ~6 people but every once and a while theres like 12 tba-ers and its real fun. i'm going back to school in a few days though and probably wouldnt play much.

slack · August 17, 2015 06:51 AM

i'd like to have a melee mode on the server

i have been dying to play a melee payload match

just once

rtil · August 17, 2015 08:11 AM

i'm assuming by changing the map to degrootkeep it goes into melee mode, but it's also probably easy to have a mod or setting for melee only. i remember some admin tools being able to change almost any server variable on the fly

slack · August 17, 2015 09:39 AM

yeah when redm had his server up he made me admin and it was a simple boolean to toggle melee

Stu4U · August 17, 2015 05:59 PM

is there a schedule or can we just pop in whenever

rtil · August 17, 2015 09:33 PM

i don't think theres' even a server yet

but how it used to work was if an admin came in to the server (usually me) they'd post a steam announcement to get people to come and join

or post in irc

Paw · August 21, 2015 06:35 PM

Would jump in now and then, however more of a prophunt fan then traditional TF2 game modes.

rtil · August 21, 2015 11:14 PM

prophunt is a mod i'd definitely want to install, and we actually had it on the old server. i wouldn't be opposed to the occasional prophunt game

slack · August 22, 2015 12:17 PM

yeah i'd play prophunt once in a while

Dust · August 25, 2015 06:27 AM

So a couple of us were playing on a server that had togglable Third-Person and playable Robot Mercenary models.
Not sure what sort of server plugins they were using for that but it'd be nice to have on the TBA server, third-person is surprisingly nice to play in.

rtil · August 25, 2015 07:23 AM

could be easy to implement or a total nightmare

we'll worry about it later

i might be able to get the server up before i leave for denver and you guys can fuck with it

slack · August 25, 2015 11:47 PM

yeah i really dig the thirdperson mode

i'm pretty sure there's just a plug-and-play mod for adding exactly the thirdperson and robot models, i was looking at it yesterday while trying to figure out if i could mod my own viewmodel to be in the third person