News and Updates, 9/18/13
Posted on: September 18th, 2013 by ObeyMore is going on than just Team Fortress updates in theTF2Newbs community. Though it may not be useful to you, here’s what might, just possibly be useful to you:
Newsworthy Bullets:
- Summary of recent TF2 updates
- Some Borderlands 2 news
- Terraria 1.2 patch live on October 1, 2013
- A final note about using slurs on our servers.
1. TF2 Updates (from 8/28 thru 9/18)
- In MvM Mode, exploding Sentry Busters now damage nearby enemy robots when they explode
- Fixed: Crusader’s Crossbow now no longer heals teammates that have the Equalizer or the Escape Plan deployed
- Fixed: Three sets now list the hats that were originally intended for their sets
- The set is no longer considered “complete” unless the hat is also worn
- Medieval Medic set now includes the Berliner’s Bucket Helm
- Hibernating Bear set now includes the Big Chief
- Expert’s Ordnance set now includes the Scotch Bonnet
- Fixed: The El Jefe scout hat is now droppable at the usual rate of hats
- Added: Double-clicking an item in your backpack can now add it to a Chemistry Set formula you’re currently working on
- Windows clients now use SDL 2.0 for controller support; this should enable hot-plugging and configuring controllers for use in Big Picture
- Bugfixes:
- Fixed: Now you should always receive a warning that non-tradable items used to make a Strangifier will result in a non-tradable Strangifier (and will always yield a non-tradable Strangifier)
- Fixed the Gunslinger’s taunt kill not counting kills on its Strange variant
- Fixed the Professor’s Pineapple and The Filamental not drawing correctly in DirectX 8
- Fixed the Rump-o’-Lantern not being equippable by the Medic, and being drawn incorrectly
- Fixed TF2 client being unable to run in Windows XP or older versions of Linux (!!)
- Fixed seeing stretched polygons in the HUD 3D Character
- Fixed an exploit allowing Strange counters to count to the negatively
- Fixed a noclip exploit related to dueling and coaching
- New tag “Halloween 2013″ for Steam Workshop and applicable submitted works
- New equip region “belt_misc”; probably to allow belt-area cosmetic items to be designed and submitted
2. Borderlands 2 News
Gearbox Studios, makers of Borderlands 2, are hinting at more DLC in the works to be released in the near future. However, according to PC Gamer, these will be smaller packs of content–at cheaper costs to purchase–than those such as Tiny Tina’s extended arc of tabletop RPG-themed missions. So maybe it won’t be new classes or entire new areas of Pandora to explore. Maybe more like skins, level caps and the like. Maybe. Definitely something to put on the ol’ holiday wishlist. Besides, Gearbox is hard at work on their next game, which will be on consoles (and likely the PC as well).
Gee, what could that be?
3. Terraria 1.2 patch goes live on October 1st, 2013
As I’ve already alluded to previously, the next Terraria patch–the first major update to the game in nearly two years!–should hit on the start of next month.
For those of you who were around the last time that Terraria had a major patch, you may recall a slight problem with your save files: they didn’t work at all! We’ve been assured that this should not repeat itself. That said, it is always a good idea to backup your save files; you never know if your nigh unkillable character and your Indestructible Fortress of Much Twinking becomes suddenly very killable. How? The default location for your Terraria save files (and your Borderlands 2 files, also) are in the Saved Games folder of your My Documents. The pathing is as follows (unless you’ve changed the default save location):
[DRIVE]:/Users/[USERNAME]/My Documents/My Games/Terraria
“Gee, then I could simply reload a character if s/he dies or my Indestructible Fortress gets proved wrong and is destroyed?” you ask.
Yes.
“So… there’s also nothing stopping me from reloading the same character repeatedly, and putting the same items into a chest repeatedly, effectively duping the items?”
Yes. Just note that each character always occupies the same slot of one of five character slots. No two characters of the same slot (i.e. two “player1.plr” files) can coexist in the same Players folder at the same time, and changing the name can make the file unreadable.
“So… I can do the same thing with the World, duping everything in the world by transferring items to characters?”
Yes. Worlds follow their own five-maximum rule.
“So… I can conceivably also do this in Borderlands 2?”
Yes. But Claptrap gives you a shared stash, so you’ll have less incentive to bother. Perhaps.
4. A Note About Using Slurs on TF2Newbs’ Servers
Don’t!
Seriously. Not even if:
- Someone else is doing it.
- You’re “just trolling” (also a bannable offense)
- You’re just trolling the troll.
- You’re quoting someone else in chat.
- You’re in spectate.
- It’s Hump Day.
- It’s not Hump Day.
- It’s the full moon.
- You’re a regular.
- You’re an admin.
- You’re a donator.
- You happen to resemble the subject of the slur.
It doesn’t matter at all the reasoning of the behavior. The behavior itself is not allowed, without exception.
I’m just a blogger, and I have no authority. But I have been witness to countless bans due to players–even longtime regulars and [N] tag wearers–getting quickly and permanently removed from the community for this douchebaggery. For one, you can be “Console” autobanned just by frequent (possibly even just once) using a slur in typed chat; it will search your recent chatlogs periodically looking for this behavior. Regardless of typed chatter or voice chat, virtually all admins can and will ban on the first (or second, or third) usage, usually after a warning. Global admin {N} Crap has no tolerance for this, nor should he. As a Newbs member, you agree to a slur-free community environment, including our forums and chatrooms.
Now, if you get banned or autobanned, you can appeal the ban–follow the forum rules to the letter if you choose to do so–but the use of slurs against any people type, especially but not limited to sexual orientation, gender, or race, is strictly prohibited by Newbs admins. Do not engage or encourage those that behave in this manner, or you can draw a ban as well. {N} Crap has been very explicit about what kinds of behavior are not allowed.
[N] Obey