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Old May 6th, 2008   #241 (permalink)
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My laptop zapped out on me yesterday while playing and chatting on TF2 with bobrocks95, cottonvibes and Chrono Archangel. I had to buy a new one today, which is why I haven't been on since yesterday afternoon. I'm getting sick and tired of my laptops zapping out on me because of overheating. Every laptop that I have had has done that to me. The **** is annoying. I love laptops, which is why I keep getting them. But having to buy a laptop a year is not something that I can ever get used to.
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Do you have one of those coolers under your laptop? They help quite a bit.
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I know, but it's still a lame map when you think about how it breaks everything in the game .
I mean seriously, soldiers can shoot many many many rockets hella fast and never reload.
Heavies don't have to fear anything, except snipers or spies.
Engi can makes a BUTTLOAD of sentry guns.


This kinda remove the point of some classes. I mean who needs a demoman when a soldier can do better now? Especially on such a open map.
Who needs a scout? Everyone can jump hella high with the low gravity, and the scout loses all appeal.
who needs a medic? The server was breaking the medic class anyway, they couldn't heal me.

The map is cool to "fool around" but it gets boring anyway . Thanks god those rules aren't used in normal servers.
It removes any strategy from the game, it's only a "who can shoot around the most".

The fun thing with normal map is the strategies that come with it, it's part of the fun of the game .
If you remove any balance, the game gets boring after a while. It's just broken, it can be fun for a while, but it shouldn't be pushed too much .

thanakil, i don't think the classes are really even to begin with.
for example, a Heavy can't kill a good sniper if the sniper is far away enough; hes just too slow, and his weapon is precise enough for long combat.

and a pyro can't destroy an engineer's sentry in front of a control point because his flamethrower dosn't reach, and he'll get killed if using his secondary weapon.


and you say theres no need for a Scout, yet lots of people were playing as the scouts.

people were still playing as all the different classes.


i agree that they're not totally balanced in the MarioKart server, but i don't think they're balanced at all in the real game either...

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My laptop zapped out on me yesterday while playing and chatting on TF2 with bobrocks95, cottonvibes and Chrono Archangel. I had to buy a new one today, which is why I haven't been on since yesterday afternoon. I'm getting sick and tired of my laptops zapping out on me because of overheating. Every laptop that I have had has done that to me. The **** is annoying. I love laptops, which is why I keep getting them. But having to buy a laptop a year is not something that I can ever get used to.
Chrono: I remembering owning you a several times. You even bowed down to my ownage. I'll get back on and reclaim my defamed image.

I'll get back on after I install TF2 again on this new laptop.
what laptop did you get?

hopefully its better than your last one so the game won't **** up on you.
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Old May 6th, 2008   #245 (permalink)
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Do you have one of those coolers under your laptop? They help quite a bit.
I have one but I didn't use it for a long time. I've had one ever since my very first laptop burned out on me within the first 6 months of purchasing it. The funny thing is that I noticed that my laptop was getting hotter the last few days, and the night before it happened, I decided to find it and use it. Unfortunately, it was too late and it just zapped out on me during gameplay.
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thanakil, i don't think the classes are really even to begin with.
for example, a Heavy can't kill a good sniper if the sniper is far away enough; hes just too slow, and his weapon is precise enough for long combat.

and a pyro can't destroy an engineer's sentry in front of a control point because his flamethrower dosn't reach, and he'll get killed if using his secondary weapon.


and you say theres no need for a Scout, yet lots of people were playing as the scouts.

people were still playing as all the different classes.


i agree that they're not totally balanced in the MarioKart server, but i don't think they're balanced at all in the real game either...
The classes ARE balanced in the real game, they're just not balanced in a way that they can kick every classes asses.

Which is a point that you seem to be miss since you brought it in various threads .

Each class is meant to own another/some classes, to be equal to other classes, and to be weak again a few other classes.
Example : The Heavy being weak against Sniper, the Engi being weak against Demoman.

The point is that this IS the balancing.
They didn't make every class being equal to every other classes. Instead they decide to give strengths and weaknesses to every classes. That's the whole point, that's the balancing. Every class has is the rock to a scissor, and is the rock to a paper.

That's why it's named TEAM fortress too, because your weakness means you're better off playing as a team if you want to increase your chances of survival.
Learning your weaknesses and how to avoid it on your own is part of the learning process too.
Example if you play a heavy : make sure not to be in a open area where you can easily be sniped, if you're a soldier : make sure to not end up with one rocket in your launcher and then jump in a open area, you're deadmeat since you'll have to reload VERY soon making you hella vulnerable.

That server removes the weakness of some class, while increase the weakness of others, throwing the whole balancing out of the window.
You got a few classes who suddenly become god-like, and some classes who become completely obsolete and utterly weak.

The game is, be default, balanced. Not balance in a "everybody is on even ground", but balanced in a "the world goes round and round" kind of way. Everybody has weaknesses and strengths, when you add them all up, everybody has up and down who complete each other, and make it balanced. That's the whole point of it .
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I have one but I didn't use it for a long time. I've had one ever since my very first laptop burned out on me within the first 6 months of purchasing it. The funny thing is that I noticed that my laptop was getting hotter the last few days, and the night before it happened, I decided to find it and use it. Unfortunately, it was too late and it just zapped out on me during gameplay.
where do you lay your laptop?

make sure its on a hard horizontal surface, and not like a pillow or clothe or something.
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thanks my friend
I had to edit out lot's of original text details and then airbrush them out to make way for the other text
then some pass conversions to create sprays of this image quality

they should look sweet ingame and of decent size

.....that's what kept me

enjoy





Anyone else want sprays?

....maybe a pcsx2 team spray?
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The classes ARE balanced in the real game, they're just not balanced in a way that they can kick every classes asses.

Which is a point that you seem to be miss since you brought it in various threads .

Each class is meant to own another/some classes, to be equal to other classes, and to be weak again a few other classes.
Example : The Heavy being weak against Sniper, the Engi being weak against Demoman.

The point is that this IS the balancing.
They didn't make every class being equal to every other classes. Instead they decide to give strengths and weaknesses to every classes. That's the whole point, that's the balancing. Every class has is the rock to a scissor, and is the rock to a paper.

That's why it's named TEAM fortress too, because your weakness means you're better off playing as a team if you want to increase your chances of survival.
Learning your weaknesses and how to avoid it on your own is part of the learning process too.
Example if you play a heavy : make sure not to be in a open area where you can easily be sniped, if you're a soldier : make sure to not end up with one rocket in your launcher and then jump in a open area, you're deadmeat since you'll have to reload VERY soon making you hella vulnerable.

That server removes the weakness of some class, while increase the weakness of others, throwing the whole balancing out of the window.
You got a few classes who suddenly become god-like, and some classes who become completely obsolete and utterly weak.

The game is, be default, balanced. Not balance in a "everybody is on even ground", but balanced in a "the world goes round and round" kind of way. Everybody has weaknesses and strengths, when you add them all up, everybody has up and down who complete each other, and make it balanced. That's the whole point of it .
well i don't like the idea that no-matter how skilled you are at the game, if someone is a class that your character is weak against, you'll get pwned.



and the map dosn't make characters weaker..

if you're refering to the medic not healing correctly; i think it just shows up messed up, but if you get attacked while the medic is healing you, you're invincible.
at least i think thats what it is, since i was healing someone and he never died. eventhough he got hit a bunch of times.

so i think instead of healing, its invulnerability.

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I had to edit out lot's of details and do lots of pass conversions to create sprays of this image quality

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cool, those are awsome aiton.

thanks

i'm going to be switching between them as my Sprays.


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i know i'm an *******.

but you think you can do 1 more Spray with the last pic i posted?
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/8...forxmasqu6.jpg

maybe instead of where it says that url in the pic.
just put cottonvibes
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well i don't like the idea that no-matter how skilled you are at the game, if someone is a class that your character is weak against, you'll get pwned.
That's why you either :
1) Learn your weaknesses and learn how to play WITH them instead of against them, to reduce the number of people pwning you simply because they have a class against yours.
2) Learn to play as a team, that way you can all kill the people who pwn your classes, by defending each others.
3) Learn to play more classes. So if someone uses a class that has the advantage against yours, you can switch.

There isn't a lack of options . It's meant to keep the game fun and interesting. It's part of the strategies.
Which gun I uses depending on the situation? Which class do I use? Which tactic do I use?

It's not just "everyone has the same gun and you win by getting headshot". There's more to it than that.

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and the map dosn't make characters weaker..

if you're refering to the medic not healing correctly; i think it just shows up messed up, but if you get attacked while the medic is healing you, you're invincible.
at least i think thats what it is, since i was healing someone and he never died. eventhough he got hit a bunch of times.

so i think instead of healing, its invulnerability.
It could have just been a glitch, but there's still classes being obsolete, like the scout and the demoman. And classes being overpowered because of all this, like the Soldier. Being a huge missile-spewer at fast speed and with unlimited ammunition = KINDA game-breaking.
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but you think you can do 1 more Spray with the last pic i posted?
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/8...forxmasqu6.jpg

maybe instead of where it says that url in the pic.
just put cottonvibes
it's the first you've posted this one

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where do you lay your laptop?

make sure its on a hard horizontal surface, and not like a pillow or clothe or something.
I layed my first one on my bed for a majority of the time when I had it (about 3 or 4 years ago). I learned about the horrors of laptop overheating because of that. Now I keep it layed flat on my wooden coffee table in the family room. I'm not taking anymore chances now since I just dished out about $450 cash today ($20 laptop HD USB case (to salvage my important files that are still on my other laptop HD) and a $30 desktop HD USB case for my other computer that crashed on me). So now I am always going to use my cooling fan.
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There isn't a lack of options . It's meant to keep the game fun and interesting. It's part of the strategies.
Which gun I uses depending on the situation? Which class do I use? Which tactic do I use?

It's not just "everyone has the same gun and you win by getting headshot". There's more to it than that.
but in a regular FPS like Unreal Tournament, you just switch to the proper gun for the situation.

But in this game, you have to kill yourself in order to get the right gun and character.

it would be cool if they add like a chamber at ur bases where you can enter and switch your character real fast w/o killing yourself.


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It could have just been a glitch, but there's still classes being obsolete, like the scout and the demoman. And classes being overpowered because of all this, like the Soldier. Being a huge missile-spewer at fast speed and with unlimited ammunition = KINDA game-breaking.
well like i said, people still play as the scout and demoman in that map.

the scout's speed is good for running around and shooting at people w/ infinite ammo... and they can dodge the soldier's attacks pretty easily.

and the demoman is good for standing outside the enemies' base, and shooting inside when the garage-door opens.

and the soldier's missles arn't faster, you still have time to dodge.



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i edited it

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or if those 2 pics arn't good

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see

must've missed my edit ;p



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I layed my first one on my bed for a majority of the time when I had it (about 3 or 4 years ago). I learned about the horrors of laptop overheating because of that. Now I keep it layed flat on my wooden coffee table in the family room. I'm not taking anymore chances now since I just dished out about $450 cash today ($20 laptop HD USB case (to salvage my important files that are still on my other laptop HD) and a $30 desktop HD USB case for my other computer that crashed on me). So now I am always going to use my cooling fan.

yeah laptops get pretty freaking hot nowadays. They shouldn't even be called "laptops" as they'll burn you if you actually put them on your lap now...
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