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  • Re: There's Only One Obvious Conclusion...

    From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Sat Oct 26 10:22:55 2024
    On 10/26/2024 8:28 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    17 years ago, Team Fortress 2 was released.

    [Holy shit, it was 17 years?!?!?]

    But it released with a tragic, almost unforgivable bug: when you
    played the Scout character on the Blue team, his pants were the wrong
    color. Finally, in 2024, Valve has announced in its latest patch
    notes:
    - Fixed BLU Scout using the incorrect team color pants

    [I'll be honest; I have no idea what this is all about. I'd
    no idea you could even see these guys' pants in the game, or
    why I should care. But apparently it was an issue for
    some players. To each their own.]

    This change itself has -unsurprisingly- caused some consternation
    amongst the fans, but that's par for the course when it comes to the video-gaming audience. But I think there's a more important message we
    should take away from this update.

    After 17 years, Valve has fixed this most crucial and difficult bug in
    one of their most important games. Team Fortress 2 is now fixed. That
    means they can focus their efforts on other projects.

    In other words:

    "Half Life 3" confirmed.



    ;-)

    After 17 years people had accepted that "that was how it is supposed to be!"

    And it took them 17 years to fix a minor art glitch? *shakes head*

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  • From Rin Stowleigh@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 26 19:34:25 2024
    That this even makes Usenet gossip is to review the taste of dirt and
    sand particles from a well water spigot that went dry decades ago.

    Anyone who ever actually played TF2 knows that their was never a
    problem recognizing which team a scout was on.

    "After 17 years, Valve has fixed this most crucial and difficult bug
    in one of their most important games."

    There is a point in life at which one becomes a parody of themselves.

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Dimensional Traveler on Mon Oct 28 03:10:03 2024
    Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote at 17:22 this Saturday (GMT):
    On 10/26/2024 8:28 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    17 years ago, Team Fortress 2 was released.

    [Holy shit, it was 17 years?!?!?]

    But it released with a tragic, almost unforgivable bug: when you
    played the Scout character on the Blue team, his pants were the wrong
    color. Finally, in 2024, Valve has announced in its latest patch
    notes:
    - Fixed BLU Scout using the incorrect team color pants

    [I'll be honest; I have no idea what this is all about. I'd
    no idea you could even see these guys' pants in the game, or
    why I should care. But apparently it was an issue for
    some players. To each their own.]

    This change itself has -unsurprisingly- caused some consternation
    amongst the fans, but that's par for the course when it comes to the
    video-gaming audience. But I think there's a more important message we
    should take away from this update.

    After 17 years, Valve has fixed this most crucial and difficult bug in
    one of their most important games. Team Fortress 2 is now fixed. That
    means they can focus their efforts on other projects.

    In other words:

    "Half Life 3" confirmed.



    ;-)

    After 17 years people had accepted that "that was how it is supposed to be!"

    And it took them 17 years to fix a minor art glitch? *shakes head*


    They apparently reverted it, too. Shame, but if it was so subtle nobody
    noticed then oh well. TF2 has WAAAAYYYY worse issues (horribly balanced
    weapons in both directions, spy in general, mannpower and passtime being forgotten despite it being such a cool mode, community servers being
    forgotten by most of the playerbase, a tutorial so bad that the
    community tells people to avoid it, the hat economy and metal inflation, wutville being a god awful map) so the pants being wrong is fine by me.
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