Comments on: This Week

By: x25killa

x25killa — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:52:51 +0000

PCGamer Live was epic and I did managed to backstabbed one of the overpowered medics >:)

Merry Xmas and good tidings.

By: Inferno

Inferno — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:33:53 +0000

Awesome video and well done on the pickaxe again tom. Sadly I didnt’ get to speak to you despite being at pcglive. Yuo’re easily my favourite writer for pcg but somehow I didn’t get the chance! Well done all the same and I look forward to seeing your pickaxe once you’ve gotten it!

By: Dante

Dante — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:52:57 +0000

Hello Tom! We met briefly at the Live event where the multiple people by the same name confused all.

Incidentally, Ludo thinks your new weapon should be called ‘The Pentadaxe’

By: Lack_26

Lack_26 — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:17:23 +0000

@JazMiester,

Damn you, now I really want a weather control game. Wreaking havoc on the human race as they power you with global warming sounds really fun. You’d have to balance the destruction with keeping them able to still pump out the green-house gases that heat up the earth. I wish someone would make a game like that.

By: LaZodiac

LaZodiac — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:27:36 +0000

@JazMiester: Er, I ment Wing Commander, my bad.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:25 +0000

The reason they weren’t before was that WordPress’s option to do so was broken in an update, and I had to hack the code to fix it. It would reset every time I updated WP, which is all the freaking time since the hack. In 2.9, they seem to have fixed it to just work in the first place. Welcome back to square one!

Part of the reason it took them this long is probably that one of the admins on their support forum decided everyone who complained of this problem was just using the wrong type of RSS reader, and would insult them and lock the thread.

By: Pod!

Pod! — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:01:40 +0000

Traxantic is king of airshots it seems.

By: SenatorPalpatine

SenatorPalpatine — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:38:44 +0000

Posts are showing up in full on Google Reader again, thanks for that Tom.

Shamefully I still haven’t played Deus Ex. I’ll tend to that during winter break. (Along with Arkham Asylum)

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:55:42 +0000

Yeah, I’m kinda taking it easy for now because I hit both Soldier and Demo milestones 2 without getting the unlock. It’s common, a fix is coming, and missing weapons will be retroactively awarded. You can use Achievement Manager to re-lock the Milestone and re-earn it, but I think I’m just going to wait for the fix. Using external programs to mess with my account makes me a little uneasy.

By: Jazmeister

Jazmeister — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:11:01 +0000

@LaZodiac: Ah, Wind Commander. The glory days of ushering soft breezes by managing local air pressure, racking up gust combos, and finally summoning the Ithaqua to rampage across rural farmland. It could also be Supreme Commander.

Since Valve reads everything associated with Tom Francis, I thought this’d be a good place to mention that my wife hit Soldier Milestone 2 (and now 3) and didn’t get the new rocket launcher. She got her banner ok. Anyone else experienced this?

Also, would anyone care to whine about how overpowered the equalizer is?

By: Traxantic

Traxantic — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:58:05 +0000

Hey thanks man for putting my video in! I had lots of fun with that update (and still), and especially you and Robin hopping in!

Merry Christmas!

By: LaZodiac

LaZodiac — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:37:21 +0000

TeamFortress 2, Wind Comander, and the Star Trek MMO?

Just taking a guess at what you’ve got lined up.

By: Out Reach

Out Reach — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:52:51 +0000

Wow thanks for putting traxes video in a blog post :)

I’ve linked him to this, and he should say hi at some point.

By: Havokroft

Havokroft — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:09:29 +0000

See, this is what TF2 is supposed to be all about; ridiculous silly OTT fun.

What server did this epic duel take place on, out of interest? PCG or other? Also congrats on the equalizer recognition! It’s a wonderful, wonderful unlock. Makes me wonder what the future holds for Mr Tom Francis now that we know Valve has their eye on him…

By: Jesus

Jesus — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:09:08 +0000

yeah there are servers running a plugin that has gamemodes where either one juggernaut who fires like pentadact did in that video gets hunted by normal players, or everyone is in that turbo firing mode, with huge bunnyhop boosts and such.

now this is where this becomes a shameless plug, i’ve set the website field to be that of the plugin’s main community.

By: FraktuRe

FraktuRe — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:22:27 +0000

I’ve been on servers before where you have random class and random weapons, it’s epic fun being a scout with a minigun etc.

Also, congrats!

By: RichardZK

RichardZK — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:30:43 +0000

Some servers run a gamemode called 1 vs. all where one dude is massively overpowered and all the other players on the server have to take him out.

By: Jazmeister

Jazmeister — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:08:49 +0000

I wonder if that could just be a game mode by itself? There must be a way to enable server specific weapons.