Extra Punctuation: New Team Fortress 2 Classes

[Legendsmith]

Was incidentally remembered how I used to play Worms yeeaaaars ago with custom settings and instead of bombing other worms into the ground I decided to build an underground cave system with drills and construction beams and even a torture pit I filled with mines and gladly triggered with a worm or two once I got bored and wanted to end the map. Was fun to imagine a little underground ant colony errr I mean worm colony and play a bit architect in a game where this was definitely not what you're supposed to do.

Sir, you need to play dwarf fortress. It's pretty much that, except with more stuff and in 3 dimensions. (Not the graphics, the world). I highly reccomend using this pack to get started, [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59026.0] as it comes with some graphics packs that can be installed with the click of a button.

 

[Balobo]

Still, if you're resigned to getting compared to Team Fortress 2, I think you should go in the other direction. Don't have less character classes than TF2

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Fewer.

If you're going to boldface a word, Yahtzee, make sure it's the correct fucking word.



Sincerely,
The Propaganda Grammar Tiger Nazi

Do you plan on adding anything else to the thread?

 

[xedi]

The counselor's doll is the most epic "weapon" since the portal gun. Just imagine the poor little team mate with shaking hands pointing at all the spots ^^ Maybe you can do it Heavy Rain style: depending on how hard the abuse was the harder it is to push all the right buttons to show the counselor what happened.

 

[DeliciousCake]

Welly well welches, its always so refreshing to see an obvious joke go completely over people's heads. It's kind of like watching an incredibly thick person trip over their own shoelaces and fall off a cliff while trying to grab a low hanging fruit.

Anywho, this is one of the few Extra Punctuations where I found myself choking to death on the hilarity. Kudos, yahtzee.

 

[Nachtmahr]

Personally, I think the Tiger class is a great idea. I would immediately buy a game that would let me kill people as a tiger.

 

[Max David]

Well I wrote a huge comment under the video already, but here will be more constructive =)

I liked the idea of brink (class based shooter with objectives!)
Where it failed:
a) too lineair maps (I hoped more battlefield like terrain)
b) unlocking skills?? -> this is my main downfall, classes need the skills to work together. But right now everyone just picks the class they got the most skills for (Engi or Medic normally) and not the class most needed!
c) weapons: so much choice and so little differences or alot of useless ones.
d) no class bound items - appearance -> this is something new makes it fun, but extremly hard to balance

on paper: great
online: not so much.. Just to hard to for attacking sides, small maps with lineair mapping,..

Yathzee made a good point, but I doubt adding more classes will help unless they dumb the skill system! Make levels only award clothing would be a huge step forward!

 

[vivster]

twas a fun read

 

[Kenjitsuka]

(the thermos being the Counsellor's primary weapon, their secondary being a doll with which teammates can indicate where the enemy team touched them).

The most epic thing I've read/heard this week!
I'd play that! I'm sure you already have a half design document for this game, that you will sadly never finish because you are too busy being awesome.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

*sigh* I'll admit it. That first sentence made me think for a moment. >_>

Don't feel too bad, I had to re-read it again before I got it. Was hilarious when it did hit me.

OT: The Propaganda Artist sounds pretty sweet to me, even if it is a little silly, and having a support character like that would be interesting to play as. And the Tiger? Well that just screams of awesome.

RAAAWWR!! Fear me mortals!!

 

[ToastiestZombie]

Heres another one:

The News Presenter!

She would only unleash when one player has at least 50 kills and is leading the game and go onto the battlefield with 3 or 4 other NPCs known as the panel of fair and balanced debate. Then they would sit down and talk about how violent leading player has been and all agree that they are certainly warping childrens minds and probably killing a puppy. After that she would make a news segment about the leading players violence and put it onto FOX News. Which will subsequently get the leading player banned and kicked out off the game.

Her primary would be a video clip involving a mom or dad saying how shocked they are at the players violence and saying that theyre child had been warped.
Her secondary would an old person who shouts about the leading players violence.

I honestly think that this would be a good idea to stop boosters and people who are beating the other team to the ground. Also it would provide some excellent cross media coverage as the News presenters news segment will always be posted onto FOX news giving more people the chance to learn about how violent the lead player is.

Damn that was long.

 

[ewhac]

Also, Yahtzee I feel its unneeded to continue the shot joke. Returning jokes are one thing but we don't need it to be a "Like god of war but" stamp. Also taking a shot just doesn't sound funny.

The man co-owns a bar. You figure out the motivation.

 

[Iron Lightning]

Well that was pretty silly. I would be positively aghast if I felt that you meant for us to take any of these terrible suggestions seriously. Good thing that's not the case.

 

[xdiesp]

The tiger class should be made at all costs!

 

[Hristo Tzonkov]

Yahtzee,I think you should stick to witty mock reviews rather than trying to expand your episode with a ton of text explaining how you would've liked the game in question to be.Games don't try to be like TF2,like God of War or like MW.

 

[Gunjester]

Tiger Made this article xD
don't get me wrong, the rest was still hilarious...
but the tiger made me cry

 

[KingofallCosmos]

I got some ideas

Cook: You can drop tasty treats over the battlefield, if your team eats them they regain health over time. However you can also drop poisoned treats and if the enemy eats them, they lose health, however you got to make sure your team doesn't eat them

Builder: You can build cover for your team to hide behind, not the best class as a lot of people would aim for you, but good for objective based gameplay

Chest-high wall builder? Of course everyone is gonna shoot you!

 

[Lukeje]

Still, if you're resigned to getting compared to Team Fortress 2, I think you should go in the other direction. Don't have less character classes than TF2

.

Fewer.

If you're going to boldface a word, Yahtzee, make sure it's the correct fucking word.



Sincerely,
The Propaganda Grammar Tiger Nazi

While the OED notes that this usage is `Freq. found but generally regarded as incorrect', it also points out that the citations for its usage as such actually go back to c. 888. I think after that amount of time it can be claimed as valid.

 

[Grabbin Keelz]

Team Fortress 2 is way better than Brink, because in TF2 I can buy all my items, in stead of having to earn them by actually playing the game :')

I see what you did there, assuming that was a joke.
But as far as actual game changing weapons(as in NOT useless hats) go, you can earn them all without having to buy them. Getting all the weapons are fairly easy, or at least they would be if they stopped fucking making so many all the time. Weapon collecting in TF2 is a small hobby of mine, even if I don't use all of them.

 

[cheesyman987]

How many people read Yahtzee's blogs in the style of his videos?