Halos, gifts to non-cheaters.

Snotnarok

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I dunno how many people here play TF2 here, but I play it a lot, maybe too much. Valve has caught on to people using idleing programs and has dropped the hammer, anyone who has use the program to gather items through their random item system are getting ALL their items gathered by it taken away, while people who've not cheated are receiving a special hat, a Halo and the hat drop chance rate increased.

Source: http://www.teamfortress.com/

No one's getting banned for it though I think they're going to start so if you didn't know maybe it's time to delete those programs idle users.

I've been informed I'm blind and I've totally missed the topic already started, link:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/94412-Team-Fortress-2-Punishing-Item-Idlers-Rewarding-the-Rest
 

Emphraim

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There already was a thread about this. Anyway, I think that Valve did a dumb thing. After all, all this will do is bring back the idling servers.
 

Katherine Kerensky

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There was a news article on this already.
I'll post a link.
here 'tis The Link [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/94412-Team-Fortress-2-Punishing-Item-Idlers-Rewarding-the-Rest]
 

Omikron009

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Cheaters Lament, I think it's called. I like how it replaces the soldier's helmet so you can finally see his face and hair.
 

SomeLameStuff

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I've never needed to use any of those item programs stuff. I usually get one or two items every 3-4 games or so.

Considering there's tons of folks that didn't cheat, there's going to be a lot of halos flying around.
 

DeadlyYellow

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Oh well, sucks to be them. I don't know why it's such a big deal to farm crap in an FPS anyway. Perhaps the chance to see your hat when you're dead maybe?
 

loremazd

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somelameshite said:
I've never needed to use any of those item programs stuff. I usually get one or two items every 3-4 games or so.

Considering there's tons of folks that didn't cheat, there's going to be a lot of halos flying around.
Hats are very different than the items.
 

Snotnarok

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Greyfox105 said:
There was a news article on this already.
I'll post a link.
here 'tis The Link [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/94412-Team-Fortress-2-Punishing-Item-Idlers-Rewarding-the-Rest]
I knew I was brain dead when it came to searching properly, that wasn't meant to being sarcastic I just never can find the right results whatever I search in any search bar. Really my mistake, sorry about that guys I didn't find it and probably could have if I searched a few more words. :\

The new hat is a cool bonus since I never got a new item from the random item finds (only repeats) but I can't help but see a glowing thing as a bug issue. I play spy often so having a glowing thing over my head just screams to me "possible glitch where you'll have a glow even if cloaked".

I think the cheater thing is a good thing but as someone said, it'll just bring back the idling servers but even then valve seems to know who does and doesn't use achievement servers. Did the valve hammer hit you? Are you pissed about it?