Portal's Portal Gun, Meet the Team Fortress 2 Gang
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You mean....Daemascus said:
...These modders are officially my heroes. Imagine all the other things you could do with that...
*imagines forcing an enemy off a cliff*
*imagines forcing an enemy off a cliff*
If you want to really break it, let the enemy use your portals.
1. One portal on very high place.
2. one portal fired under enemie's feet.
3. ???
4. Profit
I think this would destroy TF2 as we know it, yet as a mod it'll be a lot of fun to play with, but I really don't see it making it into the regular game.
1. One portal on very high place.
2. one portal fired under enemie's feet.
3. ???
4. Profit
I think this would destroy TF2 as we know it, yet as a mod it'll be a lot of fun to play with, but I really don't see it making it into the regular game.
Here, have some chocolate for getting the reference. (Give an Olga Bar)The_root_of_all_evil said:
The person who posted the YT video said in the comments that you can't currently. They had originally planned to implement this but the coder said it was too much work.Daemascus said:
I like the idea of one of the other video comments- the mod should make a special class which only has the portal gun (and weak other guns) to instill a bit of balance (What semblance you can get with this mod).
Oh- and I'm of the opinion that this would break certain game modes more than it would break certain classes. CTF is the most obvious- you have a teleporter from your flag to ours which works instantly and which we can't destroy (unless we find the guy who made it and kill him, which will be impossible since he immediately TP'd to your flag and hid somewhere normally impossible to reach)?
A sniper with a portal gun? The ability to snipe and teleport, thats just unfair.
You've been on this site since 2007?, you should know the news articles don't get binned just because someone made a thread about it.teh_pwning_dude said:
Ahh well I'm in full support of a fellow Egotist!.*teh_pwning_dude said:Doesn't degrade the ego swell by saying one bit my friendColdStorage said:
In fact I'm currently wearing Egoist aftershave by Channel.
*if the mods ask me where my allegiance stands, I'm totally ratting you out, are cowardice and arrogance mutually exclusive?, I think not.
The full story is that the modder for the 3PG community (Pawn) had been working on this since the day Portal 2 was announced and didn't intend on letting anybody know until it was much further along. However, valve put a policy in place last month that bans custom items from being given to players, in an effort to stop servers from giving people valve made hats. He was ready to scrap the whole thing until we found a temporary hack to bypass the ban and now he just wants to show off what he has done while he still can.
I have heard rumors that valve has as of last night started reversing this policy, so now we can get back to work polishing this thing up for a full public release. From the way Pawn talks I assume the full version will be exclusive for a month or so then released publicly.
A few things that I don't believe are mentioned in the video:
-The portals can be destroyed by shooting them, so if the enemy is doing something like setting up a portal between the two flag rooms you can just shoot the portals and shatter them. The current HP is about that of a sentry but it can changed to make it fair.
-The gun physically replaces the secondary weapon for the classes that get them. The medic and spy don't get them as the game treats the medigun and the diguise kit as their respective secondaries.
-The third person view in the video is just for demonstration to show that it is indeed in TF2.
-It is apparently possible to add textures that are immune to portals in the map editor, so a map made specifically for the mod would hopefully be grief proof.
-The intention is to make this a whole new game mode with its own unique maps designed around the new gameplay.
-At this point the early alpha version shown in the video is only available on our secret internal test server. I would rather open the test server up to the public, but the others prefer not to let most people use it until it is further along.
I have heard rumors that valve has as of last night started reversing this policy, so now we can get back to work polishing this thing up for a full public release. From the way Pawn talks I assume the full version will be exclusive for a month or so then released publicly.
A few things that I don't believe are mentioned in the video:
-The portals can be destroyed by shooting them, so if the enemy is doing something like setting up a portal between the two flag rooms you can just shoot the portals and shatter them. The current HP is about that of a sentry but it can changed to make it fair.
-The gun physically replaces the secondary weapon for the classes that get them. The medic and spy don't get them as the game treats the medigun and the diguise kit as their respective secondaries.
-The third person view in the video is just for demonstration to show that it is indeed in TF2.
-It is apparently possible to add textures that are immune to portals in the map editor, so a map made specifically for the mod would hopefully be grief proof.
-The intention is to make this a whole new game mode with its own unique maps designed around the new gameplay.
-At this point the early alpha version shown in the video is only available on our secret internal test server. I would rather open the test server up to the public, but the others prefer not to let most people use it until it is further along.