What just happened?

[The Iron Ninja]

Uh... something really weird just happened to me.

I was playing Team Fortress 2 on my 360, I haven't had live for very long, so I'm new to most of the way the game works.
But I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to be able to fly off the map when a sentry gun hits you.

It started off fairly normal. It was 2Fort, I was sucking at it as usual, killing (on average) zero people before being blown apart. Then it happened.

The gravity suddenly took a violent turn and almost disappeared completely, Scouts could now jump from one side of the moat to the other, Sentry guns were placed on the rooftops, I managed to jump up through a hole into the BLU team's re-spawn area, it was madness.
Apparently this was happening in other matches at the same time as well.

Is this a regular occurrence?
Were you there?
Are you as confused as I am?
Too many questions?

Edit: And while we're at it feel free to share any similar events that happened to you.

[sup]Mods, I wasn't quite sure if this was related enough to gaming to be on this part of the forums, feel free to move it over to off-topic discussion if you think it necesary.[/sup]

 

[Meado]

I initially thought this might be a prank by Valve to celebrate an anniversary or something, and it was kinda close. TF2 was released 1 year ago on the 10th. Guess that idea's out, though.

 

[The Iron Ninja]

I initially thought this might be a prank by Valve to celebrate an anniversary or something, and it was kinda close. TF2 was released 1 year ago on the 10th. Guess that idea's out, though.

Has it been glitching since the 10th then?
I don't think breaking their own game would be considered much of a prank anyway. Especially by Valve. It certainly wasn't helping the balance of the game.

 

[Meado]

I initially thought this might be a prank by Valve to celebrate an anniversary or something, and it was kinda close. TF2 was released 1 year ago on the 10th. Guess that idea's out, though.

Has it been glitching since the 10th then?
I don't think breaking their own game would be considered much of a prank anyway. Especially by Valve. It certainly wasn't helping the balance of the game.

I meant that the 1 year anniversary of TF2 was a few days ago. If this glitch happened just now, than it can't have been for that.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

I just got off a session of Zero Grav 2Fort. Map glitching/hacking just isn't fun. The outskirts of the maps are boring and glitchy as heck.

 

[TsunamiWombat]

Rampent maphacking perhaps. You can shut off gravity in the PC version if you've got a modded server, but modding on Xbox live = nono

 

[Corven]

an actual hack, they exist!

 

[Zallest]

They have TF2 for the 360? This i did not know

Only time i flew off a map was when a medic Uber'd me and the sentry decided it would lift my invincible butt into the air and toss me off the map for giggles.

 

[The Iron Ninja]

They have TF2 for the 360? This i did not know

Only time i flew off a map was when a medic Uber'd me and the sentry decided it would lift my invincible butt into the air and toss me off the map for giggles.

Same sort of thing happened to me. Except I wasn't ubered, the gravity was just so low that being hit by a sentry while jumping over it knocked me out of the map.

I just got off a session of Zero Grav 2Fort. Map glitching/hacking just isn't fun. The outskirts of the maps are boring and glitchy as heck.

On 360? Or am I the only one here that witnessed this hack?

 

[Zallest]

Must have been some kind of super anti-grav map breaking sentry!

Valve should nerf Engineers!

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

I just got off a session of Zero Grav 2Fort. Map glitching/hacking just isn't fun. The outskirts of the maps are boring and glitchy as heck.

On 360? Or am I the only one here that witnessed this hack?

Yep. On the 360.

 

[xitel]

If it happened to a lot of different people, I would think that it's either a) a glitch on the servers, or b) someone's figured out a hack.

 

[The Iron Ninja]

I just got off a session of Zero Grav 2Fort. Map glitching/hacking just isn't fun. The outskirts of the maps are boring and glitchy as heck.

On 360? Or am I the only one here that witnessed this hack?

Yep. On the 360.

Then you would agree that it was absolutely crazy?
I was a pyro for most of the time, I stood on the roof of the bridge and had battles that spent so much time in the air they might as well have been called dogfights.

Well if it's still going I guess Valve will probably catch on soon, and do something about it.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

I just got off a session of Zero Grav 2Fort. Map glitching/hacking just isn't fun. The outskirts of the maps are boring and glitchy as heck.

On 360? Or am I the only one here that witnessed this hack?

Yep. On the 360.

Then you would agree that it was absolutely crazy?
I was a pyro for most of the time, I stood on the roof of the bridge and had battles that spent so much time in the air they might as well have been called dogfights.

Well if it's still going I guess Valve will probably catch on soon, and do something about it.

Or maybe they won't. They do enjoy the work of their mod community after all. Microsoft on the other hand...

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

There's a few hacks going round at the moment, though Valve are catching them. The multiple turret one appears quite often.