Backpack Examiner

[BBloke]

Nice find.. I see most have been viewing the Valve players. Robert has a freaky high Rocket Launcher.... Glad he doesn't frequent the server!! LOL

I've added the link into the links section.

[LazyEagle]

Yeah, it certainly looks like there are a load of Valve specific weapons!
Lvl 100 Rocket Launcher, what a load of shite! Sure you never get one of the original weapons dropping, do you?
Also, do you see how most of the Valve weapons give +50% health to the wearer?

Man, I really hope they aren't playing on public servers with those weapons!

Anyway, are these levelled weapons even in play at the moment?
If I load up my lvl 90 Natasha, as opposed to my lvl 12, will it make any difference whatsoever?

[DHARMA AGENT]

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[LazyEagle]

Hmmm, well I don't want to be a doomsayer or anything, but super weapons like that will totally ruin the game.

+50% health?

May aswell allow hacks and shit!

[DHARMA AGENT]

Well I was thinking the same, but..what if...they are skill based. Everyone is complaining that the drop system takes a lot of the skill out of the game. But what if these weapons level up based on skill? I for one, would have shit for weapons, but maybe it would make some people happy. I don't think valve would do something that would make half of the tf2 community stop playing, and I know most would if weapons were dropped with health buffs 2 n00bs.

[LazyEagle]

Well I don't see how it's fair either way.

Like most of us don't play particularly seriously, but imagine if all the properly good players got a load of these skill reward weapons?
Imagine trying to kill Advent or Medic as heavies if they automatically had +50 health, +15% damage for every shot, 150% clip size, -15% fire damage taken and +15% speed boost? (which btw are just some of the stats of the Valve minigun)

It would make a very difficult task, nearly impossible!

At first, I thought that these levelled weapons would be an annoyance, but if they are dropping massive game changing weapons like this, they are going to suck the fun out of the game for the casual players, or at least, that would be my opinion.

The beauty about TF2, is that all players are equal, except for their actual skill level.
That's why it has been so popular for so long. throwing these super weapons into the mix will just completely unbalance the game.

Hmmmm, with this, and the whole L4D2 debacle, it seems to me like Valve are making some seriously dodgy decisions recently.

Once again though, this is just my opinion, amnd if someone can make an argument to the contrary, I really would love to hear it, because in the immortal words of Han Solo, I've got a bad feeling about this.

[MountieXXL]

Real leveling stinks, either the pros are going to bitch because noobs get better weapons (handicap system), or noobs don't want to play because the pros are even more pro with super weapons.

They were probably just dicking around and made some super-guns for shits and giggles or something, doesn't mean they actually want to implement them into the real game.

[LazyEagle]

Except that watching that video Dharma posted shows that some random guy got one, who had no idea what the Valve Weapons were!

[BBloke]

Hehehe... yeah weapon and skill levelling sucks. I'd opt for giving the noobs the better weapons to combat the pros but the whining would be insufferable... oh what joy!!

[Chairman_Meow]

Adding levels and attributes to weapons is utter bullshit.
I'm guessing that they're going to give attributes to hats too seeing as theirs have levels too, unlike ours...
Lol, just ban the fuck out of valve employees if they ever join the server, the cheating bastards!

Valve will destroy this game if they're not bloody careful...