Message in #games · Neon Genesis Phijkchu

Polar_ Jan 30, 2026 4:56 PM games

Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak

The problem is no one actually fucking wants orange box tf2, but also if you are adding non orange box stuff anyways, every single group thinks "oh what if we add this it is basically just vanilla+"

When people say "vanilla" I imagine what they mean is up until like the Dues Ex update or w/e

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 30, 2026 4:56 PM games

(granted I still think it will be fun because non-autistic TF2 doesn't exist anymore full-stop)

Phijkchu_Pikachu Jan 30, 2026 4:56 PM games

I'd play tf2 that was just tf2 up to about when MvM came out

Phijkchu_Pikachu Jan 30, 2026 4:56 PM games

I think that'd be cool to relive

Phijkchu_Pikachu Jan 30, 2026 4:57 PM games

I think the game was in a decent state then

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 30, 2026 4:57 PM games

I also sorta just agree, people don't really want tf2 anymore

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 30, 2026 4:57 PM games

even if you rewound time to the perfect™ patch

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 30, 2026 4:57 PM games

it's an almost 20-year-old game

Phijkchu_Pikachu Jan 30, 2026 4:58 PM games

I think people just want a goofy shooter, but don't like the direction tf2 took the last 5 years

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 30, 2026 4:58 PM games

10*

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 30, 2026 4:58 PM games

but I agree

Polar_ Jan 30, 2026 4:58 PM games

I think people want a shooter that isnt tied to an esport at a base level of conception

Phijkchu_Pikachu Jan 30, 2026 4:59 PM games

tf2 is at its best when you are just playing some random server, with 23 other strangers, and its just chaos of the intermingling of people of various skill levels doing shit

Polar_ Jan 30, 2026 4:59 PM games

TF2 is boring though, I say this as someone who will play occasionally and am pushing 3k hours in it

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 30, 2026 4:59 PM games

server-based FPS, without an XP grind or FOMO that's not being microbalanced everymonth to chase some comp scene meta

Phijkchu_Pikachu Jan 30, 2026 5:00 PM games

I have about 1.3k hours in it spread across like 2011-2014ish

Phijkchu_Pikachu Jan 30, 2026 5:00 PM games

maybe 2010

Phijkchu_Pikachu Jan 30, 2026 5:00 PM games

I forget when I started playing tf2

Polar_ Jan 30, 2026 5:00 PM games

Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131

server-based FPS, without an XP grind or FOMO that's not being microbalanced everymonth to chase some comp scene meta

Strange Items were and are the only real sense of progression you can get in the game and I think thats fine to a point

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 30, 2026 5:00 PM games

the hat economy

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 30, 2026 5:00 PM games

unirronically worked

polu Jan 30, 2026 5:01 PM games

People will make a competitive scene out of anything with FPSes

Polar_ Jan 30, 2026 5:01 PM games

It did, recently an article about Fortnite state that TF2s promotional hats from games inspired them to do crossovers

polu Jan 30, 2026 5:01 PM games

There will always be meta autist even in casual shooters

Phijkchu_Pikachu Jan 30, 2026 5:01 PM games

competative tf2 was its own thing though, not official, just off to the side

Phijkchu_Pikachu Jan 30, 2026 5:01 PM games

which is why it worked

Polar_ Jan 30, 2026 5:01 PM games

Replying to polu #polutropos

People will make a competitive scene out of anything with FPSes

Which is why I think companies should never pander to comp fags

Polar_ Jan 30, 2026 5:01 PM games

MLG halo just made their own rules set and changes within the given game and everyone was happy. Players had full control over their comp ecosystem and didnt need to GA things

Polar_ Jan 30, 2026 5:02 PM games

Having a "rank" or visualized MMR is fine tho

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 30, 2026 5:02 PM games

eh, I like games having a ranked mode sure, but it needs to be fucking separate and be a clear afterthought

Phijkchu_Pikachu Jan 30, 2026 5:03 PM games

Valve should have just given better server customization support where servers could rebalance items as they want, that would have satisfied the comp people

Phijkchu_Pikachu Jan 30, 2026 5:03 PM games

so they could do their own balance of the game

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 30, 2026 5:03 PM games

retards NEED games to have a 'queue' button though

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 30, 2026 5:03 PM games

because they don't want to have to think about what game they're playing

Polar_ Jan 30, 2026 5:03 PM games

Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131

retards NEED games to have a 'queue' button though

This, and their server search function is absolute DOG SHIT

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 30, 2026 5:03 PM games

one mode

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 30, 2026 5:03 PM games

one map

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 30, 2026 5:03 PM games

one queue

Polar_ Jan 30, 2026 5:03 PM games

Which is also antithetical to TF2s "hangout" mentality imo

Polar_ Jan 30, 2026 5:04 PM games

You no longer go to a certain server and build rep/friends with others because youre in a dead queue system

Polar_ Jan 30, 2026 5:04 PM games

Sad!

Polar_ Jan 30, 2026 5:05 PM games

Arc Raiders is the close to emulating the TF2 experience of beating a "friendly" to death for daring to be a non combatant

Polar_ Jan 30, 2026 5:06 PM games

Phijkchu.TF server with 0 stock weapons and only nu-TF2 slop items + custom ones

Polar_ Jan 30, 2026 5:39 PM games

https://fixupx.com/i/status/2017333024598221040

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Polar_ Jan 30, 2026 5:39 PM games

Lol

Rusp Jan 30, 2026 5:40 PM games

I thought I might give the game a try and changed my bios settings but its still telling me i dont have tpm 2.0 or secure boot on

Rusp Jan 30, 2026 5:41 PM games

they lost my 45 minutes of playtime

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 30, 2026 5:45 PM games

it's so unnecessary too

Rusp Jan 30, 2026 5:50 PM games

Why are they doing it?

Rusp Jan 30, 2026 5:50 PM games

Did I also read you need to MANUALLY uninstall its anti-cheat?

Rusp Jan 30, 2026 5:50 PM games

or am i tweaking

taxes Jan 30, 2026 5:50 PM games

most anti cheats r like that now

Rusp Jan 30, 2026 5:51 PM games

Really?

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 30, 2026 5:51 PM games

sort of

Rusp Jan 30, 2026 5:51 PM games

That's the first time ive heard of it

taxes Jan 30, 2026 5:51 PM games

Yes rusp.

taxes Jan 30, 2026 5:51 PM games

just incase so that you if you reinstall the game you wont have to restart your pc

taxes Jan 30, 2026 5:51 PM games

:D

taxes Jan 30, 2026 5:51 PM games

how kind of them!

taxes Jan 30, 2026 5:51 PM games

theyre thinking of you!

taxes Jan 30, 2026 5:51 PM games

thats all it is silly

Rusp Jan 30, 2026 5:51 PM games

yeah ist not them hoping you leave it in your computer

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 30, 2026 5:52 PM games

there's one big 3rd party anti-cheat that games like this use, completely to their own peril

Rusp Jan 30, 2026 5:52 PM games

unironically I will never play a game that requires me to do this

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 30, 2026 5:52 PM games

games like Battlefield and Valorant have their own 1st party one that works similarly, but almost no other devs do this shit

Rusp Jan 30, 2026 5:52 PM games

the bios was already too big of an ask, but i did it anyways incase i felt like upgrading to windows 11

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 30, 2026 5:53 PM games

Riot's is the most intrusive and sus and needs to be manually rooted out if you want to not be part of the Chinese botnet (unirronically)

Rusp Jan 30, 2026 5:53 PM games

Awesome

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 30, 2026 5:54 PM games

Replying to Rusp #rusp.

the bios was already too big of an ask, but i did it anyways incase i felt like upgrading to windows 11

Also Rusp, if you do upgrade to Win11, to a clean install don't do the Win10-->Win11 upgrade

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 30, 2026 5:54 PM games

and at this point, you can probably just wait for Win12 later this year

Rusp Jan 30, 2026 5:54 PM games

WIN12???

Rusp Jan 30, 2026 5:54 PM games

already

Rusp Jan 30, 2026 5:54 PM games

am i tweaking or didnt they just make 11

taxes Jan 30, 2026 5:54 PM games

yes

taxes Jan 30, 2026 5:54 PM games

because no ones on 11

Rusp Jan 30, 2026 5:54 PM games

oh lol

Rusp Jan 30, 2026 5:54 PM games

well no ones going to 12 either

taxes Jan 30, 2026 5:54 PM games

when no ones on an OS they push out the next one quicker

taxes Jan 30, 2026 5:54 PM games

seen win8

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 30, 2026 5:55 PM games

idk if they've formally said if this Fall update will be the one, but it's going to be

Phijkchu_Pikachu Jan 30, 2026 5:55 PM games

Hopefully they follow the trend of the one they skip to being less dogshit

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