Team Fortress 2 - Hat Fortress 2: America's #1 War-themed Hat Simulator

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Ocumux said:
I think the majority of them are motivated to continue doing it because it pisses off the largely aspergic base. There is a large subset of people who care a lot (or too much) about the game and who often publicly complain about it/contribute to community drama, and from that I can only guess that the bots target those sorts of people so that the bot controllers satisfy some anti-socialness or amusement by stirring up the people on reddit and twitter.
Additionally, I also think there are people who might do it also for the technical challenge, as in they think it would be interesting to deploy their own networks of uniquely configured bots and see how they perform or how far they can get to mitigate bans/ban waves.

I know there are some nets which in the past promoted paid bot "protection" in chat as one example where some tried to get money out of it. Aside from that I haven't seen much else from the few times I have been joining pubs these past years, but there might be others which could promote cheats, products, etc. to get money. Aside from those, the only payoff I can see from the bots that just infest, aimbot, spam, and don't do much else probably just fall into the motivations of the above.
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Unyielding Stupidity said:
The only payoff is that it's an extremely easy, zero-risk way to grief people on a massive scale. Bots are cheap as shit to run due to requiring very little processing power to work if you run the game in compatibility mode on Linux, extremely easy to set up if you have even average computer knowledge since you can easily get your hands on the programs required, and Valve rarely actually VAC bans the accounts - and if they do, you can just create a new one. It's so simple and easy that literally any script-kiddie could host a few bots if they wanted.

Though, it's probable that one of the reasons for why they choose to host these bots is because a large amount of them are lolcows themselves. We already know that one of the old bot hosters (the one who ran the "Twilight Sparkle" bots that you used to see around a year or two ago) unsurprisingly turned out to be a brony who considered himself to be married to a cartoon horse.
There's also been occasional discord leaks that have shown some bot hosters showing their autism. I can't remember what exactly caused them to sperg the fuck out - only that it was something to do with someone causing one of the programs they use to host bots to stop working.
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Ah, ok that makes a lot of sense. I hadn't thought of it in the way of industrial-scale griefing. I can appreciate a solid piece of clever or mischievous griefing as much as anyone, but it lacks the immediacy and personal connection of conventional griefing.
 
Hey look, more exploits for Casual. You can apparently modify your HUD to toggle sv_cheats on while connected to a public server. This allows you to use client-side cheats, i.e. third person view and actual wallhacks, but not noclip or any other server-side shit. Just another reason to play on community servers, since they already have a plugin to monitor this behavior.

 
millais said:
What do the bot operators get out of running the bots? Are they just determined to kill the game? Is there some sort of tangible benefit or payoff to running all those bots and ruining the game?
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They get off to being faggots. What I don't get is why they pay money for it when they do it for free. Look at any comments about LMAObox use, they boast about being obnoxious.
 
Bardin Goreksson said:
Open Fortress and TF2 Classic now have their downloads enabled once again due to huge "shocker" Valve not saying shit or working with them for 8 months
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I've been playing TF2Classic for a while, now. So it's good to see it be a lot more populated
Trying to install Open Fortress right now, and it's not going well for me. I have it in my Steam library, and whenever I try to play it, it plays the intro, then crashes. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong
 
I remember playing some dragged out 2fort action a few years back and someone in chat was discussing having sex with their dogs (:_(

There's still good times though. I had this one beautiful game where everyone was blasting whatever stupid sound effects they could make with their mouths or by banging things.
Even had a singalong where we all whistled the Ed Edd n' Eddy theme tune.
 
Anybody played TF2 Classic yet? I honestly found it to be pretty fun although the mostly tranny and faggot playerbase is the worst part of it + people only playing on the faggy official servers, other than that it takes me back to the days before all the hat and random weapon bullshit the game has become now.

Also #SaveTF2 is the gayest shit known to man and it will not work outside of minor bug fixes + the summer cases (if it ever releases).
 
Doc Dante said:
Anybody played TF2 Classic yet? I honestly found it to be pretty fun although the mostly tranny and faggot playerbase is the worst part of it + people only playing on the faggy official servers, other than that it takes me back to the days before all the hat and random weapon bullshit the game has become now.

Also #SaveTF2 is the gayest shit known to man and it will not work outside of minor bug fixes + the summer cases (if it ever releases).
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They had something good going with classic, but they started making balance changes and added weird new weapons. They just couldn't resist, all it should have been was literally just classic TF2 with the initial achievement items and that is all
 
Doc Dante said:
Anybody played TF2 Classic yet? I honestly found it to be pretty fun although the mostly tranny and faggot playerbase is the worst part of it + people only playing on the faggy official servers, other than that it takes me back to the days before all the hat and random weapon bullshit the game has become now.

Also #SaveTF2 is the gayest shit known to man and it will not work outside of minor bug fixes + the summer cases (if it ever releases).
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I played TF2 Classic since it's conception, around 2014, I think? Anyway, I agree it's pretty fun in general, but nowadays the mod suffers the same syndrome of other obscure multiplayer mods: the community is niche and full of pros that keeps away new users.

I can't manage to play a round without having my ass whooped, and I play TF2 since 2008. These days I just launch TF2C to play with bots since the new version actually polished up the AI pretty well and it's very fun even without other human players.

Get good? Eh, I'm afraid I have no longer time for that.
 
Doc Dante said:
Anybody played TF2 Classic yet? I honestly found it to be pretty fun although the mostly tranny and faggot playerbase is the worst part of it + people only playing on the faggy official servers, other than that it takes me back to the days before all the hat and random weapon bullshit the game has become now.

Also #SaveTF2 is the gayest shit known to man and it will not work outside of minor bug fixes + the summer cases (if it ever releases).
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Knockout/Facepunch trannies make me very wary of it and their servers seem to be most popular. I don't get their obsession with 7 million unbalanced weapons either, the default roster is just fine. If you join an empty server running vanilla TF2C, it usually fills up in about 30 minutes or so during peak hours.

NCR Trooper said:
I played TF2 Classic since it's conception, around 2014, I think? Anyway, I agree it's pretty fun in general, but nowadays the mod suffers the same syndrome of other obscure multiplayer mods: the community is niche and full of pros that keeps away new users.

I can't manage to play a round without having my ass whooped, and I play TF2 since 2008. These days I just launch TF2C to play with bots since the new version actually polished up the AI pretty well and it's very fun even without other human players.

Get good? Eh, I'm afraid I have no longer time for that.
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Free for all modes are hectic enough where even a player with deteriorating skills will have fun, sadly they're less popular. This seems to be a good niche for Open Fortress, gives me good vibes of playing Quake or Gungame in CS (which is one of the only good ways to play that spectator simulator).
 
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