Last Minute Christmas Post!

Like the title might suggest, I've been kinda neglecting GaHG lately. I've had some things going on, along with break-induced laze.


But without further adieu, here's some gaming related Christmas sights and sounds (like the really well done Mario Christmas Medley below):













And last but not least, it turns out our good friend The Heavy was Santa all along:

Heavy Christmas Everyone!

It appears that the Heavy is having himself a good Christmas:

GentleMentleMen

Yeah, I know it's technically not news, but this is pretty darn catchy:

Shh...

Woah!

Real or Fake - you decide.

No More Tf2

What I mean isn't that tf2 is shutting down. What I mean is someone on fpsbananna.com made a tf2 scout skin of No More Hero's Travis touchdown.

I've Finally Done It!

Yep, after a little over two weeks I finally finish the TF2 dub I said I would. Well, off to work on another one, and I'll try to keep it on schedule

Yep, I was Paronoid

The TF2 Classless Update has come out today and... no tricks from Valve, just a modified version of cp_Sawmill. Now Sawmill has a Capture The Flag version, and according to Valve, the intelligence is "made entirely out of microfilm. Or possibly nylon."

Along with the new maps are several changes that are no doubt going to be controversial with fans. One such change is that Ubercharged players cannot be stunned by The Scout's Sandman anymore. Along with that, the Sandman's negative attribute has been changed from "no double jump" to less health.

Maybe this is just to lull us all into a false sense of security for the next update.

[TeamFortress.com]

TF2 Classless Update: Day 2

The next part of Valve's trickery announces a new gameplay mode for TF2; King of the Hill (KotH). KotH games consist of one point that begins locked for a minute or two. After a while, the point unlocks. When one of the teams is capping the point, a timer begins starting at 3 minutes. If the other team manages to move all their opponents from the point and begin capping it themselves, another timer starts at 3 minutes and the team that was previously on the point's time freezes at the time they had left.

The update also had one new KotH map, Koth Viaduct, and two previous maps converted into KotH, Nucleus and Sawmill.


While I'm not too happy with no new class update (though that's not guarunteed), KotH looks fun, and with more hats I'll have a better chance of getting one

Well, I guess I was wrong

Remember how on the poll, one of the options was "Valve will do something crazy"? Those of you that voted for that are right... for now.

I'm still having a hard time trusting Valve ever since the Spy vs Sniper update. I'm always ready for them to pull a fast one on us all.

According to the TF2 Blog, the next update isn't going to be for any of the classes at all, in fact, they've even dubbed it the "Classless Update". The only thing that's really being done is that everyone's getting two new hats and the release of a popular community map, much like what was done with pl_hoodoo.

A patch does seem a bit much for only hats and a map... Or I could just be paranoid.

Yeah, We're Doing These Too....

It appears that one of the members of the Gentlemen and Hand Grenades team (Vic) has made one of those TF2 Dubs.

The TF2 dub is of the Japanese film, Battle Royal, where a bunch of high school students are put on an island and forced to fight until only one remains. So think of it as like a cross between Manhunt and Lord of the Flies.

I might make one too, come to think of it.

Enjoy.

HEY YOU MAGGOTS

SOME PERSON WHO IS MORE OF A MAN THAN YOU WILL EVER BE HAS RECENTLY RELEASED A TF2 THEME, THE SWAMP SET. NOW GO AND MAKE ME PROUD, BOYS.

• "No Swimming" Sign In case you need to warn people to stay out of the water.
• Reeds and Cattails Swamp shrubbery.
• Mushrooms We don't recommend eating them.
• Crocodile Cutout Good for scaring off people who can't tell it is wooden.
• Lightpost We don't recommend eating this either.
• Intelligence Sign For alerting your enemies as to where you're keeping it.
• Buoy For keeping boaters in line.
• Buttress Tree It's a big tree. Really big.
• Jetty It's like a dock, but smaller.
• Buttress Stump It used to be a big tree. Really big.
• Oar Being in a swamp without a paddle is just as bad a situation.
• Cracky Crate Once proudly used for shipping Cracky Pop, this crate now rots away slowly.
• Rowboat Because some people like floating on top of murky, alligator infested water.
• Swamp Tree Some scraggly foliage.
• Chainsaw More rubble, less trouble!
• Mounted Deer Bust All you friends will know how big that stag was.
• Railings If you're a nice person and want to keep people from falling into the water.

Materials

• Swamp Rockwall A rockwall for swamps.
• Swamp Mud A swamp wouldn't be a swamp without it.
• Swamp Grass For less muddy places where grass would grow.
• Swamp Mud #2 If you didn't have enough already.
• Dirt to Grass Blend For that transition from dirt to grass.
• Swamp Mud Blend For going from one mud to another.
• Dirt to Grass Blend #2 For that other transition from dirt to grass.
• Swampy Concrete It's not very pretty.
• Swamp Water Definately not for drinking. Or swimming. Or anything, really.
• Vine No swinging.

Overlays

• Algae All ponds need critters.
• Wade Canoes Sign In case you happen to sell canoes and be named Wade.
• Water Level Marker For determining the height of the water.
• "No Swimming" Sign Didn't we cover this already?
• Bayou Shipping Sign For shipping on a bayou.
• Hazardous Environments Sign To warn people that the environment is hazardous. Of course it is.
• "Do not Feed the Gator" Sign Because some people think feeding the gator is a good idea.
• Freeman Airboat Tours Sign We hear it's dangerous.
• "Watch Your Step" Sign Who knew there would be slippery stuff in a swamp?
• TF2Maps Sign Uh, how'd this get here?
• "Out of Order" Sign When things aren't in order, you can tell everyone.
• "Area Prone to Leaks" Sign For maps which have leaks.
• Spawn-N-Go Sign Did you know that fish "spawn"? Neat, huh?

Skyboxes

• Starry Night Skybox A starry sky for a swampy night.
• Cloudy Night Skybox A cloudy sky for a swampy night.
• Hazy Daytime Skybox A hazy sky for a not-so-clear day.
• Hurricane Daytime Skybox A cloudy sky for a stormy day.

Detail Sprites

• Swamp Detail Sprites To give swampy grass some dimension.

Particles

• Bug Swarm They bite.
• Buoy Flash Alert!
• Water Drip If you want your map to have a leak.
• Goo Bubble It's a sticky situation.
• Swampy Smoke To add to the fresh aroma of the swamp.
• Lightning If a storm is rolling in.

Scripts

• Swamp Soundscape To add ambience to this horrid environment.

Source Files

• Swamp Theme Zoo A VMF library of everything in this pack.
• Website Vignette The VMF and BSP for the swamp vignette at the top of this page.