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Steam Profiles: wAR_maCHINe

June 12th, 2008

FNF regular wAR_maCHINe (formerly known as human_ribcage) has a cool custom avatar for his Steam Profile. In anticipation of the “Meet the Sniper” video, check out this take on the Aussie sharpshooter:

Accompanied by the text: “I’ve always been sort of a pacifist. My father told me to never hit a man in anger [...]

From Valve’s MattBoone, posting in the DoD:S section on steampowered:
EDIT: New update coming out not today, but tomorrow.
The friendlyfire tag fix is partially done - won’t go into effect until we update the engine, which will be sometime before the beta goes live.
dod
- achievements are now all stored locally as well for offline achievement dialog
- [...]

DoD:S Beta Update

June 5th, 2008

OK, this is old. But I’ve been watching a couple movies I got (Steve McQueen’s “Bullitt“, for one).
Posting here the few I find interesting. The full list can be found at steampowered.com:
Day of Defeat: Source Beta

New team identifier icons as rewards for completing achievements - 1 per class achievement, and 1 for completing all achievements
Added [...]

First saw this on Halflife2.net, it’s from a news item on computerandvideogames.com:
The Pyro class is next in line to receive an Achievement and unlockables upgrade in Team Fortress 2, Valve has confirmed….Speaking to PC Gamer, Valve also revealed that the ‘Meet the Sniper’ video is next in line on its comedy trailer release list.[Source]

From MattBoone of VALVe:
Hey guys and gals, here are some of the things in the works for the next update to the beta.
Because of the holiday we didn’t get a chance to release a fix today, but early tomorrow we should be releasing a crash fix to the servers.
After that I have a list of [...]

DoD:S:BETA Achievements

May 26th, 2008

Take note, if anyone’s overly excited about the new Achievements in the DoD:S BETA:
Due to the possibility of bugs in achievements, or the achievements themselves changing, we will most likely be resetting people’s achievements at the end of the beta. - MattBoone, VALVe [source]
So don’t get too attached. Funny to see, however, how achievements [...]

VALVe’s MattBoone posted this in a thread labled “Beta Test Info” on the DoD Source Steam forums:
Welcome to the Day of Defeat: Source Beta forum. For the upcoming update, we’ll be running a short beta test period, open to anyone that owns Day of Defeat: Source.
Changes in this update:
- added Dod_Palermo, updated map based on [...]

Team Fortress 2:

Removed TF2 achievement console commands

So, apparently some idiots discovered you could get the Achievements through a console command, and proceeded to do so. The Achievements are humorous, yes, but from the beginning have been pretty pointless. Now, the point is once you get these Medic achievements you get the new loadout of weapons. [...]

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