Awesome first article! I had no idea, and now I'm extremely excited. I also noticed Steam is 5 mins away from finishing a 500+mb update ..
Among other things listed:
- Added a new item type that can accept user-applied decals. Take any image off your hard drive, put it on a stick, and then smash people with it! (See the Decal Tool in the store!)
Meaning I am going to bonk you guys to death with a real HammerC*ck. I can't wait.
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And now nobody can check it out because Valve pushed another patch.
Things currently broken due to Valve:
- Mann Store is offline.
- Item Servers are frequently "unavailable."
- Frequent "No Steam Login" errors dropping most players on servers
- Load Outs are not saving properly
- All load outs are lost if the game crashes; resets everything to stock
- Fixed a problem with the Foster's Facade not correctly hiding the pyro's head.
- Fixed a problem where loadouts would get reset under certain conditions if the item server couldn't be reached.
- Fixed a common client crash when displaying items.
- Items purchased from the store are no longer craftable.
Emphasis mine. No idea what that last one means yet. Somebody failed at brevity perhaps.
The drama around that second update is entertaining. Mostly this:
Items purchased from the store are no longer craftable.
What happened was Valve when they released the initial update made everything in the Mannco Store both craftable and will eventually become tradeable. This coupled with multiple hats being on sale for 74 cents the cheapest way ever to craft a random hat. Buy two cheap hats for $1.48, craft them together for the possibility of getting a hat worth up to $25 (Low numbered desirable new hats get this high, srsly). Before this the cheapest route was about $1.70 and even that is a stretch in today's market (Purchased 2 refined metals for 85 cents each then trade each refined for a craftable hat).
So people purchased these hats in droves. Enough that 3 of the top 4 top selling items in the Mannco Store were these hats. Then Valved dropped the second update... Items purchased from the store are no longer craftable. Now everyone who purchased these hats (and had not crafted them yet) are "stuck" with these hats.
The Steam Powered User Forum is in an uproar with allegations of Bait and Switch and demands that Valve do something about this.
I didn't purchase anything, not a fuck was given this day.
That is loltastic news for a Friday. The pretend video game hat trading industry is in uproar.
It sounds like an Onion news title, but it's the real deal.
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Among other things listed:
- Added a new item type that can accept user-applied decals. Take any image off your hard drive, put it on a stick, and then smash people with it! (See the Decal Tool in the store!)
Meaning I am going to bonk you guys to death with a real HammerC*ck. I can't wait.
Things currently broken due to Valve:
- Mann Store is offline.
- Item Servers are frequently "unavailable."
- Frequent "No Steam Login" errors dropping most players on servers
- Load Outs are not saving properly
- All load outs are lost if the game crashes; resets everything to stock
Update for Oct 13 19:09
Emphasis mine. No idea what that last one means yet. Somebody failed at brevity perhaps.
What happened was Valve when they released the initial update made everything in the Mannco Store both craftable and will eventually become tradeable. This coupled with multiple hats being on sale for 74 cents the cheapest way ever to craft a random hat. Buy two cheap hats for $1.48, craft them together for the possibility of getting a hat worth up to $25 (Low numbered desirable new hats get this high, srsly). Before this the cheapest route was about $1.70 and even that is a stretch in today's market (Purchased 2 refined metals for 85 cents each then trade each refined for a craftable hat).
So people purchased these hats in droves. Enough that 3 of the top 4 top selling items in the Mannco Store were these hats. Then Valved dropped the second update... Items purchased from the store are no longer craftable. Now everyone who purchased these hats (and had not crafted them yet) are "stuck" with these hats.
The Steam Powered User Forum is in an uproar with allegations of Bait and Switch and demands that Valve do something about this.
I didn't purchase anything, not a fuck was given this day.
It sounds like an Onion news title, but it's the real deal.
Amen.