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Are you a fan of PC games? Looking to hone your skills for competitive gaming? Or are you just looking for a few good friends and great times?Quench your thirst for a community that gives you all you need and more. We built our community for everyday players to relax, engage, and most importantly, have fun. Please hop on down to critcola.com for more info of our community.For our steam group you can go to https://steamcommunity.com/groups/critcola to join.And lastly our mumble address is @ critcola.comWe hope to see you there. Our Crit Cola Banner #WeTheThirsty

Welcome, and Enjoy your StayClick "Join Group " and invite ALL your friends About us:We are a Steam group that focuses on gameplay on our server to give you the best experience from Team Fortress 2. Furthermore we would like to give back to the community by doing raffle and giveaway to support our members. If you would like to support us you can invite all your friends and be a part of group activities. Thanks and goodbye now Rules: ✘ Don't be rude or mean to anyone. ✘Respect everyone ✘Don't spam discussions or owner ✘Don't advertise without permission ✘Don't beg for anything ✘Have fun and enjoy Not taking staff at the moment Current Partners: If you want to be a partner contact me Join them at this link http://steamcommunity.com/groups/allclassarmy From, TSN

In the latest of TF2's seemingly eternal supply of updates, the mercs are faced with their most outlandish threat yet. The update brings four new community created maps, some of them 'Invaded' versions of existing maps and others entirely new. The Watergate map introduces a new 'player destruction' mode, in which both teams have to collect beer from dead players and deliver it to a UFO in the middle of the map.It's set up in much the same way as the Gun Mettle Update, with an 'Invasion Community Update Pass' available from the store which gives you a coin that tracks kills on invaded maps for the month that the event lasts. You don't need to buy it to access the maps, and all the money raised goes to the update's community creators.Buying the pass also makes you eligible for random drops of 'Space Cases' that can contain anyone of a bunch of the new cosmetics that have also been added. When Valve have done similar things with CS:GO, I've often been able to make back the money by selling my first couple of crate drops—so long as it's in the first day or two before the price of them comes crashing down on the community market. Source http://www.pcgamer.com/

Greetings from all of us at #Samsa.Games! #Samsa.Games is now one year up and running steam gaming community with a variety of server and gamemodes mostly in CS:S. At the moment we have bhop, surf and zombie riot servers in CS:S, one CS:CZ server, one KF server and in TF2 we have one custom MvM server with 10 player slots. Server is located on Germany, so ping is playable and nice to most of EU countries! All servers have fastdl. We also maintain stats through HLSTATSX:CE to our servers (exept KF server). You can find your stats and rank through our forums which we'll introduce to you later. We have a group of admins that are actively playing in our servers. They are mature and are there to keep order if needed. We don't approve using hacks or scripts such as aimbot, wallhack or bhopscripts etc. At #Samsa.Games you don't have to fear ANY KIND of discrimination or racism since we welcome people to our servers without looking to your race or even sexual preference. As we mentioned earlier we have a steam group and also just opened forums. There you can find your stats, bans, serverlist and webchat to connect our IRC-channel, contact us if you have any questions or problems with our servers.You can even donate to our servers if you are feeling generous! When enterin our forum for first time be sure to read the rules. There are not many so we are sure you can act by them. We do listen to our players and their requests appending to servers. Thank you for reading this and if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask us at our forums. Hopefully you'll pay us a visit and have an awesome day. Best regards! #Samsa.Games administrative personnel http://sgames.samsah-hq.net/ http://steamcommunit...oups/samsagames

Visit prestige-gaming.org to apply! Becoming admin on our servers is completely free, and I am posting this to get more members. We are recruiting! Here is how: 1) Visit prestige-gaming.org 2) Make an account 3) Fill out an application in the apply section and submit it. Make sure you say that Sludgesloan recommended you under the "Who recommended you to join/apply" section to get the full benefits. It helps me out, and in turn will help you out because an admin recommended you. I am posting this because I am going on a recruitment drive and we could always use more mature members in our gaming community. You must be 13+ years old to apply. As long as you are of age and have no mischievous history (e.g. a VAC ban or trade ban, etc.), you will be approved. Once you are approved and get promoted, you will be an admin on all of our many servers in TF2, Garry's Mod, Counterstrike (Global Offensive), and Minecraft. In total, we have 17 servers in all of these game modes combined. Be sure to tell all of your friends. The more, the merrier. Happy Gaming!

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include: Fixed a dedicated server crash related to players becoming ghosts in hellFixed a dedicated server crash related to spellbooks and switching weaponsUpdated materials for the following items: Caffeine Cooler, Tartan Spartan, Carrion Companion, Sackcloth Spook, and the Pin PalsUpdated the Crusader's CrossbowFixed an exploit related to switching weaponsReduced damage from 75 to 50Lower reload time from 3 seconds to 1.5 seconds View the full article

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include: Added new main menu character images for Scream Fortress 2013Fixed a server crash related to The High Five tauntFixed neutral pumpkin bombs exploding with blue particlesFixed health on hit particle effect precache errorFixed client nTextureFrame < 0 warning spew in dev consoleUpdated the round restart event to remove spells after playing in hellUpdated plr_hightower_event to improve server stabilityUpdated The Chicken Kiev so it can't be equipped with the Cold War Luchador or the Large Luchador Re-enabled the crafting recipes for zombie costumesNote missed from yesterday's update:Updated the Vaccinator to use the reload key to cycle through resist types View the full article

http://media.steampowered.com/steam/news/11726/blog_imageh2013 Ahoy, buoys and gulls, it’s almost Docktober 31st, and that means it’s time for the Fifth Annual Team Fortress Tort-urous Halloween Special, which this year is based entirely around the terrifyingly complex legal questions that haunt maritime law. AWOOOOOOOO! [sound of receiving a jury summons] And that horrifying description of an obviously terrible idea for a Halloween update — an idea so dreadful that we gave up on it almost fourteen hours ago — was just the FIRST of this year’s many spine-chilling, spine-tingling, all-around spinal cord-injuring shocks. We have one word of advice to those of you who survived our previous four Halloween Specials: Stop lying. These updates will kill you — GUARANTEED! [sound of our lawyers reading that sentence] This year's Scream Fortress map is Helltower, a Payload Race variation, with at least one major difference: You're all powerful magicians. Everybody gets a spellbook gifted to them automatically, which you can equip in your Action Slot in order to pick up and cast spells. The team that wins the race will be granted a buff for the final climactic battle, where you will fight for the ultimate Halloween reward: Your own lives. And a reward. So, fear fans, it’s time to put aside your precious laws of the sea, because this year anything can happen. Ghosts? Yes! Forbidden magic? Yes! Skeletons? Oh, yes. A Hellmouth? Obviously. A corpse? Yours. Really? Check your pulse. The murderer? You. Anyway, we’d love to sit here and shock you to death all day, but the update’s live. View the full article

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include: Scream Fortress 2013 has arrived Help settle the score in one of the longest running feuds in Mann historyComic and additional information available on the website (http://www.teamfortress.com/bazbobarrabus)Scream Fortress 2013 runs until Nov 11, 2013Added New Halloween Map HelltowerEquip a spell book and cast spells against your enemiesSpells can be found by pushing the cart, killing enemies and during the Witching hourThe Clocktower contains powerful magic during the Witching hourWin the race to start mega healed in the final battle for your prizeGranting Spellbook Magazine to all players who launch TF2 during Scream FortressAdded over 100 Halloween tagged items from the TF2 Steam workshopAdded Spooky Crate and Spooky Key to drop list and Mann co Store respectivelyAdded class Transmogrifier's to covert Scream Fortress 2013 items of one type to anotherAdded item Enchantment: EternaweenEnabled Halloween event maps in quick playEnabled Halloween gifts on Halloween event mapsEnabled Halloween Spell PotionsEnabled Mann Vs Machine event map Wave 666 in bootcampEnabled Halloween themed Unusual Effects to be found from Mann Co Supply CratesHaunted Quality Items can now be listed on the Steam Market placeMap : Ghost FortLowered Merasmus's base healthWeapon ChangesMedic's Crusader Crossbow now silently reloads when unholstered, similar to Pyro flaregunFixed the charge rate for the Bazaar Bargain when the player has 0 headsIn PvP Medics can now see the clip status of a patient’s active weaponItem FixesUpdated The Air Raider so it can be painted correctlyUpdated The Bone Dome so it doesn't hide Pyro backpackStrange Part: Kills While Ubercharged can no longer be applied to Strange Equalizers and Escape PlansFixed the backpack panel using the wrong "drop_sound" when items are moved aroundVirtual Reality changesImproved readability of the UI in VRRemoved the IPD calibration tool. TF2 will now obey the Oculus configuration file. Use the Oculus calibration tool in your SDK or install and run "OpenVR" under Tools in Steam to calibrate your IPD.Added dropdown to enable VR mode in the Video options. Removed the -vr command line option.Added the ability to switch in and out of VR mode without quitting the gameBy default VR mode will run full screen. To switch back to a borderless window set the vr_force_windowed convar.Added support for VR mode on LinuxMisc Bug FixesFixed an exploit that allowed unlimited uses of noisemaker itemsFixed not being able to earn the Brotherhood of Steel achievement in MvM (play with 5 friends)Fixed the camera target not always being visible when using the replay editorRemoved some servers that forged player counts from quickplay and the server browser View the full article

Thanks to our talented community translators at http://tf2.cz/, there's now a Czech version of 'Grave Matters' available for you to read here. View the full article

http://media.steampowered.com/steam/news/11727/blured.jpg Something is coming, everybody. Not "right now" coming — but you know, we're working on it. In the meantime, here's something to get you in the proper spirit. View the full article

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include: Added the Fall 2013 Acorns Crate KeyAdded the Fall 2013 Gourd Crate KeyAutomated craft bots can no longer craft high-value items (i.e., hats)Fixed Nessie's Nine Iron missing gameplay descriptionFixed exploit that allowed dead players to attack living playersFixed disguised Blue team Spies showing blue health particles over their heads when disguised as the Red teamFixed the Sandvich meter being drawn in the HUD when the Sandvich is not equippedFixed a bug that would cause some players to be unable to change their active item presetStrange Part: Kills with a Taunt Attack can now be applied to Strange Knives and FistsStrange Part: Kills While Explosive-Jumping and Strange Part: Posthumous Kills can now be applied to The Loose Cannon View the full article

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include: Fixed the Demoman charge sound being played multiple times simultaneously View the full article

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include: Added the Fall 2013 Acorns Crate #72Added the Fall 2013 Gourd Crate #73Added a new promo item: The GrandmasterFixed several bugs that would cause inconsistent behavior when switching between or modifying loadout presetsFixed a bug that would cause modifying (i.e., painting, renaming) an item to break loadout presets involving that itemFixed the Ubersaw taunt attack using the incorrect deathnotice imageFixed the Demoman charge sound being clipped by the weapon crit soundFixed being able to incorrectly earn the Scout achievement "Retire the Runner" by killing a Heavy who had just eaten The Buffalo Steak SandvichUpdated Hardy Laurel for the Soldier and Engineer so it doesn't float on their headsUpdated the Summer Shades and Professor Speks so they don't float in the air during Sniper tauntsUpdated Cp_GranaryAdded nobuild and clipping to fix exploits above the forward spawnsAdjusted player shadows to reduce shadows casting through wallsSkybox rendering fixes View the full article

http://media.steampowered.com/steam/news/11558/saxxys13.jpg It's almost awards season, and that can only mean one thing: For the next two months people from Hollywood are going to give each other spray-painted trophies and play music in the middle of one another's acceptance speeches. And when all the dust settles, all the Steven Spielbergs and Tom Hankses of the world will look down at their dumb little statuettes and think, "I wish I'd gotten a Saxxy." Well, too bad, Tom Hanks, because you're not getting one. (Even if you submit an entry; that's how hard-line our no-Tom-Hanks-trophy stance is.) As for everybody else, though, a Saxxy could be yours. But not unless you submit an entry, so get cracking, because the entry date's fast approaching! Head over to the SFM website for a more complete breakdown of dates and contest rules! View the full article

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include: Strange misc-slot items that are tradable can now be listed on the Steam Community MarketUpdated The Bearded Bombardier and The Bolted Bombardier so they can be equipped with glassesCommunity request:Added modelscale and SetModelScale input to Studiomodel so map authors can use them to scale models View the full article

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include: Fixed the "Halloween 2013" tag overlapping with the "Sound Device" tag in the Steam Workshop publish UI View the full article

http://media.steampowered.com/steam/news/11479/robot_n_fly.jpg It's just over a month until the scariest day of the year, but you'd never know it by looking at the TF2 Workshop. No, suddenly everybody's too cool to be so scared of Halloween that they're even scared of it 42 days before it happens. Well, gather round the campfire and let us tell you a story about somebody else who thought he wasn't scared of Halloween just because it wasn’t anywhere close to being Halloween. He was at his wife's office building for a Christmas party, and he thought he was in the clear, because that's like ten months away from Halloween, right? Wrong. A whole team of ghosts took over the Christmas party, and he was caught so unprepared by how incredibly scary they were that his shoes flew off and he hid in an elevator shaft so the ghosts couldn't scare him anymore, but it turned out the ghosts were just after money. That man was Bruce Willis in the haunted house classic Die Hard, and it should teach you a valuable lesson about showing a little advance respect for Halloween. And you can show that respect by designing and uploading scary workshop items for this year's upcoming Halloween event. We're only going to ship items marked with a "Halloween 2013" tag, so remember to tag your holiday-themed items when you submit them. (You can re-upload old Halloween items that weren't accepted last time and mark them with the "Halloween 2013" tag for reconsideration.) Also remember that anything you submit with this tag will be restricted to Halloween and Full Moons. And because it's restricted to Halloween and Full Moons, get creative! The tonal restrictions we normally ask our Workshoppers to observe with TF2 items don't really apply to a holiday where wizards and bomb books regularly attack from glowing skull islands, so if there's anything crazy you've been itching to make, now's the time. Lastly, don't forget to use the in-game tool, because we don't care how scary your items are, if they're not Gold Star certified, they're the wrong kind of scary—like the difference between being scared by a Wolfman and being scared by a Wolfman getting hit by a car while jaywalking across the street to scare you. View the full article

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include: Added a new tag "Halloween 2013" to the Steam Workshop publish UIFixed the Flex target preview in the Steam Workshop item import toolFixed The Professor's Pineapple not drawing correctly for players in DirectX8Updated the teamplay_round_win event to fill out the winreason and flagcaplimit fields Notes missed from Monday's update:Updated Sentry Busters in Mann vs. Machine mode to damage teammates when they explodeSwitched Windows clients to use SDL 2.0 for controller support which enables hot-plugging controllers and configuring them through Steam Big Picture settings View the full article

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include: Fixed a noclip exploit related to dueling and coachingFixed clients not being able to run on WindowsXPFixed The Filamental displaying the burning material in DirectX8Fixed an exploit that allowed Strange counters to be incremented negativelyFixed The Crusader's Crossbow healing teammates with The Equalizer or The Escape Plan deployedFixed The Expert's Ordnance, The Hibernating Bear, and The Medieval Medic item sets not listing their associated hatsUpdated The Sticky Jumper to only allow 2 active stickybombs at a timeUpdated The Rump-o'-LanternFixed stock Medic not being able to equip itFixed not using the correct materials when equipped by the Medic View the full article

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include: Fixed a client crash related to initializing the input system for the Mac version View the full article

Your time is valuable, and the fact that you choose to spend it on Team Fortress 2 is awesome. When we introduced the Item Drop System back in 2009, one of our goals was to reward you for spending your time with us. We recently made a change that helps ensure players are playing TF2, not just leaving their computers on in order to get item drops. As of last week, players can no longer receive item drops unless they are actively playing the game. As with any update, this change is meant to keep the game as fair, fun, and rewarding to as many players as possible. We will continue to examine how the Item Drop System is used, and make any adjustments as needed to benefit the players. Questions and Answers: What is the definition of “actively playing†Team Fortress 2? From an item drop perspective, a player is considered to be actively playing if they meet all of the following criteria: Is connected to a VAC secured server. Is responding to in-game drop notifications while not utilizing external programs to do so. Is running only one instance of the game. Is not in textmode. A player who meets all of those criteria is earning time towards random item drops (subject to the weekly cap).Will I be VAC banned for not actively playing the game, also known as ‘idling’? No, you will not be banned for just idling. You may be banned if you use external programs to circumvent idle detection. See VAC FAQ.Will I lose my drops if I'm idling? Will it affect my weekly drop cap? No, drops are not lost and the drop cap remains unaffected. Players will simply have their item drops paused. Item drops will return when normal play is resumed.Why are you changing how the Item Drop System works? This change is designed to make the TF2 experience equally rewarding for all players. The previous system had flaws that allowed players to collect rewards without actively playing TF2.I don’t idle. How does this impact me? The new system ensures you won’t become disadvantaged for playing TF2 the way you always have. View the full article

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include: Fixed crit and mini-crit sounds not playing in the ears of the attackerFixed some missing sapper particles in Mann vs. Machine modeFixed bots seeing the Payload cart as a valid targetFixed an issue with mouse centering in non-native fullscreen resolutions for the Mac versionFixed a problem with restoring the fullscreen window when app gets focus for the Mac versionFixed the description for the Founding FatherUpdated L'Inspecteur to include a blue material when equipped by the Blue team View the full article

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include: Fixed a server crash caused by running out of free edictsFixed a problem that was preventing some older demos from being playedFixed the Spy getting the afterburn immunity while disguised as Demoman wielding the Chargin' TargeFixed the Process and Standin map stamp donations displaying incorrect map names on the World TravelerFixed the Pyro not using the correct model for the Reserve ShooterFixed a bug that would cause certain attributes (kill counts, trade time) to appear incorrectly on items viewed through Steam Community and the trade UIRemoved promotion restrictions from the Crosslinker's CoilUpdated the Loose Cannon description to match the updated gameplayUpdated the Short Circuit description to match the updated gameplay View the full article

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include: General: Fixed Quick-Fix infinite heal exploitFixed missing Cow Mangler 5000 particles when running in DirectX8Fixed Disco Beat Down unusual effect showing through wallsFixed incorrect projectile speed attributes being applied to giants in Mann vs. MachineWhen disguised as a teammate, the Dead Ringer will drop the body of the player the Spy is disguised asFixed a bug where arrows and bolts would hit friendly playersFixed a bug where Strange parts and filters could not be removed from Strange weaponsFixed the "Show Entire Backpack" option in the crafting panel not preserving empty backpack slots and forcing items to stackMaps:Fixed an areaportal improperly rendering in pl_goldrushFixed players getting out of map in cp_standinFixed players hiding in vents in cp_standinAdjusted HDR lighting in cp_process View the full article