Not just because it's stops cheaters, but because it fixed my complete dumb ass actions. Please learn from my mistakes, an internet dumb ass.
It all started Wednesday night wheni had got back from dinner with my partner and thought I'd round off a great evening with a bit drunken Team Fortress 2 on the new Goldrush. No one was in the dtoid server so i thought I'd go to a random server with low ping.
I was playing quite happily with a few random people when:
"Steam id here: has earned achievement _____
Steam id here: has earned achievement _____
Steam id here: has earned achievement _____
Steam id here: has earned achievement _____
Steam id here: has earned achievement _____
Steam id here: has earned achievement _____
Steam id here: has earned achievement _____"
"What the hell? How the hell did he just earn 57 achievements at once?"
Was pretty much the reaction of everybody.
Now i'm not ACTUALLY a complete dumb ass, but apparently i play one on the internet because i said "ha ha, yeah right whatever" and copypasta'd it into the console
"TheToiletDuck has received a payload of achievements, firmly up his asshole."
Thing is the medic is pretty much the only class i have any chance of earning achievements because it's my most played class. Now I'm not going to get into a debate on the validity of e-penis scores, i don't care about the fact that my gamer card is just over 2000. This sucks because my stupid actions had pretty much fucked up the cool feeling of accomplishment you get when you get an achievement.
Also there is the more tricky issue of at what stage could i use the new weapons without feeling like a cheater? How could i show my face at dtoid (where i might add i am considered one of the best players ever...... yep, and i have a huge cock).
Well, turns out i didn't have to think long (and honestly i didn't really, it's just a game after all). Valve updated Tf2 and removed all the extra achievements i had received through achievement_unlock_all. I do however, still have all the achievements i earned legitimately.
So thank you Valve, you made my game challenging and took away evidence of my stupidity, well until i went and blogged about it that is.
Footnote:
This is the complete opposite opinion of someone who played last night and just wanted the weapons. That's cool, people can think what they want **cough.. cheater.. cough cough** i for one am stoked i can now try to earn the new weapons legit like. Seeing a player with the new stuff is not really that cool unless it's a true representation of that person kicking ass.
now if you excuse me i have to go back to being dominated.
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Wait, his level!? It's under 1000!!?!?!?!!11
Woohoo, my one goal in life was to get my destructoid rank past 1000.. and i did it.. i can't believe it oh my god.
Anyway...
I was planning to write a post entitled 'the state of gaming in NZ'. But with gta4 being out i don't think i'll have the time to do it justice so will just give a more bloggy version.
It was meant to outline the fact that nz was a country raised on sega rather than nintendo (i think as a result, nintendo wii never sold out properly here). Where outdoor gaming advertising is everywhere (from the hoo-haa kotaku makes of billboards and posters i assume this is not the case in America?), and where playstation 3 owners think they can sell their console second hand for more than it costs in a store (umm, k)
We have one pretty decent arcade in the whole of Auckland.
Which has an inordinate amount of puzzle bobble machines.
Basically, the whole arcade is there to appease fighting game, puzzle bobble and shmup players because no one is playing the shooting games/driving games/bishi bashi/ or using those photobooths that give you wallet sized pieces of rubbish.
Of course We do have more than one arcade but the others hardly compare to yifanz.
See yifanz, even has tekken 6 (that's 6 times more tekken than tekken 1!).
When i was a kid, we had one/two game franchises in auckland with like 6 stores total. Then years later along came Johnny Ebgames who planted his gaming mcdonalds seed all over the country. This was actually a very good thing. Now kids had somewhere to be left while their mother spent three hours looking for shoes that fit her cankles.
In our gaming hay-day we had 3 more franchises in the fray. Alas, they could not compete with Eb and the last of these new non-eb franchises have long since closed down.
As far as i know (and i'm taking an extreme Auckland-centric view here) is that all that remains now, are those original 2 franchises, ebgames, and my favourite gamestore in auckland where they give me most games a day early :)
I'm not going to start a rant about ebgames is evil. Ebgames isn't evil, they are business so fair game to them. But it is a bit sad that its getting harder to find an alternative to Eb, and even sadder that you have to send ALL your kids to one store instead of spreading the babysitting around other stores.
In other words, this post is pointless and half-assed... except to show you the best name for a elevator repair company ever.
Please, correct me if you know of a better Arcade. I would genuinely like to visit it.
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Okay, I'm a whore for competitions. I'm not even sure that i am valid for this one (hey, Destructoid if i win, i can pay shipping to NZ if it means i get a free computer :P). Anyway It doesn't matter because the bigger deal is that i've finally started a C-blog. Will see how long it lasts.
So anyway, here is my Rig. It's only about a month old. I have just upgraded from a 4 year old pc that was driving me nuts. I got a lot of help finding deals and advice from the forums members at CheapAssGamer. So big ups to all you guys. It's hard building a new computer when you are a lapsed pc gamer.
Specs:
Monitor: LG 22inch widescreen monitor with 5ms refresh time (i think)
Video: GeForce 8800 GT, 256RAM
Mobo : P5Kr
CPU: Core2 Duo E6750 (probably should have got quad, but the cost impeded it)
Memory: 2 gigs Ram
HDD: I'm not sure, probably about 1.3TB or something. I know one of my drives is 500Gb alone. I have a few external drives sitting around the place.
Printer: Yes.
Here are the few things that are on my desk, rig associated and potentially more interesting.
The Single Best Innuendo Horoscope i've ever read. I am a Pisces too
Dr Zoidberg bobblehead.
Mr Destructoid clock
Few other tidbits, Kauri Snail shell (these are an endangered predatory snail, i didn't kill this one for it's shell btw), Scorpion, badge and Mr Destructoid again.
I intended for my computer to be a pretty decent gaming rig, which i think it is, but i spend i seem to spend more time on in watching Bulgarian Pop Idols on youtube (Ken Lee) then getting some pretty decent game time in. Though in saying that i've been trying to join games of Team Fortress 2 on Friday Night Fights lately (which is saturday day for me) and had a blast last week. I also picked up Crysis, which takes me back to the days of playing Far Cry against my brother (not that it was very long ago, mind you).
The thing i love most about this Pc is my monitor. I think it's really important to buy a decent monitor, considering you're going to be staring at it more than any other part of your computer.
Haven't really got much else to say about my pc (and desk), and if you excuse me i'm late for a Team Fortress game.
Tata.
-TD
p.s. my room is a mess.
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