Team Fortress 2 Is Out Today!

[R.R.Mac]

ok here's some info to help for users that already have TF2 on a different computer. You can copy a few files across massively reducing download time:

You can find you files here:

[Mac's volume] /Users/******/Documents/Steam Content
[Windows volume] /Program Files (x86)/Steam/SteamApps

Copy the following files to your Mac's Steam Content folder:

team fortress 2 client content.gcf
team fortress 2 materials.gcf
team fortress 2 content.gcf

If you do not have Portal or Half-Life 2 on your Mac, you'll want to copy these files:

source sounds.gcf
source models.gcf
source materials.gcf
source 2007 shared sounds.gcf
source 2007 shared models.gcf
source 2007 shared materials.gcf

This should save you a massive amount of time when downloading!! Hope it helps!!

 

[mixel]

Worked fine for me on my 8800GS iMac.. About to test it on the 9600m MBP. Much better than it has ever done in VM or Crossover, obviously.. Not dramatically worse than Bootcamp. No crashing or anything.

Seems weird how the performance divide is so much greater for some users/specs.

 

[1083296]

BUT, can you just play it casually and join a game in progress like a normal online FPS? Is there a game lobby/matchmaking system?

I keep reading about having to get in IRC and ask to join a server, then asking the game leaders for what role I'm allowed to play, get in Vent/Mumble for voice communication, etc. Sounds like a lot of work.

tf2lobby.com is a polished matchmaking site for tf2, I suggest you have practised and are not a newb before trying to play, otherwise you will be ripped by your team.

 

[ptaylor9]

Yeah, you can just play casually, I do.
Just find a decently populated server on the 'Find server' list with a map you want to play, and hop on (as long as it doesnt have a password).
I find 32 player servers are a bit much though, in terms of being able to stay alive, and it not just being a massive slaughterfest instead of the obectives.

 

[deadwulfe]

Has anyone else tried "uploading" their spray paint image? I must have saved the image in 6 different formats and the game only sees two, which wont work. They give me a .dll missing message for the jpeg and a size is incorrect for the tga. It doesn't even see the other formats. Also to add, the two images it does see, it shows them both being 4MB in size, when they're only 23KB and 340KB.

I know it's not critical, but dammit, I want my BearFace!

 

[BradenG]

Has anyone else tried "uploading" their spray paint image? I must have saved the image in 6 different formats and the game only sees two, which wont work. They give me a .dll missing message for the jpeg and a size is incorrect for the tga. It doesn't even see the other formats. Also to add, the two images it does see, it shows them both being 4MB in size, when they're only 23KB and 340KB.

I know it's not critical, but dammit, I want my BearFace!

Heh, I'm patiently waiting for a fix as it seems to be broken. People on the Steam Forums have brought up this issue.

 

[Nuck81]

Yeah I suck pretty bad, and I'm generally a pretty good gamer. I think in an hour and a half I only had about 7 kills. I seem to be going down in one or two shots, yet I'm putting clips into guys and they still turn around and kill me with two shots. Very frustrating.

I'm having no performance issues though...

 

[P-Worm]

Yeah I suck pretty bad, and I'm generally a pretty good gamer. I think in an hour and a half I only had about 7 kills. I seem to be going down in one or two shots, yet I'm putting clips into guys and they still turn around and kill me with two shots. Very frustrating.

I'm having no performance issues though...

TF2 is heavily class based and some classes aren't really meant for killing. Remember that in TF2, objectives are the name of the game. So if you aren't racking up kills, but you're helping your team win, you're doing fine.

P-Worm

 

[chiefroastbeef]

Yeah I suck pretty bad, and I'm generally a pretty good gamer. I think in an hour and a half I only had about 7 kills. I seem to be going down in one or two shots, yet I'm putting clips into guys and they still turn around and kill me with two shots. Very frustrating.

I'm having no performance issues though...

What are you playing as? Start with pyro or soldier, they are the spray and pray classes and is easier for a beginner starting out.

And like p-worm said tf2 is a team-based game (hence the name), classes like medics and engineers don't usually rack up kills (though they rack up points, medics with assists with the partner they are healing, and engies with teleports, 1 point per 2 teleports). Both are vital in winning a game, you can try being a medic as well and heal people, your team needs you!

 

[Nuck81]

What are you playing as? Start with pyro or soldier, they are the spray and pray classes and is easier for a beginner starting out.

And like p-worm said tf2 is a team-based game (hence the name), classes like medics and engineers don't usually rack up kills (though they rack up points, medics with assists with the partner they are healing, and engies with teleports, 1 point per 2 teleports). Both are vital in winning a game, you can try being a medic as well and heal people, your team needs you!

Been using a pyro and scout. I think I'll try medic

 

[ugp]

I like the Medic, it's fun. You get a lot of points with Medic. And shooting needles at someone is cool. Or whatever they are.

 

[cathyy]

*sigh* Little do they understand that many Mac users have been playing them already, perhaps even since the beginning. I think the Mac earbuds are an awesome touch, but I can't believe admins are booting people from their servers just because their choice of computer.

If TF2 were a Mac-only game that suddenly got ported to the PC, I don't think you'd see the same hostility. What children.

IMO this is this lash-back that Mac users are getting after all those years of bashing PCs. They probably may have went overboard with the banning, but it's the Mac users that started the PC hating first.

 

[ugp]

IMO this is this lash-back that Mac users are getting after all those years of bashing PCs. They probably may have went overboard with the banning, but it's the Mac users that started the PC hating first.

It's the user experience while using a PC with Windows that started it. Mac users typically do not like Windows and is why a lot of us switch over. To have less problems. Granted you will come across problems on a Mac sure, problems are always to be expected. It's how big the problem is and how often problems occur that matter and problems have occurred 99% less for me since switching to Mac. Before Mac I always built High-End PCs for gaming and overclocking. It always came down to driver level support and software support for the hardware that gave me the problems.

 

[bjmach]

I actually got hooked on this game on the xbox 360 side. After a long frustrating realization that there would be no support for it on the console I quit playing. When I got my new 27" couple of weeks ago, I used bootcamp and started playing again. Took me till about now and 36 hrs game time to finally feel very comfortable playing with a keyboard and mouse. Incredible how much better this game is on the computer side than console. I only play as a spy now and to me its the class thats the most fun and incredibly challenging.

 

[chiefroastbeef]

Just played on the Mac natively today, very very impressed, what a moment!

I love the earphones, very cool.

On my Mac Pro, I maxed everything out, including 2560x1600 resolution, and got a constant 30fps, which wasn't bad and was absolutely playable. I then lowered all the settings to minimum, but kept the resolution and got around 60fps during big action (graphic intense), and 120fps walking around in spawn (no action). Very happy! Looking forward to the new OS update though.