Destroy the Team Fortress 2 Golden Wrenches for Charity
Hope the mods don't get bent out of shape for advertising this. I think it's pretty relevant for all gamers though.
<a href="http://www.toptiertactics.com/golden-charity/" target="_blank">http://www.toptiertactics.com/golden-charity/</a>
Well, this is something neat. Even Valve is promoting this now. I figure I'd drop this here and see how many people I can convince to donate what they can afford. All proceeds are going to <a href="http://www.childsplaycharity.org/" target="_blank">"Child's Play"</a>. The event is going down on or about the 31st of August. Child's Play is a really good cause and it's good to see gamers doing something really positive. We tend to get a bad rap for being lazy and unmotivated, but here's a chance for those of us who can afford it to help out. Please pass this info on to other places you hang out at. Even if you can't afford to help you can help spread the word.
<a href="http://www.toptiertactics.com/golden-charity/" target="_blank">http://www.toptiertactics.com/golden-charity/</a>
Well, this is something neat. Even Valve is promoting this now. I figure I'd drop this here and see how many people I can convince to donate what they can afford. All proceeds are going to <a href="http://www.childsplaycharity.org/" target="_blank">"Child's Play"</a>. The event is going down on or about the 31st of August. Child's Play is a really good cause and it's good to see gamers doing something really positive. We tend to get a bad rap for being lazy and unmotivated, but here's a chance for those of us who can afford it to help out. Please pass this info on to other places you hang out at. Even if you can't afford to help you can help spread the word.
Comments
And yes, it's awesome that they're doing this; hopefully they'll get even more donations, and more people coming forward to destroy their wrenches for a good cause.
By the way, no deluge of people saying "I'd totally destroy my golden wrench for charity if I had one" yet? Well, allow me to be the first then. I'd totally destroy my golden wrench for charity if I had one.
It's not like the items make the game less fun (unless you don't like some of them specifically for gameplay reasons).
Actually, its exactly like that. Every few months I come back to TF2 to satisfy the backstab cravings, only to uninstall it sometime later because of how much the game play has been ruined.
You need a bigger harddrive <img src="http://members.home.nl/m.borgman/ns-forum/smileys/rolleyes.gif" border="0" class="linked-image" />
...
Or does the anger just run that deep in this case <img src="http://members.home.nl/m.borgman/ns-forum/smileys/dancing-banana.gif" border="0" class="linked-image" />
Of course, without something to replace it I eventually get bored enough to reinstall it and the cycle is repeated.
The general stats remain pretty consistent throughout updates, balance doesn't stray too much unless you were considering it broken to begin with. Most of the items that stray from their original counterpart (sandviches, buff banners, etc) don't even show up very often. The ones that don't mostly affect your own play style rather than your potential effectiveness (backburner encourages flanking, direct hit encourages less spamming, etc).
The default is for fast stab action. I use it on king of the hill maps a lot as you can decloak, stab, fill your meter with their dropped weapon, cloak, rinse, repeat.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yeah, I suck when I try that. Much prefer backstabbing the same Sniper over and over again until they change classes, hanging around in the spots no one thinks to check during re-spawns with the Cloak and Dagger. ****ing snipers deserve it though. Three on a team, two at the bottom of the scoreboard (just as an objective ranking of 'am I being useless', it serves most times other than as Engineer)... it really is for the best. Even if they go Pyro. Why yes I <i>am</i> taking out the rage I feel at the idiots on my own team, who I would happily backstab repeatedly if friendly fire was turned on.
****ing snipers.