Alexis Bauchu - On est pas des machines

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vendredi, juin 11 2010

Team Fortress 2 à -50% + sortie sur le Mac

Ca serait juste con de passer à côté: TF2 à 10€. C'est vraiment un super bon jeu, j'y joue encore (enfin les jours où j'ai un PC...)

Et j'adore la communication de l'équipe de TF2. Vous pouvez voir tout ce que comporte cette mise à jour "Mac" ici : Mac Update (allez au moins voir la vidéo, elle est marrante). On notera notamment l'ajout, 119 updates plus tard, d'un mode tutorial. Comme quoi il n'est jamais trop tard!

jeudi, décembre 17 2009

War has been declared! (in TF2)

TF2 Soldier Vs Demoman War

War is raging there. And also, TF2 will be available for free the time of a weekend this very weekend, just as the soldier vs demo update is released. I highly recommend that you try it (you can preload the game there).

vendredi, septembre 25 2009

Incoming! New TF2 update!

The TF2 team at Valve posted a curious message on their blog today. I think they are teasing us in the funniest way about the next update, which could more than probably be the engineer's: a Cannon-appended canine unit? Wait Wait Wait... So there will be "pets" in TF2??

EDIT: In fact I've been horribly fooled. This is not teasing for an incoming update, this is Valve's way to acknolewdge the quality and the humor of this fake update giving access to a 10th class. This is great work, the website looks like an official one and the class is described with its strengths and weaknesses, the achievements you can unlock, etc. Good prank!

samedi, février 21 2009

Team Fortress 2 total immersion

A couple nights ago, I played a game of TF2. Our team lost the round. Whenever a round is over, the losing team loses their weapons and the winning team only fire critical shots. So losing players tend to run all over the place, waving their arms in the air and screaming for mercy, or they try to hide. This is usually a very hard time for them.

I found myself a nice little spot in a very dark corner. No way anybody could find me there. But suddenly, I felt that I wasn't alone there. I saw the smoke of a spy's cigarette, so I whispered over the mic:
- "Man, we can see the smoke of your cigar..."
- "SHHHHHHHHHHH!"

The thing is, the other team can't hear you, so...

Spy!

lundi, décembre 22 2008

The Loser-Team Syndrome

I played some Team Fortress 2 tonight. I'm not an excellent player, but I'm really not a bad one. And I kept losing tonight. It's so frustrating!

I got the loser-team syndrome. Whatever you do, you get to be in the loser-team. With the kind of people that don't stick together. That pick any class but the engineer or the medic. That won't help you even if they have nothing else to do. That won't listen to you when you use your mic for synchronization. That will just ignore people running with the flag and get killed a few meters further. You know they are bad, because you're pretty bad yourself that night. And you just joined the server, but yet you are the first one, from far, and everybody in the enemy team has 4 times your score.

The map changes. You get the loser-team.
New people come in, a few come out. You get the loser-team.
You change server. You get the loser-team.
You pick another server. You get the loser-team.

Whatever you'll do, tonight, you'll get the loser-team. ALWAYS. Shut it down. Go do something else. And come back tomorrow when the loser-teams are dead from their own stupidity.