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 Send to email | Valve Rethinking Team Fortress 2 Item Drops [Valve] in Valve NewsPCTeam Fortress 2 |  By Luke Plunkett
el 22-Jul-2009 |  To try and make things easier on newer players, Valve recently instituted a "random drop" policy regarding rare items in Team Fortress 2. It was a bad idea. One they regret, and are looking at changing in the future.
Valve's Robin Walker has said "I think we've learned that the random drop system is only good for some types of things, like the rare cosmetic hats". "It's good for delivering items to newer players over time", he told CommunityFortress, "so they're not swamped with choices when they're starting out, and they're not required to grind achievements to get them once they reach the point where they want to start making strategic choices. For competitive players, it's obviously a bad way to deliver items." So that's a bad way. What, then, is a good way? "At the very least", Walker offers, "future packs will allow you to use achievements to get the new items, but we might move to a mode where we just give them to you. As part of our goal of supporting tournaments more, I think we'll probably add better tools for them to control exactly what players can and can't use within matches". You know, for all the company's success, I wouldn't trade places with Valve for anything. Having to deal with all these irate fans all the time? Must drive them bonkers. Exclusive Interview with Valve's Robin Walker [CommunityFortress, via Shacknews]
 
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| Valve Rethinking Team Fortress 2 Item Drops [Valve] |  To try and make things easier on newer players, Valve recently instituted a "random drop" policy regarding rare items in Team Fortress 2. It was a bad idea. One they regret, and are looking at changing in the future. Valve's Robin Walker has said "I think we've learned that the ra [..] Read complete article | | Published 22-Jul-2009 by Luke Plunkett in Valve NewsPCTeam Fortress 2
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| Valve Releasing More Team Fortress 2 SDK [Tf2] |  Not content with releasing a software development kit for Team Fortress 2's maps and environments, Valve will soon be releasing the SDK for the game's character models and animations as well. What does this mean? It means modders have access to some of gaming's finest characters a [..] Read complete article | | Published 04-Aug-2009 by Luke Plunkett in Tf2 ModsNewsPCSdkTeam Fortress 2Valve
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| Valve looking for user-created items in Team Fortress 2 | 
There once was a time when your only option for exercising creativity in Team Fortress 2 was to come up with clever ways to grief your fellow players. Today, Valve announced that players would soon have a less annoying way to [..] Read complete article | | Published 14-Jan-2010 by Griffin McElroy in creativefpssourcesteamteam-fortressteam-fortress-2valve
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Team Fortress 2 is ever-evolving and a new initiative from Valve hopes to make this rampant evolution a bit safer for all players through the Team Fortress 2 public beta. Accessible to all owners of the game on Steam [..] Read complete article | | Published 04-Dec-2010 by David Hinkle in betamacpcsteamTeam-Fortress-2team-fortress-2-public-betavalve
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If there's going to be a singular battlefield for the war between mankind and a super-advanced artificial intelligence hivemind, we think it's going to be Team Fortress 2. See, the programmers and developers over at Valve [..] Read complete article | | Published 22-Dec-2009 by Griffin McElroy in aiartificial-intelligencebotsfpsmultiplayeronlinesteamteam-fortress-2valve
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