TF2 Tightrope

[Trotim]

Gonna quote the website: http://www.tf2tightrope.com/

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Tightrope is a project that aims to be a community-run alternative to the official TF2 Beta. We decided to start it because we felt that the Beta wasn’t being used as best as it could, and now we’re a team of 4, all dedicated to making it awesome!

We try out balance changes, new weapons and anything else that deserves to be tested, and all changes come directly from suggestions and feedback from you. So, if you have some thoughts on how Team Fortress 2 should be, some cool new weapon ideas, or just enjoy trying out interesting and exciting stuff, come along to one of our servers one day. You might like it.

It just had its relaunch after toying around to see if the plugins work etc, now it's in full gear.

List of preliminary current changes: http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Tightrope
There's a EU, a US and an AUS server: http://www.tf2tightrope.com/servers/
(when the player count is low you can vote to activate/deactivate bots so you still get to test the tweaks)

I for one am going to monitor and support this as it's the closest anyone's come yet to actually improving the gameplay again.

[Fr0Z3n]

I saw this a while ago, been paying loose attention to it since. It is pretty cool.

[Trotim]

Have a nice TFWiki page now: http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Tightrope

Do you have any feedback about the page? Or about the tweaks being tested currently? Anything else you'd like to see tried out?

[Prestige]

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Originally Posted by Trotim

Anything else you'd like to see tried out?

flame of war

[Trotim]

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Originally Posted by Prestige

flame of war

The Arsonist's Arsewipe will actually be turned into a flamethrower... so it will do what it does, and more :]

[Ravidge]

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Originally Posted by Trotim

Have a nice TFWiki page now: http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Tightrope

[...] Anything else you'd like to see tried out?

Balancing the game. By which I mean, make the weapons sidegrades, and not upgrade compared to the stock.
Stock weapons are the basics, they do damage and very little else, any sort of effect/feature on a weapon needs to be powerful enough to be fun and allow a new style perhaps, but if they get that feature for free, on top of the stock damage, it's a pure upgrade.

And then it's just a matter of comparing the unlocks against the stock, which will take forever

Weapon	Buff or nerf	Comment
Scattergun	-	Stock
Force-a-nature	-	Higher damage and knockback effect justified by having only 2 loaded shots.
Shortstop	v	Unlike the other primaries, this should not be a high Burst damage weapon. The shortstop has a sustained DPS through it's clip-based reload. Increase the interval between shots by a fraction.
Soda Popper	V	Needs a nerf badly, Make the hype always charge (not only when active) and limit the amount of hype-crits to 2 or 3 shots (not a time duration, store them like revenge crits, so you can build them up over time if you use only pistol). Remove the +25% reload speed stat.

Aaaaand so on.

[Trotim]

Yeah, balancing stuff is a big part of it.
The items with priority at the moment are Enforcer, GRU, Pomson and Atomizer afaik. If there's anything you wanna say about those, do go ahead.

[LeSwordfish]

It says much about tf2 that I don't know what any of those but the GRU are.

Suggestion for GRU: healing from medic provides speed boost, not health. Ubercharges make invulnerable, but do not apply speed boost.

[Prestige]

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Originally Posted by LeSwordfish

Suggestion for GRU: healing from medic provides speed boost, not health. Ubercharges make invulnerable, but do not apply speed boost.

one of the "rules" for the heavy update was to not increase synergy with a medic. besides the downside not being as good as the upside, the medic thing is the problem.

[stevethepocket]

Why are they not testing a nerf for the Phlogistonator? Is it just because it's painfully obvious what needs to be fixed with it?