2.42 First Impressions

[Iggy]

This is for both long time players, and newcomers alike.

What are your first impressions of v2.42?

If you've played before, do you like the changes that have been implemented?

If you're new to the game, do you feel that Fortress Forever continues the Fortress Game Tradition?

If you could change something, what would it be?

Feel free to take time evaluating the new patch, however, we do want your input.

[WiFiDi]

heavy weapons guy super fucking powered.

[Z4toichi]

I was having fun, but old timers are late to the party. and people left the only server that wasnt locked...only got to try soldier..I like the new nail, and got to see the hw new nade, liked that as well.

[FreaK367]

Gave it a good go on the servers that actually updated, although I was looking forward to playing on OT.

I tried most changes, I found the Heavy Weapons Guy to really be useful now, the slow grenade is great, makes concing scouts less of a threat, and generally makes defending easier, I can imagine on Destroy, a slow grenade will really work on the ramps as scouts like to conc up there at high speed.

The Overpressure is a great feature too, really up there, I played mainly OvD maps on 2.42, with Squeek at one point actually, and it was so satisfying to perfectly use overpressure when on the cap point and an enemy is just about to land on the cap with the flag. To be able to push them away and let the SG take care of them, really good, I actually found myself replicating the example of Overpressure which was shown in the 2.42 trailer, when soldiers were trying to rocket jump up to higher places where I was, I just blasted them back where they came from. So I really like the HW changes.

I like the look of the colour coded jump pads and dispensers, and I was happy to see that although the jump pad can be destroyed, it had no time limit, so on certain maps it could be very useful, like getting across the yard on Destroy, less need to keep building a jump pad.

The Soldiers laser grenade is much much better than the nail grenade, like, beyond better. I was a Heavy and one went off at my feet, and my health just dropped, fast. It's something to be avoided now. I prefer it to the nail grenade.

Not sure if you made a change but the jump pads felt more powerful to me, I thought I remembered them launching me at between 700 - 800 speed, but now it's over 1000. Unless I am just confused about the earlier figures.

I like the overall look of things, and apart from a glitchy railgun animation, everything seemed smooth, and I wasn't getting any FPS issues from what I remember.

I like the update, and I look forward to really trying it out in the future, once OT hurries up and updates :P, I can see myself actually playing a Heavy now gasp, considering it was one of the classes I very rarely touched, like Pyro.

Good work to the Dev team.

[Trailer]

I like everything except the client crashes, and I think the jump pads should have more health, they go down too easy. Other than that it seems to work.

[Jay Mofo Mills]

My first impression is that the defense got SIGNIFICANT buffs and scout/medic main offense classes got significantly nerfed.

Medic: Infection no longer kills. Thank god the medpack does more damage. Reload on the nailgun pfft.... Don't try to dm a Heavy. Don't try to take out a sentry gun. You'll just hit a slow nade and be too busy fucking reloading that 2 grenades and your 1-1/2 clips of a nailgun can't get past the engy constantly whacking his gun and the 3 other defenders raping you. The medic got completely neutered and I'm ashamed to play him now. Its sad.

Scout: Team jumppads - well it is what it is. Moot point for me, though the slow nade causes major problems. Good for a noob HW who holds down m1 and can't aim well. Bad in the hands of someone who can already play HW well.

I like the soldiers laser nade. Need to playtest more but game keeps crashing even after hotfix.

I'll play a little more to get a better feel but this is my first impressions.

I think I might jump on the bandwagon of the majority of people who just play defense. Especially since it just got easier and Offense just got a lot harder.

I don't mean to gripe.

To be fair, I think some of the concepts are neat. They could be useful, the current implementation does not feel anywhere near balanced to me. Good work on getting it out there. You dev's kick ass for keeping this game moving.

Love FF.