Get all the new TF2 weapons instantaneously.
moultano
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Creator of ns_shiva. Join Date: 2002-12-14 Member: 10806Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Gold, NS2 Community Developer, Pistachionauts
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<div class="IPBDescription">For those of you that just want to play to relax.</div><a href="http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=558371" target="_blank">http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=558371</a>
Worked for me last night, though I had to restart my machine before I had any of them in-game.
Worked for me last night, though I had to restart my machine before I had any of them in-game.
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Valve has made a point of punishing people during the last update who used SAM. They didn't ban accounts, but they did ban usage of weapons for a week or so.
The first post in that thread you link to is completely false. Though it uses the Steam API to do it, it is very detectable because of the strange manner in which your achievements are unlocked... (Someone who gets 30 achievements within 1 second is probably using this.)
NOTE:
Also, you don't need to unlock all your achievements. You can just unlock the milestone ones to get the weapons and then enjoy the achievements on their own merit.
SMILEY:
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DISCLAIMER:
Personally, I don't have a problem with anyone who uses this, though I think some people might get a little "butt-sore" over it.
I find the achievement milestone system highly flawed, and Valve themselves have admitted to this in trying to make a new system for weapon unlocks.
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Not suspicious at all, no sir!
In the end, if you are REALLY desperate for achievements, I suppose you could give this a try, but USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. You are risking account bannination, and installing of potentially malicious software. I personally can not suggest it, and am quite surprised you of all people, Moultano, would post a link to something so potentially malicious on this forum.
I haven't checked the link but if, on the other hand, it unlocks the actual achievements, Valve could be a bit pissed off because then they would be devaluing a supposedly skill-based achievements system, not just a random unlock system.
Here's the guys website who made it, there are no viruses and he's not gonna steal all your steam accounts. Hell I know some people who live in Washington that went for a tour around valve and the guys there said they couldn't really care if people used the unlocker (this was before the scout update where they took everyones stuff for a week) That's the only bad thing that'll happen.
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First paragraph of my last post.
<!--quoteo(post=1708802:date=May 31 2009, 07:18 AM:name=Crispy)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Crispy @ May 31 2009, 07:18 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1708802"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I don't see how Valve could possibly complain about people using this considering how now the unlocks are no longer symbolic of any sort of achievement. If they are random, then everyone can theoretically get them, so nobody can feel particularly butthurt about it because they could have just got all the unlocks anyway.
I haven't checked the link but if, on the other hand, it unlocks the actual achievements, Valve could be a bit pissed off because then they would be devaluing a supposedly skill-based achievements system, not just a random unlock system.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
It lets you unlock any achievement for any game. The smart people only unlock the milestone achievements and leave the rest to get through normal play...
TF2 Fake Idler
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WTF! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
<a href="http://www.sourceop.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1611&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0" target="_blank">http://www.sourceop.com/modules.php?name=F...asc&start=0</a><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->I'm kinda glad this was made, not that I care enough to use it. I just think if Valve are willing to admit that tying unlocks to achievements is a bad idea, why not just give everyone the unlocks after X hours of play? The only reason to have it done randomly is to artificially extend the necessary playtime before you can play the full game (i.e. with all the weapons), because doing ti artificially is a lot easier than actually making the sort of content that really increases longevity: maps and game modes.
I read a story about some art course or something where they were tasked with painting a picture. Fair amount of work, they had three weeks to do it in. At the end, they were told to destroy it: A lesson about being able to throw something that you've invested a lot of time in away.
So here's the question: Will Valve see that their effort to replace the unlock system (a noble goal in itself) has failed spectacularly, and will they face reality and begin anew, or will they soldier on, oblivious to the negative reaction?
I read a story about some art course or something where they were tasked with painting a picture. Fair amount of work, they had three weeks to do it in. At the end, they were told to destroy it: A lesson about being able to throw something that you've invested a lot of time in away.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Iterative development does not mean what you think it means. What you seem to be referring to is more like version control.
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->So here's the question: Will Valve see that their effort to replace the unlock system (a noble goal in itself) has failed spectacularly, and will they face reality and begin anew, or will they soldier on, oblivious to the negative reaction?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I don't think the new system is so broken it needs to be scrapped. I just think it needs more work. THAT is the beauty of iterative development. If you don't get it quite right the first time you can learn from it and build from it.
The other nice thing about iterative development, though it doesn't really apply here, is that you have a playable version at every iteration. This allows a game to be playtested from very early in the development cycle.
If they had done it all at once they still wouldn't be done with it, and since they hadn't yet released anything they wouldn't know that it's ###### and needs to be scrapped. They know that now. The question is whether they'll face reality.
It doesn't need more work, it needs a do-over. The entire idea is ludicrous from start to finish, and that's why they need to scrap what they've made so far and hoof it back to the drawing board. It's not broken beyond repair, that's not the problem. The problem isn't the enormous amount of bugs that plague the new system - those can be fixed. The problem is that it's ######. It's a fecal pie served with a glass of jarate, and no amount of seasoning will change that.
Still better than achievement based. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
I disagree with what you say, so I will not defend to the death your right to say it.
Achievement system was Ace for the scout unlocks, they had it 95% of the way to perfect and then they said:
"Whoops let's just toss all that out and try something <i><b>stupid</b></i>"
"But then you couldn't trade with oth-.."
"NOR WOULD YOU NEED TO."
Funny anecdote: I got "Dead Reckoning" (Kill an enemy with an arrow while you're dead) when a demoman I had thrown pee at blew himself and me up. I had the sniper rifle equipped.
So, unlocked every weapon, then removed the Achievements afterwards. Now I can play the game at my leisure in the manner I choose, and still get to see the Achievements as just a 'Oh, woo' moment, rather than actively grinding them. It's a horrid, horrid system in my opinion.