BLU - Patch

BLU Fridays

BLU begins it's run tomorrow. It's a strictly TF2 comic that follows three members of the BLU team. If you saw the announcement six weeks back you already have an idea as to what it is. If not, read on.

BLU will be the next challenge set forth by myself to create a humorous and remotely successful webcomic. The challenge I have given myself with this project is to create a new comic weekly without a continuous storyline or arc of any kind. In concept this seemed an easy idea, in practice it has proven more difficult than originally believed.

This is also a far more involved attempt to pose with the models and props from TF2. While most things are handled the same as the HL2 props, some are more difficult and have extra joints. As seen in the sneak-peek release of the Heavy update issue I still have some tweaking to do both in my ability to pose and write.

With practice, hard work, and a lot of luck, look for BLU tomorrow and every Friday until I rack my brain dry. Then after that, when I run though all the cliches and over-played jokes.

Enjoy.

Vermin

Here's a new on for me...


What the hell is up with this bug?

The Side of Sniping You Never See...

Pigeons; High Spaces; Snipers; Come on, tell me this never has crossed your mind before...

Episode Thirty-Four!

A Heavy Retrospective

So it's been almost a week since the Heavy update and well, here are my two cents. Really just a quick going over...

pl_badwater
The new payload map kicks ass, although I miss the stage changes you have in goldrush. On badwater it seems like the game is a lot faster, with the teams changing very frequently. The open areas are great with three ways to get everywhere.

Arena Mode
or as I like to call it, Counter-Fortress. It's not bad. The having to sit out rounds blows. I'm, personally, not looking for a DM style of gameply with TF2. There isn't a lot of team aspect to a deathmatch.

Heavy Unlocks
I haven't played Heavy yet, waiting until a full week goes by, which is how I handle all the updates now. But having been killed by each I can say this:

KGB - Seems like a good addition to keep, the chances of getting a punch kill are always low, but when you do these will surly useful.
Natasha - I've gotten caught with this so many times. The less damage is perfectly balanced with the movement speed cut. This can make you change you play style dramatically.
Sandvich - GREATNESS! +120 health and unlimited uses? Why wouldn't you? Sure no Shotgun, but still! Nom, nom, nom, nom!

Overall greatness!

In other TF2 news, I've been working on my other classes. I have a personal rule of not playing a class if there are already two of them. So a lot of Sniper and Demo for me this week. I even got pretty good with Demo, I guess my old Quake 2 days of pwning with the GL are coming back, in a slightly modified way. One server I played on had replaced the cart with a horse. A friggen horse! At first I was dumbfounded and annoyed, but after i saw the thing walk along the tracks, I just laughed. In retrospect it is funny. And I thusly favourited the server.

BLU - Crazy

BLU isn't being released yet, but here is a sneak peek.

The End of the Pigeons

This is why I should NOT have days off from work...



This is my Pigeon Launcher MkI. Ever since pigeons first showed up in Opti-Pessi, there's been a kinda inside joke about them. Any multiperson gmod server including Korerat and I are usually swimming with them before too long. So this the method of my dreams for disposing of them when the poop gets too thick. Here's a shot of it working:



And because it's a wee bit hard to see the pigeon that way:



I can out insanity Korerat any day of the week. :)

Viva La Vort - V2 Finale?

Viva La Vort

I think I listen to this song evryday, and the other night while driving home from work this idea popped into my head. This is just a sample, or test run and in no way near the finale version of what I hope this becomes.

The song is Coldplay - Viva La Vida, from the album of the same name.

Filmed in Garry's Mod for Half-Life 2.

McNaire + GMod = New Underwear

Bout time McNaire started to release some quality GMod/Opti-Pessi work...

Comic Short with a Side of Writers Block

Here is a short I made up randomly. McNaire had posed the Heavy, and after he left the server I dup's him and did the rest.




This is also a random pose I made, but I have no clue as to what the caption should be.

Steam Has Ruined my Life

A while ago I asked Steam Support a question, and along with anwsering it they changed my password. Stupid me never changed it back. And now after some issues with Cabal, I can't log into Steam. *sigh* So, I'm waiting for my password reset to be done, unable to play TF2, GMod, or work on my map. I can be such an idiot sometimes...