Team17 and Valve Software bring you bonus Team Fortress 2 items if you buy Worms Reloaded prior to Thursday Sept 2nd!

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What is ETF2L?

It’s European Team Fortress 2 League. The league has been formed to provide an exciting platform for clans to play competitive TF2 matches against other clans on equal terms.  More info at http://etf2l.org/

What is a Highlander?

It’s a game mode that allows 9vs9 combat. The teams consist of each Team Fortress 2 class. More about Highlander  http://etf2l.org/rules/highlander-rules/

Drunken F00l claims that the whole “random drop” system for the Golden item is bullshit and it was designed in a specific way. You just had to know the time in which it will drop and probably know the special blueprints on item crafting.

Anyway you can read the whole conversation between Drunken and some other people here (we hosted this conversation in case it disappears):

http://www.steamunpowered.eu/drunkenlog.htm

You can read more about this whole situation on official Steam forums.

Now lets get to the point, this is a proof that Valve Anti-Cheat system is not (fully) automated at all. As far as we know the user didn’t use any hack in-game to get the Golden Wrench, he used some sort of script to craft an item at specific time to get the special item. Additionally VAC Banned users don’t get their items removed – and he no longer has the Golden Wrench.

You can view the user’s profile by going here http://steamcommunity.com/id/df – leave a comment if you want.

We will keep you informed about the situation.

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If you’ve ever wanted manual control for your sentries and a shield to protect them, this is the item for you!

Keep looking at the Engineer update page for more updates in the upcoming days.

A Facepunch Studios forums user claims that he was banned by a Valve Employee for using a SourceMod plugin to activate some console cvars in the game itself (if you don’t know what SourceMod is it’s basically a plugin that’s being used on 99% of Source Engine games, you can do a lot of kinky stuff if you have admin rights and proper plugins…).

Anyway here’s this guy’s post:

I was using the speedhacking exploit with sourcemod on a random TF2 server. This guy http://steamcommunity.com/id/professorfarnsworth/ was there, and someone said “Al, don’t you work for valve? can’t you ban this guy?” and he said “yeah, hold on” and I figured they were just trying to scare me into leaving, and he went in spectate. Then about 5 mins later he came back and said “There, I got him banned, just wait a few mins” and I said “Vac bans take weeks.” and someone else said “I thought they take months?” and then I suddenly was kicked from the server with the VAC popup thing saying that this is a secure server and i’ve been previously banned for acheating infraction.

He was in this server: TheMaCHinE.org – Advanced Teamplay [HLStatsX]

Does anyone know if they’re allowed to do this? Will a VAC ban like this not get changed just like other VAC bans?

Before you say that I should have gotten banned, this goes against what VAC is designed to do. VAC checks for a program altering the EXE or core DLL files of the game, and then has a delayed ban. There are not supposed to be manual vac bans, I used to believe.

I used a plugin – sourcemod, to make the client think that it is the server and allow certain cvars to be changed, which allowed me to use speedhacks USING CONSOLE COMMANDS and not a third-party program or DLL. This VAC ban was unfair and should not have happened.

Original thread on Facepunch Studios in here.

Valve is going to put Team Fortress 2′s fanbase to work, giving them the chance to craft their own in-game items, weapons and avatars.

It’s part of the new "Contribute" site, which will allow TF2 fans to submit their own ideas for things like hats and guns to Valve. The good ones will be included in the game. For everybody, too, not just the person responsible.

You can submit stuff right now, gallery coming soon.

August 24th is the day when the Team Fortress was released as a Quake total conversion. Today all Team Fortress 2 players wear birthday hats, all gibs turn into birthday presents and any time you hit someone with a weapon, balloons slowly float away out of them.

Have fun!

Gabe Newell mentions the Left 4 Dead 2 Boycott group. You can find out a lot about Left 4 Dead 2 and see the new campaign for Left 4 Dead – Crash Course.

Gabe also answers a lot of questions asked on Twitter. Too bad we didn’t know about that…we could have asked about the prices…oh wait, we just did.

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