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This was, sadly, an unacceptable word in Bookworm Adventures Deluxe. I’m guessing possibly because it is two words and there was no space.

I’ve been tinkering around with a custom Team Fortress 2 menu for a couple of months and decided that I wanted it completed in order to move on to other things. So, now it’s finished and I offer it to you.

Changes from original:

• Moved all the buttons on the lower right to the main area of the menu.
• Training added as a sub-button of the “Start Playing” button.
• New sub-buttons added for backpack and crafting.
• “Options” button moved up to main area.
• “New User Forum,” “Developer Commentary” and “Report a Bug” added as sub-buttons of the “Options” button.
• Added four direct server connect buttons that are easily customizable.
• Added a “Reconnect” and “Class Loadout” button.
• Moved the “Mute Players” button and made it much larger.

Installation:
Download and unzip the file. Copy “GameMenu.res”  into “…\Steam\steamapps\[user name]\team fortress 2\tf\resource”. Then copy “MainMenuOverride.res” into “…\Steam\steamapps\[user name]\team fortress 2\tf\resource\ui”. If the folder does not exist, you will have to create it.

Customize the direct connect servers:
After installing the files, navigate to “…\resource\ui” and open “MainMenuOverride.res” in Notepad. Press CTRL-F to bring up find and type in “JoinServer1″. Go down to the “labelText” field and to the right of it, replace what is in the quotations with whatever you want to name the server. Look a little further down and find the “Command” field. To the right in quotation marks, replace the server IP and port with the one you want. Repeat this process for “JoinServer2″, “JoinServer3″ and “JoinServer4″. Save the file when done.

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There are metric ton of “How To’s” for rocket jumping in Team Fortress 2 and I’ve probably watched most of them. None of them really compare to honorablejay‘s videos though, at least in terms of covering everything from the beginning.

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Below I have compiled some console commands that are standard in most Valve games, the majority of which are useful in multiplayer:

Tilde opens console »

I was recently vote banned (for hacking) while playing Team Fortress 2 and just so happened to be recording a demo. This was on a SourceOP server which is a bit disappointing because they usually seem to attract the more mature players. It was just a temp ban but regardless, it still jarated me off.

I’ve been chugging along completing games, trying to reduce the size of my “to play” list that seems to grow more often than it shrinks. Following are some brief thoughts about the games that I’ve finished but didn’t write on:

I am a compulsive Steam buyer »

So let’s just come out and say it: where the @#$% is EP3? Of course, I’m refering to Half-Life 2: Episode Three.

Prepare for unforeseen consequences »

This is a very quick recolor of the L4D2 Tank to make him appear similar to The Incredible Hulk. I say similar because he doesn’t look quite right without hair. Or eyeballs.

The skins are in vpk format for easy installation and instructions are included. I suggest that you only have one version installed in your addons folder at a time (until Valve fixes that particular bug). Download the classic skin here or the more modern skin here.