Posts Tagged ‘Team Fortress 2’

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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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.

…With replacement backgrounds. Download the file for your monitor’s aspect ratio and copy into “…\Steam\steamapps\[user name]\team fortress 2\tf\materials\console”. If the folder does not exist, you will have to create it. There are two versions, one for the default UI and the other for the classic menu.

16:10 default UI 16:9 default UI

16:10 classic UI 16:9 classic UI

First off, this requires server-side modification, but if you don’t have access to your own dedicated server, this can be done with a listen server. Your friends can then connect using our listen server guide.

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On July 9th, Valve claimed that they “fixed an exploit that allowed Engineers to build level 2/3 mini sentries.” Well, they did fix one way, but it wasn’t this one.

EDIT They fixed this in the July 13th update.

Achievement unlocked!

To commemorate the almost-Engie update, here is a compilation of older clips taken almost a year ago featuring multiple sentries.