"Valve" weapons

**WaterDumple** · 09-08-09, 08:54 PM

They could have a new mode where one team combats someone with Valve weapons. Maybe something like five people to every Valve weapon user.

Great idea, m'right? M'right?

**Whiskey_dod** · 09-08-09, 08:55 PM

Any weapons non-accessible to the general public would give an unfair advantage. Like a glorified hack...

**_BuRn_** · 09-08-09, 09:03 PM

Juggernaut mode!!!

That would be sweet!

One vs 5!

**Cheshire Cat** · 09-09-09, 08:47 AM

The only way to justify that kind of mode would be to make it so that the Juggernaut couldn't pick up Health and started at the usual Health.

**Veovis** · 09-09-09, 05:10 PM

Ok, so apparently some people at Valve who weren't on the TF2 team abused their power, more or less. Jerks. At least it makes more sense now... I wouldn't expect somebody on the TF2 team to do this on purpose.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forum...d.php?t=962913

From the hlds mailing list.

Have a good read:

Hi All.
Our original usage of these was a couple of weeks ago, and lasted a day. It was mostly around testing the item system (they contain every positive attribute in the system). After that, we converted all the "Valve" weapons to be purely cosmetic. Unfortunately, unknown to us on the dev side, some of the non-TF2-team folks at Valve didn't get the memo, and gave themselves the broken items recently.

We're removing these from everyone today, and removing the ability for folks to give these kinds of weapons to themselves in the future. Shouldn't happen again. (And if it somehow does, feel free to drop me an email at robin@valvesoftware.com and let me know)

Robin.