The engineer page is now online.

It is one LARGE page. Over 3,000 words worth of strategies to make you one hell of an Engineer!

More updates coming shortly.

That’s right, Team Fortress Hacks are now available to download.

I know this will likely be a controversial topic, but allow me to address a few of the questions/issues/statements I have already recieved from friends when I mentioned the idea of having a Hacks section.

First off, why have a hacks section to begin with?

People are going to cheat whether we have it or not. If you want a wall hack bad enough; you are going to find it. Before TF2 even released (when it was still in the beta phase for Steam buyers) there were already plenty of hacks on Torrent sites. But when you download from a torrent site you don’t know what you are getting. You could be getting a virus, trojan, keylogger, spyware, or even the dreaded gay porn. So I decided that since people are going to get them anyways; whether I am here or not, I may as well provide the hacks safely, after scanning them with NOD32/AVG and a few other programs, and hosting them on my own webserver. That way if you are going to cheat you can at least download them without possibly breaking your computer.

Aren’t you encouraging hacking and cheating by providing them though?

Not any more than I am encouraging players to read paragraphs about how to play the game instead of actually playing the game and learning themselves. I’m just putting this data out there; people will do with it what they want. But in the journalistic, librarian stance; I may as well put everything out there instead of censoring some things or ignoring the pink elephant in the room, right?

Have you tried the hacks? Do they work?

I have never tried any hacks for any version of Team Fortress; whether it was for Quake, Half Life or Team Fortress 2. I honestly don’t think you need to cheat in Team Fortress; I think the game is friendly for all experience levels. You will rarely, if ever see a more experienced player chastising a “n00b” for not performing well enough. In fact, I don’t think I have seen that in TF2 yet. People may jab you for not knowing something, but it is usually in a joking manner. Unlike in other games, Team Fortress is very friendly to everyone. I remember in Quake 2; if you weren’t the top 3 in the scoreboard, you were going to be raped with insults. It motivated you to be better, as well. But to stay on topic no; I haven’t tried any of them. I like playing on Steam.

Will these get me banned from Steam?

Supposedly. One of them is labeled VAC-Proof but I would take that with a grain of salt. They could say they will pay me $100 if I get banned from Steam for using it; I still wouldn’t do it. TF just isn’t that hard. Read the strategies, learn the classes, and you’ll be fine. An aim bot isn’t going to solve your problems.

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Now that all of that has been addressed, hopefully everyone understands where I am coming from. Maybe some of them will be fun to run on your own server; or for some youtube videos. Who knows? But they are here if you want them.

Until next time…

The review section is fully up and running. Right now, there are 27 reviews in the review section. Most have pictures and some even have flash videos to accompany them.

Also in the upper right hand of every page, you will now notice these icons:

These icons allow you to add any page on the site to  any of the 4 bookmarking websites.

From left to right, they are: Del.icio.us, Digg, Technorati and Blinklist.

These sites allow you to easily find pages later and also share pages with other people.

More features will be coming soon to Team Fortress Tactics, and we will also be adding some new sections with interviews about Team Fortress soon.

Until next time…

All of the achievements for Team Fortress can now be found here

More additions still to come this weekend!

Valve, on a mission to provide every form of Team Fortress merchandise possible, is now selling Team Fortress posters!

The posters aren’t bad, I just wonder if there really was a demand for Team Fortress posters. I’ve been playing Team Fortress for 10 years and I’ve never heard anyone say:

“Damn it, you know that mod for Quake? I wish I could dedicate 24+ inches on my wall to that. I don’t just want to play it or enjoy it, I want everyone who comes into my humble abode to know that I play Team Fortress!!!”

However, if you find yourself saying that daily: you can get these lovely posters (I love the sentry one) here.

Coming soon: Team Fortress pencils, coffee mugs, koozies and belt buckles. I’ve even heard rumblings of something called the “Team Fortress Army” which you would pay to join, and be given the opportunity to buy exclusive Team Fortess Army merchandise through. Stay tuned…

The reviews section has been added to Team Fortress Tactics; this section will be filled this weekend. Check it out here.

Also the new patch for Team Fortress 2 has been released through Steam, so naturally the patches page has been updated. Feel free to see what has changed here.

Some more (and likely controversial) changes will be coming this weekend, so keep your eyes open. This will be a big weekend in terms of content. This site is starting to get a ton of traffic, and it is only a week old. So thank you to every one who is visiting, and tell your friends! Just remember that we are still under construction, and please be patient with me during this time. I want to do this site the right way, so I’m not rushing it. When I add the class pages, I want them to be complete, not just “there.”

Anyways that is enough for now; have a good Friday night everyone!

That’s right; Valve is now selling Team Fortress t-shirts! Now you can show everyone what your favorite class is 24/7!

http://store.valvesoftware.com/ 

Ever since Valve decided to remove 32 players from Team Fortress 2, we have all been waiting for this day. For some reason 24 player servers are just not as fun.

Download the engine.dll file from http://teamfortresstactics.com/files/engine.rar

Extract it to your install folder, in the bin sub folder. You may have to over-write the existing engine.dll file (you should probably make a back up of it, but just in case, here is the original: http://teamfortresstactics.com/files/engineorig.rar

Next you need to download the hexed server.dll file or the player limit remover plugin. The player remover plugin is available here: (Thank you to is1337.net): http://teamfortresstactics.com/files/playerlimits.rar

Extract that to your orange box install folder as well.

Now just run srcds.exe with the command line (in your properties window) “+maxplayers 32″ and you are ready to go!