Drop rates seem to be just over 3 hours right now from my testing. Thankfully it appears that the 3 hour countdown still ticks while offline and on non-event maps.
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 7:53 AM, epi <ow...@tf.heybey.org> wrote: > > > On 10/23/2014 10:45 AM, Frank wrote: > > Ok I see this over on teamfortress.com... > > > > "Luckily, you can now play previous years' Halloween spectaculars to get > > your shock tolerance up in advance of the update. Simply boot up the > game, > > hop into multiplayer and quickplay any of our past five Scream Fortress > > updates. If you've missed out on previous Team Fortress Halloweens, or > are > > new to TF2 in general, this is a perfect time to catch up." > > > > You direct people to Quickplay yet again this defaults directly to Valve > > servers first! How about - Hop into multiplayer and search the server > > browser instead? > > Valve is promoting their own system in their own game? The *nerve.* > > > Also while on the subject is there a particular reason why I have players > > screaming at me about drop rates for spells and such? I go to check on a > few > > of my servers last night to only get slammed by why gifts aren't > dropping as > > they used to and if there was something broken with the servers. > > Yeah, this is not just you. I have not gotten a second gift after > playing more than an hour after the first one dropped. I imagine it has > just been slowed down until this year's event starts. > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com > > [mailto:hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Eric > Smith > > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 1:58 PM > > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list; Half-Life dedicated > Linux > > server mailing list; 'hlds_annou...@list.valvesoftware.com' > > Subject: [hlds_linux] Mandatory TF2 update released > > > > We've released a mandatory update for TF2. The notes for the update are > > below. The new version number is 2455651. > > > > -Eric > > > > ----------------------------------------- > > > > - Scream Fortress Classic begins! > > - In preparation for Scream Fortress 2014 we've enabled all > previous > > Halloween events > > - Fixed The Larval Lid not using the correct Blue team material > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > please visit: > > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
