Team Fortress 2 Now Free On Steam

[AAPLaday]

would this play on a 2010 macbook pro 13" 2.4ghz C2D, 4GB ram etc?
not downloading it (10GB!!!!) for it to not play any good on my MBP

Yeah you will be able to run it

 

[roadbloc]

First MobileMe and now Team Fortress 2. Why don't they just go and make Voltswagen Fox's free as well since I bought one of them six months ago as well?

 

[Jason Beck]

Question for Mac people.. Do you have a better playing experience in bootcamp with this game?

 

[benthewraith]

Question for Mac people.. Do you have a better playing experience in bootcamp with this game?

Never one that warranted shutting down and restarting to play the game in Windows.

 

[Jason Beck]

Never one that warranted shutting down and restarting to play the game in Windows.

Nice. I finished the download and about to fire it up on my PC. I'm halfway through Reach on 360 (legendary / solo) and need a bit of a break from Halo haha.

 

[0098386]

Question for Mac people.. Do you have a better playing experience in bootcamp with this game?

Oh my yes!

27" 6970 iMac... on Bootcamp I can play on ultra settings. It uses the "Meet the..." facial models and much higher res textures, software AA, 8x high quality AA, dynamic lighting. All this and it never dips below 60fps, ever.
On OSX I'm lucky if the same settings get 20-40fps. So yeah, it's much better to reboot into Windows if you want to get the absolute best out of your Mac.

 

[Rajani Isa]

This is cool - my friends and I can't afford to shell out $50x7+ to outfit our friend's office with copies of games, and this should be a nice change from the free Wolf:ET game.

 

[Flash SWT]

Question for Mac people.. Do you have a better playing experience in bootcamp with this game?

The game definitely runs better under Windows however it still runs good under OS X on the top machine in my signature.

The advantage of being able to fire up a game quickly whenever I want greatly outweighs the small performance gain from having to reboot into Windows.

 

[Jason Beck]

That's really good that it runs okay on OSX too. I just completed my download of it for Windows last night and tried it out. It's a pretty fun game! I only did the tutorials though. I did a custom config too and the ultra settings look really nice. Pretty fun, decent, graphics. This might take the place of Quake Live as my fave waste of time

 

[Flash SWT]

That's really good that it runs okay on OSX too. I just completed my download of it for Windows last night and tried it out. It's a pretty fun game! I only did the tutorials though. I did a custom config too and the ultra settings look really nice. Pretty fun, decent, graphics. This might take the place of Quake Live as my fave waste of time

If/when you decide you want to play under OS X you don't need to download the game again either. You can simply copy over these files and then Steam will only need to download the OS X specific files:

team fortress 2 client content.gcf
team fortress 2 content.gcf
team fortress 2 materials.gcf

 

[b0r3dguy]

I have Windows 7. Is it good on 7? I have never tried TF2 and would like to if possible.

Yes, it most definitely works fine on Windows 7. I have it running fine on my Win7 PC. Cheers and enjoy TF2!

 

[Jason Beck]

If/when you decide you want to play under OS X you don't need to download the game again either. You can simply copy over these files and then Steam will only need to download the OS X specific files:

team fortress 2 client content.gcf
team fortress 2 content.gcf
team fortress 2 materials.gcf

Good to know. I'll be getting a new macbook later this year after the refresh.

 

[Awjvail]

Downloading now to try it out. 10gb.
I sure hope nobody else on my network plans on using the internet for the next 12 hours...

 

[AAPLaday]

Just downloaded it now, its good, had to turn settings down more than id like but its a good game. Having fun experimenting with classes. Like The Demo man and mechanic best

 

[Consultant]

It's a fairly complex game. Read some guides if you want to get good at it.

TF2 character guides
http://tf2wiki.net/wiki/Main_Page

This is cool - my friends and I can't afford to shell out $50x7+ to outfit our friend's office with copies of games, and this should be a nice change from the free Wolf:ET game.

You can use your home steam account on multiple computers. No need to spend extra for office computer.

 

[zweigand]

About the only game I still play on my desktop.

 

[AAPLaday]

Anybody else having trouble with todays latest update? Since the update whenever i get killed the game crashes. Its done it 4 times in the last 10 minutes. (Yes i die a lot)

 

[Flash SWT]

Just happened to me as well. I got the following error:

Engine Error
IVP Failed at /Users/rackadmin/buildslave/
relhl2_osx/build/src/ivp/ivp_physics/../ivp_utility/
ivu_vhash.cxx 157

 

[AAPLaday]

Just downloaded another 70 meg update a few mins ago. Will give it go and let you know if its fixed the problem.

EDIT: It has now fixed the problem for me. No more crashes

 

[AndyR]

How come the other day when I downloaded the full game (4gb or whatever it was), and played it fine for a bit, today I open steam and it reckons it needs as 3gb update that its trying to download for TF2?

That can't be right eh? I can still play the game OK so what gives, seriously that can't be right to have a 3gb update!

 

[roadbloc]

^
Steam does that. You'll get used to it's many weird bugs.

 

[AndyR]

^
Steam does that. You'll get used to it's many weird bugs.

Well that sucks then! Tried it this morning before I left for work and it said 2.1gb so totally different amount so thats just pointless.

Not everyone has unlimited datacaps so people like me (50gb per month), I aint gonna spend 7gb downloading a game and updates, only to be asked to download another 2gb the next day because of weird bugs. Guess I won't be using Steam for Mac again

 

[oklaonion]

Good and Bad?

Was great news to hear, downloaded instantly, but I'm afraid to play it. I have very limited free time and dedicate most of it to StarCraft II. Dilemma.