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If you’ve made a habit of using external idling programs to generate item drops in Valve’s Team Fortress 2, then the game’s developer has a little news for you: Enjoy it while it lasts (which isn’t much longer).
Valve posted the following message on its blog to inform TF2 cheaters of its new policy:
“Over the next few days we'll be removing all TF2 items that were earned using external idling applications. We're going to adopt a zero tolerance policy for external applications used to manipulate the persistent item system. Due to us not having a policy in place prior to today, this time we're only removing the items earned through cheating the system. Going forward, if we find users using external applications, we'll remove all of their items. If you're interested, only about 4.5 percent of the players in TF2's community will be affected by this cleansing process.”
Valve went on to say that it will be adding new hats to the inventories of the 95.5 percent of rule-following players out there, because that’s just how big Valve’s heart is. The developer also said that it is working on new systems to vary item collection, including trading and “crafting duplicates into desired items.” However, Valve did not say when it plans to implement those systems.
Are you one those 4.5 percent of fiendish idlers out there? What do you think Valve should do to improve the game's items system, assuming you think there's a problem with it?
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nexusjosh
You guys are ignorant, Cheating is when you have the upper hand over other players, suck as aim bots, wall hacks, and yes, even idlers, Because you have the upper hand over players, and get this, you have the upper hand even when not playing... because your character just stands there...??? Cheating is cheating, and that is that, you ignorant fools, their are no back doors, nor excuses for cheating.
-James
Goxify
They should seriously update the PS3 version... all the new stuff would kick so much butt!! And it would also stop all the ppl that sky walk.
thatboytitz
actually no people arent using the idler to get weapons... they want to get the hats... but the hats dont do anything, its like cosmetics for your player but yet its really rare
putting it in pokemon terms, tf2 hats are like shiny pokemon and the idler only helped lower the possibilities to getting one. it didnt increase stats and other stuff.
however that said some people did use it for the weapons but it was mostly for the extremely rare hats that are hard to find
Ultrastrike
some of you would think whats the point of using this method to achieve the 30 hats(including the 3 hatless hats). Well its because the hats are meant to be the rarest items in tf2 after all, every player gets a about a 1 or 3% of geting a hat every 4(hours or days, can't remember) of gameplay.
A_Can
I have TF2 on the 360 so i'm gonna have to wait for for someone to cheat on mine
rfwill13
I don't play TF2 anymore but I am gald that they are doing this. Cheating on online games has to be the all time low. I mean cheating at a video game for rewards or a win on an online game is pointless.
ABXPuPpeT
its funny how people cheat with such crappy games
Cobra180
I don't understand people calling others who used this program "cheaters." My idea of cheating is using an external program while in a game to gain an unfair advantage over the competition. Other than gaining some new items, the idling program did nothing to give users an advantage over others. I guess I just don't see how using this program would be any different from joining a server and idling in that. Sure, I suppose it's an exploit, but it was just more convenient.
I don't really care about whether I got the halo or not, but rather the whole idea of it. Valve should have just stripped items gained from the program, and let it be. Why reward people for the stupidity of others?
The Emperor's Champion
Here's the TF2 Wiki entry for the halo:
http://tf2wiki.net/wiki/Chea ter's_lament
The Emperor's Champion
I got my Cheater's Lament hat. It's a glowing angelic halo hat with an "Aura Of Incorruptibility" (which does nothing except mark you as -not- a cheating noob,....and screw up your invisibility as a Spy...)
Griffith4100
Wow, do any of you know what this "cheating" is!? Nobody is hacking for instant-headshots, its just a program that idles you in the game so you don't have to play +5000 hours to get a cosmetic hat. I liked how everyone who was ignorant jumped on the anti-cheater band wagon though, lol.
TSuperfly
its not cheating if theres no rule against it...
mengplex
Sounds like you guys dont even know what this 'cheating' is.
Essentially you can play and have like a 1 in a million chance of getting a rare hat (we're talking hundreds of hours for one of these)
Or you can use this idling program which basically simulates you being in a game in hope that you get a hat.
The hat does nothing btw , purely cosmetic.
KevinJames23
Why does TF2 sound like an MMORPG all of a sudden? Items? Drops? Trading? If I want to play an FPS I want to shoot stuff, not play World of Warcraft.
BONERJAM
I HATE online cheaters. I starting playing COD4 online again the other day and I get into a game where so guy is sitting in a glitch under the ground on Overgrown with a modded control. I sent that douche a "nice" little message. Seriously, how big of a complete idiot and douche bag do you have to be to use either of those methods let alone both?
SlickyFats
Exploit the game all you want just don't get online and ruin everyone else's experience with a game because you are just good enough to cheat but not good enough to play without it.
GregSep
Freakin Gabe Newell... He's always but-hurt about something... "PS3 is hard BAWWWWW" "Making new games fast is hard BAWWWWWW" "German's stealing my source codes BAWWWWWWW"... LOL
SlickyFats
I am all for some built in cheats AS LONG as I am the only one it affects. As in I like to turn on the cheats in the GTA games (like Shockwave said) but I generally only do it after I bored with a game. I turned them on immediately on Mercenaries 2 because I found out I hated the game and just wanted to be able to use the Nuke.
But people cheat in online Multiplayer is way I don't even bother playing online much anymore. I used to Wolfenstein ET until people started shooting through walls and writing scripts that could unload all of their bullet in half a second, or aimbots. I hate people who cheat online.
babyscottback
What is incredibly pointless and dumb are people that cheat in games like those found on Facebook. Its a facebook game, why are you bothering cheating?! I mean its one thing if gold farmers use bots in WoW to cheat, they can actually sell that stuff for real money, but cheating on facebook poker gets you nothing.
Shockwave562
good, cheating on-line is so pointless. I bet people feel real cool that they beat everyone when they do crap like that.
That sad I do miss the days of in-game single-player cheats. it seems like since Achievements/trophies came around most games don't include them any more. I think good cheats can breathe new life in to an old game. but that may be just my opinion.
I always liked how GTA did a unique cheat system that could allow for more fun, especially if you were just jacking around and having some fun
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