Really sad situation. NH was one of the last remaining decent community servers and it just lost a bunch of quality players. Quality players make the community. RIP CouchOnline. RIP IO. No one but Wizardry deserved to get banned due to reporting and discussing the cheating evidence. FYI, there has been evidence in the past (2 or more years ago) of Wizardry using cheats, but we didn't report it at the time because we thought it was a one and done thing (with Wiz being notorious for accusing everyone of cheating). Seems like it turned into something more than one and done, unfortunately.

Is there any way to make damage indicators not so close to targets? Usually it's not a problem, but I'm finding playing heavy more that the damage numbers are super distracting (overlapping the target) at range. I suppose I could turn them off for just heavy, but I'd still like access to the total damage information, if possible.

Nope, been playing TF games since 1997, probably in the top 10 longest duration fully-active TF players (next to SpaceCadet`HX, maybe). Been giving feedback to devs on TF going back to when flash grenades were (foolishly) replaced with caltrops in QWTF. Vooper#1773

Anyone figure this out (how to remove the souls and sound effects)? I'm pretty sure the flying souls are the cause of my system lag as of the halloween update.

Less clutter, less distractions. Simple, clean graphics are best for multiplayer FPS games - save the eye candy for single player.

Yes, if anyone has a way to disable the soul-sound and soul-graphic, that'd be appreciated. I use Comanglia's config, DX8, have a GTX 970, and was having mutl-second system lag yesterday and otherwise distracted by all the visual and sound nonsense they added.

Found the fix for this:

A recent update hard-coded the color of target ID names. The previously invisble TargetNameLabel control is now visible. The simplest solution is to change the "tall" value of TargetNameLabel (found in targetid.res) to "0."

But, yes, I echo indecency, would love to see a full update of the Gunblade hud, which is perfect in its simplicity.

Big fan of this hud despite lack of updates. Anyways, one error is that the player name appearing upon in-game character mouseover appears twice, with the second slightly off to the side of the first. Any suggestions to fix?

Love the new explosions.

Aye, did a full reset of TF2 graphics using -autoconfig, inserted just your GFX config, and TF2 works again in DX8. Must have been something else in my config causing the crash.

r_pixelfog 1 helped with the fogginess

Cheat command requiring sv_cheats 1, per the console.

DX9 is unplayable with this haze. http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/36370312389046270/BFCAF73311C7E7E732D75A5D5F222A79D4A185AC/

As of the TF2 update yesterday, using DX81 causes a crash to desktop upon startup with no error message. DX9 works fine. Anyone with a similar issue find a resolution?

Good to know I'm not the only one, please let me know if you figure out how you fixed it.

I've always had trouble with the washed out look under DX9. It's basically unplayable, too foggy to see everything you need to see.

Today's TF2 update is causing me to crash to desktop with no error under DX81. Same result with DX80.

DX9 works, but the in-game graphics are very washed out, making it difficult to see players far away, as they blend into the fog. For example: http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/36370312386103616/6136FAD38766CCF735EEFC9BAB48EC24E85D0F69/

Any ideas as to making DX8 work? If not, any suggestions on settings to eliminate this fogginess and make the blue/red of the players easier to see? I have a GTX 970 and am using the latest driver (350.12). I've inserted Comanglia's full graphic config directly into the end of my autoexec.cfg.