The idea is pretty cool, but it would need a lot of work to really shine. I can't code/mod for shit, so all I have is idea input.

That said, this mode could actually be AMAZING with the right things, and its a shame you're deving it with the idea of no downloads. When I hear "Zombie TF2", I think of things like Til Death Do Us Part (and Part Two) which paint a good picture of what a gamemode zombie TF2 could be like. Dark levels, waves of enemies and and a feeling of hopelessness. The idea of permadeath helps with the "hopelessness" concept, but would really need a dark map to highlight that, as a fully sunny map like upward doesn't really bring out the "zombie apocalypse" feel. Another thing to take from the videos (and the zombie genre in general) is the idea of infection. One idea you MAY be able to use with your no downloads standards, would be the death of one of the four players becoming a zombie itself. A super zombie even, using the "undead" halloween skin for their class. It could be player or CPU controlled, but for the "hopeless" factor CPU may be better, with the former player getting a third person view of what their former body is now doing to their team.

tl;dr See first sentence.

EDIT: Another thing I just realized. You said you wanted this to be no download so anyone can go and play it...but with a four player limit, whats the point? You wouldn't be able to load this in a public server with 24/32 people. What are you going to do, put them in spec? They'd just leave. Plus, without the more heavy polish, four friends aren't likely to make a small server just to play it. It seems the idea behind it clashes with the reality.

Downloading now, hopefully it'll be done before I have to go to work. Thought I'd spread the news. The Valve servers are getting slammed so there's a lot of lag and cut downloads right now, thankfully I got a nice torrent.

repo.steamstatic.com/download/
Alternate source with torrent: http://steamdb.info/blog/35/

My condolences to anyone who backed the project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXDSfUJBCj0&html5=1

Overview: "random" person named Dina makes fanart on the Mighty No. 9 donator page, claiming the main character should be female for gender equality. She is suddenly hired.
First shes the community manager, Then shes a robot designer/game artist.
Then she has even more involvement with the project.
Turns out through her twitter shes never even played megaman, plus a ton more feminism stuff (Note: I am not against this per say, I am against the following)
Also turns out because shes friends/dating someone in comcept and was never a "random" donator, and got the job because of it.
People who donated demand answers, afraid she will turn the game into something else they did note donate for.
Dina replies by locking her twitter, deleting all the previous damning tweets, and reopening it saying everything is okie dokie.

tl;dr: Mighty No. 9 may have some forced feminism. I'm for equal rights, but when you need to piss of thousands of people who paid for something to try and push it, you're fucking doing it wrong.

This all happened within the last day so STAY TUNED AS DRAMA DEVELOPS.

I really really hope CEVO TF2 takes off. Its nice to see a 6s division that pays attention and communicates.

If only the cilnet had Linux support.

Valve

That is correct, I wrote this after watching an eXtv vod sleep depraved, so the phrases swapped around in my head.

Editted to clarify.

This might be just me, but:

Please stop using third person/free camera for 90% of the action. One of the biggest reasons Tribes never took off as a spec game is because for the longest time the spec client only allowed free cam, and it was easily the biggest complaint from people. I understand you're trying to get all the action in a HL game, but free cam just makes things a mess. When two teams of 9 are attacking point, there is a lot going on, and we're not going to see the sniper pick a medic that you talk about because there are a dozen more things happening at once. Narrow it down. I would rather see the sick plays of one person for awhile and miss some others then try to see it all at once from above. Its too much of a mess.

Please use first person. Free cam is good when they're coming out to point so we can see the position they're coming in, but when the action starts, we want to see the sick shots from their point of view.

Skial, critsandvich, and valve servers. Sometimes I want 24/7 something, sometimes I want a full maplist.

EDIT: TFP can be good too, depending.

http://i.imgur.com/hIpvQWe.png

feel free to resize some for hat room

http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/john-carmack-officially-exits-id-software/1100-4789/

Ok so this news is a few days old but I just learned about it. Talk about an end of an era, I'm a little blown away. Carmacks brilliant mind is one of the primary reasons we play the game we play today, although indirectly. He is however directly the reason FPS took the limelight for so many years and brought me to the kind of gaming I hold so dear. I may not have been a huge fan of id for their last few years, but god damn talk about a legacy. I used to talk to my LAN buddies about John and id like many of us do about Gabe and Valve today. They're legendary, and without John, it'll never be the same id we grew up with.

On a happier note, he is moving full time to work with Oculus VR, so we should see good things with that kind of legendary coding brain behind it.

Quick edit: And I just realized, no more Carmack keynote at Quakecon. :,(

show me the monet to move to highlander

confirmed by ggglygys obvious love of playing engie in highlander

(this is a joke)

The nominees are live!

I counter with:

ESEA installed malware on your computer that can openly look through your firesystem and copy and delete files as it wishes.

If you want to pay for a virus, go nuts, but theres no way in blue hell I will support it, even if it kills this community (hint: it won't).

Pithos to get my Pandora streams without commercials/breaks

Rhythmbox for MP3s

I have asked this a few times before but

will there be a linux client?

My biggest beef pre-bitcoin/malware drama with ESEA was how they outright 100% refused a linux client, a move that pretty much killed my interest in 6s.