Steam weekend deal: The Orange Box

Whooooa.  Alright, now this is a great deal.  If you can read this, then you should probably pick this up.  The Orange Box is currently on sale for $10.  Yes, for half the price of TF2, you get TF2 + The rest of the Orange Box including Portal.  The only people exempt from the previous statement are those who already own the Orange Box for PC.  Here’s the breakdown:

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TF2 Free Weekend – Aug 22-24

TF2 Free Weekend – Aug 22-24

Everyone preload this.  And post when you think you’d like to do a 2-4+ hr session.  This is your chance to see how well (usually surprisingly well) TF2 runs on your aging (or awesome-o) PC.

There is no TF2 demo, and loading it up the weekend of can be a painfully slow download.

Several of us already own it.  My steam id for the friends list is Phokis.  Shoot me a request once you are up and running with Steam.

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pLayday: 2/19 – Team Fortress 2

TF2 Spy vs Eng

pLayday: 2/19 – Team Fortress 2

It is time for some 2fort. Premise is simple. Capture the flag, and bring it back to base. The flag is located in the basement of the enemy installation (a mirror image of your own). You can get there via the front entrance, then up the stairs and to one of two stairways down, or via the sewer entrance (which leads to the up stairs room).

If we can get 8 of us, we can get that elusive achievement.

I think we all own Orangebox, except for raforce, so we’ll probably flip to another game (Halo or Undertow) partway through if he’s still online. Don’t want to leave anybody out for too long :)

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