Talk:Mann vs. Machine

Upgrades?

Miss Pauling says that the robots run on money and that you can keep whatever drops. These monetary drops will be used to purchase upgrades to use during gameplay I suppose? The TF2 site in the MvM page it says "Take advantage of breaks between waves to upgrade your abilities and weapons." In the comic, Hale says that they'll still have to pay for the weapons, and I don't think Valve is so evil to make us pay to play this new game mode. But this is just speculation on my part, we'll see in the next two days. I'm aware I made this comment in the comic A Fate Worse Than Chess but it's most relevant here, I believe. NeoSlith 10:09, 14 August 2012 (PDT)

Called it. NeoSlith 19:05, 14 August 2012 (PDT)

What I don't understand is when you receive the Canteen. It says on the Canteen page that you receive it after completing your Mann vs Machine mission. Is this after you complete the Mann vs machine tutorial mission? Is this after you defeat the first wave? When you finish your first Mann vs Machine game? Could someone make this clearer? GaryGibbon 12:35, 15 August 2012 (PDT)

We don't know what "mission" means yet. That's the wording on the update page. My guess would be your first complete game. dendodge 12:37, 15 August 2012 (PDT)

Hilarious Glitch

So since I can't get into the game online, I made a LAN server to try it out on my own. Well, the game glitched after the bomb went off and continued the round. I killed the rest of the Robo-Scouts and the next round started. However, it turned out that the blast zone stayed active killing everything that touched it, including the robots. They couldn't plant the bomb for two rounds and I was off to do whatever. NeoSlith 21:32, 15 August 2012 (PDT)

Move everything about the gamemode over here?

Since the update is already out and all, perhaps we should move the gameplay stuff like special bots, canteens and upgrades over to this page? NGINFERNO 05:04, 16 August 2012 (PDT)

Regarding robot types and such

At some point in the future the "special robots" link needs to be changed, since it just leads to the list on the update page of announced special robots. There are several not mentioned in the update (giant pyro, major league scout, rapid-fire demo, overcharge soldier, and some variation of the heavy wearing the GRU, off the top of my head). A separate page is probably in order for this (and I'm no good at the setting up part, but I can contribute) Rycluse 16:04, 17 August 2012 (PDT)

• One question also needs to be answered, as I've to undergo a Tour of Duty. Do Engineer robots ever appear (I've never seen them on community servers)? If not, we may need to make a note that these types of robots never appear. —WhosAsking 06:18, 17 August 2012 (PDT)

• I've never seen those either. The head for robo-engineers was seen in the Source Filmmaker files like all the others. I've yet to see a robo-engineer in any of my games Rycluse 16:04, 17 August 2012 (PDT)

Auto-Balance problems

In some servers, robots can be placed in red team. And they do nothing, but they still respawn on the same place as the blu robots. They show models and animations. Although they do nothing, but can block enemy passages by jumping on them. --Gabrielwoj 06:26, 18 August 2012 (PDT)

Canteens + Bot Types + Misc Merges in MvM?

I'd do it myself but I'd like some help/verification for this. We should push the canteens into this section as it's a game-mode only feature, along with the bot types and upgrades in this mode. on a side-note, someone should check if the jumpers do damage in this mode since there's a damage bonus upgrade on them - I believe it's a bug.

Pages to merge: http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Robots http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Power_Up_Canteen

Any thoughts? MikalMirkas 23:14, 20 August 2012 (PDT)

Bots and MvM

Do bots (tf_bot_add) work as defenders on MvM? Somebody1212 09:43, 29 August 2012 (PDT)

Yes they do. But they do not help with killing robots, they just stand in spawn even if you do nav_generate. Noob3r64 13:11, 11 October 2012 (PDT)

Weapon Upgrades

I didn't know where else to post this but I think the articles for all weapons should now also include their MvM upgrade ability information. I'm aware that the best way to have this done would be to do it myself but I figured that A) I should see what the community says before I waste my time and B) I don't have every weapon to check them all out. Gold 02:15, 13 September 2012 (PDT)

Disregard that- I just found the Upgrade Station page... sorry. (Although I do think there should be a link to it on the weapon pages or something like that) Gold 02:19, 13 September 2012 (PDT)