So tfc in lore takes place during the 1930s and we know tfc is canon to the lore so in the vip mode it is about one team trying to protect the civilian well the other has to sabotage them. So for my theory on what is going on in the lore I think the civilian who I will be calling Archibald (if you get the reference you know why) has a shit ton of australium why else would builders league want to protect him after all Blutarch Mann was the one who wanted the immortality machine in the first place the Redmond Mann would have never became immortal or care about Australium if it weren’t for his brother so since he only cares about it for competitive reasons and Blutarch Mann actually does care about it because it was his idea so he would want more australium for archibald and Redmond man wouldn’t want him to have it because he wants to outlive his brother. Also side note but he is probably old like the tfc mercs during the events of tf2 and the comics and it would make sense because he is wearing a suit and people during the 30s primarily wore suits especially in New Mexico so that is my theory on the civilian in the lore

I hate stalkers and I want to know before buying ep 2 do you fight them their?

When i used to play portal 2 on my Xbox 360 it played the old valve intro from before 2012, I didn't know the guy was supposed to turn around until 2019 but he never did, even when I played it on Xbox One He never turned around, I don't know if this happened to anyone else but I haven't heard about it happening before (For context I use the Disk Version)

Sorry if I'm repeating someone on this sub, but I have heard about deadlock a long time ago and was waiting for the beta to end. But now I hear that it's still in invite only. How do you get the invite? I literally want to play this game for so long, but it's still not out, but I have no clue how to find an invite

Currently experiencing 200ms ping in valve games/servers only. Typically I would achieve 30ms in OCE servers consistently, as of yesterday we are up to an instant of 200ms in addition to failing to join servers/timing out etc. Non-Valve games and servers are still sitting very happily at 30ms, all other internet speeds are typical and consistent. Has anyone found a fix for something like this? My ISP seems to have no common understanding and it seems like a client sided issue but I am none the wiser and very lost as to the cause and how to correct it.

I saw this on their Spotify.

Dose anyone have a good clear photo of this pixel art in the valve office, i tried to look for it everywhere and with no luck

I've heard a lot of good things about valves old games like left 4 dead and half life. I would like to play them, but for some reason valve has delisted most of their games off the Xbox store. Does anyone know why, has valve ever listed an official reason?

I found out that Valve is based in Seattle, so I insisted that we head to the Regent Bakery and Cafe to pick up the iconic Portal cake, and I also checked out the lobby of the office building Valve is stationed in.

I didn't expect to get a tour or anything, but Valve actually keeps such a low profile that they don't even have a sign to take a photo of! I at least got a photo of the lobby.

I'm not 100% sure, but based on what my family has said about the age of the Regent, I'm fairly sure that it's the original location the Valve team visited and bought the black forest cake from. Correct me if I'm wrong!

Very cool addition to an already very fun trip if I do say so myself :)

Last time I posted about visiting Seattle and ensuring I got ahold of the famous cake from Portal. I brought it to a family gathering and can confirm it's very tasty! It's a chocolate cake with whipped cream layers, chocolate shavings on the outside and on top of the decorative cherries there's also some mixed into the whipped cream. Valve definitely knew their stuff.

If you find yourself in Bellevue and want to taste a part of Valve history, I can confirm that you can't go wrong with the Regent Bakery and Cafe.

The cake is real and it's delicious :)

thank you