if server = windows, you get 41 metal instead of 40???

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old title:
"if the tf2 server runs on windows, you get more metal from small ammo packs (and less on linux)"

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[Spacebugg]

Every conversation ends with spy getting another bug at this point.

[LucyTheBox]

Just imagine, instead of using your flamethrower to spy check, you instead follow the person around and wait for them to pick up a health pack and then calculate to see if they got 1 HP too many.

[milesmacmahon]

This pay to win deal with Microsoft is DISGUSTING. Valve should be ashamed.

[sweetiecandy]

You have no idea how the health from a small health pack being listed as "20.5%" "wrongfully" on the TF2 wiki has driven me mad with questions as to how a random .5 was added seemingly out of nowhere, holy shit thank you for this explanation now I can finally rest in peace somewhat I guess.

[Jmcgee]

So, basically, I need to put my Linux-based server into a Windows VM? Sorry for the lag everyone, I need 1 extra metal.

[greenlemon]

and i thought some year ago that they changed it from 41 to 40 intentionally ... but now knowing they "fixed" it by changing the server OS is marvelous

[GuyFromCanada]

Your editing doesn’t get as much love as it should; it’s so clean, and it helps with understanding a lot. Thank you for putting lots of effort into editing!

[Mikusch_]

Important to note that float->int conversions will always truncate the extra precision. Valve made the deliberate choice to round up here, when they should have used a round-to-nearest algorithm instead.

[JouvaMoufette]

For those wondering, means Multiply Single Scalar. Single as in single precision. Precision being number of decimal points to the right.

[KarolOfGutovo]

The way that TF2 seemingly conspires with the very fabric of computing to create ridiculous spychecks has me in love with the game. I don't play it, more like, adore how it has all that wackiness in both code and lore.

[krakkywakky]

Alternate title: how to find whether the server owner has windows or linux

[adamdapatsfan]

As a compsci guy, I appreciated just how well you condensed the entire compiler/machine code segment. Very approachable!

[LiveseyKnight]

so this is why we're infested with bots, linux users are upset over the less metal

[ldctv]

Looks like Dane's going to have to update Uncletopia to Windows. Can't be missing that 1 metal.

[carlington]

That’s not spaghetti code anymore, it’s more like a hydra that you have been trying to kill for the past decade and it has grown so many heads, they started to intertwine with each other and make the creature unable to do anything.

You still can’t kill it tho

[VerticalCalzone]

Words cannot describe how impressed I am that you found this. The "41 metal" problem has been bugging me for years, and I had just assumed it was caused by a million different parts of the spaghetti code working together in exactly the wrong way

[AzzieEquinox]

well, you see, the extra bullet is supposed to be used for ending the windows user's life in case they get surrounded by bots (who all run on linux)

[bugjams]

"This is TF2's code."
_Dear god..._
"There's more."
*_NO._*

[rumpus]

Tf2 tech in 2009: you can use your rocket launcher to get up on high places
Tf2 tech in 2022: you can identify a disguised spy on a windows server by a computing irregularity which seems to add another point of health to the spy whenever he picks up a small hp kit

[tubebrocoli]

Someone might argue this means Valve only tested their game on Linux. While not technically incorrect, it's more likely they just didn't test it at all.