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What do the Titanium Tank winners get?

Jan 1, 2018 @ 1:20pm - Hydrogen
Since the deadline has passed, there's no point in hiding this information now, so I'll spill the secret.

Operation Titanium Tank is not just a pop file contest, but also a community player event where we take 6 of the best pop files and build an unofficial community-made MvM tour out of them. This contest has a feature no other community contest in the past has had: Player Participation. After the judging ends, we will upload the 6 winning pop files to our servers and invite MvM players to complete all 6 missions to win the Titanium Tank Participant Medal.

This is a new twist we're experimenting with to add player involvement to community contests, rather than restrict these events to only content creators. Anyone (participants, winners, players) can complete The Titanium Tank Tour (TTTT) to win a Titanium Tank Participant Medal as a tour completion cosmetic loot drop item.

Along with bragging rights for being featured in the Titanium Tank tour, we will also award an extra participant medal to all the winners. This means winners can take home up to 3 medals, other participants 2 medals, and players 1 medal. We will release the tour information after the winners have been announced and the tour servers have been fired up.

This tour is completely free for everyone to play - there's no payment to earn the medal.

All that being said, this makes judging ever so more important since the judging will determine which of the 6 pop files (out of the ~66 we received) will make it into the Titanium Tank tour. Players who join me in the gamedays (be it in SPECTATOR or in RED) can critique the mission and post feedback to help influence the score for that entry. If you want to play a role in helping me judge and rate these missions, don't miss out on the judging gamedays! I don't always see everything going on, so 6-9 pairs of eyeballs overseeing the map is better than 1 and helps to keep the judging fair.

When the resubmission thread opens, take our feedback into consideration and rework your pop file as you feel necessary to improve your score. Even if you have submitted something that isn't among the best of the contest pool, you can still radically revise your submission, resubmit, and potentially land in the top 6 winning missions!

Remember, we changed some things from the contest rules:
  • Resubmission period is 1 week (not 72 hrs).
  • Your final score is the best of your 2 scores (not an average).
Tentative judging timeline:
  • Jan 2 - Jan 13: Judging round 1
  • Jan 14 - Jan 20: Resubmission period (testing gamedays included)
  • Jan 21 - Jan 31: Judging round 2
  • Feb 1: Titanium Tank Tour launch
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Hydrogen Jan 8, 2018 @ 7:37am 
@Graypairofsocks Maybe but hassling valve for text that hardly anyone sees is not worth the effort. We're already thankful they gave us a medal to begin with; best not to be too greedy with them.

@Penguineer Yes. The plugin and medal-qualifying scripts will be posted publicly so everyone can see exactly how the progress tracking works and what the medal requirements are.
Penguineer Jan 7, 2018 @ 3:10pm 
How exactly are you gonna track the progress of what missions people completed if its an unofficial tour? Server plugin or something?
Graypairofsocks Jan 3, 2018 @ 2:44am 
I'm pretty sure you can ask valve to fix the item descriptions (although valve time would be in play).
Hydrogen Jan 2, 2018 @ 4:32pm 
No, we don't have custom descriptions for the medal unfortunately. They are all the same for everyone. (In hindsight we should have done that, but since we haven't ever run a contest like this before, we wanted to play it safe and keep the medal the same for everybody.)
JugadorXEI Jan 2, 2018 @ 3:53pm 
Will the medals have custom-ish descriptions describing in what way they were obtained? Like "Mission Winner", "Mission Submitter" and "Tour Participant", etc... I know Ready Steady Pan medals have descriptions like that describing participants and helpers.
Hydrogen Jan 2, 2018 @ 9:24am 
Not following your plugin comment.

And yes you can paint them differently and have different colored tanks. Admittedly it's not really a "good" prize, but since medals require Valve's approval (not something we can put in whenever and however much we want) we have to work with what Valve allows us to give out.

The better prize is that contest participants (and winners) don't have to complete the tour to win the medal since they already receive a medal for participating anyway.

We're among the first to ever try involving players into community contests in some form (in this contest, in the form of a community MvM tour) so we want to see how this pans out before we commit to mult-medal events (if we ever run another contest in the future).
닥장이잔아 Jan 2, 2018 @ 1:20am 
and what is merit with earn three same badge

paint each with other color and hang on profile?

or am i understood wrong
닥장이잔아 Jan 1, 2018 @ 9:35pm 
than there's was no point about "plugin is not recommand because of other server install&utility" you said -.-

i should use penetration plugin next time
Hydrogen Jan 1, 2018 @ 7:05pm 
The ping is a good point and a valid concern, but the problem with hosting the tour on other servers is, similar to the quickplay fiasco Valve had trouble dealing with, other servers can report false tour data ("rig" the tour) to award medals to people who don't deserve them. There's nothing stopping a server from sending us 500 steam IDs and claiming those people did the tour (and we'd have no evidence if they really did or not, and it'd be painful to validate them).

I don't think players (and contest participants) will be happy if the medal can be cheated this way, which is why, at least for now, it's restricted to our servers only. It's the same reason why Valve doesn't allow TF2 contracts/campaigns and mann up to run on community servers.

The server is located in Philadelphia, which gives decent ping to all of USA and Europe. For best results, try to play the tour along with USA & EU players. This is what we did in the Mappers vs Machines event for Australians and it worked out.
Lamiiku Jan 1, 2018 @ 6:45pm 
This is gonna be siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick
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