Comments on New TF2 Stats Released by Valve (Including death heat maps)

• New TF2 Stats Released by Valve (Including death heat maps)
• TF2 includes a reporting mechanism which tells us details about how people are playing the game. We’re sharing the data we collect because we think people will find it interesting, and because we expect to spot emergent problems earlier, and ultimately build better products and experiences as a result.
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  bungie does this for Halo 3 as well
  http://www.bungie.net/Online/Heatmaps.aspx

  Funny to see how the average lifetime for most classes are arount 30 seconds. Says a lot about the game.

  Valve really just does things right over and over again.
  TF2 is so polished, so fun.
  Here’s to hoping we get some new maps in the next couple weeks.

  Everyone hates granary!

  Does any one know how they create those graph? I’m not talking about how they gather the data for the graphs, but actually creating those things. They’re all images so I doubt their php, but I’m not sure what else it could be. I could use some nice graph generator code like that for a project I’m working on.

  Anyone else study the maps to see where the safest/most dangerous places on the map were? Or was it just me? So far I heven’t had any breakthroughs though. If anyone sees anything more profound than “standing on control points gets you killed” let me know.
  Oh yeah, I also have all of the acheivements so I’m in that 2.1%

  The most wicked stats about tf2

  good breakdown of how team fortress is played

  steampowered.com ? TF2 includes a reporting mechanism which tells us details about how people are playing the game. We’re sharing the data we collect because we think people will find it interesting, and because we expect to spot emergent problems earli

  Death Maps (Colors show where players died most often in each map.)

  Surprised sniper isn’t played more than what’s shown. Love the death maps — must go right on 2fort.

  Stats and heat maps.

  What really surprises me here is how for symmetric maps like 2fort or well, blue wins a lot more often than red, which certainly shouldn’t be the case if the maps were truly symmetric.

  I think because skilled players generally join the blue team. This was always true in Counterstrike so I think it’s carrying over.

  I don’t even mind the unbalanced map, it’s a lot of fun when you manage to push threw. What I like in contrast to classic, is that it’s much more accessable, yet still hardcore. So now that I less free time I can still kick ass with the kids who play it all day.

  2fort sniper wars blantantly obvious, heh.

  Those deathmaps are pretty cool, it makes me miss TFC, maybe I should up up TF2