The gift is given to a random person in the server with what seems to be a 5 minute delay, and they dont start dropping until you are 10 people in the server - that also means that in a 24-man server your chance of getting a gift is 1/24, while in a 10-man server the chance is 1/10.
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:41 PM, ics <[email protected]> wrote: > Gift drops are personal, no longer others can collect any of your gifts in > any of the maps, not even in the old ones manor and viaduct event maps. > > As for gift drops, i personally have gotten 2 in a 5min period, 3 in a row > in 10 minute period and then like 4-5 hours without any gift drops. The > other players were getting those but there seems to be awful delay and it's > quite random if you get one or don't. It seems that going to visit mann co > store and exiting will renew the connection to Steam somehow that might help > getting gifts more sooner but it doesn't seem to always work. > > The gift will stay in a map as long as you get 3 notes about it. With 4th, > it says "mysteriously disappeared". It doesn't stay forever and i already > had a case where i could not find the gift from anywhere. > > -ics > > 29.10.2012 19:03, Anime Siege kirjoitti: > > This is what I know. Others can correct me if I am wrong. The Halloween > drops/gifts are in the form of presents on the Lakeside Event map. The > announcement box will state when a gift has appeared. It will be your job to > find and collect it. > > On Oct 29, 2012 9:39 AM, "Andreas Grimm" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> could anyone tell me how that current gift drop system works? >> >> >> >> A lot of my players complain, that they don't get any gifts. >> >> But for a few people it seems to work - I see at least the chat message, >> that they found something. >> >> >> >> I tested that for myself and I get only 3-4 gift drop announcements with >> two computers over nearly the whole weekend. >> >> Is that really a designed feature? >> >> >> >> Am I the only one who got problems with the git drops? >> >> >> >> - Andreas >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
