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If other games can have their threads, why not this? :V
Everyone plays TF2. And if somebody doesn't, sooner or later they will :V
To start it off before it goes somewhere: Which classes do you play the most and with which setup?
For me, probably Sniper with Huntsman/Jarate.
Huntsman is simply more fun than the rifle(and kills look cooler too, plus you aren't that distance camper which doesn't get any action :V
Jarate over Razorback simply because it's Team Fortress.
Plus you should learn how to spycheck and Ambassador doesn't give a fuck anyways :V
Second probably Pyro... Normal flamethrower(compression blast is fun, bonus cool points for deflect kills, light arrows on fire, put out fires), Axtinguisher. It's always cool to take out a demoman with targe+eyelander.
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I am the medic. I heal you. You kill. I still get points. Plus The syringe gun makes me :V
I also use the ubersaw. BEST. MELEE. EVER. I kinda switch between the Kritzkrieg and the normal Ubercharge.
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Pyro - Flamethrower/shotgun/regular fireaxe but only because I'm not good with Axetinguisher =<
Medic - Blutsauger/depends on team needs at the time/Ubersaw
Engy - doesn't have unlocks yet lol
But I don't really play much at all lately because most of my most active clanmates are all whiny bitches anymore and I don't want to fucking listen to them complain. So I've just been playing Borderlands with my boyfriend instead.
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Spy :3. The other weapons take too long to kill. I prefer Za Warudo :V
Just curious, where does everyone play ? And do I need Steam to join ? ;_; FOUND IT.
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I quickly grew bored of this game, but when I did play, it was mostly medic, pyro and soldier.
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I play TF2 from time to time. I use all classes about the same amount, but I guess I main:
-Medic (Blutsauger, Normal Medigun, Ubersaw. Invincibility is more useful than 100% crits in most situations)
-Sniper (Huntsman, Jarate/sometimes razorback, depending on wether I know the other team have a ton of spies)
-Heavy (Standard Minigun, Sandvich, K.G.B's)
I do use the Engineer a lot too. I'm quite looking forward to the inevitable unlocks for him. ;D
Btw, Steam ID is Doomsday93
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RANT TIME
what the hell
worst team ever
we have SEVEN SPIES and we still keep getting sniped left and right.
and I got ANOTHER DUPLICATE
hooray
2 minutes later, somebody gets a hat
or before that
got my 6th flare gun, then in 2 minutes somebody got an eyelander and shortly after someone else got a direct hit.
Why can't I get these 2 items >.>
/rant
Least played...medic and engy. Both around 20 minutes while sniper has 6 hours :V
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I play TF2 occasionally, but I'm really, really bad at it. I prefer playing as the Scout, though. I just use the default weapons with him, don't really like the unlocks.
Also I still don't have any of the Demo unlocks at all, which makes me sad.
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I think we had a TF2 thread but it fell to the back somewhere.
Anyways since this one is up I'll post this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iNgBG7802Q)
My favorite class is Heavy. I can be cheap like a pyro without being called a noob.
All standard items because heavy's unlock weapons aren't really good.
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I play whatever class the team needs, which ends up being engineer or medic a lot of the time. Engy isn't totally boring on CP/PL maps, but I'm hoping the update gives them more options to get in the thick of things.
When I'm not being credit to team I like to go heavy or pyro, no unlocks except the melee weapons (unless we're facing a scout rush, then I'll swap in Natascha.) I tried using backburner for a while too, but most maps make it too difficult to get behind the enemy, so it's just not worth giving up the airblast.
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RANT TIME
what the hell
worst team ever
we have SEVEN SPIES and we still keep getting sniped left and right.
and I got ANOTHER DUPLICATE
hooray
2 minutes later, somebody gets a hat
or before that
got my 6th flare gun, then in 2 minutes somebody got an eyelander and shortly after someone else got a direct hit.
Why can't I get these 2 items >.>
/rant
Least played...medic and engy. Both around 20 minutes while sniper has 6 hours :V
Hey, I think I saw you today.Did you see anyone named strawberry pie?
If so, you should have mentioned the five snipers. Is there any map where decent teams have 5 snipers? Also, why do people go engie when attacking. You can't build anything in the setup place, so why bother? Lastly, does the shrine maiden Steam group ever play as a clan?
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Yeah, I think I have seen somebody like that :V
Attack engies are for teleports...I think.
Just scored a crocket deflect kill. Always feels good :V
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Attack engies are for teleports...I think.
Mostly, yeah. Though a good one can often make good use of sentry and/or dispenser, and the really good ones can do so even when the team is pushing on a 5-point CP map.
(Note that I am one one of said particularly good ones and will never pretend to be. =P)
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Yeah, I can see your reasoning, but for a map like gorge, should engies wait until one point is captured for teles to be practical?
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Note that I am one one of said particularly good ones and will never pretend to be. =P
I'm sorry, I cannot see through your engrish. Clarify please?
I also play as the Spy with the cloak and dagger and ambassador.
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I'm sorry, I cannot see through your engrish. Clarify please?
Oops. That first "one" should be a "not", lol. I have no idea what I was thinking to make it come out like that.
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Oops. That first "one" should be a "not", lol. I have no idea what I was thinking to make it come out like that.
Don't worry, we all engrish sometimes.
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Pro- Engineer, Medic
If we need it- Soldier, Demoman
When Bored- Pyro, Huntsman Sniper, Spy
If you've ever played 2Fort and jumped into the water only to die to a turret with a guy named Yukkuri laughing at you... it was probably me. :V
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I play this all the time.
My only real issue is that demomen are too safe to play as/good snipers make me rage
how the crap can anyone be that good at getting headshots, i always miss with the sniper rifle.
arena's probably my favorite gameplay type simply because it's so easy to pick up and play for short, spaced out periods of time.
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Scout, medic and sniper. Played competitive for a while, got to div5 in ETF2L, then our team splintered.
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Demoman also is fun to play :V
Especially because you can jump over rockets without too much risk involved.
Just went 1v1 vs a soldier in the 2fort water tunnel, dodged his rockets for fun, then went and charged him with a bottle. Fun :V
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I am sad that I only have the 360 version of TF2 ;_;
I promised myself that I'm gonna buy the PC version someday though.
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WHAT THE HELL
I'm on this server.
Then I get a camera beard.
40 minutes later, I get ANOTHER camera beard
WHY CAN'T I GET AN EYELANDER OR DIRECT HIT
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I usually play Spy, Scout, Medic, or Soldier. In terms of loadouts:
Spy: Ambassador/Invisibility Watch in most game types, Ambassador/Dead Ringer in arena.
Scout: Scattergun/Pistol/Bat in most occasions, Scattergun/Bonk/Bat when dealing with sentries or chokepoints. Exchange scattergun for Force-A-Nature in any map where vertical movement is a huge asset.
Medic: Syringe Gun/Medigun/Ubersaw in most game types, Blutsauger/Kritzkrieg/Ubersaw on defense or in arena.
Soldier: Rocket Launcher/Gunboats/Equalizer for fun/arena, Rocket Launcher/Shotgun/Equalizer for profit.
Favorite game types are arena and cp. Ctf's alright if it's doublecross though.
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WHAT THE HELL
I'm on this server.
Then I get a camera beard.
40 minutes later, I get ANOTHER camera beard
WHY CAN'T I GET AN EYELANDER OR DIRECT HIT
You got valved.
I tend to play Engineer or Medic most of the time, because usually my team is completely lacking in terms of support classes.
I also found this neat game called Global Agenda, which is pretty much a MMO TF2 clone/rip-off.
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I would play engineer more if the DH and demomen didn't make sentries so useless; then again, engineers are all about the teleporters and dispensers.
WHAT THE HELL
I'm on this server.
Then I get a camera beard.
40 minutes later, I get ANOTHER camera beard
WHY CAN'T I GET AN EYELANDER OR DIRECT HIT
Camera Beard drop rate has been absurd after the last class updates. I've gotten so many of them. It doesn't help that they're 'unique' and can only be smelted with other camera beards. They're so lame now that everyone and their mother has like five of them.
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I am sad that I only have the 360 version of TF2 ;_;
I promised myself that I'm gonna buy the PC version someday though.
You should buy it now while they are having the valentines sales.
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Trying to get 3 more demo achievements.
Hooray for being useless trying to kill people with air stickies, doing everything for one more construction kill or hoping to get a 3+ sticky kill.
I swear that I once stickyjumped onto a point and captured it but got nothing.
Almost had 5 people in a single sticky kill and got killed just as I wanted to detonate.
I get nothing but duplicates - 2 flare guns in one day, 2 beards in a single map, another targe, another ambassador, three sandviches, no eyelander, no direct hit, nothing.
The achievements are ridiculous to get in normal play...half of them require the scottish resistance or eyelander anyways.
Do you seriously expect me to sticky jump while hoping I land on some passing dude which has low enough HP to get killed in one melee hit?
goddamnit
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Yeah, the drop system seems to have a lower drop chance for items you don't have. Meaning you just get duplicates most of the time. (almost all of the time)
I hadn't gotten a single KGB drop until I had actually gotten the milestone to get it. Now I get them all of the time. It was that way with the targe, too.
Let's not even think about the gunboats. I haven't gotten close to getting one, and I'm sure as hell not going to try to craft one; knowing my luck I'll just get another buff banner.
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I have the gunboats, but I get completely destroyed by Direct Hits with the normal launcher.
Crafted away both of my KGBs because I didn't realize that I need 4 demo items to get the token.
KGB is useless anyways...but I WANT THE EYELANDER
It's hard to bottle charge people :-\
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Funny that. I have duplicates of the Eyelander and Direct Hit, but I can't get my hands on a pair of Gunboats. Trying to craft a pair but its going pretty slow. :<
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Why can't they release item trading...I'm sure there are people which are still unable to get a backburner :V
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From what I've heard, a trade system is supposed to be coming in a later update. Lets hope so.
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It 'should' be in with the engineer update.
Hopefully, anyways. Just like how we were suppose to hopefully have news on episode 3 in 2010 :(
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Oh, I should go to my bank account and see how to go about getting Steam games, starting with this and Audiosurf. Thanks for reminding me. :V
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God Audiosurf is awesome. I got it for a few bucks and it held my attention for a few weeks.
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Trading will be implemented in Valve time.
Maybe after the 2012 election. :S
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Feeling bad for the other people in this thread that haven't gotten their weapons. My brother went and got all the weapons. Hes a bad boy, and did it all on idles and achievement servers. Only has two hats and the camera beard though.
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Well, my DL of the game is at 99%, so I guess it's fair for me to start asking questions. I've played some FPS back in the day, but it's been a while...
Is there a good way to get a feel for different classes without having to play out in the open? If I pick up a Medic and suck, I'd prefer for it to not affect any records the game keeps track of, although I doubt that's possible... On the same note, is there a good way to learn the various maps other than in a public game?
Also, since I'll be starting 100% fresh, I don't have any of the special weapons or anything. Am I going to be at any major disadvantage, or am I basically just missing extra options?
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@Jana
You can open servers for yourself to play on, but live matches will train you best.
There isn't any real ranking system so you won't have to worry about sucking.
The unlockable weapons are just side grades so you won't be at a terrible disadvantage if you don't have them.
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If you create your own server, you can play with bots on a King Of The Hill map. They don't know how to play other game modes like CTF or CP yet, though.
http://www.tfportal.de/?site=faq&cat=3 - first enable the developer console
http://www.tfportal.de/?site=faq&cat=1 - than create your own server and type tf_bot_add a bunch of times
I used these to grind a bunch of soldier and demoman achievements and unlock the weapons slightly less dishonestly than on an achievement server. >_> You'll probably learn more by playing against humans, but be prepared to lose; sometimes the other team is just better.
If you're feeling like a burden to your team, just go Medic yourself, then you don't have to worry about doing damage. Engineer is another fairly easy class, but if you try that out please learn to build a teleporter for your team; very little is more useless than an engineer with no teleporter.
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At first I played whatever, then after the WAR update I used Scout with the default loadout and I murderize the demos and other classes. I play Sniper when we are in an open map with no one playing Sniper. I use the Huntsman when I just want to kill without actually aiming. I use Engie or Medic when I feel like being credit to team. Demo with Scottish Resistance when I want to defend. Sometimes I play Heavy and get a lot of points in games like KOTH. A lot of people say that Heavy is the weakest character but when played right they can devastate a team. I once healed a Heavy with a Koishi avatar who got a 60 kill streak.
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TF2 is pretty simple and more casual than most FPS - honestly, I still haven't seen an extreme skiller or a complete newb.
There is very little aiming involved and most classes can't headshot.
It's more about learning the basics, game mechanics and the rest is teamplay.
Unless you are a griefer or completely clueless, you aren't going to be a burden to the team.
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Unless you are a griefer or completely clueless, you aren't going to be a burden to the team.
On this note, here's some tips for starting out:
-If you use the Backburner for anything other than ambushing people at the start gate when on defense at the beginning of the round, your team's going to automatically label you a griefer.
-Don't use the Cloak and Dagger until you're comfortable using the default invisibility watch. It promotes camping, which nobody appreciates (you'll probably see this guaranteed if you use it in arena and constantly end up as the last person alive on your team).
-On the above note, don't play Spy starting out. The class requires understanding of how the rest of the classes behave to truly blend in (or you could play like comp players and just whore out the scout disguise and deal with the fact everyone will recognize you).
-Good beginning classes are Pyro, Engineer and Heavy, as they have a decently high skill floor.
-When playing Medic, remember that after healing for long enough you'll gain an ubercharge, which gives you and your patient temporary invulnerability (or 100% crit rate if you're using the Kritzkrieg). Similarly, if you're about to die, remember that popping an uber early on something useless and gaining time for your HP to recover is better than not using it at all.
honestly, I still haven't seen an extreme skiller or a complete newb.
http://tf2lobby.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LHw9M1wdVE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nuAbJvmh_g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2Xzpd-EyuM
And now you have. :V
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FUCK THIS SHIT
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME VALVE
THIS ISN'T FUNNY
(http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/2241/55978860.png)
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...somehow I found a Jarate without even being in-game. I haven't even started the game up in the past 12 hours. (http://ichimonai.com/forums/images/smilies/emotpsyducka.gif)
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OH HAHAHA
LOL VALVE
so I get another targe before I get the demoman achievements for the eyelander.
so i get the eyelander(FINALLY!), finish the round...and I GET ANOTHER EYELANDER
WHAT
THE
FUCK
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Valve needs to fix the damn Jarate Chop achievement.
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It doesn't help that jarate chop and the pyro's "kill six people with your axe in one life" are pretty tough achievements in the first place.
(On another note the pyro's one million fire damage achievement is pretty much the slowest thing ever, unless you achievement farm it.)
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So the eyelander is...awesome indeed.
Nothing compares to outrunning a scout before slicing his head off. :V
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So the eyelander is...awesome indeed.
Nothing compares to outrunning a scout before slicing his head off. :V
It's all fun and games until people start using guns against your medieval weaponry. :V
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It's all fun and games until people start using guns against your medieval weaponry. :V
That's why you have a plan B :V
I was mostly sniper, but over Sunday I've played the demoman so much that now I have 2 hours over the sniper and rising. Because chopping heads off is manly :V
Seriously though, is the demoman really overpowered?
He doesn't have high HP and gives up sticky jump for more resistance.
Axtinguisher combo is also apparently even more OP than the eyelander.
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I killed a 'spycrab' and... I got kicked from the server.
Seriously? I think I'll just chill with my friends on their 24/7 Pipeline server then.
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I killed a 'spycrab' and... I got kicked from the server.
Seriously? I think I'll just chill with my friends on their 24/7 Pipeline server then.
YOU MONSTER! You your whole account should be banned for what you did!
Actually I kill spycrabs too, just for the free points
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That's why you have a plan B :V
I was mostly sniper, but over Sunday I've played the demoman so much that now I have 2 hours over the sniper and rising. Because chopping heads off is manly :V
Seriously though, is the demoman really overpowered?
He doesn't have high HP and gives up sticky jump for more resistance.
Axtinguisher combo is also apparently even more OP than the eyelander.
Everything's more OP than a Tard'n'Charge Demo. One crit that'll usually end up being a mini-crit once every 12 seconds at the cost of 25 HP in melee range only is pretty crap compared to having high-power remote control explosives that can one-shot any class depending on quantity or crits, 25 more HP, and the x2 crit rate the bottle offers.
In unrelated news, I just crafted most of my hats into oblivion. The precise list being:
-Noble Amassment of Hats
-Brigade Helm
-Bonk Helm
-Otolaryngologist's mirror
-Camera Beard (if that still counts to you)
And ended up with a Yellow Belt, which I won't even use because I have a Panama. Fuck.
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One crit that'll usually end up being a mini-crit once every 12 seconds at the cost of 25 HP in melee range only is pretty crap compared to having high-power remote control explosives that can one-shot any class depending on quantity or crits, 25 more HP, and the x2 crit rate the bottle offers.
how much exactly is full and half charge distance? anything past half charge is a crit and below is mini crit? charging at close range seems pretty stupid anyways :V
also doesn't the targe reduce explosion and fire damage by quite a lot?
anyways I like the "combat" setups more than the defensive ones.
never liked sniper rifle+razorback. Frontline sniper with Jarate/Huntsman=fuck yeah
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how much exactly is full and half charge distance? anything past half charge is a crit and below is mini crit? charging at close range seems pretty stupid anyways :V
also doesn't the targe reduce explosion and fire damage by quite a lot?
anyways I like the "combat" setups more than the defensive ones.
never liked sniper rifle+razorback. Frontline sniper with Jarate/Huntsman=fuck yeah
No clue, I craft my targes and eyelanders when I get them. :V
50% each, but fire and explosion resistance doesn't stop an Axtinguisher, shotgun, or shovel.
Rifle/SMG > other sniper loadouts. :V
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so in the end, everyone is equal :V
and rifle/smg is boring :V
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so in the end, everyone is equal :V
and rifle/smg is boring :V
not as boring as anything/razorback :V
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not as boring as anything/razorback :V
razorback should get replaced with a sign "too lazy to spycheck"
I've even had some completely blind snipers which I've managed to stab twice without them noticing.
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razorback should get replaced with a sign "too lazy to spycheck"
I've even had some completely blind snipers which I've managed to stab twice without them noticing.
It's still somewhat useful in arena if the enemy team has lots of spies, since even if a spy shoots at you with a revolver you have a chance to fight back, and teammates will hear the distinct revolver noise.
Still, I'd rather have an SMG or Jarate. :V
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I never play Arena...my style of play is way too suicidal.
Sometimes, I tend to throw myself into a patch of stickies so only one person dies instead of 3+. That is if the demoman is trigger happy :V
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Arenas are such a boring maps. Dying once and then waiting around for minutes for a match to end is no fun.
I like flag or cp more.
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Arenas are such a boring maps. Dying once and then waiting around for minutes for a match to end is no fun.
I like flag or cp more.
Then kill people before they can kill you. It's fun to show up in the MVP area in 70% of rounds anyway. :V
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqwG87bX3t4
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqwG87bX3t4
If only I was that good.
I tend to stick to CP/TC/CTF. I don't do all that well in arena, since im bad at the whole "staying alive" business"
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqwG87bX3t4
I especially like how his video is identical to this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UYNazYFFsc) uploaded a half a year earlier.
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I especially like how his video is identical to this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UYNazYFFsc) uploaded a half a year earlier.
I thought something seemed off about the video description.
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This is The (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HxlrXPSnjA) 2fort (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjwI1OmF5d4) Zone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfFFiMbM85w).
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Being one of the first members of the group, I can't help but feel this could deserve some shameless advertising:
For those that aren't aware, there's been a group putting out Touhou models for TF2 (http://touhoufortress2.web.fc2.com/main.html) for awhile now.
...I feel like I should add more than that, but the site kind of explains itself. If you want to contact us about bug fixes or help out (not that there's much left in that department), our steam group can be found here (http://touhoufortress2.web.fc2.com/main.html). Feel free to pop into the chat, and if you're looking for membership to the group someone will most likely be willing to invite you if you ask nicely.
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sweet
stood around the corner with the eyelander
pressed G
DECAPITATION
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sweet
stood around the corner with the eyelander
pressed G
DECAPITATION
You'd have to be a complete newb to fall for that trick...
I actually died to a Dead Ringer taunt like that before. I was like WTF is with that kill icon, until I found out it was a taunt-kill.
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You'd have to be a complete newb to fall for that trick...
I actually died to a Dead Ringer taunt like that before. I was like WTF is with that kill icon, until I found out it was a taunt-kill.
actually, he didn't see it coming because I hit him just as he came in
also got demoman milestone 3
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I need to switch the blood splurt sound from eyelander kills to this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2rL5XnNbtY)
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just got the best spy kill ever
medic knew i was a spy, dead ringer wasn't charged, medic charged at me with a saw
i ran against him, grazed him, turned around and backstabbed :V
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just got the best spy kill ever
medic knew i was a spy, dead ringer wasn't charged, medic charged at me with a saw
i ran against him, grazed him, turned around and backstabbed :V
Congratulations, you just discovered matadoring. :V
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You'd have to be a complete newb to fall for that trick...
Taunt-kills like that happen pretty frequently during humiliation.
It's also pretty easy to taunt-kill new/careless snipers, especially on harvest. You can just rocket jump up to the opposing team's roof outside of their FOV, run behind them, then use the Equalizer taunt.
It's still somewhat useful in arena if the enemy team has lots of spies, since even if a spy shoots at you with a revolver you have a chance to fight back, and teammates will hear the distinct revolver noise.
They don't have much of a chance to fight back if the spy opens with an Ambassador head-shot unless the spy in question has atrocious aim. At least if you're using Jarate the spy won't get away from your teammates if any happen to be nearby.
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I'm gonna need a new video card before I can play... Unless I constantly jump or fire/swing a weapon, I tend to run through the ground or over it, continuing as if I were on level ground. It's pretty weird because the game still knows where I am, so if I fall to my death, I don't know about it until I've already died.
Funny thing is that I figured this out while exploring maps and classes alone. I haven't even tried playing with other people since this problem would make it almost impossible to focus on anything. :<
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Is everyone part of the MoTK Steam group?
If so, we should have clan matches.
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They don't have much of a chance to fight back if the spy opens with an Ambassador head-shot unless the spy in question has atrocious aim. At least if you're using Jarate the spy won't get away from your teammates if any happen to be nearby.
Hey, I never said it was good. :VIs everyone part of the MoTK Steam group?
If so, we should have clan matches.
That'd be fun, but I don't think we have our own server. :ohdear:
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Touhou hijack your local TF2 server. :V
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Actually...just played Medic for one game and it's not bad at all.
Especially when you are the only one and you decide the game with an uber :V
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My brother likes the medic the best.
He doesn't heal too often because most of the time the person he is healing can't aim.
Ubering spies is fun.
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My brother likes the medic the best.
He doesn't heal too often because most of the time the person he is healing can't aim.
Ubering spies is fun.
Especially if your spy happens to be good/lucky. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFAuIsNv9MM&fmt=18#t=0m47s)
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Actually...just played Medic for one game and it's not bad at all.
Especially when you are the only one and you decide the game with an uber :V
If you ever play on 32/33 player servers it can suck if you're the only medic. Oh so necessary, but no one wants to play the class. And there are some maps where I greatly prefer to play a specific class since I can generally rape face if I have some medic support (just someone to heal me when I back off) but odds are the rest of your teammates are going to want to be selfish idiots and not pick one.
As a soldier on Badlands I can maintain movement speed faster than a scout (one place where the Gunboats are pure gold), make it to the middle before anyone else, kill the initial scout rush and usually stall/kill the rest of their faster offensive classes coming to the middle point while the rest of my team catches up. It's hard to maintain that kind of momentum if you can't get some periodic heals (or at least a dispenser), because for dealing with the third and fourth points soldiers are fantastic because of their [potential] mobility if they have some support.
My enjoyment of the medic class is largely dependent upon my team. If you're playing with a bunch of morons then you need to realize that no matter how good of a job you're doing it's ultimately not going to make a big enough of a difference to your team's overall efforts and you're better off playing a class that can make shit dead since it will probably be more enjoyable for you as a player.
Of course, I'm a jaded player that started off playing medic back when he bought TF2 in August of '09 and has logged about 160 hours (I think a little more) into the class since then. I don't play the class very often unless I've got a few players on my friend list or some of the server regulars that I know to be competent on my team since doing so otherwise is an exercise in frustration. People with a headset usually make the game more enjoyable anyway since I find TF2 to be more boring when there's no one to talk with :)
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you're better off playing a class that can make shit dead since it will probably be more enjoyable for you as a player.
I make shit dead best with the medic. (Syringe gun and Ubersaw :V)
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If you ever play on 32/33 player servers it's a horrible, horrible experience and it will make you want to throw your computer out of the window.
Fixed.
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Fixed.
I can't stand playing on anything else
mindless mayhem<<<<1v1 fights
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I miss hydro and 24 player vanilla servers, which is the only other thing I could bear playing apart from 6on6.
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I got two taunt kills in legitimate matches today. :V
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I got two taunt kills in legitimate matches today. :V
like clan match?
only got a pyro one on a sniper once, a decapitation from around the corner and another on an AFK scout :V
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The only taunt Kill I've ever done is with the heavy on Hydro one day.
Actually, I did one with the Pyro too
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Finally unlocked the Direct Hit...and it sucks :V
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I'm a fan of the teamwork I can inspire by being a medic. :V If they don't get heals envy and start whining, I find out fairly quickly who the good teammates are, and they start sticking around me and occasionally drop a <3 or similar in chat when I rescue them JUST before pyro fire kills them. And then leading an uber rush to cap the intel for the final time is always an exhilarating experience.
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Being a medic is good especially when you are cursing that sentry nest after getting killed in a second for the 10th time... :V
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like clan match?
No, TF2 night on a forum I moderate.
But we were actually playing the game and not just dicking around. Twice I managed to distract someone as a spy, run down a narrow hallway, do a 180, then cloak and taunt before they came barreling around the corner. :V
If you play Huntsman sniper, try taunting ubered heavies. The taunt will still stun them, and you can just spam it if it didn't kill them.
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oh.
Got another taunt kill today - Ubersaw :V
Sneaked up on a spy in Gorge, pressed G and laughed as he turned around a split second before I impaled him 8)
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(http://i46.tinypic.com/2s9uovp.png)
I've risen above the need for a team. 8)
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I finally got a better computer so I'm going to start playing again.
I like Medic, Scout and sometimes Engy, but I'll play whatever the team needs. I don't have a lot of weapon unlocks yet, mostly because of lack of playing, but the Huntsman is awesome. I haven't learned to aim with it yet, but random headshots are always cool.
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Huntsman is indeed cool :V
It's mostly prediction and timing. When you pin a running spy to the wall with a headshot, it's definitely worth the practice.
I also usually play what the team needs the most...it's Team Fortress after all.
I've seen teams where like 1/2 of all people were spies and snipers...or even 6 engies and once.
And no teleporters were up. ::)
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The team's I play with always need a medic.
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The team's I play with always have more than half the team as Spy or Sniper
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Welcome to public servers. :V
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Can't blame them. I mean, I would guess that they're not playing to win, but rather they want those awesome moments like headshotting a flying scout or stairstabbing a heavy/medic duo( backstabbing anything is epic for me really, cause I suck as spy.)
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when I play as sniper I play to win!
meaning i don't play sniper unless it's a sniper-friendly map and there's at maximum only one other sniper
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When I play sniper I play to show off to the people that think you're hacking when you headshot them point-blank because they were running in a straight line. :V
Actually, sniper's my main class. But I'm not a LOL SNIPER WARS IS CREDIT TO TEAM sniper, and I know how to push forward and accomplish objectives.
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Nowadays, When I use the Sniper, I stick to my huntsman, because of how it is still useful at close range, thus I can push forward and still do halfway-decent damage
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Nowadays, When I use the Sniper, I stick to my huntsman, because of how it is still useful at close range, thus I can push forward and still do halfway-decent damage
Jarate=KREDIT TO T33M
Hunstman kills are rather amusing compared to the boring clickm1instantheadshot rifle
EDIT:
tried soldier again
so what I've learned
1) direct hit sucks balls
2) shotgun>gunboats
3) don't rush in like a faggot(I usually have low k/d because I rush too much)
now
for the secondary slot
gunboats seem extremely situational, don't got the banner yet but is it any good? or the shotgun is better?
also had some mad crocket hax
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so what I've learned
1) direct hit sucks balls
2) shotgun>gunboats
3) don't rush in like a faggot(I usually have low k/d because I rush too much)
now
for the secondary slot
gunboats seem extremely situational, don't got the banner yet but is it any good? or the shotgun is better?
also had some mad crocket hax
Good things to learn.
Only truly good unlock for soldier is Equalizer. Gunboats are useful if you rocket jump a lot (I spend about 70% of my time as soldier in the air, so I use them), but are a downgrade in most situations. Buff Banner's a pretty good sidegrade so long as you don't mind not having your shotgun.
EDIT: Actually, gunboats are pretty awesome in arena. Less self-damage is a great thing to have when there aren't medkits around.
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What's wrong with dhit? Was it nerfed or something?
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What's wrong with dhit? Was it nerfed or something?
It was awful to begin with, but yeah, it was nerfed slightly by making it so the aerial mini-crits only happen if an explosion launched the target into the air.
But among other things, the damage falloff on it is so bad that at a distance RL splash damage > DH direct rockets; the extra rocket speed makes rocket jumps tend to send you vertically more than horizontally, resulting in less momentum on long jumps as well as fall damage; tiny splash range pretty much ruins the purpose of using the rocket launcher; it's damn near impossible to knock ubers back with it; it's terrible for crowd control which is one of the main purposes of soldiers.
Just for starters.
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Sad. Value sure knows how to nerf weapons to the point of uselessness.
So much for DH being a precision long ranged weapon. Got to get on top of anyone to use it.
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DH is pretty popular in 6on6, actually. It's quite useful, in the right hands.
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DH is pretty popular in 6on6, actually. It's quite useful, in the right hands.
DH still has its place, but that place isn't on large maps with tons of people.
I tend to play on 12on12 maps when I ever I do play.
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hurr durr tf2 isn't designed to be played in 16v16 team deathmatch on orange x
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Which spy cloak is the best for you? I've been using the Dead Ringer recently...but I might go back to the default one.
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Default is really the best. DR is less terrible now, but still useless aside from a minor annoyance to the other team. And poor C&D is awful.
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I use the gunboats all the time as soldier. The health you save from using them usually outweighs the shotgun's benefits if you rocket jump all the time. Unless of course you're on a map where rocket jumping is useless, there it's better to use the shotgun.
Dead ringer's still the best watch in most cases, I do so much more with it than I do with C&D/invis watch. I'll use the invis watch if there's a bad DR map or situation that calls for cloaking. C&D's worthless.
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DR's downside is that once the enemy knows you are a DR spy, they'll always watch out for you after the first kill.
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Depends on the map, but I usually alternate between DR and IW. C&D's usually just for fucking around in idle maps, but it's got its uses, such as on maps that have very little ammo.
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I prefer to use DR in open maps like Orange, and regular/C&D in places like 2fort.
What's the difference between reg. and C&D?
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I prefer to use DR in open maps like Orange, and regular/C&D in places like 2fort.
What's the difference between reg. and C&D?
C&D doesn't let you pick up ammo to refill cloak, you have about 1.8 seconds less cloak time at full movement speed, it recharges when you stay still while cloaked, and it's passive cloak recharge is about twice as fast as the regular watch.
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I really need to play Soldier more. It's easily one of my best classes.
Just came back from ass-trolling with Direct Hit mini-crits on an idle server (before you ask, this is a "You can idle, but you can also beat the shit out of everyone a la deathmatch" type of map). Almost made it seem like a not-garbage unlock for awhile.
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played scout all day...got 3 sandman ball kills :V
how good is FaN once I get it?
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how good is FaN once I get it?
I never gave it much of a chance, but I don't think it's all that useful.
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Depends on the map. If it's a place where you can hornet around under cover, take quick potshots at people, and get out of there before they notice it's a good choice. The scattergun is better out in the open though, for the virtue of having more shots.
I do like the FaN in arena, though.
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played scout all day...got 3 sandman ball kills :V
how good is FaN once I get it?
As a general note, all scout unlocks are downgrades (albeit only slightly). The FaN's usable, but it sacrifices combat potential for an increase in mobility, and being a 125 HP class that also happens to be a priority target you're already in a pretty dangerous position.
Basically, only use it on maps where force jumping will benefit you significantly. It's also useful on Doublecross if you aren't capable of doing most of the trickier jumps with only two jumps.
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I use Bonk all the time to get past sentries on CTF maps. Naturally this involves getting the team soldiers/demos/etc to show up and nuke them after I've gone through, so I have a safe path back.
Pistol's better overall though, I agree.
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On ETF2L there was a FaN craze right after someone proposed to ban it and was unsuccessful. It was pretty annoying while it lasted, but just about everyone realised they're better off with the scattergun.
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The knockback nerf on the FAN (specifically how much it knocks you back on a meatshot) is the best thing to happen. Good scouts are a rarity but if they have good aim it was extremely annoying for them to just pop in and kill a medic while there was nothing you could do about it.
I don't really play scout at all, but when I have I prefer the scatter gun. The bigger clip helps offset my shitty aim :D
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Either I really sucked today or I was really unlucky.
My K/D was below 1, took some cheapshots like 2 crockets in a row then getting headshotted by an arrow while running and double jumping...on gorge in the final room.
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I use Bonk all the time to get past sentries on CTF maps. Naturally this involves getting the team soldiers/demos/etc to show up and nuke them after I've gone through, so I have a safe path back.
Pistol's better overall though, I agree.
Bonk's pretty much the only unlock that actually gets used in higher levels of play.
Which is amusing since most people think it's terrible. :V
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Bonk's pretty much the only unlock that actually gets used in higher levels of play.
Which is amusing since most people think it's terrible. :V
Good for distraction too...I've seen 5 people run at one bonk scout.
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Good for distraction too...I've seen 5 people run at one bonk scout.
It's great for all sorts of miscellaneous crap. Most of it's pretty situational, but what better way to not get beaten to death when you're in a fight and your loads-slow-as-hell scattergun is out of ammo than to go invincible and rush your opponent while reloading? :V
Also, a useful guide for all your Bonk-related needs. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEaaqBTZr7Y&fmt=18)
Granted, most of the stuff in it is already pretty obvious, but you'll probably learn a few new tricks at the least.
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I want the bonk now.
But stupid drops ffffff-
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I want the bonk now.
But stupid drops ffffff-
What, did you craft yours from the milestone? :V
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I don't even have scout milestone 1 lol
got lucky on sandman though
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I don't even have scout milestone 1 lol
got lucky on sandman though
Oh right, Scout had the stupid achievements that're pretty much impossible to do.
Good luck then.
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Half of them are from items I don't have, maps I don't play or just simply retarded.
If Bonk! is too hard to get and I already have the sandman+FaN sucks, then the achievements are useless :V
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Nothing is as bad as the medic's achievements, though. Though the scout does have that "kill three people while under a ubercharge" one.
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Nothing is as bad as the medic's achievements, though. Though the scout does have that "kill three people while under a ubercharge" one.
Should be replaced with "find a medic stupid enough to ubercharge a scout"
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Should be replaced with "find a medic stupid enough to ubercharge a scout"
I still haven't gotten that one yet since it's for a medic achievement (You'll Feel A Little Prick). I should really play on that private server again if one of the good scouts are on and see if we can get some hilarious kills with the Kritzkrieg, but lately I haven't even felt like idling.
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Nothing is as bad as the medic's achievements, though. Though the scout does have that "kill three people while under a ubercharge" one.
Scout has an achievement where you need to hit the opponent with 20 max-range stun balls.
Good luck with that.
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Should be replaced with "find a medic stupid enough to ubercharge a scout"
Works better than you'd think, though it's way too easy to run away from the medic accidentally. (http://ichimonai.com/forums/images/smilies/pacman2of.gif)
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I do wonder when we're finally going to get the Engineer update.
Maybe we can have a second pyro update because the backburner needs to be scrapped :V
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http://www.youtube.com/user/tf2worms
Someone posted this on the steam forums. Has some pretty funny tf2 videos.
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I still have no idea how to ubercharge two people at the same time.
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I still have no idea how to ubercharge two people at the same time.
Just alternate between them. The uber ends when the healing beam finishes reaching them, not when you take your crosshairs off.
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Huh, I guess I was doing it wrong before. Thanks.
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Just got 3 refined metal and couldn't wait to craft a hat. So I craft.
I get a Ten Gallon.
Now, this wouldn't normally be a bad thing, as the Ten Gallon's a pretty awesome hat. However, I *never* play Engie. So I decide to craft it with my Yellow Belt that I never use.
Mining Light.
brb seppuku
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Yeah, never craft two unique hats together, even if you don't like them. It's always a bad deal unless you absolutely get the single hat you want the most. With the trading system (one of these days, valve!) coming soon, it's just bad business!
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With the trading system (one of these days, valve!) coming soon, it's just bad business!
Valvetime.
Tonight was a success. (http://i48.tinypic.com/2vdf8qp.jpg)
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Just got 3 refined metal and couldn't wait to craft a hat. So I craft.
I get a Ten Gallon.
Now, this wouldn't normally be a bad thing, as the Ten Gallon's a pretty awesome hat. However, I *never* play Engie. So I decide to craft it with my Yellow Belt that I never use.
Mining Light.
brb seppuku
The Ten Gallon and the Pyro's Beanie are the only two hats I want. Sadly you can't make engineer tokens and I have the pyro's other two hats so the odds of getting a dupe are high.
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At this point I'd be happy if I got any hat/accessory at all. I only have the standard Ghastly Gibus and camera beard
...or maybe a pair of damn Gunboats
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At this point I'd be happy if I got any hat/accessory at all. I only have the standard Ghastly Gibus and camera beard
...or maybe a pair of damn Gunboats
Same here. I'd give you my gunboats if the trading update was already in place :V
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Uhhh...
(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/Barrakketh/temp/th_I1.jpg) (http://s163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/Barrakketh/temp/?action=view¤t=I1.jpg)(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/Barrakketh/temp/th_I2.jpg) (http://s163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/Barrakketh/temp/?action=view¤t=I2.jpg)
/me hides
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Even if the Sandman isn't "high-tier" or whatever, I'm having fun with it. I just need to remember to use it to stun attackers while retreating.
Also, I got a Targe, but still no sword. :<
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Even if the Sandman isn't "high-tier" or whatever, I'm having fun with it. I just need to remember to use it to stun attackers while retreating.
Also, I got a Targe, but still no sword. :<
I was one of the unlucky people who didn't get the Eyelander with the milestone and had to wait for Valve to fix things >_<
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Even if the Sandman isn't "high-tier" or whatever, I'm having fun with it. I just need to remember to use it to stun attackers while retreating.
Also, I got a Targe, but still no sword. :<
Sandman's perfectly fine now, it was just terrible back when it had -30 HP, and overpowered when it removed your double jump and could stun ubers.
I'd say it's a perfect sidegrade now; Stuns are amazingly useful, but -15 HP means -12% max HP. And that's a lot.
I was one of the unlucky people who didn't get the Eyelander with the milestone and had to wait for Valve to fix things >_<
My milestones glitched completely for Soldier and Demo.
3 BUFF BANNERS, 2 EYELANDERS AND A SCOTTISH RESISTANCE, LOLWUT
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Brother got the Vintage Tyrolean today.
He was pretty happy about it after never getting a hat after 400 hours of idling.
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aaaaaaaarrrrrggggggghhhhh
playing demoman, sneaked up on a sniper, taunt...at the last second, he sidesteps, a pyro comes up from behind and tries to hadouken me, I try to run, I get blocked and taunt killed.
I feel like an idiot >.>
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Brother got the Vintage Tyrolean today.
He was pretty happy about it after never getting a hat after 400 hours of idling.
First hat I found too.
Except I didn't idle for mine and it took 660 hours.
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First hat I found too.
Except I didn't idle for mine and it took 660 hours.
Well his first hat was the yellow headband, but that thing is stupid.
He got it before he did any major idling.
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I'd do anything for a hat ;_;
well, except for idling
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Brother got the Vintage Tyrolean today.
He was pretty happy about it after never getting a hat after 400 hours of idling.
I didn't get the Tyrolean until after the WAR update. I've found five or six Prussian Picklehaubes, one of which was my second hat (first was a Tyrant's Helm).
I found two more Tyrolean's after the first, though :(
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How to lose your Scottish pride in 5 seconds (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW7LiDFFwSo)
Looking at it again...it looks like a setup
well, atleast my first taunt death was pretty epic and that guy got an achievement :V
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I have a Ghastly Gibus and that halo. I guess those count :V
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I have a Ghastly Gibus and that halo. I guess those count :V
I used the idle program way back when, so no halo for me. I have two Gibuses (Gibii?), though.
(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/Barrakketh/temp/th_I1.jpg) (http://s163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/Barrakketh/temp/?action=view¤t=I1.jpg)(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/Barrakketh/temp/th_I2.jpg) (http://s163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/Barrakketh/temp/?action=view¤t=I2.jpg)
I actually think I burned myself out from playing too much TF2. I'm only really willing to log on if there are at least a couple of my mic-using friends playing, and will leave shortly after they call it a night.
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Warning to all Demo players: The last update broke the Grenade Launcher, making grenades pass right through opponents. Since this pretty much makes the class useless, I suggest either switching classes or whoring out stickies
which any demo players here probably already do until this gets fixed.
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When did this update happen? I could still kill people with them a few hours ago...
...or just go Eyelander 8)
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When did this update happen? I could still kill people with them a few hours ago...
...or just go Eyelander 8)
4:21 PM CST. "Fixed pipebombs not being removed if they explode in a func_nogrenades zone" didn't quite work as intended.
Of course, you might not've been playing on an updated server.
Here, have a video. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVEAp7HuQwg&fmt=18)
I just tried a rocket jump, then did an AB rocket jump at the same spot in tr_walkway for comparison purposes.
Holy damn, AB went about 33% higher.
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http://www.fpsbanana.com/skins/85383 >.>
Why are these things happening?
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http://www.fpsbanana.com/skins/85383 >.>
Why are these things happening?
I saw that last night and cried.
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I'm just going to start posting mods I like in this thread for you guys. derp
http://www.fpsbanana.com/sprites/2324
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got a medic taunt kill from behind the corner during humiliation :V
oh and a few deflect kills. one of them completely blind and made some demo detonate himself with his stickies.
another when I blew away the demoman and apparently I blew away his grenade too which landed on his head
oh and separated 3 ubers, all in the same spot
seriously, if you play with a backburner, you should have your steam account banned because compression blast is fuckawesome
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Found a Pyro Beanie. Yay.
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found 9th flaregun
2 guys found hats
BAWW
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got a medic taunt kill from behind the corner during humiliation :V
oh and a few deflect kills. one of them completely blind and made some demo detonate himself with his stickies.
another when I blew away the demoman and apparently I blew away his grenade too which landed on his head
oh and separated 3 ubers, all in the same spot
(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/Barrakketh/temp/th_pl_badwater0000.jpg) (http://s163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/Barrakketh/temp/?action=view¤t=pl_badwater0000.jpg) :smug:
Always a great feeling.
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(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/Barrakketh/temp/th_pl_badwater0000.jpg) (http://s163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/Barrakketh/temp/?action=view¤t=pl_badwater0000.jpg) :smug:
Always a great feeling.
Still trying to break 4 in one life.
Unfortunately, there are a lot less Huntsman snipers than there used to be :C
I can't believe I just used "unfortunately" and "less huntsman snipers" in the same sentence
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Wow, I had no idea you could deflect arrows. That's kind of cool.
Yeah, I had the backburner for a while, but after I got the Hot On Your Heels acheivement I went right back.
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Wow, I had no idea you could deflect arrows. That's kind of cool.
Yeah, I had the backburner for a while, but after I got the Hot On Your Heels acheivement I went right back.
As long as it's a projectile and it isn't a syringe, you can airblast it.
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You don't get credit for stickies unless you reflect it while it's in the air and the demo detonates it before it lands, though.
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You don't get credit for stickies unless you reflect it while it's in the air and the demo detonates it before it lands, though.
No, they can be on the ground too. As long as they still have a remnant of your airblast's momentum, they can kill opponents.
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How close to you do the projectles need to be?
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How close to you do the projectles need to be?
Airblast range is the same as flamethrower range.
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I mostly use Pyro's airblast to separate an ubered medic from the guy he's ubering.
For whatever reason I keep forgetting to use airblast whenever I see a rocket, so I just jump for dear life.
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Airblasting is hella fun, even though i've yet to kill anyone with reflected projectiles :ohdear:
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2 more airblast kills today. One completely blind, I didn't even see the rocket :V
Like 6 people on the other team were spies...I was getting kills from people I didn't even see burn :V
Also, more people need to start using the shotgun.
Because the flare gun is just stupid. Airblast+shotgun>W+M1
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2 more airblast kills today. One completely blind, I didn't even see the rocket :V
Like 6 people on the other team were spies...I was getting kills from people I didn't even see burn :V
Also, more people need to start using the shotgun.
Because the flare gun is just stupid. Airblast+shotgun>W+M1
The Flare Gun is an example of a perfect sidegrade; it does less damage than the shotgun and is useless underwater, but provides some much-needed range to the Pyro's all-close range arsenal, juggles airborne opponents on crit/mini-crit, lets you mess with snipers' aim, and lets you set up axtinguisher kills from mid range or pick off medics from a distance.
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I never use the axtinguisher lately - it's either flame or shotgun.
Kinda fun to see a scout run at you and getting beat in a shotgun fight.
I wouldn't give the gunboats or the banner for the shotgun either - it's just way too useful with all these targe demos running around.
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I never use the axtinguisher lately - it's either flame or shotgun.
Kinda fun to see a scout run at you and getting beat in a shotgun fight.
I wouldn't give the gunboats or the banner for the shotgun either - it's just way too useful with all these targe demos running around.
Then you're a better man than I on both accounts.
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Then you're a better man than I on both accounts.
wait what do you mean
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The Flare Gun's fun to mess around with, but once I get that Attention Getter achievement, I'm switching back for a while.
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Now that I think about it, I usually play pyro as the shotgun man with Mars Matrix powers which spychecks with fire and un-burns his own team :V
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wait what do you mean
As flashy and fun as the Axtinguisher and Gunboats are, they're both terribly inefficient. :V
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As flashy and fun as the Axtinguisher and Gunboats are, they're both terribly inefficient. :V
Nah, the Axtinguisher is pretty awesome. The regular axe is rarely a good choice over the flamethrower in combat, whereas with the Axtinguisher if you can get the jump on a heavy you can Axtinguish him to death before he can spin-up and kill you so long as you know how to circle-strafe. Even if he has a medic healing him the whole time. And if you partner up with another pyro you can have one of you setting bitches on fire and the other one going axe crazy for some good fun :D Basically I find that there is no situation where the regular axe is a better choice over the shotgun or flamethrower.
Airblasting is hella fun, even though i've yet to kill anyone with reflected projectiles :ohdear:
With luck, airblasting is glorious. Like a few weeks ago we were on harvest, and I ran into the point to try killing whoever was on it. There were at least five people I saw on the point. One reflected crocket (close to point-blank) killed two soldiers and a medic, I burned the scout to death, and axtinguished a chargin' 'tard. After that I had help arrive, but that reflected crocket was what made sure that I didn't die before then since your average scout isn't a good shot and demomen with the Eyelander aren't really a threat unless they have three or four heads since you can just interrupt their charge with an airblast. The reduced fire damage isn't nearly as bad to a pyro as the explosive damage reduction is to a soldier because of the long reload time.
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Nah, the Axtinguisher is pretty awesome. The regular axe is rarely a good choice over the flamethrower in combat, whereas with the Axtinguisher if you can get the jump on a heavy you can Axtinguish him to death before he can spin-up and kill you so long as you know how to circle-strafe. Even if he has a medic healing him the whole time. And if you partner up with another pyro you can have one of you setting bitches on fire and the other one going axe crazy for some good fun :D Basically I find that there is no situation where the regular axe is a better choice over the shotgun or flamethrower.
I never said the regular axe is better. The flamethrower has a max dps of 206 damage per second at point blank and the shotgun 150, whereas the axtinguisher does 195 damage per hit...assuming you've ignited the opponent...and kept them in your melee range...which most likely involves repeatedly airblasting your target until they're against a wall...which takes 3 seconds minimum...and that's assuming you're only fighting one person, whereas the flamethrower has piercing.
The axtinguisher is awesome, but that doesn't change the fact that it's inefficient.
Unrelated, I'll just leave this here. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGInmyGeirk)
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The axtinguisher can be useful, but most of the time when I use the pyro, I don't bother switching to it and I just burn them to death
I still keep it equipped though, since most of the time, when I use the axe, I've set the enemy alight beforehand.
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Oh hey, I got a camera beard all of a sudden. Neat, I guess.
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I got 2 of them.
Both in the same game on the same map. :V
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Has 3 Camera beards. They are so stupid and common now.
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0 here.
My only hats are the halo and the Halloween one.
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Ah Everyone picks on people with Halos. Its best just not to wear it and be a rebel.
And if by Halloween hat you mean the Gibus. That hat is only good for model editing.
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2 Camera Beards here.
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I forgot what the Halloween one was. Although I think the Halloween hats disappeared after Halloween... or something, not sure.
Anyway yeah, I don't wear my Halo. Mostly just go hatless. Most of the items I've recieved have been items I already got from milestones though. I've been quite unlucky over that system.
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Ah Everyone picks on people with Halos. Its best just not to wear it and be a rebel.
Irony is people wearing halos on idle servers :V
I've scrapped about 16 or so camera beards. I also only have 20 hats now. I shouldn't have used that rebuild headgear recipe so much.
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I think the halo looks good on the heavy and demoman though :(
The gibus is awesome on the pyro as well. Nothing beats running around in a top hat burning everything you see.
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The only hats I have are the Gibus and the Halo.
I usually use the Gibus, as tophats are awesome.
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I've got 3 refined metal in my backpack. I think for the first time in...ever...I'm going to go for a class-specific hat craft.
So the question is: Scout, Demo, or Soldier? I'd do Heavy, but as is the class is so terrible that I'll never see any hat I get unless either the G.R.U. or T.A.N.K. come out soon.
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I've got 3 refined metal in my backpack. I think for the first time in...ever...I'm going to go for a class-specific hat craft.
So the question is: Scout, Demo, or Soldier? I'd do Heavy, but as is the class is so terrible that I'll never see any hat I get unless either the G.R.U. or T.A.N.K. come out soon.
Heavy is awesome if you have some good support. The problem is that you need a medic healing you since almost everyone on the team decides to shoot at you if you're in front leading the charge, and that extra health you have isn't going to let you live through that for any significant length of time. If you're not being focus-fired you can just pop around a corner (spin up while jumping around it) and pew-pew some people. Playing heavy does kind of suck if your team doesn't have any teleporters up, though :V
Scout is fucking terrible, so which do you like better: Demo, or Soldier? I prefer playing the Soldier, but I still think Demo's the cooler character. Does either class have a hat that you'd really rather not wear?
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Heavy is awesome if you have some good support.
Scout is fucking terrible
what
...what
Anyway, Demo I really only want the Bonnet (afro is meh, stovepipe is awesome even though the Gibus looks pretty similar to it). Soldier and Scout I'm pretty much fine with anything.
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Modest Pile of Hat. All one needs 8)
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So are we talking about which class is best to play or which class has the best hats?
My vote goes to the engi if its hats.
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I'm guessing which class would you play with the hat you've gotten.
As in, you wouldn't get a hat because said class is not to your liking and vice versa.
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So are we talking about which class is best to play or which class has the best hats?
My vote goes to the engi if its hats.
Which of the three classes I play (or in Demo's case, may begin to play) that I should make a hat for.
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Got me Eso. I only like one out both the soldier's and scout's hats and the demo...
I already have the best demo hat. (http://www.fpsbanana.com/skins/79327)
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I use Bill's hat on three classes. I love it.
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So I have to ask.
What is the deal with that scarlet devil map? Does no one play it? Is there a server for it? Does it work right?
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Someone made a scarlet devil map?
For that matter, who here uses the Touhou mod for this game?
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Someone made a scarlet devil map?
For that matter, who here uses the Touhou mod for this game?
Yeah it still needs some work I hear.
http://www.fpsbanana.com/maps/124047
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Someone made a scarlet devil map?
For that matter, who here uses the Touhou mod for this game?
I helped with the mod and I don't even use it. :V
I remember someone hosting it semi-frequently before we had all the models finished, but I couldn't tell you now.
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For that matter, who here uses the Touhou mod for this game?
I do!
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A different forum that I'm a mod on decided they may start a competitive TF2 team.
I volunteered to write a starter guide, but there's only so much you can tl;dr when it comes to this game. :C
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I'm not a fan of competitive play much in TF2.
I watched some matches and its all like demo, solider, medic, scout only. All vanilla.
Its like playing SSBB in tournaments. Takes the fun out of it.
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Its like playing SSBB in tournaments. Takes the fun out of it.
Falco vs Marth.
:barf:
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yeah
competitive playing takes out the fun of anything
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Its like playing SSBB in tournaments.
I think they call that SSBM. :V
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Instead of 6v6 comp, try playing highlander. You'll lose because you suck and not because your team has 3 snipers and 3 spies. (Of course, the two are often correlated.)
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Instead of 6v6 comp, try playing highlander. You'll lose because you suck and not because your team has 3 snipers and 3 spies. (Of course, the two are often correlated.)
Not that you'd have 3 snipers and 3 spies in a comp league anyway.
Highlander's always fun, though. I usually aim to be the scout or spy.
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Yeah, the TH models are okay, but I could never replace the original TF2 models/voices. They're just astounding! Not even for that Travis Touchdown scout mod I once saw!
and yeah, I'd recommend Highlander. It's pretty fun and (usually) there's not four bad snipers and one good spy and medic on your team.
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I'm going to need to make a note to play Pyro more often. Some serious win tonight.
Outside of countless reflection kills on a soldier (who's considered one of the best on the server) leading to him complaining about pyros being cheap, the highlight of the night was definitely winning a 2v1 sniping contest with the flare gun vs an Ambassador DR spy and a sniper.
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I don't use the Touhou models. Don't really like them.
Even if they were good though I doubt I'd want to replace the originals. It just wouldn't be the same.
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I don't use the Touhou models. Don't really like them.
Even if they were good though I doubt I'd want to replace the originals. It just wouldn't be the same.
Yeah, when I'd signed onto the project I was expecting we'd have a modeler that wasn't terrible and actually knew what Touhou was.
Oh well, not my money.
4 refined metal and a scout token for a Batter's Helm.
Not sure what to think.
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yeah
competitive playing takes out the fun of anything
Did you even try it
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Did you even try it
yeah
I just like to join a server, pick a class I want, kills doods, capture points and disconnect whenever I want
never liked the way clans work
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yeah
I just like to join a server, pick a class I want, kills doods, capture points and disconnect whenever I want
never liked the way clans work
It went to being the opposite for me. I couldn't bear the completely discoordinated teams in pubs. I still can't.
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I watched some matches and its all like demo, solider, medic, scout only. All vanilla.
Late reply, but that's hardly the truth, it just depends on which teams you're watching, the map, and the location (European teams run some really weird stuff, for example). Lots of teams run snipers and pyros, European teams tend to favor heavies, Engineers are used on defense in gravelpit. Even unlocks like Bonk, Backburner, Huntsman, and even the Sword'n'Board see use occasionally.
It really just depends on what classes the team's players are most comfortable using, and in most settings 1 demo 1 medic 2 soldiers 2 scouts (or 1 medic 1 demo 2 soldiers 1 scout 1 sniper) tends to be the best option since it's the most versatile team composition. But that doesn't mean alternatives (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aCivA1Ghlk&fmt=22) aren't viable.
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Playing TF2 on the 360 seems so incredibly inferior compared to all the cool things you guys get on the PC. What with your hats, cool new weapons, and new maps.
Ugh, I'm tired of playing TFort2. Also, I keep running into games on the 360 where you can only pick an engi or a spy. It's the strangest damn thing.
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Playing TF2 on the 360 seems so incredibly inferior compared to all the cool things you guys get on the PC. What with your hats, cool new weapons, and new maps.
And we actually got our glitches patched, can't forget that.
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never liked the way clans work
Yeah, but I'm part of a casual clan myself. Even though we don't play seriously, we are the strongest. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/cirno
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What game that is not a horrible port isn't better on the PC?
Computers get better graphics, mods, and the control scheme is simply superior.
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My brother got the hat he's been crafting up for. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEZ8bBJQkpU)
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My brother got the hat he's been crafting up for. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEZ8bBJQkpU)
That was the first hat that I ever got. These days I have all the soldier hats :V
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And we actually got our glitches patched, can't forget that.
Luckily, I'm going to be getting TF2 for the PC very shortly so I can stop playing with all these sucky 360 players.
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My brother got the hat he's been crafting up for. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEZ8bBJQkpU)
Worst soldier hat imo. I prefer the Stash.
Plus the Tyrant's Helm is way overused.
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Worst soldier hat imo. I prefer the Stash.
Plus the Tyrant's Helm is way overused.
Agreed, but that's what he wanted.
Idk know the chances of getting one hat over the so I guess he got lucky.
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Agreed, but that's what he wanted.
Idk know the chances of getting one hat over the so I guess he got lucky.
1.5% chance of getting a hat every 4 hours 15 minutes if I'm not mistaken, even chance for each hat.
Of course, he crafted it so that makes it a 33% chance if it was class-specific.
For those wondering, I found the max vertical range for the Heavy's Showdown. (http://i45.tinypic.com/2aje13q.jpg)
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Showdown is such a ridiculous taunt kill. Its like a long range weapon for the heavy.
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I can never kill anyone with a taunt kill. Whenever I'm at the opportunity to do it against a sniper with my pyro, my "BURN! BURRRNNN!!!" mentality comes into play and I go crazy doing that rather than going for the taunt kill. Bah.
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Showdown is such a ridiculous taunt kill. Its like a long range weapon for the heavy.
Fortunately it's still slow as hell.
That doesn't keep people from using it when they shouldn't with hilarious results, though. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKP2RjzWtt0&fmt=18)
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got like 7 taunt kills today
mostly because Vikings+snipers but got a few cool ones
is the bonk! taunt glitched?
I stood right behind the sniper, I was touching him, taunted...nothing. Tried again...nothing. So I just decided to bat him in the head, but still... :V
also this demoman tried to taunt after every single kill he got on me when I was a spy
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dead ringer
=lol
took 2 rounds of backrape before he got smarter :V
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is the bonk! taunt glitched?
I stood right behind the sniper, I was touching him, taunted...nothing. Tried again...nothing. So I just decided to bat him in the head, but still... :V
There's a blind spot point-blank, and if you touch someone with it they're immune to the taunt until they respawn.
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There's a blind spot point-blank, and if you touch someone with it they're immune to the taunt until they respawn.
wait what do you mean
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wait what do you mean
If they end up in the blind spot the first time you try to taunt them, you can try the taunt from any angle or distance on them that you want and it won't connect. It doesn't reset until they've been killed.
I have no idea why it does that, but it's really annoying when I'm camping a teleporter exit and that decides to happen.
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Might as well post my profile, even though I doubt I'd be able to play with you guys. :V http://steamcommunity.com/id/PenguinMan26
And I got the Demoman's Fro last night. I don't play Demo very often, but it's cool.
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Ah, I did some tinkering. I finally found a set of options that lets me play without problems, so I won't necessarily need a new video card.
Still, I'm godawful at this game. I tried playing in a small-team setting, and my team lost because my mishaps counted for more. When I tried playing in a larger game, I couldn't move very far before I was a bloodied corpse. What did you guys do to learn how to play when you first started?
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Might as well post my profile, even though I doubt I'd be able to play with you guys. :V http://steamcommunity.com/id/PenguinMan26
And I got the Demoman's Fro last night. I don't play Demo very often, but it's cool.
Probably not a bad idea.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/Esoterica
Ah, I did some tinkering. I finally found a set of options that lets me play without problems, so I won't necessarily need a new video card.
Still, I'm godawful at this game. I tried playing in a small-team setting, and my team lost because my mishaps counted for more. When I tried playing in a larger game, I couldn't move very far before I was a bloodied corpse. What did you guys do to learn how to play when you first started?
Started by experimenting with classes, stuck with something I liked (Scout and Spy), and practiced until I stopped sucking. Also, video tutorials. That's really all there was to it.
...though it was doubly painful for me since this was my first (and still only, if you discount GMod) FPS that I've played. :V
Fortunately there are plenty of practice maps like tr_walkway now. None of that existed when I got the game.
If there are any specific questions you have though, I just got (mostly) done writing a massive guide for introducing people to low-grade competitive play, so I could/should be able to answer accurately.
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Bah I just play on my brother's account because my computer is terrabad and has a brunt gfx card.
I don't really want to post his profile, but the name is Rei.
In other news
I really need to learn to play other maps other than 2fort.
Seems that other maps always have too much open space to set up ambushes.
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Bah I just play on my brother's account because my computer is terrabad and has a brunt gfx card.
I don't really want to post his profile, but the name is Rei.
In other news
I really need to learn to play other maps other than 2fort.
Seems that other maps always have too much open space to set up ambushes.
2fort was all I played starting out. I haven't played it since December '08 :V
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I really need to learn to play other maps other than 2fort.
hoho? This maybe:
http://www.fpsbanana.com/maps/128546 (http://www.fpsbanana.com/maps/128546)
It finished uploading tonight, I hope that you will give it a try :3
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nowadays all i never play on is a convoy server (convoy being a custom map, of course)
Otherwise, I stick to Hydro/Turbine/Well/Granary for the most part
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gorge was the first map I've played and it's the best one tbh
I still often go to the very same server
vikings is also cool for ctf
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Man, I haven't played Hydro or 2fort in forever. I wouldn't mind playing a few round on those maps again. I really haven't played much CTF in general, come to think of it.
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hoho? This maybe:
http://www.fpsbanana.com/maps/128546 (http://www.fpsbanana.com/maps/128546)
It finished uploading tonight, I hope that you will give it a try :3
Ah I didn't know you were on Motk.
Last I checked there was only one point on that map which I found kind of odd for a cp.
I still can't find a server for SDM. Anyways I'll download this when I get home.
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Man, I haven't played Hydro or 2fort in forever. I wouldn't mind playing a few round on those maps again. I really haven't played much CTF in general, come to think of it.
2fort I could live without for the rest of my life, but I remember finding Hydro at least somewhat interesting in concept. Maybe I should try that out again.
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Ah Heavy Love W+M1 Pyros. They run right into boolett.
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Ah Heavy Love W+M1 Pyros. They run right into boolett.
Almost as fun as Black Knights that targe charge straight at the barrel of your minigun.
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What are W + M1 Pyros? ???
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Talentless Serfs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHNO-1nIf7A)
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What are W + M1 Pyros? ???
W = walk forward
M1 = Primary fire
Though I don't get why this is mostly associated with Pyros; I see Pyros switch to the axe, flare gun, or shotgun much more frequently than I see a Heavy do something other than trudging slowly forward with his minigun firing.
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My SDM isn't a big map. It's my first map so I wanted to make something simple with only one point and 6 minutes to capture it, but it turned out that I worked so much on the look that many people are angry at me for leaving it with only one point, saying that no gameplay to could be done on it. The fact is that my map can't be fully explored in 6 minutes. The BLUs and the REDs both see much different aspects of it so I wanted the game to last at most 6 minutes so players would often switch teams.
To me, this map is more like a sandbox. It's also the first Touhou map for TF2, I wanted to reach the limits of the map maker before starting something else.
I recommend to explore my map alone before playing it on the net.
There will soon be a server dediacted to my map, so don't worry :)
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is it just me or are 90% of the players too retarded for this game
usually 1/4 of the team has a sniper fetish and doesn't contribute to the team at all
playing ctf_vikings
10 people on my team, I'm the only one who actually tried to cap the intel instead of camping on your own ship or sniping
the other team doesn't give a fuck that I'm solo batting their intel shield for 3 minutes
or cp_gorge
people just run past the first point like idiots even though it's completely unguarded hoping somebody behind them caps it
seriously, if I manage to get in early as a scout and get 75% of the point with no sentries up, wouldn't it be common sense for everyone to rush it instead of standing back and whoring your K/D?
EDIT: SCOUT IS AWESOME, PLAY SCOUTS GODDAMNIT
on ctf_well got the intel, outran a demoman, shot 2 guys from the behind and dodged 3 more in my own base.
you eat snipers for breakfast, you've got pretty much spy immunity and you run ABNORMALLY FAST
why the fuck do you still play sniper, do you enjoy being target practice
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Of the only kills I've got to my name is a sniper I got behind as a scout. That speed is fabulous~
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I really want Bonk! though. Too many hard achievements needed and the only thing I get from random drops are duplicates.
How bad is exactly FaN? I get more kills with the regular scattergun, but the FaN jump is pretty cool in some places.
what a cool day
3 random deflect rocket kills, one deflected direct hit crocket in the face, 1 arrow deflect long distance headshot
and 2 pyro taunt kills
and I got another kritzkrieg
I WANT BONK AGGHHGAHAGHAGAHGHGGHHH
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is it just me or are 90% of the players too retarded for this game
usually 1/4 of the team has a sniper fetish and doesn't contribute to the team at all
playing ctf_vikings
10 people on my team, I'm the only one who actually tried to cap the intel instead of camping on your own ship or sniping
the other team doesn't give a fuck that I'm solo batting their intel shield for 3 minutes
or cp_gorge
people just run past the first point like idiots even though it's completely unguarded hoping somebody behind them caps it
seriously, if I manage to get in early as a scout and get 75% of the point with no sentries up, wouldn't it be common sense for everyone to rush it instead of standing back and whoring your K/D?
EDIT: SCOUT IS AWESOME, PLAY SCOUTS GODDAMNIT
on ctf_well got the intel, outran a demoman, shot 2 guys from the behind and dodged 3 more in my own base.
you eat snipers for breakfast, you've got pretty much spy immunity and you run ABNORMALLY FAST
why the fuck do you still play sniper, do you enjoy being target practice
This is why you play competitive so you don't need to deal with the morons.
Low-grade competitive play is like playing in a high-grade pub that has a working team lineup anyway.
I just had a Bonk drop, by the way.
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is this for real
I just killed a heavy w/medic on him as a pyro by running laps around him
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is this for real
I just killed a heavy w/medic on him as a pyro by running laps around him
I had somebody recommend to me that I use the bat to kill heavies.
I cried a little inside, then proceeded to switch teams and dominate them as a shotgun/KGB heavy.
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also we were getting spawncamped by stickies
I blew them in the demoman's face
I laughed like a little girl for 1 minute straight
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I had somebody recommend to me that I use the bat to kill heavies.
I cried a little inside, then proceeded to switch teams and dominate them as a shotgun/KGB heavy.
Just use the minigun. People always underestimate the heavy, until you start regularly handing over their ass to them, then you get every single spy on your ass whenever you're sighted near their base. It's a little bit of planning and generally any medic who sees you do well will be inclined to follow you. After a while you'll have people piling up to uber you.
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Just use the minigun. People always underestimate the heavy, until you start regularly handing over their ass to them, then you get every single spy on your ass whenever you're sighted near their base. It's a little bit of planning and generally any medic who sees you do well will be inclined to follow you. After a while you'll have people piling up to uber you.
The minigun's good when you're in a situation for it to be useful, like on a point. Any other time, you're at serious risk if you don't have the shotgun out (a scout can kill an overhealed heavy in four shots if the medic's not on him before he revs up his minigun and starts firing or switches, but a heavy that preemptively had the shotgun out can fend for himself and drive the scout away/kill him)
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The Heavy is an ambush class, more so than the Pyro. Just jump out of a corner, minigun spinning. If there's anyone there, they'll either die soon or retreat and leave you room to retreat.
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So...Bonk! Atomic Punch is the final combat item I don't have.
How much have I missed?
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After a while you'll have Thundr ready to uber you.
8)
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The Heavy is an ambush class, more so than the Pyro. Just jump out of a corner, minigun spinning. If there's anyone there, they'll either die soon or retreat and leave you room to retreat.
And if you're the one getting ambushed? Yes, jumping around corners with the minigun spinning is a good idea. Walking around with the minigun out in an instance where you don't need it out and risking getting ambushed without a way to fight back until you're on your last 70 HP is not. I'm not saying ignore the weapon, I'm saying it leaves you a sitting duck to be ambushed and have it out unrevved.
So...Bonk! Atomic Punch is the final combat item I don't have.
How much have I missed?
You can live without it in most cases, but when there's a lot of soldier/demospam flying around or you're dealing with chokepoints it's a lifesaver.
I also use it semifrequently in arena, since defensive weapons come in handy in no-respawn scenarios and it gives you time to reload your scattergun.
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There will soon be a server dediacted to my map, so don't worry :)
I hope there is one soon. I'm really interested to see how defending that one point will play out.
Though I don't get why this is mostly associated with Pyros; I see Pyros switch to the axe, flare gun, or shotgun much more frequently than I see a Heavy do something other than trudging slowly forward with his minigun firing.
Its mostly only given to pyros because most people regard pyro as a no talent class that can get you kills by out running people, not needing to aim, and relying on afterburn. If they are using other weapons than they are not W+M1. People like the misuse the term these days.
Heavy isn't really seen in this way because the minigun is about the only thing a heavy has.
Most people will have the sandvich and the tf2 shotgun is a pretty bad weapon to start with.
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If I weren't on such an unreliable connection, I'd probably be practicing with the Scout again. I rather like that speedy playstyle, but I want to actually be good, rather than a hindrance, before I start branching out...
Quick question: How is it that people get alternate weapons? I've heard that hats are random; do special weapons work in a similar way as well?
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From getting achievement milestones or random.
Random weapons are mostly duplicates though.
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Ah, I see. Hopefully, continuing to play with the Scout will let me get that class's alternates then... I'll have to try again at home later. Thanks!
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The alternative weapons are usually situational...only few are actual upgrades.
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Oh, yeah. I've become aware of that just by playing against people with the wrong loadouts. But stuff like the guide to Bonk poster earlier int he thread makes me sure that those alternates would still be nice to have for those situations.
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The alternative weapons are usually situational...only few are actual upgrades.
I'd say the rates for that are about 45% sidegrades, 50% downgrades, and 5% upgrades.
Perfect example of a sidegrade would be the flare gun; it trades off damage and firing speed for range and accuracy, and allows the Pyro to be useful at long range. However, it severely limits mid range damage output as a tradeoff.
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If I'm downloading a map, how do I know which mirror to use?
Also, how did you make that map?
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If I'm downloading a map, how do I know which mirror to use?
Also, how did you make that map?
Pick whichever mirror is closest to where you live for the fastest download.
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I'd say the rates for that are about 45% sidegrades, 50% downgrades, and 5% upgrades.
Perfect example of a sidegrade would be the flare gun; it trades off damage and firing speed for range and accuracy, and allows the Pyro to be useful at long range. However, it severely limits mid range damage output as a tradeoff.
Sidegrades are just fine. Making them upgrades is just as bad of an idea as making them downgrades. And really, I think they've done a pretty good job of keeping balance.
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Sidegrades are just fine. Making them upgrades is just as bad of an idea as making them downgrades. And really, I think they've done a pretty good job of keeping balance.
Sidegrades are more than fine, sidegrades are perfect.
The only flat-out upgrades are the KGB, Equalizer, and Ubersaw, and they're melee weapons anyway.
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ubersaw isn't flat-out upgrade.the slow attack speed in a non-crit arena server means you can't kill a sandviching heavy.
no wait, valve fixed it by giving medic a tauntkill.
equaliser sucks when you're at full hp, and once you pull it out your opponent will know that you'd die in a couple of handgun shots/just lick you with teh flamethrower.
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ubersaw isn't flat-out upgrade.the slow attack speed in a non-crit arena server means you can't kill a sandviching heavy.
no wait, valve fixed it by giving medic a tauntkill.
equaliser sucks when you're at full hp, and once you pull it out your opponent will know that you'd die in a couple of handgun shots/just lick you with the flamethrower.
Syringe gun DPS with any amount of rampup can outdamage sandvich eating, so that shouldn't really be a concern. And in an actual melee fight you're never standing in front of the person swinging full speed. It's a drawback that literally does nothing.
And as a soldier you're rarely meleeing in the first place. The shovel was the least-used weapon even before the update. From 150HP down the Equalizer's better.
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Seems like there is a lot to learn when I make the switch from 360 to PC.
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I mostly use only 2 weapons at a time - I only use the equalizer for fun or for retreat. Near scout speed is definitely better than being the 2nd slowest class in the game when low on HP.
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Team Fortress 2 Danmaku (http://www.fpsbanana.com/scripts/6081)
Now I would play arena with that script.
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Team Fortress 2 Danmaku (http://www.fpsbanana.com/scripts/6081)
Now I would play arena with that script.
Oh wow, that's amazing.
No announcements in the Touhou fortress 2 group, so I'm guessing this is a completely unrelated release?
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Oh wow, that's amazing.
No announcements in the Touhou fortress 2 group, so I'm guessing this is a completely unrelated release?
I guess they're not linked. I just went to FPS banana and saw it off in the side bar by chance.
Now I want to play SDM map with this.
I guess this guy is just another rabid Touhou fan. (http://www.fpsbanana.com/members/subs/874984)
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Team Fortress 2 Danmaku (http://www.fpsbanana.com/scripts/6081)
Now I would play arena with that script.
This actually looks pretty kickass. Even if you don't count the whole touhou factor. Infinite sandman is excellent.
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Yeah, that was made by one of my clanmates.
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I'm considering making a video tutorial on the aspects of Pyro combat, consisting of everything from W+M1 to juggling with reflected projectiles, but I would want people to actually get some use out of it if I did so.
Would any Pyros here want me to make this?
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not really (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7v8PLiMr1c)
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Any tips for rocket or sticky jumping? Can't do it at all. which is why I usually use classes like Engie, medic and Spy(if it requires any skill, I shy away from it.)
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Any tips for rocket or sticky jumping? Can't do it at all. which is why I usually use classes like Engie, medic and Spy(if it requires any skill, I shy away from it.)
crouch+jump+shoot at the same time.
Get that down before you move on to anything more advanced.
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How can I tell if I'm doing it right?
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It's fairly easy to pull off - you'll simply notice that you are going higher.
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It's fairly easy to pull off - you'll simply notice that you are going higher.
This.
There's more complicated timings for it that make you go even higher and farther, but honestly there are very few situations where it's necessary to know that and it's hard enough to do (or even notice if you aren't using cl_showpos 1) anyway.
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Nice to know...I just want to go up to the ledges in 2fort and gorge like I see others do.
Course, you're talking to the guy who can shorthop 2 % of the time in the smashbros series.
EDIT: Don't feel like wasting another post for more questions, but it's puzzled me how engies could get on the roof and crates on Gorge.
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Nice to know...I just want to go up to the ledges in 2fort and gorge like I see others do.
Course, you're talking to the guy who can shorthop 2 % of the time in the smashbros series.
Yeah, crouch+jump+shoot should serve your needs just fine.
When you get the hang of that, try shooting the rocket behind you instead of in front for a long jump. It makes you move faster and jump lower so you can easily move large distances without the fear of fall damage.
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30/38 pyro achievements through normal play
Also got Fire Chief today :V
Now I need a nice pyro hat...or any hat.
I really want the Modest Pile of Hat.
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I really want the Modest Pile of Hat.
God, don't we all. I found the 2-hat tower but I crafted it away because I didn't like it.
Resulting hat was even worse, much to my dismay. This started in a huge cycle of crafting my nice non-dupe hats (namely my Bonk Helm and both Brigade Helms), just to end with a yellow belt. :|
moral of the story: crafting = ass
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in my last 5 hours of playing I didn't get a single item
how hard is it to get a goddamn bonk
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in my last 5 hours of playing I didn't get a single item
how hard is it to get a goddamn bonk
I have like three of them. What I'm looking for is the Scottish Resistance.
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I'd give you mine for a bonk...hurry up valve goddamnit
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I think I'm starting to get the hang of playing Demoman. TSR is pretty handy too, although sometimes I forget that I have to be looking in the bombs' direction to detonate them.
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So I just got this.
Comp isn't done downloading stuff yet though. :<
I expect to be terrible yet highly amused.
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So I just got this.
Comp isn't done downloading stuff yet though. :<
I expect to be terrible yet highly amused.
FPS games are much better when only 2 classes can headshot.
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EDIT: Don't feel like wasting another post for more questions, but it's puzzled me how engies could get on the roof and crates on Gorge.
Creative use of buildings :V I'll use the roof of Gravelpit's B point as an example.
Build a sentry on the front ramp of the point just just where the blueprint starts to "slide" onto the flat part of the ramp. Jump onto the sentry, make sure you're centered, and back up until you can stand up in front of that overhanging. From there you can either place a teleporter, or duck (release it quickly) + jump (order is important, jump + duck won't work) to get on top of it. From there you can either jump off to the sides and make it onto the roof (slightly trick if you're as uncoordinate as me), or go ahead and place your teleporter on the roof (that's not a good position for it, but you can rebuild the exit elsewhere). From then on other engie's can take it and build/help you build on the roof.
Another trick that makes it even more hax is that there's one spot in RED's resupply room where you can build a teleporter entrance inside, safe from spies.
If your team supports the engies on the roof you're better off since you don't have to worry about spies and suicidal pyro rushes. If they don't keep people from harassing the engies (mainly soldiers and demos) then you're not much better off than just building on the ground.
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Just found a Vintage Tyrolean.
I'll hold onto it on the off chance trading comes out, since it's an awesome hat, but it was also the first hat I found so I don't really have a use for it otherwise. :S
EDIT: Or I'll equip it, it's two levels higher than my current one. :V
Creative use of buildings :V I'll use the roof of Gravelpit's B point as an example.
Wait, you can get up there as an engie?
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Wait, you can get up there as an engie?
I just told typed up how to do it.
Or for something visual. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hRrH9d_4-k)
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I just told typed up how to do it.
Or for something visual. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hRrH9d_4-k)
Yeah, I tried it immediately after seeing your other post. I didn't know you could get enough height for that though.
Not that it's a particularly useful spot, since demos and soldiers will find anything you put up there pretty quickly, and sentries are best suited for the doorway (actually in the exact spot you'd jump up there from with one).
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Yeah, I tried it immediately after seeing your other post. I didn't know you could get enough height for that though.
Not that it's a particularly useful spot, since demos and soldiers will find anything you put up there pretty quickly, and sentries are best suited for the doorway (actually in the exact spot you'd jump up there from with one).
If your team is supporting the engineers they and the sentries can take out any soldiers or demos that get on the roof. A sentry on the corner that he jumped onto the roof from can cover the doorway and have a better view of the area around the rocks in front of that doorway.
If I'm playing demo on defense I'll actually use the Scottish Resistance to destroy any stickies that enemy demomen decide to try tossing up to the roof. This also lets me use some of the extra stickies to trap the other side of the roof where a demo/soldier will rocket jump up to. If I'm a soldier I can try and move the stickies around with rockets and can juggle people that make it up to the roof. You also have a good vantage point of the ground so if you're good at predicting movement you can really annoy people trying to push the point by bouncing them around.
Usually after I help the engineer(s) on the roof I build in the back-left (right side if you're going in from the entrance opposite of C) of the point. I position the sentry so it can see the right "window" that's above the point (for when soldiers/demomen get too close), and angle it so it can quickly lock on to anything that comes in from the back since pyro's like to try and rush your sentry by strafing around it
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C'MON, ONE MORE EQUALIZER
COME ON (http://www.tf2items.com/id/esoterica)
On second thought, maybe one more Hoovy weapon instead. I'm finding shotgun heavy to be extremely effective, and a lot more fun than the admittedly-superior soldier.
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I just installed the game recently and had a bash at it with a couple friends. I...honestly don't get it. I think I like the Pyro, but it becomes an exercise in frustration when the game rewards jumping around like a spaz, which is exactly what everyone seems to do. It's like that with every class - I think I might like them, but there's always a big dealbreaker in there somewhere. I...guess it's just a matter of experience, but that in itself is frustrating.
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Tf2 doesn't really reward aiming too much, and sometimes large player maps will just become spam fests.
But I find its better than playing Quake where you move so fast you do nothing but spam.
Maybe you should try playing spy. :3
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I just installed the game recently and had a bash at it with a couple friends. I...honestly don't get it. I think I like the Pyro, but it becomes an exercise in frustration when the game rewards jumping around like a spaz, which is exactly what everyone seems to do. It's like that with every class - I think I might like them, but there's always a big dealbreaker in there somewhere. I...guess it's just a matter of experience, but that in itself is frustrating.
Jumping around like an idiot is only advantageous for scouts. If you ambush someone (pyros are an ambush class) jumping around isn't going to save them from dying. Be sure to listen for the sizzling sound for when you're actually burning someone as opposed to relying on the appearance of the flames.
Oh, and the flamethrower's mechanics are a bit weird. It's not actually a steam of fire. It shoots lots of fire particles that behave more like the syringe gun, so they're like a projectile along the lines of arrows and needles instead of a bullet that travels instantaneously to the target. The more particles that hit your target, the more damage it does.
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If you ambush someone (pyros are an ambush class) jumping around isn't going to save them from dying.
An...ambush class? This isn't some nomenclature beyond waiting around and letting people come to you, right? I tend to like going to people, but I find the Heavy is just too much of a huge target that gets shot down before I can get anywhere. Maybe I should try the Soldier a bit more...
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An...ambush class? This isn't some nomenclature beyond waiting around and letting people come to you, right? I tend to like going to people
A pyro can't approach most classes player by someone competent aware of his presence without dying. You need to attack from the sides or from behind. If they're distracted that's even better.
Don't expect to just be able to rush straight at someone with being killed.
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Oh, and the flamethrower's mechanics are a bit weird. It's not actually a steam of fire. It shoots lots of fire particles that behave more like the syringe gun, so they're like a projectile along the lines of arrows and needles instead of a bullet that travels instantaneously to the target. The more particles that hit your target, the more damage it does.
Scarlet Weather Rhapsody of All Humankind in your Team Fortress 2!
Just found a Vintage Tyrolean.
I'll hold onto it on the off chance trading comes out, since it's an awesome hat, but it was also the first hat I found so I don't really have a use for it otherwise. :S
EDIT: Or I'll equip it, it's two levels higher than my current one. :V
Wait, you can get up there as an engie?
I'll hold onto it on the off chance trading comes out,
Valve, stop being Valve time and do it already, my goodness.
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WTB bonk for almost anything
:V
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Is the trading system coming out with the engi update or is it just all hopes and dreams at this point?
I'm fine with trading as long as they don't make some money/point system for buying things.
The last thing I want to see is tf2 turned into some RPG Fps.
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It already seems to be an almost parody of an RPG with the levels, crafting and random drops :V
The trading only seems to be there just so everyone can have the same conditions without huge luck involved.
It also somewhat limits idling I guess.
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Meh the levels don't really do anything other than tell you you've used this weapon too much.
As long as I don't have to take my =izer and farm gold for hats I'm fine.
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Anyone else notice the weird items that were dropping last night? Unknown Items #153, #154, and #159, they're just question marks that don't do anything. Apparently #153's a Pyro unlock after testing it with a token; I found #159.
Hopefully they're Engie unlock placeholders.
Meh the levels don't really do anything other than tell you you've used this weapon too much.
huh? ??? Aside from that one glitched period, and hats in general, items have fixed levels with absolutely no purpose.
Also, finally got another Soldier item for a Soldier token today. Good news: Soldier's Stash, my favorite hat. :D Bad news: Now I'm stuck playing vanilla soldier, with the exception of gunboats.
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Anyone else notice the weird items that were dropping last night? Unknown Items #153, #154, and #159, they're just question marks that don't do anything. Apparently #153's a Pyro unlock after testing it with a token; I found #159.
11:11 PM - Drunken F00l: also, it looks like engineer weapons or new hats or something have started dropping tonight?
11:11 PM - Drunken F00l: item indexes 153, 154, 159
11:12 PM - Robin: oh that isn't good
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11:13 PM - Robin: sure explains some behavior I saw before coming home
11:13 PM - Drunken F00l: oh do elaborate
11:13 PM - Robin: oh well, will fix it tomorrow morning
11:13 PM - Robin: nah, nothing interesting, just random debugging
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11:14 PM - Drunken F00l: good luck calming everyone down tomorrow morning
11:14 PM - Robin: heh, it's stuff that's supposed to be out tomorrow
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I hope it doesn't get taken away :C Thanks for the info though.
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Everyone probably already knows, but New things (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1194608).
I want the Hound Dog Hair.
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So my ? item was the chocolate bar. Pretty hilarious to join a server immediately after the update to find people talking about the items, then suddenly HOLY SHIT THAT GUY GOT ONE ALREADY WHAT THE HELL.
Unfortunately, the chocolate bar is completely terrible, as is the homewrecker. Pain Train seems like it could be good, though.
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For some reason I really want the new Demo hat. The weapons seem rather underpowered though, so I doubt I'll be changing any loadouts this time
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For some reason I really want the new Demo hat. The weapons seem rather underpowered though, so I doubt I'll be changing any loadouts this time
The hats range from awesome to hilarious.
I'm glad I decided to craft a soldier hat instead of a heavy hat two hours before the update was announced though; I could've ended up with that Kabuto Helm or missed out on Hound Dog.
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Another Camera Beard.
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Craft duplicate tyrolean together with original mining light, or wait for trading?
EDIT: Went for it anyway. Predictably ended up with an Otolaryngologist Mirror that I will never use.
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Those are some pretty sweet hats. Homewrecker sounds like a neat idea, but I don't know how well it would work, unless you had an ubered teammate or bonk'd scout draw the sentry fire.
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Fear my awesome
luck skills. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM83sMDwMMM)
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Holy crap, wait, crafting? I should really do some research on this game before I go back to it.
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Fear my awesome luck skills. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM83sMDwMMM)
When I saw where the video was starting, at first I thought you were going to try the badlands jump and end up killing someone in the process. :V
But this was much more amusing.
Analysis on the new weapons:
Chocolate bar: I'll probably use it more than sandvich since I can see some uses for it that others apparently can't (such as buffing before grabbing medkits when you're at low HP), but I'll be using my shotty the majority of the time instead.
Homewrecker: I don't even know why this exists. It's a downgrade from the fire axe/axtinguisher, and the flamethrower still does a considerably better job at destroying stuff, and hits more than one building at a time, and can take out the engineer as well, and can reflect sentry rockets. Make it destroy sappers and one-shot a building and it might be useful. And knockback on enemy players couldn't hurt, since you'd kinda expect that from a giant mallet.
Pain Train: Dear God this thing is awesome, goodbye bottle/equalizer. Shame it only does something when you actually have a point or cart to cap.
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Oh hey, I got the mask for the medic from random drops. Hooray!
Even though since its in the misc slot, Its gonna end up as a common pickup, like the camera beard
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What I don't get is if the misc items like the beard and mask are so common. Why isn't the medal?
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The medal was limited to that hidden page IIRC
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The medal was limited to that hidden page IIRC
Yeah, medals don't drop and iirc aren't craftable.
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do I play TF2 too much
we were doing html in school
and instead of <head>, I somehow typed <heavy>
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do I play TF2 too much
we were doing html in school
and instead of <head>, I somehow typed <heavy>
When I was walking home today, I looked at a shed in someone's backyard, saw a gap under the roof, and thought to myself, "I wonder if you could shoot a rocket through there."
I think I'm worse off D:
According to one of my friends, my sniper makes a really creepy rapeface in the killcam whenever I headshot someone. Not believing him, I told him to screenshot it.
Oh my god. (http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w137/somejerk231/myon-1.jpg)
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Oh my god. (http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w137/somejerk231/myon-1.jpg)
Reminds me of Bugs Bunny for some reason
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To my surprise, I'm really getting the hang of the Pyro. Jumping out of windows at people has never been so much fun. Which brings me, in a roundabout fashion, to another question - how does one get these items that everyone is talking about?
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Achievement milestone or random drops.
I got a hold of the Chocolate bar.
It seems really bugged as in it doesn't disappear when I use it and I have to keep pressing it to make it heal me.
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Oh my god. (http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w137/somejerk231/myon-1.jpg)
Sniper: "When I kill people it's purely for sexual reasons."
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Achievement milestone or random drops.
I got a hold of the Chocolate bar.
It seems really bugged as in it doesn't disappear when I use it and I have to keep pressing it to make it heal me.
That's not bugged; it works exactly like a sandvich that heals 60 HP, except your max HP increases by 50 when you eat it, and you can't throw it.
Simply put, it sucks.
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To my surprise, I'm really getting the hang of the Pyro. Jumping out of windows at people has never been so much fun. Which brings me, in a roundabout fashion, to another question - how does one get these items that everyone is talking about?
All weapons can be found by achievement milestones or random drops, with the exception of Gunboats, Pain Train, Homewrecker, and The Dalokohs Bar. The latter four are only available via random drop (though the drop rate seems absurdly high; I found a pain train and a dalokohs bar the day before the update, and another pain train and a homewrecker the day of the update).
Oops, double post.
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I haven't found a single item since the update
QQ
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I haven't found a single item since the update
QQ
You still need to find a Bonk first anyway. :V
...I know I already asked, but remind me why you can't either craft one or get one from the milestone. My memory is terribad.
...oh, only two scout weapons. I can see how that could be a problem. Goddamn you have a lot of flare guns though.
EDIT: Two Camera Beards? You know you can craft those together for a hat now, right?
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You still need to find a Bonk first anyway. :V
...I know I already asked, but remind me why you can't either craft one or get one from the milestone. My memory is terribad.
...oh, only two scout weapons. I can see how that could be a problem. Goddamn you have a lot of flare guns though.
EDIT: Two Camera Beards? You know you can craft those together for a hat now, right?
OH GOD
SWEET
I think I have 2 FaN and 2 Sandmans...I'll recheck.
EDIT: Otolaryngologist's Mirror.
CRAFTING IS ASS
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Otolaryngologist's Mirror.
CRAFTING IS ASS
I've said this verbatim so many times. :C
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how long does it take anyways to get the weapons for one hat
also been playing a lot of arena, much better players over there than in the usual pub servers :V
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how long does it take anyways to get the weapons for one hat
also been playing a lot of arena, much better players over there than in the usual pub servers :V
81 weapons for a random hat, 112 for a class specific, 25% chance of a weapon every 20 minutes (or is it 20% every 25 minutes?).
Basically, a really long time.
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Basically, a really long time.
Definately. For a random hat. You need 3 refined metal. After nearly 3 months of playing, I only have 1 refined metal after crafting all of the duplicates I can.
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Definately. For a random hat. You need 3 refined metal. After nearly 3 months of playing, I only have 1 refined metal after crafting all of the duplicates I can.
I crafted a Soldier's Stash two days ago and have two reclaimed metal already. Yes, a really long time.
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Oh God, I just found a Troublemaker's Tossle Cap (Scout Beanie).
Goodbye Batter's Helmet :*
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My bro crafted one of those out of hatless sniper and a camera bread, but then he crafted the beanie and ended up with the pyro beanie. Sigh.
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I'd give anything for that shitty mirror.
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I'd give anything for that shitty mirror.
The mirror actually looks pretty amazing with the new medical mask.
For that reason alone I'm not random crafting my third mirror this time.
...or maybe I'll craft it with my batter's helmet and see if I can get something crappy like a Camera Beard or Texas Slim Dome Shine.
EDIT: Holy shit, found a Fedora and a Kabuto at the same time just now. God loves me today. BV
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wait how does one pull hats out of his ass
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wait how does one pull hats out of his ass
No clue, but I'm not complaining. (http://www.tf2items.com/id/Esoterica)
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oh well enjoy your tosser cap
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Eso is too damn lucky.
http://www.tf2items.com/profiles/76561198010208224
My bro has wasted so many hats in crafting now he only has 5.
I seriously don't understand what he wants since the only classes he plays are medic and solider and he already got his desired hats for those classes.
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Eso is too damn lucky.
http://www.tf2items.com/profiles/76561198010208224
My bro has wasted so many hats in crafting now he only has 5.
I seriously don't understand what he wants since the only classes he plays are medic and solider and he already got his desired hats for those classes.
Well it's about damn time, it was 660 hours before I got my first hat.
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How do you get so many hats? 120 hours, no hats
I see people with 15 hats and many of them crafted away
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How do you get so many hats? 120 hours, no hats
I see people with 15 hats and many of them crafted away
I idle. I've crafted many hats together (Rebuild Headgear) and still have 17 random hats. I have metal for 2 1/2 class-specific hats.
I haven't played or idled in like a month and a half.
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will valve ever do something for non idlers :ohdear:
EDIT: awesome got a reflect flaregun kill
it happened to hit some soldier with low HP nearby :V
Also got a glitch - tried hadouken spawnkill, the scout jumped on me and he got stuck in the air :V
EDIT2: why does everyone play sniper
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will valve ever do something for non idlers :ohdear:
EDIT: awesome got a reflect flaregun kill
it happened to hit some soldier with low HP nearby :V
Also got a glitch - tried hadouken spawnkill, the scout jumped on me and he got stuck in the air :V
EDIT2: why does everyone play sniper
They're looking at trying to make idling less effective. It'd be nice if they made the drop system apply even if you're not playing, but honestly I liked the game more back when there wasn't a drop system and the only unlocks you got were through milestones.
EDIT: Anyone that's seen Bloodsire play would automatically want to snipe. There's no way they wouldn't.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkZLJeQ1Nhc&fmt=18
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I just got a great run!
While I was playing Soldier, (with my BB active) I was able to kill six! people with 2 rockets! :D that where trying to rush us. And I even got that "kill three players with a single critt rocket" achievement in the process.
And also I got two hat drops, a straw hat while I was playing sniper and when I played spy the camerabeard dropped.
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They're looking at trying to make idling less effective. It'd be nice if they made the drop system apply even if you're not playing, but honestly I liked the game more back when there wasn't a drop system and the only unlocks you got were through milestones.
I'd never get Bonk...well, I still don't have it or other items I could make into a scout token.
I keep getting other crap, but never scout stuff.
Also...how do Steam stats work? You have more than 10x the playtime I do, but I have more accumulated points and more Pyro playtime...have you idled in spectator or something? :V
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I'd never get Bonk...well, I still don't have it or other items I could make into a scout token.
I keep getting other crap, but never scout stuff.
Also...how do Steam stats work? You have more than 10x the playtime I do, but I have more accumulated points and more Pyro playtime...have you idled in spectator or something? :V
I've reset my stats about eight different times. BV
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So reset works?
I've seriously considered idling because I want the goddamn bonk. But it doesn't feel like fair playing :V
then again, sandvich, natasha, flaregun, razorback, blutsauger, non scout items, non scout items, non scout items
can I random craft a secondary weapon? I'm not really interested in hat crafting because that takes ages without idling.
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So reset works?
I've seriously considered idling because I want the goddamn bonk. But it doesn't feel like fair playing :V
then again, sandvich, natasha, flaregun, razorback, blutsauger, non scout items, non scout items, non scout items
can I random craft a secondary weapon? I'm not really interested in hat crafting because that takes ages without idling.
Do it anyway, show Valve their random drop system sucks and needs to be changed. BV
secondary slot token + scout token + scrap metal = Bonk
scrap metal = 3 class items
secondary slot token = 4 secondary slot weapons (Ambassadors count too for some reason)
scout token = 4 scout weapons
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scout token = 4 scout weapons
That's the problem. I have only 3 and 2 of them are through achievements.
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That's the problem. I have only 3 and 2 of them are through achievements.
Farm achievements for the last one? I've got lots of free time tonight if you need help.
Though, you only need 4 more, and I think you've still got enough easy ones left to do that without farming (First Blood pt.2 for example).
First Blood Pt.2
Dodgers 1, Giants 0
The Cycle
Pop Fly
Round Tripper
Fall Classic
Strike Zone
Triple Play
Stealing Home
Okay, you have more than 4.
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got another one, 18/22
still don't got the dodgers one, 25 steals, 20 double jump kills and beanball and 20 FaN back kills.
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got another one, 18/22
still don't got the dodgers one, 25 steals, 20 double jump kills and beanball and 20 FaN back kills.
Go play arena_sawmill and you'll get First Blood Pt.2 and The Cycle in no time.
You also only need four more double jump kills.
Not sure what you'd do for the last one, I'd probably go Dustbowl and try to backcap on stage 1.
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2 frags away from caught napping
i'll probably do sawmill tomorrow and stuff
bonk should really help tbh, I tend to point rush a lot and the teams are usually too dumb to kill sentries
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Is there a list of blueprints somewhere, like on GameFAQs?
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Is there a list of blueprints somewhere, like on GameFAQs?
http://www.tf2wiki.net/wiki/Crafting
http://www.tf2items.com/crafting/blueprints.php
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I found the console commands that allow you to alter the amount of bloom in the game.
My graphics card wishes I didn't. (http://i39.tinypic.com/jjy9vo.jpg)
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That looks more like EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE than actual bloom.
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Well thats one way to make tf2 look like fable 2.
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That's what Dodonpachi would look like while fighting Hibachi in 3D.
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What are easy achievements for Demoman?
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What are easy achievements for Demoman?
Demoman achievements are either accomplished almost instantly during regular play (i.e. Caber Toss, Something Stickied This Way Comes, Highland Fling), or are highly situational and happen randomly (The Targe Charge, Three times A Laddy). So unfortunately, if you want easy ones you'll probably need to farm them.
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yay 22 scoot achievements and all through normal play
also got an awesome kill
was last one surviving in arena as a pyro, heard a knight demo charging at me from behind, turned around, blasted him off and finished him off with shotgun :V
sucks how this targe demo took a deflected crit nade and lived
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yay 22 scoot achievements and all through normal play
also got an awesome kill
was last one surviving in arena as a pyro, heard a knight demo charging at me from behind, turned around, blasted him off and finished him off with shotgun :V
sucks how this targe demo took a deflected crit nade and lived
The Chargin' Targe is the dumbest weapon ever. Even the classes it's supposed to make you resistant to have knockback to stop the charge and weapons that don't fall under the category of explosive or fire damage (shotgun, bottle, fire axe, and especially axtinguisher).
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This is probably the best TF2 video I've seen yet. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in6cHeYC7Gc)
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Yes! The Scottish Resistance is mine! No more attempts at situational achievements or id ling for me! :D
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A little anti-halo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZwPQad5ohc)
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A little anti-halo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZwPQad5ohc)
YES! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoU4okGyga0&feature=related)
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I added mat_bloom_scalefactor_scalar 2 to my autoexec.cfg.
My game looks pretty now. :>
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idling while playing FFXII
THE DARK SIDE IS STRONGER
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idling while playing FFXII
THE DARK SIDE IS STRONGER
hooray multitasking :V
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6 hours of idling, 2 weapons
if I'm going to get screwed over by the RNG all the time, might as well as make it happen AFK
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6 hours of idling, 2 weapons
if I'm going to get screwed over by the RNG all the time, might as well as make it happen AFK
Don't play on any servers using the plain achievement_idle map.
Just FYI.
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Don't play on any servers using the plain achievement_idle map.
Just FYI.
why not :V
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Don't play on any servers using the plain achievement_idle map.
Just FYI.
why not :V
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Sniper totally needs a boomerang for a melee replacement.
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TF2 just started crashing on me a lot in the past few hours. It makes the game unplayable.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-DJzQhr7bE
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I miss the old Sandman. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgrVv0w8na4&fmt=18)
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I miss the old Sandman.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgrVv0w8na4&fmt=18)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvvhBYcfuPg&NR=1
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvvhBYcfuPg&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95iwH1UsFC4&feature=related
We can do this all day. BV
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7 items from 10 hours, including a mantrain
now bad
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I'm starting to appreciate Demoman a lot more. The highlight of tonight was definitely sticky jumping straight to the point cap during 10v10 arena_badlands, getting first blood off a scout, then singlehandedly wiping the enemy team with crit grenades. :V
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I'm starting to appreciate Demoman a lot more. The highlight of tonight was definitely sticky jumping straight to the point cap during 10v10 arena_badlands, getting first blood off a scout, then singlehandedly wiping the enemy team with crit grenades. :V
That was basically me today.
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either your aim is godly or the other team was dumb
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either your aim is godly or the other team was dumb
The first grenade hit a constructing sentry and the blast took out the sentry and five other people. BV
...so between that and the scout that's over half the team. Then wait for the heavies to finally come around the corner, and round = win.
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The first grenade hit a constructing sentry and the blast took out the sentry and five other people. BV
why the fuck were 5 people hogging a sentry
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why the fuck were 5 people hogging a sentry
It was the start of the round, they were moving toward the point. The sentry just happened to catch the grenade I blindly lobbed in, and BOOM. :V
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It was the start of the round, they were moving toward the point. The sentry just happened to catch the grenade I blindly lobbed in, and BOOM. :V
that's why I don't play demoman that much now, it's OP
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that's why I don't play demoman that much now, it's OP
I don't know about that, but they definitely shouldn't be allowed to crit.
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I don't know about that, but they definitely shouldn't be allowed to crit.
A simple fix would be nice: make sticky grenades wall/ceiling only. Anything else disappears.
I'm tired of the ginormous sticky patches blocking points and stuff.
Same for the sticky-for-launcher people which abuse the fact that stickies are OP and just throw shit everywhere which probably 1 hits you.
Missed by a launcher=grenade rolls away
missed by a sticky=it probably lands near you and does shit high damage or instant kill if scout/crit.
Sticky is stronger, which makes sense, just don't make it a second primary. It one shots anything on a crit...unlike soldier which needs 2 rockets to kill a heavy.
or make them airblastable - grounded stickies only make you a sticky bait if the demo notices and they barely go any distance...if it can redirect a rocket, why not move a few grenades a bit more further?
airblasted stickies in the air probably makes the demo already detonate them which blows you into shit
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The thing is, Demomen are only really good at indirect combat; setting sticky traps, bombarding opponents that don't see them, etc. If you rush them, they'll have a hard time hitting you. And unlike soldiers, Demomen don't have 40% damage reduction from their own splash. If a scout gets in melee range, it'll take a Demo two nades to kill him, but it'll also take two nades in self-damage to kill the demo. This means either the Demo dies, or both die. Plus, no hitscan weapons means all of his weapons are completely dodgeable instead of unavoidable click-and-hurt style damage. Top it off with the fact that all of his non-melee is airblastable (plus the targe charge if you want to count that; stops it in its tracks, works great for axtinguishing) and you have Pyro as a hard counter in addition to Scout.
As an aside, any class with a shotgun can get rid of stickies fairly quickly, and Heavies can obliterate stickybomb nests in seconds.
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A simple fix would be nice: make sticky grenades wall/ceiling only. Anything else disappears.
I'm tired of the ginormous sticky patches blocking points and stuff.
Area denial is part of the Demoman's job. Be thankful that you can see what will kill you if you don't bother to remove them.
Same for the sticky-for-launcher people which abuse the fact that stickies are OP and just throw shit everywhere which probably 1 hits you.
Sticky is stronger, which makes sense, just don't make it a second primary. It one shots anything on a crit...unlike soldier which needs 2 rockets to kill a heavy.
You know what also one shots practically anything on a crit? Basically every weapon in the game aside from the pistol and syringe gun.
Also, max damage on a crit sticky relies on the victim being literally right on top of it. Air-burst stickies have their damaged reduced even more by falloff (actually, all stickies do for the first five seconds that they exist), so a heavy is able to live through a crit sticky.
or make them airblastable - grounded stickies only make you a sticky bait if the demo notices and they barely go any distance...if it can redirect a rocket, why not move a few grenades a bit more further?
Because they are sticky.
Duh.
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What makes the Demoman's Sticky Bombs just so sticky?
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What makes the Demoman's Sticky Bombs just so sticky?
Magic.
Because otherwise you have to wonder how it gets shot out of the launcher since I didn't notice any casing that could have held them until they left it (the interior of the casing could just be something that it wouldn't adhere to).
Or how come they are still sticky after rolling around in the sand.
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Yeah, I rush a demo as a scout or pyro and he shits stickies everywhere then I get detonated by something I can't see.
I airblast a sticky, it blows up in my face regardless.
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Yeah, I rush a demo as a scout or pyro and he shits stickies everywhere then I get detonated by something I can't see.
I airblast a sticky, it blows up in my face regardless.
Jump a lot. It makes you a lot harder to hit with explosives, reduces splash damage significantly, and even lets you sticky jump off his explosions if you time it right.
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Crit grenades are annoyin when you're an 100% uber medic at full health and that crit grenade one shots you.
Also, does it ever happen to you that when you have an uber your target dies right before ubering?
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Also, does it ever happen to you that when you have an uber your target dies right before ubering?
I swear it happens at least 1/3 of the time, less when the medic and patient have a mic so you can time it right. Otherwise you have the guy that's going to blunder on around the corner and get shot in the head.
I'm especially unlucky with uber targets getting killed while I'm pressing the button, leaving me with an active uber and scrambling to quickly find another suitable target.
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http://www.fpsbanana.com/sounds/11200
:3
Edit~ Just got the Play Doctor achievement by accident.
My bro was always trying so hard to get it but never did.
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http://www.fpsbanana.com/sounds/11200
:3
I'll stick with this, thanks. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5W2uL5OR5g)
I'm especially unlucky with uber targets getting killed while I'm pressing the button, leaving me with an active uber and scrambling to quickly find another suitable target.
This reminded me of something silly I saw in a comp match once. brb finding it on youtube
EDIT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcwt8Mn6OCg#t=6m5s
Unfortunately the red medic had his uber ready and was able to survive the attack, but it was worth a laugh. :V
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Damn. I'm getting a bombload of random drops but not a single one is one of the new unlockables yet.
Guess I'll just have to keep playing~
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Damn. I'm getting a bombload of random drops but not a single one is one of the new unlockables yet.
Guess I'll just have to keep playing~
You're not missing out. The Dalokohs Bar and Homewrecker are so terrible they aren't even worth using for novelty purposes.
...then again, the Pain Train's probably one of my favorite unlocks thus far, so...
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Hell yeah, just found a Hound Dog. BV Now I don't need to waste my 4 refined metal crafting a Heavy hat.
bad news: I can't find enough demoman weapons to make a demo token D:
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Eso is still too lucky.
http://www.fpsbanana.com/sprays/56633
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Eso is still too lucky.
http://www.fpsbanana.com/sprays/56633
oh god
I want to use it, but my current spray (http://i40.tinypic.com/11bizo7.jpg) is too awesome to give up. D:
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Yeah wish value would make it so we could more than one spray.
Also damn Demo boy, lucky shots?
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Yeah wish value would make it so we could more than one spray.
Also damn Demo boy, lucky shots?
If only.
Demoman + first blood = round win. Nobody expects a scottish black cyclopes to be flying over them dropping nades during the first five seconds of a round BV
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Also this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoJWwKgxCt8
~desu
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Also this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoJWwKgxCt8
~desu
I'm not sure why our modeler's making Rozen Maiden models all of a sudden.
And by models I mean reskins, considering he just recolored the Okuu model for Suigintou.
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I'm not sure why our modeler's making Rozen Maiden models all of a sudden.
And by models I mean reskins, considering he just recolored the Okuu model for Suigintou.
FYI I think Mr. Kit hates us or something. Also, I find it kinda ironic that the poolshmer tards who hate the touhou models love the sugintou one when it's just a recolor.
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FYI I think Mr. Kit hates us or something. Also, I find it kinda ironic that the poolshmer tards who hate the touhou models love the sugintou one when it's just a recolor.
A fine example of why I stopped going to Poosh.
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A fine example of why I stopped going to Poosh.
As civil as I am, I am going to tell that that is an incredibly stupid reason to stop going to Pooshlmer.
FYI I think Mr. Kit hates us or something. Also, I find it kinda ironic that the poolshmer tards who hate the touhou models love the sugintou one when it's just a recolor.
High expectations. And effort. But mostly expectations!
I'm not sure why our modeler's making Rozen Maiden models all of a sudden.
And by models I mean reskins, considering he just recolored the Okuu model for Suigintou.
Go yell at Captain for me.
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As civil as I am, I am going to tell that that is an incredibly stupid reason to stop going to Pooshlmer.
High expectations. And effort. But mostly expectations!
Go yell at Captain for me.
I said example, not "someone was indecisive so i don't like them anymore".
Get someone else to do it, I haven't been in there in forever. :V
EDIT: Oh yeah, got creative with my crafting (4 pyro weapons and a chargin targe for a demo token, lolwut) and crafted a Glenngary Bonnet. I now have at least one hat for each class.
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My headset isn't working. Any idea on how to remedy this?
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I don't get it either. Aren't there only 8 dolls and 9 classes?
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I don't get it either. Aren't there only 8 dolls and 9 classes?
Ahaha, I didn't even think of that.
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Actualy, I think Marisa or Reisen would make a better Sniper than Patchouli.
Marisa with a broomstick with a hakkero on the end as her sniper rifle.
Ps, I do not actualy play tf2, I just like the characters (ecept scout, he's a big gay baby)
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No way scoot is awesome!
He has bonk energy drink and doesn't afraid of sentries.
As for the touhou models I would like to see Flan as a demoman.
Although she probably will never be a model since she is requested so much
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No way scoot is awesome!
He has bonk energy drink and doesn't afraid of sentries.
As for the touhou models I would like to see Flan as a demoman.
Although she probably will never be a model since she is requested so much
She was one of the options for Pyro, but Mokou fit that role so much better that it wasn't even a contest.
And yeah, scoot is awesome. He breaks the fourth wall and doesn't afraid of ragequitters.
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Yeah, but Scoot is a girl baby man who cries at rainbows and is the team's cumdumpster
But I do like his attitude most out of all the team
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tf2 is way too epic for toohoo skins tbh
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tf2 is way too epic for toohoo skins tbh
And then there were Vocaloid, Lucky star, Type-moon, Guilty gear, and blazblue models. :o
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tf2 is way too epic for toohoo skins tbh
Even though I didn't think that before signing onto the project, I agree.
<- for proof.
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ahaha oh god (http://i41.tinypic.com/2wlzzhw.jpg)
I should make a video next time. :V
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I've always seen Ichirin as Sniper, because then you would snipe with brofists.
Also, any headset ideas?
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Gentlemen, I see the topic is still here. Tell me did anyone happen to kill a red Yuyuko on there way here? No?
Then we still have a pie eating contest!
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You know what's fun? Teaming up with a Kritzkrieg Soldier/Demo as a Pyro.
An enemy Soldier/Demo, that is. :V
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oh god, best reflect kill ever
seen a nade flying over me so I just blindly deflected it somewhere into the sky...
...and it landed on somebody :V
also WTF TAUNT HITBOX (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlaizOKYIZ0)
that arrow makes people die just by looking at it
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Obviously the Sniper had magic aborigine bushmen enchant the huntsman with extra hitbox rating. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsqd84JKFLU)
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also WTF TAUNT HITBOX (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlaizOKYIZ0)
that arrow makes people die just by looking at it
Hadouken and Arrow taunts hit the melee range in front of you, so the width of the attack should be about as wide as your character if not wider. Still, KILLER AIR. :V
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the animation makes it even more absurd, you're supposed to kill him with the pull out...you don't
even have to stab him in the first place :V
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the animation makes it even more absurd, you're supposed to kill him with the pull out...you don't
even have to stab him in the first place :V
Its the same way with the medic's spinal tap. :))
I get people with the 500 back pull all the time.
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I remember the first hit connecting and the second one not :V
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I remember the first hit connecting and the second one not :V
That happens a lot more than it should, because the stun doesn't immediately stop them :C
Fun fact: Uber Heavy + arrow taunt = lol
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hmm
explain this, all as a pyro
was playing payload, k:d was usually around 0,5, maps like badwater and goldrush which are straight and without real chances to ambush or approach without suiciding
map changed to ctf_well, suddenly I was one of the top 3 people out of 30 and I got a ton of frags
either
1) I am a bad pyro and I got lucky
2) I am a decent pyro and straight maps reduce them to extinguishers, spycheckers and deflect shields
3) the good people on the server left
I do decently on arena, but payload just screws me over
I play pyro all the time because my aim is shit
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hmm
explain this, all as a pyro
was playing payload, k:d was usually around 0,5, maps like badwater and goldrush which are straight and without real chances to ambush or approach without suiciding
map changed to ctf_well, suddenly I was one of the top 3 people out of 30 and I got a ton of frags
either
1) I am a bad pyro and I got lucky
2) I am a decent pyro and straight maps reduce them to extinguishers, spycheckers and deflect shields
3) the good people on the server left
I do decently on arena, but payload just screws me over
I play pyro all the time because my aim is shit
Well, pyro is an ambush class. Payload's probably one of the only gametypes where I never play Pyro.
I play pyro a lot because there isn't anything more satisfying than making a soldier juggle himself
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Deflect kills are priceless - nothing is better than hating snipers and demos, then deflecting a nade and seeing a sniper run right into it.
Your ammo, my kill :V
Still wondering why the only deflect kills I see are mine...
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Deflect kills are priceless - nothing is better than hating snipers and demos, then deflecting a nade and seeing a sniper run right into it.
Your ammo, my kill :V
Still wondering why the only deflect kills I see are mine...
W+M1 doesn't include airblasts It's a secret to everyone.
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W+M1 doesn't include airblasts It's a secret to everyone.
what do you mean?
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I wish I could still play. My gaming pc just died.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjGrHBpfqCo
From the makers of Law Abiding Citizen and TF2, we bring you Law Abiding Engineer.
Alright this may be old, but epic nonetheless.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjGrHBpfqCo
From the makers of Law Abiding Citizen and TF2, we bring you Law Abiding Engineer.
Alright this may be old, but epic nonetheless.
Old indeed, but still completely fucking epic.
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what do you mean?
Most Pyros are W+M1 and use the Backburner.
Airblast is M2.
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I will never use the backburner as long as I live.
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Because airblasting someone's rocket/grenade/arrow into their face is like a personal "**** you" to their face.
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I will never use the backburner as long as I live.
I use it for one life very rarely on maps like Dustbowl where you can stand to the side of the spawn gate out of view before the round starts. It's hilarious to mow down 10-15 people in an instant because they decide to run in a straight line after fighting past the demomen. BV
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Most Pyros are W+M1 and use the Backburner.
Airblast is M2.
does that automatically make me a good pyro? :V
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does that automatically make me a good pyro? :V
uh sure
... :V
Speaking of good pyros, I was going to make a video showing practical uses for the airblast rocket jumps on each map. I then realized the only good place I could think of using it was the second point in Badlands and Gravelpit C. :S
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best airblast ever (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb4f1eQ4ylI)
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best airblast ever (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb4f1eQ4ylI)
I thought it was supposed to be an arrow reflect, but that works too. :V
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I wish I could airblast consistently,I can only do it 5% of the time. Still not going to use backburner though, the airblast can still extinguish people and I rarely see an enemy's back unless I'm spy. At what distance so you airblast?
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I wish I could airblast consistently,I can only do it 5% of the time. Still not going to use backburner though, the airblast can still extinguish people and I rarely see an enemy's back unless I'm spy. At what distance so you airblast?
Airblast distance is the same as the regular flame range. When I discovered that, my airblasts became a lot more consistent; against a single soldier I get every reflect I go for.
A good way to practice is on tr_walkway with a bunch of soldier bots set to shoot downwards. You'll probably get the hang of it in 30-60 minutes.
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Hmm, got a nice haul yesterday
1x Bonk, 1xSandman, 1xBlutsauger, 1xUbersaw. Now if only I could get that damn Eyelander...
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It saddens me that at close range, it takes a Pyro .8 seconds to burn an engie to death, but it only takes the engie .625 seconds to shotgun the pyro.
Pyro's the close-range specialist, yet the only class he actually beats in CQC is the spy if he doesn't get a lucky facestab.
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It saddens me that at close range, it takes a Pyro .8 seconds to burn an engie to death, but it only takes the engie .625 seconds to shotgun the pyro.
Pyro's the close-range specialist, yet the only class he actually beats in CQC is the spy if he doesn't get a lucky facestab.
hey, I can take a retarded heavy up close
so fun when I run in against a heavy AND medic and I spastically strafejump them both to death
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hey, I can take a retarded heavy up close
so fun when I run in against a heavy AND medic and I spastically strafejump them both to death
I don't even remember the last time I actually used the flamethrower's fire to kill someone. Usually it's a reflect or axe, unless I'm running shotgun. Kind of like Don Newman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LHw9M1wdVE), except I don't run a crappy loadout for lulz. :V
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New flamethrower - deflects are auto crit, does half damage with flame
somebody submit it
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New flamethrower - deflects are auto crit, does half damage with flame
somebody submit it
That'd be terribly OP. :V
I want a flamethrower with 15 ammo airblasts that can be fired as fast as rockets.
You know you've reached the epitome of boredom (http://i40.tinypic.com/2lbe1wk.jpg) when you start trying to headshot yourself by playing a Huntsman sniper and a pyro at the same time.
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A but off the convo here, but I prefer to flare gun to the shotgun now. Once you get the hang of it, it's easy for me to snipe moving scouts to death with it. Plus, minicrits on flaming enemies makes a good substitute for a long range axetinguisher.
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A but off the convo here, but I prefer to flare gun to the shotgun now. Once you get the hang of it, it's easy for me to snipe moving scouts to death with it. Plus, minicrits on flaming enemies makes a good substitute for a long range axetinguisher.
As much as I love the thing, it really lacks killing power. I got some hilarious snipes with it yesterday though, and it makes a great finisher after a Direct Hit reflect.
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As much as I love the thing, it really lacks killing power. I got some hilarious snipes with it yesterday though, and it makes a great finisher after a Direct Hit reflect.
Well, I think it's perfectly fine the way it is. After all, it's mainly there to actually make the pyro somewhat useful in mid ranged to long ranged combat, instead of puny shotgun damage, without making the pyro own in both long and close range. Besides, it sets people on fire and minicrits on flaming targets. Pretty good already IMO, though I wouldn't mind if they increased the damage slightly higher.
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Well, I think it's perfectly fine the way it is. After all, it's mainly there to actually make the pyro somewhat useful in mid ranged to long ranged combat, instead of puny shotgun damage, without making the pyro own in both long and close range. Besides, it sets people on fire and minicrits on flaming targets. Pretty good already IMO, though I wouldn't mind if they increased the damage slightly higher.
I'm sending Robin a huge e-mail about how UP Pyros are, and my suggestion for the flare gun is to make mini-crit flares cause mini-crit afterburn. It's almost good on virtue of zero damage falloff and sniper-equivalent range, but it's also the weakest weapon in the game.
On a different note, I saw an interesting guide on Ubercharged.net detailing how to make Backburner Pyro a viable loadout. Seems interesting, I may try my hand at the weapon if I find one. link (http://www.ubercharged.net/2010/01/16/hot-on-your-heels-a-backburner-pyro-guide/)
Semi-related to both of the above, is there a console command, sv_cheats or otherwise, that lets you see the health of opposing players? I need to test something with the flamethrower, but so far all I've got is assumed statistics from number crunching and hearsay.
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I would only support a pyro buff if they lowered some of the damage on the flamethrower.
Backburner could also use no crits from front, but I don't really think that makes much sense.
Most people seem to want the pyro to get a running speed boost, but he really doesn't need it.
Killing a pyro before he reaches you is pretty much the only way to survive against them head on.
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I would only support a pyro buff if they lowered some of the damage on the flamethrower.
Backburner could also use no crits from front, but I don't really think that makes much sense.
Most people seem to want the pyro to get a running speed boost, but he really doesn't need it.
Killing a pyro before he reaches you is pretty much the only way to survive against them head on.
Oh, did I not post this pic?
It takes a Pyro .86666666 seconds to kill an engineer at max rampup with the flamethrower.
It takes an engineer precisely .625 seconds to kill a Pyro at this range. (http://i39.tinypic.com/2cnavyc.jpg)
Every class except for Spy can beat Pyro, the intended CQC specialist, in close range. And that's a problem.
I also don't agree with the speed buffs though; I just airblast rocket jumped onto the top of Gravelpit C and capped it before anyone could do anything about it earlier today when practicing with some members of a comp-team-to-be. At 100% running speed people try to make it sound like the Pyro's really slow since the only classes that don't outmaneuver him are the engineer and heavy (given that spies can move freely behind enemy lines), but I'll still end up making it to mid with the medic and his pocket, and there's nothing wrong with that. I can make some massive, high-speed rocket jumps, though situational, off of an enemy soldier's rockets, and that's perfectly fine too. The Pyro just needs a damage buff to the flamethrower and flare gun, and he'll be fine.
...well, the homewrecker could use some substantial buffing, but I'm assuming if Valve made a weapon that shitty it was just for their personal amusement.
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Did engi survive afterburn?
Anyways flare gun could be buffed, but I think the flamethrower is fine.
Pyro's shouldn't be rewarded for running straight into gun fire.
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Did engi survive afterburn?
Anyways flare gun could be buffed, but I think the flamethrower is fine.
Pyro's shouldn't be rewarded for running straight into gun fire.
Between dispensers, medics, medkits, airblasts, water, sandviches, jarate, and spawn rooms, it'd be a damn shame if an engineer did die due to the afterburn in an actual gameplay situation instead of a test.
That said, the respawn was close enough that I'd gotten in there with 9 HP left.
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Most of those methods are pretty unreliable. Dispenser would have been best beat if happened to be near it.
Sad thing is most pug players play like when tf2 just came out.
Also just to rag on the Homewrecker. I don't get the point of this weapon it is an absolute joke when a pyro can airblast sentry rockets.
Value most know its trash because they never seem to drop. I've gotten 5 Paintrains and 0 Homewreckers.
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Most of those methods are pretty unreliable. Dispenser would have been best beat if happened to be near it.
Sad thing is most pug players play like when tf2 just came out.
Also just to rag on the Homewrecker. I don't get the point of this weapon it is an absolute joke when a pyro can airblast sentry rockets.
Value most know its trash because they never seem to drop. I've gotten 5 Paintrains and 0 Homewreckers.
Depends on the map, environment, and team. When I play Pyro I never leave a teammate ignited.
Airblasting the rockets is only really a good idea if you feel like making the engineer feel terrible by using his sentry as a rocket dispenser to completely destroy his team; it takes 3 direct hits to destroy the sentry itself, the sentry shoots rockets once every 3 seconds, and it does 128 dps in undodgeable bullet hitscan inbetween. The best way to take out engineer nests is to just stand at a corner and shoot the flamethrower around it, destroying everything in 1.4 seconds. Regardless, yeah, that thing makes the razorback look good.
(if you couldn't tell, I like numbers. :V)
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I wish I had you on my team then. Most pyros I see don't even know airblast gets rid of flames.
As for the Engineer I really hope his update improves his combat ability some.
He might be able to two shot a pyro at point blank, but other classes really eat engis and their guns up.
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I wish I had you on my team then. Most pyros I see don't even know airblast gets rid of flames.
As for the Engineer I really hope his update improves his combat ability some.
He might be able to two shot a pyro at point blank, but other classes really eat engis and their guns up.
Extinguish teammates, light huntsman arrows, airblast rockets and nades away from friendly sentries and toward enemy medics, attempt to save teammates from soldier/demoman kritzkriegs, spy check, push back ubers, pin DR spies/bonk scouts in a corner...I try to be as helpful as I can be. :3 Due to weakness in direct combat though I usually end up playing scout instead for the extra firepower (it feels so backwards to say that).
Yeah, the only classes that really need to worry about engineers as it stands are the scout and heavy, and with Bonk the scout can just sentry jump to cross the map in an instant, or with teamwork in mind distract the sentry for the heavy to get in close and destroy it. I hope the P.D.Q. is implemented as-is, because it fits my engineer playstyle perfectly.
EDIT: Speaking of airblasting, I stunned a scout with his own sandman ball today, then killed him with a hadouken while he was stunned, just before the round-winning capture.
The best part? Look at the top right. (http://i41.tinypic.com/mwvasy.jpg)
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Sweet thing about pyros taunt kill is that it can kill multiply people unlike everyone elses it seems.
I went to look for a gibus replacement and found all the bots stacked up on me in tr_walkway.
I hadoukened the whole mess of em. :)
Think I'll replace Pyro's Gibus with http://www.fpsbanana.com/skins/76564.
I have the coco clock as of now, but I don't like it. Enjoyable pyro gibus replacements are hard to find.
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Sweet thing about pyros taunt kill is that it can kill multiply people unlike everyone elses it seems.
Soldier and Spy can kill multiple people as well with their taunts. I'm pretty sure they're the only three though.
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Demoman has replaced pyro as the class I dislike to fight the most.
Constantly dying from blindly lobbed grenades is way more annoying than the flame.
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Demoman has replaced pyro as the class I dislike to fight the most.
Constantly dying from blindly lobbed grenades is way more annoying than the flame.
Just because it wasn't a direct hit doesn't mean that it was a blind shot :V
Not needing LOS is one of the big points of the class. When you know there are people in the attic on Goldrush then shooting some grenades or stickies up there without actually being able to see them is something that I consider to be fine.
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I'm not discounting the technique I just rather be able to shoot back rather than play hopscotch with 4 demos.
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So since Orange Box has this game, I've been thinking about actually playing it. Also I hear there's lots of hats to be had if you play, is it true? :S
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So since Orange Box has this game, I've been thinking about actually playing it. Also I hear there's lots of hats to be had if you play, is it true? :S
The Modest Pile of Hat. Everyone wants it.
Also pyro is the best etc.
ambushed a medic+pyro, took out the medic but the pyro gave me some trouble...but for some reason he just kept airblasting me up high so much that he got confused and I flamed him from behind :V
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Demoman has replaced pyro as the class I dislike to fight the most.
Constantly dying from blindly lobbed grenades is way more annoying than the flame.
On the bright side, grenades that roll before detonating deal 1/2 to 1/3 the damage they'd normally do.
Though when there's four of them and you're playing spy or sniper it's still usually fatal.
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Sheesh, how do people get so good at sniper to where they can perfectly headshot scouts attacking them at close range? :ohdear:
I swear they're cyborgs or something. That seems impossible in practice.
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Sheesh, how do people get so good at sniper to where they can perfectly headshot scouts attacking them at close range? :ohdear:
I swear they're cyborgs or something. That seems impossible in practice.
I could do that for awhile, but after not playing the class for 100 consecutive hours my skill died completely :C
Most scouts think they're safe if they zigzag or if they run in a diagonal line, but if they do that they're going to cross the scope at some point.
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I'm with ya headcrabs.
I swear some people are just too good. Hard to compare to players that have played every online FPS for 10 years.
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(http://i42.tinypic.com/2mhv1xw.png) (http://i42.tinypic.com/2mhv1xw.png)
Well well well, what do we have here?
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Something to do with Trading apparently
By the looks of things though, its not a new discovery (I saw a video showcasing it that was uploaded in June 09), but its news to me.
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Here's an idea - how about a new hat being unlocked every 1000 kills?
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It could work, but then people who use those idle servers would sit there killing bots to get a ton of kills and a ton of hats :/
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There will always be a way to cheat the system. There is no way to prevent bot farming, achievements, hats, or crafting.
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Speaking of which, this has probably been asked before but which servers do you usually go to?
I myself usually stick to the 5EGC arena servers or the ATF server. Sometimes I'll go to that one touhou server if there's people there, though.
we should get our own motk server for serious business matches or weekend games :V
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Speaking of which, this has probably been asked before but which servers do you usually go to?[/sub]
Either SourceOP or Ichimonai servers. Stalwart Soldiers servers as well when practicing with the clan.
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I favor cwg Gorge with Instant Respawn, but I'm starting to branch out.
Anyone trying out the RUse Beta?
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http://www.tf2items.com/id/esoterica
I can't wait until the next time I die.
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I favor cwg Gorge with Instant Respawn
Stopped going there because both teams are usually extreme derps which runs past the fucking point without bothering to capture or they don't even attempt to capture an unguarded point.
UKCS #4 Arena lately.
Wait, I've seen you on cwg a few times :V
also how did you get 3 of the new hats already
and we all need to play together tbh
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and we all need to play together tbh
I'm usually on in the mornings from about 9am-2pm est.
I get about one item between that time.
Played Harvest today as a medic then pyro.
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I'm usually on in the mornings from about 9am-2pm est.
Depends on the day for me, typically I'm on from 3-5 PM CST and occasionally 10 PM - 3 AM as far as weekdays are concerned. Weekends vary.
By the way, anyone know any good 24/7 capture point servers? I'd prefer vanilla, but I'm fine with sizes as small as 12-man.
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Oh boy! (http://www.fpsbanana.com/skins/88293)
Also is FPSbanana's Screen shots not showing for anyone?
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FPSBanana's servers suck and are really good at breaking image links.
That's the only page they were working on for me, for some reason.
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Stopped going there because both teams are usually extreme derps which runs past the fucking point without bothering to capture or they don't even attempt to capture an unguarded point.
UKCS #4 Arena lately.
Wait, I've seen you on cwg a few times :V
also how did you get 3 of the new hats already
and we all need to play together tbh
Who was that toward? I only have gibus, miner's, the halo, and tough guys toque.
What I really want are:
the Elvis hat
Fancy Fedora
Noble amassment
Could care less about the rest.
Also, can you craft the Gibus?
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the Elvis hat
Fancy Fedora
Noble amassment
I've had all of those at some point, but I ragedeleted my noble amassment because I didn't like it as much as the other hat towers at the time and thought it was a relatively terrible hat overall. Now, I severely regret that.
Anyway, pretty sure he was talking to me, considering page 2 of my backpack. (http://www.tf2items.com/id/Esoterica)
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Also, can you craft the Gibus?
No, but you can still get one by dominating people wearing them I believe.
As for hats in general someone was saying that the drop rate may have been buffed a bit to accommodate all these new items.
Sure doesn't feel like it.
Also I swear I am a self imposed achievement bot. Every time someone gets a kill off me they get some achievement.
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As for hats in general someone was saying that the drop rate may have been buffed a bit to accommodate all these new items.
Sure doesn't feel like it.
For the first few days after an update, the drop rate for the released items certainly seems to spike quite a bit. I've probably found at least 20 Pain Trains already.
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only found one PT myself through idling which I've done out of curiosity
still i want a goddamn pyro hat instead of that mirror
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I really need to learn how to play Scout better. I like being annoying with the Sandman but I feel like I'm dying way too often and not getting enough kills.
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I really need to learn how to play Scout better. I like being annoying with the Sandman but I feel like I'm dying way too often and not getting enough kills.
Take the route less traveled, only attack if your opponent doesn't see you, act like you're going to flee but instead attack from a different angle when attention turns to you, get good with aiming. Above all, get in your opponent's face.
With good aim and strategy, a scout can kill any class but a heavy in half a second. The scout's the second strongest class in terms of raw damage, just behind demoman.
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So hard to do damage with shotguns in tf2. Combined with the scoots speed and general lag it gets pretty hard to play him. :(
Also finally an update of some kind. http://www.teamfortress.com/
I guess that guy on the forum that predicted an update this week is all knowing.
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So hard to do damage with shotguns in tf2. Combined with the scoots speed and general lag it gets pretty hard to play him. :(
Also finally an update of some kind. http://www.teamfortress.com/
I guess that guy on the forum that predicted an update this week is all knowing.
The main problem playing scout is aiming with the speed, and not ending up outnumbered. It's a great class, but it's easily one of the harder ones to be good at.
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Regarding the blog post, I see there's going to be a highlander tournament in 3-4 weeks with medals for prizes. I'm joining a team as a Pyro, since I missed out on the Gentlemanne's Service Medal. Hopefully all these Euro players run Kritz Medic - Soldier/Demo for their combo C:<
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Crafted up another refined metal. Only one more for a random hat. Hope I don't get a hatless those are such a waste.
Played on a weird server today. I don't know if it was just full of stupid people or bots but kills came easy.
Lost a ctf 1 to 17. Some sniper/heavy got called out on aim boting and there was a girl on the mic *GASP*
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Crafted up another refined metal. Only one more for a random hat. Hope I don't get a hatless those are such a waste.
Played on a weird server today. I don't know if it was just full of stupid people or bots but kills came easy.
Lost a ctf 1 to 17. Some sniper/heavy got called out on aim boting and there was a girl on the mic *GASP*
One more for me too, though I'm probably just going to try for a pyro hat again instead and scream when I end up getting my third brigade helm/beanie. Still, better odds to work with than trying for a hat tower.
That said, I like the hatless hats :C
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God I never noticed this mod.
http://www.fpsbanana.com/sprites/1953
BEES
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Hell yeah, my clan's having a scrim against our rival clan, this is going to be awes-
(http://i39.tinypic.com/e0pxxl.png)
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
brb seppuku ;_________________________________;
EDIT: Goddammit it was even on Badlands, that's my favorite map
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Hell yeah, my clan's having a scrim against our rival clan, this is going to be awes-
(http://i39.tinypic.com/e0pxxl.png)
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
brb seppuku ;_________________________________;
EDIT: Goddammit it was even on Badlands, that's my favorite map
A clan, eh? What would it take for me to get into a clan?
Also, did anyone see the fake engineer update?
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A clan, eh? What would it take for me to get into a clan?
Also, did anyone see the fake engineer update?
Impress someone with your playing, hope you get invited. I think there are sites you can go to where you can find clans that are actively recruiting as well. Of course, if you want to do comp play without committing to a team, there's always www.tf2lobby.com for PuGs (Pick-up groups).
I kind of glanced over the new one, but it didn't really catch my interest like the fake guard dog update did.
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Wish I was a better player so I could play on the weeabootory server. I get axefaced every time I go there.
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Regarding the blog post, I see there's going to be a highlander tournament in 3-4 weeks with medals for prizes. I'm joining a team as a Pyro, since I missed out on the Gentlemanne's Service Medal. Hopefully all these Euro players run Kritz Medic - Soldier/Demo for their combo C:<
Speaking of which, considering the amount of players we have we might as well make a MotK team for the fun of it. Anyone else crazy enough to want to play on Euro servers with Euro-timezones and get eliminated by crazy german players?
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I would love to, if it wasn't for the fact that Europe is literally half a world away from from me :3
That, and I like my body to be not riddled with german bullets.
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Speaking of which, considering the amount of players we have we might as well make a MotK team for the fun of it. Anyone else crazy enough to want to play on Euro servers with Euro-timezones and get eliminated by crazy german players?
OKTOBERFEEEEEEEST
count me in :V
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OKTOBERFEEEEEEEST
count me in :V
same
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also any active/good servers? I only go to two arena servers and most of the payload/cp/ctf ones are full of derps which kritz a scout against 3 sentries and are afraid to rush period
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also any active/good servers? I only go to two arena servers and most of the payload/cp/ctf ones are full of derps which kritz a scout against 3 sentries and are afraid to rush period
Could you post a video of the latter on youtube?
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yeah, I'd join a MoTK clan. Im not the best player around though.
also any active/good servers? I only go to two arena servers and most of the payload/cp/ctf ones are full of derps which kritz a scout against 3 sentries and are afraid to rush period
Well, nowadays I only ever play FuG's CtF Convoy server (or the odd Well, Turbine or hydro server). It puts up a nice challenge for me at least.
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I'm already part of THE STRONGEST clan, so I'd have to pass.
I came SO CLOSE to getting Deep Undercover last night on a payload map last night. I think I'm starting to get the hang of using the Cloak and Dagger.
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Oh, I'm not dedicated enough to Tf2 to start a whole clan, I'm just suggesting making a team in order to have a little fun in the euro competition thing. I don't even expect to win
a single more than 2-3 matches, just have a little fun in the process.
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also any active/good servers? I only go to two arena servers and most of the payload/cp/ctf ones are full of derps which kritz a scout against 3 sentries and are afraid to rush period
Anything SourceOP. They don't load them with that 32-man instarespawn shit, and the community tends to be positive once you get past the occasional trolls. Only dowwnside is, the servers are so popular it's damn near impossible to get in.
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Can someone explain to me why people hate instaspawn so much? I can understand the 32, but I can't find a server that is ever full spawn.
Most are instant or fast 10 second spawn.
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Because it's damn hard to get anything done when guy you killed in the cap room just comes right back out of the spawn and finishes you off?
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Can someone explain to me why people hate instaspawn so much? I can understand the 32, but I can't find a server that is ever full spawn.
Most are instant or fast 10 second spawn.
With instaspawn it becomes impossible to push forward, because the instant you kill someone they'll be headed straight for your spot again with full ammo and HP. Thus, stalemates are frequent, especially on maps like doublecross, turbine, and 2fort where you need to pass the enemy spawn to complete the objective.
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Is it just me, or is Valve telling me to run scout? (http://www.tf2items.com/profiles/76561198008112067)
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Is it just me, or is Valve telling me to run scout? (http://www.tf2items.com/profiles/76561198008112067)
Crafting; have you heard of it?
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1 word.
Bonkai.
(http://www.halolz.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/halolz-dot-com-teamfortress2-bleach-bonkai.jpg)
Either that, or crafting.
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Crafting; have you heard of it?
Yeah, I have everything except for Pain Train? It's just that it's amusing how most of my stuff is scout stuff. I also don't like to craft, because it takes like 12 weapons to get one weapon. I'm not going to bother crafting hats, it seems that it will be nothing but pain and suffering. With my luck, 112 weapons = hatless. :V1 word.
Bonkai.
(http://www.halolz.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/halolz-dot-com-teamfortress2-bleach-bonkai.jpg)
Either that, or crafting.
Saved. Also, if we are to have a highlander team, who's going to be who?
I'll be Medic, Engie, or Spy, in that order.
Scout:
Soldier:
Pyro:
Demoman:
Heavy:
Engie:
Medic: Hyorinryu
Sniper:
Spy:
EDIT: Crafting has now given me pain train.
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Up for Failscout or terrible pyro :V
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I'm starting to get better with the scoot.
I've learned to take more risk and get better pay off by just running up to people and meat blasting them instead of hanging back and getting myself picked off. FAN is doing pretty well for me, but the sandman isn't worth it sadly.
WTB the old stun back.
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I'm starting to get better with the scoot.
I've learned to take more risk and get better pay off by just running up to people and meat blasting them instead of hanging back and getting myself picked off. FAN is doing pretty well for me, but the sandman isn't worth it sadly.
WTB the old stun back.
When I say Scout's only good in close range, I mean it. Back up even ten steps and your damage output'll go from 105 per shot to 20-30. I small tip, aim for the opponent's chest for max damage with the scattergun.
On that note, the scattergun's better than the FaN in all aspects of combat aside from quick burst damage on 125-150 HP classes. Unless you're on a map with lots of vertical terrain, the scattergun is always worth being better with. The Sandman's still good too, you just can't be trying to use it close-range.
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Yesss! Another flaregun!
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Oh yeah? Well, I got THREE Backburners last night.
:smug:
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2fort today. Other team had 6 snipers and like 3 engis.
Couldn't get anywhere till the last 10 minutes when there team all went spys to get our intell and ended up losing because of it.
Yeah Scoot capping.
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2fort today. Other team had 6 snipers and like 3 engis.
Couldn't get anywhere till the last 10 minutes when there team all went spys to get our intell and ended up losing because of it.
Yeah Scoot capping.
Hahah "Sniperwars is credit to team!"
This si why I always try to go on 6-8 person servers now :V
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I'm such a crappy spy. Any tips for Granary, goldrush, and Well? I really like those, especially Granary. Also, who uses C&D? I also suck at aiming(Medic and Pyro ftw)
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I'm such a crappy spy. Any tips for Granary, goldrush, and Well? I really like those, especially Granary. Also, who uses C&D? I also suck at aiming(Medic and Pyro ftw)
Spy specific? Since I'm trying to get to bed early tonight, I'll keep it brief and stick to Granary.
When fighting for mid or trying to prevent a backcap, stay primarily on the crates so you can go for a jumpstab while also keeping yourself out of the brunt of the action. At the second point, get up on the balcony and jump off to stab anyone headed for the point, or just head to the last point and attempt a spycap. Attacking the last point, there's not a whole lot you can do. Maybe land a jumpstab off one of the pipes going over the length of the field, but your best bet would ultimately be to just make a diversion with the revolver and hope for some kills. Defense is more of the same, though the second point's much trickier to defend since the balcony doesn't actually overlook any areas the other team will be going through to get to the point, so you'll have to try to sneak around behind the team and go for the typical spy tactics there.
That said, I use all three watches but use the IW and DR 90% of the time.
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Oh man, I had the best game last night. We were playing on dustbowl and it was your usual 8v8 on the 360. But I managed to get 16 kills with a soldier with just one life. Truth be told I had a medic with be but I still feel that's very impressive. After watching a free competitive play videos I learned a few more tips like spamming choke points and other general tips. I'm surprised at how often other demoman and soldiers will just sit around a point they are supposed to be protecting and not throw any spam. I must have gotten at least 4 kills from the entire game just from spamming. Though I probably got a crit rocket for at least 3 of those 4 kills but that's just how the game works.
I'm worried that when I go to the PC that everyone will be awesome and I'll go back to sucking. :(
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On the pc most pug servers are like 32 players so spam really is impossible to cut through most of the time. This is no thanks to the war update.
When every team is made up of 4 solders, 5 demos, 3 pyros, 1 heavy, 1 medic, a sniper, and a spy or scoot.
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On the pc most pug servers are like 32 players so spam really is impossible to cut through most of the time. This is no thanks to the war update.
When every team is made up of 4 solders, 5 demos, 3 pyros, 1 heavy, 1 medic, a sniper, and a spy or scoot.
I think you're confusing pubs and pugs.
Pubs (short for 'public servers') are your typical run-of-the-mill servers.
Pugs (short for 'pick-up game') are competitive 6v6 games without organized teams, instead being composed of random people that join.
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Didn't know there was a difference. I just mushed them together.
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Didn't know there was a difference. I just mushed them together.
themoreyouknow.jpg
:V
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8v8 seemed like too many players as it is. But 16v16. That seems just plain frightening. :ohdear:
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8v8 seemed like too many players as it is. But 16v16. That seems just plain frightening. :ohdear:
The most a regular server gets to is 12v12, but lots of server admins that don't understand that TF2 maps were made for 24 players tops decide to expand their servers to 32-man to get more traffic.
EDIT: oh god cadmas' avatar scared the crap out of me
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EDIT: oh god cadmas' avatar scared the crap out of me
"Cowboy up!"
But really engi update is becoming overdue. Guess its going to take another 3 months or something.
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am I the only one who likes 16v16 orgies?
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It depends on the map for me. Some maps are large enough for 32 people but not must cps.
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I really gave up on 16v16 when I realised that I was not suffering from lag but in fact my CPU was dying each time I played 32 player Doublecross. Really helps when you want to airblast stuff.
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Got 5 sniper taunt kills today. Played some 2fort. Got 0 items in 5 hours.
I don't care about Sam & Max. :/
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Got 5 sniper taunt kills today. Played some 2fort. Got 0 items in 5 hours.
I don't care about Sam & Max. :/
New items don't have stats and aren't equippable by different classes, I could care less about them.
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Cosmetic items are serious business in the Steam forums
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Cosmetic items are serious business in the Steam forums
I thought it was bad ten minutes ago, now some of these threads are getting ridiculous. :V
I'm gonna head in-game right now and see what the reactions are there.
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lol those threads are always so stupid.
"Value is splitting the community with hats, items, idling, pay'd things"
And as they go.
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Valve is just doing the monthly update that causes a massive amount of shitstorm in the forums
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wait esoterica
do you EVER play
every time I look you are just idling :V
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Reduced the damage bonus the Equalizer receives as the player loses health.
That makes me sad. DH needs damage reduction not equalizer.
Also I love the QQ always about how the items don't fit the TF2 universe. They do it every time.
Why complain when they know there's just going to be a hat mod out of fps banana within a day to change it?
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Direct Hit? More like Direct Miss :V
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I payed $35 for a hat and 2 gun reskins and got 5 free games with it
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Wish I could drop dime online at a whim. If I bought all these shop items between Value and Blizzard I'd be a much poorer man.
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wait esoterica
do you EVER play
every time I look you are just idling :V
I play for the good majority of 3-10 PM CST every day. :V I was power idling Sunday through Wednesday though due to stomach flu.
Speaking of which, I'm about to get back on now. Hopefully I didn't miss Ravine.
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I played $35 for a hat and 2 gun reskins and got 5 free games with it
I ended up doing so too :S
Though, I've been meaning to try out the Sam and Max series for years now, so all this is is motivation.
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probably old but still (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7QIcxoJU4g)
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I ended up doing so too :S
I didn't actually buy the game, I was just making fun of the people buying the game just for the items only. I'd buy it to try out the Sam & Max series, but I won't be able to do so right now
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I didn't actually buy the game, I was just making fun of the people buying the game just for the items only. I'd buy it to try out the Sam & Max series, but I won't be able to do so right now
Then let me just say the hat looks ridiculous. :V
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Its the Reisen II derp patrol helmet all over again.
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how long does a single random hat take on average
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Found it on Gamefaqs. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBOLMJKnAKk&feature=watch_response)
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how long does a single random hat take on average
It's somewhere around 270 hours if I'm right.
Or if you have my luck, it's somewhere around 600-800 hours.
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yesterday i've found some guy who got 3 hats in a week
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yesterday i've found some guy who got 3 hats in a week
I've got a guy on my friend list that found five hats this week.
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I've got a guy on my friend list that found five hats this week.
And I know this guy which has one hat which is a shitty mirror
FFFFFFFFF-
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And I know this guy which has one hat which is a shitty mirror
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I've gotten so many of those damn things they may as well be camera beards during that time period where they didn't count as masks.
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The next time I see a backburner pyro with a hat
actually, you don't want to know what
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The next time I see a backburner pyro with a hat
actually, you don't want to know what
This I could do. Tohoohoo. :flamingv:
But naw i never would use backburner, but i did kill like 6 people today with the flamethrower and an uber.
And I taunt killed a heavy.
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Considering I'm only really starting to profit from the joys of airblasting, I'd have to agree with you on that.
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About the loading screen tips...are they a reference to "PROTIP"?
Or are they for real :V
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No clue on first, but on second they are all good advice afair.
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Finally got 4 refined and a pyro token to try to get a pyro hat other than a beanie or brigade helm
Craft result: Beanie
"FUCK! Okay, well...now I have two of these. Since I don't use my stash much anymore and nobody'll want it in trading, I guess I'll just craft it with th-"
Brigade Helm.
FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCJSDFAESJKGNAEJLKRNHSTRJLKNH AGA GERHAY TAW L;'QL T'A. ';-*coma*
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WTT mirror for brigade helm
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Man I need to figure out how to suck less at this game. :ohdear:
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I really hate it when I go really good individually but the rest of my team can't seem to do squat.
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I really hate it when I go really good individually but the rest of my team can't seem to do squat.
unfortunately, this isn't possible as a pyro
arena fuck yeah, rest sucks
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I really hate it when I go really good individually but the rest of my team can't seem to do squat.
If that happens, I say find a way to make your team not suck. I don't really have a headset, but if you do maybe you could act a leader and help coordinate things. Like telling pyros they can extinguish teammates with the compression blast with M2. That seems to be a big one.
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If that happens, I say find a way to make your team not suck.
uber enemy spies
build sentries in base
annoy your snipers with flamethrower
at best, you'll make your teammates leave and force auto balance
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Yeah, I should get another headset. I had a cheap one but ear cushions disintegrated so it's a pain to wear, literally.
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goddamnit valve stop trolling me
I got killed by an invisible backburner pyro
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record fix; stop
in your console whenever glitches like invisible things start appearing.
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also why do I keep hearing stuff like "pyro isn't a real class, it doesn't require any aim"
tourneyfags everywhere
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also why do I keep hearing stuff like "pyro isn't a real class, it doesn't require any aim"
tourneyfags everywhere
Reflect a direct hit into their feet point blank and critaxe them before they hit the ground. That shuts them up. BV
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The thing is, I've never seen a really good pyro
pro snipers, yeah
spies with epic aim, yeah
nearly invincible demomen, that too
but never a pyro
How does a pyro fight another pyro anyways?
it seems pretty stupid to airblast away the other one because you take more damage with no advantage
if they w+m1, run backwards for an easy kill(trying to shotgun got me killed before)
if they airblast me they already took more damage, pull out shotty and finish him
if they pull their shotgun, SHOTGUN BATTLE
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Usually when I meet up with another pyro its either shotgun battle or strafe left/right circle each other.
Its like a freaking pyro dance.
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Until a sniper comes and ends the fun
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Pc is a long way from console where pyro's still afterburn.
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The thing is, I've never seen a really good pyro
This guy has 33 hours on Pyro and says it's a noob class that takes no skill. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndZoP4yctqA&fmt=18)
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Those videos always make airblasting look so easy.
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airblasting isn't hard unless it is direct hit
and it's fun
killed a sentry with a reflected arrow
or "rocket jumping" a soldier into the pit in nucleus
but how does a flaregun pyro fight a shotgun pyro
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but how does a flaregun pyro fight a shotgun pyro
Burn him down with the flamethrower if you're close enough, otherwise just back off and flare him. You won't get a kill, but you'll at least weaken him.
Alternately, switch out your axtinguisher for the fire axe and bash his face in.
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Just wanted to make sure that this didn't get buried under new posts.
Scout:Yama?
Soldier:
Pyro:Yama?
Demoman:
Heavy:
Engie:
Medic: Hyorinryu
Sniper:
Spy:
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Just wanted to make sure that this didn't get buried under new posts.
Scout:Yama?
Soldier:
Pyro:Yama?
Demoman:
Heavy:
Engie:
Medic: Hyorinryu
Sniper:
Spy:
So what are we doing?
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So what are we doing?
ETF2L Highlander tournament.
I'm already on a team and Yama's already got the two roles I'd be most interested in (though my ambassador skills seem to be resurfacing, I actually dominated a soldier that was in the top 1/6 of the other team's scoreboard yesterday), so I'm not going to be participating.
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Is voice chat required or not? I don't have a mic :V
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ETF2L Highlander tournament.
I'm already on a team and Yama's already got the two roles I'd be most interested in (though my ambassador skills seem to be resurfacing, I actually dominated a soldier that was in the top 1/6 of the other team's scoreboard yesterday), so I'm not going to be participating.
Just to avoid confusion, Yama wasn't sure, so put question marks there.
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Just to avoid confusion, Yama wasn't sure, so put question marks there.
Well, you're only allowed to register for one team, so it doesn't make a difference for me.
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hasn't it started already anyways?
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hasn't it started already anyways?
Signups aren't even open for at least three weeks yet.
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lol got confused somehow
anyways if you don't need voice communication, I'm up for it
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I'll just leave this (http://etf2l.org/2010/03/25/the-etf2l-highlander-community-challenge/) here for clarification purposes.
Teams of 14, by the way. 9 main players, 5 backups.
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Sometimes I lay down and think to myself, "How many other people lose sleep trying to figure out why there's a fucking house on top of the silo in granary?" (http://i40.tinypic.com/s4xget.jpg)
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Finally got to Scout Milestone 2 today, which gave me enough weapons to craft a Bonk! at last. It's a neat idea, although I thought it lasted a bit longer and it would be nicer if you weren't affected by knockback from explosions and sentries and stuff, but I figure I'll get the hang of it soon enough.
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Finally got to Scout Milestone 2 today, which gave me enough weapons to craft a Bonk! at last. It's a neat idea, although I thought it lasted a bit longer and it would be nicer if you weren't affected by knockback from explosions and sentries and stuff, but I figure I'll get the hang of it soon enough.
It actually increases knockback taken from all sources. Lots of people don't seem to understand that. If you stand still, a flamethrower can slide you around. Also, crits of any kind will send you flying; backstab a Bonked scout and he'll pretty much fly until he hits a wall.
...unfortunately I don't think I have any demonstration videos, but if you're resourceful you can crouch jump during certain hits to fly extremely high and far extremely fast. You can actually fly right through the map boundaries in ctf_well and run around outside the map with the right strategies. :V
EDIT: Actually, I have a demo of me rocket jumping out of the map as a Pyro and exploring, ending with a visit to the train station. :V I'll upload it if anyone's curious.
EDITEDIT: http://www.mediafire.com/file/zezkdmzzjmz/pyroadventure.dem Put it in your TF2 folder, start up the game, and type "playdemo pyroadventure" in the console.
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I need one more demo or scoot item for a random hat. If I get one I'll post back with what hat I got herp derp.
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I need one more demo or scoot item for a random hat. If I get one I'll post back with what hat I got herp derp.
What's the most effecient way to make hats? I have all the weapons, so I'll give it a try.
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What's the most effecient way to make hats? I have all the weapons, so I'll give it a try.
Efficient? You just combine weapons with more weapons until you have three refined.
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What's the most effecient way to make hats? I have all the weapons, so I'll give it a try.
leave it overnight
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Crafted a Vintage Tyrolean. Out of all the hats I don't have I craft a double. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
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Atleast it's not a goddamn mirror
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My bro went and crafted it with the pyro beanie because he still thinks pyro is the noob class when solider and demo are so much worst.
Now got a mining light. Woop de doo. Value's crafting system is a master troll.
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My bro went and crafted it with the pyro beanie because he still thinks pyro is the noob class when solider and demo are so much worst.
Now got a mining light. Woop de doo. Value's crafting system is a master troll.
I'm afraid to craft my last Beanie with my only Billycock, because I know that when I do I'll end up getting Mining Light #3 or Brigade Helm #5, and as a coup de grace trading will come out the next week.
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how the hell do you get so many hats that you craft them out of boredom
at my hat rate, I'd get 3 hats a year
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how the hell do you get so many hats that you craft them out of boredom
at my hat rate, I'd get 3 hats a year
crafting
I never get them from drops. Nearly 2500 hours and I've only gotten 5 actual hat drops.
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crafting
I never get them from drops. Nearly 2500 hours and I've only gotten 5 actual hat drops.
So basically nonstop idling?
playing for 4 months, 0 random hats, 1 refined metal, 1 from camera beards
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So basically nonstop idling?
For weapons, yeah.
None of my hat drops were from idling, even.
EDIT: I take that back, I found my hatless engie idling.
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I guess I'd be up for ETF2L if the roster doesn't fill up. As engie since on the West Coast I'm going to lag insanely on euro servers. I don't have a mic either, feel free to shunt me out if someone with voice or better ping is interested (I advise you to fill the other classes first though.)
That aside, anyone play prop hunt? Hilarious stuff. And the servers are always full since ping matters not, which is nice on those sleepless nights.
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I just found a Brigade Helm.
That's Brigade Helm #5.
Out of my hats I've gotten from drops, 1/3 of them are Brigade Helms.
... :|
This is also the second time I've had a Brigade Helm randomly drop 1-2 days after crafting one.
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You find hats all the fucking time
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You find hats all the fucking time
No, I craft them all the fucking time. There's a subtle difference. :V
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how does a sniper aim while on fire
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aimbot or nerves of steel. I swear some snipers are just aimbots when they pull off headshots while taking zero time to aim.
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I still think that snipers need a nerf...
1) TF2 isn't a long range game where you land headshots with an assault rifle across the entire map, the projectiles are easily dodged from a distance. The sniper breaks that and takes cheapshots. The only long range risk is are other snipers and possibly Ambassador, but that's hard enough to aim. Annoying as fuck in the arena where at the beginning, the rest of the team plays a shooting range for the snipers.
2) They can aim while on fire. That's just fucking wrong and it would make the flare gun a nice sniper counter.
3) The scope power up is too much. 150 dmg bodyshots? Instantly kills most classes with little effort. Bodyshots should be capped at 70. 1 hit headshots are ok I guess, but bodyshots just suck.
4) The high damage and little risk makes the class way too attractive for newbs, which results in waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many sniper orgies. 5 snipers out of 9 people are common.
Then one scout runs in and you facepalm.
I'm cool with the Huntsman, it fits the slow projectile theme of the game nicely and is reflectable, but the sniper rifle seems overpowered...I hear people say "get some skills olol" but there is no way to counter snipers except for hoping he misses. You can predict nades, dodge rockets...but no skill will save you from the sniper.
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I only use the huntsman. I hate the rifle because the scope just leaves me open too to many blindsides.
As a scoot or pyro I take advantage of this a lot.
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3 pyro achievements left
6 axe kills
goddamnit
trying to axtinguish
flare, axe, enemy dies 1 second after the axe hit
shitty scout hitboxes, flame doesn't hit, no kill
next: instant death on flamer, axtinguisher not critting people on fire
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Little late on this, but the drop system got reworked.
Basically there's a cap on how long you're eligible for items per week, and instead of rolling for item drops at certain intervals it rolls for when you'll get your next item and you then play until the set time.
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I got mixed feelings about this. I like not having to leave the game up 24/7, but I hate not knowing the limit.
I normally would play 5-6 hours compared to the normal 2-3 hour players. But if I get more hats I don't really care.
More time to play other games I guess.
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Yeah, new drop system is weird. I just found a FaN and a Kritzkrieg within 3 minutes of each other.
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I can't see my backpack items atm.
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I can't see my backpack items atm.
I've never been able to see your backpack for some reason.
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http://www.tf2items.com/profiles/76561198010208224
You can't see that? Because I can. I just can't see them in game atm.
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http://www.tf2items.com/profiles/76561198010208224
You can't see that? Because I can. I just can't see them in game atm.
...oh. Derp.
I was using this. (http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198010208046) Guess the reason I couldn't see it was because it didn't exist. BV
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Yay I gotta use my brother's account to play because I don't have any games or could even play any of them.
Need to wait to get a new computer.
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but will it stay that way or will it get nerfed
I mean, everyone has the weapons already and hats do nothing so I guess there is no harm in drops this frequent
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but will it stay that way or will it get nerfed
I mean, everyone has the weapons already and hats do nothing so I guess there is no harm in drops this frequent
You're limited to something like 7 hours per week where you're actually able to collect drops, so it balances out pretty quickly.
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Yeah, I like the new system, and it gets rid of the need for idle servers, not that they really bother me directly anyway.
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7 hours a week? Seriously there are 168 hours in one week. They should make it 7-8 hours a day.
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3 hours a day for drops would be much better IMO
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Reports (http://tf2stats.net/forums/index.php/topic,14.0.html) indicate it's more like 16 hours a week(?) before you start getting nada. Just low enough that playing TF2 with enough regularity to max out your drops isn't another part-time job.
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Reports (http://tf2stats.net/forums/index.php/topic,14.0.html) indicate it's more like 16 hours a week(?) before you start getting nada. Just low enough that playing TF2 with enough regularity to max out your drops isn't another part-time job.
Oh good, the blog post made it sound like an hour a day was enough for max drop rate.
A little over 2 hours per day's completely reasonable.
Idling right now to verify; I've gone over 16 hours and haven't seen a drop since this morning, so that very well may be the limit.
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After getting and installing the Orange Box yesterday, I've played a couple of hours with Scout and Demo this morning. Both are quite fun to play. Gonna check out the other classes this weekend.
...is it normal in control mode to play until the enemy has only his last point left, then getting auto-assigned to the other team, turning the tables and playing for another hour until your original team has only one point left, and then getting auto-assigned back to it? :V
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It's called "your team needs you" :V
Meh, the balancing system in TF2 seriously needs some work :ohdear:
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lol esoterica is still idlin :V
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4 Victim WTFBBQ achievement. Was only ruined when I realized that the victims were bots.
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lol esoterica is still idlin :V
Either you posted that earlier than I thought, or Steam glitched. :V
My internet's been shit all week, so the best I've been able to do as far as actual gameplay goes is fooling around on a local server looking for hidden ledges to airblast rocket jump on.
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Either you posted that earlier than I thought, or Steam glitched. :V
didn't you hit the cap already? :V
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didn't you hit the cap already? :V
I suddenly found six items last night, so I thought I'd go another day to make sure. :V
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Has anyone had connection problems lately? I want to know if this on my end or Steam's?
Also, why is it that I can only get on the gorge roof 10 % of the time?
Most of the time the engie can't jump high enough.
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Also, why is it that I can only get on the gorge roof 10 % of the time?
Most of the time the engie can't jump high enough.
try jump+duck
works in most FPS
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try jump+duck
works in most FPS
There's also crouch + jump. That's needed for the quick way to the roof of Gravelpit B.
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There's also crouch + jump. That's needed for the quick way to the roof of Gravelpit B.
duck=crouch
?
:V
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What I'm talking about is the part where you plant the tele, not the part where you use the tele.
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There's also crouch + jump. That's needed for the quick way to the roof of Gravelpit B.
I've heard this multiple times, but it's never made a difference over jump + crouch for me.
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Daaaaaaaamn, it is my lucky day, in 1 and a half hours, I got:
My first hat, A football helmet, and a KGB at the same time,
and another pair of gunboats.
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After 4 days, I already got my first duplicate. :V
Medic, Sniper and Demo are fun to play, but Scout is definitely my favorite. I have to switch to Demo most of the time because nobody else dispatches those annyoing engie nests, though. I need Bonk.
On another note, why does the largest Touhou-related Steam group explicitly state that they don't want people who visit shrinemaiden.org? ???
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don't want people who visit shrinemaiden.org????
they have a futanari thread themselves
enough said
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On another note, why does the largest Touhou-related Steam group explicitly state that they don't want people who visit shrinemaiden.org? ???
I'm pretty sure that was put in place back when there were waifu threads or whatever here.
Most of the people in those groups creep me out though, so I just stopped going to the chat rooms there :ohdear:
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I'm pretty sure that was put in place back when there were waifu threads or whatever here.
Most of the people in those groups creep me out though, so I just stopped going to the chat rooms there :ohdear:
grief y/n
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Mh.
Figures...
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also esoterica
why still idle :V
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also esoterica
why still idle :V
Uh, I'm not.
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What's a map with a really high skybox? I've got something I want to record, but I can't find a map where I don't hit the sky in half a second.
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What's a map with a really high skybox? I've got something I want to record, but I can't find a map where I don't hit the sky in half a second.
What are you doing? Maximum number stickybombs with the SR piled on one point and then stickyjumping while being ubercharged? :V
Also: Game where half of both teams are Engineers. The rest was mostly Heavys, Medics and Snipers. God what a drag.
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What are you doing? Maximum number stickybombs with the SR piled on one point and then stickyjumping while being ubercharged? :V
Also: Game where half of both teams are Engineers. The rest was mostly Heavys, Medics and Snipers. God what a drag.
Going for a cross-map airblast rocket jump ending with a crit axe to an engie's face. I intend to record the entire thing from SourceTV positioned near the engie in slow motion. :V
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I got my first hat drop recently as well: a Magistrate's Mullet. Conveniently, spy is my least played class.
Pretty soon I'll have enough metal to craft another. Hopefully that has a better result! Some guy on Reddit tried to craft a spy hat and got a camera beard. :colonveeplusalpha:
I'm thinking of waiting for the extra refined metal to craft a pyro hat instead, since all pyro hats are awesome.
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Are portal exits indestructible until the entrance is destroyed or something? You'd think that after 5 direct grenade hits or 5 stickies with constant pyro fire on top, these things would break down eventually. :/
Why does the enemy team always have 2+ engies that nobody but me seems to care about until there is a constant stream of enemies walking out of a maxed out Engie nest inside our own base?
God I'm starting to hate Engies.
Blah, got Demo milestone 2 and an Eyelander at least.
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Arrow deflect first blood
Feels good 8)
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Are portal exits indestructible until the entrance is destroyed or something? You'd think that after 5 direct grenade hits or 5 stickies with constant pyro fire on top, these things would break down eventually. :/
Around the time of the sniper/spy update (I think, I just know it wasn't always this way), Engies became able to repair both ends of a teleporter at the same time by whacking either one with a wrench. The engie's probably just camping the other end of it.
EDIT: No Banana, I'm still not finding any items again. This is leading me to believe the drop cycle refreshes on whatever day the update was.
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On the bright side you can sap the enemy portal as a spy and do this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wIE5Sk_K6U)
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On the bright side you can sap the enemy portal as a spy and do this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wIE5Sk_K6U)
ur doin it rong (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJzsvLY-6sU)
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Around the time of the sniper/spy update (I think, I just know it wasn't always this way), Engies became able to repair both ends of a teleporter at the same time by whacking either one with a wrench. The engie's probably just camping the other end of it.
If I hear an engi mention a spy and I'm in the resupply room or I see a sapper on a teleporter entrance I'll switch to engie to help with it. I also switch after I respawn if any teleporters need upgraded so the engineer can focus on the sentry and dispenser. I use a script that lets me hit backspace to switch to engineer, backspace again to switch to my previous class, which saves time and teleporters.
The people I regularly play with are also smart enough to upgrade teleporters at the beginning of a round (this is usually on defense) so we'll have some level 3's ready as soon as the engi gets an exit up, which is a huge help. Random pubbies usually don't do this.
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Around the time of the sniper/spy update (I think, I just know it wasn't always this way), Engies became able to repair both ends of a teleporter at the same time by whacking either one with a wrench. The engie's probably just camping the other end of it.
Ah, that makes sense. And since the team had at least three engineers, it is very possible that two or more of them were perpetually hammering on the thing while sitting next to a dispenser.
Also: Yay Blutsauger.
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Are we still trying to enter the highlander tourney?
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Oh hey, pyro nerfs, let's nerf the most gimped class in the game! :V
I guess we'll be seeing "Meet the airblaster" soon, eh? :smug:
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Oh hey, pyro nerfs, let's nerf the most gimped class in the game! :V
I guess we'll be seeing "Meet the airblaster" soon, eh? :smug:
People on a different forum were telling me "Hey, pyro buffs. I bet you're glad, huh? :D" I nearly punched my monitor when I saw it.
Though at least I can do a better job at killing shitty soldiers now.
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On the bright side, heavy got a spinup/spindown buff, and he now moves faster while firing. Meaning you've got more of a chance against spammers and terrible snipers. (Good ones will still headshot you, though.)
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Crit-a-cola definitely adds some murder ability to the scoot.
The often called op class just got more op.
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Crit-a-cola definitely adds some murder ability to the scoot.
The often called op class just got more op.
Based on what I've been hearing I would agree, considering scattergun minicrits put the scattergun on par with the pistol at a distance. But then I found out the scout can be minicrit too, and, well...almost anything from any range will one-shot a scout with a mini-crit. If you have the element of surprise it could be an amazing weapon, but odds are you're giving yourself a death sentence drinking that.
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good update tbh
so having 52 hours as pyro compared to less than 20 as all other classes...cool :V
Now lets airblast some more. :V
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good update tbh
Are you kidding? Revolver spies do more damage than Pyros now. Pyro is officially the weakest class. Also, snipers not flinching when shot while scoped? What the hell is that? Everything but the heavy buffs (which were exactly what he needed) was just pure and utter bullshit.
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Yeah, it kind of seems like Pyro is more of a support class at this point.
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Wat.
Okay, I don't like Pyros, but they were definitely not too powerful. They want to make Pyros use the airblat more, okay, but 20% less damage... wow. :o
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Wat.
Okay, I don't like Pyros, but they were definitely not too powerful. They want to make Pyros use the airblat more, okay, but 20% less damage... wow. :o
burn->shotgun
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burn->shotgun
A shotgun can kill a 125 HP class in 2-3 hits.
A shotgun can kill a 175 HP class in 2-3 hits.
Afterburn only does 36 damage now.
Pyro is even more UP than before.
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A shotgun can kill a 125 HP class in 2-3 hits.
A shotgun can kill a 175 HP class in 2-3 hits.
Afterburn only does 36 damage now.
Pyro is even more UP than before.
Pyro UP? Never noticed that :V
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Well, they will probably buff the class a little with the update that will bring "Meet the Pyro".
...right? :ohdear:
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Shotgun probably does more than the flamethrower's primary by this point, given how powerful it is at medium to close range. The only use for the flamethrower is to light people for your axetinguisher or airblast them, by this point.
Afterdamage only does like 30ish damage over five seconds now, so the flare gun is worthless. I'm not even worried if I get lit now, unless I'm really low. :V
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new pyro isn't all that bad but I'm wondering why decrease the flamer damage of all things
you have to be RETARDED to run into a pyro
I still see scouts run at me just to get flamed to death
NEW PYRO LOADOUT (http://xkeeper.net/img/snaps/tf2/pyrojoke.jpg)
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The Pyro has switched from suck to blow
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Looks like only the
fire axe Extinguish will finish the yob.
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the new pyro is awesome
it also gets a shitload of points for being credit to team
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TF2 keeps crashing since the update... :
Mine just says Steam is updating since yesterday.
the new pyro is awesome
it also gets a shitload of points for being credit to team
Push people into saws and over cliffs.
Get points.
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Mine just says Steam is updating since yesterday.
Push people into saws and over cliffs.
Get points.
Extinguish. Get even more points.
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Extinguish. Get even more points.
Axing something set on fire by another pyro is always great fun.
WTB high-five emote for pyro.
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Also, I think Valve will make some changes...the entire game is borked anyways
crashes, weird unannounced shit like iron man snipers, hammer not working, teleport exits etc
also griefable minicrit stickies
seriously, this update is a trainwreck all over and shouldn't be taken seriously
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The new update also seems to have broken custom sounds for tf_dingalingaling.
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The new update also seems to have broken custom sounds for tf_dingalingaling.
also custom HUDs, several servers also broke(no UKCS baww), etc.
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I just love how whenever valve adds something, it breaks about 10 other things that are completely unrelated.
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the new pyro is awesome
it also gets a shitload of points for being credit to team
The points are awesome, yeah. I'd be less mad about this update if airblasting was useful against more than just idiots that keep spamming reflectable things after you've killed them with reflects before.
Also, the environmental death thing applies to everyone, not just the Pyro. I've gotten a lot of points already from juggling someone as a soldier and saving a rocket by letting fall damage kill them instead.
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There's a new engineer exploit. For those who want to enjoy it before it's patched:
Type on the console "build (0-2) (0-INT_MAX)" and you can have as many buildings as you want. An example would be like this "build 2 4" to build sentry #4.
This most likely have to do with the upcoming engineer update
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somebody on valve forums confirmed that the update isn't in beta or anything
It's laughable how I lost against an ENGINEER in a corridor at point blank by a lot.
But I actually like this pyro better...
BUT
Snipers ignore any damage(like these kangaroo fuckers need a buff)
The rifle needs to get nerfed hard.
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There's a new engineer exploit. For those who want to enjoy it before it's patched:
Type on the console "build (0-2) (0-INT_MAX)" and you can have as many buildings as you want. An example would be like this "build 2 4" to build sentry #4.
This most likely have to do with the upcoming engineer update
I heard this also made spy dispensers work again.
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I just noticed something:
They changed Bonk! so that it doesn't slow you down when the buff ends. There is still an achievement you unlock by killing a Scout under the slowdown effect of Bonk!
:]
Also: Yay first hat!
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Also: Yay first hat!
Which one?
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Pyro glove. I rarely play Pyro, but that doesn't really matter.
Yay first hat! :V
Also, a couple of matches on Harvest where half the players on both sides were Scouts. Awesome! :D
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Pyro glove. I rarely play Pyro, but that doesn't really matter.
Yay first hat! :V
Also, a couple of matches on Harvest where half the players on both sides were Scouts. Awesome! :D
I have one crappy hat from camera beards and it's a goddamn mirror
If I'm going to play the "shit" class, might as well as wear a bitchin' hat
I really want the Modest Pile of Hat though
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Pyro glove. I rarely play Pyro, but that doesn't really matter.
Yay first hat! :V
Also, a couple of matches on Harvest where half the players on both sides were Scouts. Awesome! :D
Wanna trade when trading comes out? I've been trying to get that since it was released :C I've got a Brigade Helm. :V
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WTT mirror for camera beard
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Wanna trade when trading comes out? I've been trying to get that since it was released :C I've got a Brigade Helm. :V
I don't plan on crafting away anything that I don't have duplicates of, so I don't see a problem? Unless trading is restricted to withint the seperate server regions, but that would be just stupid.
Then again... look at this update. :V
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According to a post on SA:
According to Robin, they accidentally sent out the incorrect patch. The patch you received was the latest one sent out to the beta players, not the polished and complete one that everyone was supposed to receive.
Hey, look on the bright side, at least they are actually trying to change the Pyro in the beta.
... (http://ichimonai.com/forums/images/smilies/pacman2of.gif)
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Hahahaha oops
And don't be dissing Medic fool, unless you don't want to be healed
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Oh hey, new update (http://www.teamfortress.com/119/)
Everyone gets one of three medals depending on when they bought the game.
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# Added a 20% damage bonus to The Backburner
# Fixed the Flare Gun's afterburn duration being lowered by the Flamethrower's duration reduction
Whelp.
So you can only gets the medals if you have been playing since the release?
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Everyone gets a medal, the ones who bought from release to 3 months after release get a gold medal
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Ah my brother says he got 5 bronzes medals and steam then crashed.
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And my medal dropped but disappeared when I joined a new server
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And my medal dropped but disappeared when I joined a new server
They fucked up and everyone got bronze medals. So they removed them and are now fixing the system.
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lol backburner back to normal but flamethrower is still nerfed
way to go and support m1+W
also lol medals
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Oh snap (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1247659)
:o
Also
Engie exploit still works with negative numbers
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Engie exploit still works with negative numbers
Looks like I'll be playing more team fortress 2 tonight
:smug:
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They changed the name of the Weekend Warrior badge to Mercenary. :V
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But that's what a soldier of fortune is in the first place! BV
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But that's what a soldier of fortune is in the first place! BV
See, they can't even patch the name of a medal correctly. BV
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MAKE THIS YOUR SPRAYPAINT OR YOU ARE NOT A PYR⑨ (http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/766/123cn.png)
also don't tell me that rocket jumping also results in minicritting yourself
EDIT: lol steam forums
half of the people are overly serious, half automatically assume that you don't airblast
TROLL Y/Y
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also don't tell me that rocket jumping also results in minicritting yourself
Unlike stickies, rockets actually change ownership on a reflect. While you do technically mini-crit yourself, you still take the reduced 45-65 self-damage from rocket self-damage reduction.
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Hm, I played last night but I didn't get a medal. Oh well, it's not like anything's replacing my Gentle Mann's medal. 8)
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Hm, I played last night but I didn't get a medal. Oh well, it's not like anything's replacing my Gentle Mann's medal. 8)
They accidentally gave everyone bronze medals last night and they haven't figured out how to fix it apparently.
For the record though, these are equippable by ALL classes.
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Hooray, medals are finally dropping.
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Hooray, medals are finally dropping.
They're the wrong ones yet again though.
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They're the wrong ones yet again though.
ha ha ha
oh wow
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ha ha ha
oh wow
http://www.tf2items.com/id/esoterica
Notice how the date is less than a year after the release date of October 10, 2007.
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I just had a
great good not entirely awful idea for a Pyro weapon to replace the Whackburner:
The Afterburner!
Instead of cutting out the airblast completely it is changed to something else:
A spirit bomb!
( In the chemical sense, obviously. :3 It would be a working pun, though, seeing as the Pyro already has a Hadouken.)
When thrown, it flies in an arc like a grenade would and bounces off of walls and ceilings until hitting either an enemy or the floor.
If it hits an enemy, it will coat him in spiritus. If he is set on fire (or if he was burning all along), this will amplify the burning so that it does increased damage (by ~100%, maybe?) and won't stop by itself. The fire will have to be put out using a respective class ability, a med kit or water. Maybe some of these options wouldn't work, either.
If it hits the ground, it will create a puddle that can be lit on fire. Standing inside the fire deals a fixed amount of dps and sets the enemy on fire (not on amplified fire, though).
It would alter the play style significantly but not too much and trade in much of the support for a little different support as well as more offensive power. I have no idea about precise numbers for this stuff, though.
What do you think? :V
Yeah, I like thinking up features for games even though I know they will never be implemented. Sue me.
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Haha, I really love the Steam forums. There's a guy with 49 hats complaining about the new drop system because now he can't get more hats.
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I just had a great good not entirely awful idea for a Pyro weapon to replace the Whackburner:
The Afterburner!
Instead of cutting out the airblast completely it is changed to something else:
A spirit bomb!
( In the chemical sense, obviously. :3 It would be a working pun, though, seeing as the Pyro already has a Hadouken.)
When thrown, it flies in an arc like a grenade would and bounces off of walls and ceilings until hitting either an enemy or the floor.
If it hits an enemy, it will coat him in spiritus. If he is set on fire (or if he was burning all along), this will amplify the burning so that it does increased damage (by ~100%, maybe?) and won't stop by itself. The fire will have to be put out using a respective class ability, a med kit or water. Maybe some of these options wouldn't work, either.
If it hits the ground, it will create a puddle that can be lit on fire. Standing inside the fire deals a fixed amount of dps and sets the enemy on fire (not on amplified fire, though).
It would alter the play style significantly but not too much and trade in much of the support for a little different support as well as more offensive power. I have no idea about precise numbers for this stuff, though.
What do you think? :V
Yeah, I like thinking up features for games even though I know they will never be implemented. Sue me.
...so, napalm grenades? :V
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Pretty much. :V
The TF2 forums remind me oh too much of the WoW forums, only with a smaller community. For better or worse. Which is one of the reasons I didn't put my idea there.
I tried to read some of the pyro threads, but there was way too much astonishing stupidity on both sides. Just like the Druid discussions back then.
Oh, the memories... :3
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I used to follow the TF2 forums only because of the stupidity/trolling. Always managed to bring a smile to my face.
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Sometimes when people hate on the Steam forums I wonder why.
Then I realize that outside the nine subforums there's one giant cesspool of morons.
EDIT: Nevermind, the cesspool's overflowing into the subforums too now. Why the hell would Pyros need points for airblasting projectiles? :/
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pyros are already point whores with extinguishing
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pyros are already point whores with extinguishing
not quite as much as demomen or soldiers with killing
i wonder which is more useful for the team
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not quite as much as demomen or soldiers with killing
i wonder which is more useful for the team
I dunno, but I outscored one of the top snipers on the server as a pyro because I got a shitton of extinguishes
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I dunno, but I outscored one of the top snipers on the server as a pyro because I got a shitton of extinguishes
I haven't even seen any other Pyros on the servers I play on since the nerf.
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I haven't even seen any other Pyros on the servers I play on since the nerf.
you actually play?
also gimme IP/name
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you actually play?
also gimme IP/name
Not right now because my internet is terribad. I'll get you the speedtest results when it finished 15 minutes from now.
SourceOP arena, shouldn't be too hard to find.
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I love airblasting people to death. In arena_offblast I airblasted a shit ton of people off the map. But the first blood is bugged with environmental kills. I got first blood by airblasting a Scout and I see the crit effect on my weapon and manage to sneak behind a Medic, Heavy, and Demoman and start burning them, but the crits didn't register and I get shred to pieces.
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Isn't it sad, Pyro? (http://i42.tinypic.com/2gyaw0h.jpg)
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Check if the regular axe is more affective than the flamethrower
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Check if the regular axe is more affective than the flamethrower
I don't need to because I can tell you off the top of my head that melee DPS is 81.25 while flamethrower is 122 (max; goes as low as 73 but you can't melee from that far away).
You can punch a pyro to death while getting hit with every flame particle as a heavy, sit through the afterburn, and still walk away with about 50 HP though.
Thank God I'm playing Scout in Friday's scrim and not Pyro.
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Has anyone gotten crit-a-cola yet? The drop system is being mean and I wanna know if it truly makes the scattergun as efficient as the pistol from long range thanks to the crits...(heard someone say it in game)
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Has anyone gotten crit-a-cola yet? The drop system is being mean and I wanna know if it truly makes the scattergun as efficient as the pistol from long range thanks to the crits...(heard someone say it in game)
I used the magic of console commands to replicate it.
Yeah, it's just as good as if not better than the pistol at range, but there's a 24 second cooldown on it, and the extra damage rarely ever lets you get a kill in less shots than you'd go through normally (sans on 125 HP classes, which you'll one-shot).
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It just occured to me
That I've been playing this class again and again
And no matter what map or against who I repeatedly die
I never will give up
As I attempt to reflect the soldier's rockets back at him
But he is using a Direct Hit
If countering me wasn't easy I'd be fine
It would make it so much easier to play a Pyro but
Every time, somehow, every time, somehow
Every time I lose
I can't defeat anyone
No matter how I try to axtinguish the heavy he just kills me again
And even though I can get behind him it's no use
I try to fight him but he turns around and I'm dead
I try as hard as I can
But when I had to go against demoman's stickies I was helpless again
And I'm tired of this crap so this is my plan
I'll main a different class before Valve nerfs him again
It just occured to me
That my lifebar's almost empty again
If I won't find a medic now I will never survive
But since the last update
No single medic will get off the overpowered Heavy's ass
So I get ganked by a Scout again
If Valve only had some common sense then I'd be fine
It would make it easier to fight the other classes but
Every time, somehow, every time, somehow
Every time I lose
I can't defeat anyone
No matter how I try to approach the sniper
I get shot down again
And even though I can get behind him he is usually camping a sentry so I die yet again
I try as hard as I can
But when I had to go against a battle medic I was helpless again
And I'm tired of this crap so this is my plan
I'll main a different class before Valve nerfs him again
If my primary wasn't a shotgun I'd be fine
It would make it easier to fight the other classes but
Every time, somehow, every time, somehow
Every time I lose
I can't defeat anyone
No matter how I try to axtinguish the heavy he just kills me again
And even though I can get behind him it's no use
I try to fight him but he turns around and I'm dead
I try as hard as I can
But when I had to go against a fucking spy I was helpless again
And I'm tired of this crap so this is my plan
I'll stop playing this game before Valve buffs me again
But it will never happen~
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Airblasting, so easy a W+M1 can do it.
...oh who am I kidding, they'll be using the backburner anyways.
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Airblasting, so easy a W+M1 can do it.
...oh who am I kidding, they'll be using the backburner anyways.
WM1's upgrade to Heavy
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Tried out some other classes finally.
Scout's even more awesome than before.
Heavy's actually getting closer to being balanced.
Sorry Pyro, we had a good run.
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Tried out some other classes finally.
Scout's even more awesome than before.
Heavy's actually getting closer to being balanced.
Sorry Pyro, we had a good run.
don't give up
DEFLECT THE UNDEFLECTABLE
AXTINGUISH THE UNAXTINGUISHABLE
ROW ROW FIGHT THE VALVE
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Yeah, the Scout has some hard achievements, but the Medic has it even worse. I mean, kill 5 people while Ubercharged ready but undeployed? Getting 5 kills in one game is hard enough. The Consultation one might be possible if you both have the ubersaw, but yeah. Also, I haven't gotten any of the ones where I had to get a certain number of kills by ubering another class, and I doubt I'd get the pyro one now. Maybe I'm just unlucky.
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I'd have to agree with you, the Medic achievements are just stupid. 10000 hp in a life? Hello idleserver... :derp:
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killing 6 people with an axe isn't easy either
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How does one get the Sniper achievement "Dead Reckoning", i.e. "Kill an enemy with an arrow while you are dead.", without using the huntsman? ???
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How does one get the Sniper achievement "Dead Reckoning", i.e. "Kill an enemy with an arrow while you are dead.", without using the huntsman? ???
you don't
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Heavy's actually getting closer to being balanced.
Wasn't unbalanced before, just took a lot of getting used to. Snipers are the only threat, but they're a hard counter. Every other class is a soft counter to the heavy.
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you don't
I did.
That is why I asked the question.
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I did.
That is why I asked the question.
the answer is Valve
also lol pyro
don't shoot any rockets
pyro is useless
herp derp
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Wasn't unbalanced before, just took a lot of getting used to. Snipers are the only threat, but they're a hard counter. Every other class is a soft counter to the heavy.
Not any more. With this recent update you can kill shotgun classes/scouts on reaction.
The only real problems with the class now are terrible spread/falloff and not getting to mid until the battle's already over.
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also lol pyro
don't shoot any rockets
pyro is useless
herp derp
Exactly why I'm done playing my main class until he gets rebuffed. Only class he can do anything against now is Soldiers that don't know they have a shotgun.
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The only real problems with the class now are terrible spread/falloff and not getting to mid until the battle's already over.
I remember Valve cooperating with some competitive teams to make unlockables especially for 6v6, and they had already a few that boosted heavy speed. I've no idea what came of that though.
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I remember Valve cooperating with some competitive teams to make unlockables especially for 6v6, and they had already a few that boosted heavy speed. I've no idea what came of that though.
They're still beta testing the GRU and have three different versions of it that they're focusing on.
If they decide to implement it, the most likely version would be "Run at normal speed when out, lose 6HP per second when out (same as afterburn)". That makes it unable to be used as an escape tool, but makes it easy to both reach mid and help a medic grind uber.
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Soldiers are still going to be preferred heal targets with their rocket-jumping, though, which means heavies will get to mid with 5 HP.
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That reminds me:
Somebody beat all the Soldiers over their heads that senselessly rocket jump before a round starts and then call for a medic. It's not like I could use that healing time to buff other players' life or anything. Really, just shoot another rocket at your feet, than you will die and respawn with full health, saving time and nerves.
Not that big a deal, but I find it extremely annyoing. :/
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Just so you know, rocket-jumping to mid while medic heals you is universal tactic in competitive tf2. Maybe people forget about what server they play on and still use the same "play modes".
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4 scraps until a random hat
CAMERA BEARD Y/N
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Just so you know, rocket-jumping to mid while medic heals you is universal tactic in competitive tf2. Maybe people forget about what server they play on and still use the same "play modes".
The main reason for doing it before the round start is to help the medic grind uber. Apparently some people aren't aware that the mediguns were buffed to keep filling uber at the same rate when overhealing someone as it is when they heal someone injured.
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Natascha bullets run on Valvetime. The decrease in speed causes them to do 3/4 the damage they normally do, their valvetime effect spreads to their victims, and it took 3 years for Valve to get the slowdown to work properly.
It all makes sense.
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Natascha Heavies are fuckin brutal now. Luckily Sasha can overpower Natascha.
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Natascha Heavies are fuckin brutal now. Luckily Sasha can overpower Natascha.
There's plenty of ways to counter Natascha though.
-Fight back. Even a medic beats a natty hoovy at mid range.
-If you're a spy, disguise. Disguised spies aren't affected by slowdown.
-Jump and crouch. Suddenly the slowdown becomes pushback.
-Strafe. The Source engine is really glitchy when it comes to movement on a diagonal axis, and quickly alternating strafe keys allows you to resist a good portion of the slowdown.
Just a few examples.
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I'd have to agree with you, the Medic achievements are just stupid. 10000 hp in a life? Hello idleserver... :derp:
My record is 20,002 healed in one life (was killed by a crit when I got too close to the corner, else I could have gone higher). Hooray for choke points, friends on your team, and your team being being generally more awesome.
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So can someone explain why heavy's can kill someone with one bullet non-crit?
I've had this happen so many times where I would be at full hp and single shot gets me from a heavy and I'm gone.
This was even before the update. I haven't play any since it.
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So can someone explain why heavy's can kill someone with one bullet non-crit?
I've had this happen so many times where I would be at full hp and single shot gets me from a heavy and I'm gone.
This was even before the update. I haven't play any since it.
It's unlikely to be a single boolet since the mini-gun fires 10/sec.
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So can someone explain why heavy's can kill someone with one bullet non-crit?
I've had this happen so many times where I would be at full hp and single shot gets me from a heavy and I'm gone.
This was even before the update. I haven't play any since it.
Lag. Most damage they can do per shot is 56, at which range they'd need to hit with all four bullets point-blank.
Also, I revised my pyro loadout. (http://i44.tinypic.com/e6srhi.png) I can't help but feel it's considerably more accurate now.
EDIT: Changed the class name to Aero as well.
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All we need now is a leaf blower skin
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The main reason for doing it before the round start is to help the medic grind uber.
There's no setup time in competitive. It's all to get to mid first.
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oh crap they're selling the heavy model (https://www.gamingheads.com/index.php?option=com_myphp&Itemid=3&product=84)
Insanely expensive, but it looks so good.
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In before Bananamatic gets a camera beard.
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So pretty, so 1/6th of my summer's salary.
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In before Bananamatic gets a camera beard.
I'm keeping his inventory open in Steam Item Manager and watching it like a hawk. When it happens, I'll be the second person to know. :V
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getting crap items earns you bitching rights
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You know, you have the garbage necessary to make a hat right now.
Sandman-Sandman-X
Buff Banner-Gunboats-X
Any combination of sniper items
Something with Aero
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You know, you have the garbage necessary to make a hat right now.
yeah I don't play anything else than pyro anyways
i can wait, might take ages to re-get some items
Also, gunboats might be traded later on
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oh crap they're selling the heavy model (https://www.gamingheads.com/index.php?option=com_myphp&Itemid=3&product=84)
Insanely expensive, but it looks so good.
Holy crap! I was thinking of getting it, but I thought it was going to be plastic. $229 is way out of my budget.
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what the hell
how did that sniper headshot me after my head was hidden
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what the hell
how did that sniper headshot me after my head was hidden
Lag -ag -g -g -g
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Lag -ag -g -g -g
also stupid heavy fortress
good job valve
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A lot of it is to also blame on values dragging hit boxes.
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also stupid heavy fortress
good job valve
Hey, at least he's finally getting to be good.
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I just noticed that arena mode is awesome and that Core ist the best map since the Liandri Core in UT classic.
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I just noticed that arena mode is awesome and that Core ist the best map since the Liandri Core in UT classic.
Arena is indeed awesome.
Haven't played on core, nor have I even heard of it.
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Arena_nucleus rocks, agreed.
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Arena_nucleus rocks, agreed.
Oh, is that what he meant?
Yeah, I love arena_nucleus. It gets a lot of undeserved hate for being a circle map though. I don't get why, it's not like Watchtower where the team with more scouts, snipers, and demomen automatically wins. Every class performs well in at least one section of the map.
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Hey, at least he's finally getting to be good.
except that now a pyro can't defeat a heavy which isn't a complete idiot
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Arena is indeed awesome.
Mainly because a) you don't run into lvl 3 sentries every two seconds and b) you are for once not the only player who tries to achieve the map objective. :V
Haven't played on core, nor have I even heard of it.
:/
...seeing that a search on google or youtube of "TF2 Core Arena" doesn't yield anything useful, it seems that I've got the name wrong. :derp:
I meant Nucleus, apparently. Anyways, awesome map etc.
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I'm starting to play Demoknight more just because I changed the decapitation sound to this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2rL5XnNbtY)
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except that now a pyro can't defeat a heavy which isn't a complete idiot
Heavy was already a soft counter to Pyro to begin with. Sasha can kill a Pyro in about 1/5 of a second, and Natascha rapes Pyros at mid range so badly a heavy won't even get hurt.
The difference now is, you actually have to use the axtinguisher to take him down, but since he can retaliate faster they don't need to be as good at the class to kill you on reaction between strikes.
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Heavy was already a soft counter to Pyro to begin with. Sasha can kill a Pyro in about 1/5 of a second, and Natascha rapes Pyros at mid range so badly a heavy won't even get hurt.
The difference now is, you actually have to use the axtinguisher to take him down, but since he can retaliate faster they don't need to be as good at the class to kill you on reaction between strikes.
yeah, sometimes afterburn gets them after axtinguishing
still, mostly I can only chop him once then he mows me down
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Did you get that camera beard yet?
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no items today
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no items today
Don't worry, item drops reset in 8 hours.
then I can go back to stalking your backpack
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Holy Shit (http://www.teamfortress.com/119/comingsoon.html), Engy update might be announced this week
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Holy Shit (http://www.teamfortress.com/119/comingsoon.html), Engy update might be announced this week
I'm more excited about the fact that I get the silver medal I deserve. v;
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There's a Flamethrower in the foreground and robot blueprints and heads in the background. People are speculating that Valve is going to officially declare that the Pyro is a robot and that he's getting some modifications in this update.
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The pyro is CABAL in disguise.
Woot a reason to play engi maybe.
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Wait, I just realized. Engy update, everyone will be playing Engy for the new weapons...
(http://i41.tinypic.com/24g7ofb.png)
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There's a Flamethrower in the foreground and robot blueprints and heads in the background. People are speculating that Valve is going to officially declare that the Pyro is a robot and that he's getting some modifications in this update.
makes sense. BV
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Yeah, I love arena_nucleus. It gets a lot of undeserved hate for being a circle map though. I don't get why, it's not like Watchtower where the team with more scouts, snipers, and demomen automatically wins. Every class performs well in at least one section of the map.
In KOTH Nucleus can get a little spawncampy (since no one ever uses any exit other than the front door, lol.) Not sure why anyone would hate on the arena version, though.
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Wait, I just realized. Engy update, everyone will be playing Engy for the new weapons...
Fortunately there were recent community unlocks (and Crit-a-Cola) recently to distract people with the five combat classes instead.
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I'm more excited about the fact that I get the silver medal I deserve. v;
Gold medal for me :V
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I've got me my bronze mercenary badge, I'll wear it while being a bald sniper.
:suwakodwi:
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There's a Flamethrower in the foreground and robot blueprints and heads in the background. People are speculating that Valve is going to officially declare that the Pyro is a robot and that he's getting some modifications in this update.
oh great
now Valve is going to make pyro sappable
hard counter my ass
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Hahah, I was about to mention that the engineer appeared to be working on a propane tank. I'll be really interested in whatever happens next. ANd time to go see which medal I deserve.
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oh great
now Valve is going to make pyro sappable
hard counter my ass
but because the pyro is revealed to be a terminator-esque robot, he gets 70% bullet, explosive, and melee reduction.
and no knockback
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but because the pyro is revealed to be a terminator-esque robot, he gets 70% bullet, explosive, and melee reduction.
and no knockback
Also, he doesn't spawn or respawn like regular players. You can choose where you will appear and when before the match starts. On that point in time, you appear in an explosion that vaparizes anybody close to you. And you are naked.
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For some reason, this thread (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1254827) amuses me.
Also, how frequently does robo pyro shoot hadokens?
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Oh nice, earned the primeval badge. Buying a steam account from a friend = win.
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Oh nice, earned the primeval badge. Buying a steam account from a friend = win.
Epic win right there. Congrats.
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Sadly, it seems that primeval badge =/= the ability to become cthulhu. Otherwise, fooled around on a surf map server before becoming rather disgusted.
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Re-adapting to the fun server attitude is hard. I can't wrap my head around how people ignore the objective and just spam, or why people play engineer. Playing on pubs is downright painful now.
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Play arena
NO OBJECTIVE
BRAINLESS VIOLENCE ONLY
FINAL DESTINATION
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awesome round
stunned a scout with his own baseball, then got a DH deflect kill :V
pyro is still good...especially after mapping the axtinguisher to an easier to reach button...like F.
No idea why buff other classes though.
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Anyone have problems connecting to Steam?
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Today was a good day.
I got several weapons I didn't have yet, two of which I am willing to use (Flare Gun and Ubersaw), two hats (the Pot head for the Soldier and the Prussian hat), the latter of which I really wanted to have, and also two of the more retarded Scout achievements (Moon Ball and No-hitter), which brings me two steps closer to Bonk!
:toot:
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Two hats in ONE DAY?
I got...one hat in 5 months. From cameras at that. And it's a shitty mirror.
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BANANA CRAFTED A PRUSSIAN
YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST FOLKS
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Pyro - Time played: 63,4 hours
Medic - Time played: 3,2 hours
2 hats
both medic
2 options:
1) craft them together for a tyrolean
2) wait a year for trading
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Pyro - Time played: 63,4 hours
Medic - Time played: 3,2 hours
2 hats
both medic
2 options:
1) craft them together for a tyrolean
2) wait a year for trading
Actually, I forgot to mention:
3) Craft them together for a Physician's Procedure Mask or Camera Beard
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I'd rather get the camera beard as I could craft that one away without regret
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Valve Employee 1: So now that we've nerfed pyro into shit, what class should we mess up next?
Valve Employee 2: Hmm, I've got an idea...
*LATER*
Updated the Homewrecker
It now damages enemy sappers on friendly buildings
have fun never sapping anything if there's a competent aero (support class) on the enemy team.
this also supports the pyro robot theory. Now engineers can generally just leave their sentries and teleporters alone.
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The Homewrecker still sucks as the Axtinguisher is invaluable.
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It should've been able to damage sappers from the beginning, but yeah, Axtinguisher still beats it.
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PRIMEVAL BADGE GET
wait why does it still look like the gold medal what the fuck
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PRIMEVAL BADGE GET
wait why does it still look like the gold medal what the fuck
They're all gold on the equipment screen.
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I got bored of airblasting so I switched to the Backburner, and I'm having more fun with that than with the Flamethrower. I can actually do damage to a Medic faster than the Blutsauger healing him and actually kill him. I never killed a Medic in direct combat with the Flamethower after the nerf. I've been doing better with the BB because I rarely see any trigger happy Soldier and Demo. Though I think that has to do something with everyone on the servers I've been to lately being terrible.
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I got bored of airblasting so I switched to the Backburner, and I'm having more fun with that than with the Flamethrower. I can actually do damage to a Medic faster than the Blutsauger healing him and actually kill him. I never killed a Medic in direct combat with the Flamethower after the nerf. I've been doing better with the BB because I rarely see any trigger happy Soldier and Demo. Though I think that has to do something with everyone on the servers I've been to lately being terrible.
Fun fact: Due to damage rounding the backburner still does the same amount of damage as the flamethrower if falloff is in effect.
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They're all gold on the equipment screen.
oh ok
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Fun fact: Due to damage rounding the backburner still does the same amount of damage as the flamethrower if falloff is in effect.
Then it was just everyone else being terrible
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Crit-a-Cola was here, Bonk is a loser.
Seriously, I thought it'd be terrible at first, but this thing is fucking godly as long as you aren't the center of attention.
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scout was here, pyro is a loser
lol at this dude, saying he is important to the team when all he does is camp the watchtower CP with stickies 24/7
then he tells me that I should better learn how to use the shotgun...yeah, long distance vs a scout with a pistol
good luck
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Found on gamefaqs and thought I would share it with you guys.
.]http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/y2uU0hl7DC6Jk0GF]. (http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/y2uU0hl7DC6Jk0GF)
I seem to have problems with the URL function, anyone else have issues?
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Crit-a-Cola was here, Bonk is a loser.
Seriously, I thought it'd be terrible at first, but this thing is fucking godly as long as you aren't the center of attention.
I want a crit-a-cola. :(
Honestly, if you're getting shot at as Scout you're probably gonna die anyway, so hey.
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There's a supposedly Valve employee saying that he lost a bet and leaked some of the information about the update. Like it will be announced on Tuesday and released on Friday and that the first day will provide 'Meet the Medic' and the last day will bring 'Meet the Pyro'. There will be 18 new hats and a community weapon for each class that requires another milestone so everyone doesn't go Engie when it hits. He also says that it's not half of it.
Many people think it's fake and others think it was a fake leak like the release of 'Meet the Spy'. I'm not sure if to think this is fake or true.
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There's a supposedly Valve employee saying that he lost a bet and leaked some of the information about the update. Like it will be announced on Tuesday and released on Friday and that the first day will provide 'Meet the Medic' and the last day will bring 'Meet the Pyro'. There will be 18 new hats and a community weapon for each class that requires another milestone so everyone doesn't go Engie when it hits. He also says that it's not half of it.
Many people think it's fake and others think it was a fake leak like the release of 'Meet the Spy'. I'm not sure if to think this is fake or true.
Wouldn't surprise me if it's true.
Speaking of which, apparently Crit-a-Cola wasn't a community weapon.
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Meet the pyro will end with him taking off his mask, revealing a robotic skull-like face, and then he breathes fire on you.
FATALITY
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People think it's fake because it says it has Meet the Medic because the voice actor said he was busy working on other games to go to Valve and that's why the WAR update didn't have a 'Meet the' video. But it has been almost half a year since he said that, his schedule probably has opened up.
EDIT: Also, is it just me or has anyone else had Steam and TF2 crash a lot since the "Let's fuck with the Pyro" update?
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EDIT: Also, is it just me or has anyone else had Steam and TF2 crash a lot since the "Let's fuck with the Pyro" update?
Forget crashing, Steam causes a full-on BSoD for me now. I can't even have it running.
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Yeah, I've been noticing more crashing, but only when it's loading a new map. Not sure if that's related though.
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Sentry, going up! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjhrIsSCcjs)
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nope (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0dR1BigA3g)
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Still the best TF2 video ever. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95iwH1UsFC4)
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Still the best TF2 video ever. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95iwH1UsFC4)
I dunno, I'd say it's tied with everything on Worms's channel.
I'm still rather fond of scot and piro.
Then again... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1-aXdneItY)
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but source filmmaker is cool
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but source filmmaker is cool
but jim's videos are overrated as hell
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but jim's videos are overrated as hell
Fine, have some OH WHAT THE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLpQS-96hCg)
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I just walked into a game where the playing level was leagues above what I have seen on other public servers so far. Seeing that that the people knew each other and that I got my ass kicked horribly, I left the game. However, I also noticed that there was one other player named Skye and another with a Cirno avatar.
...I just ran into one of you guys, didn't I? :colonveeplusalpha:
On another note: Scout Milestone 3, which means Bonk! Yes!
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I play on sourceOP a bit so I figure I've have to have run into one of you guys in the past.
it helps things that my name's the contra code which stands out because i'm cool like that
BV
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so everyone is playing on sourceop?
I better figure out how to airblast with 160 ping then
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Oh hey. I've finally got another hat that isn't the Gibus/Camera Beard/Doctor's Mask, Fancy Fedora. Shame it has to be a Spy hat, my least played class :/
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I used to play on 2F2F, but now the server autokicks me for "Having a cafe account", what the hell?
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However, I also noticed that there was one other player named Skye and another with a Cirno avatar.
...I just ran into one of you guys, didn't I? :colonveeplusalpha:
Not quite (http://steamcommunity.com/id/SSkye)
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Don't think it's me, my PC tends to crash around the 25 player mark.
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People have been crashing a lot lately, I don't think the amount of players affect it. Hell, my game crashes when I exit it.
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have you done the fix posted on the forums?
I couldn't connect, so I renamed ClientRegistry.blob and let steam create a new one
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noscope sniper just kicked pyros ass
thats really all there is to say on the matter
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Sometimes I really hate auto-balance. I'm trying to get the be an MVP 10 times as a soldier achievement. I was on RED in a cp game. My team was dominating the others with me on top of the scoreboard. 10 seconds till the game is over and I see the message "Teams are imbalanced, auto-balance commencing in 5 seconds" So I think, if I stay back here with the sentry I won't die, auto-balance always happens on people who died and plenty of guys of my team are dying. Then, WHAM, the auto-balance slays me and the moment I respawn "YOU FAIL!"
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Sometimes I really hate auto-balance. I'm trying to get the be an MVP 10 times as a soldier achievement. I was on RED in a cp game. My team was dominating the others with me on top of the scoreboard. 10 seconds till the game is over and I see the message "Teams are imbalanced, auto-balance commencing in 5 seconds" So I think, if I stay back here with the sentry I won't die, auto-balance always happens on people who died and plenty of guys of my team are dying. Then, WHAM, the auto-balance slays me and the moment I respawn "YOU FAIL!"
Do arena MVPs count for that? Because it's easy to get MVP in arena, and the rounds come fast.
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Nope, I've gotten dozens of MVPs as Soldier in arenas
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They really need to code autobalance so it doesn't happen in the last thirty seconds of a match.
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This is weird, I just ended 2 rounds of cp with me as MVP and they didn't count. And yes there were over 6 players on both teams, so it should have counted.
They really need to code autobalance so it doesn't happen in the last thirty seconds of a match.
They also need to code it so it doesn't happen right when I'm gonna deploy an Ubercharge
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How about medics and engineers completely. Especially if you're the only medic or engineer on the team. Losing your sole engineer or medic can be gamebreaking to the entire team.
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This is weird, I just ended 2 rounds of cp with me as MVP and they didn't count. And yes there were over 6 players on both teams, so it should have counted.
I threw several players into bottomless pits and into the sawmill sawblades using the FaN, yet I still don't have the respective achievement. Sometimes the game just hates you. *shrug*
How about medics and engineers completely. Especially if you're the only medic or engineer on the team. Losing your sole engineer or medic can be gamebreaking to the entire team.
Especially since engineers have to rebuild everything. Lvl 3 sentry, dispenser and teleporters, all in strategically great positions? Well, get it up from scratch, punk! :o
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>Engineer
>strategical positioning
What. It's just there to annoy.
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Generally speaking, if I'm playing engie and my shit gets destroyed, I'll switch to a class like Demo and try to stop the enemy team from advancing further before rebuilding.
>Engineer
>strategical positioning
What. It's just there to annoy.
Even if you're just being a dick by building random level 1 sentries in the enemy base, position is everything. If you place it in the middle of the room outside their spawn, it's just going to slow them down for a few seconds and not kill anyone. If you build it on a ledge outside their spawn door in the direction opposite of where they're going, or around a random blind corner, then it'll both slow them down and get kills, as well as force their team to either concentrate in the sentry's area to remove it or in a separate hallway to not get shot at, allowing your team to sneak by elsewhere.
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Generally, though, unless you're playing on dustbowl/2fort on a 32 server, engie buildings are ludicrously easy to destroy; it takes a bit of coordination but I've seen it happen. I think that demoman is still better at area denial, if a bit less efficient at dealing with someone who bypassed the sticky carpets.
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engie buildings are ludicrously easy to destroy
Which is why you don't see Engies in comp play unless they can build somewhere where it's either hard to destroy or a considerable asset to the team, such as when defending the last point or gravelpit B.
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It hungers! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qeHe2ih_jg)
EDIT: 2 items can be used for scrap metal now instead of 3
EDIT 2: New recipes like Kritzkrieg and Bonk! make Crit-a-Cola and Targe and Razorback make Gunboats
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http://store.steampowered.com/public/client/steam_client_linux (http://store.steampowered.com/public/client/steam_client_linux)
Is...is this joy I feel?
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Deity Link is fooling around again (http://www.fpsbanana.com/maps/133892)
Does this mean the SDM map was fully completed? I've been very much out of the loop thanks to Monster Hunter. <.<
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It looks kind of crap, to be honest...
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More crafting changes that fucked me over since I crafted stuff it affected mere days beforehand.
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first random hat
master's belt
ugh
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EDIT 2: New recipes like Kritzkrieg and Bonk! make Crit-a-Cola and Targe and Razorback make Gunboats
Excellent.
Having not-purely-aesthetic items that can not be gotten without pure luck is not fun. Now I'll soon be able to craft sandmen into a scout token and heavy-snacks into a slot-2-token to craft a spare bonk which I can then craft with a spare kritzkrieg for a cola.
A little inconvenient, but it is possible. \o/
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Crafting has now become a Horadric cube.
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So what do you hace to craft together to get to TF2's secret cow level?
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So what do you hace to craft together to get to TF2's secret cow level?
3 hats and a community weapon.
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first random hat
master's belt
ugh
divine retribution
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I'm better at ninjaneer in arena than pyro now :fail:
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I'm better at ninjaneer in arena than pyro now :fail:
Still doing my best with Pyro despite what the numbers would say.
Got a point-blank reflect headshot today among other things (killstealing on offblast by airshotting someone falling off the side with a reflected rocket, for example) :V
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airblast killing on offblast/nucleus is pretty much the best thing ever. It's so effective.
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airblast killing on offblast/nucleus is pretty much the best thing ever. It's so effective.
Unfortunately the people at SourceOP know how to airstrafe, so unless I've got a backup airblaster/flare gunner/rocketeer they land back on the ledge nine times out of ten.
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Yeah, SourceOP arena's pretty rough when the good players are on. Think I ran into you on sourceOP earlier today when I was screwing around.
Valve needs to stop trolling us through the TF2 blog and release the engineer update already. :(
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Yeah, SourceOP arena's pretty rough when the good players are on. Think I ran into you on sourceOP earlier today when I was screwing around.
Valve needs to stop trolling us through the TF2 blog and release the engineer update already. :(
Have you seen Ghost yet? If you do, try to convince him to play scout or sniper. He plays revolver spy because everything else "is too easy" :V
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Have you seen Ghost yet? If you do, try to convince him to play scout or sniper. He plays revolver spy because everything else "is too easy" :V
The name is familiar, but he usually played Soldier before I took my extended break. He's also one of the whiniest people I've ever played with and rages all the time whenever someone fucks up.
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sourceop doesn't seem all that high level to me...it's probably the average pub player being even worse.
anyways, is there any way to improve my ping from 160 on there? the airblast has a significant delay
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The name is familiar, but he usually played Soldier before I took my extended break. He's also one of the whiniest people I've ever played with and rages all the time whenever someone fucks up.
Yeah, that's not Ghost. I've never seen him whine about anything; even when he's stuck on the shitty team he laughs it off.
sourceop doesn't seem all that high level to me...it's probably the average pub player being even worse.
anyways, is there any way to improve my ping from 160 on there? the airblast has a significant delay
Depends on when you get on and which server you go to. For example, the arena server's probably filled with crap pub players 70% of the day, and the other 30% it's both pubstars and members from clans Stalwart Soldiers and Crazy Ivan.
As for the ping...
cl_updaterate +30
cl_cmdrate 66
rate 60000
Something like that.
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As for the ping...
cl_updaterate +30
cl_cmdrate 66
rate 60000
Something like that.
Does that change anything about the fact that the server is probably US based and I'm from Europe?
anyways, gotta start playing there some more
Also, playing on the bad team can be more fun...as long as the medic isn't deaf and blind
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Does that change anything about the fact that the server is probably US based and I'm from Europe?
anyways, gotta start playing there some more
Also, playing on the bad team can be more fun...as long as the medic isn't deaf and blind
Austin, Texas based specifically. :V I don't really understand specifically what it does, but it'll smooth out the game significantly on your end.
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Austin, Texas based specifically. :V I don't really understand specifically what it does, but it'll smooth out the game significantly on your end.
yeah, I airblasted half a second earlier and the demo just spontaneously blew up :V
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played on sourceop
got a second random hat in 2 days(demo afro)
got 2 sentry rocket deflect kills
won a round with a deflect(1v1)
rockets seem perfectly airblastable if I get used to the delay
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So what do you hace to craft together to get to TF2's secret cow level?
Nothing, you just need to know where to look. :V
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So what do you hace to craft together to get to TF2's secret cow level?
If I told you, it wouldn't be a secret. (http://i40.tinypic.com/5f593l.jpg)
EDIT: Derp forgot my previous post. Apparently I can't delete my own posts in this board either :c
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Have the sign-ups for that highlander tourney opened up yet?
Btw, how do you make skins?
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Have the sign-ups for that highlander tourney opened up yet?
Btw, how do you make skins?
They have not.
Skins themselves are as simple as editing the material files for whatever it is you're skinning and recompiling them into the format the game uses. Modeling's more complicated and I really couldn't help you with that.
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They have not.
Skins themselves are as simple as editing the material files for whatever it is you're skinning and recompiling them into the format the game uses. Modeling's more complicated and I really couldn't help you with that.
Ah well, I was hoping to make Okami skins, but I guess thats a no go. The pyro still has a leafblower where his Flamethrower should be right? Haven't played the game in a few weeks.
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ARENA_NUCLEUS
SCOUT ONLY
FINAL DESTINATION
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Hmm. DIdn't realize that those medals depended on when you joined steam, rather than when you bought TF2. I've got a Silver Medal despite the fact that I only bought TF2 around November/December '09. Joined Steam on July '08. I'm not complaining though :V
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Hmm. DIdn't realize that those medals depended on when you joined steam, rather than when you bought TF2.
Uh no they don't :\
I joined steam back in '05 but my medal says September 2007.
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Uh no they don't :
I joined steam back in '05 but my medal says September 2007.
This.
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Why don't we post each other's Steam profiles here so we can add each other :V the steam thread doesn't really help as too many people frequently change/have different usernames.
EDIT: Also, am I the only one who sees the heavy as extremely overpowered? Even bad heavies are hard to counter in the arena.
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Well, at least on the pubs I play at heavies are usually very eager to eat a headshot. Some can even be taken from 450 to 0 by the oldest trick in the world: Approach from behind, two scattergun shots in the back, retreat, wait 3 seconds, repeat.
I have no idea how the situation is in high-level play, though.
On another note, I recently found the Axtinguisher and started playing around with the Pyro a bit more. Killing soldiers with their own rockets is pretty cool. Despite that, I don't think I'm really any good with him/her/it. :V
Oh, and as for the steam profile: Iryan. Just Iryan.
I also got four group and two friend invites without any of the people inviting me exchanging a word about it. Naturally I didn't accept any of them thus far. :derp:
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Even unrevved heavies are hard to axtinguish - they just turn around after the first hit and destroy you in less than a second.
I seriously hope they don't remove the strafing exploit vs Natascha - it doesn't slow down, it's a freaking glue gun which forces you to fight battles with no chance of winning.
I see people with low score switching to heavies and being on the top way too often.
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Steam Profile: Kishouki
In terms of the heavy; as long as I can still stare one down at mid range as a medic and gun him down with my syringe gun, walking away with half my health, he's nowhere near OP. Scouts can still 3-shot them before they can do too much damage too, though the heavy can actually react fast enough to do some damage now.
And...heavy kind of breaks arena. He's the best class at zone defense, and that's all arena is; defend either a point or a room with a dispenser, win regardless of having killed the other team or not. Plus, Sandvich makes him the only class (except somewhat medic) that's able to heal himself in arena. And 300 recoverable HP in a gamemode with no respawn is only an asset to him.
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In terms of the heavy; as long as I can still stare one down at mid range as a medic and gun him down with my syringe gun, walking away with half my health, he's nowhere near OP.
Medics do more DPS with the syringe gun than the Pyro.
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Medics do more DPS with the syringe gun than the Pyro.
Medics equal shotgun DPS with the syringe gun, plus HP regen (whether default with the syringe gun or +30 leeched with Blutsauger per second). But the needles are slow and do gradual damage instead of spike damage, so it's still relatively balanced.
On the note of the flamethrower though, it's officially the weakest weapon in the game now. Fire axe pyro without crits does in fact beat flamethrower pyro with all particles hitting, despite what I previously thought. And non-crit melee has the lowest DPS in the game (ignoring the flare gun).
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Medics equal shotgun DPS with the syringe gun, plus HP regen (whether default with the syringe gun or +30 leeched with Blutsauger per second). But the needles are slow and do gradual damage instead of spike damage, so it's still relatively balanced.
On the note of the flamethrower though, it's officially the weakest weapon in the game now. Fire axe pyro without crits does in fact beat flamethrower pyro with all particles hitting, despite what I previously thought. And non-crit melee has the lowest DPS in the game (ignoring the flare gun).
Wait, it still beats flaregun right?
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Wait, it still beats flaregun right?
Everything will always beat flare gun, no problems there.
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Why don't we post each other's Steam profiles here so we can add each other :V
ok sure (http://steamcommunity.com/id/dustyjo)
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Why don't we post each other's Steam profiles here so we can add each other :V
Here ya go. (http://steamcommunity.com/id/TheSykes)
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Why don't we post each other's Steam profiles here so we can add each other
Here I am (http://steamcommunity.com/id/SSkye)
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Why don't we post each other's Steam profiles here so we can add each other :V the steam thread doesn't really help as too many people frequently change/have different usernames.
EDIT: Also, am I the only one who sees the heavy as extremely overpowered? Even bad heavies are hard to counter in the arena.
enjoy (http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198008112067)
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derp added you guys
I kind of miss the flare gun though, given how it's your only chance in hell to kill a heavy in arena as pyro.
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derp added you guys
I kind of miss the flare gun though, given how it's your only chance in hell to kill a heavy in arena as pyro.
I feel the same. Weak as it may be, the range it gives the pyro is completely invaluable.
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Fun fact of the day: A medic will survive underwater longer than a Dalokohs-buffed Heavy.
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I can axtinguish a heavy from time to time if I get an ambush, but it's 50:50.
Protip: Map your melee weapon to F and map taunt to P or something. Much faster than using 3 or mouse3.
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Now with 100% more Scrubiness (http://steamcommunity.com/id/Chirumiru)
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why is my pyro playing inconsistent
on sourceop all the time, with delayed airblasts(seriously, any way to fix that? impossible to deflect consistently at mid range)
sometimes I have 1:4 rate, then I get 3 godly rounds in a row and I have 8:1
mostly thanks to the maps I guess?(I usually do well on lumberyard and if a medic tags along I sometimes completely destroy granary, but stuff like watchtower is usually a trainwreck)
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Hmm (http://steamcommunity.com/id/Doomsday93)
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with delayed airblasts(seriously, any way to fix that? impossible to deflect consistently at mid range)
This is another kick in the face from Valve to Pyros; the flamethrower is the only weapon without lag compensation.
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Using the sniper rifle has made me so terrible at using the huntsman. I can't hit anything with the bow now.
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Dammit, I was making a map and somehow managed to break it.
The only thing I can think of that I changed was adding a frog in the water, and I don't know how the hell that would've broken the entire map.
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I'm completely pulling this out of my butt, but I seem to remember something about source and water effects.
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I'm completely pulling this out of my butt, but I seem to remember something about source and water effects.
I know it's terrible with water, but I already had it set up to work. I didn't change anything involving the water since, but it still randomly broke anyway.
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Does anyone know if I could store Steam on a flashdrive?
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Does anyone know if I could store Steam on a flashdrive?
Thought about trying it, never got around to it.
Short answer: Maybe, but those games aren't small.
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I know it's terrible with water, but I already had it set up to work. I didn't change anything involving the water since, but it still randomly broke anyway.
What's the error it gives when you compile it?
on sourceop all the time, with delayed airblasts(seriously, any way to fix that? impossible to deflect consistently at mid range)
Depends on the server, your latency, and your interp settings. When I played I had a little script set up so I could change my interp preferences in the console depending on the server. It's a good idea to get familiar (http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/TF2_Network_Graph) with the advanced net_graph settings and what it means so you can study it while playing.
If your connection has a lot of jitter (which is usually inconsistent latency between you and your ISP) that's another problem.
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The only problem is the server location - normal ping is 50-60, but on US servers like 150-160 constant...and the only difference is airblast. Sucks.
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Some of these replacement models are awesome, (http://www.alphastudiossoftware.nl/fancy_vs_nasty/index.php)
Detective Noir needs to be made into an official hat TF2 pronto. Holy shit that looks amazing. :o
EDIT: http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=3835&p=1
We're going to ship an update with another small set of Pyro changes this week. Like our previous update, our goal is to increase the degree to which skill can make a difference between two Pyro players. We received a bunch of useful feedback after the last update, and we think we've managed to address most of it, without removing the skill-based additions. As always, play with it for a bit, and then let us know what you think.
Really hope these changes will be for the better. :ohdear:
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I know it's terrible with water, but I already had it set up to work. I didn't change anything involving the water since, but it still randomly broke anyway.
Maybe a leak or something?
Does anyone know if I could store Steam on a flashdrive?
The program itself should fit on a flash drive easily.
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New Blog Post (http://teamfortress.com/post.php?id=3835&p=1) related to Pyro
How much you bet they are going to fuck up the Pyro some more?
EDIT: I did not see that last post in page 33
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to add more skill
WE HAVE REMOVED THE SHOTGUN, FLAREGUN IS NOW FORCED
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Really hope these changes will be for the better. :ohdear:
Tandem Pyros can only be a bad thing. No other class is forced into a "effective only in groups" position.
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Tandem Pyros can only be a bad thing. No other class is forced into a "effective only in groups" position.
No other class is forced into 200 other conditions to be effective.
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We need to be optimistic people! It's not like they're going to make the pyro even worse right? The flamethrower is already only used for puff and sting now, and the shotgun would mess with Engie and Soldier. The only thing they could do now is crap on the axtinguisher, or make the pyro slower, but I don't think Valve is that cruel. :ohdear:
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Flaming stickies should remove them, or something. :V
At least make it to where airblasting stickies is useful besides "moving them five feet so they kill people somewhere else"
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They don't? I thought that any type of weapon could kill stickies provided they do enough damage.
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Pyro is going to be turned into the Groundskeeper.
With such exciting weapons as the Leaf Blower and Watering Hose, The Rake and Gardening Hoe, and The Weedkiller and Pesticide Spreader.
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They don't? I thought that any type of weapon could kill stickies provided they do enough damage.
Bullets and melee break stickies
Explosions and air move them
Everything else does nothing
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Fixed a case where the Spy could start taunting and cloak at the same time
Flamethrower changes
Increased base damage 10%
Afterburn duration increased (from 6 to 10)
Flares that hit a burning player at mid-to-long range will crit
Reduced Backburner damage bonus from 20% to 15%
Pyro players: Will flamethrower be half-viable again?
Valve: nope (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvdf5n-zI14)
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hahaha
oh wow
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Expect a nerf soon, everyone is now complaining that Pyros are OP again
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If the W+M1 whiners don't blow it, this could actually be exactly what the Pyro needs. It's the best Pyro's ever been.
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The flare gun actually doesn't require targets to be on fire to crit at long range. :smug:
NEED A DISPENSAH HERE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peucvvQHrC4)
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Fixed a case where the Spy could start taunting and cloak at the same time
Oh no more taunt killing sentries. :(
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Expect a nerf soon, everyone is now complaining that Pyros are OP again
Don't say it's so! The pyro is actually useful again!
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Don't say it's so! The pyro is actually useful again!
except that it's not
the original pyro was underpowered and too easy to counter - only brainless people complained
airblasting is easy to avoid with half a brain and his firepower is lower
EDIT: made a thread on the heavy being OP in arena, only "lol easy to counter" arguments so far
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Playing pyro has become more like a challenge against odds. It's become situational to the extreme. However, I still think that the Engineer should be outright removed and replaced with a fun class.
Yes, this is a rant against engineers.
The most balanced point I can come up with is that they only manage to slow the game down, other classes do his job pretty well, so engies serve pretty much as a speed bump, and while they can help stop a team that's advancing on momentum alone they'll quickly fall when the enemy reorganizes. All in all, their most important activities are building teleporters and dispensers on offense, so long as the game doesn't stalemate they won't even need to set up a forward base. On defense there's very few places a sentry will be useful for long, and if they wanna go offensive they rely on luck and should expect a lot of frustration. TF2 plays far too fast to have a speed-bump class like the engineer.
Ok, I'll stop ranting here.
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Playing pyro has become more like a challenge against odds. It's become situational to the extreme.
"Become"? Not only is the flamethrower's non-point blank damage is 2-3 times what it used to be, he's got an extremely useful and versatile airblast, and to top it off the flare gun can do 5-9 times its max old damage with added knockback now. In relation to how it used to be Pyro's only gotten better.
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"Become"? Not only is the flamethrower's non-point blank damage is 2-3 times what it used to be, he's got an extremely useful and versatile airblast, and to top it off the flare gun can do 5-9 times its max old damage with added knockback now. In relation to how it used to be Pyro's only gotten better.
So Valve fixed the leafblower? I've got to see this.
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I thought threads get closed when they have more than 1000 posts. :/
Waitaminute... >:D
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It's a soft cap. <_<