Peterthumpa
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Little OT: never played TF2 before, will I have fun playing it right now or probably die a thousand times in my first 5 minutes and uninstall it?
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TF2 Engineer update incoming?
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Read the Wiki. It'll explain a lot of shit that'll normally take you a long time to figure out on your own. It's not your average FPS game, there's lots to learn in the game. http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Main_Pagefelipepl said:
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Did you just admit to being part of the Steam forums? Because that's who I said wouldn't pick up on it.Twig said:
Peterthumpa
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Thanks for all the answers, guess I'll bite it.
thetrin
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felipepl said:
TF2 isn't the kind of FPS where you'll die and have no idea how it happened. Imo, the game is far less frustrating, and far more enjoyable. First of all, you get rewards (new weapons, hats, etc) no matter how good you are at the game. Second, the classes are diverse and give you a chance to be useful, even if you're not directly killing people. Also, the community is such that you can actually play on a team, and people will ASSIST you. It's crazy, I know.
Playing TF2 and then trying to go back to a console FPS is like night and day.
Grayman said:
Imo, you can make yourself insanely useful even if your life is short.
eg. Suiciding as a pyro to take out some heavies and sentries sitting on your payload.
Those are gifts, unless you consider them rewards for time spent in a server.thetrin said:
Especially since they nerfed the pyro, how are you going to take out multiple heavies or sentries on a payload? Especially a sentry? Unless you're ubered I'd think you'd be lucky to take out one heavy. Once upon a time, the normal shortrange flamethrower could kill a L3 sentry if you went right around the corner into it and the engineer wasn't sitting on it, but I can't remember the last time I've seen that happen.
One of my most cherished memories is seeing a pyro inside...a dustbowl room maybe? Where there's the second payload point with the high tower that snipers like to climb up on, and to one side there are the stairs up to sniper windows above the ditch, and there's that little room in there, and I think Javaman had an engineer nest in there. He was built in! He was ready to survive anything!
...and then a pyro uber came in, and used the flaregun taunt, and poor Javaman had a split second where he realized what was going to happen, and then JAVAMAN AND ALL THAT HE LOVED VANISHED IN FLAME.
I hope I remembered it right, Java. <3
thetrin
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Blizzard said:Those are gifts, unless you consider them rewards for time spent in a server.
You're arguing on semantics? Really?
Blizzard said:
I was just making a point. You dismantled it. Now that guy will never play TF2. All thanks to you. Hope you're happy.
speculawyer
Member
What is wrong with dying every 5 minutes? 5 minutes would probably be a record for me in most classes. :lolcelebi23 said:
It is annoying when you die within seconds, but you do respawn (almost) instantly.
speculawyer
Member
Back-burner. If you can come up at enemies from the behind with the back-burner, it takes them down almost instantly.Blizzard said:
Not much you can do about sentries though. Well, maybe the home-wrecker. I've never used it . . . is that any good? Pretty hard to take out a sentry with a Pyro. Kinda need a soldier or demoman for that.
Demigod Mac
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Also, watch some How To and Frag videos on your favorite class.
tf2tactics.com is a good place to start.
tf2tactics.com is a good place to start.
speculawyer
Member
Ugh . . . I end up trapping myself with my buildings far too often. I hate that. At least with a dispenser you have something to work with. Nothing worse than trapping yourself in a cul-de-sac with your sentry. It is such a fail move.Javaman said:
speculawyer
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Ceebs said:
Yeah, I was having fun with the sniper on that map. I was trying to get some achievements . . . that 5 assists with Jarate is not as easy as it sounds . . . I guess because it requires you to stay alive long enough to throw 5 jars of it. :lol
I learned that Jarate & sentry are a pretty deadly combo. If you can soak someone with jarate, the sentry will finish them off pretty quick.
axiomnightmare
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Yea, many of my classes actually have max time under 5 minutes.shintoki said:
Keep your flare gun. I just can't imagine life without the airburst. I ended up getting some 20-30kills earlier just air burst camping the bridge on Doublecross. Everything from putting out fires, to deflecting rockets(Specifically waiting for the Krit med to go at it), to blowing away the invic med from the one he is invic-ing, to locking up dead ringer spies, to blowing back charging demos, etc. :lolthetrin said:
That's a good point. It just seems really hard to actually get behind people with the backburner enough to be useful (especially if you're trying to suicide rush) but I'm probably not good with it so I can't really offer good advice.speculawyer said:
Like I said, I think pyros USED to be able to take out sentries at close range, but now, you can sit with your flamethrower on a teleporter entrance for 3-5 seconds before it gets destroyed...or maybe I was just unlucky and an engineer was repairing it. The only thing the homewrecker seems useful for to me is killing dispensers, teleporters, and sappers. It will kill a teleporter entrance in two hits if I'm not mistaken, possibly even with an engineer repairing it (or it might happen quickly enough that he doesn't notice). I feel like there's not a lot of chances you will get within melee range as an uber pyro, so you're probably better off just trying to use the flamethrower or backburner in that case.
derFeef said:More immobile engie, no alpine payload map.
Maybe they'll include Cashworks and Swiftwater as community maps.
Hopefully we get a decent number of community maps in this update, I would love to see Frontier, Swiftwater, Cashworks and Glacier made an official maps in this update.
Azure Dream
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parasight said:
Yeah, I saw that. Had to wonder if that was really random or not. :lol
Then again, he'd be the person who had the data to know roughly when to craft.
ZombieSupaStar
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Nedjoe said:
runs the sourceop servers, reason us non cheating good guys have halo hats.
flipping_heck
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If engineer got guitar as new melee, it be quite cool.
I think an area of effect kind of status thing with it when you use it (similar to Buff banner), allows you be more offensive but the trade of is the lack of Wrench where u can't upgrade your buildings.
Allows great Ninja-ering
I think an area of effect kind of status thing with it when you use it (similar to Buff banner), allows you be more offensive but the trade of is the lack of Wrench where u can't upgrade your buildings.
Allows great Ninja-ering
Diablohead
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ZombieSupaStar said:
InsaneZero
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He's also the creator of tf2items.
Most of the controversy surrounding him this time is that he and his two other friends have all gotten the wrench, so people are starting to suspect an exploit.
Most of the controversy surrounding him this time is that he and his two other friends have all gotten the wrench, so people are starting to suspect an exploit.
InsaneZero said:
The problem atm is not that f00l got a wrench but that he and 2 other friends got them by predicting drop times (There's a sourceop thread for this). If this is true then what it means is that every craft DOES NOT have a chance of getting a golden wrench but rather only crafts at a specific time do. I really hope this isn't true but the coincidences and the threads about predicting drop times (with some accurate predictions even) are leaving a bad taste in my mouth.