Team Fortress 2 appreciation thread

[a happy song]

The sniper helps very little in maps like 2Fort, where you need someone to bring the intel back to your base, and with his average speed and bad close-combat experiences, he almost invariably ends up in a "sniper v. sniper v. occasional soldier" war.

A decent sniper set up can dominate 2Fort. You can control not only the enemy battlements and the roof of the bridge, but the enemy lobby and the bridge itself. You can suppress the entire overground section, very useful for clearing a path for your flag runner, or forcing the enemy down into the tunnels. All you need is some decent backup (an engi set up in on the main landing watching your back, the team being alert for spies etc..) and a scout, soldier, or demo to run the bridge roof and help control the battlements if it gets too much.

Of course you can say a decent team can handle a sniper or two, but then a better team with a couple of snipers can dominate them in turn. We can set up a few games if you like (ping allowing), I'll show you how sniping can control that map :)

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My new fav class list: sniper > scout > soldier > engi > demo

[GamingWolf]

Fun Fact Alert!

Turns out, the voice of the Engineer is Grant Goodeve who is also the voice of Wolf in Star Fox: Assault.

OH SNAP.

[SlappyMcGee]

The sniper helps very little in maps like 2Fort, where you need someone to bring the intel back to your base, and with his average speed and bad close-combat experiences, he almost invariably ends up in a "sniper v. sniper v. occasional soldier" war.

A decent sniper set up can dominate 2Fort. You can control not only the enemy battlements and the roof of the bridge, but the enemy lobby and the bridge itself. You can suppress the entire overground section, very useful for clearing a path for your flag runner, or forcing the enemy down into the tunnels. All you need is some decent backup (an engi set up in on the main landing watching your back, the team being alert for spies etc..) and a scout, soldier, or demo to run the bridge roof and help control the battlements if it gets too much.

Of course you can say a decent team can handle a sniper or two, but then a better team with a couple of snipers can dominate them in turn. We can set up a few games if you like (ping allowing), I'll show you how sniping can control that map :)

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My new fav class list: sniper > scout > soldier > engi > demo

I'll play this matcfh, atob, on the grounds that you get AF (Principally a spy, but a good all-around player), and I get Yahoozy (A sniper.)

You'll spend more time cancelling out the sniper assault than you ever will blocking me.

[Calcy]

And I'll spend time being a total douchebag by flaregun sniping. :D

[smartalco]

I'll be backup sniper :D (otherwise, I'll just match Calcy's douchebagness to make things even)

[Snuggletummy]

I'll be the second douchebag that is flaregun sniping, as, that's all I ever do. Well, I also burn people and help them axtinguish themselves.

[deltainferno]

im sorry but does the 'pyro is a girl' argument NEED to pop up here? he isnt! do you se any breasts on that adorable face?

[Chase]

I do see a flower purse next to the hung up outfit on the rack at spawn.

[Snuggletummy]

im sorry but does the 'pyro is a girl' argument NEED to pop up here? he isnt! do you se any breasts on that adorable face?

Only one person said it, and nothing else was said afterwards, so technically, you're the one who's arguing. Let people think what they want to think, if they think the Pyro is female, let them think that.

My Class list. Pyro>Pyro>Pyro>Pyro>Pyro>Pyro>Pyro>Pyro>Pyro. I've played him so long that I suck with everything else.

[deltainferno]

im sorry but does the 'pyro is a girl' argument NEED to pop up here? he isnt! do you se any breasts on that adorable face?

Only one person said it, and nothing else was said afterwards, so technically, you're the one who's arguing. Let people think what they want to think, if they think the Pyro is female, let them think that.

My Class list. Pyro>Pyro>Pyro>Pyro>Pyro>Pyro>Pyro>Pyro>Pyro. I've played him so long that I suck with everything else.

i agree with everything you just said. except there is a bit of room in my heart for the spy and scout. and of course the heavy.

[smartalco]

do you se any breasts on that adorable face?

Having breasts on your face wouldn't make you female, it would just make you deformed

[PALEMOON]

im sorry but does the 'pyro is a girl' argument NEED to pop up here? he isnt! do you se any breasts on that adorable face?

ONLY IN MY DREAMS T_T



as a side note, the scout updates make me want to improve my game with him a LOT.

[a happy song]

I'll play this matcfh, atob, on the grounds that you get AF (Principally a spy, but a good all-around player), and I get Yahoozy (A sniper.)

You'll spend more time cancelling out the sniper assault than you ever will blocking me.

Aight, I'm game. Time and place mother licker :)

[t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư]

Now that everyone's given their opinions, here's the correct sorting of classes by awesomeness:

Sniper > Spy > Engineer > Scout > Demoman > Soldier > Medic > Heavy > Pyro

[blue_tetris]

Sniper > Spy > Engineer > Scout > Demoman > Soldier > Medic > Heavy > Pyro

Hahahahaha!

Ha.

The funniest: Sniper. Runner up in funny? Scout.



P.S.: Got all the scout extra stuff earlier today. All of the updates make the scout much better, and more fitting of the role of a scout. The Sandman lets you take out a bigger defender, the Bonk! lets you slip a sentry, so you can get deep into their defenses and grab intel or cap a point or whatever you came for. For the first time, as a scout, I felt like I could survive long enough to actually perform scouting and return info back to the team.

[deltainferno]

im sorry but does the 'pyro is a girl' argument NEED to pop up here? he isnt! do you se any breasts on that adorable face?

ONLY IN MY DREAMS T_T



as a side note, the scout updates make me want to improve my game with him a LOT.

if only... if only...

[SlappyMcGee]

I think we made a mistake in the ordering of our scout weapons. The Force-A-Nature has the fewest number of achievements to be achieved with it. So, really, with there being MANY achievements hinged around Bonk! and The Sandman, it's difficult for the casual player of scout to upgrade. :(

[smartalco]

Heh, well, the people voted I guess
I'll probably be playing a bunch of CTF style maps today, best for the scout I think

[Calcy]

I think we made a mistake in the ordering of our scout weapons. The Force-A-Nature has the fewest number of achievements to be achieved with it. So, really, with there being MANY achievements hinged around Bonk! and The Sandman, it's difficult for the casual player of scout to upgrade. :(

But it's still easy for people like me to unlock them, thanks to friends who share my goal of getting the unlocks as efficiently as possible!
<3 achievement maps.

Also, the Sandman is DEADLY against ubers. If you stun an ubered medic, his target stops being ubered as well, since you lose complete control of your character.

[blue_tetris]

I think we made a mistake in the ordering of our scout weapons. The Force-A-Nature has the fewest number of achievements to be achieved with it. So, really, with there being MANY achievements hinged around Bonk! and The Sandman, it's difficult for the casual player of scout to upgrade. :(

But it's still easy for people like me to unlock them, thanks to friends who share my goal of getting the unlocks as efficiently as possible!
<3 achievement maps.

Also, the Sandman is DEADLY against ubers. If you stun an ubered medic, his target stops being ubered as well, since you lose complete control of your character.

Everything Calcy says is true, and equates to my experiences.

<3 achievement maps with mic users and servers where dudes are cool.

Sandman is a beast. I used it on a distant sniper and ran up to Force-A-Nature him, then Bonk!ed my way out of the pyros who came to swarm me. Most rewarding ten seconds of my life.

[faemir]

I have to say, the scout's new weapons are such a blast to use. Now to go back and get the newer weapons for all those other classes...

[Calcy]

I've been playing around with the HUD elements to try to make the minimal HUD even more minimal for the hell of it.

New location of ammo and health
New location of sticky charge bar and counter
New build menu for Engineer (plus new location of metal count)
New destroy menu
Metal being used
New location of leeched health from the Blutsauger
New location of ubercharge bar
New location of cloak meter, and a max of six death notifications are shown at a time
New disguise menu

[smartalco]

I don't want any of that, except the aperture science spy disguise case :D

[a happy song]

Aside from the new almost balance of the Sandman bringing the game back to a state of fun, I thought I'd share this piece of TF2 Machinma. Probably the best I've seen.

Ignis Solus


PS: Anyone have their own/access to a private server so we can set up some Metanet games?

[blue_tetris]

People only complain about the Sandman's balance when it hits them and works. They don't notice all the times it misses them, isn't charging fast enough, or doesn't stun long enough to help the scout.

Additionally, most scouts don't even play it right. They Sandman you and then turn tail and run instictively in case it didn't work. By the time they register that it hit, they've wasted valuable time being scared.