Team Fortress 2 - Join us at #lol

[Dan Dan]

lol play more?

Of the new pyro weps, I feel the axe is the one with most potential, especially in pubs where you get like 4 medics on one heavy. The FT and flaregun replacement are pretty much trash, the former promotes WM1 and the latter only gives crits to the FT? So you can't like put out everyone on your team and then go around chopping up medic+heavy combos with your crit axe :(

rofl just saw a Spycicle gameplay by STAR and man does that weapon look like a lot of fun....

 

[Minwu]

You'll probably want to become vaguely familiar with what each of the 9 classes can do since some have pretty odd playstyles for an FPS. The Spy and Engi tutorials cover some important stuff on class abilities even if you don't plan on playing those guys much. For example if you want to play Sniper you should know that Spies can walk around cloaked for 10 seconds on demand to catch you blindsided. Also try a round with each class online for the same reason. Other than that, practice aim+movement and use the Official Wiki for numbers reference.


edit - lol dan dan I saw the new flamethrower in action and our pyro MVPed against a bunch of Heavies and Soldiers while I healed him. Everyone in the server was laughing or crying about the weapon, but that's partly because of the glitch to activate it without taunting.

 

[Xaqwais]

hi so i just downloaded this game and i am obviously total trash at it is there any way to get better quicker?

ssbbm I'm not exactly good at this game but I can say that when I used to ask this question a lot of people told me to just play more and that does work more than I wanted. Once you get a basic understanding of classes and such, just play a lot with generally the more straightforward classes and you'll definitely see improvements in your play pretty quick.

If you can get in on mic chat with a buddy who knows more about the game, asking quick questions can really help too!

 

[Charro]

I'm starting to 'like' the Phlogistinator, I mean, it turns the Pyro into a real CQC monster, it's basically a faster Heavy with less hp, yeah, you can't airblast, but it's a fair downside considering how powerful (and abusable with that glitch) the Phlog is, gonna be useful on some maps, otherway I will just stick with my stock/degreaser as I always does

The Spy-cicle is kinda annoying, I was watching the Star new videos, and damn, that thing makes you immune to spy-check, you can be disguised and pass near a Pyro without worrying about being detected, you lose your knife but you can just start gunning the Pyro down once he turns around

About the mittens, people say that you can taunt kill with the wep, that means that you can stunt someone and then taunt them, that's awesome, specially when you're playing in non-serious mode (otherwise you can just spin your minigun and shoot)

Someone played on Foundry already?, looks like a fun map

 

[Minwu]

Thought most of these weapons would be useless after the Phlogistinator nerf but they're starting to grow on me.


The Pomson is the anti Medic weapon it seems like, and with the Wrangler making rocket sniping impossible plus some awareness against Spies you're pretty much uncounterable. The new wrench has plenty of utility too.


The Phlog is still good. It has the same damage reduction as the Dead Ringer while taunting, which makes it the tool bar an Ubercharge for distracting sentries. I'd use it with the Detonator, which helps build the damage meter and has buffed jumping potential.

The Wrap Assassin is an upgrade over the default Bat, but then so is nearly every Scout melee.


Crutch Spy loadout Enforcer + DR + Spycicle

 

[Mr Escalator]

Layell had an excellent idea, so I wanted to run it by everyone here and see if you guys would be down with it. Basically, the idea is to organize a "TF2 Friday" type get together and meet up and use our secret saxton since everyone got one and I'm not sure many of us have used it yet. So, essentially, it'd be a big gift giving get-together! We can play a bit afterwards, but it's fine if you would just stop by and spread the cheer (give/receive gifts and whatnot).

I was thinking this Friday at the time we used to have our TF2 event (5pm Eastern Standard Time). Thoughts?

 

[Probably]

My computer is so bad I can only play on the orangex3 map. I love playing demoman but im bad with him. If I want to do good I go pyro/engineer and tryhard. Got my backburner today, being a pyro has never been so good.

 

[Arch]

I can be on Friday. Gifting sounds fun. How does everyone plan this? As in, what time is the event and what server?

 

[Bluecaptain]

Yah a giftathon would be coolio

 

[Mr Escalator]

Alright, we'll be doing it so watch for the event to go live. If you haven't already, join here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Smogon. When the event goes live, make sure you join the steam chat to follow us to the Gift server and then subsequent other servers that we'll play on after dealing with gifts.

Show up even if you used your Secret Saxton already. Definitely show up if you haven't!
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Smogon

 

[Layell]

Fun times, haven't had a TF2 friday in a long time. Gifts were given and received. Highlights for me was certainly owning as the Heavy in all the payload maps. My favourite moment had to be when I was pushing at the end of the PLR and jumping around so the sniper couldn't headshot me.

 

[Galladiator]

Started playing recently. I rapidly learned that I suck at playing Scout. And Soldier. And pretty much every other class. I unlocked the Degreaser for Pyro, though. So not everything sucks.

 

[Charro]

Scout is very difficult to master, as you need to be able to shoot people while dodging at high speeds and double jumping back and forth. You're pretty worthless if you aren't very good with it, sadly (specially on spamoman friendly maps like dustbowl and badlands), try to avoid front to front battles and flank people, killing medics from behind will be extremely rewarding for your team, even if you die, is basically a pawn for a queen kind of exchange
Soldier is easy to start, you can just technically shoot at the feet of people and be successful in pubs. Obviously learning to connect rocket jumps, airshot, and all that things doesn't hurt
Pyro is...well depending on the pub, can be easy as hell (valve servers), or worth for nothing (good pubs if you can't airblast), until you learn to airblast I recommend sticking with the Backburner as it teaches you how to ambush, and also don't forget that you can extinguish teammates with the right click, people will love you for that

If you like to lead entire teams, give Medic a try, as he is who decide where and when to push, and also gives you some kind of playing conservative mentality. And because we need more medics, really

 

[phalanx]

scout isn't that hard to master. valve make him easier with every primary weapon they add. beyond a joke when you kill a heavy with a medic glued to it in 2 hits

 

[Minwu]

Right now the Soda Popper is the only real replacement for the Scattergun, and actually 2hitting with it at the max firing rate is a crapshoot for most players. Besides, it can only do 210 in one clip or 280 with the boost.

 

[Skytt]

Managed to scrape 6 holiday coal together and then traded my 50% Off Valve + two 25% Off Valve coupons for the last piece of coal (yeah, I was pretty desperate), only for my craft reward to be a 33% Off Valve coupon...

Where's a B.M.O.C. when you need it, huh?

 

[Galladiator]

Not sure if this has been asked elsewhere in the thread, but does Smogon have its own TF2 server?

 

[Bluecaptain]

I will give someone all of my Coal and coupons for the Spycicle, PM me on steam, here, etc...Analog on steam.

 

[lights47]

http://etf2l.org/forum/general/topic-19815/page-1/

Extract the addon folder into your tf folder and add -insecure to your launch options.

You should use it, it's really nice. I havn't bothered changing my fov because I'm used to it but changing the picmip and having a translucent viewmodel is awesome.

 

[Mr.E]

Not sure if this has been asked elsewhere in the thread, but does Smogon have its own TF2 server?

Used to but it consistently went mostly unused and so stopped being hosted.

 

[Charro]

http://etf2l.org/forum/general/topic-19815/page-1/

Extract the addon folder into your tf folder and add -insecure to your launch options.

You should use it, it's really nice. I havn't bothered changing my fov because I'm used to it but changing the picmip and having a translucent viewmodel is awesome.

Right from Druken Fool/Tony Paloma's mouth...well keyboard

The -insecure check is there to prevent people accidentally getting VAC banned by having server plugins loaded client-side. A plugin that disables this safeguard runs the risk of getting the user VAC banned. If you've installed this plugin or any similar plugins, I'd recommend removing it right away. If a plugin author wants to make suggestions for the game, they should send email to the TF Team and/or start a forum thread to gain support for their ideas.

So it's risky

 

[Bluecaptain]

Did anyone get the spy knife re-skin?

I did but I thought it was going to be genuine...it was not, i are disappoint.

 

[Galladiator]

I'm going to try to get it later this week, if it's still available.

 

[pie cream]

I don't if anyone this has happen to people that bought the free one but it doesm't let me trade with other people, anyone know why?

 

[Layell]

I don't if anyone this has happen to people that bought the free one but it doesm't let me trade with other people, anyone know why?

because you are a free2player and it won't let you to avoid people having multiple accounts and and trading items over. Just add $5 and buy a nice cheap item or something TF2 is worth it.