Nice work. I only discovered my own combination when doing a last-ditch effort to defend point "C" on the Gravelpit map. I was running out of ammo and I stood beside an Engineer and his junk camped out on a side ramp. Between me and his MkIII Sentry, we were a rain of unlimited bullets that showered down upon the enemy. God, it was fun.

I'm super disappointed about the lack of TFP community TF2 play and was reminded only when Mondak happened to jump into a game I was in yesterday. What happened, people?

I'd play with you guys if I had the PC version, but I'm on 360. :[

If anyone has the 360 version and ever wants to party up to play, PM me.

I just couldn't get into it, cod4 is more my style.

When my HD crashed I didn't even bother to reinstall TF2.

I had to take a breather. I was playing way too much.

Maybe soon.

I just picked this game up again. Joined the group

my steam name is ace0spades if anyone wants to add me as a friend.

i just just installed it. and I'm not sure I like it yet. it's too team oriented. I like to kill alone like in UT. but that doesn't mean this game is bad. I had fun for the little time i played. I'll have to practice and get a headset setup here!

Maybe the name of the game could have been a gentle hint that the game did not fit your playstyle?

:thumbsup:

THIS

Play a spy/sniper.

I absolutely love good spies. I'm somewhere between terrible and decent as one, but I've been able to solo capture intelligence with saps/stealth when my team couldn't get through the front door.

Snipers are probably the easiest way to get solo kills if you're any good at aiming. They dont "breathe" like snipers in most games so the cursor never moves by itself.
On the other hand, I pretty much despise people that play snipers because they spend the majority of their time trying to kill other snipers, instead of helping the team progress.

I started playing other classes besides Heavy and Medic. My current favorites are Pyro and Scout. I had a 21-kill streak as Scout the other night. :thumbsup:

That's a pretty ridiculous Scout spree. As a Scout, I think my record is only like 6. Last time I played though, I was starting to get into Demoman. Oh my god, they are damn hardcore. A good Demoman/Medic combo can wipe out an entire team.

I'm sure I'll be getting back into this game in the near future, so look out for the DOOMTRAIN!

The best counter to snipers, is to not play sniper. this is especially true in 2fort.

I will be back when A) I have more time, and B) I upgrade my computer. I expect/hope both these factors to converge at the end of April.

I love this game--been playing it steady since about September...I abandoned ut2004 for it and have never went back. I play soldier almost exclusively--sometimes engineer--mostly because it reminds me of my rocket launcher days on ut2004 and i like shooting big bombs!

Look for me 'Rectifier'....

I'm guilty of buying the whole orange box and barely playing half life and strictly playing tf2!

I still play quite often although the previous two weeks I traveled a bunch. Add me and we'll beat some ass together.

whats your steam ID? pm me if you don't want to post it.

Mondak - should be the same.

EDIT: I added you

tf2 is loads better then cod4...I only get to play about 9 hrs a week but I play on AMF server (adios motherf89kers)...only thing that sux is the hlstats, I kill people and get 3 points max, others kill me and get 10...so weak

That's just like, your opinion man...

Thing I can't stand with tf2 is having to lead people with every gun, from the shotguns to rocket launchers, needle guns, and sniper rifle.

I don't get what's wrong with having to lead people. I mean, all you have to do is set the crosshair in front of the person instead of on the person. I'm not saying tf2 is worse or better than cod4, but if that's a reason for not liking tf2, then I think it's kind of a lame reason.

Nothing wrong with it, I'm just so used to insta hit weapons from CS and cod4. I'm actually getting back into a TF2 team soon I believe.

I used to play TF2 all the time till cod4 came out. Cod4 kinda killed the TF2 community so my team went to cod4. However, TF2 seems to be making a comback now.

The new medic achievements are out. Some of them are absolutely ridiculous and seem nearly impossible to get. There's a "cheat" you can do to unlock them though. I didn't really care for the achievements. I just wanted to try the new guns. To get them unlocked, go to the developer console and type in "achievement_unlock_all". I think it has to be on a specific server that allows cheats.

I like the new syringe and bonesaw. I'm not a big fan of the new healing gun though. It doesn't seem that helpful to the team.

The new map is cool too.

Today's update:

Team Fortress 2 Client


Removed TF2 achievement console commands

Fucking Valve, I don't want to grind a hojillion hours on medic for achievements to get weapons just give me the fucking weapons.

Yeah, I just found that out too. Sucks, but I don't really play medic anyways. The only gun that I felt was worthwhile was the syringe gun which I think is the first milestone, so it's not that bad.

it's like adding a mmorpg element to a first person shooter...

sitting around grinding items isn't my idea of fun....

nor is getting killed by people with far superior equipment..... good job valve! go and alienate the casual player!

I haven't been on in many months, and I figured I'd see what the cart map was like, along with these new achievements.

Low and behold I jump onto one server where that's all people are doing. No, they aren't warring to get achievements, they are playing cooperatively blue and red to make sure they can get the achievements.

that was lame. I logged off and played Lumines instead.

To be honest the weapons aren't necessarily superior. But what cyn described is the real problem here, people grinding the achievements. I did this in a private server with a group of people who had agreed ahead of time to do it, and that was fine for an hour, and then we went and played for real. This will settle down but Valve needs to rethink their strategy on this.

hmm?

the new syringe gun is absolutely superior. It completely decimates pyros and scouts, classes supposed to take out soft targets (the medic). I've gone from a 90-10 ratio of kills on medics playing as a scout to more of a 30-70 ratio.

in recent news, i got the new syringe gun legitimately....

and in more pressing news medics are now the silliest class around. 2 medics with ubersaws win the game hands down. permanent uber anyone?

Goldrush is so damn addicting. It's resparked my interest in Engineer. Lots of cool locations for engineery nests on Goldrush. Valve really put effort into this map....every class is useful in some way.

Pyro achievements and unlocks are coming Thursday. The medic achievements and unlocks turned out for the best so I'm hoping the Pyro will do the same. BTW Meet the Sniper is out today for viewing on the Steam website and it's great.

new video out!

Meet the Sniper

Here's one I didn't see yet; released in April:

TOMORROW!

http://www.steampowered.com/pyro/?pw=presspreview

Holy GOD the pyro achievements and unlockables look amazing. And the new default flamethrower change of being able to use a compressed air burst to blow back enemies/grenades/rockets, etc. is absolutely gamechanging. I can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!

i clicked to update my client already :) so that if I get a few minutes, I'll check it out.

I'm also glad to see the Pyro achievements are much saner this time around. A lot of the medic achievements were crap that forced one to either cheat or play counter to the interests of the team. The Pyro still has some stuff like that (kill someone with a taunt? What the hell?!) but it's much better than the Medic ones. I can't wait for the update, the Pyro is easily my favorite class even if I kinda suck at it, the compressed air will definitely help. I can't count the number of times I got killed by a Soldier in close quarters or even medium range where I can't dodge the rockets.

my god I love this update

I play as a heavy and it is extremely enjoyable to see new pyros run straight at sasha over and over again

Was playing a pub and was getting 10:1 kill ratios

Just played it for like 5 min. I have no idea what I am doing.