Giganticus
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If you want to try it out, I have a guest pass.DenogginizerOS said:
EDIT: this is not like a normal FPS. Only some classes require classic FPS skills.
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Team Fortress 2 Official PC Thread. SO. WORTH. IT.
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EDIT: this is not like a normal FPS. Only some classes require classic FPS skills.
DenogginizerOS said:
It's really not that bad. Sure, there's going to be a lot of people better at the game than you, but the fact that there's no friendly-fire means that you're at least not a direct threat to your teammates. I only started playing the game in May, and while I felt lost in the beginning, I picked up on it pretty quickly.
Of course, playing a lot of TFC helped quite a bit with that.
PillowKnight
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Hmm, the strangest thing has happened, can any IT knowledgeable gaffers help me? All of the sudden all of my TF2 server pings have shot up to 150+. Not a single server under 150, and at times 200. My internet is running a little slow, i've tried restarting my router, as well as turning off wireless broadcasting.
PillowKnight
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:lol Just got kicked off your server for high ping.Cheeto said:
Just downloaded Microsoft Network Monitor. I've got idea as to what i'm looking for, i'll try downloading a different program.
PillowKnight
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avg 246, yeah something's up. Taceroute shows a spike on the third hop. Guess there's no avoiding it, gotta call tech support :x.Doytch said:
Laurentius
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Anybody else played the redone Arena version of Mach4? They redid all of the textures in the Lumberyard style. It looks really nice!
Oldschoolgamer
The physical form of blasphemy
GG all. Had fun tonight. I channeled Won playing spy a bit. Came away with a bunch of backstabs.
Sorry about the Ping. I share a net connection here at school, and someone was downloading stuff I guess.
Sorry about the Ping. I share a net connection here at school, and someone was downloading stuff I guess.
I was playing with a friend earlier, we were both pyro and he was saying something was really messed up. I asked him to take a screencap of it, and it looks like:
That's as far as the fire goes, so he can't tell when it'll hit or not. Any ideas? All I know is that he has the game running on high.
Another question: For demomen...how do you use them right? I realized how fun they can be but when I go against a demo they usually instantly kill me with a grenade, it takes a few shots for me to do it, so I'm not sure if there's a special way for more damage. And what should he use to bomb jump, the nade or sticky? I saw another demo launch all the way up top on Granary(which actually seems kinda broken), but I can only get myself to launch upward and not really forward.
That's as far as the fire goes, so he can't tell when it'll hit or not. Any ideas? All I know is that he has the game running on high.
Another question: For demomen...how do you use them right? I realized how fun they can be but when I go against a demo they usually instantly kill me with a grenade, it takes a few shots for me to do it, so I'm not sure if there's a special way for more damage. And what should he use to bomb jump, the nade or sticky? I saw another demo launch all the way up top on Granary(which actually seems kinda broken), but I can only get myself to launch upward and not really forward.
fallengorn
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Thinking about it, the Soldier will probably just get something like a rocket launcher that holds more rockets but have no crits... maybe reinstate splash damage protection (but at 20% or so).rhfb said:
Well, there already is a custom one: http://www.vilepickle.com/map/screens/tf2_arena_mach/Botolf said:
EDIT: Dammit, SenseiJinx beat me. I should learn to read the rest of the messages first.
As for LMS, blood doesn't play that much (I think). Me, kak and Javaman all have admin as well and we don't abuse it (Well, I noclip to the skybox sometimes, but that doesn't harm anybody).
Papercuts said:
I haven't played a whole lot with demomen yet, but I've probably played enough to at least offer some basic advice.
As far as the grenade/sticky difference goes, I've found that they're good in different circumstances. I always have my grenade launcher out when there's a high chance that I'm going to have to kill someone fast, like when wandering through the enemy base in 2fort, or through almost any narrow corridor. For example, when on offense on the first stage of Dustbowl I'll have my sticky launcher out while I"m approaching the first point (assuming it's not right after the setup period), then switch over to the grenades once I'm nearing the house.
You can charge up the fire distance of the stickies by holding the primary fire button, too. This is a great way to take out targets at a distance, like snipers or tricky sentries.
And as for jumping, use stickies. One sticky will send you flying if you use it right. If you want to go more forward than up, make sure to detonate the sticky when it's a little behind you instead of under you. You'll also get more height if you jump, then crouch, then detonate the sticky. For some reason, crouching will give you a huge boost (same goes for the soldier's rocket jumps).
Mostly, though, the demoman just involves a lot of practice to get a good feel for the arc of his weapons. It's frustrating at first, but eventually you'll start being able to nail people with the grenades at quite a distance.
Orellio said:
The newer version isn't too bad. It moves the spawns up as cp points get captured unlike the older version on the server. It gets pretty insane on full maps. I must be one of the only people who likes it considering how quickly it emptied the server.
PThat was too funny on Steel when I was talking tactics on Blue and didn't realize that all talk was on.
Have you guys ever noticed rockets having a deflected path on goldrush? It's kind of like how a straw appears to bend in a glass of water. I had a heck of a time nailing a sentry on the far upper left (on that platform near our spawn) from the right spawn exit at the beginning of the map. I was aiming directly at the gun but my rockets were leaving at an angle. The same thing happened when trying to take out a teleporter near Blue's spawn from the upstairs sniper nest/boxes at CP1 the beginning of the map.
Javaman said:The newer version isn't too bad. It moves the spawns up as cp points get captured unlike the older version on the server. It gets pretty insane on full maps. I must be one of the only people who likes it considering how quickly it emptied the server.
That was too funny on Steel when I was talking tactics on Blue and didn't realize that all talk was on.
Have you guys ever noticed rockets having a deflected path on goldrush? It's kind of like how a straw appears to bend in a glass of water. I had a heck of a time nailing a sentry on the far upper left (on that platform near our spawn) from the right spawn exit at the beginning of the map. I was aiming directly at the gun but my rockets were leaving at an angle. The same thing happened when trying to take out a teleporter near Blue's spawn from the upstairs sniper nest/boxes at CP1 the beginning of the map.
"Hey guys, wanna do an all scout rush of E?"
"Java, alltalk is on" (Me)
"Everyone go scout!"
"You realize alltalk is on, right" (other team)
"Oh shit!"
And I like Lazytown, but some times I'm just not in the mood to play it. And I have classes to worry about now, too.
CajoleJuice
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Volcynika said:
And yeah, Lazytown sucks balls.
Trying to divert traffic to mine.Dave Long said:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=12535711&postcount=12305
Will only be available 5pm to 9am EST though.
Nothing special, just accuracy. And perhaps crits.Papercuts said:
As for sticky jumping, refer to the following diagram:
You are the brown square. The arc is your jump. The arrows indicate which direction you will go flying if you are at that position when you detonate the sticky. The closer you are to it, the greater the impact. Two stickies have an exponentially greater impact. Don't use three.
Laurentius
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Sciz said:Nothing special, just accuracy. And perhaps crits.
As for sticky jumping, refer to the following diagram:
You are the brown square. The arc is your jump. The arrows indicate which direction you will go flying if you are at that position when you detonate the sticky. The closer you are to it, the greater the impact. Two stickies have an exponentially greater impact.
This is the way I like to think of it.
Imagine that there's a line going from the sticky through the center of your body. That line will give about the right angle that you will arc at.
Try just loading up a map and practicing for awhile. It's not that hard, one you get the hang of it. It's easier to pull off than rocket jumping, but a bit more particular. You also take a lot more damage, so you have to be careful. (Never stand directly on a sticky, for instance.)
CajoleJuice
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We should've done it anyway.
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