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Team Fortress 2 Official PC Thread. SO. WORTH. IT.
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For cheapo mics that are good, I've heard fair things about this:
http://www.xoxide.com/zmmic1.html
The Zalman clip-on mic
And I personally use this one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/LOGITECH-DESKTOP-usb-MIC-MICROPHONE-PC-MAC-SKYPE-CHAT_W0QQitemZ140270116474QQ
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16836111601
Great great mic.
http://www.xoxide.com/zmmic1.html
The Zalman clip-on mic
And I personally use this one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/LOGITECH-DESKTOP-usb-MIC-MICROPHONE-PC-MAC-SKYPE-CHAT_W0QQitemZ140270116474QQ
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16836111601
Great great mic.
Hazaro said:I personally picked up 2 refurbs that came out to $10 shipped each. Looked like new, just plug and play. Gave one to a friend, share the savings
what about in game sound if your using speakers, wont the mic pick that up as well?
So I just made the jump from the 360 TF2 to now the PC. It's been a while since and I'm really rusty and having a bit of trouble adjusting to the more hectic nature that is the PC. Anyone got any tips for me?
I mostly use medic to get the feel of the PC controls (it's been that long). Also, anyone owns an iMac and is using the built-in mic? If so, is it working for ya?
I mostly use medic to get the feel of the PC controls (it's been that long). Also, anyone owns an iMac and is using the built-in mic? If so, is it working for ya?
jasonng said:
You might want to head over to an achievement server to get the new weapons. For the Medic, the only indisputable necessary weapon is the Blutslager, with the Ubersaw being a nice little commodity that doesn't get a whole lot of practical use. The Backburner for the Pyro is also practically a must, unless you feel airblast is totally a vital part of your Pyro routine. The Heavy Sandvich is pretty nice, but none of the weapons are totally important.
Welcome to the true TF2. Play some custom maps for extra fun (Feared Gamers is a fun server for these), and remember to stop in at the GAF server.
Crab Milk Mickey
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'SUP BITCHEZ
BigKaboom2
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Anyone know how/when your stat update?
Do you have to play a full round?
Or a full game (Wait for map change)
A full life?
Or say wait a few minutes after you get say 14 kills instead of 12 kills, then leave?
I'm asking because this has happened before and I got 4 more new personal bests yesterday, but only 2 are shown today.
*Also a link to a working TF2 stat sig would be nice, google yields dead links for me.
Do you have to play a full round?
Or a full game (Wait for map change)
A full life?
Or say wait a few minutes after you get say 14 kills instead of 12 kills, then leave?
I'm asking because this has happened before and I got 4 more new personal bests yesterday, but only 2 are shown today.
*Also a link to a working TF2 stat sig would be nice, google yields dead links for me.
The new worst (Or best) custom map: http://www.toadking.com/videos/index.php?id=21
PillowKnight
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What, did you lose your hand in some tragic rocket accident?Hitokage said:Hands.
You know what's weird though, just a few days ago I was wondering was it'd be like if my hand got chopped off. I came close to considering taking up playing with my left hand just in case.
Nah, just shooting for ambidexterity in FPS games. Always played right-handed WASD/Right-side mouse, and now I'm playing left-handed Keypad/Left-side mouse. When I first tried it, both hands were completely lost, but I'm making rapid progress and games are more interesting with bottomed out expectations.PillowKnight said:
It doesn't even need to be that drastic. Carpal tunnel is a bitch too.
PillowKnight
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You know what, im gonna join you in this quest. Let's see what TF2 is like when you can't control a mouse.Hitokage said:Nah, just shooting for ambidexterity in FPS games. Always played right-handed WASD/Right-side mouse, and now I'm playing left-handed Keypad/Left-side mouse. When I first tried it, both hands were completely lost, but I'm making rapid progress and games are more interesting with bottomed out expectations.
It doesn't even need to be that drastic. Carpal tunnel is a bitch too.
So I've searched from top to bottom (almost) but I still don't know, is there an "official" GAF server or is everyone jumping on a few selected favorites? I want to play with some Gaffers. I've been told that I make an awesome medic even though the class isn't hard to play at all.
Also, recently for some reason I can't join 90% of the public servers out there. Anyone know why?
Playing a Priest in WoW and running countless instances with PUGs certainly taught me a lot though.
Also, recently for some reason I can't join 90% of the public servers out there. Anyone know why?
You might want to get comfortable just browsing the web left-handed first.PillowKnight said:
At any rate, been playing Quake 3 for practice. It's far less forgiving of slow reflexes than some of TF2's classes are.
EDIT: Over the past day I've gone from having serious problems trying to win even the second single-player match on default difficulty to consistent victories.
Demon Soldier :lol
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Also I've taken up playing engie and heavy more on badwater, holy crap he is a beast.
Only played 1 hour with him previously so :lol
I played on CircleX for a bit, but got my ass handed to me, and then I played serious, but it's just not as fun.
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Also I've taken up playing engie and heavy more on badwater, holy crap he is a beast.
Only played 1 hour with him previously so :lol
I played on CircleX for a bit, but got my ass handed to me, and then I played serious, but it's just not as fun.
Circle X is fine. In fact, I think if you're talking about of the skill level of the regulars, Circle X is the best server I've played on thus far; my ass gets handed to be regularly way too often there. F7 is ok, but quite frankly teams get steamrolled there more than anywhere else I've played.
Add some of us regulars on steam and just jump in a game we're in. It's how a lot of us get around nowadays.
jasonng said:
Add some of us regulars on steam and just jump in a game we're in. It's how a lot of us get around nowadays.
fallengorn
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Truth. A lot of great competition on that server, although I'd add at peak hours. I've played at off-peak and I end up murdering everyone.Davidion said:
And they've gotten better at map durations.
fallengorn
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The last couple of days while I've been on it, most maps just last for 2 rounds.
Thinking about it, It's probably that we've just dragged the game out long enough past the set map time.
Thinking about it, It's probably that we've just dragged the game out long enough past the set map time.
Giganticus
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85.17.173.196:27027 is the IP of Knifeback Mountain, which is a British Goon-run server. Not anywhere near as whacky as 2f2f though.
PillowKnight
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That's actually what I did. It's been an interesting experience, I finally understand all those guys who come into PC threads and are all "I prefer gamepads", these guys play with the equivalent of their left(or right) hand.Hitokage said:
Basically, I started with engineer, spend the first minute just trying to get out of spawn. Another two to set up a sentry, and spent the rest of the time walking around like a robot. Oddly enough I ended up with a 9:1 K
(Says a lot about the F7 player base ).Later I tried heavy, which was another kind of horrible. At this point I was getting used to walking around and aiming, but my mouse strokes were still too spastic, i'd end up shooting at one end of the screen one second and on the other end the next. Last class I tried was sniper, which was pretty relaxing and the easiest of the three, could actually get a few head shots, specially easier since there wasn't much sense of urgency.
I haven't tried to play lefty lately, mainly because changing around button configs is a pain.
To the server guys. I actually prefer cXg's long map timer, mainly because it allows teams to develop rivalries; which can make things interesting even if the teams are stacked. It's really exciting to finally scratch out a win as the underdog team. That said, i'm once again looking for other servers to play, im sick of their map rotation. I dunno, im starting to think it may be time to move onto pugs, even though they are intimidating.
Heh, the only difference between this and when I first discovered mlook in quake is that I already had a lot of time with games like Tie Fighter where you aim and shoot with the mouse. I still started out incredibly disoriented, in part because I wasn't all that good at Tie Fighter to begin with, but the learning curve wasn't so bad with how to point and shoot already down.
fallengorn
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