im on my tf2 rest. might start late this year/early next year.
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Team Fortress 2 |OT3| - Murder-based Hat Simulator
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im on my tf2 rest. might start late this year/early next year.
ArtistDude88
Member
Was in some random server the other day with SpitFire and this guy asked, "Artist Dude do you post on GAF? 
", or something of the like. Kinda odd!
Hi blisterbrown (I think it was) if you're reading <<
", or something of the like. Kinda odd!Hi blisterbrown (I think it was) if you're reading <<
You don't post on GAF though.Was in some random server the other day with SpitFire and this guy asked, "Artist Dude do you post on GAF?
Hi blisterbrown (I think it was) if you're reading <<
Outside of the TF2 trading thread and this thread. I don't think I've ever seen you post!
Now that search is back, though, I suppose I can properly stalk all of you.
It is not your responsibility to follow the team mate you are healing into battle if he is out-matched and your charge isn't full yet, that is his own damn problem. It is infinitely easier for him to respawn and catch back up with you then it is to rebuild your uber. And always keep moving, even when you are away from the front lines, you never know when an enemy spy/sniper/flanking scout has a beat on you.
And I tend to only use kritz on defense. It's going to do you no good if you need to push up and take out a sentry on offense. And use it before the other team can build and pop their uber, the medic will rage so fast.
ArtistDude88
Member
-Know the maps! Knowing where health kits and ammo kits are is essential
-Use your revolver! You can see enemy health. Use that to judge whether to shoot or try for a back stab.
-Strike while they're distracted! Your team storming the point with an uber? Use the opportunity while they're focusing on them!
-Act like the other team! If you're disguised and running right toward their team or sentry, it's really obvious.
-Take different routes! Avoid narrow walkways, walking close around corners, center of doors (bumping into people) and taking obvious paths if you're being chased (towards kits)
-Change disguises often! Especially on all-talk servers
Also, cloak while you're invisible or the other team will see the disguise smoke.And uhm... Don't use the Cloak & Dagger for learning.
-Use bombs wisely! Err, I mean what artist said.-Know the maps! Knowing where health kits and ammo kits are is essential
-Use your revolver! You can see enemy health. Use that to judge whether to shoot or try for a back stab.
-Strike while they're distracted! Your team storming the point with an uber? Use the opportunity while they're focusing on them!
-Act like the other team! If you're disguised and running right toward their team or sentry, it's really obvious.
-Take different routes! Avoid narrow walkways, walking close around corners, center of doors (bumping into people) and taking obvious paths if you're being chased (towards kits)
-Change disguises often! Especially on all-talk servers
And uhm... Don't use the Cloak & Dagger for learning.
ArtistDude88
Member
Yes! And always plant the bomb at B, because A is obvious!
Rickenslacker
Banned
Has anyone ever had anything like this? There are some spots on maps where there will be like a square section of the environment that flickers different colours. I had this on my old computer, and I seem to be getting it now on my new one. On my old one different maps would trigger it, but here it seems to be only the corner of that sign on upward.
Bugs the hell out of me.
Bugs the hell out of me.
Togglesworlh
Banned
This is dumb advice. C&D is the best learning tool for spy. It just also happens to be the worst choice once you do learn.
ArtistDude88
Member
No it's not. It teaches camping and being slow/useless. But to each their own.
Togglesworlh
Banned
It only does this if you treat it as the best choice. If you are specifically using it as a learning tool, it is the best way to learn.
More than that, it's not impossible to do well with the C&D. Just because you can camp, doesn't mean you have to. In some rare situations, it actually IS the best choice. But those situations are, indeed, rare, and even more rarely actually exist across multiple kills.
But I guess you have to actually be a good spy to know that.
Dreams-Visions
Member
+1 on that. the C&D *almost* runs counter to what makes playing Spy fun. you're not deceiving anyone because you're spending 3/4 of the time you're alive trying to hide in a safe place instead of skillfully deceiving and blending in with the enemy.
Just a different way to play I guess, but it's nowhere near as challenging or rewarding.
ArtistDude88
Member
Ho ho ho!
Professor Beef
Banned
I like the C&D, but I'm also a terrible Spy. It's fun as hell to uncloak and stab someone, then disappear into the shadows and creep back though.
The fact that you have to crouch walk to maximize the cloak and dagger's cloak time makes it the stupidest thing ever. It's always funny watching new/bad players use it on matchmaking servers though. A lot of the time, they'll spend like the entire match sitting in a corner until someone runs buy, decloak and get killed instantly. Then they'll do it again and again and again. I always imagine them flipping a shit when they actually manage to kill someone. "HAHAHAHA. I KILLED YOU! I AM THE BEST. FUCK YEAH!"
User 85168
Banned
are we gonna play tonight...??
I'm not sure if you're being ironic, but I will give these a test. Thanks.-Know the maps! Knowing where health kits and ammo kits are is essential
-Use your revolver! You can see enemy health. Use that to judge whether to shoot or try for a back stab.
-Strike while they're distracted! Your team storming the point with an uber? Use the opportunity while they're focusing on them!
-Act like the other team! If you're disguised and running right toward their team or sentry, it's really obvious.
-Take different routes! Avoid narrow walkways, walking close around corners, center of doors (bumping into people) and taking obvious paths if you're being chased (towards kits)
-Change disguises often! Especially on all-talk servers
And uhm... Don't use the Cloak & Dagger for learning.
ArtistDude88
Member
should've said so here!
User 85168
Banned
cldud1245=chiym1992
ArtistDude88
Member
I don't know these things! I'm terrible with names!
User 85168
Banned
hahaha I should've recorded that critical equalizer swing on Boney to cap the last point...
my gaf alias is the rare one.
PM a mod and have them change mine, would ya?
Togglesworlh
Banned
don't tell me what to do
It's right in the op, at the top.
Alternatively: http://tf2.gafserver.com
Generally the server sits empty all day then fills up quickly at about 8~9PM EST.
Ah yeah, saw it straight after I posted... :| But cool, I'll join tonight, see if anyone's there. Thanks!
Grimm Fandango
Member
I'll try to hop on tonight. Haven't played on the GAF server in over 3 weeks (wow I didn't realize how long it was).
Cloudius12
Member
If you haven't already done so, join the TF2 GAF group on Steam. There will usually be an announcement if the server needs to be filled or people ready to play.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
Psst. Weaksauce.
divisionbyzorro
Member
I decided to hop into a payload server for the first time in a while.
God damn payload is a shitty-ass gametype. It's only bearable if the server sets class limits and limits the heavy to 1.
God damn payload is a shitty-ass gametype. It's only bearable if the server sets class limits and limits the heavy to 1.
Pick demoman
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
Only three weeks?
divisionbyzorro
Member
I know this is the correct answer, but I hate playing demoman. It's my least favorite class, right behind the Spy.
Payload is the worst vanilla mode and amounts to just spamming down a corridor while being recharged by the mobile dispenser. The majority of the maps have few to no flank routes, and are often blocked off by one way doors or don't lead behind the enemy. It just comes down to having Heavies and Demomen spamming down a corridor while more Heavies and Demomen spam back at them with the help of multiple sentries.
Spamming stickies as people walk out of the same two corridors has about the same tactical skill as Duck Hunt. Yeah, it works (too) well, but it just shows how unbalanced Payload maps are.
SteveWinwood
Member
Oh come guys. Payload isn't THAT bad. It's a lot of fun.
Payload can be fun. The problem is that most Payload maps are poorly designed. Up until the engineer update, though, all of the stock payload maps other than badwater were horrible and terrible. Upward and Thunder Mountain are both on the good side of the payload divide. If you include custom maps, Cashworks and Swiftwater are tolerable. Deadwood would be good if they increased Red spawn time at the last point.
Still, given the choice between payload and most other modes, I'd generally rather play other modes.
Still, given the choice between payload and most other modes, I'd generally rather play other modes.
JakkuFurosu
Member
you should play with me, AD, Boney, and NSQuote (when i bump into him)....we have loads of fun
Togglesworlh
Banned
Payload is the cancer of TF2
Cloudius12
Member
which is something you can't get rid of that easily!