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Team Fortress 2 |OT4| Official Halo Thread of Polearms and High Fashion
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dragonlife
Member
Holy shit, I have that weapon and never noticed that particular effect. I guess it's not too bad since you won't see most Engineers until after you deploy the UberCharge.
If other classes had this effect, though, I think I'd probably be unhappy.
Willkiller
Banned
The blog post is coming any minute.
How do I know? I just feel it.
How do I know? I just feel it.
Yep, TF2 site seems to be done for me. THIS CAN ONLY MEAN ONE THING
I feel you
Looking around cp_standin, it seems like A and B are the only good points for sniper. I have a clear view of the point and across the whole area on A, and for B, I can see into the point, but it's riskier for me because I have to be pretty close. I can see decently across the area in C, but I have to get real close to get a shot at the point.
From this one observation, I'm thinking we can either roll up on A right away, and I can try to keep bad dudes off the point there while you all try to move to B. I could also try to keep dudes off B while you guys take A, but that's a lot harder for me.
Food for thought.
From this one observation, I'm thinking we can either roll up on A right away, and I can try to keep bad dudes off the point there while you all try to move to B. I could also try to keep dudes off B while you guys take A, but that's a lot harder for me.
Food for thought.
I don't know... I can't help but feel like they only tried to go in and out from bottom because we held the barn so much... But I trust your judgement and I see where you saw the synergy. If we're constantly pushing ubers and kritz from barn, then they're going to have to fan out across the sides of the map, and the sentry spots will cause problems as they're attacking from the bottom level instead of the top.
My main idea was to hold the barn to try and make them grab the intel from bottom, and then use a mini sentry and someone jumping out of the barn window to stop them from making the cap. Then just depend on the 5 second reset time to frustrate them.
Noted. I'm still a little against stacking one point at the beginning if only because of our DM ability. If the other team caps two points while we stack the one, we need to rush before they finish capping one of those other two, or we absolutely have to win the next team fight or two in order to not immediately lose the round.
From the scrim before on vitalism, mini sentries seemed nearly useless, but a level 3 (occasionally wrangled to prevent direct hit kills or whatnot) sentry in the intel room seemed very strong on the other team. I think we saw a few level 3 sentries in the capture area as well, but those were easier to take out. I'm glad the fro used the placement he did.
Seemed is the operative word. Whenever I ran minis on that map I was able to dominate their Demoman (if he focused on jumping around) and Scout, which really screwed up their capping power and helped cover our flanks from all but the Sniper and Spy. I got really good at recycling metal on that map too. There's never a medium ammo box too far away, and they're always tucked away in places that provide you cover anyway. The more you run around the map, the smaller it feels. With four across the middle of the map in total, all of them next to health packs, and then the dropped weapons from the people I killed, I was rolling in business.
Oh well, I shouldn't complain. You guys got the win and made it a shut out. Your plan worked, and it worked well.
Apparently I was totally screwing up on the ammo as well. I was only aware of ammo in four places: Left hut, right hut, front stairs, back stairs. In addition I thought the stairs ammo and health (opposite sides from each other) were small. I kept running out of ammo in the top of the capture area, and the point itself only has small health and no ammo, so I kept running to the hut to refill ammo. In retrospect, running back down the stairs and getting that ammo to half-refill would have probably been optimal.
Like wut? >:|
CornBurrito
Member
So I have 4 refined, 1 reclaimed, and 1 scrap that has been sitting in my inventory since forever. I don't really care about hats, so I probably won't be spending it. Anyone want it?
I'll take it if you're just giving it away.
Still no day 2 update. Day one was posted around 11:30 AM EST yesterday, so knowing Valve, today's blog post will be about 9 PM EST. Because why not.
CornBurrito
Member
Alright. I'll send it your way.
Pangloss and I just played a match on standin and B is definitely the key. Rolling up on B while I sniped A at the start seemed to work alright for us.
wtf? don't give it to forkball!
CornBurrito
Member
It is too late. The damage has been done, and can never be undone.
I give it 15 minutes from now.
Wrong. I'm going to craft it into a bad hat, then craft that hat with another for an even worse hat, and continue until I only have the worst hat in the game.
tangmaster96
Member
Ahh dang it forgot about the update
been too caught up in vindictus
what day is it?
1 or 2?
been too caught up in vindictus
what day is it?
1 or 2?
The sentry spots I used are actually stronger against the people dropping down from up to (the barn) entrance than the sides. I tried in a few lobbies and on the GAF server and it was very tough for the other team to push from up there. That also covers a Scout using Bonk to get through the middle or a Spy/Scout sneaking up the stairs without going directly through the barn, which you're still vulnerable to even if you hold the middle.
If you push in through the side, there's basically only one of 3 things that can happen and they all involve having to kill both me & the Level 3 and the whole rest of the team.
I did run Gunslinger before the match and I can see where that would work really well (I was points-leader for a while during the pre-match scrimmaging). As I said, I wanted to play it safe and take responsibility for defending the intel.
you're mad! utterly mad!
Wendel Clark
Member
update canceled
Grimm Fandango
Member
Well that background pic of the Pyro is new, no?
New second weapon!
New second weapon!
Grimm Fandango
Member
dragonlife
Member
They had a blog post about how weapons are made and this was the example, too.
No way is that a primary weapon, it looks like a flare gun. They sure are pushing that thing. Watch it be the only new Pyro weapon.
soldier update confirmed, etc.
RANDOM NOTE: that looks like a misc from THE GARBAGE SET WOAH
SteveWinwood
Member
Lol it looked like the soldier was smoking a crack pipe.
The can at the bottom is a misc from the set...
SOLDIER UPDATE CONFIRMED FOR REALISES
dave is ok
aztek is ok
New picture in the background!
Grimm Fandango
Member
Sounds great so far. Thankfully the new weapons are not all stat swapped.