Team Fortress 2

[schild]

Nope, can't do that. There's a timer on the grenade before you can blow it up with the latest patch.

[WayAbvPar]

I have fun when I get to play, but holy fuck does this thing hang/crash a lot. Patches plskthx.

[Sky]

Yeah, toward the end last night I was working with the sticky gun a bit more. I practiced it for a while the first night and then was much more effective with the main launcher and stuck with that. Last night I was practicing bounce angles and switching out to the bottle for melee kills (it's pretty effective). And it's funny when someone says "Bottled!"

ARRR AH'M DRUUNK.

I think one of the main problems with demoman is slow reload. I pretty much have four shots and then I switch to the bottle. And waiting for eight reloads on the stick gun is awful. I think the delay was why I stopped using it in firefights, it was throwing my timing off. I'll have to practice (probably A LOT).

Going up against the rabid scout clan dropped me down to about 1:1. Good practice, but they need to stop with the macro shit and not brag about doing decently against a non-competetive server. We're basically pubbers, for crissakes.

[rattran]

I did much better at demoman when I read one of the loading screen 'tips' that stickies fly farther when you hold the button down longer. Made getting out of the damn gated tunnels easier. Stupid turrets.

It makes me wonder how many other blatantly obvious things I'm missing.

[Yegolev]

Nope, can't do that. There's a timer on the grenade before you can blow it up with the latest patch.

Ah, shit.  Stickies go back to defensive tactics.  Which they excel at, but still.  Demoman has enough limitations.

About the demo speech, I think you might be confusing "scottish accent" with "drunken slur", but I'm uncertain.

[Sky]

It's drunken and scottish. Not complaining, it just doesn't seem to fit the character model, I pictured more of some kind of 70s B-movie black hero. Or they should have gone for Fidel from Jagged Alliance, one of my favorite characters ever. I remember once he got pissed at the wimpy medic guy and started chasing him around trying to blow him up. Err...anyway. Good tip to hold the button down longer, didn't know that, I was just arcing stuff higher.

[Yegolev]

Now you're just being racist.

Oh, wait.  It's the Racist server.

[Rasix]

I have fun when I get to play, but holy fuck does this thing hang/crash a lot. Patches plskthx.

This is weird.  I have the crashiest pc ever when it comes to Source engine games, and I've only had one crash since I've updated my video drivers (and only had one before on loading).  That wasn't even an in game crash either.  I was loading maps and then Steam decided that it'd take TF2 off my games list for some reason and crashed me out.

[SnakeCharmer]

It only crashed once for me while playing, and I that was server side.

But, I can tell you it does not like being alt tab'd out.  That caused my comp to freeze up more than a couple times last night

[Rasix]

Yep.  Alt tab doesn't like the game.  You know what's worse, laughing at some guy getting hit by the train in that one map and then accidentally hitting the Windows key.  I really need to disable that fucking thing.

[SnakeCharmer]

Yep.  Alt tab doesn't like the game.  You know what's worse, laughing at some guy getting hit by the train in that one map and then accidentally hitting the Windows key.  I really need to disable that fucking thing.

That was probably me.  It got me freakin' TWICE last night.  I got hit, laughed.  So what does my dumbass do?  Goes zooming by the same spot AGAIN as a scout.

Windows key.  Heh. Yeah.  G15 keyboard ftw.  It lasted all of one miskey last night.

[WayAbvPar]

I don't get mid-game crashes too often (had the looping sound bug once), but I get stuck at the loading screen ALOT when we switch maps. Judging from the forums, I am not the only one, so I am just waiting for some patching love. Poker tonight, so they get a free night to work on it without me bitching  :-D

[Sky]

I only got the one boot when the server reset or whatever last night, no crashes. However, schild sent me a steam pm and that dropped me out of TF2 entirely and then the pc was lagged as hell and I just shut it off because it was taking minutes between responses. Bastid ;)

Windows key...I remove them from my keyboards. Caps lock, too. Don't use, don't need 'em, away they go.

[Slayerik]

Only problems I have had are in-game messages and alt-tabs.

[rattran]

Most crashes I've had are between rounds, and when trying to run teamspeak and tf2 at the same time. Both crash then.
I'm running the latest nvidia drivers, but flaky sound ones.

[Miasma]

The patch removed the ability to create friendly fire servers so I guess no one will be able to call me a carebear newb for not playing on one.

[Samwise]

The patch removed the ability to create friendly fire servers so I guess no one will be able to call me a carebear newb for not playing on one.

Thank God.  I wandered into one of those accidentally a few days ago.  It was horrible.  Spies become completely unbalanced when you can't just hose your teammates down with bullets to check for them.

[Triforcer]

Is it wrong that when I get this game, the only class that looks interesting to me is the Spy?  It seems like the sort of class that may draw all the OMG CLOAKING OMG newbs. 

[Samwise]

Spy is one of the more interesting classes to play.  Playing a spy in TF is basically the experience that The Ship tried (and failed) to distill -- it's something that very few, if any, other games have gotten right. 

The cloaking is sufficiently limited that you still have to be able to pull off a convincing disguise in order to be an effective spy in TF2.

[Strazos]

I just wish they had a shimmer effect when they moved while cloaked. As is, total invis, which I think is a tad broken.

[pxib]

They DO have a shimmer effect, yes? I mean I keep seeing the predator effect spies wandering around and shooting at them. Do they only have that after they've been shot or something?

[Samwise]

The only thing cloaking is really useful for is quickly dashing through heavily guarded areas.  And sometimes to make a quick escape from a firefight.  Having it not work while moving (adding any sort of visible shimmer would bascially amount to it not working) would make the whole thing almost useless.

Now, if you could stay cloaked as long as you wanted while you were holding still... that'd have possibilities.

(edit) I think the existing shimmer effect only happens if they bump into someone.  Or if they're in the process of decloaking.

[Strazos]

Yeah, it only occurs when you bump something, or right after you cloak.

I don't even need much of a graphic effect, but give me Some chance to see an invisible spy coming at me.

[Yegolev]

Oooooh I suck so bad.

[lesion]

I just played a four-hour 2fort game and I feel dirty. it was so friggin' fun! pyro is definitely my favourite class, despite the high amount of self-death involved.

[Yoru]

Yeah, it only occurs when you bump something, or right after you cloak.

I don't even need much of a graphic effect, but give me Some chance to see an invisible spy coming at me.

It also occurs if they get shot. If I see a spy cloak, I immediately open fire and try to hose down the area he's in to figure out where he is. If he gets hit a couple times, then he'll often decloak and try to go after me with the knife or pistol.

[Sky]

I usually find spies by bumping into them in a tight corridor. I also hate fucking spies. But I guess they do shake up the gameplay quite a bit, but playing as demoman, we're in it tough with no shotgun. Either I bust out the bottle on him or try to get lucky with a nade carpet.

Tried being an engineer for a little bit, not sure it's my style. Had fun with a couple f13'ers guarding the intelligence room, though, as a demo. They were both engy and I laid some stickies on the entry halls and played roving sentry, didn't lose a point after we got set up.

Then I forgot we were in sudden death until I heard the 30second countdown...only one engy left on the other team and two or three of us. Woops!

[Slayerik]

Was cool seeing more f13ers on last night.

Any thoughts at actually scheduling a date/time and basically fill the bitch up with f13 names?

Seeing there are 3 groups of peeps that I roll with, I am now know as [MnMYTHf13] Slayerik ...ya i know it looks stupid but at least it covers all the bases.

M-n-M: Morituri Nolumus Mori (Those about to die don't want to) , guildies over the last 5+ years.
f13: Forum buddies/enemies over the past 5+ years
MYTH: www.mythlogic.com    - work buddies running a PC business

Not that anyone cared, but there is the breakdown.




And also, noone ever seems to be on TS so I end up going to one of the other two's vent server. Come on guys, its not that hard to log in :)

[Yegolev]

I tend to play between 2230 and 0200 Eastern, on alternate nights so I don't suffer from sleep deprivation.  I also think I have the voice issue cleared up, but playing TF2 with headphones instead of positional speakers makes Baby Jesus cry.

[SnakeCharmer]

Oooooh I suck so bad.

Heh.  Me and you both.

I'd probably do a bit better if I'd pick a class and stuck with it.  Next time I can get in, I'm probably going to stick to medic and sniper, depending on the map.  I have a blast as both, and it's pretty rewarding running around healing teammates.  Edit:  Would be nice if medics had some sort of rez ability.

[Yegolev]

My problem is aiming, so I'm going to fiddle with the mouse settings... lowering the sensitivity, in fact.  I have my Razer set to "10" sensitivity all the time, and thinking on my terrible performance last night I can see that I was overshooting a lot.  Scout vs scout, the other guy would shoot me in the eyes and I would shoot him in the elbow at best.

[Sky]

I play 11-midnight most nights, a bit later on the weekends. A few nights a week I'm on earlier for an hour or two and sometimes it's 10-midnight. Basically if there's anything else going on, I'm not on the computer :) Last night I ditched early and played guitar for a while. Eastern times.

I should probably fiddle with mouse settings, zoomy scouts give me problems, too.

[SnakeCharmer]

5-9ish pm is reserved for family/baby boy/wife time.  Most of my gaming time is 9ish-11ish pm CST.  Weekends are more flexible, though, that is of course when the boss (wife) doesn't have a mile long list of honey-do's for me.

[Grand Design]

I cannot fucking wait to eviscerate you bastards who so mercilessly humiliated me last night.



Seriously, take it easy man - I'm a medic...

[Zetleft]

I usually get on ts when I get in but i don't think my mic is working and that's just one more thing I don't want to mess with.  Plus I really hate my headphones and usually just go with my speakers. 

I seem to do best with Soldier but that aint saying much, plus sentry's hardly slow me down with the rocketman.  I still spend most of me time as an engineer so if you find a turrent placed in a crappy spot, it's probably mine :p