Mann Vs Machine Have you played yet

[Patrick Buck]

Oh god yes. Just played it. SOOO MUCH FUN.

Would recommend playing Pyro, and upgrading your flamethrower to give you health for each kill. Plus 100 health per kill lets you TANK robot scout-rushes. Then stick to damage, and flamethrower copasity upgrades, don't bother with shotgun/flaregun or melee upgrades. Focus on the flamethrower.

 

[DustyDrB]

Played it for the last 6h, since most of my region is starting to getting out of bed I am playing with matchmaking for the last 1h.

It's... hard. Stuck on a wave full of rockets and pipes.

Yeah, I only played a bit last night as the Scout (with the Sandman, too. So I only had 110 HP). Those giant Demomen are friggin' beasts. Getting hit by one was an insta-kill for me and it's freaking hard to dodge all of them.

That said, it was fantastic fun. I'm not sure how to approach the mode as a Scout yet. I would have been a Pyro (that's my main class), but someone else chose it first and I wanted variety on our team.

 

[BoredWalker]

Not yet, my wifi card's too craptastic to play anything online. If I ever get an ethernet connection or this stupid thing fixed,then I might jump on.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Have yet to try it. I want to play it with people I know, but the matchmaking is too mushy to coordinate that.

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

Played a couple of games today. It was incredibly fun but not worth waiting around 30 minutes per game. Especially since half the players I get ragequit after they lose a few waves and that there's no guarantee I'll even connect to the server.
I'll probably give it a week or so before I deem it safe to actually try.

 

[archvile93]

I can't play it. The wait time to find a server is ridiculous.
You can play on a private server offline but bots don't work at all.
It's not much fun without players

Is it even possible or do you just get torn apart by a massive hoard?

 

[bigfatcarp93]

I just couldn't get in, I'm not waiting 26 fucking minutes to play.

 

[Zenn3k]

Well, last night the servers weren't working...when stuff finally started to come online, I found you had to purchase a ticket to play, at that point I said "nope, skipping this" and played a few rounds of dustbowl instead.

I'm not paying to play a new game mode on a free to play game, if I FIND a ticket, I'll probably try it out, but I'm not forking out cash for it.

 

[Mr.Mattress]

Well, last night the servers weren't working...when stuff finally started to come online, I found you had to purchase a ticket to play, at that point I said "nope, skipping this" and played a few rounds of dustbowl instead.

I'm not paying to play a new game mode on a free to play game, if I FIND a ticket, I'll probably try it out, but I'm not forking out cash for it.

Only the Very Hard Mode where you can get Robot-Related Hats requires Money. The normal game is completely free. Also, I don't think you can find a ticket.

I just couldn't get in, I'm not waiting 26 fucking minutes to play.

I had this same problem. But then I looked at Servers, and there are so many servers that are MvM. The only problem is many of them are Password Protected or already full, but when you do find an empty-ish one, you'll have lots of fun!

 

[Comic Sans]

Well, last night the servers weren't working...when stuff finally started to come online, I found you had to purchase a ticket to play, at that point I said "nope, skipping this" and played a few rounds of dustbowl instead.

I'm not paying to play a new game mode on a free to play game, if I FIND a ticket, I'll probably try it out, but I'm not forking out cash for it.

You only need to pay for the Mann Up mode. You can play singular matches for free.

 

[Mr.Swiggly]

Nah, I can't cause both of my computers that could play it are both dying horribly

It looks like tons of fun tho, so I'm going to try to fix my computers over the weekend.

 

[TimeLord]

Matchmaking is a pile of broken limbs and failure. I mean seriously 11,728 players in the queue and 31 minutes to find me a game? Yes, that's me canceling the search and going to the normal server list again!

Other than that it is a lot of fun.

 

[vun]

I did manage to find a server with room, was good fun so far.
Other than that round I'm staying clear until it calms down a bit.

 

[Syzygy23]

I tried with a group last night, but we couldn't get in. One of the members of the group /did/ manage to get in a few times though, in both paid mode and free mode. Apparently it's all a lot of fun, but the tours of duty are, in fact, different from the free version. They're much harder, for one thing. I can't believe Valve is getting away with charging per game with this new mode. Can you imagine if the next CoD game charged a dollar per game of Zombies?

Actually, each ticket you buy is supposed to let you play a SERIES of maps, and the ticket isn't consumed if you lose or leave before you get your loot.

That being said, I still don't agree with Valve on this one. I wouldn't have BOUGHT a ticket if they had made it CLEAR that it only works once.

 

[major_chaos]

I haven't played the mode yet but it looks fun, although I'm currently very busy rolling my eyes harder than I ever though possible over once again seeing fans trip each other for a chance to kiss valve's feet for doing something that any other company would get crucified for.

 

[Zinkraptor]

I haven't played the mode yet but it looks fun, although I'm currently very busy rolling my eyes harder than I ever though possible over once again seeing fans trip each other for a chance to kiss valve's feet for doing something that any other company would get crucified for.

It's an awful system, but the main reason they get away with it is because virtually no TF2 players actually use the official servers, so players don't really feel like they're having anything "taken away" from them.

If the Official servers were more of a staple (like they are in many other games), it'd almost certainly be more of a controversy.

 

[scorptatious]

It's kinda hard for me to find a game, when I do though it's pretty fun. Love hearing the team's voices in robot form. There's just something deliciously evil when a robot soldier shouts "You are all weak, you are all bleeders!"

That being said, I kinda wish my framerate didn't suck or that I didn't have to deal with the occasional lag. Oh well, I'm finding myself playing Medic a lot in that gametype anyway. Although it's great fun setting a group of robot scouts on fire as a Pyro.

 

[Aprilgold]

Don't use matchmaking, just use the server browser and type in 'mvm' in the map box, then look for servers with less than 6 people in. Got in a match within the first 10 minutes of the update coming out.

It is AMAZING fun. amazing.

Several people [myself included] have never gotten this to work. While it is helpful it isn't guaranteed and you'll spend as long waiting as the people in the queue so what is the bloody point.

I just couldn't get in, I'm not waiting 26 fucking minutes to play.

Bloody wanka, I was at it for three hours before getting into my first match and I was all prepared to kick some metallic ass and.... Then they never showed up...

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I have seen and played one map up until the horde until the bastards decided not to show up. It was kinda fun upgrading stuff but until I can actually play it I don't know what I am going to do.

 

[Darren716]

I tried yesterday with friends it didn't work. I tried again today with friends, waited over an hour to find a server and it kicked us out. I go back on and the item server is constantly going on and off. I think I going to wait a bit.

 

[Piorn]

Played it for a few hours today, and really like it.
The only problem would be the balancing, having to redo the same wave because you have a bad team gets frustrating after the 5th time.