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Don't enrage the heavy, for he shall pop many a caps in your ass. As for engineers, your sentries are like your children and the spies are the pedophiles, you need to protect said children from . Good day ladies and gentlemen.
That is only because the demo/soldier update just came out and everyone wants to try out their new weapons.NuclearPenguin said:
It's starting to pass now, in a week it should be normal again.
As for Escapist "clan", we have more of a community based here [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/chat/The-Escapist-Team-Fortress-2-Group-PC]. Where we organise things such as melee only night, and play custom game modes like prophunt/dodgeball on occasion.
But we will usually say we are playing there when we are playing, and we mostly just have normal games on the Escapist UK server. (IP found in the group.)
never underestimate a sniper with a huntsman the arrows are slow but if you dodge and move back your going to get pinned.
learn to hate enemy spies everyone else does
love the team medic, seventh has kept me alive countless times over the course of me playing plus always look out for the medic.
watch for spies keep checking the classes your team are you can root out a spy by just doing that.
learn to hate enemy spies everyone else does
love the team medic, seventh has kept me alive countless times over the course of me playing plus always look out for the medic.
watch for spies keep checking the classes your team are you can root out a spy by just doing that.
As an engineer, you can right-click to rotate your buildings. This allows you to set up sentries in more advantageous directions and MAKE YOUR TELEPORTERS NOT FACE WALLS.
It took me about a year to figure this out.
It took me about a year to figure this out.
Expect to die, ALOT. Only use the pyro, every other class is useless in every sense of the word. Go for achievements immidiately regardless of what your team wants; otherwise you can't unlock the usefull weapons and will have to take down an enemy with a nuke launcher with an airsoft gun. Always assume your teamates are morons (they almost always are).
In short: it sacrifices a crucial ability (compression blast) for a skill you didn't even need in the first place (back crits).Chipperz said:
As a pyro, if you catch someone from behind at flame range and they DON'T die, even without crits, you're doing it horribly wrong...
So in turn for the extra crits that, again, you should never need, you loose the ability to reflect rockets, grenades, arrows and stickies away (including crits), push ubers and put out fires on friendlies. This "menial" ability can be used to:
- Render the pyro near projectile proof (which includes rockets, sentry rockets, grenades, stickies, arrows and flares), making projectiles bigger menaces to the person that shot them than to you;
- Make sentry spots near invulnerable by reflecting away stickies, grenades, rockets or ubers;
- Save team mates, particularly medics, from dying to enemy fire by putting the fire out instantly;
- Keep enemies from getting away as the compression blast pushes enemies UPWARDS, slowing them down immensely (specially if they're pushed against a wall, corner, crevice, death pit, etc), which is particularly invaluable against scouts, medics or anyone carrying the intel;
- Stop ubercharges from doing anything at all as you can either push away/juggle the person being charged or, personal favorite, push the medic away so the charged suddenly looses his invulnerability and dies a horrible and confusing death;
- Stop Kritzkrieg/Crit boost charges from the 2 most deadly classes (Soldier and Demo) by using their own projectiles to instantly kill them or their medics;
- Rocket jumping as a pyro... look it up;
- Easily, safely and quickly clear paths through stickies for your team;
- Instantly kill someone near a death pit;
- Save someone from getting backstabed by a spy that you can't kill fast enough;
- Quickly turn Charging Demos into a nullity as a threat by airblasting their charge away;
Oh yes, and...
- Single puff of fire -> Airblast -> Axtinguish. Instant kill to anything but a heavy (they take an extra swing of the ax) or dead ringer spies. Incredibly difficult to dodge, avoid or prevent in any way. Learn to love it.
Hope that's clear.
Ok:
1. Medics, your blutsauger makes you a scout killing machine, as well as able to defend yourself enough to get away, but don't start thinking you're a combat class. When people around you are dying, heal them, don't be a combat medic, because even if you attain success, your team will be ticked off that you didn't heal anyone.
2.Pyros, use the default flamethrower, the backburner can be useful, but deflection far outweighs any backburner benefit.
3. Heavy, unless its like the first day after the scout update, there's no reason to use natascha. Also, when there are a ton of medics running around, you won't need the sandvich.
4. Spies, Act like a team mate, don't react to being shot (ie turning around) just keep moving, they'll likely stop shooting before you die.
5. Demo, try to avoid straight up fights with faster classes, a good scout will easily kill you so try not to get caught fighting one on one. Chargin' Targe and Eyelander recently allowed some success against scouts but still, you can't maneuver like they can so unless you've got a stack of stickies around and can lure them by, its best to stay away.
6.Soldier, Kritzkrieg is your friend, as is the bugle. I'd stay away from direct hit since my aim isn't that good with rockets, so this is personal opinion, but I like hitting multiple enemies with wide splash damage. The bugle and a kritzkrieg also help.
7. Sniper, its a good job mate. Well....until you've got 40% of your team as them. This class can be devestating but when there's too many mediocre snipers, you'll lose. the huntsman can help you get closer to the action but when push comes to shove, a good sniper can beat a huntsman sniper any day simply because there's a degree of chance if the huntsman hits, and often its used as a spam weapon, which means, unless the enemy team doesn't learn, you'll uickly find you have no heads to pin arrows to.
8.Scout, I like the scout a lot. Always remain onthe move and in the air. double jump and change direction on the second jump. You have to use your mobility to make up for your frail nature. Force of nature will also likely not get you high scores without a low ping and some practice. I'd stick to scatter gun until you've learned the ropes. Bonk can be handy for getting into a base, but I find the pistol is far better and often a very lethal weapon. Most scouts neglect its use at long range which it actually does quite well.
9.Engy, practice. You need to know which spots are good and which spots are bad to build in. Keep your shotgun or pistol out too when not building or fixing something as you can often save your base by helping your sentry out. This also gives better warning of spies. Pyros can't always be responsible. Sure, good pyros spy check and deflect rockets when they can, but a lot of pyros don't give engies a second thought.
10. Every class. Try to work on getting used to switching weapons with 1,2,3,4,5 keys. It's almost downright necessary to change weapons to adjust to different situations. Like a pyro using the axetinguisher, he needs to be able to switch weapons fast.
1. Medics, your blutsauger makes you a scout killing machine, as well as able to defend yourself enough to get away, but don't start thinking you're a combat class. When people around you are dying, heal them, don't be a combat medic, because even if you attain success, your team will be ticked off that you didn't heal anyone.
2.Pyros, use the default flamethrower, the backburner can be useful, but deflection far outweighs any backburner benefit.
3. Heavy, unless its like the first day after the scout update, there's no reason to use natascha. Also, when there are a ton of medics running around, you won't need the sandvich.
4. Spies, Act like a team mate, don't react to being shot (ie turning around) just keep moving, they'll likely stop shooting before you die.
5. Demo, try to avoid straight up fights with faster classes, a good scout will easily kill you so try not to get caught fighting one on one. Chargin' Targe and Eyelander recently allowed some success against scouts but still, you can't maneuver like they can so unless you've got a stack of stickies around and can lure them by, its best to stay away.
6.Soldier, Kritzkrieg is your friend, as is the bugle. I'd stay away from direct hit since my aim isn't that good with rockets, so this is personal opinion, but I like hitting multiple enemies with wide splash damage. The bugle and a kritzkrieg also help.
7. Sniper, its a good job mate. Well....until you've got 40% of your team as them. This class can be devestating but when there's too many mediocre snipers, you'll lose. the huntsman can help you get closer to the action but when push comes to shove, a good sniper can beat a huntsman sniper any day simply because there's a degree of chance if the huntsman hits, and often its used as a spam weapon, which means, unless the enemy team doesn't learn, you'll uickly find you have no heads to pin arrows to.
8.Scout, I like the scout a lot. Always remain onthe move and in the air. double jump and change direction on the second jump. You have to use your mobility to make up for your frail nature. Force of nature will also likely not get you high scores without a low ping and some practice. I'd stick to scatter gun until you've learned the ropes. Bonk can be handy for getting into a base, but I find the pistol is far better and often a very lethal weapon. Most scouts neglect its use at long range which it actually does quite well.
9.Engy, practice. You need to know which spots are good and which spots are bad to build in. Keep your shotgun or pistol out too when not building or fixing something as you can often save your base by helping your sentry out. This also gives better warning of spies. Pyros can't always be responsible. Sure, good pyros spy check and deflect rockets when they can, but a lot of pyros don't give engies a second thought.
10. Every class. Try to work on getting used to switching weapons with 1,2,3,4,5 keys. It's almost downright necessary to change weapons to adjust to different situations. Like a pyro using the axetinguisher, he needs to be able to switch weapons fast.
While there are alot of obvious tactics for the regular flame thrower, the back burner is amazing you you enjoy playing a sneaky game. If the map is right, and you know it well enough, you can easily take out half the enemy team with the back burner. There are numerous maps where right off the bat I get 6-8 kills letting my team push really far up really fast. Other than the couple of maps it is good on, I would go with regular flame thrower for reasons previously stated by other people
No weapon is truely useless in the game, it just takes the right knowledge on how to use it. Try every weapon and every class and learn all you can about each one. Also, be imaginative with everything (placement of sentries, strategies for any class, etc) While alot of strategies are tried and true, there are more outthere that are unknown that takes people by surprise really well.
BE IMAGINATIVE
No weapon is truely useless in the game, it just takes the right knowledge on how to use it. Try every weapon and every class and learn all you can about each one. Also, be imaginative with everything (placement of sentries, strategies for any class, etc) While alot of strategies are tried and true, there are more outthere that are unknown that takes people by surprise really well.
BE IMAGINATIVE
that does happen ever once in a while. the game glitches and forgets to switch a member of a teams colour due to really high ping or lag on there part.NuclearPenguin said:
dont worry about it unless it happens alot