/tf2/ - Team Fortress 2

>>3682

Critsandvich is pretty nice, has multiple servers. Good regulars and map variety but has random crits. 24 player limit.

There's also fucked in the head's servers. No random crits, higher skilled regulars. Does have the downside of 32 player limit at peak times and if you curse in chat/voice a mod might scold you.

>>3692

They are back.

http://www.tf2classic.com/

>>3695

Please kill yourself. That mod is shitty and the people who play it are cancer incarnate.

I think the Weeabootique still fills up Friday evenings. It's not much and it's on a different IP now, but it's better than the other chan micspam server.

>>3716

Before you have an aneurysm try this tactic.

1. Turn off flames (viewmodel_fov 0.1)

2. Degreaser/shotgun/powerjack

3. Get behind and just flame people

4. Try to stay at the max flame range and lead players into your fire. Circle strafe.

Think of the shotgun as added dps and not your primary means of doing damage like before. Flamethrower DPS is really good now at range.

>>3721

You misunderstand my post.

Degreaser is not nerfed in my opinion, it's just shit and pointless. The trade-off between swap speed and damage reduction was what made it fun. There was strategy involved. After they added the airblast stun it took the fun out of airblasting people, and puff-sting combos with the flare gun or axtinguisher were never fun, but it was nice to be able to swap quickly to the homewrecker to take off sappers and get a quick flare in on a retreating person who tried to ambush you.

Sneaking, strafing, reflecting, killing anyone who tries to run, spreading panic. That's what's unique and fun about pyro. Yes, I could get much better results if I switched to boring, gimmicky close-range shotgun blasts or airblast stun combos or just use the backburner or the phlog, but if I wanted to just be a faggot about TF2 I'd go sniper full time and quickscope anything under the sun because TF2 sniping is ezmode. Or just be that retarded trickstabbing spy.

>shotgun as primary damage

This is basically as bad as phlog pyros and the reason I want nothing to do with competitive. May as well just take out the other classes and do autistic soldier matches with lots of shotgun blasts and rocket jumping over and over and over (which is extremely popular in comp, actually) if you're not going to play a class emphasizing its class features.

Circle-strafing with degreaser was fine with less damage because it was a challenge, it made you think and didn't reward w+m1 or indiscriminately approaching enemies. Now it's just stock with faster switch for more autismblasts from shotgun or more shitty airblast-sting combos with stunlock, and full damage, but it rewards people ambushing pyros because lolnerfedafterburn and demoknights can go full retard and shake off afterburn entirely. Without the degreaser, with the phlog even more buffed and still with that stupid taunt-for-crit, pyro is now designed entirely for w+m1 and spamming bullshit combos, just a short-range heavy. Now babbies crying about W+M1 actually have a point.

>nerfs degreaser

>is still the best flamethrower

This is the worst update of them all.

I'm just gonna redtext and go full capslock to show how angry and valid my points are.

THE ÜBERSAW IS STILL A SHIT WEAPON, WHERE IS THE DRAWBACK TO THAT INSANE THING

Weapon skins have a chance of being Unusual

>direct hit soldiers

cry about how OP it is in everyone's face, until valve nerfs it like the loch.

>>3727

The difference being that the Direct Hit is actually more challenging to use than the Loch and does less bullshit damage.

>>3726

OP how are you struggling vs Direct Hits? It's like a godsend as scout to realize a soldier is using Direct Hit. lrn2strafe and remember you have double jump. If you want some perspective, try fighting direct hits up close with a pyro or heavy, go back to scoot and it will seem ez.

Also if you're struggling with meatshots just be a scrub and use the FaN, at this point no one will even blame you with all of the other BS out there weapons-wise.

>>3726

High fps is key to aiming. Also play DM.

>>3726

Change your connection settings. There are lots of guides out there to help you do this.

Fiddle with your settings until you're getting at least 30 FPS at all times. Any less and your aim will be affected.

Check your mouse settings. You're best off using raw input and no acceleration. As for the sensitivity, that's personal preference.

In combat, never hold down the fire button. Press it once every time you want to fire.

For fighting direct hit soldiers, you have two options.

A: fight them like they're using hitscan and get as close as possible. This doesn't work well on skilled soldiers, but throws off most people.

B: keep enough distance that you can dodge every rocket.

>>3311

"Terrorism"

>>3312

That's genius.

Jihadi John's Toothpick

If it's not already named, consider "PTSD"

>>3239

That hat, mask and backpack actually works better together than one might think

>>3442

>With BLUs you lose!

Get lucky by unboxing a crate for the price of $2.49 or buy one for a minimum of $20 on the Steam Market or through item trading on websites and servers like TF2Outpost, Backpack.tf, or TF2 Bazaar.

don't bother

An alternative is to start trading from a scrap and all the way up the ladder,

which would take rougly the same amount of time as taking a job and earning enough to buy 10 unusuals.

>>3614

so my point is, that trading is an abstract and unrecognized and possibly masochistic art form, which takes unimaginable dedication to the uninitiated.

Scam

I have submitted a board claim, now we wait.

>>3690

I didn't make it to fap to

I made it because I thought it was funny

Stop projecting

>>3681

I have to agree with

>>3680 on this one

>>3678

this one is maybe kinda cool though

>>3677

but this one took the term "unwatchable" a step further.

MECHANICAL MISHAP DIDN'T GET NOMINATED

>>3672

>not winner material

Food Fortress won best comedy

>>3687

well I guess I'll take it back then

>>3575

Don't forget the Scout's pistol firing animation change. Now it bucks out of his hands every fucking shot.

>>3575

>>3577

>>3582

You guys feel dumb about not getting the pass and selling your first crates yet?

All I've even gotten so far is two of the small ones, and already $3 overall profit for playing a game I enjoy. It's hilarious to see the entire TF2 community bitching about how they can't get any crate drops because they all saw the crate prices on day 2, bought the pass too late, and are now waiting around hoping to break even as the price keeps plummeting and everyone realizes that the crates are going to drop through the end of the entire year. This hilarious bullshit brought to you by scout mains who NEED A BATSABER RIGHT NOW MOM. I saw someone wanting to trade an unusual (garbage, some gym rat, but still)…for a strange batsaber. And at the time, I'd have had to trade away an unusual's worth of stuff to get one and take him up on it. That's how HYPE this is. OMG LIGHTSABERZ EPIK

>2fort - pretty cool re-skin, lots of eyecandy, absolutely zero special gameplay

>watergate - fun and unpredictable novelty gamemode, good for identifying retards who cannot understand how to put together two obvious unique gameplay features without help…actual map is interesting but full of inconvenient spots where you get stuck on the scenery, and the beam is glitchy. Also, the majority of the fighting doesn't matter at all and the only incentive for it is the leader heal, but the grouping effect this has is nearly useless for protecting the leader because of the leader tracking outline. Actually has UFO interaction!

>probed - Actually has UFO interaction, beam actually works well (but too well, and doesn't last quite as long as it should), has the inside of a UFO, has otherworld environment damage (albeit completely unexplained) and buff portals…but still no aliens, and actually no special gameplay features past regular KoTH, just occasional-access buff chamber. Actual map is cramped and super generic KoTH with just enough vantage points and open spaces (all right around the point) for engies, heavies and snipers to camp at unprecedented levels. Whoever has the most heavies/engis will win the round regardless of most other factors.

>Byre openly has not a single fucking thing to do with the update or the theme and has less map features and more random shit thrown in the way of getting a clear shot

>invasion coin still seemingly on the fence about whether it's tracking kills or kills + assists, and whether it has strange ranks or not

>servers full of people hilariously praying for crate drops and raging about not getting crates; prices for a single crate still around the price of the ticket itself, and likely won't drop much below $1 until the drop refresh Thursday when everyone realizes that oh yeah, they're just crates and they'll be dropping through the end of December

>the community items I've seen so far are…meh

Is it bad how much I'm enjoying this hot mess of an update?

>>3609

Can you guys please fuck off with your divs and your ELOs and your bullshit already? This isn't LoL.

>>3616

Iron scrub detected

>>3621

This is not LoL. You are a massive autist if you play TF2 in leagues.

Back when I was new demo was my secondary class, I started out busting nests and went full faggot with the stickies. Also pipes are so fucking easy to land up close.

Anyways, I hadn't played demo at all for like a year, I was on one of those stupid new Halloween maps where you get camped by Monoculus and Horseman at once so you can't fight each other, and some dipshit was stickyspamming and blowing everyone the fuck out, couldn't counter well with soldier due to the map not being that open and me being shit at soldier, so I went demo myself and started laying down the stickies. What a rush.

It's like no one can touch you until you completely fuck up. Overwhelmed? click two or three times while strafing and aiming decently, then drop behind something and right click. Now just check if you got 2 kills or 4. Why hasn't it been nerfed?

>>2493

>capping on hightower

>>2656

you are bad. but you shouldn't have been kicked

>win round

>vote to scramble the teams?

>lose round

>vote to scramble the teams?

Holy fucking shit, no matter how balanced you try to make the teams out of dumb luck there's still a timer and either one team loses or both teams lose. It's not complicated.

Also:

>play Suijin

>pyro

>plant ass squarely on point to guard it because all of the actual defense-oriented classes are busy being autistic about the roofs and siderooms

>two snipers at enemy spawn shoot me down

>return to point, flame down a demo and scout, plant ass on point, begin shooting flares

>at first they don't dodge because I'm aiming for a tiny distant rectangle at head level with an arching shot

>set the front one on fire

>they start dodging, kill me a time or two

>probably think they're contributing to the team

>in reality, I'm tying up and taking the full attention of two members of the enemy team on their terms while simultaneously guarding the point and scaring off pushover scouts

>keep shooting flares

>they keep dodging

>shoot a flare right as the one right in the back peeking out the side door is scoping in on me

>strafing while firing, it misses me

>flare flies exactly true and hits him

>it was a crit and I didn't notice

>he was already somehow damaged by something

>ded instantly

wew lad

>>2312

Protip, they left because they went to an intel game and got nothing but a bunch of retarded campers who coulPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

If it's 24/7 Hightower fuck you. If it's valve or any rotation/map vote server yeah whatever.