Team Fortress 2 Board Update Released
Team Fortress 2 Board Update Released
Febuary 18, 2020 - TF2 Board Team
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you visit the Team Fortress 2 Board. The major changes include:
>Removed the previous board owner
>Added new board owner
>Removed all B4nny posts by the previous owner
>Removed word banlist
>Removed thread creation limit
>Added some tournament medals
>Updated the localization files
Yup, new board owner, I'm an active player of the game so i'm here to make this board great again.
Welcome
Welcome to the TF2 Board! Here you can discuss anything about TF2! It's Casual and Competitive Scenes, Loadouts, Ethics of killing Friendlies, or being disgruntled about bots, Game Clips, Community, SFMs, Smexuals, or just anything you can think of.
Thanks, and Have Fun.
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I'm done with Team Fortress 2 and have come to enjoy Counter-Strike: Global Offensive better. I want to sell every item in my inventory (NOTHING ON PAGE 20 IS FOR SALE) for CS:GO item offers. I want knives, Stattracks, and more! I DON'T want Crates, Souvenir, or Stickers. I don't count Stickers already applied to items to the value of the item.
TF2 Backpack: http://backpack.tf/profiles/76561198051130353
Send Offers: http://steamcommunity.com/tradeoffer/new/?partner=90864625&token=IwnsJGBc
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[VALVE]TwilightSparkle
>[VALVE]Twilight sparkle recently got sued by valve after receiving many warnings from them.
I HOPE YOU CHOKE ON PISS AND DIE IN HELL YOU PEDOPHILE PIECE OF SHIT
fuck boys it's finally happened, the first of many. Valve actually does care about us, we can finally begin to heal after so much time. Not to mention all the attention that tf2 has already been getting because of the map wutville and all the smissmas changes that have been made.
>[Valve]TwilightSparkle's fw he appears in court and needs to defend his case while being a public enemy and massive faggot brony
pyro
Whats the optimal pyro and or medic loadout/gameplan, I'm relatively new to this game with about 10 hours on medic and 8 hours on pyro with around 50 hours in total and i was just wondering what some of y'alls opinions were for the best strategies for pyro and medic. I
this might make seem a pussy but honestly im tired. with the advent of the new update, the only way i could play some casual pubs is at community servers.
so i taunted a guy and he was one of the donors in one of the few servers i get good ping in. suddenly 4 to 5 people started targeting me and spamming lennys and calling me noob and shit. that's okay because it really is just a game. but the problem is that the same people started following me around since my profile isn't private.
So my question is that how do i come out of this situation i'm in. do i mann up or stop playing for a while ?
TL;DR people harassing me server to server because i taunted their frnd.
it's over
time for a bitch trip, if anyone is still even here to hear it.
everything in tf2 has changed and it's not okay.
this matchmaking update has completely ruined it. it used to be a fun casual thing where you could just hop into a random server and do whatever. i loved selecting a random gamemode at 4 in the morning and just going.
it was fun and comfy.
now everything, even the 'casual' mode is all rigid and structured, with every single game being a set-up 12v12. and everything is tracked and monitored, with an xp level bar and everything. the whole thing feels so pressurized and complex, it feels more like R6Seige or some shit than the comfy old valve fuckaround fest it used to be.
this is not okay, this needs to stop.
Le Shill Post
Hey /tf2/,
Posting here because I used to enjoy this board when it wasn't totally dead. I'm guessing that people still posting here even though it's dead means you're not overly fond of Mark's reich, or you'd just make a TF2 thread on /v/.
I also dislike Mark and I especially despise the current /b/ mod, so I made an unlisted general board not to act as a /b/ killer or a board split but just to give people an option to go somewhere not infested by attentionwhoring faggot mods.
There are some rules, like no furries and pedos, but also there are rules made for the mods so they can't go around fagging up everything.
Anyways, I have a games circular, come post in that or make a tf2 thread. The idea is to get anons who are sick of the faggot /b/ mods together with holdouts from dead/dying boards so we all get some more traffic and conversation but don't have to put up with faggot mods.
Anyways, to find board read this pic carefully. Going to be posting pretty much this same message on some other boards like /tes/.
UGC Highlander Season 19
Daily Reminder that UGC Season 19 starts on May 30th!
Current Drama:
>UGC killed gold because "not enough teams"
>plat is an unbalanced mess where all the gold teams that got moved up are going to fucking burn or just drop out
>the gap between silver and steel has never been more prominent with all the low gold teams that got moved down
>Kumori is now the head admin running all of UGC
Map list:
>pl_borneo
>koth_product_rc8
>pl_upward
>cp_vanguard
>cp_steel
>koth_ramjam_rc1
>pl_swiftwater_ugc
>koth_ashville_rc1
Has anyone bothered to sign up? How are pre-season scrims going? Reminder that UGC can only exist with player participation!
I'm pretty sure you all remember when this game wasn't free. I kind of sucked at the game then, but I'd trade all of my git gud for the feeling I got playing over five years ago, when the community was less than a circlejerk of autistic slenderman_idle servers. There used to be a lot more community run game servers, but now all I can find between valve sv_pure 1 servers are idle, trade, and slenderman bullshit servers with the occasional horsefucker server. Are there any cozy servers in the US to take shelter from all the cancer? Don't care how good or bad anyone is, just that they aren't brazilian monkeys or autists.
scout help
hi /tf2/
I'm having an issue with my scout, specifically with meatshots. There's been a lot of cases where I can get real close and dance around people for a long period of time, but it takes a lot of fucking rounds just to waste classes.
>how i feel right now
Even with those with relatively low health pools.
Also, what do against direct hit soldiers?
Admin?
Does anyone know how to contact the board admin or who it is?
I want to know if someone's still watching the board given the new message.
If not, I'll claim it so there's someone there to clean any commercial spam it may get.
But I don't want to just take someone's board because they're not around for a little while.
Invasion a shit thread
PSA: It's fucking nothing
>new campaign with no contracts or badge leveling
>buying the badge only gives fucking crates
>all the shit from the update only comes from the crates
>two weapon reskins, rest is hats
You'd think they learned from the duck badge.
>be me
>decided to play a bit of ctf, havent played it in a long time
>go to valve server
>going nicely having fun
>some faggot friendlies are there, not a lot of them, kill them all
>OMG U TRYHARD STOP KILL
>shrug it off
>map changes to 2fort
>autism.mov
>pretty much everybody in the enemy team is friendly
>go pyro kill them all
>omg tryhard fuck you eat shit lol kid to cry to mom
>Vote: Kick Robert Cop? (no reason)
>you have been voted off
>Be me
>Scout contract
>"Oh hey, this could be fun"
>Go on turbine server
>Join BLU
>BLU was already losing
>Go scout and run to enemy intel
>No defenses
>Pick up intel and run to our base
>Red sentries are literally everywhere in our base
>whatthefuck.jpg
>Get overkilled by sentries
>mfw
I made a group for 8chan MvM
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/8chanMvM
Ebin
Is anyone else here just incapable of playing on pub servers without wanting to hang themselves? The sheer amount of bullshit that goes on in pubs is mindblowing. Random crits, bullshit weapons (reserve shooter pyros aaaaaargh), braindead gibusvision snipercunts… I just don't understand how people stand it.
potential teammates
goddamn it I'm SICK AND TIRED of by myself in shitty pubs or playing with my friends who are shit at TF2i guess if you guys wanna post your ids as well go ahead
http://steamcommunity.com/id/squeakyfoampeanut/
>mfw when I looked back at my 1st unusual
Holy shit, I wish TF2's community was cancerous, but not this much:
http://www.tf2outpost.com/item/440,1902470071,324,5
Pic unrelated.
UGC Highlander
Board's ded. Let's try to generate some discussion.With Season 15 coming to a close on the 20th, Season 16 is just on the horizon.
What's your favourite plat team? Did things turn out how you expected? How do you think next season will be for them?
Did you play this season? What division? Are you gonna play next season?
Have any favourite Highlander players? How do you think next season will go for them?
Anything I missed? Discuss.
Have you taken the brown pill yet, mateys?
it's a tough pill to swallow! The brown pill was founded in 1999 by Sir Reginald Brownpill, who presents and narrates the attached video.
Forget red and blue pills, brown pills are the way of the future.
Video related. Please leave your questions, comments, and concerns below about this radical new paradigm of thinking!f
Swallow the brown pill today! Red pills are for fedora fucking wearing faggots, blue pills are for the ignorant masses. Ignore the other le epin /pol/ maymays, this one is the readl deal.Have you taken the brown pill yet, mateys?
it's a tough pill to swallow! The brown pill was founded in 1999 by Sir Reginald Brownpill, who presents and narrates the attached video.
Forget red and blue pills, brown pills are the way of the future.
Video related. Please leave your questions, comments, and concerns below about this radical new paradigm of thinking!f
Swallow the brown pill today! Red pills are for fedora fucking wearing faggots, blue pills are for the ignorant masses. Ignore the other le epin /pol/ maymays, this one is the readl deal.sgwet
> be me
> loved quake3, cpma, and tfc
> fuck yeah tf2 came out. looks sick, some of the chokepoints are a bit extreme but fuck it.
> updates come out; I can move my sentries and tweak my loadout.
> on the fence about the weapons, some are good, some are fun challenges, and some are useless trash.
> but hats
> never gave a shit about hats, trading or all that shit
> there's buttfuck hundreds of items now but w/e
> all the faggots trading and crafting when they should be just playing and having fun.
> realise my backpack is full
> smelt all my weapons to scrap, smelt all that scrap into refined.
> craft a hat.
> my first hat.
> https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Lonesome_Loafers
FUCK THIS GAME
(pic somewhat unrelated, also sorry 'bout wall o' text)
So, I'm just getting into TF2, and I'm a complete noob at things. I am P2P, as I did do research before picking up the game, but other then the base mechanics I'm totally lost.
I was wondering if any regulars had any server suggestions for me to get good? I don't wanna be a noob forever.
I've already looked on google, either they're newbie servers (how am I supposed to git gud if I'm constantly playing against my own skill level?) or just suggesting that noobs find the comp/higher skill level servers, but I don't know (once again) which ones are more friendly ones to go on.
Also yes, I have played against bots, but they aren't people? I have a feeling a bot strat is very different then playing against actual people.
Any help is much appreciated. From what I've seen you guys know the game very well, better then some of the suggestions I've seen. (I got a domination in a server that was friendly, but not orientated to what I was looking for. I had been playing in a server for the first time for about an hour at that point. No.)
"KA-BOOOOOM"
That's how long it takes a bloodthirsty enemy demoman to detonate his stickies and demolish your team's sentry nest.
So, what's your plan of action? How will you protect your comrades when the Scottish cyclops strikes?
Remember: your engineer's problems are your team's problems.
>be me
>playing TF2
>have a sexy spray (nothing too particular)
>spray it somewhere
>some horny 12 year old finds it
>i move the spray somewhere else
>little kids begins raging about the fact that i moved his fapping material
>begins to search for the spray
>keep moving the spray
>kid keeps getting angrier
>uses mic the whole time
>votekick starts for banning him
>mfw he gets banned
That had to be one of my best moments i had in TF2.
Phlog OP, Valve pls nerf
In the video, I misspelled it. Sorry. I'm currently working on making a pyro hat out of 75 phlogs.
This weapon is, as far as I'm aware, the most stupidly overpowered thing ever to disgrace the good name of pyros. Perhaps the very worst-balanced weapon Valve has ever implemented, direct upgrades included. For those of you who don't know or don't see what all the fuss is about, allow me to pontificate.
First off, we'll go over the disadvantages, almost none of which impact a bad player in any meaningful way:
- No airblast whatsoever. This is the big one. You can't put out teammates (selfish pyros don't anyways). You can't reflect projectiles (unskilled pyros can't anyways). You can't push enemies off cliffs on the few maps that feature them (dumb pyros don't anyways). You can't do that dumb, cheesy reserve shooter combo (the one good thing about this weapon). Compare the former most OP flamer, the backburner's penalty (3x airblast cost)
- 10% damage penalty. Compare the Degreaser's similar penalty (10% damage penalty + 25% afterburn damage penalty.)
- No random crits. We'll see more about crits in advantages.
- Doesn't flame someone close enough to bump into you (as much), so if a scout drops down directly on your head or you're enough of a noob to get outstrafed, you have to switch to melee. This means that in some ways the best way to kill a phlog user is to go Pyro. I mentioned in another thread that the biggest hallmark of being OP is when the best way to counter a class is to become that same class. Not in the same way, but the phlog does make pyros OP.
Let me briefly mention the advantages of the weapons compared above. The backburner gives you mini-crits on flame damage just for getting behind someone (which adds up to a lot of low-damage mini-crits in a few seconds), and is undeniably cheap but takes a small amount of skill. The Degreaser lets you switch weapons way faster, which can be manipulated for crit combos of varying cheapness but requires you to have some skill and timing and work with your enemy as they change ranges.
Phlog advantages:
- Needlessly arcane and unique backend math so it takes more effort to determine exactly how OP it is
- Less damage falloff due to distance compared to regular flamethrower
- Longer range than regular flamethrower
- Particles begin spaced away from actual weapon for no overlap with melee range and a much further max range. Max range of flamer, for Pyros, is pretty much everything and it's surprising enough that they would ever make a weapon that allows you to continuously flame from further away. The limited range is what makes the W+M1 complaints stupid. In this case it's totally justified.
- The Taunt. Filling your "Mmmmphhh" meter requires that you deal 225 damage (two spies/scouts essentially). I don't know if afterburn damage counts. Doesn't really matter either way because look how retardedly OP this is. Taunt to gain superpowers, like it's VSH or some shit. Just standard flamer taunt, like a second and a half at most.
— Instant full health recharge. Say you badly damaged a heavy (225 damage) and are near death yourself, and you both retreated. You taunt behind something and there, you're ready to go again. Full health. But that's (for some reason) not all!
— 75% damage resistance! If you have a medic overhealing you, you can survive a goddamn telefrag! It's almost an uber but with no medic, let alone a full charge! This DR lasts only for the duration of the taunt, and is essentially a way of saying "no, fuck you, that pyro dealt 225 damage and DESERVES both a guaranteed full heal and the fuckery to follow regardless of how much you attack. This taunt activation is just for style, we don't want them to actually have to be vulnerable for a second."
—- 10 second crit buff. Not mini-crit, full crits. Minus the second it takes to taunt, so, 9 seconds of crits with a phlog after the full heal.
No medic, no Kritzkrieg, no charging time. Just 225 damage. Do 50 more damage than you have health and you get a Rambo powerup with no chance of anyone interrupting you going Super Saiyan.
Every 225 damage an invisible medic flies down with a fully-charged medigun to practically uber and fully heal you while you taunt, then switches to a fully charged kritz and gives it to you. Remember, 9 seconds not including the taunt. That's actually longer than a regular 8-second Kritz uber.
Remember to keep your distance from phlog pyros to avoid feeding them, and always, ALWAYS butcher them until they leave the server.
You get to remove and add official maps to TF2. Which maps do you choose?
>Payload
Remove Frontier, Gold Rush, Hoodoo
Add Borneo, Swiftwater
>KOTH
Remove Sawmill, Viaduct, Badlands
Add Viaduct_pro, Arctic, Skyward
>5CP
Remove Standin, Coldfront, Fastlane, Foundry
Add Warmfront, Sunshine, Glassworks
>A/D
Remove Dustbowl, Egypt, Junction
Add Dustbowl_pro
Alright /tf2/ lets have some discussion.
What is your main class? Why do you enjoy this class? What do you hate the most about playing this class?
Loadout pics are optional, but don't use this thread as an excuse to wave your aussie dick around.
>Main class.
The fat russian with the overpowered minigun.
>Why I enjoy it.
Nothing in more fun that using some parkour route or something to flank the enemy and minigun their asses to death. Heavy is essentially a loud scout that is a bigger threat.
On the other hand hiding in a corner as an enemy team rolls out onto the point only to jump on their dumb asses as they scramble for cover from my volley while my medic pumps out resistance ubers to their pitiful weapons is also fun.
>What you hate about your class.
Definitely Soldiers and Demomen. Sometimes snipers. They're the only classes that have the damage to take me out quickly, the mobility to either flee or pursue me quickly, and the health to be a hard target to take down. A demoman or soldier abusing a corner is pretty hard for me to stop, since I can't run up to him without taking a huge amount of damage, and I can't flee unless I have other team mates to run to that can help me with him. Snipers are a moderate threat but with 2k hours you learn just to stay out of common sniper lanes.
crossposting from TF2G in vg
Idk if I should be posting this here but it seems right
I'm a comp Heavy player, but I play all classes and have a pretty good skillset and understanding of the game, I'm on par with UGC gold heavies and the rest of the classes i play well, maybe UGC Iron/Steel level of play, and while I'm not the best player, I always am open to helping new players learn how to play, so if anyone wants to learn from a fairly skilled player just add id/T-Sexy on steam aye
I also make some workshop items for TF2 if you need help with that iunno
pic slightly related, steam pic
Valve once again dropped the ball on this update.
>loch 'n load is still incredibly op
>cancerous weapons like the dds and crit-a-cola are still not nerfed
>bug that makes everything invisible was reïntroduced
>hit detection still broken as fuck
>tons of bugs that have been known for years are still around
>mannpower mode is shit and will always be shit
So what does Valve do? They update mannpower and add fucking taunts.
>mfw
ITT: Most surprising answer you didn't know from Delfy's YouTube quiz
>Medic moves at 107% speed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYhdg7lHstk
As it stands it seems that Pyro is pretty underpowered in that he can't really get up close and do burst damage apart from shotgun. The detonator adds more variety to the pyros playstyle but sacrificing the secondary weapon (main way of dealing reliable damage) rarely makes using the detonator a good choice.
Design your server.
I can easily host a tf2 server. Would be located in Europe.discuss the best plugins and maps ITT and i will try to make it a reality.
One of the only things i will not be able to do is host a replay-enabled server, since they're annoying as fuck to set up, so please don't request it.
Hey guys who wants to ban a phisher today? Me!
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198174935293/
Spam report.
>tfw you want to get into competitive tf2 because it looks fun
>tfw some guy on a valve server offers you the spy slot for an iron team
>tfw he says it's "for funnzies" and is actually an eighth grader
>tfw you go with it just to get into a competitive form, even though I'm better than iron
>tfw find out about lobbies and start playing those
>tfw someone offers you a steel spot on their team and their all silvers who haven't played in a year
>tfw perfect team
>tfw I have to tell this kid who is actually really nice that I'm dropping his team because I found a better one
>tfw just now I got dropped from the steel team because I missed a scrim 3 days before Christmas
Seriously what the fuck.
Holy Reddit murder me now
pic related me in the low-tour MvM cycle
>suicidal heavy/medic
>retard soldier
>demo can't kill medics
>engy oblivious
>pyro can't airblast
>teach pyro where the pit is
>never does it
>play pyro myself
>demo refuses to go after the medics and kills my reset target
>so close! :D very hard!
What's the most retard-proof class build I can do without any meta votekicks coming my way?
Fighting airblast
Is there a trick to be able to shoot pyros while airblasted? When I get tossed into the air, I jerk my crosshairs back onto them and fire, and I see bullets land on the pyro, but no damage is dealt. Is there a way to fix this, or a method to shoot the pyro while juggled?
Why does everyone play this class completely wrong? I've always been a combat engie guy because I found regular sentries frustrating and too easy to destroy. I started experimenting last week to see if I could find some way to be effective with them and I've come to realize that almost every sentry spot you see people reusing in both pubs and comp are complete garbage.
Wat do guys. I have been a competitive TF2 player from around 2011 to 2013, then I dropped playing completely, because of studies and other shit. I haven't logged into steam for a year. Recently, I wanted to get into it again since I have more free time on my hands. I downloaded Steam and found out I have lost all of my games(there wasn't that much of them anyway) but I downloaded TF2, to find out I have lost all of my items, plus all of stats regarding any activity on my account. Hacking is not a possibility, there isn't any trade history (there should be, too). The only item I have is the Mercenary medal, stating that I started playing in 2011.
I sent Steam Support a question a week ago and they haven't replied yet. What the hell am I supposed to do? Has Gabestein fucked me over? Has anyone encountered anything like this before?
SMISSMAS IS NOW
http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=15304
NEW WEAPONS
Hey faggots, I'm looking for a 9v9 team (I know signups are closed, more time to practice) I already have 3 members, Demo(Me) Heavy and scout if you want to join the team add me at:http://steamcommunity.com/id/HungryHungryHeavy
As you know, MvM is full of retards. I don't mind playing with newbies who at least know the basics, want to improve and listen but only few do, most are braindead. Sometimes completing a single mission takes half a day, I'm tired of this shit.
Does anyone here belong to or know some (preferably yurop based) Mann Up Two Cities steam group or something? I'm not looking for friends or some pros who would carry me, just few or more guys that play two cities regularly and are not retarded.
EOTL is out
it's fucking nothing
http://www.teamfortress.com/endoftheline/
What is your opinion regarding bindspam? Sometimes when I join a game I'll muck around with bindspam when I get kills, it's bound to middle click and I'll usually say something like "rekt faggot" or even "F2P PLAYER IDENTIFIED". Then on the side button of my mouse I have "WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST FUCKING SAY TO ME?!" for when they respond.
I've noticed that if you question whether or not people are good at TF2 they instantly want to prove you wrong and the matches get really heated.
I personally don't get irritated by bindspam because I sometimes do it and I recognize how fun people raging can be lol.
Scottish Resistance
Anyone else really love this weapon and wish it saw more use? I used to hate playing demo because airburst stickies felt so cheap, but I just couldn't help but do it until I bothered trying this weapon. I wonder how game breaking it would be if stock was removed and only this was left… It does all the originally intended roles of the SL, such as traps and building disposal.
Alright bros, Let's talk MVM.
I play a lot of Demo, and I've found that in both of the Two cities maps (and almost any other one) the loch n Load tears shit up so much better than stickies. Granted, I always set crit stickies, but I usually upgrade just the loch instead of the Sticky. What are some of your opinions on this?
Also, general "non-meta" stratagies.
Any servers where snipers, spies, and pyros are blocked in the NZ/AU region?
Removing sniper means spy can be removed, and removing spy means pyro can be removed. All 3 are pretty annoying and nonsensical classes gameplay-wise, probably only added because they were obvious, cliched ideas (Although airblast was new).
SHOULD MINISENTRIES BE REMOVED/NERFED?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M9JO9BUovoI fucking hate this thing.
I think it's easily the most scrubby weapon in the game and up there with the phlogistinator in terms of how much you should kill yourself if you use it.
Here are the many reasons why I hate it.
- Knockback. The knockback is irritating as fuck to jumping scouts, jumping demos, soldiers and it can pin people in corners, it can juggle you.. The knockback is like being airblasted by tiny dicks.
- Range: Holy shit the range on this thing is annoying as fuck how it can shoot in a 360 degree circle in a large sphere and it isn't immediately noticeable.
- Jitter: When this is shooting at you your screen jitters which can make it annoying to hit the damn thing. This makes the next issue all the more annoying.
- Tiny hitbox: This fucking thing has a tiny hitbox and can hit you from ages away which means that if you have a shitty aim it's pretty hard to hit. Can be frustrating trying to hit this thing with pills.
Spamability: Requires only 100 metal (easy as fuck to acquire), engineers can almost indefinitely spam these. Making it cost just ONE more metal would balance it much more fairly.
Cheapness: I don't like getting killed by aimbots. If I did you'd find me playing MVM or the numerous fucking single player FPS games out there and not against people. Getting killed by this incredibly easy to spam, easy to set up little aimbot is incredibly cheap.
- Forces you to play differently: Oftentimes you cannot fuck up a mini if you're playing scout or Pyro. Minispam can force you to change class, usually if you're good you can use skills to outmaneuver other players who are using classes that would typically counter you but not minis they fully shut down Scout/Pyro.
There's a thread about how annoying minisentries are, but what about this piece of work? At least a minisentry engineer has to learn how to aim his shotgun/pistol and survive with only 150 health. Dead ringer takes no skill.
Actually, you know what? It's worse than that. The dead ringer actually makes you less skilled. It actively teaches you to play spy worse. How do you get you cloak? By being hit. So instead of being subtle and trying to not draw attention to yourself, it teaches you to be the most goddamn obvious spy in the entire fucking world and gives you a massive damage resistance so that you're not put back by your immense lack of skill.
But what about after you cloak and want to get those backstabs? It still doesn't teach you to be subtle because who cares if they turn around and attack you, just pull out your dead ringer and enjoy that smooth 90% damage resistance as you take more damage than it takes to kill a heavy while surviving for no good reason.
Oh and if you have a spycicle? You can use it with the dead ringer to fake out pyros (all while taking virtually no damage from their flamethrower) and reliably escape from what is suppose to be your biggest counter in the game. So not only can you be a shitty obvious spy, you can be a shitty obvious spy that keeps attacking the same location over and over again and make no attempt to think about what you're doing or even try. Isn't that just fun?
Oh and the other team. After the 5th time of killing your fake corpse and pumping in over 800 damage into you without actually killing you, basically everyone is going to want you to just quit and uninstall the game.
So it's actually annoying as shit and encourages you to play spy very obviously with no regard or thought for what you're doing.
Why is this in the game?
Ok since this board is pretty much dying fast lets at least have some fun with the people who are still here. Enough of the minisentry and loudout threads. Lets organize some games, get together and pubstomp. I'm absolutely certain that even if we were all retards a team of us using voice chat could destroy the enemy team.
Post steam Ids?
Played TF2 with Dodger http://www.youtube.com/user/PressHeartToContinue
and Totalbiscuit
https://www.youtube.com/user/TotalHalibut
What did you do today?
