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I'm downloading TF2 since it's free this week. What do I need to know? Anyone have any pro tips?

Tips are pretty dependent on the class you are and the class they are.

Though some things to note:

If a spy dies, and he wasn't already cloaked, he's probably not really dead. If he wasn't disguised either, he won't make any noise when decloaking.

Don't spam rockets or grenades at good pyros. Know that most pyros aren't good, because if they were good, they would be playing a different class.

Know that you can reflect thrown items and Huntsman arrows.

Learn the pyro combo. That is:
- Ignite
- Push into Wall
- Axtinguisher

Give me all your hats and items.

Don't play Dustbowl with 32 players. Gold Rush should maybe be avoided, but it's generally still fun.

Me and Meowth play alot on Nemu's 3 servers and NO HEROES' multitude of servers.

Listen for sentry gun beeps before running around corners, generally when you're a lone scout.

Give me all your hats and items.

Find a site that tells you the best sentry locations. If it's a lesser played map, sometimes random sentry locations are pro due to SURPRISE COCKBAG.

Crouch before rocket/sticky jumping for max air.

Give me all your hats and items.

TF2 Wiki has basic strategy guides.

The easiest class to get started with is probably the Soldier. Don't play on an instant respawn server, and when you die watch what your teammates are doing so you know where to go and what to do. The game is pretty forgiving for new players if you have basic FPS skills.

Laelia Komi Anomalocaris

Oh, and another thing.

Don't ask Meowth for pro tips.




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Oh boy. I haven't installed yet, but do I need to start seeking a server to play on? Have any in your lists that might be a good place to fool around in?

There's a server browser in the game. One thing to keep in mind is that quite a few servers spoof their numbers, so if you see one that claims to have 23/24 players it's possible there are only 6 people in it, or just a few bots. Any server that has a decent number of actual people playing (I find much less than 16 tends to be boring) and reasonable ping should be fine. Also don't play on a 24/7 2fort server.

Laelia Komi Anomalocaris

Thanks to free tf2 week, I got the entirety of my brother's preorder shogun set and got a set of earbuds and a bill's for free.

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Um...

Map types:
cp - Control Point
pl - Payload: Attack / Defense. Blu pushes cart and Red tries to stop them
koth - King of the Hill
ctf - Capture the Flag
dbs - Dodgeball
ph - Prophunt: One team gets disguised as random items and hides while the other team of pyros tries to find them. Using ammo damages yourself.
arena - Don't die

Scout:
Shoot things and stay moving generally. Not very fun to play when on a 32 person server in my opinions, but I stick to payload maps so scoots are almost never played.

Soldier:
ROCKET MAN and I think it's going to be a long long time. Pyros can reflect your rockets with airblast so if they are good watch out. Use your shotgun otherwise. Easy spam class.

Pyro:
If you don't have the Degreaser + Axetinguisher I seriously wouldn't even bother. Airblast is right click and you can extinguish friendlies (please do) and push sticky bombs and players back and reflect Rockets, Pipebombs, and Arrows.

Demoman:
Another generally easy spam class. Pipebombs and Sticky Bombs you can attach to anything just about. Right click to detonate. Watch for Pyros again although it is harder to reflect a pipebomb directly into someone.

Heavy:
Slow moving, highest HP class with a minigun. If you find a Sandvich you can eat it for full health or right click to make a medium medkit that will heal half of yours or someone elses HP. Rightclick spins your gun up. Jump rightclick can keep your movement up a bit.

Engineer:
Support / Defense. Build teleporters to move your team quickly, dispensers for health, ammo, and metal, and sentries. My most played by far only because I have terrible aim.

Medic:
Medic!
Medic!
Medic!
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Rightclick at 100% turns you + someone invincible for 8(?) seconds but you can still be knocked and pushed around.

Sniper:
Obvious

Spy:
Sneak around, disguise as the other team, backstab someone or sap buildings and hope you don't get gibbed in the process.


In options somewhere I suggest you turn on auto reload and the medic auto-call function. Set it wherever.

My server list if you want


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Speaking of gibbing RANDOM CRITS ALL MY HATE. And whatever you do avoid Saigns.de and Nighteam servers.

Druid: Meowth
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Many thanks for all that.

I played for a little bit last night and I was kinda enjoying myself. The server I joined (dunno which) had some people complaining about a bro who was one-shotting people then changing his nick name after he'd kill some bros... so, is hacking a big issue in this game or was that guy really that good?

I did the training tutorial and learned the Soldier a bit... but when I'd jump into the fray I felt like I always died in one shot. Do other players have super weapons or some shit? I noticed some players looked different (with hats and all) so what's the deal with that? I also played around with the Engineer and would build little turrets and dispensers (I think)... but some enemy engineer had mega-turrets that just looked beastly. I also tried medic.

I guess the game was enjoyable. It was much faster than Battlefield (which is my FPS of choice) and I had a hard time getting used to weapon switching and left-clicking to confirm the switch. I'm sure it'll sink in before long.

Hopefully I get the chance to noob around with you bros.

Hacking seems pretty rare, people sometimes complain about it when someone is good but I've never seen any real indication of someone hacking.

Weapons are pretty much balanced - they generally have tradeoffs and few are unambiguously better than the starting weapons. There are quite a few things that can kill you quickly, but if you learn to avoid dangerous spots in maps and don't blunder into sentries, sticky traps, or snipers you should be able to stay alive for a while. Hats are rare drops or expensive crafts (or bought in the store), and they're cosmetic only.

You may not have noticed, but engineer buildings can all be upgraded - after it's built, keep hitting it with your wrench and it will upgrade (200 metal for each level, up to 2 extra levels). The big sentry guns that shoot rockets are level 3. You can also upgrade (and repair) buildings built by other friendly engies. Depending on what your team is doing, getting sentries or teleporters to level 3 is usually the priority.

Medic is a good class if you enjoy it, and it's almost always useful to your team. The main skills to learn are not dying and when to pop your uber. If you're on a chatty server you can find someone (preferably a demo/soldier/heavy) who knows what they're doing and follow them around, then uber when they tell you.

You can change to single button weapon swapping somewhere in the options menu.

Laelia Komi Anomalocaris

I've seen 3 occurrences of hacking in all of my play time. Twice was aimbot headshots and once was someone with a guaranteed fire hack that would shoot when you moused over someone so they never missed. All incredibly obvious and they were promptly kicked or banned. It's more likely this person was playing Sniper and waiting for full charge and body shotting for ~150-170 damage which is rather lame. Or certain Soldier/Demo unlocks have increased damage with side effects that 1shot low HP classes also.

The full power sniper shots is probably why it seemed like you were getting killed quickly. Or you were playing on an EU server or something. As Laelia said you can upgrade all 3 of your buildings. A lvl 3 teleporter helps the team a lot as does a dispenser, even if it is lvl 1. Just get them up. There is a set of 'advanced' options under Multiplayer tab I think that will make it play easier.

Druid: Meowth
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I quit playing when the pyro update came out and just recently picked it up again. I always like ctf so I usually play that, and despite all the hate I love being a pyro, engi's another good one.

If I'm playing pyro I'm pretty much only on D. It's more than just burning spies (cowardly motherfuckers!) but smart ways to help out the D (which is almost always just engi and snipers).

As a soldier, if you're fighting a pyro don't just hold down the fire button, mix up when you shoot. I've killed tons of soldiers in close quarters just because I had no trouble timing their rockets and reflecting them.

Dvergar /
Quisling

I've mostly played engineer but spies are jerks. Medic and snipers are fun to bounce between. I have the most fun with a scout on ctf. Frequently on a lol 24/7 ctf map lol. Least till they fill the doors with heavies so I can't get in and out lol.

I had a lot of fun sniping on classic but never got into it in 2. Heavy was another class I played a ton in classic but just didn't carry over for me.

Medic isn't as fun when you can't poison the other team. This needs to be one of the items in this update. Poisoning a player in tfc would cause them to continually lose health and infect anyone nearby. They would always run to their spawn and camp the pack that respawned there, which meant everyone on the team would get infected as they spawned. Healing from a pack didn't stop the infection, only a medic could do that.

Also the spy's hallucinogen grenades, those were awesome as well.

Dvergar /
Quisling

Don't forget the flying spy!