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[Flame On!] Team Fortress 2: Try it for FREE! Info in the OP

Mandalorian RoosterMandalorian Rooster Registered User regular
edited June 2008 in Games and Technology
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What is Team Fortress 2? It is a team-based first-person shooter that offers nine distinct classes to play as. Rather than simple deathmatch, TF2 requires players to work together to achieve objectives such as point control or objective theft. Work together, or fail.

Unlike many shooters, TF2 streamlines the process, making it very easy for new players to learn the ropes yet remain compelling to the hardened veterans. The game also features a very stylized look that sets it apart from the competition. If the movies The Incredibles and Austin Powers had a violently awesome lovechild, it'd be Team Fortress 2.


How to obtain Team Fortress 2

To purchase Team Fortress 2 for PC, it has several purchasing options. The Orange Box is highly recommended, as it comes with Portal and the entire Half Life 2 series so far. Portal is an incredible and unique puzzle game with its own brand of humor, and you better damn well know what Half Life 2 is. If you're interested in the Xbox 360 version, use this thread. We don't talk about it here.

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Job and jonxp’s servers are (mostly) straight-forward games using official Valve maps. The House of Non-Conformity sticks with custom maps. The Cake Army / Penny Arcade joint server has some interesting characters as well as a mix of both stock and a bunch of close-to-valve-quality customs, and isn't passworded like the rest of the servers. But each server offers hours of glee.

Password for all PA servers: wang

Meet the Team

Team Fortress 2 has nine classes are grouped into three categories. THEY ARE MOSTLY FOR GIVING NEW PLAYERS A HINT AT WHAT EACH CLASS DOES AND HAVE NO IMPACT ON BALANCE AND SUCH.

When in doubt, TF2 Wiki is here with more specifics, including damage stats for all weapons.

Defense
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Meet the Heavy

Role: Suppressive fire, meat shield.
Weapons: Chain gun, Shotgun, Ham-like Fists
Hit Points: 300
Speed: 77% (27% when minigun is revving up)

Special: Can right click to start up his gun. This allows for instant firing without slowdown. His speed dramatically decreases when firing or revving the minigun.

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Meet the Engineer

Role: Base Defense, Transportation
Weapons: Shotgun, Pistol, Wrench
Hit Points: 125
Speed: 100%

Special: Can construct a variety of machines, including sentries guns and ammo/health dispensers. Can upgrade sentries and repair machines with the wrench. Has a teleporter which can allow for instant travel across the map.

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Meet the Demoman

Role: Objective Defense, Group Clearing, Building Destruction
Weapons: Grenade Launcher, Sticky Bomb Launcher, Beer Bottle
Hit Points: 175
Speed: 93%

Special: Sticky bombs are remote bombs that can be detonated at any time with alternate fire. Can detonate a sticky bomb at his feet to launch in the air.
Support
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Role: Healing, Stalemate Breaker
Weapons: Healing Gun, Needle Gun, Bonesaw
Hit Points: 150
Speed: 107%

Special: Healing gun can heal a teammates health, and even boost it up to 150%. If the medic heals long enough, a special "Übercharge" becomes available that makes the Medic and the person being healed invincible for 10 seconds. Flag carriers cannot be made invulnerable, and invulnerable players can neither pick up the flag nor cap a point. The medic also has a passive regeneration effect, allowing them to heal up over time.

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Role: Infiltration, Assassination
Weapons: Knife, Pistol, Electro-Sapper, Spy Kit
Hit Points: 125
Speed: 100%

Special: Can disguise self as a member of the either team and as any class (even a Spy). Can cloak in 10 seconds intervals. When using the knife, if done from behind, is an instant kill. In addition to being undetected by sentries while disguised, has an electro-sapper that shuts down and eventually destroys enemy machines unless an engineer puts it back online. While disguised, the spy does not show signs of taking damage from enemies, but they can still be killed.
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Meet the Sniper

Role: Head-shotting
Weapons: Sniper Rifle, Submachine Gun, Kukri
Hit Points: 125
Speed: 100%

Special: Shots get more powerful the longer you stay zoomed in. Headshots do triple damage.
Offense
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Meet the Scout

Role: Flag Carrier, Point Capper, Distraction, Bonking
Weapons: Shotgun, Pistol, Steel Bat
Hit Points: 125
Speed: 133%

Special: Counts as two people when taking control points. Can double jump and is the fastest class in the game.

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Meet the Soldier

Role: Basic Attack Class
Weapons: Rocket Launcher, Shotgun, Shovel
Hit Points: 200
Speed: 80%

Special: Can "Rocket Jump" by aiming rocket launcher at feet. Rockets do splash damage.

Soldier Guide

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Role: Close Quarters Combat, Ambushing, Building Destruction, Spy Detection
Weapons: Flamethrower, Shotgun, Fire Axe
Hit Points: 175
Speed: 100%

Special: Can set people on fire, which obstructs their vision and deals damage to them over time. Since TF2 has no friendly fire, enemy spies will be revealed by the flames. Only medkits, the medic's medigun, dispensers or water can put the fire out.

Recent Updates!

Unlockable Weapons: The new Medic weapons are already here for you to unlock. The next class to receive attention will be the pyro.

Medic unlockables:
Blutsauger

The Blutsauger is a replacement for the Medic's Needlgun. It is unlocked after completing 10 Medic-specific achievements. This new weapon no longer has the ability to score critical hits against an opponent, instead it will draw health from enemies each time a syringe hits -- making it especially useful as a weapon to retreat away from the fight while staying alive.

Kritzkrieg

The Kritzkrieg is an alternative to the Medic's default medigun. It is unlocked after completing 16 Medic-specific achievements. This new medigun uses its Ubercharge not for invulnerability, but to give its recipient 100% chance to fire critical ordinance, allowing an insightful medic and medic-buddy to rip through the opposition when used strategically.

Ubersaw

The Ubersaw replaces the Medic's default bonesaw with a bloodstained monster. Each successful swipe of the Ubersaw will restore 25% of your UberCharge meter. The trade-off? The Ubersaw swings 20% slower than its more tamer cousin, taking away some of it's killing power.

Pyro unlockables:

Flare Gun

The Flare Gun replaces the shotgun as the secondary weapon. It is unlocked after completing 10 Pyro-specific achievements. A slow firing shot that lights enemies ablaze from across the map. Good for getting those flammable enemies from a distance, but without the shotgun for versatility, water leaves you only with your axe.

Backburner

The Backburner replaces the Flamethrower as the Pyro's primary weapon. It is unlocked after completing 16 Pyro-specific achievements. The Backburner lacks the fancy new Compression Blast ability of the original Flamethrower, but more than makes up for it with the brutal combination of a 100% crit rate when attacking the back of an enemy. If you're a backstabbing enthusiast who isn't playing Spy, this is your gun.

Axtinguisher

Just as shiny, but wrapped in barbed wire, the Axtinguisher replaces the default Fire Axe. It is unlocked after completing 22 Pyro-specific achievements. The Axtinguisher compliments the Pyro's tendency to set fire to things by guaranteeing critical hits on any enemy that is on fire. As a tradeoff, it does half damage against enemies who aren't burning.

New Gametype: Payload!

Gold Rush is an escort style map in which the BLU team will have to accompany a mining cart laden with a large bomb as it rolls over hostile terrain. The RED team's job is to prevent the cart from progressing to the check points of the map. The cart stops when any member of the opposing team gets in range. This idea is based off the ever popular "Hunted" map, but without the human input for the cart (although that mode is also in talks of being added to the game). The map has 3 stages, with the final stage rewarding a successful assault by asploding the entire map into giblets.


Other Fun Stuff

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Screenshots!

You can find them in Program Files\Steam\steamapps\<account name>\team fortress 2\tf\screenshots .
Type bind f5 jpeg into your console to take screenshots as .jpg instead of .tga. Use Paint.NET to convert .tga files to another format.

If screenshots aren't enough, theres always Random Engy's guide to capturing HD movies for TF2

Finding good screenshots is like a game of its own!
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  • iowaiowa Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    i am very happy

    also we srsly need some new screen shots in the OP, those have been there for like months

    iowa on
  • Mandalorian RoosterMandalorian Rooster Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Well... post em! I lost all my screenshots when my computer died. Give me screenshots, and I shall update/add.

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  • polaris314polaris314 Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Woo, new thread. Yes, I understand I've been absent from like the last 5. :P I totally intend to start playing this again, though. I just have no idea when I'll make time.

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  • EndomaticEndomatic Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    thankfully I already don't remember...

    I really like the Demo. Haven't really played him much until like 2 days ago.

    Endomatic on
  • SithDrummerSithDrummer Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    no one ever changes the a/s/c line

    SithDrummer on
  • Drunk_caterpillarDrunk_caterpillar Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I'm just getting into TF2 now and I'm having a fucking blast. So far I dig the Scout and the Sniper. Fun stuff.

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  • iowaiowa Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    this needs to be in it:
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    Shot of flippy's new gimmick:
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    iowa on
  • AsiinaAsiina ... WaterlooRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    It looks like Toxic is trying to see his own hat.

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  • iowaiowa Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I like to imagine that he walked in on his surprise birthday party and he's saying something to the effect of

    "oh shucks, you folks didn't need to do this, look at this you even brought hats"

    iowa on
  • LittleBootsLittleBoots Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Jesuits gets stabbed... really, really hard.
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    iowa wrote: »
    I like to imagine that he walked in on his surprise birthday party and he's saying something to the effect of

    "oh shucks, you folks didn't need to do this, look at this you even brought hats"

    Heavy wouldn't use so many words. More along the lines of "Look at little hat! This is good day!"

    LittleBoots on

    Tofu wrote: Here be Littleboots, destroyer of threads and master of drunkposting.
  • tofutofu Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    buddha, an engineer after my own heart

    tofu on
  • tyrannustyrannus i am not fat Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    FUCK YOU MANDALORE

    I KNEW YOU'D THROW SOMETHING INTO THE OP

    tyrannus on
  • theantipoptheantipop Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Iowa, I am assembling my wreck-your-shit-with-my-axe resume. It will be filed shortly.

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  • Metal Gear Solid 2 DemoMetal Gear Solid 2 Demo Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    This game really isn't fun don't buy it

    PA are elitists

    ground floor

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    SteamID- Enders || SC2 ID - BurningCrome.721 || Blogging - Laputan Machine
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    Orikae! |RS| : why is everyone yelling 'enders is dead go'
    When I say pop it that means pop it
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  • theantipoptheantipop Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    BTW, the image in the first spoiler is being blocked or something.

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  • buddha1227buddha1227 Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
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    This is when me and Tofu were fighting.

    In the end we became best of buddies!

    (Sorry for the desktop my screenshots are TGAs, so deal with it)

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  • GumhovaGumhova Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Could I get an invite to the Steam group?

    I just got a new computer yesterday and I've really been looking forward to playing this.

    Steam ID : iammisterdigger


    Edit : Stupidity

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  • LednehLedneh shinesquawk Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Today I went digging around teamroomba.com for some TF2 comedy

    Instead I think I found the Gate to Hell (irritating audio ahead)

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  • tofutofu Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    buddha1227 wrote: »
    untitled-11.jpg

    This is when me and Tofu were fighting.

    In the end we became best of buddies!

    (Sorry for the desktop my screenshots are TGAs, so deal with it)

    I took a screenshot of me dominating you but it's all black so I have no proof.

    tofu on
  • buddha1227buddha1227 Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    tofu wrote: »
    buddha1227 wrote: »
    untitled-11.jpg

    This is when me and Tofu were fighting.

    In the end we became best of buddies!

    (Sorry for the desktop my screenshots are TGAs, so deal with it)

    I took a screenshot of me dominating you but it's all black so I have no proof.

    Sounds dirty? (Yes)

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  • FishMistFishMist Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    buddha1227 wrote: »

    (Sorry for the desktop my screenshots are TGAs, so deal with it)

    bind F5 screenshotjpeg

    FishMist on
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    How do you take non-TGA screenshots?

    edit: oh, thanks fishmist

    Spoit on
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  • tofutofu Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    buddha1227 wrote: »
    tofu wrote: »
    buddha1227 wrote: »

    This is when me and Tofu were fighting.

    In the end we became best of buddies!

    (Sorry for the desktop my screenshots are TGAs, so deal with it)

    I took a screenshot of me dominating you but it's all black so I have no proof.

    Sounds dirty? (Yes)

    That's because it was.

    (more than one wrench was involved)

    tofu on
  • buddha1227buddha1227 Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    tofu wrote: »
    buddha1227 wrote: »
    tofu wrote: »
    buddha1227 wrote: »

    This is when me and Tofu were fighting.

    In the end we became best of buddies!

    (Sorry for the desktop my screenshots are TGAs, so deal with it)

    I took a screenshot of me dominating you but it's all black so I have no proof.

    Sounds dirty? (Yes)

    That's because it was.

    (more than one wrench was involved)

    My wrench kills were just for you!

    buddha1227 on
  • TyrantCowTyrantCow Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    So, I heard this game had som-KABOOM!

    Edit-
    Also... Cobell, I love you man; and, I should probably expect as much from an 'office clan'...

    But, we destroyed those TRI guys.

    TyrantCow on
  • FishMistFishMist Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    FishMist wrote: »
    buddha1227 wrote: »

    (Sorry for the desktop my screenshots are TGAs, so deal with it)

    bind F5 screenshotjpeg
    Spoit wrote: »
    How do you take non-TGA screenshots?

    edit: oh, thanks fishmist

    No probs - mind you that command is from my memory, pretty sure it is right but I'm at work so I can't test it.

    FishMist on
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • JesuitsJesuits Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    FishMist wrote: »
    FishMist wrote: »
    buddha1227 wrote: »

    (Sorry for the desktop my screenshots are TGAs, so deal with it)

    bind F5 screenshotjpeg
    Spoit wrote: »
    How do you take non-TGA screenshots?

    edit: oh, thanks fishmist

    No probs - mind you that command is from my memory, pretty sure it is right but I'm at work so I can't test it.

    Close - it is actually bind f5 jpeg. screenshotjpeg might also work, but I'm sure the other one does.

    Jesuits on
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  • Fatty-McPhatFatty-McPhat Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    So I'm raping face as a demoman against those TRI guys when my TF2 minimizes. Then dissapears with no error. Then stuff in my sys tray closes. Then I get the Vista shutting down screen. FUCK WINDOWS UPDATE!

    also I think it's bind f5 jpeg

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  • SithDrummerSithDrummer Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    2 console commands:

    jpeg_quality 100 (100% as opposed to the default 90%)
    bind <key_but_without_chevrons> jpeg


    edit: damn it all

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  • blinkeblinke Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    soon(ish) i will have a computer that will run tf2 again. I can't wait.

    In the meantime, those tf2 grief videos made me lol on several occasions.

    blinke on
  • FishMistFishMist Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    2 console commands:

    jpeg_quality 100 (100% as opposed to the default 90%)
    bind <key_but_without_chevrons> jpeg


    edit: damn it all

    ooh, jpeg quality can be increased! I do enjoy a quality jpeg...

    FishMist on
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • FightTestFightTest Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    A few pics lying around..

    I like scouts.
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    Srsly, I like scouts.
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    The combination of pose + the sparkly ring effect gives humor to you.
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    FightTest on
    MOBA DOTA.
  • TyrantCowTyrantCow Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Oh yeah, I'm awesome.

    TyrantCow on
  • jpegjpeg ODIE, YOUR FACE Scenic Illinois FlatlandsRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    FishMist wrote: »
    ooh, jpeg quality can be increased! I do enjoy a quality jpeg...

    :winky:

    I have been really getting into engineer lately. It's already my 4th most played or something.

    jpeg on
    so I just type in this box and it goes on the screen?
  • tofutofu Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    TyrantCow wrote: »
    Oh yeah, I'm awesome.

    But I'm the most awesome.

    tofu on
  • buddha1227buddha1227 Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I'm cooliest, also I'm in fight-test's first picture as the scout. I died ;-D

    buddha1227 on
  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Why is the medic unlockables listed under future updates in the OP?

    Peewi on
  • KagnarosKagnaros Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I'm probably the best medic in all of P-A Land.

    Yeah I said it. Boosh.

    Kagnaros on
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  • SavantSavant Simply Barbaric Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I tried out some spy again, and something unfortunate happened. I was cloaked running up the right tunnel from to C to B on defense and there is an enemy spy and I think a friendly demo duking it out in melee headed my way. As they run by me, I get facestabbed, while cloaked, by the enemy spy.

    I did break my record on spy kills though. Those fools needed to learn to spy check.

    Savant on
  • WangtopiaWangtopia Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    This was in the old thread, but I think it needs to be in the op:
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    Gaming related things:
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