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HITSCAN FORTRESS 2 - NO OFF TOPICS

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  • CommunistCowCommunistCow Abstract Metal ThingyRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Robman wrote: »
    Edcrab wrote: »
    Welp, if someone can repeatedly sit around like a wuss and get nothing done and don't absorb that it's ineffectual as a tactic, then I think the feedback is the least of the player's worries... D:

    But sometimes you can be a ninja with the CND

    Sort of like how just a quick glance of a scoot will send half the team chasing after them like retards, a passing spy will send the respawns on a wild goose chase. The spy might not kill anything, but it will reduce the number of angry burly mans standing on the point by 1/2.

    You got beat'd hard.

    CommunistCow on
    No, I am not really communist. Yes, it is weird that I use this name.
  • MarsMars Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Edcrab know what's up.

    The C&D fits my spy-style so perfectly it takes me from an average .4 K:D ratio to a 1+ K:D ratio. I'm no great spy, I admit, but I'm good enough to be an asset for my team. Just because you can be terrible with the C&D doesn't mean you have to be terrible with it.

    Edit: fuckin' smilies

    Mars on
  • NuzakNuzak Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    kill to smile ratio

    Nuzak on
  • mrflippymrflippy Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    tofu wrote: »
    xzzy wrote: »
    Man, I don't even know what the cloak and dagger does!

    It's an invisibility watch that only drains when you move, and recharges when you stand still.
    Ah. That seems useful in the right situations.

    In general it promotes bad habits.. spies will just sit around in complete safety, using up a team slot but not helping in the slightest. You really have to use it like the regular cloak to remain useful.. which is hard, because running over ammo doesn't replenish it.

    You can make some pretty epic getaways with it, however.
    A bad spy is a bad spy, doesn't matter which watch he uses.

    I do way better with the regular watch or Cloak and Dagger than I do with the Dead Ringer. It doesn't really fit my play style I don't think.

    mrflippy on
  • EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I have an excellent kill to smile ratio, especially when Nuzak makes up some of the kills

    Edcrab on
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  • MarsMars Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Like a true spy, I made sure to eradicate all happiness in my post.

    Mars on
  • DaebunzDaebunz Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Has anyone else had their favorite servers list disappear, but only while in game? If I set it to show map list or open up steam outside of the game and check my servers they all appear fine, but in game with map list disabled they do not.

    Tried just re-adding them and that doesn't change anything. Weird

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  • mrflippymrflippy Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Has anyone else had their favorite servers list disappear, but only while in game? If I set it to show map list or open up steam outside of the game and check my servers they all appear fine, but in game with map list disabled they do not.

    Tried just re-adding them and that doesn't change anything. Weird

    That happened to me months ago, but it's been fine recently.

    mrflippy on
  • NuzakNuzak Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Edcrab wrote: »
    I have an excellent kill to smile ratio, especially when Nuzak makes up some of the kills

    yeah, well how about i show you my punch to your face ratio, tough guy

    what will you do then

    Nuzak on
  • mrflippymrflippy Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Nuzak wrote: »
    Edcrab wrote: »
    I have an excellent kill to smile ratio, especially when Nuzak makes up some of the kills

    yeah, well how about i show you my punch to your face ratio, tough guy

    what will you do then

    Maybe we trained him wrong, as a joke.

    He's quite proficient in "His Face to Your Fist" style.

    mrflippy on
  • Gorilla SaladGorilla Salad Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Hmm. So either Jon or Jobs does not appear on my favorite server list when I start up TF2.

    Anyone know a way to fix this?

    Add them to your favorite server list? Duh. ;-)
    I did. They both would appear, but only one at a time. After I came in here and bitched about it, they both showed up. So apparently bitching solves TF2's problems.

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  • chrono_travellerchrono_traveller Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Hmm. So either Jon or Jobs does not appear on my favorite server list when I start up TF2.

    Anyone know a way to fix this?

    Add them to your favorite server list? Duh. ;-)
    I did. They both would appear, but only one at a time. After I came in here and bitched about it, they both showed up. So apparently bitching solves TF2's problems.

    We like to keep this kind of information on the down-low so to say. Otherwise people might get ideas.

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    The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. ~ Terry Pratchett
  • Roland_tHTGRoland_tHTG Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Nuzak wrote: »
    No friendly fire so that doesn't work Nuzak

    a true man finds ways around friendly fire, or witness protection, or battered medic's protection homes

    like verbal abuse

    see: ginger mijango

    I want to turn FF on so bad every time a ctf map comes up.

    Roland_tHTG on
  • Roland_tHTGRoland_tHTG Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Vivixenne wrote: »
    Healing soldiers and demos on the way to the front is pretty much standard practice, because they damage themselves to travel up quicker than the rest (minus scouts) do.

    This also means though that on the rest of the trek to the point, you should be able to over-heal everyone else as well so that by the time THEY get to the point, they're topped up and you can babysit the people who've gotten there first and have already taken some hits.


    Scoots can't keep up with an overhealed soldier or demo until they outpace the heal beam unless it's a map with a low ceiling.

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  • mrflippymrflippy Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I was killed by a friendly sentry gun the other night.

    I was a spy disguised (as my own team I think) so not sure whether that makes any difference.

    mrflippy on
  • iowaiowa Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    mrflippy wrote: »
    I was killed by a friendly sentry gun the other night.

    I was a spy disguised (as my own team I think) so not sure whether that makes any difference.

    i think we found out that it can happen if the rockets are in mid air when the sentry dies, they can damage and kill you.

    iowa on
  • DaebunzDaebunz Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    mrflippy wrote: »
    I was killed by a friendly sentry gun the other night.

    I was a spy disguised (as my own team I think) so not sure whether that makes any difference.

    I think the rockets don't care what team your on. Unless I'm talking out of my ass.

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  • ebotasticebotastic Going Gonzo In People's HeartsRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Hmm. So either Jon or Jobs does not appear on my favorite server list when I start up TF2.

    Anyone know a way to fix this?

    Add them to your favorite server list? Duh. ;-)
    I did. They both would appear, but only one at a time. After I came in here and bitched about it, they both showed up. So apparently bitching solves TF2's problems.

    I get that sometimes but I just attribute it to map changes.

    ebotastic on
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  • guarguar Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Boo, slot reservation.

    guar on
  • CommunistCowCommunistCow Abstract Metal ThingyRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Nuzak wrote: »
    No friendly fire so that doesn't work Nuzak

    a true man finds ways around friendly fire, or witness protection, or battered medic's protection homes

    like verbal abuse

    see: ginger mijango

    I want to turn FF on so bad every time a ctf map comes up.

    I wish you guys would turn on FF just once to see how well those pyros spy checking everything and flailing fire wildly as they walk down corrodors.

    CommunistCow on
    No, I am not really communist. Yes, it is weird that I use this name.
  • npc.EXEnpc.EXE Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    UEAKCrash wrote: »
    Oh god, I just remember suddenly being lit on fire and having no idea where it came from.

    8-)
    UEAKCrash wrote: »
    Oh god I delved into the steam forums for like 5 minutes and I feel like I have lost brain power.

    Sure that's not the captain?


    So yeah, the C&D can be rightly annoying let me tell you. Granary last night this one god damn spy! AGGGGGGHHHHHH. Real men use their fists or shovels! :x

    npc.EXE on
  • mrflippymrflippy Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Nuzak wrote: »
    No friendly fire so that doesn't work Nuzak

    a true man finds ways around friendly fire, or witness protection, or battered medic's protection homes

    like verbal abuse

    see: ginger mijango

    I want to turn FF on so bad every time a ctf map comes up.

    I wish you guys would turn on FF just once to see how well those pyros spy checking everything and flailing fire wildly as they walk down corrodors.

    I don't think that's a complete sentence.

    My brain keeps trying to parse it as one but it's not working.

    mrflippy on
  • FatsFats Corvallis, ORRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Yeah I have no idea what that says. Fire doesn't burn your teammates with FF on, anyway.

    Fats on
  • UEAKCrashUEAKCrash heh Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    npc.EXE wrote: »
    UEAKCrash wrote: »
    Oh god, I just remember suddenly being lit on fire and having no idea where it came from.

    8-)
    UEAKCrash wrote: »
    Oh god I delved into the steam forums for like 5 minutes and I feel like I have lost brain power.

    Sure that's not the captain?

    The steam forums did more damage than the cap'n could ever do.

    UEAKCrash on
  • DeMoNDeMoN twitch.tv/toxic_cizzle Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Dammit I keep trying to make sense of it and then my head hurts

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Casbah is the best medic a heavy could ask for.

    I love him so much I almost want to give him a bite of my tasty sandvich

    Buttcleft on
  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Nuzak wrote: »
    No friendly fire so that doesn't work Nuzak

    a true man finds ways around friendly fire, or witness protection, or battered medic's protection homes

    like verbal abuse

    see: ginger mijango

    I want to turn FF on so bad every time a ctf map comes up.

    I wish you guys would turn on FF just once to see how well those pyros spy checking everything and flailing fire wildly as they walk down corrodors.
    The flamethrower doesn't work on teammates even with friendly fire on.

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  • guarguar Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    Casbah is the best medic a heavy could ask for.

    I love him so much I almost want to give him a bite of my tasty sandvich

    I peed on it. :3

    guar on
  • Mike DangerMike Danger "Diane..." a place both wonderful and strangeRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    So D&D fiddling, organizing a Facebook event thing, or Tee Eff Two?

    (tuftoo won)

    Mike Danger on
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  • Ninja Snarl PNinja Snarl P My helmet is my burden. Ninja Snarl: Gone, but not forgotten.Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I think the C&D is fantastic as long as the user is creative and not too timid. I've stabbed a person or two, run off while cloaked, and literally just squatted down just to the side of the middle of a platform. An engy and a sniper both came up looking for me, the engy bumped into the side of me, and both just kept running on by. Hopping up on boxes or crates, waiting on edges, standing in seemingly obvious corners, they all are incredibly effective.

    In fact, one db heights game I hid in a corner and an engy kept coming and building a dispenser literally at my feet. Ironically, he was trying to hide the dispenser in the same corner I was hiding in. Four different times he came up, built the dispenser, ran off, I sapped it and cloaked, and then he'd come back and build it again. I didn't get discovered until a pyro actually saw me decloak and sap the dispenser. By that time, I was laughing so hard at the engy that I really didn't care.

    Too bad no amount of sneaky cloaking makes up for the random pyro reveals and backstabs which somehow don't kill anybody. I honestly can't play the class for more than 15-20 minutes before I lose all patience and switch to something immediately effective like a Demoman.

    Ninja Snarl P on
  • Josiah_9Josiah_9 Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    So I had fun tonight even though Tyrannus called me stupid for getting killed by the slow train on freight. It was pretty dumb.

    Josiah_9 on
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  • Mike DangerMike Danger "Diane..." a place both wonderful and strangeRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Basically all of my spy achievements have been while using the Cloak and Dagger. It takes a little while to get used to the idea of "ok, now stop dead in the midst of your enemy's base and WAIT", but once you do, the havoc can be delicious.

    Mike Danger on
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  • tyrannustyrannus i am not fat Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Josiah_9 wrote: »
    So I had fun tonight even though Tyrannus called me stupid for getting killed by the slow train on freight. It was pretty dumb.

    trains are pretty evil

    tyrannus on
  • VivixenneVivixenne Remember your training, and we'll get through this just fine. Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I've learned not to cut it too close with the train on a 300+ ping

    Vivixenne on
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  • SuMa.LustreSuMa.Lustre Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    so for a short period I can't aim with the scatter, like retarded literally

    so I am trying the FAN

    it is rather easier

    and lets you autowin scouts, basically

    no mass killage though

    can't wait until I get good with the scatter again

    SuMa.Lustre on
  • FugaFuga Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    That freight round was awesome.

    Fuga on
  • tyrannustyrannus i am not fat Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Fuga wrote: »
    That freight round was awesome.

    i ubered you and yelled at you and it was great

    tyrannus on
  • ZekZek Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I think the C&D is fantastic as long as the user is creative and not too timid. I've stabbed a person or two, run off while cloaked, and literally just squatted down just to the side of the middle of a platform. An engy and a sniper both came up looking for me, the engy bumped into the side of me, and both just kept running on by. Hopping up on boxes or crates, waiting on edges, standing in seemingly obvious corners, they all are incredibly effective.

    In fact, one db heights game I hid in a corner and an engy kept coming and building a dispenser literally at my feet. Ironically, he was trying to hide the dispenser in the same corner I was hiding in. Four different times he came up, built the dispenser, ran off, I sapped it and cloaked, and then he'd come back and build it again. I didn't get discovered until a pyro actually saw me decloak and sap the dispenser. By that time, I was laughing so hard at the engy that I really didn't care.

    Too bad no amount of sneaky cloaking makes up for the random pyro reveals and backstabs which somehow don't kill anybody. I honestly can't play the class for more than 15-20 minutes before I lose all patience and switch to something immediately effective like a Demoman.

    Try the DR. None of that frustrating random stuff - I kill people with my gun half the time and if a Pyro catches you just run back to your buddies and start over. You just have to forget about the standard Spy infiltration routine and play like an ambush class near the front lines.

    Zek on
  • IgelIgel Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    Casbah is the best medic a heavy could ask for.

    I love him so much I almost want to give him a bite of my tasty sandvich

    It was a pleasure to serve. Somewhere in the OCD part of my head there was an urge to kritz the soldier when he showed up.

    But I could not abandon my Heavy friend! (I like a good kritzed heavy anyway) Much <3.

    Igel on
  • iowaiowa Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Fuga wrote: »
    That freight round was awesome.

    yep. a lot of people would have seen the teams and said welp but thanks to our medics we won.

    iowa on
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