I've only played on PS3, and its been years since I've done that. Not ever having the air blast was probably the single greatest FU PS3 players got from EA.
When I played though I was usually pyro, but I would swap classes all the time. I hated playing medic, and especially soldier and demo. The only people that played those classes were total dbags usually that did NOTHING but spam bomb default spawn points in 2 fort when they weren't doing it from inside them lol. They would also get pissed that anyone on either team even thought about going for the intel.
Anyways to all those that say the best way to counter a pyro is to keep your distance, I wish I had a tally of how many people I killed with my shotty. Sure you get near me, you get enfuego. You run away, or even get cute by going underwater, you get riddled with buckshot.
The axe was useless to me, and from what little I've read about it in the "real version" its still pretty useless.
As much as I'm tempted to get TF2 now that its free, and I could finally play without all the glitches/with airblast, I probably won't for several reasons.
I've never liked playing FPS with mouse and keyboard aside from the original Doom because it was simple enough to do. I don't really even wanna contemplate snipers with 100% pixel accurate headshots just by clicking on my head lol.
not to mention the jar o pee and other wacky weapons/hats etc. that seem to have really gotten in the way of what used to be a pretty straightforward fun game.
Deep down though...I burn to finally be able to blow away those damn sticky bombs. They haunt me <(v_v,<)