Well it's amazingly well balanced, has fantastic art design and the character classes have FAR more personality than any other FPS ever; in fact, they have more personality than almost any other game, period. It's hilarious good fun, it's being constantly updated (the game is roughly twice as large as it was when it was released), it's extremely easy to design maps for and it has a reasonably strong competative circuit. I'd consider it the perfect team-based FPS.
So what's so great about tf2?
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Well thanks for all the replies. Took a while reading them :/
Things that keep cropping up are
Art style - Honestly, it's one of the things that I most dislike about this game. Try as I might, I just can't force myself to like it. Or the music.
Balance - I tried a few classes. I stand by the idea that they're not equally balnced for some maps.
Teamwork - One of the main reasons I got the game was because of how team orientated it was.
Humour - I watched the 'meet the' videos before I bought the game and found them funny especially the spy.
For what it's worth I've read/watched quite a few reviews of this game. I play alot of CSS and I'm actually pretty decent at this game. Yeah I'm getting owned but I get quite a few kills as well.
I think this post was just my little rant at being disappointed. I just don't think it lived up to the reviews. For me anyway.
Things that keep cropping up are
Art style - Honestly, it's one of the things that I most dislike about this game. Try as I might, I just can't force myself to like it. Or the music.
Balance - I tried a few classes. I stand by the idea that they're not equally balnced for some maps.
Teamwork - One of the main reasons I got the game was because of how team orientated it was.
Humour - I watched the 'meet the' videos before I bought the game and found them funny especially the spy.
For what it's worth I've read/watched quite a few reviews of this game. I play alot of CSS and I'm actually pretty decent at this game. Yeah I'm getting owned but I get quite a few kills as well.
I think this post was just my little rant at being disappointed. I just don't think it lived up to the reviews. For me anyway.
I like the survivability of it. If you play well you won't get killed by a random grenade thrown 3 houses over by some spammer ( CoD, I'm looking at you), you dont get blinded by 300 flash bangs when you step out of spawn ( CS that's you), and more importantly every weapon has its weakness. When someone kills me i can say "Hey, he was better than me that time" not "goddamn cheap weapons goddamn mother!$@%@$". Even if it is crits, there's only a base 2% chance to crit unless they do a lot of damage and get a lot of kills, then it goes up to 8% and they deserve that crit.
Also i like to play as the scout, so people find it hard to land crits on me.
one of the few games where i let out a evil laugh every time i get a nice kill streak.
Also i like to play as the scout, so people find it hard to land crits on me.
one of the few games where i let out a evil laugh every time i get a nice kill streak.
If you don't see after a few games, you never will. Move on to the next game and hope for better luck.
True, some maps are ment for other classes, depends on the objective and shape of map. But you still need each class for teamwork. As for the artstyle, well its your preference. Personally, I like it.Aws said:
AWAR said:
So does your attitude. It's one thing to say you dislike or don't like something, but you can't even give a single point to justify it? It speaks volumes about your character, and I'd say the game is better off without your illiterate ass, enjoy your Halo.
TF2 was the first game that made me upgrade my computer,it cost $200 Australian dollars.
Here's some tips to find TF2 fun.
1.DO NOT PLAY ON X-BOX, what you we're playing TF2 on the x-box?Stop failing and buy it on the PC
2.Don't play shite maps. Most payload and Capture the Flag maps are bad. The exception is Badwater, 2Fort has got to be one of the worst maps ever, Hoodoo is horrible as well.
3.Don't play on bad server rules. No crit servers aren't that bad. But you need to stay clear of 32man instaspawn servers, instaspawn needs to be avoided at all costs, and 32man makes it worse.
4.Find your favorite classes, try picking a class no-one else on your team is playing, if after 10 minutes you don't like him pick another class. The cool part about TF2 is every time you die you can swap classes
Here's some tips to find TF2 fun.
1.DO NOT PLAY ON X-BOX, what you we're playing TF2 on the x-box?Stop failing and buy it on the PC
2.Don't play shite maps. Most payload and Capture the Flag maps are bad. The exception is Badwater, 2Fort has got to be one of the worst maps ever, Hoodoo is horrible as well.
3.Don't play on bad server rules. No crit servers aren't that bad. But you need to stay clear of 32man instaspawn servers, instaspawn needs to be avoided at all costs, and 32man makes it worse.
4.Find your favorite classes, try picking a class no-one else on your team is playing, if after 10 minutes you don't like him pick another class. The cool part about TF2 is every time you die you can swap classes
first off, classes are not balanced, and if you think so then you are playing the wrong people.
Spy, pyro, sniper, heavy, and enji pale in comparison to the scout, soldier, demoman and medic.
The medic is obviously the most important class, if you think otherwise, you are playing on bad servers. The demoman is the most potentially versatile, pushing on the extremes of very strong pushes cause of his enormous damage output and very versatile weapon(stickies). And very importantly, the ability to sticky jump into combat is fairly important, but still not as versatile as a rocket jump, demo has to stay more dedicated to combat if he sticky jumps in.
Soldier is the next class that pushes on in versatility, able to attack the classes and more importantly defend the medic. with more consistent damage output than demo, he is the true all around guy pushing no extremes. The quick and easy rocket jumps of soldier allow him the abilty to push and retreat fairly quickly.
Scout, is the another very versatile class, with very high damage output, with good aim, scouts are scary, and i mean scary. can two shot all standard classes and has the speed to get to health. with the abilty to dodge spam, they are great at both covering flanks and strong pushes and picks.
The game is far from balanced, and the community is garbage going for tons of stalemate maps like any payload, 2fort, and dustbowl. With faster respawns and all that garbage.
There are literally like 5 good servers in the entire US out of hundreds.
Spy, pyro, sniper, heavy, and enji pale in comparison to the scout, soldier, demoman and medic.
The medic is obviously the most important class, if you think otherwise, you are playing on bad servers. The demoman is the most potentially versatile, pushing on the extremes of very strong pushes cause of his enormous damage output and very versatile weapon(stickies). And very importantly, the ability to sticky jump into combat is fairly important, but still not as versatile as a rocket jump, demo has to stay more dedicated to combat if he sticky jumps in.
Soldier is the next class that pushes on in versatility, able to attack the classes and more importantly defend the medic. with more consistent damage output than demo, he is the true all around guy pushing no extremes. The quick and easy rocket jumps of soldier allow him the abilty to push and retreat fairly quickly.
Scout, is the another very versatile class, with very high damage output, with good aim, scouts are scary, and i mean scary. can two shot all standard classes and has the speed to get to health. with the abilty to dodge spam, they are great at both covering flanks and strong pushes and picks.
The game is far from balanced, and the community is garbage going for tons of stalemate maps like any payload, 2fort, and dustbowl. With faster respawns and all that garbage.
There are literally like 5 good servers in the entire US out of hundreds.
I do my best. And I didn't know you had this game.ChromeAlchemist said:I see what you did there. On both counts.Aura Guardian said:
Cheeky man.
Aye. I abused it back in the day too, but I haven't played in a while. Wouldn't mind starting again though.Aura Guardian said:I do my best. And I didn't know you had this game.ChromeAlchemist said:I see what you did there. On both counts.Aura Guardian said:
Cheeky man.
I'm on a lot ever since I got it for $3ChromeAlchemist said:Aye. I abused it back in the day too, but I haven't played in a while. Wouldn't mind starting again though.Aura Guardian said:I do my best. And I didn't know you had this game.ChromeAlchemist said:I see what you did there. On both counts.Aura Guardian said:
Cheeky man.
i'm with this guy, plus it's a game that you can loose massive amounts of time in without regret, i played on one map that was just beta at the moment and it was the most fun ever, literaly the game went nowhere once my team took the tower but we had 4 sentries up there, pyros, heavies, snipers, medics and demomen with the other classes thrown in ocasionaly and we had huge fun just killing eachother, i remember quiting at 2 in the morning cause i fewlt like my eyes were going to drop out, and i was still having fun, that's what's so awesome about itspeidel28 said:
i have numbered your points for ease.Jazzyluv2 said:
1. not if you play them right, the spy, sniper, heavy, pyro and enji are more like niche classes if you ask me, don't attack with the enginier, set up a sentry to deffend and support your teammates with dispensers and teleports, don't jump in with the sniper, find somwhere high up and out of the way and sinpe from there, if not get behind some teammates or in an out of the way place and snipe, learn to make use of the cloaking device and disguises as the spy and kill enjiiers before you sap their stuff, with the heavy keep your minigun spooled up and get a medic if possible, don't try to move to fast, with the pyro try to find a way round to the side or back of the enemy if you can't then change class
2. the medic sucks in combat and can't hold his own, take out one of the pairing and the other goes down pretty quickly. the demoman has no direct damage and his sitckies can be blow away by the pyros compression blast, bad timing leaves him vunerable and he needs other classes to suport him
3. there's no denying that the soldier is the everyman, he's mid-speed, mid-damage and mid-health, and is thus beaten by the more spesialized classes, also the rocket jump isn't the easist to pull off and i've seen many people on a server try and fail to do one multiple times.
4. the scout is fast but has low health, he is beaten by other scouts and a few good shots for the other team should see him gone before long.
I know of a couple...Jazzyluv2 said:
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