TF2 ethnography help!

[gilthanan]

1. What is your age? 18
2. what is your gender? Male
3. How long have you been playing TF2? Since a month before it came out, on and off.
4. As a player, what are some of the ways you interact with fellow TF2 players? In game VOIP and chat, some or friends I know personally.
5. Is there certain "lingo" that is appropriate for game play? To a degree, you need to know what a heavy-med combo is for example.
6. What are some of the "pet peeves" you possess when playing this game? People who don't know how to defend points.
7. Are there certain people whom make you angry, an example would be a "noob"? Annoying people who abuse VOIP too much, or find it funny to make racist jokes.
8. What is your favorite character to play and what is your least favorite character to be? Soldier favorite, spy least favorite.
9. How are you alike with your favorite and least favorite character? I like things that blow up, I'm not stealthy.
10. What is your favorite mode and least favorite, an example would be Prophunt, or Capture the flag? Capture the flag is best, Push the Cart the least.
11. What are some tactics you use in the game to win? Team work, based on the name who'd of figured.

 

[T-Bone24]

Okay here is the deal, I am doing an ethnography, which is a 7-14 page report on another culture, I choice the interactive video gaming culture of Team Fortress 2. I have several questions and if you could answer them, that would be wonderful, thank you all so much!!

1. What is your age? 15
2. what is your gender? Male
3. How long have you been playing TF2? At least once a week since launch
4. As a player, what are some of the ways you interact with fellow TF2 players? Microphone, forums
5. Is there certain "lingo" that is appropriate for game play? Typical gaming lingo, camping, owned etc
6. What are some of the "pet peeves" you possess when playing this game? Bloody SPIES
7. Are there certain people whom make you angry, an example would be a "noob"? People who play music, that is all
8. What is your favorite character to play and what is your least favorite character to be? Favourite - Pyro/Sniper Least favourite - Heavy
9. How are you alike with your favorite and least favorite character? I am patient with sniper, aggressive with Pyro and over-confident with Heavy
10. What is your favorite mode and least favorite, an example would be Prophunt, or Capture the flag? 2-way capture point
11. What are some tactics you use in the game to win? Snipe, engineer reinforcement

Thank you for taking the time to do this and if you have anything else to add that I missed, feel free to add it, thank you!

EDIT: Whoops, missed a couple questions.

 

[Gondito]

1. 15
2. male
3. almost since it's release
4. With a mic, when not using a mic there is text chat, sometimes people use taunts in humorous ways
5. dont be a whiny 12 year old *****.
6. campers must die, thankfully they arent very frequent in tf2 thanks to good level design
7. anyone who is better than me, and anyone who camps.
8. favorite: Pyro Least favorite: soldier
9. Favorite: i am a pyro aswell. least favorite: we both like explosions
10. favorite: payload least favorite: arena
11. flanking, ambushing, herding players into a group to flame them effectively. I rarely use the flare gun.

 

[dark_taint92]

1. What is your age? 17
2. What is your gender? Male
3. How long have you been playing TF2? started on xbox for 6 months then c for 3 months
4. As a player, what are some of the ways you interact with fellow TF2 players? when im playin its usually with a friend so we just have general chit chat on the server and i do use it to plan
5. Is there certain "lingo" that is appropriate for game play? english really
6. What are some of the "pet peeves" you possess when playing this game? pyros in general i hate them and spys
7. Are there certain people whom make you angry, an example would be a "noob"?w+m1 pyros and crap team spys who run round looking for random kills
8. What is your favorite character to play and what is your least favorite character to be? My favorite is the heavy or Medic, and my least is the Pyro.
9. How are you alike with your favorite and least favorite character? im rather large not to clever and have a funy accent ?.
10. What is your favorite mode and least favorite, an example would be Prophunt, or Capture the flag?fav is cp and least fav is payload races
11. What are some tactics you use in the game to win? erm i normally medic so i run around ubering people for fun and uber 2 heavys at once is always fun

 

[LornMind]

1. What is your age? Almost 19.

2. what is your gender? Male

3. How long have you been playing TF2? Bout a year.

4. As a player, what are some of the ways you interact with fellow TF2 players? Um, I'm in an Xbox party most of the time because it's usually all my friends on one team and everyone else on the other.

5. Is there certain "lingo" that is appropriate for game play? Nope. We dick around a lot and yell shit like "SPAH SAPPIN' MAH SENTRY" though. Standard TF2 memes, you know?

6. What are some of the "pet peeves" you possess when playing this game? Crit rawkets. Skywalking. Bullshit.

7. Are there certain people whom make you angry, an example would be a "noob"? Anyone that has to default to Soldier/Medic combos because they can't break a defense with anything else.

8. What is your favorite character to play and what is your least favorite character to be? Favorite is Demoman. I don't have a least favorite to USE but I would have to say I dislike on a basis of powers and balance the Soldier.

9. How are you alike with your favorite and least favorite character? I'm not anything at all like the Demoman. I'm not black (I am Latino though), I'm not a drunk, all I know is I like to blow shit up. Ok, so maybe we are alike on a fundamental level. I don't see myself as being anything like the Soldier in terms of personality.

10. What is your favorite mode and least favorite, an example would be Prophunt, or Capture the flag? Um...Area Capture. It's fun and frantic. I don't care much for CTF, but it's bearable.

11. What are some tactics you use in the game to win? Actually know how to use the grenade launcher. Take advantage of stickies for indirect fire. Snipe judiciously, spy judiciously. Engie when appropriate. Tank when necessary. If all else fails, coordinate Medics, Demos, Heavy's and Spies to launch a three-pronged attack on the enemies defenses.

 

[Dr. Gorgenflex]

1. 15
2. Male
3. Since release
4. Mic, text, steam
5. With all gaming culture there is a variation of 1337 speak, which is most similar to that used on CSS
6. Camping, spies, mic spamming
7. noobs, trolls, mic spammers, campers
8. Favorite is soldier, least is engineer
9. I am similar to the soldier because I see war in a similar view as him. I am similar to the engineer because I like science, and believe it is the future.
10. Favorite is king of the hill, least favorite is prop hunt.
11. Kill the other team and complete objective.

 

[Lordmarkus]

Great thread. Ahem...

1. 16
2. Male
3. Since 12th August 2008
4. Conversing politly and vulgurly with english.
5. I guess speaking ordinary english with exceptions of some in-game slang like "über" and "zap"
6. The Force-of-Nature are overpowered and the Huntsman has little too big hitbox. The rest are balanced.
7. With the exception of pre-teen players that wails in VOIP, nothing makes me particular angry, only peacefull.
8. Really hard for me to say but counting playtime it is Spy and Engineer at top and Medic and Demoman at bottom.
9. Well, I'm considering to become an enginner in the future...
10. Payload are tons of fun. CTF are fun but I don't play it so much so I guess I have to pick that as my least favourite.
11. Run/Sneak n' Gun/Stab

Hopefully I've been at help and good luck with your ethnography (whatever the hell that might be...)

 

[Shynobee]

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1. 17

2. Male

3. 1 year

4. Usually I don't talk to people. I communicate any message via sniper bullet to the head region.

5. Well sure, online, most everyone expects to hear the one racist moron who insults after ever kill, or gets pissed when he dies, but most people ignore and mute said individual. He's basically the gaming version of a troll, if you acknowledge it, it wins.

6. Constantly getting spy checked. This only bothers me because in the video, "meet the spy" we see that there are consequences for spy checking your own teammates, (ie: they die) but in game, there is no friendly fire. So, that kinda annoys me.

7. Yes, when I see a medic rush headfirst into a fire fight, when he could be doing something useful, like healing the heavy right next to him.

8. Ooh, toughie. My favorite is probably the medic. And my least favorite would be the soldier.

9. Well, I like shooting pointy objects like the medic does, and he also has the best catchphrases of any character. As for the soldier, not at all. He's unintelligent, crazy, and has no problem with shooting himself.

10. Capture the flag at 2Fort.

11. Finding a Heavy to heal while I'm a medic, or sneaking into their base as a spy and messing with the engineers.

 

[Handofpwn]

1. 18
2. rather not say
3. 2 ish months
4. headset
5. whatever works
6. the damn spies
7. not really.
8. fav = pyro least = demo
9. couldnt tell you
10. CP on warpath elite
11. Spy Cap, W+M1 pyro, flare gun.

 

[Erlec]

1. 19
2. Gent
3. around 1 and a half years
4. Voice chat, team work and typing
5. There is always some lingo that fits "pocket" etc, but it depends on the level you are playing on. If you are completly new, there are mostly very few who will use special words.
6. People just trying to go alone and kill eachother, instead of working together as team "TEEM IS GOOD!" Also to people who build places to otherwise very hard reach places (wall jumping, dispenser jumping, etc)
7. It very much depends, people who ask how to play isn't that bad as the people who call them idiots and yell at them. When that happens I feel like switching teams just to backstab them.
8. Spy (since it's just so much fun backstabbing/sapping), Engineer (Credit to team!) and Medic (I am des ubermench) I like being useful to people. Least favorite is scout (due to serverlag as well as my ability to completely miss when snap shooting)
9. Engineer and medic since I like being helpful and getting thanks from teammates, as well as spy since I like being able to turn the fight against my enemy in a few actions
10. My most favorite is is the cart maps as you can predict how the enemy will most likely move in a more exact manner in those fights. My least favorite is ctf_fort as it always ends in everybody going around in circles killing eachother.
11. Building forward bases for my team, Sap/backstab engineers, try to tell my teammates where the enemy are/going.

It's very hard to write tactics accurate as much of the tactics will often be done without me thinking about it much.

 

[Cacti Pants]

Okay here is the deal, I am doing an ethnography, which is a 7-14 page report on another culture, I choice the interactive video gaming culture of Team Fortress 2. I have several questions and if you could answer them, that would be wonderful, thank you all so much!!

1. What is your age?
2. what is your gender?
3. How long have you been playing TF2?
4. As a player, what are some of the ways you interact with fellow TF2 players?
5. Is there certain "lingo" that is appropriate for game play?
6. What are some of the "pet peeves" you possess when playing this game?
7. Are there certain people whom make you angry, an example would be a "noob"?
8. What is your favorite character to play and what is your least favorite character to be?
9. How are you alike with your favorite and least favorite character?
10. What is your favorite mode and least favorite, an example would be Prophunt, or Capture the flag?
11. What are some tactics you use in the game to win?

Thank you for taking the time to do this and if you have anything else to add that I missed, feel free to add it, thank you!

1. 13
2. Male
3. Since August.
4. Chatbox.
5. Um, don't think so.
6. Spawn kills, man oh man.
7. Ugh, people who are good at the game. Damn them.
8. Fave is Medic, least is Heavy.
9. I wouldn't say I am, sorry.
10. CTF is good fun, and I like KOTH. I'm not a huge fan of CP or Arena, though.
11. UMM, when I'm a Medic I usually retreat whenever I lose more than 50dmg.

Hope I helped

 

[zacaron]

1. What is your age?
2. what is your gender?
3. How long have you been playing TF2?
4. As a player, what are some of the ways you interact with fellow TF2 players?
5. Is there certain "lingo" that is appropriate for game play?
6. What are some of the "pet peeves" you possess when playing this game?
7. Are there certain people whom make you angry, an example would be a "noob"?
8. What is your favorite character to play and what is your least favorite character to be?
9. How are you alike with your favorite and least favorite character?
10. What is your favorite mode and least favorite, an example would be Prophunt, or Capture the flag?
11. What are some tactics you use in the game to win?

1. 15
2. male
3. about 2 years
4. steam chat and ingame mic
5. not perticularly
6. people that have obsene sprays and dont know what the fuck to do
7. people with really squeeky voices that insist on talking as much as physicly possible before I can reach the mute butten
8. most is the engineer or sniper least is spy or demo
9. me and the engineer both like to invent things and me and the sniper both like to be efficient
10. CTF or War with the five bases and you have to capture each in turn
11. find a good chokepoint and build a sentry on it or build lv1 sentrys in random place to ambush someone

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

1. 15
2. Male
3. Roughly a year.
4. Voice chat, joining clans
5. Not exactly, maybe a few game-specific phrases.
6. Excessive mic spam really bothers me
7. People who complain that everyone is under their skill level and call people noobs etc
8. My favourite is either sniper or Demo, my least favourite is probably engineer
9. I'm not.
10. My favourite is probably CTF and my least favourite is Arena
11. Err...too many to list I guess.

 

[jboking]

1. 19
2. male
3. about a year on both the PS3 and PC
4. Voice chat and Clans
5. Nothing too specific to the game, except when people start yelling strategies and telling everyone where a spy has been sited running around.
6. Camping Pyros and rounds that have no teamwork in them.
7. Are there certain people whom make you angry, an example would be a "noob"?
8. Favorite: Scout Least Favorite: Demoman
9. Scout - I occasionally enjoy some smack talk. Demoman - we curse a lot
10. Control point is pretty fun, and I don't really care for payload.
11. If we have to hold down a location, Engy/pyro combo's(stay close together damn it!) - If my team is making a charge then I will be a scout,drink some bonk and run around in front of the team occasionally firing on the opponent to distract them for a bit while letting the heavy hitters take out the ones I'm distracting from behind.

 

[DeathArtist]

1. 16
2. M
3. 1.5 yrs
4. chatbox, voice, ventrilo
5. point, cap, sticky, crits, uber, facestab, CEVO, 2-shot, pocket medic, bouncing/juggling, theres more..
6. professional whiners, mic spammers, little kids (tied in w/ mic spam and whining), afk people, self-proclaimed haughty pros w/ no skill, lack of cooperation, etc.
7. people that fit any of the pet peeves, true newbs are ok if they're willing to cooperate to the best of their ability
8. (fav)Demoman. the best defence is a good(very powerful) offense
(nfav) Spy. very effective if use correctly, but hard to use correctly
9. Demo. I like to be the one-of-a-kind who's invaluable to the team
Spy. not sure.
10. Capture Point. (vs)CP is essentially balanced. (stage)CP is a good off/def war.
11. use voice chat. its fast infromation
juggle enemies
pocket medic
travel in a group
stand back and damage from a distance

 

[GrinningManiac]

1. 16 (17 next month)
2. Male
3. Since the Orange Box came out
4. I help defend Snipers and Engineers whilst they set up/move, and I defend medics as best I can. I also extinguish people whenever I can help it
5. Polite, witty, relaxed
6. Micspammers, FaN abusers, Scout Rushes and aggressive/arrogant players
7. People who have no idea how to play the Spy, and accuse everyone of hacks when they're uncovered by walking into an enemy, for example
8. Favourite: Spy/Pyro. Least favourite: Engie/Medic
9. I'm deranged like the Pyro, and often unintellegable, but I'm also cultured, like the Spy, though hardly "suave"
10. Favourite: Any Valve mode like CTF, KOTH and PL. Least favourite is anything like Best In Class, Death Match or BBall
11. Compression Blast everything as Pyro, reflect projectiles, neuter ubers and shove enemies off walkways, and try to axtinguish when it's usable. As a Spy, always attack from unexpected angles, never hang about a sentry you sapped, avoid people but don't go in a loop around them (pretend you need to go somewhere else), always try the sidestab rather than ignore a wall-hugging enemy. Go for heavies above everthing else, swipe at anything if it's on its own.

 

[thom_cat_]

1. 17
2. Male
3. Since release
4. Taunt and spycrab in front of people
5. FUUUUUUUUUUUUU is used aa bit...
6. I always disguise when playing spy... no matter where I am.
7. People who walk into a sniper alley playing heavy and start spinning their minigun.
BAM take a few to the face for your efforts.
8. Spy or sniper. Soldier is horrible, burn him with fire!
9. I sneak around and scare the shit out of people. And I am quick, not lumbering like the solly.
10. KOTH is da best. Prophunt tf2 style is horrible. Gmod is good, because you choose your map and your prop properly... ahhahah geddit?
11. Work my way around back and start stabbing and retreating.

 

[JugglerPanda]

1. What is your age? 16
2. what is your gender? Male
3. How long have you been playing TF2? 1.5 years
4. As a player, what are some of the ways you interact with fellow TF2 players? Chat and microphone communications.
5. Is there certain "lingo" that is appropriate for game play? No.
6. What are some of the "pet peeves" you possess when playing this game? When half of my team plays sniper at the same time, when the other team has 7 sentries at the same general area.
7. Are there certain people whom make you angry, an example would be a "noob"? Elitists.
8. What is your favorite character to play and what is your least favorite character to be? Medic because it takes the least amount of skill and is generally needed, least favorite is sniper since I can't aim well with point and click kind of things.
9. How are you alike with your favorite and least favorite character? I'm generally spamming voice commands and being annoying.
10. What is your favorite mode and least favorite, an example would be Prophunt, or Capture the flag? My favorite is probably prophunt, least favorite being Capture the flag.
11. What are some tactics you use in the game to win? Stick together and try not to die so often.