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Idiots really can take the fun out of a game, to be sure. I second the motion for the strangulation via TCP/IP to be instantiated. Sometimes typing with the capslock on just doesn't get across the message you want it to.

I don't feel so bad about playing NWN2 instead last night though now (the slower-paced RPG does make it easier to prepare a meal whilst playing... ).


edit: Th3_Sn1per will save the day! HaHA -- relevant.

 

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This should work

 

Nope, it isn't working.

 

Points for effort, Sambo.

 

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I has a new wallpapers.

 

Huh - CTF Well is confusing.

 

I haven't even finished Ice Station Santa, and even that will be pushed by the wayside now I can finally allow myself to play The Orange Box.

Yet I still can't wait for this.

 

Turreting Well CTF is very tricky. You have to keep the enemy pushed back to the train building to have a chance. Defending in your base is nigh on impossible.

 

The best solution to CTF Well is to have a patient demoman mine the Intelligence and have them sit with their finger on the trigger. That will keep the other team busy long enough for your other teammates to grab the Intelligence at least two times. Assuming the other team doesn't have their own wacky strategy.

I've only had one "meh" experience with CTF Well so far; last night it just dragged on and wasn't going anywhere. It got a bit silly at that point...

Sunday night was the best experience I've had with TF2 outside of the QFF for a while. Was stuck in 2Fort with a fairly pathetic team and two captrues down, but between myself as a Heavy (and man is that fun to play when you get it right), an excellent spy and a pyro who knew what he was doing, we managed to rally the troops and fight it back to a stalemate.

I also finally got the Head of the Class Achievement that night. The rules for that are still somewhat screwy, but at least I can focus on the final four now.

Be seeing you,

Magnus Darcrider

 

CTF Well is very different from 2Fort in how it plays, just by bent of the size of the place. 2Fort is all tiny corridors, Well is completely different. You really need different tactics. I'm still learning the ropes myself, but Sammich and I had a really good game on it on Sunday night. The key to our victory then seemed to be a concentrated assault by 4 or more people at the same time, coming through the passage on the top floor, then blasting your way outside with the intelligence ASAFP. If you get caught inside the enemy base, you're toast, but if you can make it out, you've got a much better chance of survival, especially if the rest of your team can cover you through the gauntlet of the central building. Medics are compulsory for the initial assault (and I'm not just saying that to toot my own horn, but we were getting obliterated inside the enemy base when my fellow medic and I weren't there to lessen the pain). If the enemy had sentries set up on the Intelligence platform, through, it made life extremely difficult unless we had a soldier or demoman with us to blast them from the balcony.

So yeah, it takes some getting used to, but it's an interesting change of pace, I'm finding.

 

Well CTF therefore, is an offensive-rewarding map more so than many other maps. Throw 6+ people together at it, and with many people on Public servers still playing solo, you'll cap out easily.

I'd love to play that map with others on my side working as a team.

 

That was pretty much the plan that BBN, our team and I had the other night on CTF_Well. We still had the basic Neutron Sandwich maneuver (Which is, a Heavy and a Medic make a push for the Intel, the Medic picks it up and the Heavy clears ahead for the medic). We had a Sniper (but only one) in our base to shoot people coming trying to get into ours. We had soldiers and demos blowing up sentries. We had engies putting up teleports and sentries. We had Pyros doing spychecks near the engieneer's deployables. We had ONE spy killing the other heavy-medic combo that was trying to make a push. Everybody knew what needed to be done and how to do it. and above all, we kept up the voice chat. This is a game that requires voice chat to work properly.

The TF2 Wiki is actually pretty useful for a rundown of strategies and such. Like this, a guide to Spy Checking

In Other Business related news, I found a mod called Follow Freeman , which is the hl2 campaign (and some other popular mods) modified for Co-op play. anybody want to test this out with me later?

 

I'll employ that as an Engineer in future... "If you're near my sentry, shoot your secondary weapon...that way I'll know not to waste ammo on spy-checking you..."

 

Yeah, Team Fortress is a much better game than Every-Spy-For-Himself Fortress. The game Sammich and I played on Sunday night was one of the best teamplay experiences I've had in that game, it was awesome. There were no idiot lone wolves, everyone banded together and got the job done. It was fantastic fun. We were all on the voice chat, laughing and verbally high-fiving each other for kicking ass. It really was a butt-load of fun, and I hope to repeat the experience.

Nice find on the TF2 Wiki, MS. Looks like a great resource. As for this Follow Freeman mod, I'm game. Hopefully it'll work better than Synergy, which was lousy, at least for the co-oping single-player campaign.

 

Just in case any of you guys haven't checked your Steam schedule, tonight is Serious Business Thursday: Cause You Gotta Do What You Gotta Do.

You know the drill, kids. See you on the battlefield.

 

It should be noted that I won't be in on the Serious Business til probably later as my nana is offering me good home cooked dinner and I'm not one to refuse such an offer. So I'll be on after I've done indulging on real food.

 

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Once we got out of the map of ninja elves, it was a rollicking fun time. Finally got that five kills in a row achievement (which for me is actually something). That was nice too - ran into the blue base, took out an engineer and his sentry, took out a scout, took out a sniper, and I may have taken out a soldier on my way in and possibly out. It's those moments that make me really enjoy the game - the parts where I feel like I'm actually doing well. And I was doing pretty nicely this evening.

 

I bought Garry's Mod yesturday.

You, QldFF, reap the rewards -

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That rocks, Sammich

 

Oh man, I so wish I had TF2 on PC right now...

Must. Save. Moneyz.

Need. Better. Computer.