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MeinGott posted:Hey let's buy a key and see what happens! Hey let's buy two keys and see what happens!  Yeah, ok. 
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Some dumb idiot posted:Hey let's buy two keys and see what happens! I did buy two keys actually. It was just the first was that loving goofy "WELL WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE" unbox  I did get the S. Sticky Launcher I wanted off the second key though!Then I bought 5 more and well it doesn't matter what happened we all know what happens 
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Oct 25, 2013 20:57
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death .cab for qt posted:Play scout. You will appreciate the mobility, and get to learn a new style of play that compliments pyro and spy pretty well. A heavy focus on getting in close to your enemies while learning the flank routes and making picks, which you can enter transfer into a pyro for team support or a spy for behind-enemy-lines picks and sentry busting. In this vein of Scout being incredibly educational in other classes: I'm trying to pick up Pyro, and the eerie thing about Degreaser/Flaregun/Powerjack (highly reccomended) is that you play it like a Scout. I still can't reflect to save my life, but I still managed some topscoring; it's just the Scout! Treat ''Degreaser into flare (into Powerjack if the heavy is turned around, or back to flames otherwise), and you can get some pretty impressive work against Heavies. It's still the Heavy's fight to lose, but you can pretty easily put the first 120+burn on them from range, use the mobility to close the distance with a flank, repeat, and if they're still up, powerjack them. Even if you're in the worst case scenario where the heavy is spinning up and on you you can still sometimes disorient them by circling them and with airblasts to keep their aim off. Which is almost exactly like how you engage them as Scout. Several other classes are the same; you engage Scouts by getting one good hit in on them up close, then pursue (with a flare). You deal with Demomen by forcing yourself into their face and leaving them unable to risk using a projectile. You deal with Sentries by not dealing with sentries very well at all. And although I can't reflect, the airblast functions exactly like some wonderful combination of FoN pushback and the Mad Milk's fire negation (with the Powerjack covering the self healing), all rolled into one package. It's kind of like a greatest hits package for Scout in exchange for being pretty close to useless against other Pyros, and ironically not that great against good Scouts which can dodge flares. The biggest difference is that instead of projecting your rather squishy body to pursue, you project flares, which are much safer. This means you can do silly things like pick the Heavy's pocket any time he's on fire, as long as there's any line of sight, and twoshot 125-175 classes from across the map (granted, in many cases that relies on after-burn, which is far from reliable). I only started playing it this week, and I'm already one behind my all time Scout best in both points and kills. CoolCab fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Oct 25, 2013 |
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Oct 25, 2013 21:41
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Doji Sekushi posted:Alright loadout dump -- Hunstman S. Thompson on Nemu?
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Anyone redeem a code from one of the new run of 3A Sandviches yet? Curious what it gives.
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CoolCab posted:In this vein of Scout being incredibly educational in other classes: I'm trying to pick up Pyro, and the eerie thing about Degreaser/Flaregun/Powerjack (highly reccomended) is that you play it like a Scout. I still can't reflect to save my life, but I still managed some topscoring; it's just the Scout! Treat ''Degreaser into flare (into Powerjack if the heavy is turned around, or back to flames otherwise), and you can get some pretty impressive work against Heavies. It's still the Heavy's fight to lose, but you can pretty easily put the first 120+burn on them from range, use the mobility to close the distance with a flank, repeat, and if they're still up, powerjack them. Even if you're in the worst case scenario where the heavy is spinning up and on you you can still sometimes disorient them by circling them and with airblasts to keep their aim off. Which is almost exactly like how you engage them as Scout. Several other classes are the same; you engage Scouts by getting one good hit in on them up close, then pursue (with a flare). You deal with Demomen by forcing yourself into their face and leaving them unable to risk using a projectile. You deal with Sentries by not dealing with sentries very well at all. And although I can't reflect, the airblast functions exactly like some wonderful combination of FoN pushback and the Mad Milk's fire negation (with the Powerjack covering the self healing), all rolled into one package. I actually really enjoy playing chubscout by just using the power jack and stock shotgun with the degreaser, too. It lets you pop reflects and swap weapons quickly while using your shotgun. Nothing feels better than shotgun dueling a cocky scout and then tagging him with afterburn right after a 90 damage meatshot 
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Oct 25, 2013 22:07
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akeidolon posted:Anyone redeem a code from one of the new run of 3A Sandviches yet? Curious what it gives. It gives the same thing as the other ones: a "What's in the sandvich box" that contains a genuine robo-sandvich.
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Oct 25, 2013 22:22
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Anyone want to do MVM that actually understands how MVM works? I've got one guy already but dealing with 4 pubs in expert is such an unnecessary pain in the rear end.
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Methanar posted:Anyone want to do MVM that actually understands how MVM works? I can't right now but feel free to add me: http://steamcommunity.com/id/shoegays I've not actually been able to do expert because it's literally impossible to join a pickup game without being kicked for not having done expert. Which you can only remedy by having done expert... Point is I'm competent, willing to learn since I know Expert is a lot more demanding, and I have a mic. Better than you'll get with randos.
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Oct 25, 2013 22:52
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I've spent £60 so far on fake hats someone take my money away from me. I feel very ashamed.
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Oct 25, 2013 22:58
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At least it's hats plural. If it was just the one...
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Oct 25, 2013 23:07
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MeinGott posted:I did buy two keys actually. It was just the first was that loving goofy "WELL WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE" unbox I bought two keys with the intention of getting a strange sticky launcher from a crate. Then I realised I could trade for one for two refined metal, which is worth a third of a key. And I already had the metal from excess weapon drops anyway. Got a crappy hat and a strange persian persuader which I'll never use.
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Oct 25, 2013 23:11
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Hell no I ain't spending £60 on one drat hat that is a fools game. I spread my poor life choices out and justify them to myself with the fact that I don't drink or smoke so my 'being cool' money goes on stupid poo poo for internet nerds.
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FirstPersonShitter posted:I've spent £60 so far on fake hats someone take my money away from me. I feel very ashamed. FirstPersonShitter posted:Hell no I ain't spending £60 on one drat hat that is a fools game. I spread my poor life choices out and justify them to myself with the fact that I don't drink or smoke so my 'being cool' money goes on stupid poo poo for internet nerds. haha! The best strange name is "Fox News-accuracy may vary" for my strange rocket launcher  
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Since we're posting loadouts, here's a dump: My "On a Mission From God" soldier. What I need to complete is a Strange Beggar's Bazooka, and a Strange Disciplinary Action. If anyone wants to donate/trade for these items, I'm posting my Steam ID below. Also needed as an accessory: Strange Battalion's Backup, although I'd prefer the buff banner but those seem to be prohibitively expensive:  My "Just a Regular Guy" pyro. I figured I'd buck the trend of trying to make it as wacky as possible  And the Beatnik Spy:  Steam ID if anyone wants to help me complete the Blues Brothers soldier:  http://steamcommunity.com/id/LogisticEarth LogisticEarth fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Oct 25, 2013 |
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Oct 25, 2013 23:18
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By way of a possibly ill-advised trade long ago (Searing Plasma Sultan for Green Energy Capotain -- hey, energy is just my favorite of all the effects), I've sort of locked my demoman into a witch-hunter gimmick, which right now includes that Capotain, the Dark Age Defender armor, and Bearded Bombardier. I could use loadout suggestions or nametag suggestions for my launchers. LogisticEarth posted:My "Just a Regular Guy" pyro. I figured I'd buck the trend of trying to make it as wacky as possible I used to have "dad" loadouts of classes. Dad Pyro was the tie, ball cap, and rake.
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Oct 25, 2013 23:36
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My ThreeA Sandvich arrived and it looks awesome... but the olive was broken off. Already fired off a message to support asking for a medic, but I don't think it'll do any good.
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Oct 25, 2013 23:37
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i got some new stuff for my medic and now he looks like he could take on a degreaseraxetinguisher pyro with a melee weapon!
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Harry Potter on Ice posted:The best strange name is "Fox News-accuracy may vary" for my strange rocket launcher Should've put that on the Minigun, along with the description "Fair and Balanced." 
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Oct 25, 2013 23:40
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Hihohe posted:i got some new stuff for my medic and now he looks like he could take on a degreaseraxetinguisher pyro with a melee weapon! This looks like the natural evolution of the stock Medic if he was just locked in his workspace for a decade.
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I would really like to see new paints that are perhaps more expensive, but get stored onto whatever item you use them on. That way you can switch out colors on your items via a drop down menu provided you painted that item that color before. I have multiple versions of certain items painted different colors because my gentlemann barbie dolls demand it and it's taking up somewhat valuable backpack space.
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LogisticEarth posted:What I need to complete is a Strange Beggar's Bazooka Friend invite sent. Can't use the dang thing effectively anyway. Now, loadouts. First one is my favorite Medic Loadout, and might be familiar to fellow Friday Night Funhavers as the Tiny Mosquito Medic.  Alternatively he gets to be the Horror-Medic of the Astral Planes.  The Bar Room Heroes tradition of the Friendly Heavy, a non-hostile sandvich-dispensing creature who only tickles.  The Robot Designed Solely to Annoy.  An my final Unusual, the Modern Day Milkman. 
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birdin' hard or hardly birdin'? Look for me on all kinds of pub servers with a really horrible name like "91 ska songs about male anatomy" or "i use my computer to gently caress men"
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I've noticed my game's been having a weird trend of crashing lately. I'll join a server and hop into spectate, things will run fine for a bit and then the screen will just freeze and the sound will loop over and over until it quits to the desktop. I wait a bit or pull up task manager if needs be, then boot the game back up and retry the server. I'll be able to get on and pick a team okay, only I'm suddenly unable to connect to the item server, so I end up having to close the game down and then reopen it again. After that it usually works fine, but it's getting annoying having to restart my game 3 times until I can actually get it to work. Hihohe posted:i got some new stuff for my medic and now he looks like he could take on a degreaseraxetinguisher pyro with a melee weapon! ...Dr. Cossack?
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Pubbies really do not know how to deal with the fists of steel. One pyro airblasted me away, which was a sound thing to do. But then he turned around and tried to run away, and I caught up to him as he tried to navigate around a corner. If he'd set me on fire and then hit me with an axtinguisher I would have died in a single blow. Same goes for a sniper hitting me with piss and then hitting me with the bushwacka. A couple of spies tried to get me, but they were incredibly obvious about. I usually play scout so spies don't usually pay all that much attention to me unless it's a backstab capitalizing on my own stupidity, or they're shooting me. But playing heavy, they make a goddamn beeline for you. I admit I did pull out my minigun occasionally, mostly to deal with sentries and 3 players ganging up on me. And a spy who was getting away with the intelligence, but that was after punching him once. Edit: It occurs to me that playing fist heavy has made me way better at regular heavy. Your average heavy will just blunder straight for the enemy base, invariably getting killed over and over again if some of the enemy team is halfway competent. Fists heavy has taught me the value of taking lesser used routes as a heavy and surprising people. A fist heavy popping up behind you can cause serious damage, but a heavy who actually uses his minigun can shred the lot of you. Slime fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Oct 26, 2013 |
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Oct 26, 2013 01:36
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Fists of Steel are great fun on payload offense. Just sit on the cart and spam NO as people futilely try to kill you.
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Nehru the Damaja posted:I can't right now but feel free to add me: http://steamcommunity.com/id/shoegays I'll throw down for Expert MvM. I think I've got 6 or 7 tours done on expert.... Steam User: McPhock
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Fojar38 posted:So I'm guessing no Halloween patch until Monday at this point. Nah, they moved the Halloween event to the last week of November.
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xzzy posted:Nah, they moved the Halloween event to the last week of November. They're going to do like retail stores and start dropping christmas right now.
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 EEEEHHEEEE HEEE HEEE HEEE HEEE HEEEEEE!!! HELLO kiddies! Tonight's FRIGHT-HAVERS has been taken over by your GHOULISH horror host, SPOOKDAD. We'll be serving up SIX helpings of FEVERISH FETID FEAR for you SICKLINGS in an event I like to call... TALES FROM THE RESPAWN. Rules: 1.) Join the FUNHAVERS game server. Server here: brokengameboys.game.nfoservers.com:27015 Group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FriFunhavers 2.) Follow the instructions of the horror host, spookdad, for what the gimmick of the moment or round is. We will be revisiting a few favorite oldies and a couple new ones. 3.) Optionally change your profile name to a cheesy horror pun, and use this optional spray: https://anonsprays.tfsprays.com/46edc42d-2435-4b4a-8df2-48b85016d94f.vtf Also, there will be a ROTTEN HORROR TRIVIA challenge for a GHOULISH charity item. Let's CARVE us a good time, my little slimeballs! It's time to ROT and HACK our way to fun times! EEEE HEEE HEEE HEEE! Spacedad fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Oct 26, 2013 |
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death .cab for qt posted:I actually really enjoy playing chubscout by just using the power jack and stock shotgun with the degreaser, too. It lets you pop reflects and swap weapons quickly while using your shotgun. Nothing feels better than shotgun dueling a cocky scout and then tagging him with afterburn right after a 90 damage meatshot But then you miss magic moments of pure joy the flaregun can give you. We were being harassed by a trolldier on Upward, who'd been managing to jump in, do some shotgun damage (and I think once Market Gardened someone) and jump out three times with impunity, annoying the poo poo out of us. On the fourth go, I somehow landed my (first ever!) flare airshot on a target a full point away retreating at max speed, gave him a high five for the killcam, and he either rage quit or rage switched classes  Little things like that are why I still play. CoolCab fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Oct 26, 2013 |
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Sometimes, all the magical cosmos align together and you land in a server where awful players come together and this magic can happen:
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Seeing as that was an Elitepowered server, I'm hoping those were bots.
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BlueDestiny posted:Fists of Steel are great fun on payload offense. Just sit on the cart and spam NO as people futilely try to kill you.
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Since people are posting their loadouts, I'd like to share mine: I know a lot of people like to make their loadouts completely wacky, but I mostly like to go for looks that seem (at least to me) arguably reasonable and cohesive together, while still looking vaguely like they'd belong in some sort of alternate-reality TF2 universe only marginally more silly than the current one. Except for soldier, of course. Because he's a loving goofball. We have: - Falcon Punch Sniper - Diesel Dragon Pyro - Contra Heavy (classic NES Contra only, of course) - Kaneda Scout (TETSUOOOOO!) - Rockabilly Engineer - Awkward Late 30's Mall-goth Spy - Demomoto, the Shogun of Explodun' - Ghost of Christmas Past Soldier (sadly, visible ghost halloween only) - Alpine Adventure Medic Stalwart heroes and champions, all.
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Joined Fri night funhavers, people were being creepy in voicechat and someone put a sentry up in a melee only event.
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That was me - If you notice I have a 'tradition' of for the past few weeks ending the evening's event by putting up a sentry for a little bit to troll before leaving. I dunno what the voice chat stuff was on about though. The shotgun heavies and rake pyros turned out to be super fun, and we'll definitely see a redux of the revolver spies. NEXT WEEK'S EVENT: Nightmare before Smissmass - Smissmass holiday themed weapons + wear your coolest halloween hats/miscs (and/or a mix of your xmass hats/miscs) that you like. So holiday punch, candy cane, wrapping paper, and any festive melee items you have. (Also can use the headless horsemann's weapon since that's a holiday melee item.) We also may do a little bit of halloween event farming for people who haven't gotten the halloween stuff. Spacedad fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Oct 26, 2013 |
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Scyron posted:I just want to say also, this thread really makes TF2 sound fun with all the high level play and theorycrafting but I'll be damned if I don't get really frustrated after 30 minutes on a valve server with some pubstompers on the enemy team. It's worth pointing out that Valve servers are now a really common place for experienced players to play on, since they're the few servers out there that aren't riddled with advertising, cheat-y donator bonuses, or fake bots. So they might not be the best place to go for new or returning players.
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