Comments on: Team Fortress 2 Servers - Why you hate that class

By: monkey

monkey — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:59:48 +0000

You stressed that medics heal!! God bless you!

Playing medic is good and all, but you cannot play it with the mind of a soldier. LOOK AROUND. If you see a heavy with 20Hp and take out your bonesaw to slay the guy that did this to him…you are not helping!! I cannot count the number of times medics just completely ignored me for the sake of adding to a sentry’s kill count. If you decide to abandon your attempts at aggro rushing, good for you! Now, stop healing the useless sniper that got 1 kill in 5 rounds. What is the point of an uber if you give it to a completely useless sniper. The only thing worse than that is giving it to an engie or an enemy spy. Another nice tip is that when you DO have an uber…warn the person. Unless you are both competent players and are sure of success.

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:07:56 +0000

I totally agree this. Also, bad spies make it impossible for good spies to play. A bad spy will only alert the other team to the presence of spies, making much harder for the good spy to take out that sentry or heavy/medic combo. One or two (depends on game size) GOOD spies who know what the priorities are is all you need.

By: Matt`

Matt` — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:23:32 +0000

I think all those who are actually somewhat good at playing Spy would love for everyone else to stop playing it… having 2 noob spies on your team only serves to make the other team paranoid and spycheck-happy. Being the only one on the team makes it so much easier for those of us who can actually use the class.

Sniper and Spy are generally over-used though, I think it’s the allure of the one-hit kill backstabs and headshots. And so we end up with the situation in the screenshot at the top of this article… seriously, play some other class, your team will love you for it. I’ve been on a team before with 5 snipers when we were about to attack Dustbowl stage 1, absolute madness. Far better to start out with something easier to pick up like the soldier or the engi (between them, the backbone of the team) then go on to either master the “easy” class - any class played superbly is a force to be reckoned with or go for something harder

I took that route, used to be completely unable to play demoman, spy, sniper or scout. Still can’t snipe for love nor money, but demoman and spy are 2 of my top 3 most played now. Hitting a scout out of mid-air with grenades, or blowing the floor out from under anyone with a wellplaced sticky… best thing ever.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:53:08 +0000

Practice makes perfect…

I’ve had about 6 hours with Pyro and I’m seeing improvement after reading the above.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:33:50 +0000

It never says pick another class, it suggests choosing the appropriate class to complement your team to begin with. It also shows some common mistakes made by each class and how to avoid those mistakes.

Overall, it’s an entertaining article, imo.

By: Phist

Phist — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:23:22 +0000

“Pick another class” isnt a solution to make you better at playing a class…

By: Sandy

Sandy — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:39:09 +0000

Maybe you misunderstood where it says “Here we look at your weaknesses and tell you how to improve.”. That was the premise, and the article does a great job at pointing out weaknesses and stating the sometimes obvious remedy.

By: Mog

Mog — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:13:07 +0000

I read this article because you said you were going to suggest improvements for not being limited to a class or two. And yet, some of that was just “don’t play the class”. That’s not helpful towards expanding horizons and playing other classes. It’s good advice for helping the team, but contradictory when trying to learn to play other classes. Reconsider your premise.

By: The CB

The CB — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:37:19 +0000

Really, I hate people who switch classes because someone else is kicking ass with it, it specially pisses me off when its my class they’re switching to, there’s 4 of them doing this, and the class is a spy, leading to more fierce spy checks.

Hell, spy is my number one most played class, so I’m decent with it, but I swear to god that I check to make sure we have one ENG on the team before I play it.

I do suffer from the Pyro problems though…

By: Moolln

Moolln — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:38:04 +0000

Well spoken. I must admit that I am a noob in all classes. From a noob poínt of view, heavy and scout are the most rewarding I think. Scout when you wanna be fast moving and heavy when you want to get those kills.