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Some things to do as a Ghost

November 7, 2013 aabicus 0 Comments fun, glitches, guide, halloween

One of the major downsides to real life is that once you die, there’s not much to do. Luckily TF2 doesn’t have this problem, at least if you’re playing Helltower and are currently in Hell. Here are three fun things to occupy the time while you wait for the next round to start. 1. Keep enemy snipers company The optimal strategy as a sniper in Hell is to stand at spawn and shoot people heading for Skull Island. It must get lonely, being so far away from the action, so go over and say hi! Make sure to get a… [Continue Reading]

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Surviving Scream Fortress 2013 as an Engineer

November 6, 2013 aabicus 0 Comments criticism, engineer, halloween

It’s hightower…what more do you want us to say?

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Introducing the SPUF Anthology Podcast!

November 5, 2013 Binary 0 Comments announcement, SPUF

Good day fellow SPUFers! I’d like to introduce you all to a little project I’d like to start up. It’s a podcast, but not in the traditional sense. Introducing: The SPUF Anthology Podcast. Essentially, it is a collection of short segments submitted to us on various (hopefully) interesting topics distributed in a tri-weekly format. Designed in a way so that anyone who wants to participate has a shot- no livestreams to make, no Skype to mess with, and don’t even get me started on timezones… Segments can be created on their own time. For now we will be focusing mostly… [Continue Reading]

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No one told me about Sniping!

November 4, 2013 Medic 1 Comment analysis, balance, criticism, request, sniper, theory

Back when I first started playing Team Fortress 2, like a lot of people, Sniper always sounded like a good place to start. It all sounds so simple. Stand far away from everyone else, zoom in with your pretty scope and shoot people from a safe distance. Wonderful, right? Wrong. Oh so very, very wrong.

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The Crusader’s Crossbow is now the least viable Medic primary

November 3, 2013 aabicus 0 Comments analysis, criticism, medic, mourning, request, weapon

After a mere 48 hours of giving us the perfect Crusader’s Crossbow, Valve followed up by nerfing it’s damage by 33%. As someone who has spent hundreds of hours perfecting my skill with this weapon, and considers it my favorite weapon in TF2, let me say that the weapon is now useless. Let me rehash the same reasons I enjoyed the previous crossbow and show how none of them apply any more.

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Surviving Scream Fortress 2013 as a Medic

November 2, 2013 Medic 0 Comments event, guide, halloween, medic

“What? Surviving Scream Fortress? As a Medic? Surely that should be a piece of cake? It’s just like any other map!” You’re serious? It’s nothing like any other map. It’s an event based on one of the most deathmatch-y maps around, with more spam and confusion than you can shake a stick at. Throw in your normal Hightower threats like Mini-Sentries, and a whole new extra pit for Pyros, Scouts and explosive classes to launch you into, it’s nigh impossible to get around as a Medic. Well, not impossible, but it’s far harder than most Halloween events. Today, we’ll be… [Continue Reading]

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The Great Heavy Skill Floor and The Not-So Great Heavy Skill Ceiling

November 1, 2013 A Pointed Stick 2 Comments analysis, heavy, theory, weapon

At the risk of being hanged, shot, crit-stickied and more hilarious ways Team Fortress 2 players can hurt each other (Hey Valve, a noose/lasso weapon, make it happen!) I will admit that I am not really a fan of the Fat Scout mentality that seems to have been touted as “the only way to skill-index the Heavy”. It seems rather defeatist to me, like the Heavy needs a super shotgun primary to have some kind of validity in higher skill levels, which is really limiting and rather traitorous to the initial weapons and designs that Valve introduced in Team Fortress… [Continue Reading]

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Five Things I Miss From Team Fortress Classic

October 31, 2013 aabicus 0 Comments defense, history, recap, request, TFC

I loved Team Fortress Classic. While I won’t argue it was more balanced than TF2, or even better then TF2, since I consider the two so different as to be incomparable, I loved it for what it was. It was Team Fortress boiled down to its core: Two teams of dudes shooting each other and working together to fill their teammate’s inherent weaknesses. No cartoony graphics, no multinational band of misfits, just nails and bullets and grenades. And there are some things I really miss from it, things that make me turn the game on and play on bot-choked 2fort/dustbowl… [Continue Reading]

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Scream Fortress 2013 is LIVE!

October 30, 2013 Medic 1 Comment event, halloween, update

Well, the update is up. PLR_Helltower, based off Hightower. It’s the most horrific, nonsensical, spammy Halloween update ever. But at least Medics got something cool: Medic’s Crusader Crossbow now silently reloads when unholstered, similar to Pyro flaregun. In PvP Medics can now see the clip status of a patient’s active weapon Here’s the rest of the update info. About time, don’t you think? Anyway, there’s spell books, a haunted island, all sorts. Explosions everywhere. Fire everywhere. Spells everywhere. Skeletons everywhere… Everything everywhere!

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Best Loadouts for Allcrit Servers

October 29, 2013 aabicus 3 Comments engineer, medic, soldier, whips

Readers, you love allcrit servers too, right? Shortstop scouts, Pomson engineers, Liberty Launcher soldiers…the actual loadouts people rock seem surprisingly limited, but in a weird way this can become refreshing. I know I love allcrit servers, but there are very specific ways I usually play them. In general, I try to be the most annoying mother♥♥♥♥er that these servers have ever seen. How? With these loadouts: