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Good Offensive Teleporter Spots on Payload maps

September 8, 2013 aabicus 0 Comments engineer, game mode, maps, strategy

Boy oh boy do I love me some payload. At times I suspect it’s the most popular game mode in Team Fortress 2, probably because its asymmetrical nature keeps the battlefield fresh and changing, or because it always has the most visually exciting and dynamic map designs, or because it ends with a massive explosion. Almost every payload comes with a particularly tough stretch. This is the hardest stretch for the attacking team, and usually pops up somewhere around the penultimate check point. It’s usually the longest stretch, and often the final stretch before the offensive spawn moves forward. All… [Continue Reading]

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My Small-ish List of Things that Should NOT Happen to Weapons and their Stats, and why

September 2, 2013 shadoo 0 Comments analysis, balance, engineer, pyro, sniper

Welcome to this, where I take a couple of community-suggested changes and discuss about how they could either slightly unbalance a weapon, completely break a weapon or even ruin a weapon.

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(Blog posts about Strange Parts: 1)

August 28, 2013 aabicus 1 Comment analysis, criticism, engineer, loadout, request, stranges

So I was leafing through my inventory, trying to figure out how to make loadouts using some stuff I never wear. It was when I tried to make a stat-obsessed LARPer parody using the Merasmus hat that I tried to fit as many counters onto one loadout as possible. Did you realize TF2 now has items that track stuff in every single loadout slot? Using the above loadout (along with three strange weapons, with 3 strange parts each, and a strange PDA tool), you now can track: · The number of kills on your primary weapon ···Three other random stats… [Continue Reading]

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Why the Short Circuit should be allowed in Medieval Mode

August 26, 2013 aabicus 2 Comments analysis, engineer, game mode, loadout, medieval, request, weapon

Remember when I covered Medieval Mode? It’s a great mode. Really fun for eight out of 9 TF2 classes. I’m reasonably certain you can guess which class gets shafted (and not just by arrows). Yes, poor Engineer has had everything he’s ever built stolen from him, and left to fend for himself with a plethora of melee weapons designed to augment nonexistent sentry guns. He basically shouldn’t exist as a choice, and for the most part if you play Medieval Mode, you’ll find that his representation on cp_degrootkeep is sorely lacking. (If there are engies, that’s usually a sign your… [Continue Reading]

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It is time… Gunslingers versus Highlanders! Season 3!

August 25, 2013 Venomous Pastry 0 Comments announcement, class, engineer, event, Highlander, loadout, SPUF

TEXAS GUNSLINGER MASSACRE PART 3 9 Gunslinger Engies vs the 9 classes of Team Fortress 2! demoknight is a class In previous seasons, (season 1 season 2) both the Highlanders and Gunslingers each have won once. But this year, there’s a twist! Gunslinger has been nerfed! Can the Gunslingers still pull a victory? Let us find out in Season 3! MAPS: PAYLOAD: Upward 5CP: Process KOTH: Lakeside CTF: If we get to it, Turbine FREE ROUND: ??? DETAILS OF EVENT: DATE: October 5th, 2013 TIME: 7 PM GMT (11 am PST, 2 pm EST) WHERE: SPUF Server Custom Sign up… [Continue Reading]

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In Defense of Medieval Mode

August 20, 2013 aabicus 1 Comment analysis, defense, demoknight, engineer, game mode, guide, loadout, maps, medic, medieval, scout, soldier, strategy, whips

Medieval Mode. You’ve heard of it. Sounds awesome. The Wiki page makes it look awesome. But is it awesome? … YES! Ignore the haters, this mode is great. I can have a barrel of fun on cp_degrootkeep (and a lot of custom Medieval maps, but those are way harder to find people playing.) As almost any class. Medieval Mode gets a lot of flak from most because it’s considered a “melee spamfest”, “void of all strategy” and “a horrific cluster♥♥♥♥ of arrows and demoknights.” And they may all have a point. But there are ways to play the game mode… [Continue Reading]