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Tips on doing Warframe Sorties

November 1, 2017October 29, 2017 Medic 1 Comment advice, assistance, newbies, sorties, tips, warframe

For ages I held off on doing Sorties. Part of it was because, back before the War Within came out, I wasn’t a particularly good player and most of my weapons and frames were lacking in forma and Orokin reactors and catalysts. Then the War Within came out and locked Sorties away from me, meaning I couldn’t do them until I finished that infernal quest. Still, almost everything else in the solar system is under level 50, so the idea of sorties always seemed scary to me, especially when the chances of good loot weren’t that great. Now I’m finally… [Continue Reading]

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DC and the F2P: Initiation – TF2 Pub Tales

July 2, 2016 disguisedcyclone 0 Comments f2p, fun, newb, newbies, pyro, story, Team Fortress 2

These excerpts were found within the diaries of DC’s sister, among some cinders and next to a pair of Pyrovision Goggles. The Prologue So there my sister DC was, sitting around in her chair, mumbling about hats and projectiles and typing away some kind of nonsense. She’s been at it for nearly a year now, a year of me waking up in the middle of the night sometimes when she screams for a doctor or just madly cries out to no one in particular. I have reason to believe that her participation in Team Fortress 2 has caused her to… [Continue Reading]

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Why TF2 is Hard

January 19, 2016 ___ 0 Comments advice, balance, criticism, newbies, settings, This is one of the best articles on the state of pub balance I've seen in a while.

There’s a lot of talk about the states of publics nowadays, but one of the things that’s really hard to remember once you’ve got good at TF2 is how it is to be a new player. Most players worth their salt have played for a couple of hundred hours. To these people, TF2 is a fairly easy game. And why wouldn’t it be? TF2 is a game where most of the characters are extremely accessible. Soldier rockets splash. Grenades splash. Stickies splash. Flamethrower requires low aim. So does the minigun. So does Engineer. And especially Medic. But what if I told… [Continue Reading]