But it can be fun! I’ve played on a few FF servers and had a great time. Particularly memorable was coming round a corner as a medic, Syringegun ready, and finding two players with the same name, one a Demoman on the control point, the other a Sniper heading for the frontlines. After a moment’s thought, I reasoned that the Sniper was behaving shiftily, running forward instead of hanging back to snipe, while the Demoman was doing his point-guarding job, and unloaded a pharmacy’s worth of bad medicine into the Sniper’s back. Die spy!

TEAMKILL! Errr, woops. It’ll, uh, be the Demoman then. Pockapockapocka – Die spy! There we go. Sorry about that Mr Sniper.

He respawns and promptly shoots me in the face, despite my apology, but hey, it was fun!

Having done the rounds and played most classes for a bit, learning some skills then applying them elsewhere can be invaluable. For example, playing as a Spy, then learning how a Spy thinks and using that to spot them. For the Heavy, play for a few days as a Pyro. If you play a Heavy like a Pyro you can dish out some serious PAIN!

The key to Heavy is all about learning when NOT to fire. That extra boost of movement suddenly regained from stopping your minigun can get you out of all sorts of situations most people don’t expect a Heavy to avoid, letting you hide, heal up, and burst out again with another hail of death-bullets.

For example, classic Heavy play is to wade out in the face of an enemy assault, gun blazing, medic at your back until you or they are dead. In the same situation, the Pyro will wait at the corner for the attackers to come past, and toast them at point-blank as they do.

Combine the two, and have the Heavy boosted up to full medic-limit health lurking at a critical corner, barrels spinning. Then, as the front assault (usually another Heavy with a medic behind him) comes into view, firing wildly at people ahead of him, flatten the unsuspecting duo with a melee-range fusillade, then advance past them into the (sometimes 6 or 7) enemy troops following to back them up, perhaps dropping the medic ubercharge as you do, and you’ve wiped out their entire assault instantly and soared to the top of the scoreboard!

Spies are already tough to spot (putting 5 shotgun rounds into them and having them not die means ‘not an enemy’ to me, and I am often wrong), and even harder to spot. With their Sap ability, they can quickly annihilate a defensive setup with wisp-away just as fast.

I think Spies and Scouts should reveal opposing spies, as now, you HAVE to shoot them. How else would you discover them, shy of dying to them?

Vodkarn

PS. I played a Pyro in QTF, and I insist on doing so now. The fact that they are the weakest class just pushes me to do so even more.

Space, out!

In other news, ‘Meet the Heavy’ has been redone in Russian (although the Heavy’s voice is a little off):
http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=game&AppId=994

I know that I should fire at the medic, but instinct does kick in and cause me to shoot at the heavy first. At least 1 shot will go the direction of the heavy before my logic kicks in. The paragraph describing this is totally true. Good job.

Amen brother.