Comments on: Go Team! Part Three: The Demoman

By: Man Raised By Puffins

Man Raised By Puffins — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 10:23:46 +0000

I can attest that this tactic is thoroughly annoying if you’re playing as a Medic (I’ve been on the receiving end about two to three times now).

By: Ikkonoishi

Ikkonoishi — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 03:41:29 +0000

My favorite moment in the game was breaking an invulnerability bond between a heavy and a medic by hitting the medic and knocking him off a bridge.

Medic:NOOOO!!
Heavy:Why no glowing? *dies*

By: Gameraotaku

Gameraotaku — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:07:23 +0000

I have found a good way to kill retreating enemies is to not even try and hit them, just fire grenades into a space or doorway that they are backpedalling into. I have killed so many guys by just firing over their shoulders once I got the timing down.

And I was saddened to learn of the change to bouncing grenades not exploding on contact anymore. Some of my best kills were bounced grenades hitting guys in the head as they came around a corner.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:01:22 +0000

The bounce tactic no longer works are the patch. Grenades only explode on contact if they haven’t bounced off an object now.

By: duck

duck — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:15:16 +0000

A tactic I always used as a demoman in the qw tf was lobbing a single remote controlled grenade and exploding it in some unfortunate player’s face. I also used the two-grenade jump to get to the (indoor) roof area of “two forts” quickly. Ah, the good old days…

This game looks quite fun, well worth taking a look at.

By: BadMonkey0001

BadMonkey0001 — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:07:48 +0000

For all of you who say it’s hard to land a hit with the demoman’s weapon, you aren’t thinking about it right. With all other weapons, you have to aim toward toward your foe. with the grenade launcher, bounce the ground for an incoming running enemy. That’s right, I said point your gun at the ground. Don’t go below 45 degrees unless you’re in really close quarters.

The bounce is the way you aim – get used to it. The low bounce means that the grenade will find a low arc after the bounce and continue on as a stumbler of doom. Works great on those spin-happy scouts. The other players think you have no idea how to aim and just make their eager, sorry way toward you and the jacks-o-killin.

Using the ground bounce tactic makes you a good frontal assault guy. You can move in with the offense _and_ take out the Engineer’s handiwork for them as you all move along. The Heavy/Medic/Demo offensive combo is quite the force to be reckoned with.

For the old-timers, you may recognize the ground bounce as the old Threewave CTF defense tactic. Only now the enemy can’t grapple the hell out of the way ;)

By: Yargh

Yargh — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:03:45 +0000

I’m pretty sure that’s Valve’s fault for leaving in some snippets of text indicating that secondary fire lays proximity mines somewhere (hint: don’t try this when standing in the middle of your remote detonated booby-trap).

Also the tip about holding down the fire button to make your bombs go further only applies to the sticky bombs, with grenades it just auto fires them (don’t try this while facing a wall…)

By: Jim Rossignol

Jim Rossignol — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:31:44 +0000

Yes, they are remotely detonated, I am wrong and stupid.

By: Yargh

Yargh — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:25:06 +0000

‘either as fire-and-fergedaboudit mines’ : I’ve never actually seen a sticky-bomb be activated just by someone walking on it.

One other use I have found for sticky bombs is to clear out a mined area (usually a control point) as the explosion detonates them very nicely. This is not the only way either : well aimed gunfire pushes the bombs around too.

By: Martin Coxall

Martin Coxall — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:17:21 +0000

I have found that the Demoman is probably the class I’m currently finding most fun to play, that said, his tactical value is rather restricted, so I tend to bring him into play at the end.

I’m still finding myself strangely drawn to Medic and Engineer if I actually want my team to win.

By: Tim E

Tim E — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:40:44 +0000

He keeps a smiley close to his groin.

Winner.

By: Savage

Savage — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:34:42 +0000

Spinny dynamite thingy: Probably a game breaker. Demoman could be a class that dominated certain maps, which is why I imagine his ammo is limited the way it is, and his sticky bomb reload is slow.