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The Complete Go Team!
Written by Kieron Gillen on October 1, 2007 at 1:45 am.
Since the Team Fortress Beta went live, the collective bodies of Rock, Paper, Shotgun have been running around with cartoon projectile weapons pretty much non-stop. When that “Pretty much” kicks in, we have a break and write about Team Fortress 2, just to mix things up and keep it fresh. The following are the nine short critical examinations (with gags) of the character classes that Jim, Alec and myself conjured up with special Word Science.
Part 1: The Heavy.
Part 2: The Medic.
Part 3: The Demoman.
Part 4: The Pyro.
Part 5: The Sniper.
Part 6: The Engineer.
Part 7: The Soldier.
Part 8: The Scout.
Part 9: The Spy.
When we finished what we like to call a “ultromegafeature” we thought an opening post linking to them all and introducing the concept a little wouldn’t be a bad idea. So we did one, and it looked suspiciously like this.
Go Team!
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Crispy says:
QFT, anyone I know who is just getting into TF2 (especially those who haven’t played QWTF or TFC, or the new FF for that matter) I send here for a good read while they wait on their mammoth TF2 download.
October 1st, 2007 at 9:29 am
Seniath says:
Aye, thoroughly enjoyed all these articles, they made an excellent read, as dartt said, both in the pieces themselves and the following comments.
October 1st, 2007 at 10:16 am
Rock, Paper, Shotgun » Blog Archive » RPS Exclusive: Team Fortress 2 Interview says:
[...] Join us later this week for Part Two of our interview with Robin Walker and Charlie Brown. Find out which are their own favourite classes, and which they avoid, learn more about their insatiable love of Peggle, and find out how it was the decision to be funny that finally brought us TF2 after a ten year wait. (And make sure to check back tomorrow for a special bonus surprise.) And - hell! - if you’re here and have a hankering for all things TF2, you may enjoy our now complete Go Team! feature. [...]
October 1st, 2007 at 10:56 am
Martin Coxall says:
Gentlemen of RPS:
Any chance of a quick straw-poll on your favourite classes? Top three from each of you would be nice.
THANKS LOVE.
October 1st, 2007 at 11:30 am
Kieron Gillen says:
Soldier
Medic
Engineer
In that order. Demoman or Spy beneath them. Scout or Heavy beneath that. Sniper at the bottom. I have no problem with the Pyro, but I’ve still yet to play him, so he’s just above Sniper.
KG
October 1st, 2007 at 11:32 am
schizoslayer says:
Heavy
Sniper
Demoman
October 1st, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Martin Coxall says:
Heavies and Scouts? You people are REAL MEN.
For me, it’s (subject to capricious whims):
Engineer
Demoman
Medic
October 1st, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Martin Coxall says:
Guys, you should be adding “digg this” “reddit this” “spong this” web-2.0 spammery buttons. If I want to spew your content all over cretinous wisdom-of-crowds news sites, it is your DUTY to make my life easier. Oh yes.
Anyway:
http://digg.com/pc_games/RPS_The_complete_Go_Team/
DIGG THIS.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Andrew Farrell says:
No.
Anyway: Sniper, Engineer, Demoman
October 1st, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Seniath says:
Pyro
Pyro
Pyro
Actually, that’s a lie. With the recent buffs, servers have been full of the Pyros, so I’ve been having a play with the other classes. My actual run down would probably be;
Pyro
Engineer (but again, like Pyros, servers tend to be full of them)
Soldier
October 1st, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Andrew says:
I’ve only ever seen you as Pyro, Seniath. You fixated person you.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Gulag says:
Pyro
Demo
Heavy
The Pyro is all sorts of burnination since the patch, and I’ve discovered the joy of the Demoman’s long bomb. Spiking the opposing battlements in 2Fort is becoming a favourite pass time.
October 1st, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Man Raised By Puffins says:
Medic
Engineer
Demoman
In that order.
October 1st, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Homunculus says:
Descending order of preference, natch:
Medic
Pyro
Soldier.
October 1st, 2007 at 7:12 pm
John P (Katsumoto) says:
Tricky, very tricky.
I can probably safely put 1) Pyro 2) Demoman, though it fluctuates a lot after that. Medic, Engineer and Heavy all vie for 3rd place really.
As I can’t aim for shit the sniper is out. I can’t work out how to play the spy properly and as im having so much fun with the rest i cba to allocate time to him, YET. The soldier I simply haven’t got round to trying yet!
October 1st, 2007 at 9:16 pm
Jesse says:
Would be interesting to write a program that takes as input your TF2 stats, reduces them a little bit, and spits out your Meyers-Briggs personality. I bet you could train an ANN to do it.
October 1st, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Gozer says:
He’s also said to resemble a Tusken Raider, or Sand People, from Star Wars. fire! fire! AAAHH!!
October 2nd, 2007 at 7:09 am
Jonathan Burroughs says:
Medic.
Engineer.
Heavy.
Truth.
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Darius K. says:
Fantastic series of articles, guys. My favorite classes:
Heavy
Scout
Medic
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:28 pm
CrashT says:
Spy…. Let’s me unleash my inner bastard, and somehow not feel guilty about it.
Then maybe Engineer.
I’ve only managed to get TF2 to actually work properly in the last day or so though.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:45 pm
plasmafire says:
Sniper
Spy
Heavy
No I am not a demented soul.. I’m a member of PETA.
How many of you have stood naked for 40 Minutes in the NY winter huh.. All for raccoons..
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Seniath says:
“I’ve only ever seen you as Pyro, Seniath. You fixated person you.”
*grin*
*twitch*
Alas, you wont be seeing me as a pyro again till thursday. My PSU blew up yesterday, which means no TF2 for me till a new one arrives.
Ofc the ironic thing is, the whole incident left me wanting to do nothing except set people on fire…
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:02 pm
MacBeth says:
Loved the articles - main question is where did you get that updated group shot, as the slight inaccuracies on the older one I have on my desktop are just not on…
October 2nd, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Kieron Gillen says:
I just nabbed it from the TF2 site. It’s not high enough resolution for a desktop though.
KG
October 2nd, 2007 at 7:59 pm
Rock, Paper, Shotgun » Blog Archive » Reunion Tour says:
[...] killed a lot of men recently. A lot of men. And frankly, I needed a break. Running a crosshair-burned-into-the-retina [...]
October 5th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Mori says:
Great series of articles on a great game. My favourite class by far is the pyro, I have too much time played on him for it to be healthy. Something in the order of 15x the amount of time I have on any other class :P. I’ve kind of switched to soldier though, because I couldn’t sleep one night due to team fortress 2 appearing the moment I closed my eyes.
October 5th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
Kieron Gillen says:
That happened to me this morning. I was in a half-awake/half-asleep state and playing Team Fortress on my eyelids.
I fear.
KG
October 5th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
Rock, Paper, Shotgun » Blog Archive » Entirely Baseless Analysis: UK Charts says:
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October 16th, 2007 at 11:31 am
GuildCafe Favorites says:
The Complete Go Team!…
A great overview of the nine classes that make up Team Fortress 2. Each article is actually quite short and concise. They focus on giving you an idea of what it *feels* like to play the class and the mindset that it puts you in….
October 16th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Man Raised By Puffins says:
Valve have now put together a couple of TF2 T-shirts, the Pyro one is clearly bestest.
http://store.valvesoftware.com/
October 20th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
I would totally buy a Heavy one if it didn’t have that crap on the back.
October 20th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Aldrenean says:
Spy
Soldier
Scout
Beyond the spy, it’s really hard to list. My played time on Spy is more than twice my second place, but beyond that everything’s pretty equal. I’ve been warming up to the pyro a lot recently, and I sometimes do amazingly with the heavy. I also play Medic, Demoman and engineer a lot depending on the situation. I play sniper sometimes too, just to cover every class :P
November 3rd, 2007 at 9:13 am
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[...] All About Team Fortress 2, Class By Class [...]
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This was a great series of articles guys. It’s been a lot of fun finding out what you lot think of the classes and then reading all the comments.
October 1st, 2007 at 8:42 am