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prog

FIAH! FIAH!

Sep 01, 2008 16:52

I finally played a little bit of TF2 via XBox Live. It's fun! I took ahkond's advice and stuck to the newbie-friendly Heavy and Pyro classes, and then just wandered around frying dudes, taking short breaks when suggested. (Suggestions usually being implemented as headshots ( Read more... )

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mogaribue September 2 2008, 01:51:38 UTC

Medic is a good way to learn a level layout, just figure out how to uber correctly or people will be miffed. The only really difficult classes to master are Spy and Demo imho. Engie definitely helps if you know the level and where the good spots are to put a sentry gun.

HUDDA HUDDA HUDDA ahkond September 2 2008, 11:13:31 UTC

I agree with lone_phaedrus, although some people have found Demo pretty easy to play too. I'm not very comfortable with it but I frequently get more kills than deaths as Demo (something I don't do regularly with most classes). In many cases you can just hang back, away from the scrim, and lob bombs in for random kills ( ... )

Re: HUDDA HUDDA HUDDA prog September 2 2008, 14:26:57 UTC

Aw, I was wondering where the sandvich was. :( (Had seen the MEET THE SANDVICH video.)

Noted that the PC is better... even without the controller differences or PC-only powerups, the fact that you can have community-based servers and player-created maps makes all the difference. Maybe when I am feeling motivated I'll see if the game works on this PC I'm borrowing. (It has a hot new video card I bought, but cannot speak for the rest of it.)

Re: HUDDA HUDDA HUDDA ahkond September 2 2008, 17:14:38 UTC

Right. I know that some people play the PC version on Windows emulators like Wine or VMWare, but I also understand that lots of Mac users in our social circle use older Macs that don't support VMWare because of different processors/chips or whatnot (not to mention the added expense), so that's how it goes. Oh well.

Games like this are one of the two reasons I still have a Windows machine; the other is recording radio with the RadioShark. I use Ubuntu for everything else (at home) now. Work is still very Windows-centric.

Meet the Sandvich is fun but it doesn't actually show you the sandvich in action. The clearest-looking example I've found in a brief search is this: http://www.vimeo.com/1593448 (plus extraneous music and people talking in Finnish ( ... )

Re: HUDDA HUDDA HUDDA prog September 2 2008, 17:23:25 UTC

I'm laughing at the video. Also apparently OM NOM NOM in Finnish(?) is pronounced Om-nuh-nom-nuh-nom.