Comments on: Oh My God What The Fuck Barbecue

By: The PC Centric Extravaganza 07.01.08 | 411Mania

The PC Centric Extravaganza 07.01.08 | 411Mania — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:10:59 +0000

[…] reading Tom Francis’ bloggings on his quest to earn the OMGWTFBBQ achievement and Chris Livingston’s take on it I decided to go out and focus on getting it […]

By: DanPryce

DanPryce — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:47:23 +0000

I got it by standing in the vent entrance on Turbine. When you Hadouken! from there, the camera glitches above the vent and you can just about see, seconds before it happens, the head of the soon-to-be-toasty. It’s not noble, but it got the job done.

By: Mad Dnog McBai

Mad Dnog McBai — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:44:55 +0000

I got it with a Scout. A certain amount of luck (he really should not have used the bat) but man did it feel awesome.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:10:56 +0000

I did, Eddie! That was that kill against Horrible Oscar – who’s since read this, by the way, and apologises for contributing to the invalidity of my efforts. God damn that man’s a gent.

But it doesn’t count toward the achievement unless you do it before the round is up, so no dice. Bupkis!

By: Lack_26

Lack_26 — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:53:39 +0000

@CloakRaider, I’ve been wondering about that. One of the pyro achievements seems silly, as compared to the rest which are do-able, the one where he flicks a cigarette and you ignite him. I’m wondering if there will be a spy pack soon, or at least a update to make one(or more) of his taunts insta-kill, my bet is on the cigarette-flick. The knife is too-much like a back-stab, although Valve may do both.

By: SenatorPalpatine

SenatorPalpatine — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:57:00 +0000

I got most of the achievements with friends, and didn’t have any fun trying to get them legitimately. (Though there are still a bunch left even though I’ve gotten all the weapons)

Oh well, next time I’ll do all of them for realz.

Oh, and your post about the gnome run was a good read, I should go back and replay Ep. 2 with the gnome.

By: CloakRaider

CloakRaider — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:24:42 +0000

Aye, this achievement gives you an insane amount of pride. Especially if you get it legit. It’s also the most crushing blow to someone’s self esteem. You were killed by the mere act of someone taunting at you.

Good to do to snipers though, especially if they hear it, turn around just in time to see the fire smash into them and hurl them away. Now all we need is the spy’s fencing taunt to do slashing damage…

By: Eddie Aitken

Eddie Aitken — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:20:39 +0000

Awesome read man. Glad you got it. A belated tip but you can always try to get it after a round if you win, a lot of times the other team just doesn’t move, just gotta get to them before your teammates blow their heads off.

By: Rosti

Rosti — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:16:58 +0000

Good read as ever; a lot of these Pyro Achievements are fun to attempt, even beyond OMGWTFBBQ. It’s no coincidence that I went through both the first and second Milestones the same day that my former girlfriend broke up with me; burning things is massively therapeutic.

And in the game.

By: Neoviper

Neoviper — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:51:48 +0000

I got mine on an engineer on well, who was for some odd reason standing around in the sniper battlements, not building sentries, not moving. Just pistoling my teammates as they rushed in.

Hands down best use of the taunt ever though was on dustbowl, we just took the second area, and one of the pyros on the losing team got one off on a medic of ours, managing a kill with no weapons.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:44:20 +0000

Thank god for that, just spent the better part of 2 hours trying to get it legitimately.

Finally got it, on a sniper, as he was defending the cap on Goldrush.

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/829/plgoldrush0011sf0.png

By: WeakLemonDrink

WeakLemonDrink — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:14:00 +0000

Putting the radio onto the classical station rounds off the spree nicely, I find.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:55:51 +0000

It’s surprisingly cathartic, isn’t it? Killing hundreds with a bus, I mean. After a couple of really shitty missions in GTA IV, I just stole one and ploughed through Algonquin until it set fire. In a lesser chariot, that’d mean a minute or two. This took half an hour, and destroyed more cars than the IRA.

By: Seniath

Seniath — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:51:05 +0000

@Man Raised By Puffins: Ouch, nasty looking, you have my sympathy :(

By: WeakLemonDrink

WeakLemonDrink — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:03:47 +0000

PLaying GTA3 a few years ago, I got into a boat and the random in-game MP3 player started playing ‘Boatman’ by The Levellers. I was so pleased I went on to kill hundreds of people with a bus.

By: J-man

J-man — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:27:31 +0000

WTF Did I say truth? I meant proof.

By: J-man

J-man — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:26:32 +0000

Sadly, I don’t have any truth, but I swear I just started playing Disco Inferno through hlss(Half Life Sound Selector) and was messing about when I taunted this friendly scout beside me. He was a spy. The moment he died it went ‘Burn, baby, burn!’

By: WeakLemonDrink

WeakLemonDrink — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:31:35 +0000

That’s interesting, Puffins. I don’t have that Baby Oil style effect in mine (everything has a matt finish) so I save enough on performance to have quite good texture settings. Maybe you can turn off the shine to improve in other areas?

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:59:55 +0000

In fact, it’ll be replayed every second, twenty-four hours a day, until this post scrolls off the front page.

By: John Saflo

John Saflo — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:52:01 +0000

Rest in peace, Evilmunkee. Your sacrifice will not be forgotten.

By: Man Raised By Puffins

Man Raised By Puffins — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:29:28 +0000

@ WeakLemonDrink: I'm using DX9, but to get frame-rates approaching acceptability I have to push the detail down until it looks like this. Got OMGWTFBBQ on cp_well taking out a Sniper, almost got the same guy again in exactly the same place but he'd already developed a Pavlovian reaction to the Pyro taunt sound and moved out of the way.

By: Seniath

Seniath — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:45:22 +0000

Regarding the change to the Medic achievements: I’ve been playing as a Medic a fair amount during this Pyro-crazy season, and managed to unlock the first item. At that point I decided that I wouldn’t bother with the others, as they were too unreachable… Now, however, they’re much more appealing.

Last night I went to bed with 15 Medic achievements under my belt, so naturally I had to play some games this morning to get another and unlock the Kritzkrieg. And I thought I’d kicked unlock fever when I got the Axetinguisher…

By: BullDozers

BullDozers — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:28:19 +0000

Step 1: be on the defending team for a goldrush match
Step 2: position yourself, as a pyro, on the side of the exit of a tunnel
Step 3: wait for the cart and the poor schmucks that are most definitely going to be crouch-following it
Step 4: taunt
Step 5: enjoy your new achievement! :)

By: Lack_26

Lack_26 — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:59:21 +0000

I got it on 2fort, first a sniper, then I turned round and go a demoman with it, since I managed it on a medic and a spy that was watch our team and waiting (he was disguised but I knew he was a spy). I’ve yet to be killed by it but I hope that I am someday.

By: Alex Holland

Alex Holland — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:40:27 +0000

Whoop, that means I’ve got a Kritzkrieg waiting for me, if I get a chance to play tonight. Can’t wait to try Kritzing some soldiers, or to make an UberKritz.

Beautiful shot, Tom. I semi-farmed mine (after, in my view, earning it legitimately by having the nous to do it during a Stalemate period), and I was fine with that until I saw the glory that is that animated gif.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:41:25 +0000

Maybe if you stuck 2Fort on the server, you’d have this achievement earlier

I’m still not going to even try to play pyro until the pyro-spamfest wears out – besides, medic is now more useful then ever

By: Walker Spaight

Walker Spaight — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:21:40 +0000

/waves to Arq!

okay, and to Tom too ;)

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:37:26 +0000

Funny stuff :)

I’m rubbish as Pyro, I’ve put some time in though and got the first thingy. I should REALLY go for this achievement next!

Also; Medic weapons are now unlockable at the Pyro levels! Yes! Finally got the Bonesaw, typically on the night I get the critical gun too (under the old numbers) hah! :)

By: WeakLemonDrink

WeakLemonDrink — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:30:34 +0000

http://steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=posts&id=1653&cc=GB

Valve are good.

By: WeakLemonDrink

WeakLemonDrink — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:34:26 +0000

Everyone always has such lovely screenshots of TF2. I sometimes wonder if I’m the only person still languishing in DX8.1 land.

By: Seniath

Seniath — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:25:06 +0000

I generally tire of the standard CP maps (Well/Granary) quite quickly, and Fastlane is no exception. And as for Turbo... it's rather empty. Though I've no idea of the quality of other user-created maps, nor can I map myself, so I guess I can't pass comment. In other news, woot, bed time.

By: WeakLemonDrink

WeakLemonDrink — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:58:26 +0000

Yeah, I’ve really taken to CTF Well. Such a simple thing like taking out a big chunk and putting in some extra stairs, and suddenly you’ve got a lovely, fat free map that’s perfect for CTF. About time Well had some love, I think.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:50:17 +0000

Burn! Yeah, FastLAME is lame, so is TurBORING. Like the new CTF_Well, though, so far.

By: WeakLemonDrink

WeakLemonDrink — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:39:37 +0000

I thought the sniper method on 2fort would be a dead cert, too, but Snipers were obviously very twitchy when there were that many Pyros running around. I managed to get mine legitimately but a little clumsily during a big pile on to the centre capture point on Fastlane (FastLAME, I call it.) Miraculously, I fired it off and didn’t get slaughtered until after I caught someone.

Also: I made it on to one of your screenshots. Typical that it caught one of the RARE occasions I got killed. Yes.

By: Seniath

Seniath — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:11:51 +0000

I went for the boring Sniper route, and after a handful near misses got it quite easily. Just a couple more to go till I get the final unlock. Loving the Backburner, it certainly goes hand in hand with my desired style of play with the Pyro.

By: Pod

Pod — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:10:53 +0000

Found yourself a new desktop background then?

The first time I saw this “done” was when a guy Hadoukened 2 snipers in a row on the perch area of Turbine. He got the achievement first time, natch, but boy was it amusing to watch :) (I was coming out of the vent from the other side)

By: Chris Livingston

Chris Livingston — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:47:12 +0000

Ha ha ha ha. Oh, Tom. You make me laugh. I love the write-up; I felt many of the same things while I was gripped with the obsession of getting with this achievement in a legit match. And the animated gif is just fan-fucking-tastic. I wish I had a record of my own taunt-kill, definitely the most satisfying moment of my TF2 career, but alas, I was way too focused on getting it that I didn’t even snap a picture.