I have a deep respect for this kind of thing; it works similarly with the spy’s pistol, as the knife never ‘naturally’ crits.

If the sapper could quit, it would blow up the building and shower stickies everywhere that would blow up when the engie placed a new sentry. Balance THAT.

So you see you CAN use the blut to crit, you just have to use the medic’s speed to control the range to your target.

I’m hunting down Tracer Tong in Hong Kong whilst playing ping pong with King Kong.

…enough of that. I’m completely stuck, although Deus Ex has brilliant level design. Chased by police, I lept into a canal, gunfire slamming into the walls around me. I quickly swam to a closeby porch, heaved myself up and found myself in a fisherman’s home. It’s great bits like this that help the player to appreciate the level design.

It’s in the details, such as Paul Denton’s appreciation of life, that keep it miles above some of today’s meager fare… and the fact that I’m completely unlike him in that regard, as many NPC’s have pointed out. :D

God I love the blutsauger.

@Roadrunner – I didn’t know Valve were into Nietzsche.

Let’s see if I can get it working on individual post pages too…

Yep, there we go.

Myabe I just have bad reception.

EVERYBODY TO FOX VIEWING POSITION

…haha this old Married with Children joke never gets old.

I feel so american right now :( (that’s a bad thing. Next thing you know I’l be making “YOUR MAMA” jokes)

Also, overhealed spys will have their own team colours plusses around them. even when cloaked.
So if you see a cloud of floating plusses, open up.
And, if you’re a medic, heal everyone. If you’re healing a spy, he’ll have different coloured plusses to you.

Good-oh.

I do agree on making new models for the higher level teleports though.

Forgot to mention this is a very bad thing. I think.

But when *I* play heavy this completely switches the scissors-rock relationship between heavy and demoman. Suddenly a demoman who lurks at a distance or out of the line of the fire creating an impromptu sticky carpet can’t reliably trump a heavy. The demo is better off using grenades! Gasp! Yes! His primary weapon! Remember that?

There are some particle problems that should be easy fixes. I have seen mobile clouds of glowing plusses and reacted accordingly. Upgraded teleporter entrances continue to crazy-glow even when there’s no matching exit. Also please note that camping exits is now at least three times as devastating to the other team’s momentum as before. I did see one of those dispenser carts, and thought it was just a visual aid to let newbies know the cart provides health and ammo. Does the cart actually put out more supplies now?

In fact, having two or three engies babysit one ‘set’ of equipment might well be the new thing.

Goldrush, third map, stage three. I’m defending as a Spy, and have backstabbed two unfortunate BLU foes. Of course, the rest of the team is now hankering for my blood. While I twist and turn cloaked from vision, I take heavy damage but miraculously escape with red health.

Pre-update, I’d normally duck around a corner and take time out. Yet, now I can recharge my cloak, so I run with my remaining cloak time up to the ammo/health crates behind the BLU force, feeling very nifty and clever indeed. :D

At that moment, I see a single sticky mine arc over my head, land in front of me and explode! The demoman had pre-empted my move, and had thought what he’d do if he was an injured Spy.

I couldn’t help but laugh and give kudos to him: I’d enacted my new found stratergy, while he’d adapted his gameplay to the new scenario. It’s a constant learning curve, and ensures no one way of doing things is perfect.

Anyone else experience new tactics, post update?

Its painfull.

I’m keen to find out what the engie does get in his pack considering the recent buff though.

A NERF bat to replace his baseball bat. Does no damage but on hit forcibly changes enemy to melee weapon, complete with the one(ish) second firing delays associated in regularly switching weapons. The enemy can immediately switch back, mind you, but there is a delay associated with that prior to firing said weapon (and the Scout could just keep batting).

This reduces a scout’s ability to kill a target, but would make him much more useful as a “scout”, being able to hamper the enemies abilities to fight while his backup comes in guns blazing.

I also LOVE the Spy changes, they give him some much-needed love. Badwater defense has never been so back-stabbingly fun-

I’ve been hearing of some bugs… apparently the Medic health buff is still visible on cloaked Spies. This results in griefing. Get it fixed, Valve!

It would be another nice addition if the Pyro’s flame set them off. The air blast is nice and all but the physics never seems to push them where you want it to. Being able to explode them at some range would be excellent.

And if your stupid and rush into a bunch flaming you get blown up

Now that I think about it being able to set off bombs in mid air would be friggin awesome.

I really like the idea of the spy’s cloak recharging – it makes the spy more effective, but also forces them into areas where there’s a lot more ordinance flying around (since that’s where all the dropped weapons will be). Bit of a trade-off there, very Valve-esque. Should make playing spy even more tense – can I make it to that dropped gun in time, will someone else grab it first …

I wonder if they added even more voice acting?
Anyway, they should be working on l4d more, with a goddamn server browser, and giving us a mod making kit :|

I would like more skill to the demoman, nades should explode after 2 seconds but not on hit, this makes it more about timing the shots than the point-click-dead nowadays. This and the stickies, maybe have them activate after a short delay but be more powerful should enable demos to fit more snugly into the TF2 classes.

Btw, im so gald about the medic one. To make everyone love me here are 2 facts about me – as engi I place dispensers to heal, and im a medic who will heal more than one friggin target and can defend themselves a bit – pyros and spies beware!

But really, I don’t like the new update. I kind of stopped playing TF2 for the last month, waiting for a fun new update. And what do I get? My secondery class nerfed. My third most liked and unwillingly piramy due to lag class gut a worthless addon (half finished too). My secondery class’s tactics which made the whole thing fun gut narrowed down to “pick up a box after two seconds”. I find the new effects only half done too.

Fun.

As for crits, they make the game fun. Maybe it sucks to get a crit in your face (especially when it’s a scout), but it’s hillarious when you shoot a crit grenade and a soldier suddenly rocket jumps just into it. And gets exploded.

Sorry to hear you can’t play Tom, cleanly reinstalling Steam [http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Cleanly_reinstalling_Steam ] may help. Just be smarter than me and backup your steamapps for pictures\scripts\games you don’t have problems with before that. Uninstalling Staem deletes everything, apparently (except nasty registry you’ve gutta delete manually. I’ve had more than what the short guide said, and it only wored after deleting everything Steam and Valve.).

One tweak that I would like to see on that area is: crit explosives gives bonus damage but NOT bonus AoE! This way you wouldn’t get killed by a stickie/rocket/nade that actually was a clearly MISS :(

I’ve played on no-crit servers also, and the game feels more tactical. I think that the crits are fun, sometimes, specially if that tweak is put in place :P

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May I kill you please?