(Note: link might not work yet, as I assumed by the time most people read this it’ll be onto the Day 3 update and the link would be out of date, so I’ve made a pre-emptive guess as to Day 2’s update location based on where Day 1’s ended up. If it doesn’t show up, just delete everything after sniperupdate/)

Jaz: Believe me, I complain on teh Steam forums every day.

my random pointless tips:
No Hitter, Belittled Beleaguer: CTF Turbine(?) with a low player count. run like crap for the first, hide in an air vent and ambush for the second.

Batting the Doctor: Total luck on my part, i blasted randomly into a crowd, accidentally taking out a medic who *apparently* had a charged uber. Poor sap.

Beanball: Look for scouts having way too much fun with the sandman. Grab one ball when they miss, wait for them to stun someone else, and then stun *them* when they dash in for the cheap shot.

I’m Bat Man: Lurk at a resupply cabinet. repeat. :P

Closer: Tricky, but not TOO hard, so long as you can make it past the lines to an enemy spawn. IMO, best done with the Force-a-nature then swap to pistol, as it takes several sloooooow shotgun blasts otherwise, and you really only have until the next spawn wave.

Stealing Home: Find a good hiding place and a good team. Remember that you only have to *start* capping to achieve.

Fall Classic: i got it in badlands, on one of the stone pillars. Seemed easier on classes that can hurt themselves, demoman or soldier.

First Blood, Part 2: You will not get this. Give up. ;_;

Gun Down: Wait for engy to leave. Profit.

If You Build It: Wait for engy to come back. Take out scattergun. Profit.

Triple Steal: Just start your own 2fort server, or join an empty one. :P

Race for the Pennant: Play a lot of payload or cp with wait times, jog around in said wait times. Never hold still. Got this first night, actually.

Block the Plate: An annoying grind, this requires you to throw yourself into a pile of enemies capping one of your points. Because of how the blocking mechanic works, you have to be the *first* to throw yourself onto the threatened point. Luckily, survival is not a requirement.

I hope this long-winded mess is helpful to someone.

Incidentally, i do consider about 12 of the achievements to be basically improbable to the point of absurdity. Then again, i’ve thought this with every pack.
(one MILLION damage?!? Really? What were they drinking?)

Also, the best moments as a spy for me, include the feeling of absolute badassness you get when you see a line of snipers all standing with their backs to you. Tricking an enemy medic to heal you, only to stab him in the back (that one’s obvious) but possibly my favourite is watching an enemy pyro flaming anyone on his team that he sees, knowing that there’s a spy around, and then just as he stops, beginning to doubt his suspicions, he gets a knife in his back. Just imagining the frustration of that player makes all the fruitless suicide missions worthwhile.

As long as the two of us are locked in our little game of cat and mouse, the rest of the team is free from the sort of net nerf you describe – it may have been faster for me to just ignore it, but worse over all for the team. The spy might be wasting my time, but I’m wasting his too.

Of course, if you let the spy get away from you completely, and keep poking around in the wrong direction while they’re off killing your team-mates, then you really are just wasting your time.

I used to think my job was to deal with tricky Sentries, then I tried playing Demoman for five minutes and kind of got despirited about that.

The enemy team being half scout, and therefore un-stabbable might have had something to do with it. I spent a lot of time just getting killed as I was searching for a target.

This is why I rarely last more than a couple of lives as a class other than my beloved medic and heavy. It feels so much more difficult to have a positive effect on the game. I felt happy just to get one kill before dying as a spy, but knew I could be turning the tide on top of a mound of corpses if only I switched back to my comfortable heavy skin.

The only ones that seem to be seriously lacking in this area and tends to play pretty straight forwardly is the Sniper.

Also, when the entire defense team for a round is made entirely of Scouts, you know somethings up

Fun times on 2fort earlier, maybe just because we won a lot. Ludo and Dante joined me later on Steel and Egypt, where the same enemy Scout TWICE Sandmanned me while fully cloaked. Luckily he switched to Spy for Egypt, where I thoroughly outSpied him. Egypt feels easily defended: the attackers never got off the first map, then when they were defending, we couldn’t get past the second. There seems to be an unassailable sentry nest position.

So I tend to sneak up on them, which is hard because they WONT STOP MOVING D:

Also The Sandman is fun to use ONCE IN A WHILE. But if someone else has it and uses it nonstop it gets kind of boring to play, especially at the beginning of Payload maps where its Baseballs flying EVERYWHERE

I need a good tactic for killing Scouts with the Flare Gun and no shotgun D:

As a Pyro, I’ve found the best tactic to be, especially when you’re out in the relative open and it’s a 1 vs. 1 fight where the Scout is definitely focusing on you, begin backpeddling rapidly and shoot at him with your shotgun so that he’s dodging around like a maniac but is ultimately running toward you so that he can get in close range with his scattergun, and then switch to your flame thrower quickly and charge forward in hopes that he’s still moving toward you when you suddenly shift gears.

But yeah, scouts are tough opponents. They tend not to rack up a lot of kills, but it’s hard to kill them.

Just a played a match with you.. believed you grabbed the enemy intel repeatedly as a spy, but surely this new wave of scouts makes backstabbing less frequent?

However now that everyone and his dog is playing them, god they are irritating! Bouncing around, close range, and for a moderately incompetant soldier like me, totally impossible to hit

Do any of the better TF2 players here have good tactics to use against scouts? Particularly if they are running rings around you unload shotgun fire into you. As a pyro I can usually do some damage but its quite hit and miss and if the scout is good he just dances out of range of my flamethrower

Any ideas? :(

Except I wish the new Scout will die and rot in hell.

As much as I love steam it’s just reminded me how much I dislike having to rely on it working to play games, moreso offline ones. Also makes me worried about future replaying if it ever goes under. Ah well, I know valve will work those bugs away soon enough just that it’s as frustrating as *insert clever similie* for the time being.

Verify the integrity of the game’s cache yet?

Also, I’m finding it a little difficult to get used to the whole idea of, if I’m going to shoot someone while jumping, I’m going to fly backwards. It’s especially awkward on 2Fort, where double-jumping off of the bridge roof and onto the battlements is standard proceedure, and if you’re not careful you can wind up missing your jump because of the gun.

I’m also slightly disappointed at how you can’t get two jumps out of the shotgun. If you scatterjump with your first shot, nothing’ll happen with the second one. I guess I get why they did it, the ability to quadruple jump would be pretty powerful. That said, if you double jump and then shoot at someone, go flying backwards and miss your landing you might go falling down. Being able to shoot at the ground with your final shot would enable you to slow down your fall and avoid, well, y’know, death.

I’m also slightly disappointed at how far people go flying when you hit them with the Force A Nature. Seems like they ought to go flying much further than they do. Seems like the only way you’re going to cause environmental deaths is if they’re standing on the edge of a cliff already.

But all this said, I really do love the gun. I doubt I’ll ever go back to the old one.

Wish I could say the same for the new bat, but the loss of the doublejump is kind of a significant blow.

Though, the triple-jump isn’t all that wonderful. It does allow to reach a few places where you usually can’t get with just the double-jump, but it’s nowhere as good as sticky/rocket jump. Of course, that’s a good thing, because there’s no penalty for that jump (except for loosing one shot)