My TF2 Free Weekend experience

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Sooo I've been waiting for this game for a long time.
I decided give it a go on the free weekend since when I tried to buy it didn't work. (thank you steam) when it first came out.
Well the games fun, some of the hit boxes seem non-existent. Last time I checked if you shoot someone twice in either the front or the back of the head it at least would leave a scrape.
Characters are fun and creative I love art like that so no complaints. Finding competitive servers I pretty much gave up on though. But again the art is fantastic, kinda the funky cell shaded type like in some other great games another FPS I cant think of right now.

I'm pretty sure TF2 gamers are the most annoying group out of any community. I had to hear about Medics healing a guy who heals too much, a guy who runs too fast and how guys are playing "for serious" like 90 billion times. Long story short if one gaming community could wage war on another I'd love to see COD4 people call an air-strike on these idiots.

Just food for thought. If you guys can recommend a server I'd give it a go but after a few hours I don't think I can take these idiots anymore. I'm actually glad my payment didn't go through the first time around. "For Serious"
 
i find that any game with voice has the exact same community as any other game, i like tf2 for the fun factor, i could never imagine it being a serious/competitive game like cs or cod4.

its kinda like my 'excape the bullshit' game, if im bored or pissed off or whatever.

Get on, blow shit up, rinse repeat.

i always have voice chat disabled, dont ever read text either.
 
Sorry you didn't like it. I bought it, and have played since beta. A great game.
However, because of the "free weekend bums" and the "medic achievement whores", TF2 has not been that much fun the last few days. Either a bunch of easy boring kills on inexperienced players that don't know their way around or 5 medics running around to heal one soldier and not doing anything to achieve the maps objectives. It will get better again shortly.

I liked COD4, just not enough to play it continuously on hardcore with the exploding/get multiple free shots at you when they die campers. Boring. It seems like most of the servers are hardcore only now.
 
I've yet to hear anyone say "for serious" on TF2 ever. Better yet, the mute command is a perma-mute, so not only do you mute him for your time on the server with him, you mute him for whenever your playing with him ever on any server.

Also, things are a bit hectic right now because of the medic achevements, once everyones gotten those I think it'l calm down but that raises an intresting point: I would argue TF2 is the most well balanaced and broadest FPS out there, you've got every playstyle you can think of and its very well balanced. My only issue is a a minor one and its where scout + big map + lots of HP kits lying around. Thats bull sh!t. I lit the sunbyatch up and he runs away to go grab HP. Gravel pit "A" point comes to mind instantly.

And I'm coming from CS 1.6 (the original counterstrike, patched 6 times) cyberathelete intermediate league. I've tryed COD4 (and its good, If i could get my buds on it I might be playing that right now), I've tryed Battle Field and its various off shoots. I've tried source. I've tried stalker. I've tried too many online FPSs. My favorites are still TF2, and 1.6, (and System shock 2 :p).

That said I've been getting into the Real Time Stratagy scene recently and I gotta tell ya I'm loving the world in conflict. Starcraft is still pretty epic too. Hope SC II supports just as awesome UMS (Use Map Settings, type of game thats entirely user created and in Starcrafts case very very unique)!

anyways, yeah, its the free weekend right now for TF2 and i encourage you to give it a try if your into FPS's. When I started this game I wasn't expecting much and it did so much more than my expectations. When you watch the documentary you can see why Valve is one of the best game developers in the world (they havn't really released an un-sucessful game).
 
MrWizard6600 said:
And I'm coming from CS 1.6 (the original counterstrike, patched 6 times) cyberathelete intermediate league. I've tryed COD4 (and its good, If i could get my buds on it I might be playing that right now)
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sorry if going a little ot... but: I miss the competitive side of cs1.6 :-( its just not the same as it used to be for me, ever since silent running and ads all over, its just not the same game to me anymore, i cant even play like 1-2 scrims/matches without someone being blatant as fuck. But COD4 for me has been a whole new revival for me and FPS games, i love hardcore mode, i dont care what anyone says about camping and shit, i love the fact the same asshole i just killed doesnt just walk behind me and knife me cuz they saw me from their last death. It takes awhile to get used to after playing CS for like, i dunno 3-4 years? cal M for 2 of those? but i love the bullet damage, and i love the whole atmosphere of each map, theres so many nooks and crannies to hide in.

back OT, i suggest turning voice off, and just having a blast.
 
Goto the player list and mute everyone. Great way to solve that annoying people on the mic problem.
 
I always leave voice chat on unless someone is spamming their favorite rap album. It's refreshing to actually have communication and cooperation between strangers in such a team-oriented game. My positive experiences have probably come about from being able to find a couple favorite servers with mature players (for the most part).

I play on "A Drunken Brawl" if I'm looking for a semi-serious game or "Jiggly's Fun House" if I just want to kick back.
 
evanisthecoastie said:
sorry if going a little ot... but: I miss the competitive side of cs1.6 :-( its just not the same as it used to be for me, ever since silent running and ads all over, its just not the same game to me anymore, i cant even play like 1-2 scrims/matches without someone being blatant as fuck. But COD4 for me has been a whole new revival for me and FPS games, i love hardcore mode, i dont care what anyone says about camping and shit, i love the fact the same asshole i just killed doesnt just walk behind me and knife me cuz they saw me from their last death. It takes awhile to get used to after playing CS for like, i dunno 3-4 years? cal M for 2 of those? but i love the bullet damage, and i love the whole atmosphere of each map, theres so many nooks and crannies to hide in.

back OT, i suggest turning voice off, and just having a blast.
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Just had to comment on this. You talk about blatent in 1.6 as if there are no hackers in COD4, refer to http://www.caleague.com/?page=teams&teamid=178180 and thats just after 1 season.

As far as TF2, I downloaded it and had a pretty good time pubbing, but I found that all the classes I played were pretty much the same. The most fun I had was being a spy and running around knifing people without them knowing what was going on. My thoughts on the game were, it's fun to pub around in but I could never see myself playing competitively.
 
GORANKAR said:
Sorry you didn't like it. I bought it, and have played since beta. A great game.
However, because of the "free weekend bums" and the "medic achievement whores", TF2 has not been that much fun the last few days. Either a bunch of easy boring kills on inexperienced players that don't know their way around or 5 medics running around to heal one soldier and not doing anything to achieve the maps objectives. It will get better again shortly.

I liked COD4, just not enough to play it continuously on hardcore with the exploding/get multiple free shots at you when they die campers. Boring. It seems like most of the servers are hardcore only now.
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this. I don't know why they waited to do a "free weekend" after the medic update, new players trying it out won't get a true representation of the game. I think they should have held off the update until they had 3-4 more classes finished. That way you're not running around with a team that's 50% medics and most of them have never even played medic before and suck at it. It's getting "back to normal" more now, but playing Thursday and Friday wasn't really fun at all.

The only 2 servers that I play in are Jedi's Loft (99% of the time) and Jiggly's Fun House (when Jedi's is empty)
 
I love when people make posts like this, so amazingly silly.

On the other side of the table COD4 is full of just as many children and problems. Last time I played COD4 is was full of cheaters and whining kids. In fact any game is full of the exact same problems. I personally have never had real issues the TF2 community but I also jump around until I find a server I like.
 
Glow said:
Just food for thought. If you guys can recommend a server I'd give it a go but after a few hours I don't think I can take these idiots anymore. I'm actually glad my payment didn't go through the first time around. "For Serious"
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evanisthecoastie said:
sorry if going a little ot... but: I miss the competitive side of cs1.6 :-( its just not the same as it used to be for me, ever since silent running and ads all over, its just not the same game to me anymore, i cant even play like 1-2 scrims/matches without someone being blatant as fuck. But COD4 for me has been a whole new revival for me and FPS games, i love hardcore mode, i dont care what anyone says about camping and shit, i love the fact the same asshole i just killed doesnt just walk behind me and knife me cuz they saw me from their last death. It takes awhile to get used to after playing CS for like, i dunno 3-4 years? cal M for 2 of those? but i love the bullet damage, and i love the whole atmosphere of each map, theres so many nooks and crannies to hide in.

back OT, i suggest turning voice off, and just having a blast.
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People can become human aimbots in cs1.6, they can't in COD4 or TF2.
 
I can't say I've experience half of the things you mentioned, OP. You must have been finding really crappy servers, apparently. I did notice that there were a lot of people who didn't know what they were doing running around, though; because of the free weekend, I'm sure.

PureBooYah said:
The only 2 servers that I play in are Jedi's Loft (99% of the time) and Jiggly's Fun House (when Jedi's is empty)
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Server IPs?
 
PureBooYah said:
this. I don't know why they waited to do a "free weekend" after the medic update, new players trying it out won't get a true representation of the game. I think they should have held off the update until they had 3-4 more classes finished. That way you're not running around with a team that's 50% medics and most of them have never even played medic before and suck at it. It's getting "back to normal" more now, but playing Thursday and Friday wasn't really fun at all.

The only 2 servers that I play in are Jedi's Loft (99% of the time) and Jiggly's Fun House (when Jedi's is empty)
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Yeah, last weekend or even next would have been a much better indicator of typical play for a free weekend than this one. I am not against the medic update, just a lot of people are being asses about it. On an 8 man team, I was the only player not a medic at one point this weekend. So I just started looking thru my favorites trying to remember the servers that had limits of 3 players per class, per team.
 
Where are the friggin hit boxes? Shooting people in the back of the head point blank doesn't work this seems to stupid
 
TF2 community from what I've seen is damn well better than the CoD4 community, where even typing out "damn" could get you kicked from a server.

I love playing TF2, and I like ruining medic's trying to get their achievements, stupid medics running with their saw, and syringe gun attacking a scout.

@Fumarole - QFT, they probably met other free loaders that normally wont pay for the game, and are probably just idiots.
 
PureBooYah said:
this. I don't know why they waited to do a "free weekend" after the medic update, new players trying it out won't get a true representation of the game. I think they should have held off the update until they had 3-4 more classes finished. That way you're not running around with a team that's 50% medics and most of them have never even played medic before and suck at it. It's getting "back to normal" more now, but playing Thursday and Friday wasn't really fun at all.

The only 2 servers that I play in are Jedi's Loft (99% of the time) and Jiggly's Fun House (when Jedi's is empty)
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Yeah, they should not have had the free weekend at this time. Was a poor choice on Valves part. If there was to be a free weekend, it should have been done prior to any class changes. As you said, its not a true representation of the game at all.

Jiggly's Fun House is a good server. Most everyone on that server know what they are doing. But most of the time, heh, I cant get in, server is full. But that only compliments the fact that its a good server. Its always full. Some of them JFH guys are a bit annoying, but at least they are annoying in a somewhat, funny way, lol. No matter how many times I hear it, hearing that "gayjoey" voice thingy cracks me up. Oh oh, and that voice of a lady saying in a pissed off voice "FUK YOU" and then hearing a boys voice "Ok, bend over".....I shot coke out my nose the first time I heard it, lol. Halarious stuff.

If you didnt like TF2, you just didnt find a good server. Go find Jigglys Fun House, but I warn ya, if you dont know what your doing, your going to get your ass handed to ya.
 
Glow said:
Where are the friggin hit boxes? Shooting people in the back of the head point blank doesn't work this seems to stupid
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Again, what THE hell you talk bout Willis?

There are no hit boxes in TF2 and the only class I know of that can ONE shot anyone is the sniper and there is a time delay for him to do so too. If you managed to get behind someone and be there long enough to shoot them in the head point blank then that wasnt a very good player to begin with. Also, this game is FAR from being about "REALISM". If thats what your looking for bro, I suggest a different game.

This is a total FUN GAME. Leave seriousness at the door when entering.
 
SAW said:
Again, what THE hell you talk bout Willis?

There are no hit boxes in TF2 and the only class I know of that can ONE shot anyone is the sniper and there is a time delay for him to do so too. If you managed to get behind someone and be there long enough to shoot them in the head point blank then that wasnt a very good player to begin with. Also, this game is FAR from being about "REALISM". If thats what your looking for bro, I suggest a different game.

This is a total FUN GAME. Leave seriousness at the door when entering.
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QFT, the game is meant to be fun, and I say they did a pretty damn good job at it.
 
in terms of people hacking I just wanted to bring up one thing.

A friend of mine who's been playing cs for more then 6 years (1.3) (who could have had a 5 digit if he had only created his own account instead of using his bros lol, that would be worth a couple bux today ;) has a quickscope that honestly looks like hes hacking. You watch him play he has hours of patience and when he finally shoots someone all you see is his awp suddenly gesture in one direction, and his model reload the bolt action weapon and then "Wheelsang --> [inert name here]" in the top right hand corner. His quickscope is accurate from back of A platform to pit in D2. He has been accused of hacking more times than I can remember, but I've seen him pull these amazing shots off, in person, on my computer (which I know contains no hacks). Its amazing.

All of this is to say there are alot of people who will call someone a hacker when they really arn't so dont just assume because he's good that he hacks.

This friend of mine now plays TF2 where I'm just as good as a sniper as he is :)
 
anyone having trouble downloading this? I can't for the life of me figure out how to get it. There's no "free" option on the tf2 page in steam, and the "play now" link on the website only takes me to the default tf2 page in steam.

edit: gave up and bought it
 
The hitbox complaining is retarded
There is NO problem with the hitboxs in TF2. I've played sniper quite a bit.
 
I played a bit of TF2 during the free weekend and had a freaking blast. I normally dont play online multiplayer FPS much because...well, I'm just not that good at them (even tho I've been playing off and on since CS was originally released, and played Delta force before that)

i just picked up the orange box on amazon for $24.99
 
Glow said:
I decided give it a go on the free weekend since when I tried to buy it didn't work. (thank you steam) when it first came out.
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What happened, specifically?

Glow said:
I'm actually glad my payment didn't go through the first time around. "For Serious"
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What method of payment had you tried? Did you contact support about the problem?
 
MrWizard6600 said:
I've yet to hear anyone say "for serious" on TF2 ever. Better yet, the mute command is a perma-mute, so not only do you mute him for your time on the server with him, you mute him for whenever your playing with him ever on any server.
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patently false
 
For the record, this weekend was not indicative of normal TF2 play. Achievement whoring was rampant, and with the influx of free-weekend people, the kills were easy. Things should be back to normal by next weekend.

Really, Valve should have included achievements for at least 3 classes. There's absolutely no surprise that there were teams of 50% medics (all of which have their bonesaws out), since they only addressed that one class.
 
I've been playing release and the game is great. On the east coast intox and lotus are good. Hacking exists - but it's pretty rare.

This weekend was pretty crappy ... with all the medic whoring around. The new map - goldrush - is pretty good .. but there needs to be some class capping. 5 Snipers - is just too damn many .. and when you get 5 snipers and 6 medics you aren't going to make much progress. I'm going to hate to see them release the sniper achievements.

It was good to see a new influx of people I hope some of them stick around.

Props to swarley for outstanding medic play.
 
I played this weekend but it was on the shacknews private servers where everyone is competitive. I picked up a few medic achievements that were humanly possible in a match then went back to Pyro/Engy.

I should have jumped on some pubs to see all the carnage but I like not dealing with people who don't know how to play.
 
Canadian in Berlin said:
you guys are tempting me to pick this up, I should have hit up the free weekend.
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You would not have enjoyed the "Free Weekend," as a player who has played TF2 since it came out I hated the few minutes I jumped in this weekend. I am happy for the new content and such, but the double hit (free weekend and achievements) ruined this weekends play.
 
fair enough, got any advice for beginners? (ok, I've done CAL CS and DoD Source so multiplayer FPS is not new, thats why I don't play them much :p) And what are the biggest selling/fun points of the game?
 
I would have to say that one of the biggest fun points of the game is that it is fairly easy to get "multikills".

There is just something very satisfying about blowing up 3-4 people at the same time with various weapons.
 
I played and decided to buy it. I figure it'll get better when more classes have achievements. A good game to play for a bit to unwind.
 
Try The Q Clan servers. They are highly competitive and kept clean of any racisim and general asshattery. Check the custom server tab as they run 32 player servers.
 
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