How To Play Heavy Tutorial Video
Elvis! recommended another great tutorial video. It’s produced by RandomEngy, and is in a similar style to the great How To Play Spy and How To Play Pyro videos made by Daedalus.
A lot of people think the heavy weapons guy is a basic class with no tricks to know. While he is often simpler to play than other classes, there is more to the heavy than just dumb charging while firing your big gun. There are still a lot of tactics that people on public servers miss which this tutorial goes over.
Yes, there is more to it than charge + fire your big gun + pray for an ubercharge.
Theres also some nice footage of a heavy owning an entire enemy team while maniacally laughing and yelling at them. Seriously, the heavy has the funniest lines Team Fortress 2.
madlep on November 28th 2007 in heavy weapons guy, how to, team fortress 2, videos
Stumble it!
Elvis! responded on 28 Nov 2007 at 11:13 am #
Glad to be o’service madlep
I usually look through recent submissions on youtube when i should be working….send all the good ones on to my colleagues who i also play TF2 with (I work at a games developer so there’s quite a few of us) and decided i would also send ‘em on to your TF2 blog
Joined your ubercharged steam group BTW.
Keep up the good work
Elvis!
madlep responded on 28 Nov 2007 at 11:24 am #
Cheer man, appreciate it
Elvis! responded on 28 Nov 2007 at 11:25 pm #
Short one – pyro rockstar
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=V003rDx65rE
Jeff responded on 29 Nov 2007 at 12:13 pm #
that person is a god with heavy….
XYZIA responded on 08 Dec 2007 at 9:57 am #
Nice, but your crosshair looks alot smaller than mine….
Cross responded on 04 Jan 2008 at 10:24 am #
What Xyzia said. My main gripe as a newbie is that the heavy gun has a rather wide spread as indicated by the big crosshairs.
Uranos responded on 19 Jan 2008 at 9:29 pm #
What about using the shotgun and the hands? When is it a good idea to use them?
jack te spy responded on 25 Jan 2008 at 2:24 am #
The only thing you forgot to mention is picking up weapons and scrap metal for ammo. And yes, I know I’m hardly an authority, but it should be in there.
Anonymous responded on 15 Jul 2008 at 4:32 pm #
@Uranos: I find the fists are best when seeking to deal out some serious lulz.
Krits responded on 27 Aug 2008 at 3:06 pm #
Im an avid Heavy Fanatic to put it short, Heavy is cool.
One thing against snipers, if you cannot avoid them (as in cant find cover) Switch to your shotgun and start blasting rounds at him while randomly ducking and jumping.
As far as when to use the fists and shotgun, use the shotgun at mid to close range if you cant wind up in time against the faster scouts and pyros that have to get close. This allows you some better manuverability than walking with the minigun. The fists are best against DAMAGED enemies, i recommend atleast putting 1-2 shells into an enemy before punching, since 1 punch typically can knock the running pants off a scout with 100 health.