Pway a Weal Cwass

by himmelstoss on June 22nd 2009

The Soldier is easy to pick up, and even easier to suck at. But in the right hands, he’s a 200-HP, lean, mean, rocket-firing death machine of doom. Just head to YouTube and search “soldier frag” if you want to feel inadequate.

Point is, climbing up the soldier skill curve is often difficult. Maybe you need a little help.

PandaPooPs has put together what may well be the best TF2 class tutorial ever made. In ten minutes of utter ownage (with some of the most eye-popping airshots I have ever seen – better than 90% of frag vide0s), he teaches you, the soldier noob, how to pway a weal cwass. You heard that, private?

Now, if you’d excuse me, I’m going to be off crushing some maggots. SCREAMING EAGLES!

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himmelstoss on June 22nd 2009 in team fortress 2

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43 Responses to “Pway a Weal Cwass”

  1. Graven_Image responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 12:09 am #

    O.O

    I just crit.

  2. Sheepshifter responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 12:17 am #

    DEATH TO THE VIDEO POSTS.

  3. Josh60502 responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 1:22 am #

    This has got to be the best TF2 tutorial I’ve ever seen.

  4. GoldCrusader responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 1:46 am #

    And suddenly, I want to play Soldier and do nothing but rocketjump.

  5. DPErny responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 1:48 am #

    Sadly, he is right about pyros and airblasting…

  6. Secret Agent Clank! responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 2:09 am #

    Phshaw. It’s not possible to not at least contribute a little damage as Soldier.

    Though now that you mention it, it’s possible to suck at any class you pick up.

    Except Pyro.

    (loltrolling)

  7. Alec responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 3:09 am #

    It’s easy to suck as a pyro.

    The usual way is to completely ignore danger. Rockets? CHARGE. Heavies? CHARGE. Sticky traps? CHARGE.

    You get the idea.

  8. Alec responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 3:10 am #

    Oh, the video’s cool too.

  9. Frekydelic responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 3:17 am #

    Woah, I think I played with this guy a while back. He’s really REALLY good.

  10. SirMax responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 3:17 am #

    dern rocketeers destroying my sentries

  11. Feralt responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 3:24 am #

    This makes me want to play an already often-played class. For me.

  12. Tox responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 3:50 am #

    He’s ok. I’ve played with him a bunch.

  13. Tesla Tank responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 4:05 am #

    It’s educational. But he makes it sound way too easy :P

  14. sMisk responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 4:20 am #

    It’s a good tutorial first one who takes up ammomod as good training and it’s very useful i must say.

  15. This Is No Zaku! responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 4:34 am #

    I guess it’s time to break out the ol’ stash wearer once more!

  16. n00bie51 responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 5:38 am #

    Good video.

  17. Wazzle responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 5:44 am #

    Wow, now even I want to try out soldier… not that I’d be any good or anything.

    Also, hopefully some of you still remember me…. I haven’t died, but my motherboard has, and I’m waiting on a replacement. I’ll be on the server ASAP, which is sometime this week.

  18. Ninja Kow responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 6:40 am #

    How odd, I stumbled on this video about 20 minutes before finding this article.

    Yes, it’s very nicely done.

  19. Zanpa responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 7:07 am #

    Hey, I played Soldier and well, that works. 3/1 KDR in a regular pub, 2/1 in nocrits nospread teamplay.
    Well, the other team sucked every time, but that was fun.

  20. FlyingHat responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 7:55 am #

    I luvs mah soldier, I consider the shotgun to be more important than the rocket lawnchair.

  21. Killa-Ewok responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 8:29 am #

    @Flyinghat

    Go Engineer then.

  22. Mongrel Warfare responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 8:48 am #

    Venture Bros. in my TF2?

  23. Shrake12 responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 8:52 am #

    I never touch soldier because I suck at direct combat. I stay with spying and engineering cause I like my killing in two flavors: sneaky bastard and camping bastard.

    Still a pretty awesome video.

  24. FlyingHat responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 9:01 am #

    Play more scout, then you can add literal bastard to your list.

  25. Pyrit responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 9:15 am #

    What does the cl_interp command do? I tried it out and I haven’t noticed much difference yet. I thought that it might reduce the delay time between firing shots but I haven’t noticed a difference. Also, if he suggests 0, what’s the default setting?

  26. CharlesMan responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 9:49 am #

    I love how every “tutorial” video ever is HEY LOOK AT ME KILL STUFF HERE’S SOME COMMON SENSE

    Hitting someone in the air with a rocket is…Not that easy.

  27. Coming Second responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 12:28 pm #

    Really nice music. As for the video…weeeell I’ve pretty much consigned myself to the fact I’ll never be that good of a Soldier. S’why I don’t play him much.

  28. NotJim responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 2:30 pm #

    @Pyrit: http://www.surrounded.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=240

  29. gelugon2105 responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 2:52 pm #

    Pretty good tutorial video.

  30. Soviet Russia responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 11:34 pm #

    The educational value of this video…omg I’m a soldier nub…

  31. Niphrendil responded on 23 Jun 2009 at 11:37 pm #

    Great Video! I have a good deal of time as Soldier and it is one of my worst classes. I will definelty benifit from your video (unless I really just suck)!

  32. anonymous coward responded on 24 Jun 2009 at 12:53 am #

    Soldier is my most played class, and after watching this video, I still suck. This kind of stuff can’t be taught, you just have to practice

  33. Bob responded on 24 Jun 2009 at 2:02 am #

    Well, it beats all of the fanfic posts.

  34. Slade responded on 24 Jun 2009 at 3:48 am #

    I’d like to know what are the names of the songs used in this video. They motivate me to play as a Soldier.

  35. saiko responded on 24 Jun 2009 at 4:10 am #

    How are these some awesome air shots? They were the completely basic ones, most of them were juggle shots. Not trying to say he’s bad, but everyone with more than 100 soldier hours can do those. Really not that hard.

  36. User responded on 24 Jun 2009 at 4:44 am #

    “How are these some awesome air shots? They were the completely basic ones, most of them were juggle shots. Not trying to say he’s bad, but everyone with more than 100 soldier hours can do those. Really not that hard.”

    qft

  37. APARTHEID responded on 24 Jun 2009 at 6:00 am #

    Ye who proclaims skills above thine foes shalt post empirical evidence of thine proclamation. Ye who proclaims skills above thine foes and shies from thine duty of evidencing shalt forever be … the Fool.

  38. Pad See Ew responded on 24 Jun 2009 at 6:11 am #

    I’m amazed at how I almost never played Soldier in TFC, but in TF2 it’s always one I reach for. It’s all about the verticality, I think.

    Great tutorial…I’m constantly pausing to read – it flies by pretty quick sometimes.

  39. Mecha responded on 24 Jun 2009 at 9:36 am #

    Saiko, you are correct, those are some pretty standard airshots for a competent soldier. However, they’re still an important part of playing the soldier class, and you don’t see people being shot out of the sky often in regular servers.

  40. Dirdle responded on 25 Jun 2009 at 6:34 am #

    “Ye who proclaims skills above thine foes shalt post empirical evidence of thine proclamation. Ye who proclaims skills above thine foes and shies from thine duty of evidencing shalt forever be … the Fool.”

    Now THAT’s worth being QFT, :)

  41. Mr. Noobinator responded on 25 Jun 2009 at 6:10 pm #

    shoot the wockets!

  42. Silencer responded on 21 Jul 2009 at 11:54 pm #

    This is why I love the compression blast :)

    I never charge into a soldier unless he is out of ammo.

  43. ubercharged.net – Pway a Weal Cwass, Part Deux responded on 26 Jan 2010 at 1:33 pm #

    [...] the soldier who created “Pway a Weal Cwass,” is back with another video. While PaWC was about general soldier strategy, PaWC 2 [...]

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