Badlands is a magnet for exploiters, griefers, and dumb asses
So far I think I like the new Badlands Team Fortress 2 map. The routes are laid out to provide some interesting approaches and flanking opportunities, and the diverse terrain and vertical aspect is a lot of fun. From what I’ve seen, one of the biggest strengths is that no one class is able to dominate and you can play as almost anything and still useful in most areas. You just need to find the right tactics and think about how you are playing - it is a good thinking map, and good tactics and strats seem to make all the difference.
Which is why it’s so frustrating that I haven’t been able to have a decent game on it yet with all the idiots that have come out of the woodward with it’s release. It’s like all the kids played TF2 at the start, got bored, went back to Counter Strike, and now they’ve come back to TF2 again. GAH.
The worst thing seems to be the glaring underground-turret exploit. I think it took about 0.0246 seconds for the griefers to find that one after the map was released. I had really hoped Valve had learned their lesson with the problems in Gravelpit a while back and guarded against that kind of exploit a bit more.
This f**k here was s**ting me off royally last night:
Just in case anyone is running a server, and wants to lay down the ban stick (I’m looking at YOU Gamearena). His steam unique ID is STEAM_0:1:17433520, and his steam profile page is here
Another minor annoyance were the Team Roomba wannabes from WAPS stacking up one team, then all rolling engineer and being useless. Then being a dick about it on voice comms. Amazing how tough these kids act when they are safely anonymous on the interweb AND they have their buddies to back up their anti-social BS. At least Roomba had some style and made it funny.
I think I might just lay low till things go back to normal again. (Or maybe I’ll just be forced to anyway)
