Like the spy video, this one is excellently produced and edited, and even had a few useful tips for experienced players - I didn’t realise you could take out sentries that way!
Anyway, I’m sure I’ll get more hate mail from all the pros saying that this stuff is all obvious, and isn’t worth mentioning. Well, if you’re in that boat, you can give it a skip and leave me alone. Everyone else should enjoy it.
Its Monday, and that means it time to watch some people getting messed up. Why? Because Monday is the hardest day of the week, and we switched to daylight savings time here in Australia over the weekend, and it fuzzes with my body clock and makes me cranky, and I feel like indulging in some mayhem.
So here’s a round up of a few Team Fortress 2 videos of various displays of ownage.
Spy Ownage
There’s a couple of good killing sprees in this one. Its a little older, from the beta. Most people are wised up enough to spies that you can’t get away with this stuff these days. Still cool.
Pyro Ownage
I love Pyro, I mean seriously. When you watch the kind of mayhem a single ubered pyro can inflict, it brings a smile to my face.
Heavy Ownage
The classic steamroller maneuver. A fat man charging toward you with a gun is a persuasive argument. The skinny nerdy guy behind him kinda helps as well.
Sniper Ownage
Usually I’m not a fan of sniper wankery. They tend to sit up on the barricades on 2 fort not doing much except killing each other and not really helping the game along (I’ll make an exception for ShanDogs, cause he’s actually not bad at it).
This guy has a some of that, but he gets out and stretches his legs a bit as well. The last shot is the coolest - hes a blue sniper who has the balls to snipe red engineers inside the stairs at the red base.
Random Messy Ownage
This last one is a bit silly. Its some duel map that is too small, and has too many people in it. Spawn camping taken to the extremes, and then some.
I love playing pyro. I mean really, whats not to like? His muffled ramblings crack me up. Its kinda like Kenny from Southpark. You can’t really understand anything, but you fill in the details with your imagination, and somehow your brain attaches some meaning to it far more offensive than what it would have been. I’ve attempted to translate, and most of what the pyro says definitely refers to your mother and her choice of romantic partner.
Then you’ve got some of the coolest animations in the game. Depending on your weapon, you’ve got taunt animations with nods to star wars, street fighter, AND air guitar.
And you can set people on fire!
Which is great.
Unless you’re a spy.
Pyros excel at anti-spy patrolling. The flamethrower is perfect for random sweeps if you suspect a spy is lurking around anywhere. Just flame every single person you see (friendly fire is always off remember) to uncover any spies that may be disguised. If you stay aware you can listen for spies cloaking, and you can vaguely see a shimmer when they move. If in doubt, just flame in a circle around you and see if anything catches fire.
Just inside the bottom entrance of 2fort is a perfect spot to camp and intercept incoming spies. Occasionally you can check the sewer entrance to see if anyone is coming in. A random shotgun blast down the tunnel each time will hit any incoming cloaked spies. Don’t engage them at range though - they’ll own you. Retreat and wait till you can engage them at close range (either that or they’ll give up and go back - which is not your problem anymore).
Which is fun for a while, but if you’re playing in a public game then the spies will often get tired of getting burnt, and will switch tactics (or servers) leaving you without much to do - especially if you’ve got an engineer helping you out. A solid defence can be quite demoralising.
This is a bit of a dilemma. You can either change tactics yourself and try something else (maybe go offence, or change class). But as soon as you do, you can bet that there’s gonna be another spy sneaking in. It just takes one to take out your turret defence, and backstab a few decent folk. Eventually it becomes a bit of a chore.
But thats the way the game goes I guess. You really just gotta keep at it like with bathroom tiles. If you keep scrubbing, you can get rid of the built up mold, but if you stop for a while, then you’re back where you started.
Probably the best thing to do while waiting is to sit tight and spend some quality time with your Weighted Companion Cube. This is something you should be doing anyway, as it prevents it forming thoughts of stabbing you, or stealing your cake. Both of which will hamper your mold spy removal work.
