FIAH! FIAH!

[prog]

I finally played a little bit of TF2 via XBox Live. It's fun! I took ahkond's advice and stuck to the newbie-friendly Heavy and Pyro classes, and then just wandered around frying dudes, taking short breaks when suggested. (Suggestions usually being implemented as headshots.)

You know a game with this structure is successful when getting killed doesn't make you say "dammit" but "ooh, I wanna try that!" (You can see who killed you, where they were, and how they did it.) See also "Street Fighter 2", back in the heady days of Sputnik and Gagarin.

Sorry I can't play with you PC peoples...

Comments

[mogaribue.livejournal.com]

Medic is a good way to learn a level layout, just figure out how to uber correctly or people will be miffed. The only really difficult classes to master are Spy and Demo imho. Engie definitely helps if you know the level and where the good spots are to put a sentry gun.

HUDDA HUDDA HUDDA

[ahkond.livejournal.com]

I agree with lone_phaedrus, although some people have found Demo pretty easy to play too. I'm not very comfortable with it but I frequently get more kills than deaths as Demo (something I don't do regularly with most classes). In many cases you can just hang back, away from the scrim, and lob bombs in for random kills.

Spy and Sniper are tough for me; Spy is complex and subtle, while Sniper just requires hella-fast aiming reflexes (and so does Scout, really). Naturally that's a whole different proposition on the PC than on the Xbox because of the controls.

I know I've said this before, but in case other people are reading this, I have to say that on my usual servers there's usually about one person a week who appears and says "oh my god you guys I've been playing this on the XBox and this, on the PC version, is so much better I can't even tell you".

Apart from the different controls (mouse aiming in particular), we have custom maps and special unlockable weapons. My favorites are the Pyro's flare gun (for setting people on fire at a distance) and the Heavy's "sandvich" which is just a ham and cheese sammich that he pulls out and goes OM NOM NOM and restores a bunch of health. Having three or four Heavies standing around in a circle during setup going OM NOM NOM is just priceless.

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