Team Fortress 2 Beta Impressions

It's an amazingly fun game, watch the class interview videos for laughs.

Correction: Page four, above the picture of the Pyro, you wrote bowls. Unless if the intel. is hidden in a bowl, it's bowels, misspelled.

so glad i put my pre order in, 25th cant come fast enough

Originally Posted by g3n3tiX
BTW : that kind of Nooooo ?

I don't know whats more worrying

the fact i know where 95% of that came from (where was the flamey bit from?) or the fact someone actually made a video of it

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I still find something new every time I play that has me chucking to myself in wonderment and awe.

Should be chuckling

spies are over-powerful. valve, get rid of the totally invisible cloaking please.

Love the game, but I still have a few problems. Hope that they are fixed soon.
1. The game won't load my Steam ID and there is no in game option to supply a user name. I have to always play as "Unknown"
2. During some maps the game won't log my points. I remain at 0 no matter how many kills or caps I get.

Overall the game is great fun.

Placing a sapper won’t remove your cloak, but if an Engineer hits the sapper with his wrench it will be removed.

I hope you mean the sapper and not the cloak (untrue!)

Also friendly fire has been removed from the svars till they fix issues like pyros not being able to damage teammates

Well i think the scouts are overpowered. I have tried to kill one with almost any (non scout) class and it never happend. He just runs around to all points where ammo and healthpacks would be and rush at me again. I was to slow to get any healthpack so i was dead before i could type this sentence.

yeah.. Very.. funy.. to ditch the grenades and not telling me. I have searched anywhere in the menus/console how i could throw secondary type devicves. I actualy had to read here that you cant.

Did not see any sticky bomb gun in my inventory when i was playing a demoman. (yeah strange)
Building a tranporter takes ages (i mean before it activates)
I found the spy "menu" non practical and confusing.
Often when i wanted to do some inventory things when i was a engi, i would accedently blow up my sentry
How do i aim (turn around) a sentry. Did not find it yet.
i miss de concs, all those puzzle and weird training levels we loved to do in tfc are now absolete i guess.
I still hate and always will hate snipers.

Originally Posted by p3n
I hope you mean the sapper and not the cloak (untrue!)

Also friendly fire has been removed from the svars till they fix issues like pyros not being able to damage teammates

Yes I mean the sapper is removed and personally I think having pyros damage teammates would make that class seriously annoying. Being set aflame by the enemy gets me mad enough!

Originally Posted by [USRF]Obiwan
Well i think the scouts are overpowered. I have tried to kill one with almost any (non scout) class and it never happend. He just runs around to all points where ammo and healthpacks would be and rush at me again. I was to slow to get any healthpack so i was dead before i could type this sentence.

Scouts are easy i can kill em as pretty much every class including demo

Originally Posted by [USRF]Obiwan

Did not see any sticky bomb gun in my inventory when i was playing a demoman. (yeah strange)

Its the 2nd gun down 1st one is grenade launcher 2nd is your stickybomb hold fire down to basically make it travel longer distances and 3rd option is a bottle to hit people with.

Originally Posted by [USRF]Obiwan

Building a tranporter takes ages (i mean before it activates)

Well you can see why it allows people to cut out nearly a whole map in same instances like dustbowl so if it gets blown up you have to retreat a bit usually

Originally Posted by [USRF]Obiwan

I found the spy "menu" non practical and confusing.

How you mean non practical and confusing I found it easy to understand went in and bang I was doing everything a spy could fair enough I wasnt sure what the sapper was but soon found the use for that.

Originally Posted by [USRF]Obiwan

Often when i wanted to do some inventory things when i was a engi, i would accedently blow up my sentry

Only done that once in about 20 hours+ of gameplay and that was through sheer stupidity of not chekcing me menus and flying through em with my mouse wheel too quick

Originally Posted by [USRF]Obiwan

How do i aim (turn around) a sentry. Did not find it yet.

You cant, although a sentry can cover its backside if need be but it takes a little bit of time to turn around. If your talking in terms of placing it in a corner your best bet is to stand with your back in the corner and build the sentry directly infront of you.

You can rotate engi stuff, well atleast at the 'blueprint stage' - just click right click to rotate it 90 degrees (before you build)

This game looks great, haven't played the original, but I may just have to get an upgrade (and fix my computer first). Definitely getting the orange box, and HL1 (I know I know its tragic, I have never played HL )

Originally Posted by r4tch3t
I have never played HL )

*SLAP*

BEGONE!

Don't worry, I will, I will.

Maybe I'm a bit too passionate about my games, but it actually physically pains me when I hear people say that they haven't played HL. It was the same when I found out that nobody in the whole of Bit-tech staff had finished Deus Ex except me and Brett...which is a dramatic way of saying Tim and Bindi.

Seriously though dude, you should play it! :D

I didn't finish Deus Ex :p

Originally Posted by Archangel
Yes I mean the sapper is removed and personally I think having pyros damage teammates would make that class seriously annoying. Being set aflame by the enemy gets me mad enough!

I hate the the blasted pyro's, they come out of no where, suddenly your on fire and you've got a limited amount of time to put yourself out or find medics, it really pisses me off!

Although i do enough playing them lol :)

Has any one noticed with the Steam Community, there now achievement for TF2 there very limited but i guess they will be increased once the game officially out! Very cool.

Originally Posted by CardJoe
Maybe I'm a bit too passionate about my games, but it actually physically pains me when I hear people say that they haven't played HL. It was the same when I found out that nobody in the whole of Bit-tech staff had finished Deus Ex except me and Brett...which is a dramatic way of saying Tim and Bindi.

Seriously though dude, you should play it! :D

Just bought HL. Will get the Orange box for HL:2, HL2:Ep1, HL2:Ep2 and of course TF2 and Portal.

The game rocks quite a bit.

1. SGs can be taken out by savvy players of many types, though heavys face to face lose.

2. scouts are greasable vs. heavys

3. spy defense is shoot everyone.

4. invuln is pretty powerful I have to say....

Originally Posted by r4tch3t
Just bought HL. Will get the Orange box for HL:2, HL2:Ep1, HL2:Ep2 and of course TF2 and Portal.

COOKIE FOR YOU!

I just pre-purchased it on Steam and have already played a couple of hours on TF2. OMG! I love it! The soldier & scout are my favs. I hate the damn Pyro's. If you have 2-3 of them coming at you, you are pretty much toast.

Originally Posted by 2JSC
I hate the damn Pyro's. If you have 2-3 of them coming at you, you are pretty much toast.

No pun intended, right!.