I just got it too. Looking forward to it. I've never tried sniping player-controlled characters before.
Join us in our quest to play all RPG video games! Moving on to disc 2 of Grandia!Pyro is my homeboy. I'm also a fan of the Spy.
Still trying to master airblasting (though on a good day, I can reflect-kill a Huntsman Sniper with his own arrow) and the fine art of ambushing someone, setting them on fire, and switching to the Axtinguisher for the kill before they see me.
Pyro is not noob-friendly. I mean, yes, you can master the basic tactics and flamethrower use pretty quickly, but to really be credit to team as a Pyro you need to master airblasting, projectile reflection, spy-checking, accurately firing flares over long distances, puff-and-sting, timing, tactics... There's a perception that playing pyro is 'easy,' but really, it's only easy to play as a suicidal shock troop, which isn't very effective. Medic is probably the class a new player can most easily be helpful with. Demoman is probably the hardest class to master in terms of simple FPS skills; scout also requires a lot of aiming finesse. You can be effective as a soldier with less practice, but to really shine, you need to get really good with rockets. The sniper is fairly straightforward if you can aim straight; the spy is so full of nuance and counter-intuitive details that it takes a while to learn. Engineer play is very dependant on knowing map layout.
edited 4th Jul '10 8:39:55 PM by BonSequitur
My latest liveblog.Not exactly. Engies will get the gist of where to place their sentries pretty quickly.
I hate it when the Scout I kept killing with the sentry in the main entrance (yes, I'm that evil) of 2fort goes to a Spy and saps my sentry, and then gets maimed by someone else for being obvious in the base.
On a side note, I suck at this game if I'm not annoying people by being an Engie, and I need to play it more, but I'm busy whoring on my NX points I got from my subscription to Net Flix on Combat Arms.
And people seriously need to stop the Heavy/Medic team-up before they reach our side of the fort and go uber. It's happened at least twice literally the past five times I've played TF 2.
Half-Life: Dual Nature, a crossover story of reasonably sized proportions.I'm not a huge fan of playing Engie, just because unless you wanna play Ninjaneer or Combat Engie, it devolves into picking one of the predetermined Engie locales, building a nest, and then sitting there with M1 held down forever.
A couple years ago, I'd go to weekly matches on this one server, and when the rotation hit Turbine, I'd just set up an Engie nest with some other guy and do my Japanese homework while I waited for something interesting to happen. XD
Dollar to doughnuts, that it's sentry related. The new shotgun will, according to the steam forums probably is:
1. a laser pointer, so you can take potshots with your sentry.
or
2. the fabled instant level-1 sentry, to buy you some time to move your engie-nest forward.

Because I just got it off Steam and I want to talk about it with Tropers. Also we don't have a general thread, just a match thread.
I'm enjoying Pyro, but I don't know if it's because I legitimately enjoy him or because I'm new and they're an easy class to get started with. But hearing "Foiyah! Foiyah! Foiyah!" is hilarious.