*cosmetic

On the servers I go on, rtv usually means "Who the fuck voted 2fort, I'm not playing this shit"

That pyro is wearing a hat that now exists! Are you a wizard?

Thanks for the tips! Even if you were insulting me a little.

I am the Terminator.
My job is to terminate the one who can see the future.

OH GREAT FORESEER INTO THE FUTURE! TELL ME WHAT TF2 HAT IS NEXT!

HOW DID YOU KNOW ABOUT THE BOOT HAT!?
I suspect time travel may be involved?

That hat in the middle is now a real hat. : o

While I welcome the influx of new players, I'm still just as worried as most about the griefers, hackers, etc. that will take advantage of instant Steam accounts to be assholes. If I start seeing those bastards on my own server, that server plugin that blocks F2P players will get installed, sadly.

Half of that isn't even true, it seems you haven't played the game yourself in a while...

MICROPHONE SPAM

IT'S THE ONLY THING THAT SEPARATES THE COMP FROM THE PUB

I gotta say, it's weird for me. I was there at the beginning, but I haven't played for two years out of necessity (living out of suitcases, basically). So...I dunno what to make of this.

[url=#user_comment_66946]@Nandito[/url]: I was never new. I AM Team Fortress 2.

[url=#user_comment_67002]@Kyono[/url]: Battlemedic, lol.

"I don't usually hate video games, but when I do, I hate Team Fortress 2."

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2011/6/27/

God, I can't believe this happened...this FINALLY HAPPENED!
IT'S FREE!!! SOMEONE PUNCH ME, I MUST BE DREAMING!

On the topic of medics, I'd say the real trick is knowing when to go battlemedic. Don't laugh, I've won a 1V6 on arena with skilled BM'ing, and it's no joke on other servers.You want the blautsauger for it though, the lifedrain is a lifesaver.

The tradeoff to the medic's ability to turn the tide of a battle is that he's only as good as his teammates. You can be the best medic in the world, but it don't mean shit if your team is a bunch of drooling retards.

[url=#user_comment_66988]@kazor[/url] WTF??Rly?LOL! I've seen one trying to shoot through a sentry.

even as a new player,i find it odd that other f2p players think its natural for team mates to try and hump sentries.

(thank god for three day passes,it teaches you so much )

Didn't Gabe Newell said he was thinking about allowing players to rate other players ?
And, has we all know it (at least those who bought the game before the hats appeared in the game) TF2 is the Valve's personal sandbox for experiments on the video-game's community.
Do the math.

A newbie arena for spoon-fed gamers of the new generation that expect to be rewarded for their lack of skill and practice? Sounds like you'd fit right in to your new home, Jo.

f2p is good imo.. brings a lot of new players (who wont suck forever hopefully) and the banning of F2P people is sort of a rerun of the halo war

Move fast, avoid spies/pyros/scouts, stay away from risky situations, especially at high Ubercharges. Back up Heavies, Pyros, Demomen, and Soldiers, use mic to let others know if I see danger, check my back. Team up with other medics. Anything else? Thanks, and if you see JamestheFox, that's me.

It might be the first time I'm playing TF2, but that doesn't I haven't read the instructions manual AKA the wiki.

So... Many... SMG snipers. The only thing bad about this is the ACTUAL players stepping on my fun when I ambush them :<

to become a good medic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvPeT-1QDPk

@James Brawner: When you're a pocket medic, watch your buddy's back. Besides keeping him healed, your other big responsibility is to keep an eye out for spies and other flanking enemies. Also, keep your other teammates topped off when you can.

Also remember to heal other medics.

@James Brawner play the training. You'll get achievments too.

I'm new to TF2, though I've been reading this and lurking for a while. I found that I enjoy playing Medic after my first drop was the Ubersaw. For now my strategies involve buffing the bigger classes and q to saw spies (not that most matches I play have many spies). Any tips, things I should do?

I got a domination today. First time in a long time.

God bless, nublets.

Wow, plugins for removing F2P players? That's a new low.

Meh, doesn't affect me since unfortunately my computer sucks so I'm stuck playing Vanilla Xbox360 TF2 regardless. Still... instead of complaining, try teaching them. We were all new once.

I miss old school FPS, before Counter Strike, where there was no such thing as respawn time.

[url=#user_comment_66931]@Nerfnow[/url] That actually happened for a time during the Australian Christmas update. You could eat the steak sandvich with the GRU equipped and move as fast as a scout.

There is a reason Modern Warfare spammers won't last long, no autoaim. Having to actually put the cross-hair on the place you mean to shoot will be way more then they can handle and they'll rage quit.

you should try new online games, there are a lot of new ones each year, now i'm playing divine souls and before was global agenda, they are good games and recomend them

RIGHT FUCKIN ON BROTHER!

@Bad Karma: Game companies says lots of things. I will hope for the best but will not be surprised if the next Heavy I meet is moving at Scout speed.

[url=#user_comment_66920]@Loxen[/url]: You do know that as long as they can grief with aimbots and such, they will? It's been 4 years and they haven't tired, I'm not as optimistic as to think they'll stop in the next 4 years...

Valve says they have new measures in place to detect cheaters quickly. And of course, even if the account is free, if you do get banned you lose all those neat hats and weapons and whatever that you unlocked in the time you did play. We'll see, I guess.

New players are shame. Useless engineers all putting their sentry at the same spot, spies uncloaking RIGHT BEHIND their targets... and their targets don't even notice it, lot's of heavies wasting their bullet in the air, Bodyshotters snipers, pyros not using airblast nor shotgun/flare gun/detonator.

There is a disturbing lack of engie-tans in this TF2 comic

Good think i used to play the hell out of Classic back in the day, now that i got the game (finally :D ) I'm not AS lost as most people.

Some old players are "afraid the game will turn into CS meets Runescape" (actual quote)

Still, I love it :3

I think that all the ppl who's complain that TF2 is free now, will die and stuff like that are overreacting... yes noobs and hackers are just like a kick in the nuts, but soon they will learn to play or get tired of being a jackass and go back to the CS

[url=#user_comment_66911]@Corrderio[/url] New players don't know much about engineers

i will start playing team fortress 2
yes, im a filthy noob that could barely survive the first one...
but the sniper gave me the most easy and important advice: Be polite

Should have had a square that said "Engineers - Valve hates them"

I hope the noob-factor goes down a bit in a few weeks, lots of games end up completely unbalanced or stalemated because half the team is running the wrong way, ignores the cart or cap, or is made up entirely of Snipers and Spies. On the other hand, I broke my backstab-record as Spy (I suck as Spy).

I like my bunny ears. Makes spotting spies disguised as me SO much easier.

Something change since the update... I don't hear "medic medic medic medic". So... peacful

know what sucks those who bought the game or buys the game for the Xbox and ps3 you think valve could give them a update or make the game free or something?

A NEW game in my country is, with luck, 70 U$D. And 1 U$D is $4.2 of my country

Well you see, im in a country with high prices for games, and i bought orange box for my ps3 last year, I really enjoyed it, but the PS3 version don't have the updates. So I was playing 1.0 version all the time. Now that this game is free, I can really enjoy it, with all the updates:D

As someone who played, got his account hacked, remade, and requested help by valve and got nothing, I'm glad this happened, all in all. I don't have that kinda money, and I really wanted to get onto the field. Now if only (Dare I say it) Pyros could learn to spycheck.

I have played a little of the game, and enjoy playing Heavy and just killing as many people as possible.
I also feel I play a decent but tactically underwhelming Medic.

I don't think I'll ever get all of Jo's jokes about the game from over the years though, hah.

[url=#user_comment_66885]@Lobster[/url]: I share your pain ;_;

Hey Jo, you've misspelled "cosmetic accessories."

Have a nice day.

What? There was a patch for TF2? An update? Huh. I hadn't noticed. I play Engineer, you see.

The other day someone asked me how many headshots it takes to kill, when I told him that it might be higher than one, he quit the game. He raged "this is too complicated, why couldn't Counter Strike be free?"

I got Team Fortress 2 the day before it went free >.<
I'm really happy I just had to trade someone a roll cage code for it, and didn't actually buy it. I would've been Peeeeeeeeessed.

Me when TF2 anounced free: " Yeah! Finally, now I only need to download Steam!"
Me 2 hours ago: "F**king S**t! Stupid computer! Why won't you let me install steam?"
Me 1:59 hours ago: "Waaaah!"

Stupid, stupid computer...

i got my hat for... like a toonie from the halloween sale XD

I wish people played 2Fort more, I'm sick of Badlands.

TF2 will never die.

Cause parts of half life and counter strike 1.6 are STILL ALIVE.

Hell, even Sven Co-op is still pretty good fun and has its little community stickin around.

And if we keep making mods like the Saxton Hale, Prop Hunting, Zombies, Dodgeball, it'll never die.

I see all the new ppl as just more people to headshoot and backstab.

Well, if this comic is any indication, I guess I must be ahead of the curb in that I actually recognize that it's my lack of skill in comparison to other players that is the cause of my deaths.

Was not sure if my computer could handle the game, so I didn't want to risk buying it before. ><

Archimedes?

I've immediately tested the fresh meat ... Right away ... With the SPY
Hilarity all over the place
Also, I want to wait a bit longer till deciding if TF2 F2P is a good thing

It's WOW: Cataclysm. only for TF2

Actually I've been seeing ALOT of Demoman and Scouts since the F2P.

Also, servers are now banning F2P players :P Awesome.

@Defiant Wolf: I love ridiculous hats painted in awful colors. You can tell so much easier who has no style or dignity at all when they're wearing pink christmas trees.

I walked away from the game when it started to become the visual mess it is now. I'm glad people can still have fun with it thought.

[url=#user_comment_66832]@McButterpants[/url] Actually, most of the games I played was SPAM SPY SPAM ENGY I'd been planning to get the OJ Box for Portal and TF2 (played both on a friend's Steam account) and get Portal 2. With this, now I don't need to get the OJ box and go straight to the Portal combo. Yay for cheapskateness.

PyroMan going to take on GibusMan stage?

me and my 20 haunted scraps care not for your hats, for we have keys.

My first thought when playing for the first time after the F2P Update was:

PYROS AND HEAVIES
PYROS AND HEAVIES EVERYWHERE

Did you know!?!?!?: That there's ALREADY a plugin to auto kick F2P players? Yes, there is. Nope, not putting a link up.

Don't worry guys, cheaters and hackers can be easily kicked out, and there's tons of kids that still prefer MW2 and blops anyway.

I'm sure Valve has something to get the cheaters and hackers under control. For one thing they've been building up the VAC library of "shit people do" for 4 years now. How many legitimate players it also takes out....

I have a different impression of the free TF2: n00bz = free frags.

30 kills in a row with Scout, over 200 (TWO fucking HUNDRED) as a heavy.

I love this update!

[url=#user_comment_66801]@Iceholder[/url] Considering most people got Team Fortress 2 bundled with the Orange Box, I would say the majority still roughly payed only $10 USD. All the other games included make up for the extra +$30/+$40.

Me and a group I'm in coined this injoke based on the repetetive chugging noise of the Tomislav firing.
UGUGUGUGUGU.
Applications running wild.

OMFG MEET THE MEDIC WAS EPIC.

Huh. Whenever people RTV when I'm playing, it's for Sawmill.

Haven't logged in yet to check, but from what I can find, people who paid get a special hat. A HAT THAT, FOR ALL INTENT AND PURPOSE, COST A LOT OF PEOPLE $40-50 USD.

Paid 9.99 for the game a few weeks ago.

It was totally worth it at the time.

Did I get 9.99 worth of stuff when the game went free? No. Some keys would've been nice.

Still, good game, got my money's worth.

tF2P - now with more imbalanced weapons coming.
Say hello to the 100% accurate minigun, usable by the sniper as well and it increases running speed.
OH, its only available through the store and it costs 500$. To have it for a month.

I knew the free weekend training seesions would pay off one day. @frag-ile: Right, my Battlefield 2 dated machine is having a bit of hard time aswell. Anyways, let's all enjoy the game now.

HUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUE

So many bads, so little spy.

[url=#user_comment_66786]@Goto[/url]: Unless your system is a 5 year old low end thing you probably dont really need to.

i'll play this... when i upgrade my comp