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[Mongrel]

spotting sentries is always nice

also people don't notice the cloak/jarate meter cause it's so bloody tiny

There's one thing that always pisses me off about Jarate recharge rate. See, once you throw the first one, you usually switch to another weapon of course. If your jarate hasn't regenerated yet, the OUT OF AMMO! label is displayed across it in the weapon HUD. When you go to switch back to Jarate, there's a minor bug, where even if your bar at the bottom isn't full yet, the OUT OF AMMO! label has disappeared. So if you're in a hurry, you quick-switch to the Jarate, where the BIG PICTURE OF A BOTTLE shows you as having ammo, when in fact you don't. This can only be checked against the small refill meter on the bottom.

 

[Niku]

.. dude.

.. toggle quick weapon switch.

[MadMAxJr]

Uh, yeah.  I have to...  to...  AGREE with Niku here.  Quick weapon switch.

[Kazz]

When LD first installed TF2, she didn't have Quick Weapon Switch enabled, and it got me killed more frequently than I'd like to admit.

I want to see a shotgun, not a menu.

[Royal☭]

Doesn't even make sense why it's on by default.  In Half-Life, all the weapons are organized into categories so the menu kind of makes sense.  In TF2 you really only have the 3 weapon choices (4 or 5 depending).

[James Edward Smith]

Hmmm.... I could have sworn that wasn't always there... well whatever. You should still be able to use it regardless of charge level or maybe just have to have it over half or something.

But oh man, speaking of TF2 set up horror stories, I was over at this girl's apartment recently and her's was awful. She had her res set to super high because she had this really big, nice monitor. But, her system couldn't handle it at all and the game must have been running at like, 10 frames per second anytime anything moved on screen. It was awful. So I turned that the fuck down right away. But then yeah, she got me with the no quickswitch thing. What's the point of the menu when most classes only have 3 weapons to switch to and the engineer actually has good menus that come up anyway for his toolbox and detonator thing? I mean, I always hated HL2's menu anyway. Too many things are grouped together under the same number and it just leads to me picking the submachine gun when I mean to pick the plasma rifle and stuff like that. I mean, in Counterstrike it was fine because you pretty much never had any more than 4 weapons and only grenades ended up sharing a number. I was okay with that too cause taking a second or 2 to pick what grenade to throw was sort of realistic, getting a grenade ready to throw should logically take longer than pulling out my sidearm.

Just a random thought though, they really need to give the Demoman a detonator press animation with his left hand when you blow stickies, just like the spy's watch animations. Not that sticky kills aren't already quite satisfying

[Zaratustra]

this came up on the TF2 forums: The sniper is holding the Huntsman in a completely bizarre manner. He's holding the bow to his -left- side with his -right- arm and the -left- arm pulling the string. Try to hold a bow like that and aim.

[James Edward Smith]

Like a left handed person?

[Koah]

It's stranger that he fires his rifle right-handed but holds his bow left-handed; I'd say he could be left-handed and right-eye dominant but he swings his kukri with his right hand too, so who the fuck knows.

[Doom]

Hey guys, I don't think a person can actually be shaped like Heavy Weapons Guy.

[Koah]

LEPIDUS

    What sort o' thing is Heavy Weapons Guy?

MARK ANTONY

    He is shaped, sir, like himself; and he is as broad
    as he hath breadth: he is just so high as he is,
    and moves with his own organs: he lives by that
    which nourisheth it; and the elements once out of
    him, he respawns.

LEPIDUS

    What colour is it of?

MARK ANTONY

    Of his team's colour too.

LEPIDUS

    'Tis a strange class.

MARK ANTONY

    'Tis so. And the blood of him is wet.

[Zaratustra]

It's stranger that he fires his rifle right-handed but holds his bow left-handed;

THAT'S THE THING HE -DOESN'T- HOLD HIS BOW LEFT-HANDED ON FIRST-PERSON MODE

[James Edward Smith]

DUN DUN DUUUUUUUNNNN!

Yeah, I noticed it all the first day I got the bow. But seeing as that was yesturday or perhaps the day before that at the earliest, I haven't really had time to care much.

[Mongrel]

SNIPER IS SPY!

[Catloaf]

I am really hating the huntsman.  Wanna know why?  Because not only am I being killed by it too much, Headshots I'm ok with, but the body shots do too much damage or charge up too fast (not sure which); But also, I DON'T HAVE IT AND THUS I CAN'T GET YOU BACK BECAUSE YOU CAN STILL MOVE WHILE ZOOMED AND HAVE TOO LONG OF A RANGE!!!

Am I the only one who think it needs a little bit of a fix?

And Pipeline's last stage is lame.

[Rico]

A fully-charged Sniper Rifle bodyshot will always kill a 125-health opponent, while the Huntsman never can.

Huntsman does about as much damage as a Soldier rocket, with faster travel time but no splash damage or knockback.  Seems pretty balanced.

[Mongrel]

I'm not really 'feeling it' on pipeine overall.

It's like, the regular cart maps are a heroic struggle, but Pipeline is more like that episode of the Simpsons where Bart and Homer put pots on their heads and repeatedly charge and ram into each other head-on.

[Catloaf]

What's broken about it is how a normal normal sniper cannot counter them, nor can a flare gun or non-crit rocket.  

A fully-charged Sniper Rifle bodyshot will always kill a 125-health opponent, while the Huntsman never can.

Wrong!!!

Bodyshot: 44-58 (0% charge), 103-137 (100% charge)

Combined with a one second charge time = roughly 100 damage on average if they aim at all (Assuming it takes .5 seconds to aim well).

[Doom]

Catloaf, you are just bad at the game.

In fact, a Battlement Rifle Sniper almost always beats a Battle Huntsman Sniper because one weapon is hit-scan and the other is not. All the Rifle guy has to do, on average, is strafe.

Now maybe you are so blisteringly retarded as to be complaining that a Huntsman Sniper is doing a lot of damage to you at mid-to-short range. Here is my super pro solution: Kill him.

Seriously just change every use of Huntsman and Sniper in your posts to Shotgun and One-of-Four-Classes. IF THE OTHER GUY HIT YOU MORE OFTEN, HE PROBABLY WINS.

[Saturn]

Yeah, even I can ding Huntsman snipers as rifle sniper

now when there's 2+ of the fuckers thats another story


I think the last stage on pipeline could be better with a setup time