>>8978
>Expect to be called out on using OP classes (all of them), called a no-skill nubcaek, trolled, etc.
Also expect to be called "raging" or "mad" (constantly expressed as UMAD LOLOLOL) by people you kill in honest combat.
Notice that these people have never heard of 4chan, or any chan for that matter.

>>9014
If you become too much of a menace to the enemy team, expect for EVERYONE to start a witch hunt for you.

Despite the fact that one moves forward by way of the W key, and shoots their primary weapon's primary fire by way of the left hand mouse button (M1), be prepared for people to hate on you for using both at the same time.
Especially if you're a Pyro.
"What? Do you want me to just constantly airblast you instead? Okay, then, asshole!"
He didn't cap no points that day. Frustrated him to no end.

There's already a Final Combat thread below that already links to this video. Please put any new news in that thread.

Thread locked.

There's a thread of TF2 videos already started.
>>3570

>>8922

These show up often when people ask for UK servers:
Kritzkast - http://steamcommunity.com/groups/KritzKast
Hampshire Heavies - http://steamcommunity.com/groups/hampshire_heavies
Ãœberium - http://steamcommunity.com/groups/uberiumpublic
Facepunch - http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FPTF2UK

These are UK based with settings that shit all over balance, but they appear to have some mod servers and overpopulation doesn't affect most mods:
UKCS - http://steamcommunity.com/groups/UKCS
Gaming Masters - http://steamcommunity.com/groups/gamingmastersuk
GTFOGaming - http://www.gtfogaming.co.uk/servers/

Since you have friends who play the game, you should ask one of them to coach you. It's fun AND helpful!

>>8922
>I think my real problem is that I psych myself out too much before I start playing.
When I started out PvPing in WoW I got these awesome adrenaline rushes that often lead to my death (if any of you have had adrenaline rushes you know it completely shuts down your ability to do anything you haven't practiced A LOT).

Same thing with TF2, although I still get it to this day (started 2007), your body and mind works up an immunity to the shit, allowing you to think clearly.

Maybe TF2 is just some hardcore shit, because I didn't get an adrenaline rush when I was playing paintball inna woods, or maybe it's just because I take every death in TF2 with a mindset that I'll never outlive the eternal shame that has been brought upon me.



Just play the game and you'll see what happens.

>>9015
That's why I can't PvP in WoW, I start getting rushes so my fingers never hit the right buttons and I end up randomly rocket jumping off a ledge or something. TF2 is different for me, though, generally everyone is more laid back and mistakes are funny as opposed to stupid.

My personal favorite server is Halolz.com's "Gentleman Heavy's Fancy Fedora Time". The only irritation I've found with it is that it's password-protected now and the password is under regular rotation, so it's usually a good idea to check their Steam group page before trying to log on.

oh man, i laughed way harder than i should have at OP's pic

I mainly play on the Labcoat Gamers servers or the Lordkat Mafia server.

I'll jump on mantrain whenever it's active too. It's pretty much the only custom map server I have right now. :[
(well, aside from cock and balls and brbuninstalling red version, though I'm muted on both due to them both automatically muting micspammers even though you can disable that now.)

>>8885
You best switch to the ones we recommend here in this thread. Labcoat Gamers is generally pretty chill.

>>8989
I love your Medic for the sole reason that you've got a Tom Waits reference.

>>8996
The whole thing is a Tom Waits reference do ho ho. I call him the Black Rider Medic. Because I'm dumb. The descriptions include lyrics like "Filled with Needles and with Fools," "Dig deep in your heart for the little red glow, we're decomposing as we go," "Hang me in a bottle like a cat, let the crows pick me clean but for my hat," and "And he knew that he'd be ready with a stainless steel machete."

>>8997
Tom Waits reference Medic? Such ladyboners.

Now the world just needs a Nick Cave reference Sniper and... I don't know, somebody to be Leonard Cohen references. And then all my gravelly voiced dreams will have come true.

I have no screenshot at the mo, but my Medic has the Blighted Beak, the Geisha Boy, and a crossbow. He is terrifying. Terrifying and beautiful, like some kind of Kabuki Plague Doctor.

Kabuki Plague Doctors would be a great name for a rock band...

okay after 50 min of rage for configuration and everything it's work.
It's amazing.
HJDJ is much more easier to work (with tf2dj you must download one program, then change the mic input from windowed AND Steam and the mp3 selection is much more easier to look but this work on ALL servers. GLORIOUS

Okay guys and gals, i have a problem. I tried it and i did everything described in the video. One problem? After i set in window media player to Line 1 i can´t hear anything. Maybe it´s because i use a headset rather than normal speakers (i don´t have some.) So can someone help please?

Pyro ships her teammates

  After seeing this video, with it in tandem with the iPod earbuds, I have Spy secretly dancing to dubstep so that he can practice moving around with stealth. Or just keeping his movements fluid so he can escape when he somehow fails to backstab an enemy. Something along those lines.

I can't get the image of Spy moon-walking past a doorway and Sniper, Scout and Engie just staring wondering what just happened.

  Scout's Mom is Carmen Sandiego. She settled down for a bit, cut her hair, died it black, and adopted five kids to give the illusion she'd been there a while. And ended up having three more kids on accident.

And that's part of the reason she and spy "get along" so well - because she knows him on more levels than one.

Shut up let me JUST HAVE THIS, okay QQ

Crappy slideshow included for those who don't know.

When I play the game, I'm pretty much fulfilling my shameless self insertion fantasies, and I also see my teammates as all OCs. The actual canon classes are probably playing in some Top Tier Super Serious Competitive League (though they may occasionally come down to play with us plebs for the lulz).

>>8938
This is how I see it, too, more or less.

My Pyro (Gibus, Stockbroker's Tie) is a quiet guy who happens to like dressing up as if he were sophisticated and my Demoman (Scotch Bonnet/Ullapool/LnL) worked with the police at some point defusing crowds when they get too rowdy at those riots; that's how he lost his eye.

I do the reverse: create an OC, dress up like them in-game.

I was just RP'ing my Soldier, who wears the Grenadier's Softcap, and checked the Valve Store...they made two real-life versions. I need.

>>8934
Completely forgot about Bonk! I did. Do this, but maybe use Monster Energy drinks for more fruity flavors, since you might want to offer both Cherry Fission and Blutoniun Berry flavors. Might even skip out completely on the alcohol bit and just make it the most hyped-up caffeinated drink you can manage without killing anybody.

And serving whatever the Mad Milk drink would be in an old fashioned glass milk bottle would be pretty cool.

I once made a drink called a "Flaming Sinner" for a Brimstone story I wrote. It was Goldschlager, red hots and a few hits of hot sauce. And you can set it on fire before you drink it.

It would make the perfect Pyro drink. Hot, in both senses of the word.

Jarate would be a mason jar full of warm Thunderbird Fortified Wine.