Nanor
Well-Known Member
(For those of you who purchased steams Orange Box, you will be able to play the Team Fortress 2 beta.)
So the game was released yesterday, well this morning, at 12AM GMT. When I got home from school, I booted it up and away I went. Before I hopped onto a server, I created my own server to look around the maps and classes. The maps look great! It's like being on the set of The Incredibles! The maps are reasonably small which is great as it means I don't have to travel half way across the map to get some action!
The characters look, and sound absolutely amazing. I tried a heavy weapons guy and I walked around by myself shooting walls and stuff. I then pressed the G key by accident. Oh my God. The camera turned around to give me a third person view of my character as he picked up his minigun, with eyes as wide as plates and shouted "YOU DID WELL!" and hugs his minigun! Or "...kiss me!" as he hugs the minigun... dang. I haven't tried them all, but they are different for all weapons and classes. For example if I use my fists as a HWG (Heavy Weapons Guy) he pretends he's in the wild west and draws an imaginary gun and shouts "Pow!". The engineer line dances.
As for the actual combat, it's brilliant! I hopped onto an online server. Now, as a HWG I'm fat, carrying this big ass gun and consequently run very slowly. This means if I'm faced with lots of dudes I can't run away unless they can't aim. Because of this I died quite a bit, but not without racking a good few kills! So as I was playing a map (not sure which it was) and being very defensive I noticed my health went up to 450 from 300. I turned around and there was a friendly medic standing there aiming a gun at me firing a red laser beam. Sure you it's really radioactive but you get lots of health! With this buff I walked into the enemies position and milled down one or two before having to pull out due to the fact there were still quite a few. Anyway, when you're being healed you see a thing called Ubercharge with a number beside it. When this gets to 100% you, and the medic become invulnerable. So I ran in when I was invulnerable and racked up six kills to have the TF2 equivalent of "Dominating" to be a catchy tune. Ofcourse then my invulnerability ran out and I was backstabbed and asked if I wanted to take a picture of my assassin running away.
Also, you're probably thinking "That poor medic with no kills". He gets assists if I kill someone and he's healing me, which tallies up his score as well as the points he's getting from healing me.
This game is seriously win. It's a great break from all those tactical shooters when all you wanna do is act stupid, commend your gun and shout taunts as you mow down the enemy.
I can really see clan matches with THN if people get into it. Who wants to by medic and keep me alive?!
So the game was released yesterday, well this morning, at 12AM GMT. When I got home from school, I booted it up and away I went. Before I hopped onto a server, I created my own server to look around the maps and classes. The maps look great! It's like being on the set of The Incredibles! The maps are reasonably small which is great as it means I don't have to travel half way across the map to get some action!
The characters look, and sound absolutely amazing. I tried a heavy weapons guy and I walked around by myself shooting walls and stuff. I then pressed the G key by accident. Oh my God. The camera turned around to give me a third person view of my character as he picked up his minigun, with eyes as wide as plates and shouted "YOU DID WELL!" and hugs his minigun! Or "...kiss me!" as he hugs the minigun... dang. I haven't tried them all, but they are different for all weapons and classes. For example if I use my fists as a HWG (Heavy Weapons Guy) he pretends he's in the wild west and draws an imaginary gun and shouts "Pow!". The engineer line dances.
As for the actual combat, it's brilliant! I hopped onto an online server. Now, as a HWG I'm fat, carrying this big ass gun and consequently run very slowly. This means if I'm faced with lots of dudes I can't run away unless they can't aim. Because of this I died quite a bit, but not without racking a good few kills! So as I was playing a map (not sure which it was) and being very defensive I noticed my health went up to 450 from 300. I turned around and there was a friendly medic standing there aiming a gun at me firing a red laser beam. Sure you it's really radioactive but you get lots of health! With this buff I walked into the enemies position and milled down one or two before having to pull out due to the fact there were still quite a few. Anyway, when you're being healed you see a thing called Ubercharge with a number beside it. When this gets to 100% you, and the medic become invulnerable. So I ran in when I was invulnerable and racked up six kills to have the TF2 equivalent of "Dominating" to be a catchy tune. Ofcourse then my invulnerability ran out and I was backstabbed and asked if I wanted to take a picture of my assassin running away.
Also, you're probably thinking "That poor medic with no kills". He gets assists if I kill someone and he's healing me, which tallies up his score as well as the points he's getting from healing me.
This game is seriously win. It's a great break from all those tactical shooters when all you wanna do is act stupid, commend your gun and shout taunts as you mow down the enemy.
I can really see clan matches with THN if people get into it. Who wants to by medic and keep me alive?!
