Team Fortress 2 advice

Headshot wrote: »

I just started playing this today, I dont have a clue of what Im doing thou lol

Its not somthing I usally play coming from a background of cod and bf

Welcome to one of the best games ever , Payload is the best gametype btw

Headshot wrote: »

Does anyone have any helpful videos?

There are plenty on youtube, but you need to remember there are 9 classes, and each has its advantages and disadvantages and is countered by another class ,I'll try sum them up briefly

Headshot wrote: »

Can you upgrade your guns or how does that work?

You don't upgrade your weapons per-se, you can build them, or you get random drops. But none are so special or much better in any way than the stock ones you are given. You can also purchase them via the valve store.

Headshot wrote: »

Why do I have to right click after I scroll to change guns?

You don't...and a lot of guns have an alternate fire via Right Click.
Heavys gun rotates the barrel, stickys for the demo
Suggest you use the 1 + 2 + 3 number keys though

Headshot wrote: »

And a host of other questions

Basically TF2 for dummies is what I need lol

For classes I mentioned above

Heavy - has the most health , slow but powerful , excellent vrs Scouts and most classes. Usually paired with a medic

Medic - Heals the team, increases the health of the person he is healing to 150% (so a heavy partner goes from 300 -> 450 health), also gets Ubercharge (invincibility , deployed with Right Click) after a certain amount of healing

Scout - Low health, very quick, can double jump, use to capture bases 2x quick and to harass medics and snipers

Sniper - obvious , headshot heavies etc

Solider - Standard attack/defense class , decent health, can rocket jump everywhere. Probably your best bet at the start.

Demo - Great attack / defense , can use stickies as traps

Engineer - used to build Sentry guns , teleporters and health dispensers, can be sapped by Spys though if left unattended

Spy - can disguise as member of opposite team, hardest class to master, succeptible to Pyro's fire. Used to take out snipers and destroy engy equipment

Pyro - sets everyone on fire, spycheck around engy equipment


That's a brieft overview without getting too detailed. I belive they also have a quick tutorial ingame now, so you can play vrs bots and learn to use each class.
Best of luck

You can turn it off in the settings.

Just to elaborate on this - it should be under Controls -> Advanced -> check Fast Weapon Switch.

Soldier (as 5uspect said), Demoman and Medic (IMO) are rather good classes to start playing with. The Demoman can be tricky to get accustomed to, due to the behaviour of the primary weapon projectiles, but it's really fun (as are the other classes :pac: ) and stickies are incredibly fun, especially if you're trying to bounce Ubercharged medics around.

Despite the lack of offensive power (although, in a pinch, the Medic's weapon isn't dreadful so you can attempt to defend yourself), the Medic's exceptionally fun IMO and, as you would probably guess, can be an amazing asset to the team (provided they're healing, ofc :P). It can be pretty challenging, especially in big fights and/or when spies are crawling around, but a good Ubercharge (coming face-to-face with an invicible Heavy can be pretty distressing stuff) can be suitably rewarding for your efforts

The official Wiki also has plenty of information on all the classes (including a rough idea of how to play each class), the weapons, the hats and just about everything else in the game.

Headshot wrote: »

I love to get going to rocket jumps

finding it very hard at the moment

You playing with anyone, or any vent or TS ?
If you want I can show ye the ropes on some servers if needed

My steam is CTASeantheMan

I've not played since BF3 came out, but I'll dust off the old weapons if ye need a hand :cool:

Penn wrote: »

I was thinking of picking up The Orange Box (this'll be the fourth time I've owned it I think) on PS3 mainly because I want to play Portal again. Love TF2 though. Last time I played though it was pretty ruined with people using glitches and cheats and stuff (Sentry guns floating in the air, walking through walls etc). Has this been fixed or anything? Wouldn't mind playing it again too

Don't know about the PS3 but the last time I was playing TF2 regularly on the 360 in the Summer people were still glitching and setting up modded games so if they've not bothered securing one console I'd doubt they're bothering with the other. Used to be still enough people online to always find a full unmodded lobby though.