Team Fortress 2

[C-Fan]

Excited about two recent acquisitions: yesterday I picked up a strange scattergun and a strange sticky launcher, both with robots killed parts. I like MVM, but other than my minigun I didn't have any weps that tracked robot kills. My current sticky launcher also already had all 3 strange slots taken, so I liked the idea of getting stranges that I dedicate only to using in MVM. I was able to get these two for about 11 refined, which meant I didn't have to part with any keys to get them (and robots killed part is like 1.2 keys these days). The scattergun also has soldiers and defenders killed parts on it too, so I can use it in non MVM play as well. I added giants and tanks killed to the sticky, so now it's totally decked out with MVM counters, and only MVM counters. Anyway, now I feel like I'll be more inclined to play classes other than Heavy in MVM, which I'm excited about.

[C-Fan]

New personal record for dominations= 8 at once:

[C-Fan]

Ever since my footbag tournament season ended, I've been playing a ton of TF2, mostly maining Heavy. Two notable Heavy updates for me:

1. I pushed my minigun to Hale's Own! It's my first strange weapon to reach this level. It's current stats are: 8574 kills, 4900 robots destroyed, 782 dominations, and 192 kills while ubercharged.

2. I upgraded my unusual Ushanka. I spent around 17 keys to upgrade from smoking to haunted ghosts. Before the upgrade, I think my Ushanka was my second worst unusual. Now I'd say it's top 2.

I also did an insane trade yesterday. People are going crazy for the chemistry sets, so they are desperate to get normal weps to complete them. So yesterday I did the following trade:

I gave him:

3 nataschas
1 scottish handshake
1 original

I got from him:

Lumbricus lid (1 key)
3 rune blade (2 ref)
Breakneck baggies (2 ref)
Track Terrorizer (3 ref)

Already got a buyer for the lid for a key. I'll likely keep the breakneck baggies and sell the rest, but yeah, it's crazy the trades you can do when people go nuts over new items.

[akalazou]

wtf ??????? i completed my chemistry set but i don't think i over paid anythings. i paid one scrap for all weapons i trade for, i looked at the set to get a cheap "big strange" (i had to get a silver botkiller minigun), some sets need things like strange festive huntsman (wtf??) and since i restarted playing mvm up, i paid for the chemistry set and the botkiller i needed with the money i got from the botkillers i sold on the market.

so now, i have a strange toss-proof towel for heavy. Which means i'll have to play heavy from now on. i also traded for a Team Captain

i have an awesome heavy load out now:
diamong botkiller minigun (3 keys)
sandvich (bleh) (nothing)
strange pan (6 keys)

team captain (1 key)
strange toss-proff towel (2 - 2.5 keys)
graybanns (bright green) (2 keys)


I'm surprised by the trades you made but i'm happy for you

and nice upgrades

[akalazou]

i want one !!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSVwdFTvkuU

[C-Fan]

i looked at the set to get a cheap "big strange" (i had to get a silver botkiller minigun), some sets need things like strange festive huntsman (wtf??)

Yeah, I saw some idiot trying to sell a strange FDU and asking for a bud, since he used his strange gunslinger to make it. What an idiot...he basically lost 20 keys by doing that.

i have an awesome heavy load out now:
diamong botkiller minigun (3 keys)
sandvich (bleh) (nothing)
strange pan (6 keys)

team captain (1 key)
strange toss-proff towel (2 - 2.5 keys)
graybanns (bright green) (2 keys)

That IS a very boss loadout for Heavy.

In Heavy news for me, I also acquired a strange toss proof towel! Stoked about this, since I main heavy. Here's how I got mine:

1. Bought an all-father chem kit for 1 refined
2. Had most of the normal weps for it, but acquired the remaining ones by doing 1:1 trades, so this part basically cost me nothing
3. Had to buy a strange liberty launcher, but this only cost me 1.33 refined
4. Made an all father strangifier
5. Couldn't find a cheap all father, and I'm not a huge fan of the way it looks so...
6. I traded my all father strangifier (just the bottle, no misc) for a strange toss proof towel, plus a craft hat and underwater kills part.

So to recap, I paid 2.33 refined to get a strange towel, plus a hat, plus a strange part.



Now to level this sucker up...

EDIT: I just set a new kill record as Heavy! My old record was like 29 or 30, and just now I had a run of 70 on 2fort, which ended when my team won. I started off the next game with a 15 streak, fwiw.

[akalazou]

70 kills, props !!!

I got my strange fancy dress uniform yesturday. I can't to play to level this beautiful misc very fast

[C-Fan]

Props on getting a strange FDU! I know you main solly, and IMO that's one of the best new strange miscs out there (along with veil and shades).

Yesterday I made my second strangifier. This time it's for the birdman of aberdeen, and this time it cost me 4 ref to acquire/make. Now I either need to get a bird, or preferably trade it to somebody for a veil strangifier or keys/metal.

[akalazou]

strange update time !!

once again, a lot of soldier and scout

very glad to have a nice soldier set, strange fancy dress, dirty team captain and compatriot.

So far i got those strange hat names:
strange - 0
ragged - 10
tacky - 30
secondhand - 50
odious - 75
garish - 100
comfortable - 135
dapper - 175
sharp - 250
fancy - 375 (i had a fancy fancy uniform dress )
fancy shmancy - 500
fashionable - 725
glamorous - 1000

Scout:
Hale's Own Silver Botkiller Scattergun Mk.I - Kills: 9552
Face-Melting Pistol - Kills: 1342
Hale's Own Sandmant - Kills: 8790 (Heavies Killed: 383) (Cloaked Spies Killed: 209)
Positively Inhumane Frying Pan - Kills: 771 (Snipers Killed: 183)

Sniper:
Server-Clearing Carbonado Botkiller Sniper Rifle Mk.I - Kills: 4105
Server-Clearing Jar Based Karate - Sodden Victims: 3696
Face-Melting Bushwacka - Kills: 1126

Soldier:
Hale's Own Black Box - Kills: 13014 (Gib Kills: 4794) (Heavies Killed: 253)
Epic Diamond Botkiller Rocket Launcher Mk.I - Kills: 5021 (Airborne Enemy Kills: 363)
Face-Melting Shotgun - Kills: 1087
Truly Feared Escape Plan - Kills: 250
Glamorous Fancy Dress Uniform - Points Scored: 1233

Demo:
Gore-Spattered Gold Botkiller Stickybomb Launcher Mk.I - Kills: 445
Unremarkable Bottle - Kills: 14

Medic:
Somewhat Threatening Syringe Gun - Kills: 86
Uncharitable Ubersaw - Kills: 119

Heavy:
Sufficiently Lethal Diamond Botkiller Minigun Mk.I - Kills: 202
Strange Gloves of Running Urgently - Kills: 6
Dapper Toss-Proof Towel - Points Scored: 221

Pyro:
Strange Carbonado Botkiller Flame Thrower Mk.I- Kills: 1
Mildly Menacing Axtinguisher - Kills: 57

Spy:
Unremarkable Diamondback - Kills: 16

Engy:
Gore-Spattered Carbonado Botkiller Wrench Mk.IGore-Spattered Wrench - Sentry Kills: 452 (Kills: 97)

Hale's Own Silver Botkiller Scattergun Mk.I - Kills: 8878
Face-Melting Pistol - Kills: 1122 (my last scout's weapn that isn't hale's own, it will be in some month, i need to learn how it work, atm, i f*cking hate it)
Hale's Own Sandman - Kills: 8742 (Heavies Killed: 382) (Cloaked Spies Killed: 202)
Server-Clearing Carbonado Botkiller Sniper Rifle Mk.I - Kills: 3702
Server-Clearing Jar Based Karate - Sodden Victims: 3385
Face-Melting Bushwacka - Kills: 1006
Hale's Own Black Box - Kills: 12745 (Gib Kills: 4560) (Heavies Killed: 249)
Rage-Inducing Diamond Botkiller Rocket Launcher Mk.I - Kills: 2478
Wicked Nasty Shotgun - Kills: 623
Sufficiently Lethal Escape Plan - Kills: 192
Spectacularly Lethal Gold Botkiller Stickybomb Launcher Mk.I - Kills: 335
Unremarkable Bottle - Kills: 10
Mildly Menacing Syringe Gun - Kills: 67
Unremarkable Silver Botkiller Medi Gun Mk.I - Ubers: 19 (Kill Assists: 19)
Uncharitable Ubersaw - Kills: 104
Notably Dangerous Gold Botkiller Minigun Mk.I - Kills: 162
Strange Gloves of Running Urgently - Kills: 6
Sufficiently Lethal Rust Botkiller Flame Thrower Mk.I - Kills: 218
Mildly Menacing Axtinguisher - Kills: 55
Unremarkable Diamondback - Kills: 13
Unremarkable Carbonado Botkiller Knife Mk.I - Kills: 24
Gore-Spattered Carbonado Botkiller Wrench Mk.I - Sentry Kills: 428 (Kills: 88)

[C-Fan]

US Govt looks like it's shutting down tomorrow, so I see a lot of TF2 in my near future. Here's a snapshot of my current Strange counts before I go on a gaming binge (though I may try playing GTA IV instead):

Scout

"Mildly menacing" Force A Nature- 53 kills, 4 victory kills
"Server Clearing" Mad Milk- 3279 soaks
Unremarkable Bat- 18 kills, 0 medics killed
"Wicked Nasty" Shortstop- 608 kills

Soldier

"Rage Inducing" Black Box- 1782 kills
"Positively Inhumane" Shotgun-764 kills, 52 underwater kills, 105 pyros killed
"Unremarkable" Market Gardener- 21 kills

Pyro

"Server Clearing" Degreaser -4526 kills (1082 allies extinguished, 240 posthumous kills, 1976 projectiles reflected)
"Positively Inhumane" Shotgun-764 kills, 52 underwater kills, 105 pyros killed
"Face Melting" Axtinguisher- 1196 kills, 344 full moon kills, 32 heavies killed

Demoman

"Wicked Nasty" Grenade Launcher- 664 kills
"Epic" Stickybomb Launcher- 5741 kills (523 critical kills, 469 demomen killed, 258 defender kills)
"Uncharitable" bottle- 116 kills

Heavy

"Hale's Own" Minigun- 10,832 kills, 1,001 dominations, 5008 robots killed, 302 kills while ubered.
"Face Melting" Natascha- 1268 kills, 136 pyros killed, 108 soldiers.
"Somewhat Threatening" GRU- 79 kills
"Stunning" Toss Proof Towel- 3259 points scored

Engie

"Rage inducing" Jag- 1525 sentry kills, 128 kills, 589 sappers removed
"Wicked Nasty" Frontier Justice- 555 kills

Medic

"Truly Feared" Syringe Gun- 242 kills
"Rage-Inducing" medigun -1740 ubers, 4897 assists
"Gore-Spattered" Ubersaw- 413 kills

Sniper

""Positively inhumane" Sydney Sleeper- 782 kills, 335 snipers killed, 40 airborne kills
"Face melting" Sniper Rifle- 1019 kills
"Unremarkable" Bushwacka- 18 kills
"Somewhat Threatening" Jarate- 79 soaks

Spy

"Server clearing" knife-2689 kills, 105 engies killed, 31 medics killed, 43 snipers killed
"Gore Spattered" Diamondback- 357 kills, 42 snipers killed
"Face melting" Dead Ringer- 1194 feigned deaths.
"Nullity Inducing" Sapper- 458 bldgs destroyed
Comfortable Camera Beard- 139 Points scored

MVM
Scattergun- 236 robots killed
Beggar Bazooka- 369 robots killed
Stickybomb Launcher- 1106 robots killed, 26 giants killed, 9 tanks
Minigun- 5008 robots killed

In other news, I recently sold my earbuds for 21 keys, plus 1 key worth of sweets. I sold the sweets for a key, then bought new earbuds for 19 keys. My new earbuds are also level 99! So I basically upgraded my buds to a cooler level, and got 3 keys in the process.

[C-Fan]

Thoughts on the Halloween update? Here are mine:

I really like the new Halloween Helltower map. Hightower has always been a top 5 map for me, so this isn't a big surprise. The spells add a new wrinkle for sure. My favorite is using the teleportation spell to put the sniper on top of the shack, and snipe from there. Takes everybody by surprise
The new halloween unusual effects are uniformly good. Like them a lot better than last year's Halloween effects for the most part.
Don't like that all the Halloween cosmetics are untradable. Uncraftable I get, but untradable?

I used up 4 keys during this update. I had 4 #42 crates, which is one of the best returns you can get on a crate. I figured I wanted to open them anyway, and if I had a chance at a Halloween unusual that made now the best time to open them. Here's what I got:

Strange backscratcher (worst case scenario item)
Strange backscratcher (worst case scenario item)
Strange part projectiles reflected (break even item)
Strange pistol (best non-strange part item)

At least I tried.

[C-Fan]

Behold, my current Heavy loadout:




Haunted ghosts Ushanka
Blizzardy Luchador
Legendary Towel- 5,688 points
Hale's Own Minigun- 12,121 kills, 1109 dominations, 5200 robots killed, 346 ubered kills
Face-Melting Natascha- 1,428 kills, 179 pyros killed, 138 soldiers killed
Vintage Level 81 Sandvich
Uncharitable GRU-100 kills
Shred Alert Taunt

Heavy is my main class these days, so I'm stoked about my loadout.

[C-Fan]

My strange collection has been pretty complete for a while now, with one notable exception. A couple days ago, I finally bought that last remaining item: a strange huntsman. I suck with the huntsman, but have been intrigued by it. But I was bad enough with it that I didn't want to pay a ton for it, then not use it. Also, I only wanted one if it had headshots (and ideally dominations) on it, which normally jack up the price. A standard strange huntsman without these parts goes for 8 keys, so i was very happy to have spent 6 keys and 12 refined to get my huntsman, which already has dominations, headshots, and demomen killed parts on it. Score! Only had it a few days, but here's where it's at:

119 kills
40 headshots
5 dominations
6 demomen killed

I'm still relying mostly on luck, but I'm getting a bit better at anticipating how to lead targets with it. Also leveling up my Jarate quickly, since I find that helps soften up my targets.

Trading wise my new goal is to sell/trade some of my current unusuals to try and get an all-class with a decent effect. I like my Heavy unusual combo enough that I won't trade that, but I wouldn't mind having all my other classes covered by a single unusual I like.

[akalazou]

nice !!!

i achieved something for the second time on my tf2 life today ... i'm soooo happy about it ...

here it is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_rM-AML ... tube_gdata

luckily, the server has record replays on it ... but i don't know how to make in good quality from tf2 to YT

[C-Fan]

Whoa. In the video it was just constructed...was that the setup when you did it? I'd imagine it's hard to approach an L3 sentry otherwise. Unless you used bonk to get close, then started meleeing the second it wore off. In any case, props!

[akalazou]

well ... i saw the sentry and i just wanted to get away ... we can hear the engy saying "i'm moving up" or something like that .. i knew that he took it up. i just charged to get the engy and when my scattergun was empty i started to use my AWESOME sandman

[akalazou]

hey Ken, did you see the Collector's items chemistry set so far ? you can craft 200 units of the same item with the right chem set and you'll get a Collector's one. I'm sooooooooooooooooooo gonna look to get a collector sandman . it will take a while untill i get those 200 sandman and the chem set but i'll get it for sure

[akalazou]

i'm so pissed right now !!!! trying get through ONE SINGLE WAVE in the new update ... all the fucking noobs who doesn'tplay mvm at all just don't want to listen. they don't know how to upgrade their class AT ALL. i seriously thinkthat we didn't need a medic in mvm and we still don't need any. But since the fucking update, there is always at least one useless medic /?&4¦¢¦]@¢¦ !!!!!!! when you can't get throught the first wave, it's just useless to keep trying. i can't wait to play with my mvm friends. i even heard " we don't need a scout" proof that this person is just here for the update and will stop playing it in 1 week because he's not going to win anything. i asked an engy to get dispenser range and he quit, i said: "no dispenser range = no dispenser", he was already mad and quit. So much frustration !!!! i've been playing it for like 4 hours and i only completed one mission instead of 4.

i think i'm just gonna wait a bit before to play it agai so all the noobs will be gone.

[C-Fan]

Yeah, few things are worse than MVM with people who don't do teamwork. I've been pretty lucky playing the new maps, in that I've usually had pretty solid team members (mics, cooperate, adjust).

I ain't going to lie though; part of me is just doing the missions to get the new achievements. I don't even care about loot, I just like getting achievements (I think I'm at 404 completed now). Which probably means I'll be one of those newb medics on your team sometime!

Only other news on my end is I'm close to making a foppish physician strangifier. When I do, I'll have strange miscs I like for Heavy (towel), Soldier (FDU), Sniper (veil), Spy (beard), and Medic (fop).

[akalazou]

nice !!!

on anothet note, i create a strange professor specs a cool all class misc !! the points on it raise very fast since it's all class. with that, both of my 2 calsses have 2 strange miscs

i finally finished my first tour, i got a professional fabricator for chargin' targe which i put on the market for 10$, a specialized kit for atomizer and as my tour loot, i got the half zatoichi kit. i also got a cool soldier hat as a random loot, "the cloud crascher" lvl99. so now i have 29 miscs/hats for soldier if i don't count the all classes items (halloween counted)