TF2 Beta (Thoughts?)

[Reality]

anyone preorder orange box on steam to get the TF2 beta this morning?

spy is fucking amazing, lol

and fuck engineers who camp briefcase room :<

i love all the little things in regards to design/aesthetics that they did with this, it's very polished, definitely reminds me of an old Warner Bros. Cartoon (which I'm already a huge fan of, <3 chuck jones)

example: calling for a medic as a spy (while disguised) will give a muffled voice rather than the normal "Medic!" voice that you'd hear from a teammate, pretty interesting. they seem to have thought of everything with this "Beta" (it honestly just feels like a demo, haven't seen any balance issues or glitches or anything yet)

[Cheerios]

I just read http://www.tomsgames.com/us/fringedrink ... _when.html earlier. Doesn't even look like beta is open yet.

[Ghostsix.Midgard]

anyone preorder orange box on steam to get the TF2 beta this morning?

spy is fucking amazing, lol

and fuck engineers who camp briefcase room :<

i love all the little things in regards to design/aesthetics that they did with this, it's very polished, definitely reminds me of an old Warner Bros. Cartoon (which I'm already a huge fan of, <3 chuck jones)

example: calling for a medic as a spy (while disguised) will give a muffled voice rather than the normal "Medic!" voice that you'd hear from a teammate, pretty interesting. they seem to have thought of everything with this "Beta" (it honestly just feels like a demo, haven't seen any balance issues or glitches or anything yet)

I'll be getting this on day one but just looking at the teaser vids on xbox live shows how polished the game looks.

[Pyro]

I preordered it and it is preloaded but it still says it is unreleased.

EDIT: Apparently I had to restart Steam. Fixed now.

[Snowknight26]

Best game I've played in a long time. Very high replayability.

[Mifaco]

Best game in a long time, much better than the trash EA puts out.

[Nyima]

I can't honestly be the only one who is completely unimpressed by the style of the art in this game, Can I?

[Vandole]

just got orange pack, woot. i'll be playing this all day tommorrow lol

[Xavier]

I read a while ago that they were moving grenades from the game.

To those who are playing, whats it like sans grenades, since they were such a huge part of the original TFC.

[HAcoreRD]

i'm getting orange box, but WTF, no nades? So SG's have a chance at living?

[Snowknight26]

Sentries have a hard time locking onto people that show themselves from a corner for a split second then hide. During that time, grab a gun and shoot the SG.

[HAcoreRD]

Sentries have a hard time locking onto people that show themselves from a corner for a split second then hide. During that time, grab a gun and shoot the SG.

I saw ppl more or less hold a nade, toss to hurt engie too, then pop around n fry it

[Spoony Bob]

I'll start by saying that I'm by no means a TFC vet, but I did play it way back when.

In TF2 though, spies completely decimate engineer's structures. If a spy can slip by unnoticed, he's got this gadget that kills a turret in ~10 seconds of so if you can't make it back to it in time. It also doesn't seem to remove his disguise and seems to reload very quickly. Not uncommon for a spy to run past a few huddled turrets, attach the device on all the turrets in the area and they'll be dead in a matter of seconds if the engineer can't wrench them back to health before the timer is up.

[Reality]

it's true, spies and demomen & snipers with charged shots can destroy SGs quickly, however it's more difficult for Spies as most ENG's camp their SGs and if they notice anyone standing next to an SG, they'll immediatley know what's up

still, Spy & Scout are by far the most fun classes to play for me, and I'm probably eventually going to play full Scout on well balanced servers with good spies, because SGs are impossible to move around as a Scout

[Eddie]

I finally fired this up last night due to ATI card issues with crashing.

O M G, it was worth the 8 years I waited for. Reminded me of why I loved playing shooters in the first place.

Valve outdid themselves this time. Hurray!

[absolutezero]

im a TFC vet and cant wait to try this damn you EB games i pre-ordered mine so i must wait . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[MisterBob]

Got the Orange Box, downloading TF2 now.

When does Portal come out?

[Vandole]

oct 10th, lets get a steam friends list goin

my steam's acc name is DangerousNapkin

[thestalkmore]

I can't imagine TF without grenades ...That said, I'll still be playing it when it comes out.

Wait, even recons don't have concussion grenades? Are you serious? Fuck that maybe I won't play.

[Eddie]

None of the following are in the game
# Conc jump
# Grenade jump
# MIRV grenades
# Gas grenades
# Concussion grenades
# Napalm grenades
# Standard grenades
# Drop caltrops
# Tranquilize enemies
# Infect enemies
# Heal infections
# Feign death
# Drop ammo
# Fire napalm rockets
# Set up Det Packs

But, don't let that be a judge, you really must play this for yourself to judge anything, I know it's cliche' but the whole "don't judge a book by its cover" really applys to this. And when you go into it, you can't compare it with TFC in all aspects.

I'm a TFC vet and played religiously for a few years straight, 8 years was worth the wait on this for me.

Fortress-Forever did a good job, but TF2 is amazing.