Scout Update Out Now!!!

[Kougar]

I'm lost with the fracking game. What's the deal with sandwiches and stuff? I can't find a list of achievements or anything.

Hehe... as bhelm said there is a "Achievement" list on the game menu. Get a certain number of them and you get a weapon upgrade one upgrade for each weapon type (or sandviches & radioactive energy drinks). The player character setup menu (I forget the exact name it is given) is also on the same menu as the Achievements menu, and is where you can configure your character's loadout once you get upgradeable weapons.

The quickest way to see what these achievements are and how things work (besides using the ingame menu) would be to go here: http://www.teamfortress.com/ and click each update listed in the right-column under the major updates section.

[FZ1]

Thanks, I was looking at that site and I didn't see anything on it.

[martini161]

I'm lost with the fracking game. What's the deal with sandwiches and stuff? I can't find a list of achievements or anything.

sandwiches=heavy unlockable. its basically a portable health pack. you eat one and gain like 150 health or something, but you lose your shot gun
Also, a little tip: Never stop calling for medic, even if you are a medic. Also, if you play as demo man just sit in the spawn and do your grenade launcher taunt the whole time.

[DMB2000uk]

Marty, are your tips entitled "how to be an annoying player"?

Dan

[skier]

Marty, are your tips entitled "how to be an annoying player"?

Dan

no, it's just what 80% of players do

[martini161]

Marty, are your tips entitled "how to be an annoying player"?

Dan

no, the are entitled PROTIPS heres a few more PROTIPS:
jump up and down in front of snipers, they will love you for it cause your blocking other people from seeing them
Continually press x then 5 the whole game. extra points if your a scout while doing this
As a medic, when you get an uber always use it on an engineer.

[skier]

Marty, are your tips entitled "how to be an annoying player"?

Dan

no, the are entitled PROTIPS heres a few more PROTIPS:
jump up and down in front of snipers, they will love you for it cause your blocking other people from seeing them
Continually press x then 5 the whole game. extra points if your a scout while doing this
As a medic, when you get an uber always use it on an engineer.

uber engie isn't always a bad thing actually, i do it semi-frequently, as it keeps his sentry up if he has a clue what he's doing

and i personally enjoy pyro's flaming in front of a sniper(as a competitive sniper)

[martini161]

Marty, are your tips entitled "how to be an annoying player"?

Dan

no, the are entitled PROTIPS heres a few more PROTIPS:
jump up and down in front of snipers, they will love you for it cause your blocking other people from seeing them
Continually press x then 5 the whole game. extra points if your a scout while doing this
As a medic, when you get an uber always use it on an engineer.

uber engie isn't always a bad thing actually, i do it semi-frequently, as it keeps his sentry up if he has a clue what he's doing

and i personally enjoy pyro's flaming in front of a sniper(as a competitive sniper)

sorry, i made a typo. i meant to say always use it on the guy that happens to be touching sentries when sappers appear. chances are he saw the spy who did it and will go kill him

[martini161]

you know in retrospec this update kidna failed. almost as bad as that meele cool down time they tried to put in l4d yesterday

[FZ1]

ShamWow (Scout) gets busted:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/ye ... sham1.html

[DMB2000uk]

you know in retrospec this update kidna failed. almost as bad as that meele cool down time they tried to put in l4d yesterday

Tried? As in it's been taken out again?

Dan

[martini161]

you know in retrospec this update kidna failed. almost as bad as that meele cool down time they tried to put in l4d yesterday

Tried? As in it's been taken out again?

Dan

no, i just thought it had as i was playing a campaign and they havent implemented it there.
In summary of the scout update:
FAN: Stupid. allows a good scout to beat a pyro in semi close quarters. also allows him to quadruple jump
Bonk: only good part of the update IMO. most "battle scouts" dont like it, but its good for what the scout is supposed to do;SCOUTING
Sandman: This is the worst thing valve has ever done. cheap as hell. the worst part is that it can stun ubers. this makes absolutley no sense. Frickin bullets, rockets and nades just bounce off ubers, but a god damn baseball stuns them? WTF????