2008-02-23

This is what you should expect from now on...

I'm still chickening out of playing Heavy. I'm one class away from Head of the Class achievement, and incidentally that one class is Heavy. Everything in Heavy just puts me off, the speed most of all (I love Soldier, but I'm still sometimes getting frustrated because he's so goddamn slow), and I think even the one round as one will be embarrassing torture for me. Especially if some poor Medic decides to stick to me. Medic's my mostly played class (with 30 hours), and I know noobish Heavies can be the most tedious of them all: chewing through their ammo without hitting anyone, not realising to pick up ammo whenever possible and then having to resort to shotgun when enemies are all over us and thinking they're bulletproof when I'm healing them, thus rushing into a sentry-infested enemy base with some insane kamikaze mentality and then getting angry at me because I didn't heal them.
And I'm quite sure I'd be one of those Heavies.
But it's only a round. Hey, I only had to play as a Demoman for about six minutes before the enemy captured our intelligence four times! Maybe I'll get just as lucky with Heavy!

And yes, before you ask: I'm not a very good player. Not outright BAD, but... maybe not even average. Also depends on the class. I think I'm a fairly good Medic, an average Pyro and Engineer, and a tolerable Soldier (when I'm having a good day) and Sniper. And I'm an absolutely appalling Scout and Demo. As a Spy I'm... I just don't know.
I'd like to play as Spy more. I even said to Ville (my only irl TF2 buddy) before starting to play today that I'd try out Spy. And I went out as a Spy when CP_Well came up.
And I absolutely sucked.
So I changed back to Soldier.
Goddamn Spy is so hard to nail down! I've had some good moments as a Spy, but most of the time enemies seem to see right through me, I fail to sap any buildings, and even botch backstabs on Heavies who're standing still. I don't know how that's even possible. :D Yeah, Spy's one of the hardest classes to master and I shouldn't expect to do well as a Spy after 45 minutes of playtime, but what bothers me is that I'm SO bad that I'm contributing absolutely nothing to my team.
I think I should just stick with Spy and not give up on it after few deaths, thinking it's useless. And only if my team starts whining about my uselessness, that's when I switch back to a class I can play as.

I also don't understand why Soldier's my "it doesn't matter if I suck, this is so much fun!" class. Like I said, I'm only a tolerable Soldier, and that's when I'm having a good day (or I'm playing in Granary. Seriously, there's magic in Granary. Magic that draws all the enemies to where I'm firing my rockets. Especially when it's a crit. It makes no sense that in Granary I'm actually a pretty good Soldier, and then in every other map I just seem to suck). But I like being a Soldier so much that I don't even care. With every other class I change to some other class when I'm having a horrible "get out of respawn, run to the battle, fire a few useless rounds, die" streak.
It doesn't even matter that I can't do rocket jumps! No, really, I can't seem to time the damn jumps at all. It was the best day EVER as a Soldier when I actually managed to jump into BLU's respawn hallways in Gravel Pit cap B (on a first try no less!) and kill a Medic with a full charge before he had the time to hit it.
And I don't mind that I can't do it properly, Soldier's still fun.
And now while I'm at it, here's more examples to make it absolutely clear how bad a Soldier I am: Pyros are my worst enemies. No, seriously. Out of all nine classes Pyros rape me like no other. BAD Pyros, even! Because only the suicidal (or noobish) ones would actually run right at a Soldier from a distance rather than trying to ambush one from behind. And those kill me so properly it's INSANE! Now it's even worse because I have this fear of Pyros and if I see one coming at me I totally lose my shit. :D I try to aim rockets at their feet when they're zigzagging towards me and I never hit and I'm on fire and panicking and backing off and then I'm dead.
So I'm the Soldier who's afraid of Pyros, and can't rocket jump.
And it's still fun!

So I had some usual sucky runs as a Soldier today. It was thanks to me we won a match in CP_Well, though: the enemy had two sentries up on their second cap, and I single-handedly took those down. I died (probably batted to death from behind by some Scout), but teammates capped the cleared point, and a few seconds later the last one. Whoo!
And why is it always me who ends up capturing enemy intel when I have like 40 health left? What happened to teamwork?
And what IS it with these aggressive Snipers suddenly?! Seriously, I had a Sniper dominate me in 2fort at one point. Yeah, I know, not that unusual, I was a Soldier, sure I'm an easy slow-moving target for Snipers... except that the fucker never shot me with his rifle. He was dominating me with the kukri and SMG. That was one of the most embarrassing moments in my life as a Soldier. Luckily I eventually got revenge on him, but still. Goddamn.
And today I had another Sniper come at me with his kukri and melée me to death. WTF! Snipers should stay in kitchen? on battlements at their endless Who's Got a Bigger Sniper Penis battles with enemy Snipers!
No, to be serious, my hat goes off to those Snipers. Glad to see some Snipers doing something else than camping the battlements in 2fort.

I did some ownage as a Pyro today, thankfully (and now, no laughing at my crappy graphics):



I have no idea how that happened (did our team suck?). Insane amount of deaths, wow (and I usually get more kills than assists, that's a lot of assists for me). That's what you get for doing suicide attacks as a Pyro. But I did a really cool capture with Ville (Slaverstrike there) when he was a Medic. Yay us!
...whoa, I just had an idea. If I could talk Ville into being a Medic when I go as a Heavy... maybe it wouldn't be so horrible then. It'd be horrible for Ville, though. :D But worth the try! I can tell him he can just ignore me and change the class if I'm beyond horrible.
Anyway. Hydro is my Pyro map. I LOVE Hydro (people don't really seem to like Hydro and I can't understand why! Hydro's one of my favourite maps, I think only Dustbowl is more fun for me. And Badlands, but that's probably only because it's new) and I always go Pyro in Hydro. I love the ambush possibilities in Hydro, and all the narrow caves and hallways and everything make it perfect for some serious raping. <3 And I don't seem to be that bad a Pyro in Hydro, so at least it works for me. I don't do much capping in Hydro, since I'm a very defensive Pyro (I'm kind of lost as an offensive Pyro, I would never go as a Pyro in Dustbowl or Gravel Pit when playing in BLU).

Also had the awesomest thing happen when playing in 2fort. It's only awesome if you're in the team that does, though. Sneaky Engineers! Too bad we just won, I would've loved to camp it out there and see how desperate the enemy team would get. Tee hee.
No, really, that's really fucking annoying thing to do. But fun, nevertheless, in moderation.
I absolutely hate it when enemy builds their sentries in my team's base, whatever the map. I had one Engineer giving me grey hairs in CTF_Well at one point, fucker was trying to build sentries on our sniper deck. Gladly I ran in while he was at it and could at least inform my team before our base was swarming with enemies.
Thankfully spawn camping is seriously frowned upon and happens practically never, because that's annoying as hell.

Might play a couple of rounds more before heading to bed. Gonna have a loooong day tomorrow.

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