2008-08-30

You are a loose cannon sandvich, but you are a damn good cop!

Lookie what I've got!



It did take a bit long (I've been mainly playing as a Heavy for a few nights now), but as you probably know, I'm not that good a Heavy. All thanks to Sonneteer who kept sticking to my ass (even when I'm munching away on my sandvich in respawn and while THE CART IS NEARING THE CHECKPOINT... yeah, I didn't notice anything, enthralled by my brand new beautiful sandvich, but apparently Sonny kept laughing until we got out: yeah, the cart is moving and I'm camping in respawn, all JUST ONE SANDVICH YOU GUYS THEN WE CAN GO) and helping me to get several of the achievements.
And having a darling Medic running to me with a full charge when I'm getting out of respawn after getting headshot... gotta love it.

And for fuck's sake, if a mediocre Heavy like me can get a bunch of achievements in a few hours, playing just like I normally would, anyone can. I understand if you want the unlockables NOW NOW RIGHT NOW I CAN'T WAIT, go ahead and farm, none of my business, but I fucking hate it when people whine about the achievements being too hard. And yeah, the idiots who come to a non-achievement-grinding server and run around boxing or trying to taunt... well, they're idiots. And they deserve their bans.
But it's possible to get most of the achievements - the 20 required for the unlockables - in regular gameplay without acting like an idiot. Why don't people understand that?
And yeah, I'm probably the only person who finds getting the achievements fun: farming them would take all the fun out of it. I don't even mind the unlockables being tied to the achievements. I don't mind that I don't have them from the get-go. Because getting them is not impossible.
Sure, getting the Spy unlockables would be impossible for me, but I don't play as the Spy, what the hell would I do with the Spy unlockables?
Jesus Christ, people are idiots.
Newsflash.

Besides, I'm learning some new tricks all the time while playing, and I don't think I've ever been a complete drag to my team while insisting to play as Heavy to get the achievements (and today I was an MVP several times, so it could be that in fact I might be even somewhat useful and learning something! Le gasp!). Sure I would be doing better as a Soldier or Medic or even a Demo, but hey, you can't expect to get better at playing as a certain class if you never actually play as that class.
So I'm slowly learning. And getting the achievements while I'm at it.

So, the Sandvich? Well now I know what I'll be doing during all the setups from now on. OM NOM NOMing away. I forget to use it in battle, and this far I've consumed a grand total of one sandvich when I actually needed some health. It's pretty useful, gotta admit. Especially since all Medics (except Sonny) hate me.
And it's pretty horrible to run out of Sasha ammo while you have the Sandvich equipped. Not that I've ever even killed anyone with the shotgun, but I feel much safer running to the closest ammo crate when I'm holding a boomstick INSTEAD OF FISTS. And running out of ammo while übered? Yeah, that's a whole different nightmare.
Also, I want to be able to hit people with the Sandvich! Come on, it would be epic!

And I'm probably getting Natascha after a few matches: while I don't have that many achievements yet, I have several that are just missing a few kills/captures/whatever. Party Loyalty is 46/50, Factory Worker 14/20, Soviet Union about 20/25... Pushkin the Cart, Lenin a Hand and Purge I'm also getting pretty soon.
And, yeah, I have (in addition to the five I already mentioned in some earlier post) Class Struggle, Stalin the Cart, Supreme Soviet, Own the Means of Production, Crock Block and Five Second Plan. And the first Milestone. So, four achievements and then Natasha will be mine.

I also have a new-found respect for Snipers. Because as a Heavy? Fuck I hate them.
I never thought I'd want a team with more than one Sniper, but the final checkpoint on Gold Rush? Yeah, I kinda wanted half of my team to go Sniper just to keep the three ominous figures standing there on the balcony in check, so that I could peek around the freaking corner without getting a bullet between my eyes.
Stupid fucking Snipers.

And today marks the first time ever, when as a Demoman, I didn't panic or get nervous at all when I was übered. We're on Dustbowl, attacking, the third stage just started, and a Medic with a full charge sticks to me right out of the blue, informing via voicechat that Chrome, we're now going to take down the sentries.
So I was like "OKAY!" and went there, and took the sentries out, all cool and calm and collected, and then we rushed the second point and won within fifteen seconds, I think. MVP, bitches.
That was awesome.
I've been playing a lot as a Demo, too, since Badwater is hella awesome for causing some serious sticky havoc. I'm even starting to like being an offensive Demo: I usually played Demo more on defense, since it's easy to just lay down the stickies on the point and camp nearby. Now I find myself going Demo on offense too, since I don't have to lay my stickies anywhere and I can use them as remote-controlled regular 'nades and I'm getting better at using them like that. THE MAYHEM. IT IS SWEET.

And now I'm forced to take a little tiny break from playing: real life insists on interfering. But at least from next week onward I'll be sharing an apartment with another TF2 player, and we'll just see how deadly a pair me and Slaverstrike can make once we can actually communicate. That is, yell from one room to another. I'm definitely looking forward to it, haha.

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Anonymous Dominare said...

Like you, I usually never play heavy, but I do like getting achievements... so far, I've tended to wait a couple weeks before I play the class that got the update before I try it myself (for obvious reasons) and that's what I'm doing this time.

I think I'm going to like the KGB based on past experience (since the ubersaw and axtinguisher are by far my favorite medic/pyro unlockables) but I'm quite a way off getting them so far. I've not been playing much at all this past week (my mother was visiting, a 3,500 mile trip) so I'm way behind most people on the heavy achievements anyway.

8/30/2008 09:57:00 AM  
OpenID laulu-omenalle said...

Oh hey, I forgot to thank you for taking me to medikits a couple of times when I was low on health. Now that's heartwarming, aww.
Especially if it was a kit that I didn't even know/remember existed and then you were all MEEDIIC OVER HERE LOOK LOOK and aww aww.

I actually think farming might be fun. If it's well organized and people actually cooperate, instead of just running around with guns blazing and fists swinging, that is.
But I still wouldn't want to farm mine. It's much more fun to be able to look at the achievements list and go "I've done those things!" than just.. "Oh yeah, remember that time my friend went Spy and cloaked and I killed him 10 times durhurhur."

But I might some day participate as the helping hand. :D Be one of those Spies (that seem to get tormented in every single group of achievements) or sticky-spamming Demomen or whatever. Just to check it out.

Plus I kind of understood why people thought they had to farm to get all of the weapons when you still had to get all achieves to receive the Übersaw. Because some of them really encouraged idiocy and just plain stupid gameplay. But 22 is easy for any class.
(They should call those whiners "Dr. NOOOOOOOOOOOoooooo...")

I wonder if they're gonna do Scout next. They've released achievements for my three MPCs in order (Medic, Pyro and Heavy, although I've now played more Heavy than Pyro but THAT'S NOT IMPORTANT) and Scout is my fourth, haha.
WOULDN'T MIND IF SPY AND SNIPER WOULD BE THE LAST CLASSES FOR THE UNLOCKABLES THOUGH.

Oh, and speaking of the Aussie, what I think is a bit unfair is that while the Heavies have a limit of two, there can still be an assload of Snipers on one server. But that's just me talking with a bullseye painted on my forehead.

And that one Medic didn't hate you. :c Bitch tried to steal you away from me like five times.

8/30/2008 11:40:00 PM  

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