What Chrome did today in TF2, part who-knows.

I sucked in Dustbowl.
I hate sucking in Dustbowl because it's my favourite map and Soldier's one of my strong Dustbowl classes (along with Medic and Engineer), but today I just couldn't keep my act together. Or then I just should stop comparing myself to those monsters who top the scoreboard with 100-something points when I'm there in the middle with 40 and thinking that I must suck. :/ Kept capping a lot, though, especially on stage two. And it's almost a foolproof way to cap stage three's first point by rocket jumping on it. Or rocket jumping a bit to the left from it and just hanging out behind the point and firing at all the adorably oblivious Demos and Soldiers who have their backs turned to me.
And for the first time ever I was actually a part in capping the final point on stage three. I don't remember ever actually standing on that point.

Epic Gravel Pit.
I joined the server in the middle of the match, went BLU because they had a slot free, chose to play as Pyro, and found out my team had already capped A and there was seven people standing on cap B. Alrighty. I headed out to B, spotted a Spy and killed him, then hearing the announcer tell me that my team has received additional time, so I headed out to C instantly. Tried the right entrance first, but there were too many people and a first level sentry, so I returned and took the left one, dropped down from the ledge and started climbing up towards the point. The sentry at the right hurt me a bit at some point, but not too much, and I reached the top finding two Engineers and a dispenser huddled in the back of the cap area, so adorably defenseless. I killed them both, flamed the dispenser out of commission and I think some other RED people were rushing the point because I got two assists at some point. But the Engineers were dead and I capped the point with a Soldier who stumbled by.
Pretty good for ONE LIFE. :3

And for the first time ever a teleporter exit of mine stayed alive pretty damn well in 2fort. A teleporter exit that was in the enemy sewers (behind the little blind corner right below the staircase that leads to the sewers). Usually teleporter exits get killed pretty fast in 2fort, but I had to replace this one only twice during the game (it was out for maybe ten minutes in-between because I'm such a paranoid Engie that I don't want my sentry getting destroyed the very minute I decide to fuck off to drop the exit somewhere. So of course it got sapped just as I was returning from my perilous journey, damn it). Hell, the ENTRANCE got destroyed more often than the exit. :D

And then for some genuine BRAGGING.
There is magic in Granary. And I had a good day. Because after one round, which ended in our victory, I was the ultimate scoreboard leader with 19 points. The next one in my team had 10 points, as well as the enemy team's best scorer. And I died just twice (the first time it was an unexpected sentry close to the enemy's last cap point, and the second time I was charging for the last point and totally underestimated a Demoman. Unsurprisingly it usually proves to be my downfall). Had one darling Medic sticking to me while I was defending one of our points (Medics don't really stick to me, which I understand perfectly, because I'm simply a horrible Medic buddy. And I'll address this in the next paragraph) and I have him to thank of my score and staying alive so well. THANK YOU RANDOM MEDIC. You're not a maggot (like everyone else).


So yeah, a rant of sorts, about Chrome as a Medic buddy.
So like I said, I'm a horrible Medic buddy. I don't expect Medics to stick to me or give me their übers, I expect them to heal my ass when I ask and then leave me to get myself killed. I can't look after them (I have my hands full trying to keep myself alive, and I usually fail even with that), and I don't get that much kills, especially when I'm nervous about having a Medic and needing to fill their expectations about being relatively safe and getting some assist kills and maybe being even a bit useful to the team cause. If they über me, I start failing in EPIC proportions. And that is if I'm Soldier.
As a Pyro I prefer NOT having Medics around, because I'm a completely suicidal Pyro, and of course a Medic would help keep me alive for a bit longer when I'm circle-strafing a Heavy, but the point is that my Medic would more than likely get killed too, and I bet he has way better things to do than get killed because of one suicidal Pyro. I'm perfectly fine needing to fall back a bit and call for a Medic to get healed. I'm fast, I don't mind falling back.
And as a Pyro I don't completely fail with übers because I don't exactly have to AIM like when I'm a Soldier.
And I absolutely hate it when fully charged Medics don't communicate. Okay, not everyone has a mic, but a simple "Go! Go! Go!" voice command would suffice nicely. D: Even actions before giving the über help tremendously. I don't generally expect to get übered, so if some random Medic just suddenly sticks to me with a full charge and hits it when I'm in the middle of a reload and falling back, don't fucking expect me to actually get something done! Heal me for a while first so that I can actually see that you have an über, and for fuck's sake would you look at me, I'm reloading. Or if I'm suddenly falling back from the front lines, it probably means that I'm going to get more ammo. Don't über me when I do that! I understand if we're being fired at, and the Medic has to pop the charge or die, but unexpected übers right out of the blue are probably my least favourite thing ever. :D
And another thing: if you stick with me with the full charge for some time and we're closing in to a CP or a sentry nest or whatever, I'm kinda expecting you're giving the über to me. I'm keeping myself loaded, and actually looking after you now.
And then you leave me for a Heavy or someone just when I go around that corner and prepare to shoot and kill and destroy. Then I notice that the fucking Medic left me half a second earlier for some fat Russian hussy, and die feeling bitter. THANKS. Please, tell me if you're going to do something like that. "If I see a Heavy I'll leave you," okay, then, that's fine.
And if you're switching, you need to TELL ME. I fucking hate to see that okay, I'm glowing, I need to go, and I go around that corner and there are sentries everywhere and a Heavy camping a dispenser and half a dozen of Soldiers and Demos and a Pyro running straight at me, just to see that I'm not glowing anymore and the Medic runs past me with a Demo or something. Ouch.
Medics are the one class that needs to communicate.

I remember one time I actually was a good Medic buddy. This was in CP Well, a Medic sticks to me and he's about to die, so I go totally out of my way so that he could get the medium medkit in the middle point building. I hope he appreciated that even a bit.

Back again!

Had to take almost a week off from my regular gaming routine since I was visiting my parents for Easter, and my little brother managed to break his computer (on which I did my gaming the previous times I was there). So no TF2 for me for a few days. And after that I actually took bull by the horns and continued on where I had previously stopped with PS2's Okami, and spent couple of days with a controller glued to my hands. I wasn't supposed to, I told myself that I would play couple of hours of Okami and then couple of hours of TF2, see, I have plenty of time to do both.
But if you've ever played Okami and liked it, you probably know how it's bleeding hard to stop once you've started.

So after that I noticed how my Steam rating had gone down to four point something and that's unacceptable (I've been EAGLES SCREAM! ever since January), so last night I finally hopped on a server and played for six hours straight.

And I sucked.

I was on top of scoreboard on many maps, my team's number one on Hydro as Pyro, on Gravel Pit as Soldier/Medic (one round top MVP as Medic), on CTF_Well as Soldier and so on, and statistics were telling me I wasn't THAT bad, but it surely felt like it! My kills/deaths ratio was worse than usually and I was getting really frustrated because I kept getting killed by stupid mistakes I made, or because of my poor judgment. And I was getting seriously ANGRY at Pyros who just kept killing me when I was Soldier.
Maybe I just had a bad day, because I know I'm weak against Pyros as Soldier and it's not unusual of me to get killed by them.

Or maybe it's because first couple of hours of playing the other team was so stacked I almost thought of quitting or changing servers.

So, rant time. Stacked teams. I hate team stacking almost as much as I hate all kinds of griefing (which can be fun sometimes, I admit. And almost always when it's not happening to me. Sure I've been laughing at Team Roomba's antics, but I would probably ragequit if it happened to me :D).

Why is it that all the most skilled (not necessarily even clan) players always, deliberately stack in one team map after map after map? Is their sportsmanship so poor? Are they in it just for easy points? Are they griefing?
I could take it as coincidence once, but when the same players go into same team when the next map loads, even go Spectator until there's a free slot in the team, I'm forced to think that they're perfectly aware of their team choice.
And please take notice that this is a public server.
What makes me seriously wonder about those players' motives, is that even I'M not having fun if I'm in a stacked team and we're completely steamrolling the other team and winning CP maps in under two minutes. :< I'm not having fun. I don't consider getting ridiculously easy frags fun (in a game like Team Fortress, that is). If I thought that is fun, I'd be playing some deathmatch game.
It's fun for few minutes, then it gets boring when there's absolutely no resistance from the other team. I start considering changing teams, but I know I wouldn't make any difference, and then I would get pissed off at being steamrolled over and over again.

Because I seriously have less fun in the losing team, that's for sure. :D Last night I got so fucking pissed off at being mowed down again and again that I started going melée only. I know I wasn't contributing anything to my team at that point (because I couldn't kill anyone. Then again, I could kill hardly anyone even when I was playing seriously, so), but if I was going to get killed ten seconds after getting out of my spawn, I wanted to at least make those ten seconds somewhat tolerable and fun. And that was to go at enemies with axe in hand instead of the flame thrower. And there was always the chance that the player I was attacking wouldn't take it too seriously and actually get his melée weapon out and we could duke it out one-on-one, but that only happened once (I ran at a Demo waving my axe and he got his bottle out, and then I was hit by a rocket or something). And so I was getting burned to death by enemy Pyros. Good for them!

I was seriously thinking of quitting, but eventually some of the stackers left and the teams evened out a bit.
And I was seriously laughing with GLEE when we played in Hydro, RED was stacked and we were fighting them off at our control point. And doing very fucking good job considering how superior the other team was (it was probably the best teamwork I've done in a while, everyone was equally pissed off about the stacking). And what happens sometimes in those kind of situations, is that the attacking team sometimes completely ignores their own control point since they're so deep in our territory.
So what happened is that a lonely Spy slipped by the VERY WEAK enemy defense, and went to cap their point. They couldn't do ANYTHING because there was no one even near the point. It was glorious! In the next round the exact same thing was happening, but someone slipped through their offensive sentries again, went to cap their point and they fell back in panic (apparently afraid that the last round would happen again), which provided us a perfect chance to turn the tide completely, and rest of the round they were fighting for their lives close to THEIR point. :3 Those were the most awesome Hydro matches I've had in a while. Just because the enemy was seriously underestimating us and ignoring their defense completely (apparently relying too much on the fact that they were so stacked and had completely kicked our asses before), and it was a perfect example of what a sudden turn of tides does to team morale.
The same happened later in Dustbowl. The teams weren't THAT stacked, but we were still getting our asses properly kicked on Stage Two. RED had pushed us back to first cap point area and time was running out and we were losing. RED had apparently NO defense whatsoever on their point, so a lone Spy capped it before anyone could realise what was happening and it was AWESOME. We totally lost on Stage Three without even capping the first point, but everyone bowed down to the awesome Spy.

And I was always near the top of the scoreboard when I was in the losing team (and still had only like third of the points of the enemy team top scorer), which was, uh, all the time (I go team random every map if none of my friends are playing: in that case I try to get in the same team), so I guess I'm not that bad. :P In the Hydro matches I was my team's top scorer. My deaths/kills ratio was ridiculous, though, but I was playing as Pyro and because of almost nonexistant respawn times (there is sometimes instant respawn in Hydro and I have no idea what it's based on, because I've gotten it when I'm defending and attacking. And this is vanilla server, so there is a respawn timer) I strongly relied of suicide attacks.

That's about it.

And like a good blogger, I'll now address some TF2 related news.

First of all, the recent update -

"Updated CTF mode to remember the player who stole the intelligence from the enemy base and reward that player if the flag is captured by someone else"

- made me SO happy. I'm very often the one who steals the intel and gets it out in the open (I die very often while carrying intel, because more often than not I'm Soldier and I'm slow as fuck, and nervous to boot) where it's easier for a Scout or someone to take it and get it to our base, and I've always been happy that YAY WE WON, but couldn't have helped to feel a bit bitter because I had to go through hell to get the briefcase and then some Scout just takes it and gets all the points.
And I remember once in 2fort I was playing as Pyro and I went to get the intel THREE TIMES. Every time I died (because as a lonely Pyro there's not much you can do when Soldiers and Demos start firing at you from distance) and left the intel to be picked up by someone else. So it was thanks to me we won with a shutout, and I had basically no points whatsoever. :D
And I think it was kind of horrible that one time I capped as Engineer. Someone had gone through all kinds of hardships (presumably) to get the intel just to have some useless Engineer cap it and get all the points. I felt bad for them, I really did. :/ So from now on they get points too, so everyone's happy!

And Goldrush, Medic achievements and Meet the Scout in April!
Then again it's Valve, so I'm not going to trust them. :D The update doesn't exist until my Steam says so. They already nearly broke my heart on Valentine's Day (the whole Badlands thing, if you remember, and my first personal experience on how Valve Time works in practice).
But I'd be lying if I told you I'm not looking forward to that update. Christmas is coming early this year, baby!
I'm just afraid that every server will turn into a Medic only deathmatch because of the achievements (I know I'll be playing lots of Medic).

Linkage!

I promised to link a few TF2 related sites that I shamelessly follow from the shadows, so here we go. These are probably Old News to everyone, but see if it can stop me from posting (actually, I don't even know if anyone reads this besides myself. So I can just pretend that I'm linking these for myself. Righto. In case I ever lose all my bookmarks and my memory. Great! So!).

First of all, 1fort 1blog, which is the TF2 related blog of the maker of Concerned (and boy was that an awkward sentence). I absolutely love his bloggings, he makes me laugh, and I'm looking forward to May. And "looking forward" is a complete understatement...
I'm also debating whether or not I have the guts to go play on 1fort server some day. I would of course have the 150 ping, but I'm kinda used to playing with high ping (...now that I think of it, I've never played with less than a 100 ping. Wtf). And I'm shy and not very good player, so I'd just probably get my ass kicked... so I don't know. Maybe. We'll see.

Then, Ubercharged.net.

And because I love reading and hearing and speaking about Team Fortress 2, I naturally follow the Control Point podcast. Excellent entertainment for long bus rides. Once I got used to getting funny looks from fellow travellers, that is (I snicker a lot. Aloud. And unexpectedly).

And then there's... well, let's not go there. Hush.

I've been engaging in the ... darker side of TF2 fandom, so no actual gaming for me today. So no boring rants or stories for you today. Hooray!

Axan gaemz!

Today's biggest accomplishment: there's this regular guy on the server I usually play on, and he's a pretty good player. Better than me, for sure. I see him sometimes go Pyro and only use the axe to fight (I don't know if he does it to show off, or is he doing it just for fun, since I don't know how much owning he does with the axe). Which is kinda annoying when you're Pyro yourself, you know, other Pyros being flame retardant and everything... so I've gotten axed to death by him several times. And I particularly hate dying from melée weapons, because it's always kinda embarrassing.
So today I'm Pyro in Hydro, he's Pyro and I see he's doing his axing games again, running at me with the axe in hand. I retreat because oh shitfuck he's gonna kill me again, but at some point I just stop backing away, thinking that okay, I'm gonna play his game. So I whip out my axe and the world literally stops. :D It really felt like it, because there was this insane battling going around, but just as I get out the axe and engage him in melée, the battle just seems to die out and it's just me and him, epic fire axe deathmatch.
It was pretty awesome, gotta tell you.
Especially since I actually killed him (it was a really tough fight, I was left with like 30 HP), and felt preeetty darn good after that. :3 He's not the only badass Pyro around anymore!

Also had the strangest CP_Well matches yet, because, uh, I was kinda on top of the scoreboard as a Pyro. Few minutes after the match began I had three times as much points as the player who was the second highest scorer in my team, and twice as much as the enemy team's highest scoring player. I seriously went wtf at that. And it's not that I got really lucky with crits or anything, the enemy team just... it was as if they just looked at me and DIED.
Our team's collective ass was eventually kicked and at some point someone on the enemy team pointed out that "Lol just look at Chrome's score," and I took a look at the scoreboard and I'm STILL the highest scorer, and I still have twice as much points as the next player in our team. At some point the enemies changed their Scout rushing tactics into Pyro rushing tactics (aww, aren't I influential?) and that's when I started getting my personal ass kicked (I'm kinda weak against Pyros), but I still kept at it pretty well.
I still like being good at things.

And I want to kick parents who let their pre-pubescent kids play games like TF2, swear like sailors and act like complete idiots full of themselves over the voicechat. I'm all up for letting kids play as long as they understand that the game is make-believe and you know, watching over them while they play and maybe teach them some manners on how to not annoy everyone if you're going to use the mic, but Jesus Christ every parent who lets their kid play FPS games unsupervised should be neutered. There was this kid today, acting like he was the best player in the universe, calling every other player a noob and an idiot, and just... fuck this, fuck that, you're such a faggot, and so on and so on. He said he was thirteen, but I seriously didn't believe that. I'd say he was nine, ten max.

Halo multiplayer, I know, rite? (Haven't played myself, but I've heard my share of horror stories).

I am now forbidden to watch any more videos of Spy ownage. Because it makes me want to play as Spy and like we know, I'm a rotten Spy. It would just end in frustration.
But goddamn some people just make it look so effortless. And nothing pisses me off quite as well as a good Spy. Nothing elicits my utmost respect like a good Spy.
Maybe I'll one day get rid of my inhibitions and actually have a Strictly Spy day and try to learn to play as one.

New experience: got drunk last Friday and played for a few hours. Looked through my screenshots later and went all "Oh, I don't even remember that one capture I did in Hydro... and I was an MVP too? Interesting!"
But the best was definitely the one cap in Gravel Pit: I once again managed to jump on top of cap C, and I just stood there, chilling and capping the point by myself. I don't know what the hell REDs were doing. Oh hey, you just lost to a drunk girl, how does that make you feel?
But yeah, while I didn't suck much as a drunk Soldier (I sucked about as much as I usually do, so), Engineering was a total disaster, at one point I didn't even notice that my own sentry was shooting me. Not until I was dead and got a nice deathcam shot of my own sentry looking good. Whoops?

And what comes to rocket jumping, I rarely fail nowadays. Easier jumps I do almost always, and I absolutely LOVE the possibilities rocket jumping gives. One of my absolute favourite places to rocket jump is on Dustbowl Stage One cap A, when I'm playing in BLU. I wait for the initial defenses to go down (and, you know, usually help in taking them down), go through the narrow path behind the CP building and then jump right on the point.
Another one is on Stage One, cap B, when I'm defending. I rocket jump up to the ledge that leads to the tunnel with the one-way gate. The tunnel where BLU sometimes builds nice little bases and which swarms with Medics with near-full übercharges and other wonderfully oblivious enemies. If I do that right after BLU caps the first point, I can fight them off for quite some time (because there's a medkit and an ammo pack at the end of the tunnel and so I can just camp and shoot rockets at everyone coming at me). Did that last night and BLU got so annoyed they actually wasted an über to take me down. Tee hee.
I also tolerate 2fort once again because I can finally jump on the battlements (and own those goddamn Snipers) or better yet, through the small hole in the room with the grate floor.
And then I rocket jump to places just because I CAN, and that usually turns out to be my downfall, especially in Well. I jump on top of the train carts in enemy base's yard, forgetting that all the Snipers on their battlements then have a pretty damn clear sight at me. Thus I get headshot like right after doing the jump.
And yes, I've tried doing a jump when I have less than 40 HP left. Whoops?
But I absolutely love getting on top of things, because it seems like nobody ever looks up, and death from above is something they're not expecting.
Harder jumps do fail most of the time: getting on cap C in Gravel Pit is still a bit of hit-or-miss business for me (but it's actually harder to jump on the tiny hut from which I do the actual rocket jump, since there's usually lots of people around me, I'm nervous and the jump's difficult to time right. But once I get there, I usually nail the rocket jump itself as well), and getting on top of cap B building still takes a few tries.
What I'm wondering is that would it be possible to jump into the air duct in Granary? I mean the really, REALLY narrow little air duct that leads into the second floor of the warehouse control point. Yes, through the tiny little exit hole on the ceiling near the central point. I have to find out. Because doing that would be AWESOME, it would provide a route to the enemy base without being seen.
I figure it is possible, but very goddamn difficult. I mean, the hole is so tiny you'd have to stand in the exact right spot and even a tiny angle in the jump would ruin it.
YES, I NEED TO DO THIS. I will try it the next time I'm playing in Granary.

And I need to stop doing this:


It's just so bleeding hilarious. Although that was actually an accident, I don't know what the hell was I thinking, capping the damn point and TAUNTING when there's merciless battle going around (I don't think the sentries on the left were even taken down yet, because I remember sneaking or rocket jumping on the point while some übered Heavy was trying to take the sentries down. They draw the sentry fire, so I could easily sneak to the point without being shot). I taunt after caps if there are no enemies near (or it's a winning cap) but that one was just SUICIDAL.

Who's surprised to hear that Soldier's suddenly my most played class with almost 40 hours? That is SO wrong. I seriously need to play more as Medic.

Dear Medic,

I know there is a battle going on and things can get pretty hectic. You have your primary healing target you have probably deemed worthy of your constant attention. But still, BROS BEFORE HOS, man! D:

There is NOTHING that gets to me and makes me as angry as ignorant Medics (when I'm playing as Medic, that is). I have twenty HP left, you took the medkit right from under my nose, my übercharge is at 80% and I'm running around you smashing E, and you just keep healing that Heavy who's slowly, slowly inching his way towards the door that's not even open (this is Granary, warehouse CP) and who's clearly not in danger of dying (I can forgive Medics who indeed have their primary healing target shot at, but when he's NOT I simply can't understand why you can't just fucking HEAL ME. It takes a second ffs!)
And then some fucking Scout comes in from the other door and shoots my guts out.
THANKS, MEDIC.
I was really fucking upset.
And what made me even more upset is that after I respawn and get back to the warehouse and cling to some Heavy in need of healing, and then I hear the all-too-familiar "MEEEDIIIC!" from behind me and there's the fucking other Medic, screaming for healing. I wanted to just ignore the fucker (DIAF, plz), but I'm better than that, so I checked my Heavy wasn't in danger of dying and turned around to heal the other Medic.

Yes, I felt like a good person after that.

Maybe it's just me, but other Medics have ALWAYS priority over any other target in my books. Usually I just leave whatever it is that I'm doing if I hear another Medic calling (provided that I don't have to trek to the other side of the map to get to them).

I did something outrageous today.
I went Soldier. IN HYDRO.
Because I was failing as Pyro and decided to just fuck it, I'm going Soldier. It was pretty awesome in the end, because I used my usual Pyro ambushing tactics as Soldier and nothing's as great as sneaking behind unsuspecting enemies as a SOLDIER and just firing away. Tee hee.

Breaking scores!

I have no idea if I'm any good as Soldier or am I just ridiculously lucky.
I don't spam anymore, and I've noticed how I'm starting to calculate the opponents' possible movements and firing rockets accordingly. So at least I'm getting better, that's for sure.

But take today, for instance: first few maps I absolutely suck. I can't hit anything, I get killed by Pyros (yes, Pyros are still my archnemesis. If you really want to kill me when I'm Soldier, go Pyro and run straight at me. Then laugh at how I succumb to your flames like a Spy), I get killed by anything that's shot at my general direction. And the enemy team wasn't even too overpowered: we were doing quite well.
I suck and I refuse to change classes, because I'M SERIOUSLY NOT THIS HORRIBLE AT THIS, LEMME TRY THAT AGAIN.
Then again, maybe I was just having a bad day. Spies were completely raping me whenever I went Engie (they were good Spies, I admit, because bad ones don't cause me much grief) and this one Scout brat (seriously, the player was a kid, he used a mic. And to me all children are annoying and obnoxious, so excuse me. How do I mute?) kept owning me. Goddamn there's nothing as annoying as someone probably almost fifteen years my junior playing the one class that Engineers usually dominate easily, just effortlessly owning my ass whenever he stumbles by.
He was really good, I give him that.
And there is magic again in Granary, because for some reason I was on top of the scoreboard there. As Soldier. And our team didn't suck, it was actually a pretty damn good team (we didn't win, but it's because the enemy team was even better, duh). But for some reason Granary is my Soldier playground, I always do well there. Strangely enough.
Wasn't a completely rotten Medic when I went one, but oh well. Even racked up some kills in Gravel Pit. Two kills within few seconds: ASSAULT MEDIC. I absolutely hate all them badass Medics, because it's always kinda embarrassing to get killed by syringes. It's completely awesome when I do it, naturally.
And before you ask, for me ze healing comes before ze hurting: I rarely attack as a Medic. Only when I'm cornered or alone (because seriously I ALWAYS have better things to do than kill someone: except when there is no one else around and that goddamn Pyro is heading for our intel), when I KNOW I can get the kill, or when it's a Spy.
But yeah, I've clocked about 33 hours as a Medic, and my kill count is maybe a hundred, so I really don't do much killing when I'm Medic.

But then. Suddenly, I am a kickass Soldier.
It all began when I once again managed to jump on top of cap B in Gravel Pit just as some übered enemy ensemble was rushing the point, so I finally got to cause suffering by firing rockets from the windows at the adorably unaware enemies standing on the point. Aww three defenses. I ran out of ammo pretty fast since I didn't have a dispenser handy, but at least I managed to thwart one of their capture attempts.

Then. Dustbowl. RED. Stage Two. I managed to stay alive from the capping of the first point to the end of the round. Which ended in our victory. I didn't even think about it, but I kept running all around the place, had one Medic healing my ass whenever I was in need (he didn't stick to me, which I think was a good thing, because when I have a Medic I have this tendency to be a bit braver, which usually ends in a gruesome death. YEAH STICKIES ON THE FLOOR WHO CARES 8D and then "boom!"), and if he was not close by, I returned to the nearest dispenser for health and ammo. We kept the enemies pretty far from the point, they didn't really get through the tunnels.
The result?
20 points in one life. 20 fucking points in one life. That's like... I almost spewed my tea all over the monitor when the next round started and "You had more kills as Soldier that round than your previous best - 16" announcement popped up. I hadn't even thought about it! Came as a complete surprise! I kinda realised I stayed alive for a very long time (like I've told you, I die a lot, and I die fast), but I had no idea the whole round was THAT successful! I thought I had maybe gotten eight or so kills.
So, 16 kills, 2 dominations, I'm not quite sure were the rest two points destructions or assists, but who cares. Also damage dealt record and longest life.

Now my Soldier stats don't look so pathetic anymore! My best score before was 9 (which is kinda really pathetic since I've played so much as Soldier. 30 hours, eh. But look at the bright side! At least the thirty hours have taught me something!).
And yeah, it's my best overall score, Medic and Engineer come next with 16 points. Go check my Steam ID if you wanna see more of my stats, no use talking about them when you can just see them for yourself.

Yes, I am aware that the scores don't really matter, but we've gone over this a few times already, so let's just skip it this time.

Also I had no idea how much I would actually end up enjoying playing as Soldier.

And I don't even remember when's the last time I was so embarrassed by something: I was playing in Dustbowl, I was in RED, and we were getting our asses properly kicked by BLU. People were whining how the team sucks and we WERE pretty bad, I admit.
Then Steam kicked me, for some reason or another, and I had to reconnect to the server. So I'm in the team selection screen, the teams have an even number of players and I'm thinking that I'm still gonna go RED because I would have to try to make a difference and come on, it would be simply HORRIBLE to go BLU since they've been owning us.
And then I ACCIDENTALLY CLICK THE BLU DOOR. D: I got in, so I chose a class and quickly returned to the team selection screen because I AM NOT GOING TO DO THIS OH MY GOD, and I see as someone else enters RED and I can't change teams anymore.
I was so embarrassed. I was hoping RED would be able to defend (this was Stage Three) and we would lose because oh my god. Every time someone killed me I kept thinking what they must think of me, how I'm a sore loser and oh god, I totally deserved that crit 'nade or whatever.
We didn't get the last point, so at least justice was served. To me, anyhow.
(It also wasn't a surprise why BLU was so superior: they communicated really well.)
What makes it even more embarrassing, is because I always get really angry when autobalance hits, some poor sod is tranferred to the losing team, and they immediately disconnect and try to get back into their old team. I think it's probably the lamest thing ever. Way to take the game a bit too seriously, dipshit!
And yeah, I hate it too when autobalance hits, but I would NEVER disconnect and try to join my old team. Take the epic Dustbowl match a few days back, when I got switched to RED. I was annoyed, but I just sucked it up and started killing my old team mates. And I ended up having so much fun and actually winning, so.

I also have my own headset now, but I still chicken out of actually using it.
And "comfortable to wear over long periods" my ass, I wore it for five hours and now my ears hurt like sons of bitches. It's also not very practical with glasses, stupid neckband. But! It's got good-enough sound and the mic works, so I'm not going to whine. A lot.
Now if I could just get over the fact that I sound like an idiot, and actually use the thing. I speak very good English, damn it, but when I get nervous I start stuttering and my otherwise so normal (albeit probably strange to native speakers) accent turns into this stiff Finnish accent and I pronounce words all wrong and ouch.

Guys, guys, I actually rocket jumped on top of the cap B building in Gravel Pit today! It was AWESOME! We even had an Engie who knew how to get there via fucking around with dispensers and teleporters (I wanna do that too some day!), so there was a dispenser to provide ammo and health and it was awesome just camping there and shooting rockets and oh man. Too bad the attacking team never even made it inside the building, I would've LOVED to fire some rockets from the windows, because I know how much I hate it when there's a Soldier or a Demo on top of the building while I'm trying to cap the point.

Look at me standing there, all proud and stuff (wasn't an MVP, not by a long shot, didn't actually do much killing from there, but at least I GOT THERE YAY and kept some Snipers in check):


Did lots of rocket jumping today since I've finally learned how to do it. I even learned to do these huge leaps that are both high and long, makes traveling longer distances oh so much easier. Had to jump over trains in Well just because I CAN and then spend good time screaming for Medic. Yeah, my jumps still botch like 1/4 of the time, but most of the time I get where I'm trying to go!
For the record, the jump that got me on top of the cap B building was maybe fifth or sixth try and I was all fucking hell I can't even have any fun since I'm soon out of ammo. Fortunately there was already an Engie running around and building a dispenser. Lucky me.

Apart from learning to rocket jump I played a lot as Engineer today. Even got to be one in Dustbowl Stage Three when I was in RED! I have always wanted to do that! We didn't have but one Engie when the round started (I had been a Soldier on Stages One and Two), so I was like YES I'M GONNA BE ONE! Got four dominations during that round and kept my sentry alive pretty nicely considering how spammy the last capture point area gets.
And I only get fun out of 2fort by going Engineer and not taking the whole thing very seriously. You can find me there camping the ramp room, dominating Scouts and Spies, running around our base shooting at people (killing Medics) and trying to sneak into enemy territory every once in a while to get down a teleporter exit (I have serious Engineering ADHD: I always build the entrance, and then I just kinda forget about the exit. Most of the time I don't find a good-enough place for one, though: in CTF maps the exits get destroyed pretty fast and I hate doing the stupid long trek every few minutes just to make a teleporter exit. I hate leaving my other building unguarded when I know there are Spies around. I'm a territorial Engie, yes I am).

I was also a train magnet today. Embarrassing.

Today I got transferred from BLU to RED in Dustbowl RIGHT after we had capped Stage Two cap A. Seriously, I even capped the goddamned thing, (nothing's better than capping a point while taunting, take it from me), and then I start advancing towards cap B and bam, I die, and then I'm in RED. Goddamn autobalance. I always get switched to the losing team. Boo hoo.
But it turned out pretty okay after all: capping Stage One had been ridiculously easy, but we really put out a fight on Stage Two cap B. I got a few dominations and was topping the scoreboard - again - and we were doing really well (I was Soldier, btw), until one lucky push from BLU got through. But we managed to stop them completely on Stage Three cap A. I've actually NEVER seen cap A NOT being capped, it was strange. We practically spawn-raped them (I really dislike going into attacking team's spawn, I guess I'm that much of a jovial player. I think it's pretty low to kill someone just when they get out of their spawn, so I find myself NOT going there even though I have the chance. Besides, I like the challenge and hectic battles MORE than getting easy kills, so I much rather let the enemies come out and play where it's room to do so and they except me to attack them. Have I ever mentioned how much I hate spawn campers? It's the single most annoying thing that can happen. I won't do it even if I had the chance. I won't build sentries right outside enemy spawn because I think that's fucking cheap and takes fun out of the game. Because it's always frustrating to others), they couldn't form even a single good push to try to take the point. Yay for us!

And I need to have a Strictly Medic day soon. I rarely ever play as Medic anymore, and I feel bad for deserting Medic for easy frags and camping in one spot all carefree.
I went Medic in CP Well today, though. And had my best melée only Sudden Death yet. Managed to avoid getting killed during the primary brawl close to our second CP (I'm really bad at melée with the bonesaw) and advanced to the third cap with a Heavy. An enemy Spy botched a backstab (btw, I got facestabbed TWICE today, wtf. It's never happened before! I'm all "you're a buncha loonies!" when I read people complaining about facestabs happening, because it's never happened to me, but hey, whaddaya know, it apparently does happen! And it's fucking annoying to stare a Spy in the eye and yet get killed by a backstab) and disappeared somewhere while we capped the point and went to cap the fourth. We capped it and I saw a friendly Engie run in just as I started for the last point. Heard the Heavy scream and went all OHSHI- we're gonna lose, I'm the only one left EVERYONE'S LOOKING AT ME and I can't kill anyone with the bonesaw and the only enemy left is A SPY OH MY GOD IT'S INVISIBLE AND CAN KILL ME WITH ONE HIT OH MY GOD. D:
So I kinda panicked, but kept running for the last point, turning around and checking behind me like a lunatic because OH MY GOD THE SPY. Luckily the Spy was running low on cloak, so he couldn't sneak behind me and I was making it sure he couldn't get behind my back. So we just ran in circles (and I kept falling down from the cap area because I was so goddamn nervous), waving our weapons and trying to kill each other. And he was trying to stand on the point to stop me from capping it.
But because bonesaw is superior to the knife I actually killed the Spy at some point and ensured our victory.


I was SHAKING for minutes after it, it had been INTENSE. :D

GG-ing

Guys, guys, I actually rocket-jumped to Cap C in Gravel Pit today! It was awesome! We were about to cap the thing, but defenders killed whoever was trying to cap it, and I was just coming from Cap B and thought "OKAY THEN, I'm gonna try to jump up there and rain some doom on them and cap it, and if it fails, I'll take it like a man!" and I jumped on the hut and fired a rocket and I DID IT.
Best part: we capped the point immediately and it was awesome.
Look, a screenshot:



And do you know what happened right after I took the screenshot? What always happens if I capture C in Gravel Pit?
I accidentally fell down and killed myself.
Funny thing: it's happened every single time I've capped C. Bad karma.

Apart from that Gravel Pit match I had a rather bad day today, I pretty much sucked continuously. Even my Pyro runs in Hydro weren't as successful as usually (should've kept my mouth shut about being unstoppable, yeah, I know...). Spent quite some time as Engineer, turtling around in 2fort, Well and Granary. But at least I also tried being Engineer in Dustbowl. In BLU. We would've got so spawn-raped on Stage Two if I hadn't put my sentry up in the dugout. Damn Pyros were trying to come through all the time.
Also, my "our team must really suck if I'm on top of the scoreboard as a Soldier!" isn't a good measuring stick anymore, I suppose. Because yesterday our team was AWESOMESAUCE in Dustbowl (we won 6-5), and I was third on scoreboard. As a Soldier. With 80 points. So, yeah. I think I'll just stop comparing myself to others, it's a Team Fortress after all.
(But like I've said, I like thinking that I'm not THAT bad a player sometimes. Being on top of the scoreboard really helps.)
And I think I have to find some nice 24/7 Hydro and Dustbowl servers, because I'm so in love with both of those maps. All the others I'm getting rather bored of. Most of the time I can't stand 2fort, I hate both Wells, Granary and Badlands are slowly getting repetitive and boring and I've NEVER really liked Gravel Pit (it's fun, but somehow I just really... I can't explain it. There's something I just don't like about Gravel Pit. I go all "oh man..." whenever it comes up in map rotation, but usually I just suck it up and find myself having fun, so...). Dustbowl is ALWAYS awesome and like I've told you, I just love Hydro.

And oh yeah! GG, VALVE #2

And specifically, "Fixed critical modifier for explosive weapons (rockets, pipe bombs) increasing critical chance more than intended"

I didn't actually even notice any reduction in the amount of crits that I got today when I was Soldier. Same old lucky crits as always.

EDIT: Oh yeah, just remembered how I got one of the most insane kills ever. So, yeah, I once killed a cloaked Spy with a rocket (...back when I was still spamming like crazy. Oh, those were the good old days...), and I was really surprised when bloody body parts exploded out of nowhere.
But today I killed a cloaked Spy with the wrench. And I wasn't even close to my sentry at the time! (It's not that crazy to kill a cloaked Spy with the wrench if there's sappin' going on and you're waving the wrench at your sentry anyhow). Granted, I knew there was a Spy around, I saw him cloaking nearby, so I just started backing away back to my sentry (this happened in 2fort, I was in the lobby when I saw the Spy, and I started backing towards the ramp room), waving my wrench. And then suddenly my wrench connected with something and a BLU Spy just plopped down, dead. Was pretty awesome.

I had a dream last night in which my sentry chimed in over 300 kills. I was really disappointed when it didn't happen in the game today. :D
But I killed another Engie with a pistol (I've never gotten a pistol kill before, I abuse the shotgun most of the time). The dirty bastard was sneaking around in our base in 2fort, trying to put down teleporters, so I had to plant a few bullets in his cranium.
And I don't know what it is, but übered Heavies don't strike any fear in my heart when I'm an Engineer. I'll just camp behind my sentry and wave my wrench like a nutcase if one is approaching, IF I CAN KEEP MY BABY UP THE HEAVY WILL DIE THE MOMENT THE ÜBER FADES MWAHAHA. Most of the time it works, as long as the Heavy doesn't get too close. Minigun sprays bullets so wide I only take stray hits and my dispenser keeps me pretty much alive.
But if it's an über Demo (or a Pyro with a Medic who knows what they're doing) that's coming at me, I'll be gone in a matter of seconds and putting up another sentry somewhere else. With Soldiers I'm on the fence: even one crit means death and destruction for me and my baby, but if there are no crits, I can easily keep the sentry up and running. Damn crits.

I once again had a horrible team today in Dustbowl. I was once again on top of the scoreboard as a Soldier. :/ But we were pretty much doomed from the start: we started Stage One with six fucking Engineers, one Demo, one Pyro and one Soldier (me). OUCH. Just guess how long it took BLU to cap both points? NOT VERY LONG. Engies kept them away from Cap A for a few minutes, but after that our entire defense fell apart and the second point was capped in a matter of seconds.
On Stage Three we owned for a little while, kept them in their spawn for almost ten minutes, and even after they capped (silliest cap ever, for fuck's sake, one goddamn Spy got through and just capped the point by himself while we were fighting off everyone else. To be honest, I didn't even notice our point being capped (too busy killing Medics) until someone yelled "KILL THE GODDAMN SPY!" over voicechat, and I nailed the bastard like a second too late. :< But hey, we still kept them in their spawn for a few minutes after that, which was pretty cool), they made one of the biggest mistakes BLU can make on Stage Three, and ignored a teleporter exit in our respawn exit (the one that closes once Cap A is capped) and we managed to rape them properly from behind once they had advanced to the last corner. <3
We lost, but like I already told you, I was the highest scorer, so.

And hey, I got a new score record for Demoman today! :D
So I told you how my regular server has new sudden death modes. Everyone goes melée and is forced to be a certain class. It's really lol inducing when everyone goes Medic and abuses the E key all the time, or when everyone goes Engineer and we can't even build dispensers and so everyone spams "We need a dispenser right here!" hehe.
Anyway, on 2fort everyone was forced to go Demo.
And somehow I managed to get three kills and one defense (the guy with our intel ran right at me and I got a lucky crit), so WHOA FOUR POINTS. My Demoman stats look still pretty pathetic, though. :D (For the record, I've played about 12 minutes as a Demo).

And why do I STILL giggle like some idiot when someone asks something silly (like "How can I enable quick weapon switch?") in chat, and someone answers promptly "F10."
And then a few people disconnect. Ahahah, still makes me laugh. So cruel, but so very amusing.
F10 is seriously the answer to everything.

And so much for trying other classes: I went Engineer in 2fort, Soldier in Granary, Dustbowl and Gravel Pit, and Pyro in Hydro. Le sigh. But at least I also tried Pyro in Well! Was a bit lost and didn't score as high as I am used to scoring as a Pyro, but it wasn't completely horrible. Plus hooray for circle-strafing first level sentries.

Time to try out some new stuff

I just realised that I always choose a certain class on certain maps, and I rarely try out anything new. I go Engineer or Soldier in 2fort, Pyro in Hydro, Soldier or Pyro in Badlands, Soldier or Medic in Gravel Pit, Soldier in Granary and so on and so on.
So the next time I'm playing, I'll try out, for example, Pyro in Well. I'm completely lost as a Pyro in Well. I'll go, um, Engineer in Badlands. Pyro in Dustbowl when I'm in BLU. Anything but Soldier in Granary.
And I have a sudden urge to go Sniper. I've been neglecting Sniper after I started getting hang of playing Pyro and Soldier (Sniper was my third favourite class at some point), and truth to be told I'm quite a sucky Sniper. I never realise to move and then I have Spies coming out of my ass. And I'm outplayed by the enemy Snipers way too easily. I also hate Sniper vs. Sniper battles so much that I try to choose my sniping points so that the enemy Snipers can't see me. And I will never, ever go Sniper in 2fort.
And in case you're wondering and haven't yet realised, my top four classes are Medic (~30 h), Soldier (~20 h), Pyro (~17 h) and Engineer (~17 h). After that comes Sniper with ~4 h, and every other class I've only played for less than an hour (Scout for almost two, which is kinda strange. Because I'm the worst Scout ever).

Also, the next time I'm playing, I'll try to use more of my secondary - and if possible, melée - weapons. I might cut my Pyro deaths in HALF if I could use the shotgun to my advantage. Soldier deaths too, if I could learn to change to shotgun or even the shovel at appropriate times. With Medic and Engineer I find myself changing weapons according to situation.

And I miss Labor.
Stupid custom map, I hated Labor when it was included in my regular server's map rotation. It is so goddamn linear and too easy to win with simple rushing. I hated it with burning passion and cheered when it was finally dropped.
Now I find myself missing its stupid linearity. I'm getting so fed up with Well I'd take Labor any day instead of it.

Oh yeah, Hydro is an exception to the rule with that "try out different classes on different maps" plan. I refuse to play any other class than Pyro in Hydro. It's not because I'm lost with other classes there, it's just because Pyro is so much FUN in Hydro. And because I OWN as a Pyro in Hydro. 51 points today, on top of the scoreboard, and after each round I was one of the MPV's. I die a lot (I'm one of those suicidal Pyros), but I also wreak a LOT of havoc. If I get a Medic to back me up, I'm simply unstoppable.
Yeah, I know, it's Team Fortress, it isn't all about frags, but damn it, I like being good at something. And I'm a good Pyro in Hydro. And no one can possibly say I contribute nothing to my team.
And I've never been as proud of myself as I was when I learned to circle-strafe lone Heavies to death.

Also, lol at bonesawing a sentry. No, it wasn't humiliation. No, I wasn't übered. Someone went all wtf in chat, how the hell does one bonesaw a sentry and I was amused.
Well, I was on Dustbowl Stage One Cap A, running around and healing people, when I saw an Engineer starting to build a sentry. The Engie fucked off somewhere (probably went to get more metal) and I went all D: fuck we're gonna be in trouble if that sentry goes up, so I whipped out my bonesaw and rushed towards the sentry, destroying it before it had finished building. That's how you destroy a sentry with a bonesaw!

And I did some intel capping in 2fort today.

As an Engineer. Lolwut.

Not the whole way, of course. I'm not that hardcore an Engie. And it was kind of an accident anyway, I was camping behind my sentry in courtyard, wavin' mah wrench like always, and suddenly there was complete chaos and the Scout carrying the enemy intel died from some unfortunate stray bullet when he was standing right next to me. He dropped the intel, and I took it automatically. I went all "ALRIGHTY THEN 8D" and ran off to the basement, capping the darn thing.
Totally worth it, because I love Engineer's modest "That's nothin'" voiceclip when he caps the intel. I have been wanting to do some capping to hear it and I did. <3

Server also pulled the funniest Sudden Death match ever. It was melée only, as usual, and it forced everyone to go Soldier. Except one guy, who was a Spy. WTF, server. Many lulz were had with eleven Soldiers and a lonely Spy standing on a control point and pummelling their helmets with shovels.

Remind me to make an entry about all kinds of TF2 related things I follow in internet. I need to pimp some stuff.

I used a mic today.

I know! Wild!

And nothing happened. Except that some totally random guy sent me a friends request some time after I had used the mic for the first time, but I'm kinda hoping it's completely unrelated. It could be, but I think he was in my team when I spoke up at one point to inform people of my teleporter. (He sent the friends request during the next map, and he wasn't in the same team then).
He was kinda nice, though, I asked if there were any takers for my über in Dustbowl Stage Two and he was like I'll take it, and we capped the first point.
I just don't know if I should friend him back, because whoooa kinda creepy. Then again it would be kinda rude to ignore him, because I kept following him around in Dustbowl because he was a good Soldier and didn't waste my übers completely, damn it.

But anywho, I was glad to notice that no one pulled any strange shit when they heard a girl voice, so yay (I might be a bit prejudiced, but I've heard my share of horror stories about basement-dwelling lifeless gamer nerds... plus I don't ever wanna hear anyone go "Ha ha, a girl, no wonder you suck!"). I'd rather not make a big deal out of my gender (I like being "one of the guys" on default), but sacrifices must be made, and I want to be able to communicate with my team (and I hate typing).

Now if I only could be less nervous when talking and not stutter like some idiot...

Also! Great news!

HEAD OF THE CLASS GET!

I was just missing Spy! Had to endure a full fifteen minutes of utter humiliation in Granary, but getting the achievement was totally worth it. And I'd still like to play more as a Spy, I'm just SO. BAD. at it. Yeah I got a few lucky backstabs, but somehow everyone just sees right through me. Like the enemy Spy who backstabbed me when I was disguised. Granted, he was a pretty good Spy, whereas I'm... not.
And I was feeling really bad at some point when people started going "WE NEED MEDICS COME ON!" and we were getting slaughtered (but hey, we managed to hold them off the last point!) and I knew I wasn't contributing anything to the team and I was almost about to change classes, but... I'm sorry, team. I'm never doing that again.

Also tried to play Engineer a bit differently and tried moving my buildings often, rather than camp just one spot. Works really well and keeps enemies on their toes because they can never know behind which corner the sentry is this time. Should experiment more.

The Story of Unlikely Comradeship

So, Goldrush, anyone?
I can't WAIT. The map looks awesome and I'm curious as to how the new game mode will work.

The paged pool memory problems are there, and then they're... not. I don't mind, though, I played for five hours yesterday without the game crashing. And now I have an interesting Engineer story to tell.
So, everyone knows that a Pyro is an Engineer's best friend if there's a serious Spy infestation. Have the Pyro stand around and flame everyone who comes close to the sentry. It works wonders.
But yesterday I had the most unlikely Engineer buddy ever.

A Spy.

No, really. I was once again camping it out in enemy sewers on 2fort, because I like it there. I can pull off a pretty solid defense there, and a forward sentry like that really helps with offense. We were pretty much dominating the enemies. And usually the pissed-off enemies start concentrating on trying to take my little base down instead of trying to cap our intel and since I can pretty much pull it off by myself there for some time, our team can concentrate on capping the enemy intel and hello, glorious victory.
But anyway. The enemies were slowly starting to get pretty annoyed at having a sentry in their sewers, so Spies of course kept coming in and trying to take the sentry down. And I was pretty much prepared for them. Silly Spies, don't disguise as an Engineer if I'M the only Engineer in our team (wow, no Engineer infestation on 2fort, this is unheard of! Everyone went Sniper amirite?) and you're about to attack ME. When I see another Engineer running at me, I know it's definitely a Spy and can wrench them in the face before they get to do any sappin'.
So, Spies were coming in in a steady flow and I was getting pretty annoyed at them because I kept losing my dispenser. So, one of our Spies stumbles by and stays to camp by my dispenser. I pay no mind to him really, because, well, why would I?
Then an enemy Spy comes in, all inconspicuous (disguised as me), and starts sappin' mah buildings.
And our Spy just steps out and coldly stabs the disguised enemy Spy in the back while he's busy taking down my buildings.
That was kinda very cool.
So, the friendly Spy stays around, I kinda start wondering why's he camping here, shouldn't he be somewhere capping the intel and backstabbing people, and then another enemy Spy comes in, cue sappin'.
And our Spy once again proceeds to stabbing the enemy Spy in the back.

At that point I went "I love you, Spy."

That is... when you think about it, it WORKS. None of the enemy Spies paid NO MIND whatsoever to the Spy standing there, because they were so bent on getting rid of my sentry and me, and they know that once the sentry's being sapped, I'm too busy trying to save it to attack them (which is not the case, because if the Spy is standing right next to me, I have plenty of time to wrench him in the face and then go save my sentry). They didn't probably even recognise the backstabbing threat.
And because backstab is a one hit kill, the enemy Spy doesn't even have a chance to backstab me in panic.
Surely it probably doesn't work in every situation, but the point is that I don't think anyone's ever thought about having a Spy stand guard on sentries. And yeah, Spies probably have better things to do than stand guard on sentries, but in case they don't... it all depends on situation.

From now on, I want to have my own Spy whenever I'm an Engineer. And to think how much I used to loathe Spies when I play as an Engie...

I also found it kinda cute that when the enemy team FINALLY took my base down and sent me to respawn, I saw the Pyro who had done it declare in chat that "IT'S FINALLY DOWN!" and I went completely awww, glad to be of annoyance. :3 Made my day, really. Nothing's better than being a serious thorn in enemies' side.

And lookie, wrenchan gaems!



It's funny how much melée kills I get as an Engineer. Hee. The Spy managed to sap my sentry, but in return he got wrenched to death. The same destiny awaited the Soldier who rushed in, all giddy about not being torn into shreds by my sentry, and tried to obliterate me. Aww, I'm so sorry, poor Solly, but that's not the way it goes.

Also, I now have Heavy included in Head of the Class, so I'm 8/9 through, and I have NO IDEA which class I'm missing. Le sigh. I have a feeling it's Spy. Well at least that gives me an excuse to force myself to play more as a Spy.
And if it's not Spy, it's Demoman, and that's the worst case scenario.