HA!

FINALLY.
After eight months of playing together and getting my butt handed to me every freaking time I ended up face to face with him, I finally dominated Slaverstrike.



Okay, yeah, he was playing as Spy and I immediately went Pyro (and told Sonny - a fellow Pyro - to torch everyone because Slaver's going Spy), but by the time I got the domination he had already changed back to Demo. And that was the only assist I got against him, the rest were kills.
The best part? He never got the revenge. HA HA HA HA.
And he's still whining to me about it, haha, but COME ON he dominates me every damn time we are not in the same team, and this is the first time I've actually managed to dominate him. And probably the last time too.
(The best part about the screenshot? The only way is down, so after gloating over the GREAT SUCCESS! and laughing my ass off, I had to suicide. Ehh.)

So apart from some domestic domination disputes my misadventures in TF2 can be summarised a bit like this:



We kick ass.
And those scores are fucking ridiculous (also I was so torn apart because I wanted to be Sonny's Medic too D:), but what can I say. We make one hell of a team because we can actually communicate with each other.
Except we still need to learn to decipher what the hell is it that one of us is trying to say sometimes: I often go "OH FUCK ME DEAD" or "EIIII PERKELE" which usually means that there's a Spy or a Pyro behind us, but hell if he knows what my sudden screaming's all about. Haha.
And I'm having trouble of being a one-man Medic, since I'm so used to healing everyone. So sometimes I just go all "wait a mo, I go heal these other people here" and fuck off somewhere to heal others. And it hurts me when I need to be dedicated and we have a Mission to Accomplish and someone's yelling Medic somewhere and I can't go to them without Slaver buying the farm. So torn!
And our teamwork doesn't work quite as well the other way around since I'm such an atrocious Heavy, but if I'm the Medic and Slaver's the Heavy, we pretty much dominate. As you can see (the scores at the end of the same match):



So, um, beware? I guess.
And of course someone whined about it at some point ("why are these awesome players teamstacking on a newbie server?"), so apparently Chrome + Slaverstrike = Automatic Teamstack.

Nothing else, really. I've been playing a lot as Demo (and gotten some Medics to finally love me, which is just wtf: one Medic loved me on Badwater and kept giving me his übers near the last point, basically just hitting it the moment he got it and I was going all JESUS CHRIST THESE AMATEUR MEDICS DRIVE ME INSANE, running there glowing and just chucking grenades at people without really accomplishing anything. I was hoping he would go away and leave me to do my sticky camping in peace but noooo, he was sticking to me like glue. Another "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!" moment was when a Medic übered me on Gold Rush about two seconds before the gates even opened. OH MY GOD WE'RE GOING TO LOSE), and disturbingly much as a Sniper, and find myself sucking quite hard at it (and still refusing to change classes because "WHY DO I ALWAYS HAVE TO BE THE MEDIC?"), but I'm wanting to learn. And that's how it goes: you can't expect to get good at playing some class if you never play as that class.
Also the stupidest Sniper kill ever: I round a corner on top of the roof overlooking the second checkpoint on Badwater, only to see a sneaky BLU Engineer whacking away at a first level sentry, so I hit the Engineer in the face with the kukri, kill him off, and drop down from the roof with the sentry shooting at my ass. Escaped with 2 HP. Just what the fucking hell, Chrome.

Jesus Christ I RAGED last night in Dustbowl.
I was playing in RED, having tons of fun defending and healing people and pushing BLU back into their spawn in Stage Three. And then.
Autobalanced.
I RAGED because, well, I figured I'd end up being pushed back into spawn continuously because that's what RED was doing to BLU. Dominating like whoa. I even thought of going spectator until there's room in RED again, but I didn't want to be a spoilsport, so I just swallowed all the silly rage and started healing people I had been (assisting in) killing before. I'm a good Medic, dammit, I can tip the scales if I really try! We can win this shit!

Except that I don't ever remember having as broken a team. I think we had couple of AFK players, but seriously, I was up there, trying to heal another Medic, an odd Soldier and an Engineer. Those were the only fucking people I saw. And I went back to the spawn to find more people when everyone else died and no, there was no one there. And according to the scoreboard we had a full 12 player team.
Anyway, apparently all the "good" players had left after Stage Two (after all, BLU had got through the first two stages), and, well, I was on top of the scoreboard, and had twice as much points as the next player, 'nuff said.
So I RAGED again. And this time I was so angry that I actually yelled at them. I was just so fucking angry at being switched into such a sorry excuse for a team. Once again I wanted to switch to spectator and go back to my old team, I had friends there and we were doing so well and having fun and...
I don't know if my raging actually made them start working harder or what the hell happened, but suddenly there were a couple of Demos and a Heavy and we pushed the defenders back so that I could build my über without dying and not long after that we capped the first point. We never got the last one, but I actually had fun after the first cap. The team had miraculously pulled itself together! It was great! I felt sorry that I had raged and told the team that they were awesome after all. Because they were, after they regained their composure.
And yeah, I was doing very well for a change, in the end of the round I even had more points than the enemy team's highest scoring player (...and still almost twice as much as the rest of my team...) and yay, I don't actually remember ever being the one with the best score out of all players. I would've got the achievement out of that (except that I think I killed one Spy).
But yeah, this is just one more example how I should never switch back to my old team after autobalance. No matter how bad the things are looking, I can end up having more fun than I otherwise would've had.

I was also steamrolling with Slaverstrike on Well. Again. Look at us, topping the scoreboard.


Was awesome. So awesome. We make good team.

I also Engineered a bit on Dustbowl. Got myself a brand new best score, 18 points, and kills record too. 12 from a sentry, and two shotgun kills, those silly Spies. And I felt like a good person after seeing a comrade being blown into smithereens while his sentry was under über-Heavy fire, and rushing in and keeping the friendly sentry alive.
Also did some experimental engineering on 2fort (because that's what 2fort is for, I hate it so much). And I had this extremely silly Spy trying to cause me grief. Just ended up causing me to giggle uncontrollably. Damn idiot stabbed me TWICE when I was tanking behind my sentry. Well you know how that ended up. Not very well on the poor Spy's part. The first one I understand, because hey, it happens. But after the second time I was having hard time trying to recover from a giggle fit. And later on I dominated the poor sod, and of course did it very gracefully by getting shot to death by my own sentry at the same time. The Spy died from the same goddamn rocket, and I hear the pompous DOMINATION soundclip and see my sentry looking preeetty good (that's my baby <3). What's more, I got a defense out of it, because the Spy was carrying our intel. Nice combo. A kill, a domination, a defense, and yet another deathcam shot of my own sentry.

And actually, right now I'm hoping that the update won't come until the end of the week. Because I have lots of school stuff to do and I don't know if I have the guts to actually sacrifice our project for an insane Goldrush allnighter.
Don't fail me, Valve.

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.