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So, I was mighty suspicious and prejudiced about the new game mode, having heard that it's going to be a some kind of a deathmatch. I knew Valve couldn't do that, not after putting all the emphasis on TEAM, but I was still a bit scared of what it would be.
But this makes me very intrigued. It's like a Sudden Death game mode!
I also know that I'll be dying thirty seconds into any given Arena match, haha.
And Lumberyard looks sweet and I can't wait to actually get to see it up close. Might even have to load the map locally the first freaking thing after the update and just look at it.

And today is the big day. Or should be, at least. I'm preeetty sure the update will be pushed back to tomorrow or end of the week, seeing how Valve failed to keep even the updates of the update coming. I mean, all of the previous updates came about 9-10 pm my time, last night it was way over 1 am when I decided to just stop waiting and go to bed. And if it takes them so fucking long to update a goddamn web page how long do you think it will take them to get the actual fucking huge update out? Yeah, I wouldn't hold my breath. Besides, Valve Time. I'm gonna stay up tonight, but I'm not expecting the update hit Steam until tomorrow.
Or then it goes just like it went with the Medic update: I'll stay up, going F5 on Steam's forums, and then the update comes at 5 am when I'm way too tired to even play.
Valve needs to move to freaking Australia.

Achievements here, achievements there...

Just updating on my Medic achievements status, because I know you all must be so very interested about it and practically shivering with antici... pation, wanting to hear how I'm slowly inching towards my ultimate goal, ie. getting the Kritzkrieg.
Oh, but what about the Übersaw? Isn't that my ultimate goal?
And the curt answer is "not really, no" because I am NOT going to farm any of the achievements because I detest that sort of action (the only one I MIGHT get with a bit of co-ordinated help from Slaverstrike or someone, is Medical Intervention). And I'm trying NOT to act like a total idiot on any of my regular servers. I'm a respectable Medic, I am, so I'm not going to über boxing Heavies or Scouts or go out trying to kill people with the bonesaw while holding a full charge or anything of the like. Unless I'm drunk and can indeed quote the Demoman: "I'm drunk, you don't have an excuse!"
I'm going to get the achievements needed for the Kritzkrieg, and I'm going to get them fairly, playing Medic like I normally would. And no matter how long it will take. End of story, bye bye Übersaw.

Anyway, 17/39, got House Call today. I joined the server in full intention to über Slaverstrike, but ended up übering one of my OTHER Steam friends who just happened to play on the same server, and it was just another of my panicky OH GOD I'M DYING I HAVE TO ÜBER situations and he just happened to be there right then. I had planned on übering him as well at some point, to get him included in Family Practice, but, well. That works too. Later on I übered Slaverstrike as well, but I still didn't get but one friend included in Family Practice, and now I have no idea which one of them it was. Well damn. I guess I'll have to über them both again at some point in time. Not that I mind, the other friend is one of the kickass Demomen I've been sticking to lately (we were a destructive, carnage-driven combo on Dustbowl the other night).

What else? I'm about 130 through Grand Rounds, and 50 through Infernal Medicine, so I need just another night of intense Medicing, and those two should be taken care of. I have killed three Scouts for Does It Hurt When I Do This? (would be four, but a damned Engineer meddled with his little pea-shooter and finished the Scout I had been killing. Damned Engineers should stay in kitchen? tanking behind their sentries), and I'm not looking forward to finishing this one any time soon. Scouts are ridiculously easy to kill with the Blutsauger, basically they don't stand a chance unless they crit (which they always seem to do when they're shooting at my general direction, stupid Scouts), or unless they really abuse the hell out of the doublejump. Or if they're smart (and/or yellow-bellied) and run away instead of trying to engage me in a deathmatch.
I also have a grand total of ONE MEDIC killed for Peer Review, and that one I am seriously not striving to get, it would count as "acting like an idiot." Unless it's a one-on-one, kill-or-be-killed situation. This one poor Medic got bonesawed to death on Gravel Pit, we were attacking, dominating, and we had pretty much already got C. Most of RED was dead, and I saw this lone Medic trying to charge the last cap in a desperate attempt to thwart our inevitable victory, so I just followed him and bonesawed him before he even knew what was happening.
Doctor Assisted Homicide, 3/20. I don't even notice when it's happening, I'm not paying any attention to revenges my healees are getting. Btw, if you really want this, I'm a very good target when I'm playing Soldier. Haha. If the enemy team is steamrolling, there's a high chance that half of their team is dominating me (well, not HALF of their team, but a few players anyhow), and usually I get those revenges on people sooner or later, because I'm only a half-bad Soldier. I think Slaverstrike got at least two assist for my revenges while healing me today on Hydro, heh.
I still haven't got Second Opinion though I sure as hell am trying! (Whenever things aren't too hectic, that is, and I'm übering someone who's very close to someone else by chance). I hear it's pretty buggy, and near impossible to get. I don't even have auto heal on, and I've been trying everything, but no. Still not getting it.
Another one is Autopsy Report. What the HELL do I have to do? I haven't tried it but few times (my spirits kinda crashed after I got Blutsaugered to death by an enemy Medic while taunting on top of a Scout's corpse. Damn it, sneaky Medic, didn't see you there), but I've started the taunt right after I got the kill, and I've been standing directly on top of the body, but nooo, I just won't get it. Stupid buggy achievements.

And speaking of my dear Blutsauger, it makes me act like a wannabe combat Medic. I find myself attacking like a nutcase with it, even when I wouldn't need to. So much for "not acting like a complete idiot." But I'm clearly getting better! And I do get more kills than I used to, the Blutsauger is just so awesome.
And this happens on regular CP maps, on Dustbowl, Gold Rush and Gravel Pit I find myself attacking very rarely (ie. only when everyone else is dead and it's kill or be killed, or a Spy tries to cause some mischief), if at all. But on those maps I usually have a buddy, on maps like Badlands or Well it's somehow harder to find a buddy to stick to, and thus I found myself going combat Medic. Hmm. I don't know, but there really seems to be a pattern.

And nothing makes me happier than someone I've been healing before remembering me and going all "okay, you've got me, let's go." Aww. <3 I remembered that Heavy too, we were topping the scoreboard on Hydro a few nights ago. Another one who thinks I'm not a bad Medic yay!

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.