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.

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.

Ahahaha oh wow.

Okay, the most epic shit ever. This is SO wrong on SO many different levels, and therefore it's awesome:

We were playing in Hydro. I was in BLU, Ville was in RED. I was an Engineer, he was a Pyro.
And I killed him.
With the wrench.
While a Medic was backing me up.

I mean what the fucking hell was that. :D First of all, Ville has a tendency to Dominate me when he's playing against me. I suck with all melée weapons. And a Medic + meléeing Engineer is one of the most absurd combos there can be.

I had awesome times as Engineer just now. Figured out a PERFECT place for a sentry in CTF_Well. Even Spies stood no chance and I was topping the scoreboard for a while. Dominated one silly Spy, and almost got killed really embarrassingly by the same Spy. I was there, next to my sentry, taunting with Ville, who was also an Engineer. And while the taunt animations played through I saw a goddamn CLOAKED SPY jump on my Dispenser and crouch there. Of course went all "OHSHI-" and just as the animation ended, the Spy tried to backstab me from above. End of his story.


Then I annoyed the enemy team in 2fort by camping it out in their sewers. Had a random emergency "OH MY GOD THEY'RE CAPPING THE POINT I NEED TO GET A SENTRY UP RIGHT NOW!" sentry chime in five kills in Granary. Goddamn, the poor little first level sentry was on the middle of the walkway with the huge tubes, next to our last cap. I was running down the walkway when enemies capped our second point, so I had to put the sentry down that instant or the last point would end up capped instantly, what with their insane Scout rushing.
Actually managed to fight them off for a little while. Was kinda awesome.
And I killed disturbingly much people with the wrench. Good.

And there was at one point a BLU Pyro with a name of Frank and I lol'd. Hardcore. It had to be one of our fags, because a coincidence like that just... isn't possible. That was a bit disturbing.