Takes a lot of practice to have fun at it. I was having a ball last night trying to teach a few friends surfing and jumping, and they were getting pissed at the smallest things.
Well tbh I didn't know my team was that bad until the round was won within a few minutes and it's not hard to rush second point as scout for an easy cap while most of the red team is respawning. Blu wasn't much better as no one knew I was outside Blu spawn pressing my spy keybind as they ran by, taunting, pressing my medic keybind when their medic ran by, saying thanks. I was an easy kill if they were aware enough to know I was there.
- Pybro is when a homewrecker Pyro teams up with an Engineer buddy. The Pybro guards the nest from Spies and removes any sappers if a spy slips by.
- Sandvich Heavy. Not sure who else does this but it's support Heavy. Exclusively heal teammates with Sandviches and dispose of 1v1 threats using melee only.
If you don't really have affinity with other players and play with randoms I honestly wouldn't put to much stock into lying or skewing the truth. In pubs especially cause why bother or care when most teammates have the attention span of a tomato while the enemy team is highly aware, coordinated, skilled and has good teamwork and proper team composition? Stuff like that is why I started getting so stressed out, as it is it's hard to get on the good team and if you manage to get the opportunity to switch you more than likely will be auto-balanced to the newbie team when a bunch of them ragequit. Alright it may be slightly dickish to do that as a Spy + Pocket medic on the enemy team but once again why care as 98% of TF2 players are immature kids and other dickish players. We may be the exception and watch how we act or what we say but the majority of people online don't have that kind of consideration for others.
"Sandvich Heavy" is not the proper name; in fact, it's the name of something else entirely. What you described would be better classified as a "hoovy", "pacifist hoovy", or "heavy boxer".
Well I initially dubbed it Hoovy Medic Guy That was due to the whole healing with the Sandvich. Too bad throwing the Sandvich at an injured teammate didn't have a mechanic such as them being randomly ubered for 1 - 3 seconds. We have weapons and items that can cause crits but nothing for a random brief ubers.
Xtreme2damax Wrote:We may be the exception and watch how we act or what we say but the majority of people online don't have that kind of consideration for others.
True but does that mean we should stoop to their level? I think not. I've never really considered "well they're [insert something morally/ethically bad] therefore there is nothing wrong with me [insert something morally/ethically bad] " to be a good excuse for anything. I generally try to be polite to people regardless of how they choose to act. The key word being try..... (there are some things that people can do that just piss me off so god damn much it completely overwhelms the rationale part of my brain, but this is true of everyone).
Xtreme2damax Wrote:- Pybro is when a homewrecker Pyro teams up with an Engineer buddy. The Pybro guards the nest from Spies and removes any sappers if a spy slips by.
That's not really a lolz/fun build though. That's a legitimately useful/boring strategy regularly employed in competitive matches. That's what you're SUPPOSED to be doing on defense. A team that does this correctly is almost invincible on defense. Between this and spychecking this is basically what the pyro class was originally designed to do. This is as useful and appropriate as a medic/heavy pocket combo.
Xtreme2damax Wrote:- Sandvich Heavy. Not sure who else does this but it's support Heavy. Exclusively heal teammates with Sandviches and dispose of 1v1 threats using melee only.
Never really seen this before. Considering that's what you're supposed to do with sandviches anyways this really just seems like a melee only heavy.
kinkinkijkin Wrote:"Sandvich Heavy" is not the proper name; in fact, it's the name of something else entirely. What you described would be better classified as a "hoovy", "pacifist hoovy", or "heavy boxer".
lolwut? We have actual formal classifications for this stuff? This community never ceases to surprise me.
Generally Heavies heal their medics with Sandviches or another player if they are badly injured, But I went around just throwing them to injured teammates and if someone happened to flank them I would melee them or for maximum fun use mittens and taunt kill them when the mittens crit them into the schadenfreude (laugh) taunt. The mittens are also the most viable weapon to get easier taunt kills so win win if doing both to have fun is my goal.
Edit: In response to the first thing you mentioned.. In the past I would normally agree but I've stopped caring and am changing my own life around to better myself, become more independent and successful. All being nice and polite to people all my life whether or not they deserved that treatment has ever done is alienated me socially and gotten me taken advantage of. I'm at the point where idgaf unless someone gives me a reason to be nice or I'm in a situation where I have to act appropriately. So anyone over the internet or real life is not going to get special treatment from me especially if they act like immature jackasses and dicks to others.
I highly doubt that you can blame your past life issues on being too nice to people. It never seems to have hurt me or anyone else I've known. Smart hard working people tend to get ahead in anything regardless of whether they're nice or mean to others. Hell the nice ones actually tend to do better since they form the connections to people that they need later on. A lot of times people will see some asshole getting ahead of them and assume it's somehow because they're an asshole. It's usually not. It's because they're a smart asshole. It has nothing to do with them being an asshole.
Xtreme2damax Wrote:Generally Heavies heal their medics with Sandviches or another player if they are badly injured
Good heavies should heal any injured player they see but prioritize their medic. Which seems to be what you're doing, just without the medic.
I hate something though.. How any Heavy has a Medic firmly planted in their ass, makes playing non seriously as a Heavy very difficult and there is always pressure. Heavy is the worst offender with Medic buttplugs with Demoman or Soldier in second place. But if I'm lucky the team will be so bad no one will bother playing Medic so with that said why even bother trying.
I would have gone Medic but with a team that bad it's a lost cause. I'll uber someone and they hesitate to move forward and takes out key players and targets, no one seems to be able to play aggressively and the rest of the team doesn't bother pushing alongside the uber. Also hate Medics who don't know how or bother absorbing sentry knockback making mine and others jobs more difficult that it should be.
(05-14-2014, 08:21 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]Xtremedamax Wrote:Yeah I'm tired of getting frustrated and bothering to do most of the work when I'm usually stuck with the newbie team. So rather than getting worked up since I'll always be at a severe disadvantage unless better internet comes along out here I decided why the heck not have some fun. Like on stage 3 Dustbowl when I stood off the side by Blu spawn shouting spy or thank you, doing the schadenfreude taunt, taunting as a Pyro without attacking anyone.
I don't usually do stuff like that but it was fun to not be so serious for a change and there weren't many people on the server at that time. I joked about it in chat how no one realized I was there right outside of Blu spawn but someone got mad because we lost lol.
I'm the exact opposite. I goof off when my team is steamrolling and try hard when we're doing poorly and they actually need my help.
aka switching teams
Ok yeah I try hard when I can't switch.....