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[MaximumZero]

So, most pubs are terrible? Yeah, we got that.

[EnigmaticHat]

Oh yeah, that effect.  Whenever there's a long teleporter, people will always go through it and then immediately run forward.  Even if that funnels the entire team through a tiny chokepoint...

[miauw62]

I hate how this game, despite having stalemates coded into the game, almost never uses them. Time runs out in CTF while both teams have the same amount of caps? gg, you lose for no reason.

[Teneb]

I hate how this game, despite having stalemates coded into the game, almost never uses them. Time runs out in CTF while both teams have the same amount of caps? gg, you lose for no reason.

It counts the number of rounds won when the time runs out. So if you won a round and the time runs out, it doesn't matter if the enemy has 2 caps, you technically have 3.

[Leafsnail]

Those are all good reasons why the spy is a bad class compared to others and is almost never played in 6v6, but none of those issues are solved by changing away from the amby.  It does (as I said before) have advantages over the sniper though (cloak, disguises, no-scoping), which is why you might want to play it even if it's not strictly the best thing you can play.  I mean if you always picked the class that would help your team most then you'd spend all your time as medic.

It's true that a lot of classes have more than 140 health, but an ambassador headshot followed by bodyshots is still better than stock until about 240 health (and at that stage there's barely even any point in attacking them with your revolver, so who cares).  Basically if you can hit just one out of three headshots the ambassador is just straight-up better, and even if you can only get it against an unaware enemy I'd still say it has its uses.

[Teneb]

In the end, a pro-level spy should only ever use the revolver if backed into a corner or for opportunity kills that he'd miss otherwise. I used to be in a semi-professional team for a while and the captain only ever played spy and scout. I don't think I've seen him fire a shot outside a pub.

[TheDarkStar]

The spy revolver that gets crits from backstabs and destructions is nice for getting out of bad situations, though, since you don't have to have insane aim.

[Gatleos]

I ragequit tf2 a while back after making the mistake of playing Medic on a pub server. The thing about medic is that every contribution you make to the team requires someone else's help. You don't know despair until you pop an über charge on a soldier and watch them just stand there or run away from battle until it runs out. It seems like nobody on pub servers actually knows how to play on a team; they cry for medic when they're hurt, but fail to protect you and waste über charges constantly.

But you can't stop once you feel the thrill of busting an engie nest and securing a whole area for you team. It's an addiction.

[miauw62]

Yeah, playing medic without a good solly or such on your team can be frustrating. I usually uber the person with the most points and use the "Go! Go! Go!" voice command a couple times.

What's more frustrating than having nobody to uber, however, is when you're being healed by a newbie medic THATJUST WON'T POP HIS UBER. I've found myself being ubered after typing "hey, [medicname], right click" once ;~;

[The Scout]

That's why I run the Quick-Fix. The only real point of the uber is to get people back into the fight, or prevent a pyro from airblasting them.

[EnigmaticHat]

I switch off medic until the team comp makes sense.

Sometimes you just have to work around the newbies.

[miauw62]

I use the kritzkrieg.
People don't run away as much when they have crits, I guess.

Yeah but crits aren't very useful if the person you're ubering only hits one shot out of ten.

[miauw62]

Double posting because my flamethrower just reached 5000 kills!
Only 4000 more to go before I reach Hale's Own

[EnigmaticHat]

Double posting because my flamethrower just reached 5000 kills!
Only 4000 more to go before I reach Hale's Own

I was gonna post because mine reached 750 ;-;

And you both lose to some guy who hosted a modded server so he could kill ten bots a second.

[Spehss _]

Double posting because my flamethrower just reached 5000 kills!
Only 4000 more to go before I reach Hale's Own

I was gonna post because mine reached 750 ;-;

And you both lose to some guy who hosted a modded server so he could kill ten bots a second.

but doing that defeats the fun of the weapon counting kills!