gaming Wanna play some competitive TF2 ?

[Fl1cker 107]

  Hello fellas ! :3

 

I made a post on the TF2 Official Thread, but it's not really active there and just a few people actually paid attention to it, and it kinda disappointed me because it's something I'd really love to see happen.

 

The project I had in mind was basically to play TF2 with some bronies just to have fun and enjoy the game. But pubs quickly get boring for me, so I didn't want to play anything : I wanted to play competitively with bronies !

Don't get me wrong, I don't wanna form a competitive team to play in a league or something, I don't have the time for that. In my opinion, the comp side of TF2 is really fun once you've tried it and much more enjoyable than just regular pubs where chaos reigns. I'll briefly introduce you to the two major competitive modes in TF2.

 

First, 6v6 !

 

The 6v6 is the most popular competitive mode (in my opinion at least). Teams are made of :

 

- 2 scouts : they mostly play on the flank. Often, there's an aggressive scout that supports the roamer and try to get picks and a passive scout, who will rather stay with the combo (pocket + medic) to protect them.

- 2 soldiers : a pock et soldier who protects the medic and takes the ubercharges and a roaming soldier whose role is to get important picks (demoman or medic), force an ubercharge or distract the enemy team.

- 1 demoman : the demoman is the damage dealer of the team : with his massive damage output, he allows the scouts to clean up the weak players and helps defending chokepoints.

- 1 medic : essential, he's the healer of the team and usually stays with the pocket. It is of a crucial importance to not drop his ubercharge, as it could eventually lead to the loss of the round for the team. He forms what we call the combo with the pocket.

 

Usually, scouts can offclass : they can switch to sniper, spy, pyro, heavy or engineer to make a decisive pick or defend their last point more efficiently. The roamer can also offclass. Obviously, it's not really recommended for the pocket, demo or medic to offclass (except if a player replaces him temporarily, but that's still risky in my opinion).

 

Then, the second most popular competitive mode : Highlander ! (9v9)

It's pretty simple here : each player plays one the nine classes available in the game : scout, soldier, pyro, demoman, heavy, engineer, sniper, medic and spy ! It's awesome to play it with friends and really funny.

It would take a lot of space to define each class' role again, so maybe take a look at the  comp.tf wiki . It's full of informations about every class in each mode (including 6v6 !) and really well made !

 

 

Maybe now you're wondering : but hey, how in hell could we play 6vs6 or HL ? It's musn't be easy to set it up.

Aahah, wrong buddy ! It's actually really simple. I haven't tried it out personnally yet, but I'm pretty sure it should work fine the way I imagined it.

 

1st step : TF2Center !

Maybe you've heard about TF2Lobby. TF2Center is like an upgrade of it. You can create in a few seconds your lobby, set up a password so only bronies aware of it can join and even better : you can get a free mumble server for your game ! What would it be without some communications ? Just make sure your mic is fine.   The only thing that's missing is... a server.

2nd step : serveme.tf !

serveme.tf is a great tool to reserve a server for a specifig time. Just choose a server, reserve it for the time you'll play with your buddies and there, you got your server ready ! Just copy/paste the right settings in TF2Center and then...

3rd step : PLAY !

Once the server settings have been entered, youl should be able to test the server in TF2Center to see if it's working (duh !). Once it's done, we just need players to join !

 

That's some ambitious project right here, since I haven't seen that much people interested in comp, even just for fun, but that's something I really wanted to share with you to maybe see if you would actually be willing to give it a try !

 

If you have any questions regarding this, just add me on  Steam  or Skype (ID : manesix) and I'll try to answer you as best as I could ! Any suggestions are welcome !

 

Thanks for reading this whole thing if you did, that took some serious motivation and I'm proud of you.

 

Good night everypony !

Edited May 9, 2014 by Shawns