Basically just tell us what beginners mistake you made when you were new that makes you cringe when remembered.
It was around Christmas, about the same time the brown bomber released. I wasn't exactly new to the game but just trading. I was on a trade server just trying to buy a some weapons. I later see someone price checking a brown bomber; later being told it is 4 ref. I honestly didn't really care for that until someone said that they were trading a bomb running hat for a hustler's hallmark. I instantly tell him the hat was 4 ref and wasn't worth it. Why? because I mistook the bomber runner for the brown bomber, only associating the two because they both had bomb in their name's. Later the same day I learn the difference between the two. I haven't seen since. My god.
TL;DR I told someone the price of the wrong hat
I traded a Bill's Hat for an Ellis' Cap.
I was pan'ing on an Unusual server without knowing the rules.
I always got dirty weapons when I scrapbanked
Also, I always rocketjump in unnecessary moments
Bought the game 2 weeks before it went free.
[QUOTE=Valiantttt;40862472]Bought the game 2 weeks before it went free.[/QUOTE]
You and me both.
Traded away my earbuds before they became currency :I
I didn't get Earbuds on my old account when the promo was going on
I bought stuff, keys in particular, from the Mann Co Store.
A friend of mine gave me a Black paint when I was still f2p, I then immediately applied it on my Gibus.
Traded my v. Ushanka for v. Crit-A-Cola in first day of trading.
I thought weapons are better than hats
I traded a Fancy Fedora for a Big earner :|
[QUOTE=4444;40862378]I traded a Bill's Hat for an Ellis' Cap.[/QUOTE]
I traded a bill's hat, big kill and vintage medic mask for a milkman.
And I was happy with that trade for 1 year until I discovered the tf2 economy.
I traded a max head for 3 hatless scouts. Still no regret to this day.
I trusted people.
I've played as a Spy. ALL.THE.TIME
Used the Kritzkrieg thinking it had the same uber as the default medi-gun
I nocked an arrow while pointing the bow in the direction of a person. I mean I didn't draw the bow or anything, but you shouldn't nock it at all when pointing at a person.
I thought the game was a cel-shaded half-life-esque game with no multiplayer and then thought I'd gotten spoilers on the plot from one of those compilation music videos where they take peices of sound from trailers and dialogue to make music. Let me explain.
I was 12, browsing the battle of the sexes sub-forum on zelda universe, when I saw in the men's HUB thread that someone was spying on them. Someone responded with Meet the Spy, and being the goodie two-shoes I was stopped it when the spie's head was blown off (Violence mattered more to me then) and left. Months (Or was it weeks...) later someone posted a video that was the gerudo desert theme using pieces of TF2 sounds. At that point I assumed that the heavy was the spy because I didn't notice/remember that it was B.L.U. that had the spy problem. After that I told my dad I knew who the spy was in TF2 (We had the Orange Box, I only played Portal) and he replied predictably.
Later, when I first tried the game, I tried walking up to a demo as spy to try and backstab him from the front while undisguised because I didn't know attacking undisguised you.
Didn't know I could cloak as Spy. This lasted for a good hour or two of Spy gameplay.
I traded three hats for a towering pillar because I thought that it was fair since the pillar was three hats toppled together.
I very vividly remember that at first I had no friggin clue what class to play, so I saw the Demoman and thought "okay he blows shit up, can't be that hard" and proceeded to shoot a nade in a corner where a curiously glowing little nade thing rolled around for a bit. Puzzled I approached this alien object that suddenly without any warning exploded and took a good chunk of my HP with it.
"fuck's this?!" I thought and proceeded to pick a Soldier whose rockets were too slow to hit shit, a Heavy that gets killed before spinning up his minigun, a Scout that gets killed bef-, a Pyro that could never get in range, an Engineer that has no friggin clue how any of the stuff he builds works, a Sniper too clumsy to get any of these jumping and running bastard, a Spy that's mildly bemused by his paper masks but otherwise has no clue what to do, and a Medic that ubered his team frequently enough to assure victory most of the time.
"Huh", I thought and continued to learn the game from my new position just behind the front lines. And what a complete and utter drain of time it would prove to be.
I thought that the kritzkrieg's 3x damage bonus was meant to counteract the invulnerability of an ubercharge but that it ended up being a fair fight because it turned back to 1x damage upon passing though the shield.
So that a kritz ended up being a counter to an uber and vice versa.
Tried backstabbing people while cloaked.
Big kill and vintage lug for black box and fishcake.
I have them both back now, but it'll never be the same :cry:
[QUOTE=YogPoz;40864062]Used the Kritzkrieg thinking it had the same uber as the default medi-gun[/QUOTE]
I crafted mine because I thought it was broken when it wouldn't make me invincible.
Not rotating my teleporter to face a helpful direction.
[QUOTE=mySvenLabs;40869770]Not rotating my teleporter to face a helpful direction.[/QUOTE]
WAY too many engineers do that, the teleporters just face the wall
2fort
Forgetting about flamethrower's secondary ability.
when i bought the orange box on december 2007, i really had no idea how to play the game, i bought because most of my friends from unreal "migrated" to tf2.
So, first i spent like 5 minutes alone on tc_hydro trying figure out how to upgrade the sentry, i spammed +use on it, jump , shot, opened building tool tons of time, till i figured that i need to hit it with the wrench
also i tought the demomans sticky were automatic like a proximity mines, died tons of time thinking the scout would die when he ran into my stickies,
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