how did you find your way to TF2?, what was the first things you did when you started?, your dumb first thoughts and experiences?
here's my story:
it was 2014, I already knew about Steam for a long time, but ADSL service was not available in the part of the city where I live, all I had was a limited 3G line with 2GB/month that I only used for social media and downloading apps for my old Nokia phone (I miss those days), then I heard my area will be supported so I applied right away, got the lowest available speed which was 512 Kbit/sec, it was ready sometime in September, one day before my Bac year started, I immediately downloaded Steam and started browsing what games it has, since there is no way available to purchase anything on steam I started browsing free games, then I was like what?, a game by valve and it's free?
downloaded TF2 in a few days, only played payload because it was my favorite, I remember my first try was on frontier, I reached the class selection screen and I was confused what to play, few moments and I selected heavy "it's the heavy weapons guy so he obviously the most powered",walked a bit and started shooting, died one minute later and I was like fuck that guy he's slow and can't kill anyone, tried all other classes and I was disturbed by my ping which is 130ms minimum, eventually started playing engineer only, I thought yeah my sentry can kill by its own and I can keep repairing it without any ping problems, few matches later and I got the gibus and pyrovision goggles, I looked at the gibus and thought it looks like a graduation hat which suggests I'm new, I'm not new I'm a pro at this game!, though I used the pyrovision goggles, after that I played on badwater having no idea what the pyrovision goggles affected and thought it was a Christmas update, time went on and I played 100 hours as engineer with barely touching other classes.
through my Bac year playing all the time cursing and swearing on my unstable internet (which at sometimes went down to 10KB/sec) making me not able to even swing a wrench, and my crappy PC at that time which barely gave me 15 FPS ( I haven't upgraded it in years) then a friend gifted my Valve complete pack which made my account premium, was very confused about the idea of taunts when end of the line came out, liked the conga alot and I thought you need to press G twice to do it (had no idea that you need to buy taunts), I tried saving as much money as I could to upgrade my PC piece by piece, I only played on frontier, badwater and upward, using the most common sentry spots, top scoring thinking I'm very good at the game, and the best was doomsday, spamming mini sentries everywhere and also top scoring, eventually finished my Bac with 400 hours on TF2, 200 on CSGO, and playing the whole campaign of HL and Portal series.
still somehow I passed my Bac with good grades and entered the College I wanted.
what's your story?
This is how I discovered TF2 back in 2009:
[video=youtube;7VPYQm1o5BY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VPYQm1o5BY[/video]
I'm not kidding, this was considered peak comedy back then.
Anyways, I got the Orange Box because I really wanted to play Garry's Mod, back in the day when it actually required Half-Life 2 to run. My first time actually playing TF2 was on cp_egypt, with my brother. We were dueling on the first point, and I remember I was having trouble trying to get the Heavy's Minigun to work (I had no idea why it was pointing up until I realized that you have to spin it up before firing).
saw the announcement trailer. Had to play demo/spy/pyro atleast once
played the beta, it was great fun seeing the kind of teamwork tf2 allowed for
i watched this video in 2008 which got me really interested in tf2 and its character, the pyro
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRARcZL-4XM[/media]
i got the orange box on the ps3 and i have some fun burning people as the pyro but i found out that its kinda shitty that i cant play with keyboard and mouse. so i go on a hunt to find the pc version since i still dont know how to buy stuff online.
i did but it was the stand-alone version with no portal and half life episodes but i didnt mind because hey its tf2 and i can play as the pyro with keyboard and mouse! i spend most of my first days on a surf server because its the only server with a good ping and doesnt lag my crappy laptop. and thats it really
I was a huge fan of the original mod before Valve purchased Team Fortress Software. It's been one of my favorite franchises for nearly 20 years now...
[video=youtube;8FVJ__rBFxk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FVJ__rBFxk[/video]
[QUOTE=Kitt Stargaze;50714817]I was a huge fan of the original mod before Valve purchased Team Fortress Software. It's been one of my favorite franchises for nearly 20 years now...
[video=youtube;8FVJ__rBFxk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FVJ__rBFxk[/video][/QUOTE]
check [url]http://classicfortress.net[/url]
I started playing when the Pyro Update offered a free weekend. I bought the game soon after it ended. Hard to believe that was 8 years ago.
I bought the Orange Box on PC at Best Buy about a month or so after it came out for only $25 as part of their Black Friday sale because I wanted to play Portal and the two Half Life 2 episodes. About a month later I played TF2 at a LAN party my friends were hosting. I didn't like it at first, I had old drivers that made the floors and water reflect purple, no one on my team had played before so we had no idea what we were doing and we w ere playing on Well, a map I still don't love to this day. I continued to play more and more TF2 though, especially since Valve was putting out free updates with maps, modes and weapons, especially since I was very unhappy with how most publishers at the time were charging people for every piece of DLC they could. The more I played TF2 the more I fell in love with it.
I can't imagine there are a lot of people who were there so close to the beginning that still play and follow the game so closely but I don't plan to stop anytime soon.
I got to see TF2 videos back when I was looking up Minecraft let's plays and shit.
I do not exactly remember the title, it was something like "MINECRAFT IN TF2" and had everything a click-bait title could have. I wondered what the game was, so I watched it.
I fucking loved how Heavy worked, how he was just able to mow down everyone in his path and how he had a Minigun (I loved big, heavy weapons like those back then) and REALLY wanted to play it.
After a week of searching how to download the game, I got Steam and played TF2 with my shitty laptop (which would shut down each 30 mins in any game that was bigger than 4 GBs.) for about a month. After that, I got my new PC (That I still use to this day to play TF2, even though it CLEARLY aged.) and played TF2 there.
My first game was on an actual Valve server, believe it or not. I remember playing Heavy and Heavy only in my first game while complaining about how "Pyro was OP as fuck" to my friend, which was kinda the beginning of my hatred against that class anyways. I think I got kicked on the third round, when I did not realize people were actually being friendlies in a FPS and killed them over and over again. :v:
I saw fun comics about people's ingame stories.
I saw those shitty Meet the Team YouTube Poops in 2011 and found out it was for a game that just became free and I was like "hey free shit"
Meet the medic came out and then it became free to play, I had to play the hilarious character I saw. To this day I still love playing medic and he's my favorite of them all. I also love playing him because my gf plays heavy and we make a great team.
I bought the Orange Box day 1. Expected to play Portal the most, followed by the HL2 episodes, and absolutely did not give a shit about TF2.
But I gave it a little try on impulse one day, and it became probably my most-played game of all time, with over 2000 hours now. And probably only like 800 of those hours were spent idling for hats :v:
I understand why people talk shit about the whole hat economy, but I must have gotten a good dozen steam games from trading my extra TF2 items. Got Borderlands 2 at pre-release for a pair of earbuds. They might be worth way the hell more than $60 now for all I know, but it was a great deal at the time. Got way the hell more enjoyment out of that game than I did out of my ownership of a single TF2 item I didn't even use.
I followed it for a long time before it went F2P. Never could get it because of money issues. Once it went F2P I was sure to grab it. I think I had a spuf account but not a steam account, and didn't even own TF2.
Initially I just saw the characters in YT videos and thought it looked cool, but since I had a truly awful laptopt that ran hl2/cs:s at like 20 fps on medium settings I never really thought of it. Did get the orange box for PS3 at one point, and while I do have fond memories of killing everything as spy on 2fort I couldn't stand it for long. Only game in the box I finished there was portal, as in the others the enforced motion blur made me a bit sick.
Then I re-bought the orange box for PC after getting a better laptop. Wanted to actually get further than Ravenholm in HL2 before getting stuck, like young me did when it first came out. But when trying TF2 I got hooked. Merely months before TF2 went f2p in fact :v:
So I missed a lot of the early updates, but I guess the game hooked me anyway as I'm still playing it with over 5000 hours.
I still haven't actually finished any of the HL episodes besides the base game.
Bought the Orange Box for the Xbox 360, and played a shit ton of TF2 (most of it on engineer since I can't aim with the 360 controller in TF2)
I started playing TF2 on the PC when it became free to play, and that's pretty much it.
Got the Orange Box for 360 for Christmas 2007 mostly for Portal, but I had fun with TF2. I bought it for PC around the time of the Heavy Update once it became apparent all the cool shit the PC version was getting wasn't coming to 360.
I bought the game on Steam because I wanted some cartoony looking models to add some more variety to the GMod assets as opposed to only having the Half Life 2 assets included in game. (As a matter of fact, GMod was the main reason I even got a Steam account initially as I liked the idea of a free form physics sandbox game). On a whim, I decided to check out TF2 some time later down the line, I think around the Sniper Vs Spy Update? Ironically enough, I ended up spending way more time on TF2 than on GMod.
I lent my uncle's orangebox and his steam account to play Portal again. First I've noticed that this box includes HL2 aswell so I thought:
"Sure another singleplayer game, why not"
but then...
"Wait whats that for a fat guy on the cover next to gordon freeman? That looks kinda stupid. The game looks pretty cheap to me, I better don't touch that..."
[years later]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/h3MGyLT.png[/IMG]
[sp] I regret nothin' [/sp]
I've actually told this story before on here but my first experience with TF2 was confusing as hell. I started playing during the monoculus Halloween event. Of course I didn't know that so I was really confused when I walk out of the spawn and there's a giant eyeball shooting mini eyeballs as both teams are attacking it. I was so confused that I just quit playing and didn't touch it for like a few months or maybe a year. I'm glad I didn't let that time stop me from trying again because I love TF2.
Back during the Sniper vs Spy update back around 2009 or so, TF2 was available for free briefly, and I decided to try it out. As the last days of the free period drew near, I realized I was having a lot of fun and decided to buy the game. I ended up sinking in hundreds of hours during the first couple of months and I've been hooked ever since. As of now I have around 3,333 hours in-game.
I saw this, and remember thinking it's some kids' game. Cue more sfm, gmod and tf2 videos until I was super excited to try playing it on my toaster.
[video=youtube;gvdf5n-zI14]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvdf5n-zI14[/video]
Back in 2008 on a computer that could barely run it with everything on Low. This was a shortly after the first Medic update. I figured everyone was playing it since you were lucky to find a single human playing TFC back then.
I heard the news that it went free to play and the art style looked pretty interesting so I checked it out. Yes I am free to play trash :cry:
[video=youtube;b1tqg4iA30k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1tqg4iA30k[/video]
Back in 2010/11, I stumbled across this video and was amused by it [I]far[/I] more than I probably should've been. From there, I started watching GMod videos and gradually fell in love with TF2's artstyle and characters, eventually purchasing the game for myself... on the very same week it went F2P. :')
I decided to finally get onto Steam, and coincidentally it was right after the Uber Update during the Summer Sale and I got some Summer Shades as a result. Thought they were worthless like the Gibus for a long time.
I have no idea how I even found out about TF2. Maybe it has something to do with the countless amounts of the GMod videos I watched when I was younger.
So when I finally got myself my own PC back in February last year, I downloaded Steam for the first time and with it TF2 since it was free. And man, I sure did spent alot of time into this game, even when I bought my first games on Steam.
[QUOTE=Nebrassy;50714888]check [url]http://classicfortress.net[/url][/QUOTE]
if you guys are interested in qwtf, people still play [URL="http://www.megateamfortress.com/"]megatf[/URL] as well, every friday it gets pretty packed
i played qwtf at lan parties and then tfc online, and when tf2 came out I was like what is this cartoony garbage? and then I came back to it later and it absolutely consumed my life to this day
[QUOTE=Cornish;50720825]if you guys are interested in qwtf, people still play [URL="http://www.megateamfortress.com/"]megatf[/URL] as well, every friday it gets pretty packed
i played qwtf at lan parties and then tfc online, and when tf2 came out I was like what is this cartoony garbage? and then I came back to it later and it absolutely consumed my life to this day[/QUOTE]
Thanks!, I always wanted to try older TF, but couldn't find any TFC server
[QUOTE=Nebrassy;50720927]Thanks!, I always wanted to try older TF, but couldn't find any TFC server[/QUOTE]
Megatf is quakeworld team fortress, which is the first Team Fortress game. Its a quake mod. TFC came after, and its on the GoldSrc engine from Half Life. As for a good TFC server, [URL="http://www.lunaticrage.com/drippy/"]drippys[/URL] still gets regular traffic and has great people on it
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