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Easy - the Scout. Double jump and stun with a baseball bat.

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I'm thinking the Spy is going to be fucking sweet.

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Ohhh I like the spy and the pryo......knifing and burning...sounds good to me >:)

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I always loved the sniper. I could camp a nice spot and hold down the trigger (mouse button, whatever) for 3 minutes, and totally gib a heavy weapons guy with a headshot. I hope this game lives up to the first one... I wasted many an hour playing Hunted back in the day.

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It's too bad so many people never had the chance to play the first one, some of the most fun I've ever had playing an fps online.

I can't wait to play the heavy weapons guy and chew through those damn soldiers.

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Back in the day of Team Fortress Classic, I got really good at the engineer, memorizing great placements for my turrets on each map, and making stealth runs for the flag in CTF modes. Shotgun and Grenades were pretty decent for getting out of sticky situations... and taking out snipers.

I had more fun in TFC than any other first person shooter until the Halo 3 demo. But it's been years since I played actively. I'm really looking forward to this game.

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I used to love the original and agree with all the positive comments here, played it a lot last summer, 56k gaming all the way! Putting a turret in the ceiling area in Well was a good, as well as a few choice spots in dustbowl. 2Fort brings back memories, conc jump anyone?

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I think demoman, heavy, or soldier...I like being able to take a hit or two.

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this is just one of those games i think we need a mouse and keyboard for...

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@9

Yeah... Between this and DMMM, I'm sure glad I'm a PC gamer.

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Man who need HL just give me this...can;t wait

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Team Fortress and Portal are my two biggest reason for getting the orange pack.

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Too many fond memories of nights spent in TFC as a Heavy.... Tirelessly and thanklessly defending the flag, watching for that subtle hitch in the enemy spy's step as I trundle around the catwalks, unleashing 8 barrels of violence when he gives himself away.

I used to practice sheer anarchy deathmatches against bots in UT at 150% gamespeed before unleashing the mayhem online, but Team Fortress was always such an amazing game of cat-and-mouse in defense. Like a cumbersome and brutal game of chess deep in the flagrooms while the rocketeers bounced around outside.

I absolutely can't wait to turn that big gun against a whole new wave of "incoming" trying to heist my flag. I really hope Valve does justice to the game, I will be buying it day one.

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Seems to be quite a few changes, (good ones hopefully) from the original team fotress in Quake (Half-Life Team Fortress Classic IS NOT the original, and its play kinda sucked in comparison, this is supposed to be more like QWTF in terms of physics from what I hear - thank god).

I feel sorry for the game if it's coming out on 360 though. Many years back, starting around 1996 probably I played competitive QuakeWorld team fortress (huge community back then) and the amount of strategy, timing for grenades and conc jumps, keys required cannot be done without a keyboard mouse. It's going to be sad to watch...

Oh well, whatever makes you money right valve ;)?

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Sorry, didnt realize it was PC only, just on a 360 board. Excuse the trolling in previous post :D

Thank god though, would have been a disaster.

I used to play scout, and will probably play again as my main class. Who cares about killing when your quick flag cap decides the game and when frag count doesn't matter. I remember probably 8 or so years ago now when my clan went into overtime in quake 3 fortress on a map called stag. In the first 30 seconds I managed to pull off a cap I had been practicing which involved a double conc jump to win the game. Thinking about it still makes me happy :D

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A half-life game that I cannot wait to play, awesome!

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PC only, what are you smoking? I played TCF religiously and was a huge pc gamer before I just finally got sick of upgrading. I think on the 360 this one will be fine to play. If you have to play this with a keyboard and mouse, then go play it on your pc then!

Geez, can't people make comments on here or joystiq without making a snide little sophomoric jab at somebody else. I want to play and enjoy this game as much as possible, just like everybody else.

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I started with QW TF and have been an Engineer ever since. I briefly experimented with Medics (and can hold my own with just about any other class -- I used to play Spy with the nick "I_Stab_People") but I always came back to my first love. The absolute best was carrying the flag up the spiral ramps on 2Fort, jumping over the battlements with the enemy defenders hot on my tail, and imagining the "oh shit" moment when they hit the bridge and heard the "beep beep" of my L3 turret (dropped between their entrance ramps, facing my home base) locking on. Heh, sweet.

Aside: who is going to buy this on 360? Pay 5-10 bucks for a handful of "approved" new maps, or get hundreds for free on the PC? No choice there, if you ask me.

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I almost forgot -- I like to add this to any TF 2 posts I see. From the TF2 homepage, back when Sierra owned it (thanks to Archive.org):


[December 18, 1998] - I Want My TF ™ II

Well folks, Team Fortress ™ 2 will be here shortly and community sites are popping up all over the web. Clans are starting to form, Tournaments are being planned, and information pages are being posted. If you haven't checked out the sites yet, be sure to visit our links section or visit PlanetFortress.com for more information.



I love that "will be here shortly" line -- almost 10 years ago ;-)

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Yeah, I saw bad info.. it is cross platform. As long as the PC version isn't gimped for cross platform compatibility with the 360, I don't care. And @17, I wasn't taking a shot at console FPS, just it cannot compete with a keyboard/mouse controll scheme for a FPS that's not dumbed down like HALO. It has it's own place, but I just believe that, unless it's being completely dumbed down, this game requires too many key bindings, proper timings, and styles of aiming (throwing a timed grenade with a quick flick up to lob it far, while keeping a bead on the target) to work in a way that will favor the 360.

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