official Team Fortress 2

[Minimoose]

I love playing spy and just annoying people until you have 3+ people searching for you, eventhough you won't get many points it does make it much harder for the other team to attack, and is also very fun :D

[Pajter]

I started playing again yesterday. Couldn't believe I left this game for a few weeks. It's still so awesome, especially now that Valve are working on it again.

I'm anxiously awaiting the sniper update. It's not a class I play a lot, but I'd like to see what Valve comes up with. :D

I would still like to play with some of you Neowinians. I've played more Neowin Halo than TF2, and I seldom play Halo. :p

[Elliot B.]

I love playing spy and just annoying people until you have 3+ people searching for you, eventhough you won't get many points it does make it much harder for the other team to attack, and is also very fun :D

People like you seriously anger me :p

[clx]

About to start playing this again, my steam ID is Audioboxer for anyone who cares.

Just finished Uni for a 2 week break so alongside some study I have much more time for games :)

There was a NeowinTF2 group AGES ago..

though no one ever seemed to organise anything... or play together...

Anyway, if you have some time to play and are from the UK I know of some good servers. Try GTFO gaming servers. Good pings, decent admins if you have problems, and they have 12 public servers with different maps/configs on them. Some are instant spawn, some are standard, some are CP only, some are payload only and some are full rotations easy to find what you want :) . To be honest, i found them about a year ago and rarely ever play any other servers i enjoy them that much, just be warned, they are very popluar, getting 4K+ new unique id's per day, so expect a little wait to get on at peak times

[Mike]

What I love about this game is people will not stop following you until you're dead. What I sometimes do is go into a spawn point for a cap point we don't have (where possible) and make sure someone sees you do so. Every so often walk out and back in and they'll keep trying to kill you, then after a while, change class to spy (or any other) which will then put you back into the correct spawn point and go kill them. Works best if they know the name of the person inside the spawn area :p

[Samn9]

I think GTFO's TF2 servers lie about their player count, they show a higher number of players even when the server is actually 0. I won't be playing on any server that does that.

[Elliot B.]

I think GTFO's TF2 servers lie about their player count, they show a higher number of players even when the server is actually 0. I won't be playing on any server that does that.

I'm with you. It's all about the SimianCage servers (Y)

[leph555]

i just picked this game up again and it's better than ever lol

[clx]

I think GTFO's TF2 servers lie about their player count, they show a higher number of players even when the server is actually 0. I won't be playing on any server that does that.

http://www.gametracker.com/search/tf2/GB/?query=gtfo

as you can see, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 9 use fakeclient, but if you actually look at the graphs, the only time they are used is between 1 am and 12am. and if your in the uk, and playing at thouse times on a week day... you need a life... seriously :p

at all other times they are running at peak users. every day.

if you feel that faking users at a time when no one is awake is wrong.. so be it.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Faking player count at any time is "wrong"

It's a sign of a crappy server.

[DrCheese]

I think GTFO's TF2 servers lie about their player count, they show a higher number of players even when the server is actually 0. I won't be playing on any server that does that.

I thought valve fixed that so they couldn't do it anymore?

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

It'll delist bad servers, but if not a lot of people join in the time where it's bad (compared to the time when it's ok), then the method they're using wont catch it.

[Alex Suraci]

Had a cartoonish moment last night while I was playing as a Scout and getting their intel. I grabbed it and started running back, and I saw an Engineer and a Pyro about to block me off, so I dipped back into the U-shaped hall passage and quickly turned around and went back out to trick them. The Engineer smartened up and came back out, and the Pyro twitch-attacked them thinking it was me and I just ran behind the Pyro and was on my way without firing a shot. ;) (Which turned out to be an achievement, awesome.)

[Copoboxx]

You want quality and fun servers? Come to Saigns =D I love their premium only costs ?1 per month and they have full servers 24 hours fun people and Premium is extremely fun! they give 15mins trial every day just type Premium in game;)) They got servers for every map i just love it lol!

[Vice]

Those premium servers are basically sanctioned cheating it gives people who are willing to pay an advantage over players who already paid Valve to play the game in the first place. I refuse to play on servers that do that. Having customised skins is fine with me but not player radars, vampire health modes, unlimited metal/ammo or other things like that.

I've even seen some premium servers where Spys cannot destroy Engineer portals by using Sappers. The sapper will go on the Teleporter no problem but it just wont do any damage to it and its still usable by the team. This is taking it way to far and basically meddling with an entire classes ability to play.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

You want quality and fun servers? Come to Saigns =D I love their premium only costs ?1 per month and they havefull servers 24 hours> fun people and Premium is extremely fun! they give 15mins trial every day just type Premium in game;)) They got servers for every map i just love it lol!

That would probably be because they use bots.

And the second part of your sentence negates the first part (the "quality and fun" part)

[Samn9]

Saigns is awful.

[SQ1]

Saigns is awful.

Yeah, we are not allowed to ingame chat, i don't even know if i'm playing with people or bots. I think most are bots, i see engineers running around without building nothing!

[ViZioN]

Saigns is awful.

Never played on it but I've watched people who do and I totally agree.

You're not allowed in-game chat?!

[Minimoose]

You want quality and fun servers? Come to Saigns =D I love their premium only costs ?1 per month and they have full servers 24 hours fun people and Premium is extremely fun! they give 15mins trial every day just type Premium in game;)) They got servers for every map i just love it lol!

I really hope you were being sarcastic here, otherwise you either own it or are getting paid to advertise it://

SpecialAttack is the clan I'm in, we have 2 valve rotation servers, a no crit server (only 5 cp maps and good attack/defend (gravelpit etc...)) and 2 bball servers (which are awesome). I would like to see some Neowin members come and play (so I can kill you:DD).

http://www.specialattack.net/ and yes I'm obviously advertising our community, but we are cool people:pp

[lalalawawawa]

http://www.specialattack.net/ and yes I'm obviously advertising our community, but we are cool people :p

Yes, you are. (Y) Very good games, as always. :)

[ViZioN]

I can also vouch for SpA servers. It's where I'm spending all my TF2 time right now :p (except when I'm revising for exams...bah!)

[Minimoose]

I spend far too much time playing on TF2, should be concentrating on my work more :p

[Copoboxx]

I don't own saigns and i'm not advertising it.. I just like it and if you think it gives bad advantage over those that don't play, When i'm usually playing majority of the players are premium and i haven't seen much players without Premium. Maybe 3-5.. seriously! Anyway i enjoy it and it's all about what you like playing on ;)

[Minimoose]

The people who don't have premium aren't playing on it because the premium users effectively get a VAC workaround to cheat. The people who play the premium mode are effectively just paying to play a game against cheaters, and cheat themselves against these fellow cheaters. :rolleyes:

The thing that I find hard to understand is why people would pay to play on a server where you practically pay to cheat on TF2, perhaps it is there to keep people from hacking on other servers? Keeping potential hackers in a safe enviroment, a playpen if you will.

As you say though, each to his own...