Video tutorial: how to play the Engineer in Team Fortress 2
Submitted by rapture on Sun, 04/13/2008 - 3:48pm.
Team Fortress 2 is growing on me and has become one of my favorite first person shooters. It took Valve 9 years to make this game. As I play it more and more, I can understand why.
Here's a great tutorial on playing the Engineer.
Hrmm. Looks like the machinima.com site got on Digg and REDDIT. Hang in there while the server cools down. You won't be able to watch the video until then.
Awesome. Cool how they were talking about "tanking". This is a tactic people also use in EVE when taking damage. Basically, repairing armor or shields while it's under attack. I didn't realize it was universal gamer speak. TF2 is a blast.
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Team Fortress has always been one of my favorite games. I used to play it till the wihours back in the day. TF2 is a good twist to the game, but it's no where close to the original. I am still baffled on why they decided to take out the grenades, which was about half the fun in the game with every race having a class only type grenade! Normal grenades, the concussion grenade that allowed the engineer to basically rocketjump like the solider, Scouts had the prods that slowed people chasing you, heavy with the nail grenade, spy with the confusion nade, demo with the detonation charge pack, flame grenade, medic's toxic grenade, and my ever favorite the soldiers cluster bomb. Other than this issue I have with the new version of the game, its still a solid team based game that really realizes on teamwork over sheer skill.
Wish I had better internet so I could start playing the good PC games again and live! Hopefully soon that will change as I'm looking for a place.
Its like playing a medic(healer) while sitting back and healing the heavy(tank). Or in this case, engineer being the healer and the turret the tank. It's crazy how they implied rpg elements into this game, maybe thats why I've enjoyed it over these years for so long. I just love how you can offense and defense, it's games like this one and Tribes(old pc game) that made me not really enjoy normal fps multiplayer like halo 2.
Basically Halo introduced tons of new gamers to first person shooters, which isn't a bad thing, but the quality of that game is really not a good fps when compared to the games prior to the market. Halo has brought a ton of good things to the gaming industry, but I cannot and will not agree that it's the game that everyone makes it out to be. It's a good game but not a great one. Then there is Halo 2 = complete joke of a game in every aspect, and I have yet to even pick up nor play Halo 3. Now I'm just ranting off the subject so I should get back to doing some work.
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