Vent thread. :) (Keep it positive and friendly!)

[Moose]

Decided to open a thread where we can safely vent frustrations with the game (NOT the clan!) or how we feel we're playing, etc. THIS IS NOT A BASH ON OTHERS SESSION! Nor will I condone abuse toward the clan or its admins! I hope the admins keep this open, but if it turns negative, I'll ask it be taken down myself.

Ever have one of those days when you ask yourself why you even installed TF2? Been one of those days all week. I know there are other players better than myself; of COURSE there are, it would be incredibly stupid of me to think otherwise...but, when I'm making noobish mistakes and getting my butt handed to me for it, it's a little frustrating. I still love the game, don't get me wrong; just needed to vent a little about how poorly I seem to be doing.
Not just how I'm playing, either. I somehow feel I'm not contributing enough as an eGO member than I used to. I'm trying to find new ways to add to the clan (forum posts, the raffle, etc.) but I'm constantly feeling like I can do more, and the fact that I can't find out WHAT drives me nuts!
Could also be that I just started playing DoD: S and stink ROYALLY at that game that has me irked. Oh well, that's enough from my grumbling. Peace!

 

[Crimson Dawn {RD}]

Omg I stink so much at DOD:S as well of course i cant play TF2 because my piece of crap computer has a trojan right now!

 

[Moose]

You'll get it fixed, I'm sure of it.

 

[TheJudge(inactive)]

I played DoD again today and yesterday for the first time in about a year or whatever.... I was happy to see that I am still a killing machine (unless i just woke up like today lol) BUT I absolutely HATE HATE HATE it when my teammates don't freaking even try to defend the cap points (in this case it was the destruction points)....

After a bomb had been planted, 2 of us rushed to it and I got a couple pistol shots off in the guy but he killed me and the other, so knowing that he had low health I thought it would be an easy time for the next guy, as I was dying, i noticed an MG gunner just laying there, right in front of it! He was afraid to move to defend the stinking point! His opponent had less than half health and was lying in plain sight but instead, he decided to unload his MG at the bomb as if it would knock it off. I damn near lost it after that lol....

 

[Nemo]

Yeah today was one of those freak good days. I usually have ok days in TF2, but sometimes I'm sucktastic. I know I care about those stupid hlstats too much and I need to stop and just have fun. I tried to play DoD:S and I suck more than anyone sucked I guarantee you that. I also suck at CS:S, so I stick to TF2

 

[Moose]

Good, glad to see you guys venting. Nice to have a place to just kinda unload in a friendly way, eh?

 

[Existence.]

i agree, just hope this thread doesnt turn into spam.
Today i was going 0 and 11 in TF2

 

[Zopy]

I hate spies. There I said it. Spies are the most annoying part of TF2, besides really good snipers, that are impossible to dodge. I hate them! You just got your sentry to lvl three, then they come in, sap it, and its gone! I just spent three minutes on that thing, and guess what! Its gone. I also get mad at people that kill me too much.(like killing me 9 times before I kill them once).

But good idea for a thread

 

[Icomeanon]

I had one of those sucktastic days today hah kept getting my ass handed to me, though it did not help that the teams were a little unbalanced :/

 

[Vipers_Venom]

I never played TFC so I was pretty sucktastic when I started playing TF 2 and learned what the classes do and specialize in. I like to think I'm getting better and better at it, but then some days I join in and it seems like the second I see an enemy team member they get a critical hit on me no matter what class they are. The whole night feels like all I did was run, run, run, DIE!! (Repeat 70 times) LOL I enjoy the game though, especially since I found the eGO servers and started playing with you guys.) Thanks for carrying me on those off days when I don't seem to be doing much! !shy

 

[Moose]

Awesome guys, this is kinda like a support group for Steam game players. Feel free to add pointers if you see it. Just a round table discussion and vent thread.

 

[Barlim]

Microphone yellers. Your volume is fine, we can hear you fine... why are you yelling? And not just when the heat is on and the fighting is intense... I mean like when you're sitting down in the intel room with your other engie buddies. Stop yelling! I have a headache already The echo in your room doesn't help! What's getting you so worked up over the game? I can't say I personally ever get very worked up over it, unless I'm tired and grouchy, then I just yell at my monitor when that same demoman kills me again with a lucky stray grenade.

Microphone yellers! You know who you are! *Lewis Black wiggly finger pointing motion*

I feel better now...

 

[Booster37]

I never really have a seriously bad game, not even when the game came out, because I just played Medic and I had no TFC experience. However, it is only frustrating when I get killed with crits trying to ubercharge. I also feel stupid when I'm Pyro and decide to set people aflame with oncoming traffic equivalent of two heavys and a soldier.

I can't stand people who complain about not stepping on the point when there is an ubercharge on it. Only go if you have a chance. Getting yourself killed never helps.

 

[Nemo]

I also hate spies especially when I am sniping on dustbowl. I feel like I'm being singled out

 

[Icomeanon]

[quote1203961358=Barlim]
Microphone yellers. Your volume is fine, we can hear you fine... why are you yelling? And not just when the heat is on and the fighting is intense... I mean like when you're sitting down in the intel room with your other engie buddies. Stop yelling! I have a headache already The echo in your room doesn't help! What's getting you so worked up over the game? I can't say I personally ever get very worked up over it, unless I'm tired and grouchy, then I just yell at my monitor when that same demoman kills me again with a lucky stray grenade.

Microphone yellers! You know who you are! *Lewis Black wiggly finger pointing motion*

I feel better now...
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One of the many reasons why you should turn off game sound and kick back to some tunes

 

[Moose]

As much as I'm tempted to do that, Icomeanon, I find it remarkably (and probably oddly) difficult to play without hearing my teammates (as irksome as some may be), or at the very least ambient sound. I don't know what it is.

 

[Bubbles(inactive)]

I think my biggest pet peeve is people who constantly criticize team members for not stopping caps or intel from being taken. I think the majority of people who play on our servers do not deliberately try to do poorly for their team. Some of us are very new to this whole gaming concept(myself included) and are still learning the basics of what a lot of other people take for granted from playing Half Life and other similar games. As was mentioned in another thread about keeping things positive, we should be encouraging our teammates in their efforts and helping those(constructively of course) who are still trying to figure out how things work and where their talents lie. When a team is friendly and communicative, things run much more smoothly and all members of the team end up having a good time whether they win or not, though I have found that a team that communicates and has a good time tends to win more frequently.
How's that for a run on sentence?

 

[Vipers_Venom]

Your run on sentence is almost as good as all of mine. I see I have some competetion! lol I'll have to step it up a notch.

 

[Barlim]

[quote1203966011=Moose]
As much as I'm tempted to do that, Icomeanon, I find it remarkably (and probably oddly) difficult to play without hearing my teammates (as irksome as some may be), or at the very least ambient sound. I don't know what it is.
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When I first started playing TF2 I was still playing WoW, for which I was always on vent while playing. When playing TF2 I just wanted to relax by myself without talking to anyone else, so I disabled voice chat. Only a month or two ago did I enable it, and now I wonder how many times someone was yelling at me to do something and I was oblivious to it. I also see that I've missed a really great part of the game... while some people can be very annoying or rude, most of the time you just hear people trying to coordinate, and sometimes people let loose and just chat. Now and then I like to hop onto this one small server with one of my friends, where all-talk is on and all the regulars are funny as heck. That place is always a riot.

 

[Moose]

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When I first started playing TF2 I was still playing WoW, for which I was always on vent while playing. When playing TF2 I just wanted to relax by myself without talking to anyone else, so I disabled voice chat. Only a month or two ago did I enable it, and now I wonder how many times someone was yelling at me to do something and I was oblivious to it. I also see that I've missed a really great part of the game... while some people can be very annoying or rude, most of the time you just hear people trying to coordinate, and sometimes people let loose and just chat. Now and then I like to hop onto this one small server with one of my friends, where all-talk is on and all the regulars are funny as heck. That place is always a riot.
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That IS always a good time, as Monkeybits, Bubbles, Near, MadSkillz, and myself can attest to. Bubbles, you bring up a good point too:
One of the things I can't understand and get irked over is people just being critical, period; particularly for people playing a class they enjoy playing. I remember one round on convoy I heard someone say "come on guys, so-and-so is the only GOOD sniper, so the rest of you change to something else". I bit my tongue, of course, but I thought rather loudly to myself that the only way you can GET GOOD is to keep playing that class until you ARE good. Just let the guys have fun. If you lose, fine. If you win, awesome; but let the people have fun.