If you go Engy, and have your construction PDA out when you suicide, you leave behind a juicy 200 metal box.
Personally, though, I think it’s more efficient to actually help the other engy get something up, because it gets to level 3 twice as fast and the other engy still saves 200 metal.
The only trouble with this tactic is that people think you’re going Engy permanently, and make their class choice accordingly.
Edit: And if you’re going to suicide, don’t just use that lame ‘kill’ command or the class menu. Bind a key (I use Del) to ‘explode’ and hit it to erupt in a spontaneous supernova of gibs. I also like to do this when we’re just taunting each other through the grate during setup time - they never quite expect it.
Kill yourself while standing on him after he’s gone for metal, returned, and banged the sentry four times. Obviously, be ready to kill yourself when he drops the first widget in case it’s a dispenser. You might also try killing yourself on a large ammobox when you think empty and it’s the nearest one, or spamming “Need a <buildable> here!” to get his attention.
sluggo
1703
Eh, a lot of times it’s in an obvious spot – like we’re attacking a control point in Dustbowl, trying to take out a bunch of sentry guns, and the uber never comes no matter how many times I start to rush. If you’re a medic, you have to just know it’s time to rush. After seeing how bad players generally are on public servers, I have a hard time believing they’re all skilled medics waiting on a voice command to kick it off.
For me, when I’m a medic, if I have 100%, I’m not waiting for someone to tell me when you uber. I’m finding the guy who looks like he has a clue what he’s doing and we’re going. A lost uber, IMO, is 10x worse than a wasted one – at least with the former you cause a distraction and a few moments of panic for the enemy team.
I don’t know about you, but I find those voice menus rather fiddly in combat situations. There’s a really cool bunch of aliases you can paste into an autoexec.cfg in your tf2/cfg folder that makes it much easier to bind keys directly to these:
alias "thanks" "voicemenu 0 1"
alias "gogogo" "voicemenu 0 2"
alias "moveup" "voicemenu 0 3"
alias "goleft" "voicemenu 0 4"
alias "goright" "voicemenu 0 5"
alias "yes" "voicemenu 0 6"
alias "no" "voicemenu 0 7"
alias "incoming" "voicemenu 1 0"
alias "spyhere" "voicemenu 1 1"
alias "sentryahead" "voicemenu 1 2"
alias "teleporterhere" "voicemenu 1 3"
alias "dispenserhere" "voicemenu 1 4"
alias "sentryhere" "voicemenu 1 5"
alias "activateuber" "voicemenu 1 6"
alias "help" "voicemenu 2 0"
alias "battlecry" "voicemenu 2 1"
alias "cheers" "voicemenu 2 2"
alias "jeers" "voicemenu 2 3"
alias "positive" "voicemenu 2 4"
alias "negative" "voicemenu 2 5"
alias "niceshot" "voicemenu 2 6"
alias "goodjob" "voicemenu 2 7"
That doesn’t bind anything in itself, just gives convenient names to bind other keys to. So I have pretty much the entire right half of my keyboard bound up:
bind q "spyhere"
bind t "thanks"
bind n "no"
bind p "yes"
bind h "help"
bind m "battlecry"
bind j "goodjob"
bind k "niceshot"
bind l "jeers"
bind [ "goleft"
bind ] "goright"
bind i "incoming"
bind f "gogogo"
bind "SEMICOLON" "dispenserhere"
bind "'" "teleporterhere"
bind o "activateuber"
bind = "positive"
bind - "negative"
So just hitting “o” yells “CHARGE ME DOKTOR!”.
The Thanks bind is the one I absolutely can’t live without. Obviously it’s great for Medics (if I want a Medic buddy I thank as soon as they latch on to me), but I also like to use it every time I partake of a well-placed Dispenser and the Engy’s around, or someone nails a Soldier I was worrying about. If you’re a Pyro, because his/her speech is never clear, he/she gives a cute little thumbs-up emote as he/she says it.
Or you can just, you know, buy a microphone.
It doesn’t? Are you sure? I could have sworn I capped a point the other night while ubered, but I guess it’s possible that there was someone else from my team on the point. At any rate, staying on the point to clear it of enemies is kinda important.
Alan_Au
1707
Actually, that’s the problem–they’re noobs that don’t know when to trigger the uber, so you have to tell them.
But I can’t shout “SPY! IS NOT OUR SPY!” into a microphone, can I? And my fake “fake Scottish” accent is horrible.
I think you can contest the point, but you can’t capture, so the point doesn’t decap and you don’t leave overtime. Other people can cap while you’re on it, but you can’t help them aside from killing any defenders, so it’s not critical that both übered players stand on the point, and neither need to if there’s someone else on it.
Houngan
1709
Iron Xides has it, re: capping.
H.
And if you’re on the defending team, being ubered on the cap does block any attackers from capping it just as it would if you weren’t ubered.
This is great - I always appreciate it when someone shows a little love in the game.
As for ubers, I always try to give a voice chat cue before triggering an uber - I think it is useful for two reasons - sometimes the Heavy will be low on ammo, and that makes a big difference. The other is that it usually takes me a moment to plan out what I’m going to do with an uber, so having a second or two to get ready can really let you leverage those 8 seconds to cause the most carnage. Even if I’m the only one with voice, I usually tell the target - “Get ready for an uber” or something, and that seems to help.
As always (defined as "Since October 2007), there’s a Friday Night Qt3 TF2 game tonight, starting at 10pm EST. And you? Yes, you. You’re invited.
The forecast for Boston is for miserable, cold rain, so why spend some time with loved ones or watch movies, or get delicious takeout when you could join your fellow Qt3 sociopaths for a fun evening of SO MUCH BLOOD!
Crater
1713
I love the google ad I just got in this thread:
He aint’ heavy, he’s my brother.
Some good times tonight even though it emptied out early.
For a short while GLORY!
Even against Iron Xides and Gurk we went on to win!
Does anyone ever take amusing screenshots of your killer? This one just cracks me up so much I thought I’d share it against my better judgment.
Why, certainly.
My favorite:
I had to edit this one a little bit, because some of the support struts near the top were a weird shade of orange that stuck out oddly.
At first I thought the top one was the severed hand of a heavy still holding the gun, which would’ve been the greatest picture ever.
What the hell is going on in the bottom picture?
I’m pretty sure that a demo is blowing his stickies on the last cap of dustbowl.
Another Friday night, another great game of Qt3 TF2! Tired of watching the sad, sorry gameplay on no teamwork public servers? Enjoy watching the Qt3 groupthink attempt the exact same thing, only with much better dialogue! Our special guest star this week - YOU. Won’t you join us?
Watch Not One of Us put on a medic clinic! You will laugh as Point Blank pulls off another head shot on a poor defenseless heavy! Didn’t think you could rocket jump up there? Watch Iron Xides show you how! Be amazed that Lazy Shiftless Bastard just doesn’t seem to run out of bullets! Comedy Relief provided by the PoE guys!
The festivities start at 10 pm EST, and go until scharmers packs it in. Maybe a bit longer. Join the Qt3 group on Steam for location and password (which is the same as last week, and the week before that, etc.)
You forgot one: “Never dominate anyone? Let Robbo in the Hall of Death give you an ego boost!”
