Ok, I need everyone to do me a favor....close your eyes and think for a moment on what you really love about TF2.

Go ahead, I'll wait...........








Done?


Good.

Now what is it? For me it's just the fact that the game is hella fun. It is probably the most well balanced "Beta" I've ever played or heard of. Each class has a specific role, however you are never locked onto anything for very long if you don't want to be. Unless you're like most of us and will play a class that the team needs even if it's not your favorite. (part of what makes us special. Not Ultrablue special because he's not allowed out unsurpervised after 5 pm...the cool kind of special.)

Any so called "exploits" have a counter or were actually part of the design process. The pace is perfect and the character personalities just add that extra "umph!" that puts the game a notch or two above anything else out there.

I can see how the game can come across as the Anti-TG. But it's anything but. Yes it's goofy and has a sense of humor about itself, but the game is as deep as most any other title out there. It just comes at you from a direction that most of us aren't used to.

I'm sure there's plenty more and I'd like you all to use this post and share exactly what it is you love about this game.

See, in my opinion, we've had WAY to much talk about what the game is lacking, bitching about server rules or the lack thereof. Team play and team stacking, server size and Friendly Fire....oh my. Remember, it's a BETA and anyone that remember the BF2 launch know's what goes into that. The Admins are playing with ZERO tools at their disposal, so please, cut them some slack when the server goes screwy or something FUBAR happens during a game.

Seriously, just play. Get on the server, join a side and help your team frag the hell out of the bad guys. Take CP's, use coordinated medic/heavy/pyro/anyone that will take my UBERNESS OF GLOWING DEATH!!!! to blow parts of your buddies all over the room. Take a screen shot of your most crazy frag and post it on the SS thread.

But for God's sake, get a sense of humor and HAVE SOME FREAKING FUN! Stop taking everything that happens as game and TG breaking nonsense.

There's a time and place for Tactics discussions and Map strats and what have you. It's encouraged and more than welcome on this forum. But seriously, for this thread, can we all just get over ourselves and realize that we're just here to have fun.

Together. TG style.

This isn't a religion, it's not supposed to be a job and it sure as hell isn't supposed to get us all angry and pointing fingers over who said what and who did what and who said that they said that I said that YOU said that they HATE fuzzy bunnies and you suck if you don't. (Personally, I'd frag someone repeatedly for that kind of nonsense, but hey, that's just me. Fuzzy bunnies > You.)

It. Is. A. Game.

Fun. TG. Us.

A lot of us seem to have forgotten that little, simple, fact.

I say to hell and gone with any more drama. IHS? Big whoop. I can frag all of you by myself.....really. See one team with all those tag wearing bad asses and none on yours? Pray.

Seriously, just play it out. You have an 8 in 10 chance of beating the pants off of them anyways. If not, I swear, the teams will even or the tide will soon turn. I have enough faith in everyone here that that would be the case. We aren't here to WTFPWN you and we sure as hell don't have more fun than you when we get rolled or do a lot of rolling. If the games aren't competitive and team oriented, then they aren't fun and don't belong at TG.

We all know this and given the chance, we all support and agree with it. We want you to play on our servers...TG members and Pubbies alike. We want to show you OUR way of playing, but realize that we're human and dumb crap happens from time to time. We promise we'll make it up to you if things go to hell on a map or two. Just have some patience with us while we get our feet wet and figure ourselves and TF2 out.

Points have been made, scored, proven and beaten into submission. Seriously, there's nothing left to prove except our own willingness to be smacktards. And I know that no one wants to be a smacktard. Well, maybe some of us, but we won't go there....

So please, just play.

That's my suggestion and I'm sticking to it. If you don't like it, then cool. Do what you feel is right. Just take my post in the tone it's meant and not pick one line to make an arguement that is so far removed from what I'm trying to say. That's the easy, lazy way to start a flame war. If you're looking for that, I can point you to MANY other communities that would love to have you.

What's it going to be? Can we bring the fun back? If not, then I'm taking my ghost buster heal gun and going home. And where will all you "MEDIC" crying pansies be then?



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