User:Brickmaster7946/Alpha's Classic Adventures

June 30 - 4 hours played

Mainly played Spy. So far I've had a great experience. It's been fun, I managed to quickstab a few people. It's always fun to get behind someone, slash, and then glance up at the killfeed, looking for your knife kill. There's nothing special about a backstab, either - only a subtle animation change. It looks like your average butterknife in the killfeed. There's no hitsounds or no damage numbers, either. No way to tell how much health an opponent has. As a Spy your only hope of escape when caught is either to shoot your way out or feign - I love the feign mechanic. Time it right and you have a believable death. Lie there, look around until the coast is clear, then hop back up.

Backstabs again - you never know when you might fail one. It's not like TF2 - so many times I've gone for a stab that'd work in TF2 and found it to fail completely. Not to mention that for some reason, Heavies refuse to be backstabbed half the time. Your best bet when under direct fire from a heavy is a feign. You should try to hold it a second or so - in TFC, heavies deal a lot less damage than they do in modern-day TF2. You can survive several seconds of sustained fire from their miniguns. Then feign and wait for them to turn away, assuming they do.

You can be killed while feigning - it's far different from our modern-day Dead Ringer feign. You trigger a feign by pressing a button - H by default, I believe - and become immobile. You appear as a corpse to other players. This effect lasts until you trigger it again. While feigning, you appear dead to all other players, even allies. You can look around you while feigning, and no signs of this will be visible in third person. You still take full damage while feigned, however you do not have a physical hitbox - people can walk through you. You can disguise while feigned, too - very useful.

Your worst enemy is probably... explosives. The grenade spam in TFC is unbelievable. You never know when some random grenade will detonate under your feet, or when a demoman is going to be leaving some mines around just for you.