I started playing this game recently. It's actually pretty good. I'm still a noob about it, but it has many similarities to the WFA mod I used to play for Quake III. I typically play medic and solider at this time.

Heh, I played it with J a while ago - he's pretty good at it. I'm just a very casual player though. I kinda dislike the fact that everyone seems to have a better gun/gear than me because they're unlockables through achievements. At least that's what I understood from J.

The art on and the design of the classes is amazing though. And I love the spy...and the demoman.

So far only 3 classes have unlockables: Heavy, Pyro and Medic.

Medic was the first update, and it shows, since unlockables are generally upgrades: your first unlockable is a more powerfull syringe gun, the third a stronger sawblade. But since your main job is healing, it doesn't matter that much.

For pyro and heavy, it's more balanced: new weapons have their advantages, but also drawbacks.

The pyro for instance can have the normal flamethrower with windburst, which is very usefull to defend against ubers/heavies/soldiers/demos/ ... . Or he can take the backburner, which deals out 100% crits when attacking from behind, but he'll sacrifice the windburst, making him more vulnerable.

I'm playing most classes, depending on what's lacking in my team. Got most gaming hours for medic and demoman. And I'm not that much of a spy really.

I'm obviously still learning.... will be for awhile, I guess. Mainly I like playing the medic because I'm definitely useful. Though I admit I've stood around a few times with an uber charged and didn't realize it.

Soldier I'm pretty decent with... that's where my most kills come from. I think I'd enjoy engineer but that class seems to always be played so I've never really messed with it. I'm decent with sniper... that's always fun. Not so good with the pyro. I've never even played demoman, I don't think. Not so good with the spy.

Anyway, I'm learning. I've managed to end in the top 3 a few times. Mainly as medic. Fun stuff. I'm not so partial to arena mode, though.

Cool. Scouts can be a lot of fun.

BTW, I got my first unlock for medic.

Played a bit today, and i noticed scout update was live indeed: tons of scouts running around

Maybe i catch one of you ingame one of these days.

Spent some time as a heavy on TF2 last night, even on the same server as J...but there were so many people he probably didn't even notice.

Had some fun mowing down scouts with the minigun is it just me though, or are heavies very vulnerable to the spy? Slow, stationary, big back to stab...

I kept getting backstabbed.

oh, good. Maybe we can get some friendly gaming going on. Maybe help each other get some achievements knocked out. I played a little today.. I really enjoy pwning the scouts whenever possible.