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Day 161 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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Today's game is Team Fortress 2. This one's going to be a bit short, due to just not being able to get many screenshots for it. For years it's been an annual tradition of mine to play this game on Christmas Eve. Though I've stopped playing it for a while, it's fun to go and kick back in some matches and mess around, even with the communities unique qualities sometimes. This time i dragged a friend along for this year and we played a few swissmas maps and made our way over to 2fort to mess around.

I spent the entire session messing around with my friend and whoever i could drag into dancing with me. After that i jumped around as soldier and used the equalizer taunt to take out some snipers i snuck behind for fun. Then me and my friend i dragged along got into a feud and spent a good while trying to kill each other after autobalance swapped our teams. After that i played some Demoman and messed around with my friend in the Intelligence room before deciding to get off for the night early.

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[–] silverchase@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This game is timeless. It was released in a time when the arena FPS was on its way out and server browsers were still the norm for PC online multiplayer, yet it has hardly aged.

[–] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I recently tried playing TF2 after a long break (maybe 5 years) and while there is still decent number of user run servers, it's not always easy to find a relatively full one for many maps.

[–] MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I run into the same problems. Basically anything besides 2fort there's a bit of a queue for or just low player count

[–] asudox@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I have over 1.5k hours and I am still actively playing it to this day. It never gets old.

[–] meant2live218@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I haven't been active in TF2 in years, but I have 2.9k hours, all without idling for items. That game was basically another life for me, around 2010-2016. In that timespan I picked up PC gaming, got into shooters, got into TF2, joined a community, started collecting strange weapons, got my first unusual and traded it, and captained a Highlander team as Pyro.

The game was and still is amazing; I only ever stopped because it was becoming detrimental to my life and schooling. Now, when I try to play, I mourn the loss of my old community servers, get frustrated with my worse skills, and despise the number of bots I run into on Valve servers.

[–] MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

The bots were what initially caused me to stop playing years ago. As much as i'd like to get back into it now though, i let the game dominate my life whenever i play regularly. Not to the point where it was a problem, but i can't afford to sink that much time into it with my current lifestyle.

[–] vasus@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

it’s been an annual tradition of mine to play this game on Christmas Eve

Oh wow! I'm not the only one! It's nice that the bot issue seems to be severely reduced, this year is was the first one where I didn't have to switch servers multiple times to avoid masses of spinning snipers

[–] MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Me and my friend didn't encounter a single bot which is nice. It was always annoying to have a match ruined by a sniper bot joining