TF2: Why I Used To Only Play Dustbowl
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you didnt find a 24/7 dustbowl server. you found purgatory
you dont find dustbowl. Dustbowl finds you
What is the difference?
Imma commit mass murder just to not end there
I play only Payload maps. ONLY PAYLOAD
ONLY PAYLOAD
ONLY PAYLOAD GANG
all of em?
@@TKsh1 Engineer Payload gaming
Well I only play on koth
Dust bowl isn’t nearly as embarrassing as the amount of people who only play on trade servers
How about achievement_apg_r16c?
dm_duel_v1c and above
Damn I used to do that when I'm an noob.
Its just- the free scrap- ITS JUST TO GOOD
I have a steam friend who has +3000 hours on tf2 and he played like 2500 of them only mvm and mann up
2fort 5 hours everyday every week
every month
for 8 years now
this. 2fort is my comfort food.
well, not 8 fuckin years, but 2fort is just my go-to map when I play tf2
#2FortForever
@@11FBA11 That and Dustbowl, for me.
I think everyone that plays or played tf2 had the "only plays dustbowl" phase
I had that but with 2fort
I had that but upward
yea dustbowl is literally the tutorial map so usually if you play like 25%of the tutorial then you know dustbowl. and not likely anything else
2fort.
I had that but with local practice
I love playing on dustbowl because its so bad all around it’s balanced
It is not balanced in any form, demospams can just spam anything into a conspicuous corner and get ten kills, engineers hold chokes for eternity, phlog pyros thrive because of the terrible spawns.
@@bigchunguskeanureeveswhole1143 it’s balanced because it’s bad
Dustbowl to me is like Hightower and 2Fort. As a serious map it's garbage, but the badness to it is Ultimately what makes it fun imo, as it's just stupid in a good way.
@@BeaverBotics2 Hightower is a well designed map tho, thing is no one takes it seriously
@@bamboohpenguin5528 yeah it isn't taken seriously, and it is a well designed map.
Nothing wrong with dustbowl, except for everything wrong with it. Still love it, though.
Is just 2007 map. Is old and outdated but for beginners is okay
true
@@ramburgervalentine7621 No no no, Dustbowl is a map that's from Team Fortress Classic (1999), got an update in 2003 to fix a demoman related bug in Team Fortress Classic, then was remade for Team Fortress 2.
@@ramburgervalentine7621it's hell for beginners. Especially for the one's attacking as the defending team wouldn't give anyone a chance to step foot out for even 3 feet outside gate.
Hate it or hate it with a burning passion, we’ve all been on dustbowl
I havent
@@silly_fellow525 you MONSTER
@@silly_fellow525
"10 Hours on record"
Gold Rush is worse.
@@imwithstupid086 Hoodoo isn't much good either.
This is really similar to GermanPeter's story. You both played only one map for a while. The only diffrence being is that you played only Dustbowl while GermanPeter only played 2fort
2fort, I get. It's a lot more casual and chill, but dustbowl can be truly infuriating to play sometimes
They're both really good maps
@@GermanPeter Some flaws of course but they are still amaizing. I agree with you Peter!
@@GermanPeter Design-wise, it's shoddy in how the components of TF2 work together for map-making.
In action?
_Hell yeah it's a great map._
I actually remember my first match at 2fort which was actually a dumb realization for me.
I was a Level 1 and i saw 2 Sniper bots rushing the base, but i had the mindset where TF2 is different to all the FPS shooter games that i played which included military-like things. So, i thought those bots are just actual pros since i've also been watching some Sniper main videos before i played TF2. Then, someone at chat just said that it was a bot, and i just said to myself: "Oh. Welp, i'm dumb"
Me: Why would you ONLY play Dustbowl?
Also me: Only plays 2fort
oh god
Now i play only on Barnblitz
@@staykindandsmile Tbh I think the only thing that matters is youre having fun! :)
I WOULD PLAY ONLY TURBINE 😭😭😭😭😭🔫
@@costaricaam Good lad, its my second fav!
Gah I remember playing with bots alot of times, this is when my internet is bad back then, this also goes with other games with bot support (Black ops 2, CSS, etc.)
Same, except I just wasn't allowed to play online
Dude my pc had Cs 1.6 and i would only play against bots so i thought this was the game back then just kill bots
You just unlocked my repressed memories of playing cp_orane for 6 hours at a time. Thanks k guess.
Best map
I originally only played this, Upward, and a handful of other offline maps with bots for my first few weeks of playing TF2. My internet wasn't the best, and I wanted to really learn the mechanics of the game before venturing online.
Let’s get skymin to 200k subs already
she's so close, i didn't notice that
We did it
Good job guys
We frickin did it
She got 200k
My favorite map was Hydro, I used to host it every weekend from 7 A.M. to to 10 A.M. I even had some regulars (2010)
I still queue for TF2s best map, but I the issue now is no one plays hydro :(
On the rare occasion that I find a Hydro match, there are only bots in there.
I played my first Hydro game a few days ago, as it was available to vote at the end of a degroot map. Everyone left but me and my friend so we just had fun exploring it and trying to figure out just what the hell we were supposed to do
"Skymini" is such a cute name for this format of video. I loved it!
Uuhh...
hi
@@purzz3622 hello :D
@@OldSchoolTF2 The comment still didnt get a heart or many likes.
I'm getting my seat for the comments.
nice videos btw
@@purzz3622 thanks :D
I only played on turbine when I first started, somehow I made it onto a randomizer server and in one of Ardy’s videos. You can tell how new I was because my name was still my gmail at the time, long string of numbers included. I even bought the map stamp for it because I enjoyed it so much when I first started, don’t remember what number randomizer vid I was in briefly but it was a fun game.
This is basically the first 50 hours of CSGO in a nutshell
mirage, dust2, nuke and inferno
Dustbowl 2
MIRAG AND DUSTE
oh I most definitely had the exact same experience (even with the MVM part) just with 2fort. God what was wrong with me
i remember being 13 (4 years ago) and playing non stop dustbowl with a pocket medic who was my friend and just stomping it. i dont remember why i did it, i just kinda ruined the fun for the other people trying to actually play. i think it was because i had taken a break and wasnt good at any classes when i came back, so i just made myself feel better by going to dustbowl and holding m1 on some new players.
Pyro or Heavy?
@@tfclassicengineer1005 phlog pyro... who tf plays heavy on dustbowl
@@cutx1 Brass Beast.
almost 200K subs! Keep up the great work, Skymin!
For like a year I only played huntsman sniper on hightower lol
I only use to play as engineer in the intel on 2fort, i use to think i discovered the best thing in the game. (i obviously didn't) BUT I CAN'T IMAGINE ONLY PLAYING HUNTSMAN SNIPER ON HIGHTOWER...HIGHTOWER SPECIFICLY! With all of those troldiers, it had to have been a disaster.
@@mgthesandvichguy I got REALLY good at it, actually! I’ve left tf2 (don’t kill me lol) and my huntsman skills transfers FLAWLESSLY to Hanzo in Overwatch!
I'm loving these Sky-mini videos, keep up the awesome work! I also love it whenever content creators use 'Night in the Woods' songs as background music.
I remember playing on Dustbowl a lot when I first started playing because of familiarity thanks to the game's "tutorial". I also spent a lot of those early days just playing against bots because I too found it to be to difficult and frustrating playing against other players that were clearly better than me (not to mention 12 year old me was terrified of the idea of facing against enemy spies and snipers).
Skymin this content is really good! And it's so consistent keep it up!
There was like a straight year where i only played doomsday, its still one of my favorite maps
For me it was 2Fort, I couldn't get enough of that map
The first meal I ever played on back in 2013 was 2fort, when I introduced my friend to the game last year I loaded up a good old 24/7 ctf server. He picked scout, but shortly after I had to go, forgetting to teach him how to switch classes. Coming back to my pc about 5 hours later, I learned that he played scout for 5 hours straight on 2fort and somehow loved the game. Made me love tf2 again
I used to go to a 24/7 fast respawn dustbowl server, I don't know why but Dustbowl really stood out to me at the time. It was that feeling of familiarity and the amout of nice people there that made me wanna play Dustbowl. It might not be the most well made map but it's so chaotic it's super fun.
similar story: I had heard of tf2 for a while but I didn't have the best pc to handle it, I decided to try it (still using that pc when writing this), I downloaded steam, updated/downloaded the game, and tried it. I was familiar with cpf game modes in games so so I gravitated to capture the flag (I also love ctf and it is great you just all suck), I chose spy because he had invisibility, a clocking device, and a one-hit kill backstab. after playing the game for a few hours I felt good with spy and have played and gotten good with some other class's as well, I'm good with rocket jumping as the soldier, sticky-jumping as the demo, semi-good at flanking with scout, and am a god at sneaking into enemy base's (and engi turtle nests) and backstabbing everyone (and sapping all the buildings)
"you all suck"
Says the guy who prob havent got even 1000 hours
@@johnnystankiewicz295 ? do i know you
Because... that’s it.
gl on 200k :D
I used to have a habit of going onto upward “training mode” with bots, picking engie, and turtle games with the other engie bots for about 6 hours, scary days.
There was 666 comments but sense I hate satan I commented
After meet the medic I downloaded the game and started playing on a 24/7 Hightower. I made a good amount of friends there that taught me the basics of rocket jumping, sniper positioning and movement, and how to be a team player. The game would never end and that was magical, and there were no server resets it was just people teaching me how to play the game.
Eventually gravitated to medic and a medic main taught me about game sense, listening for decloak, when to properly push and to not trust players even if they had good gear (unusuals). Started playing different 24/7 servers with other maps to get a feel for different maps and eventually got a good amount of people to play with. I feel this is an experience a lot of us bronze mercs run into since the game became so different over time since 2006. Wouldn't have it any other way!
I had a similar case where I used to play on one map a lot when I started playing TF2 and it was Gravel Pit. I remember that I would always cap point A while waiting for my team and this happened in September 2014. After playing Gravel Pit for 2 months, I memorized the health packs, rollouts, ramps for bhopping as Medic and the hiding spots. And now, Im a UGC Medic main who still plays this game and I still play on Gravel Pit. Also, ty for the content, Skymin. I appreciate the hard work and effort in your videos.
Legitimately started in 2012 about a month before the Pyroland update. Payload and control point (like Dustbowl) have been my main way to play, with KOTH and PLR somewhat in the middle and CTF being the least played that I'm fine with. Then there's the Achievement Idle on Skial that I go to warm up on and end up staying for a few hours, just to go to bed without actually going in to the casual servers that I had planned on.
Congrats on 200K subs, kind of bragging here, I've been subbed around your 10K.
Also I saw this vid yesterday just came to say congratulations on 200k subs
Dustbowl and 2Fort is my go to when i want to chill for a few hours
I have the same with the class of Medic itself. I started playing it because a) my aim sucks and b) I like to be a supportive role even in real life. Nowdays I do it because good Medics are so rarely; I dont care about the score points or KD, I care about my team
Thank you for your content!
I joined in october 13th last year so the scream fortress was around, i remember wanting to finish the contracts asap so i only played on the scream maps, it did help me since i knew the layout of the maps after the event was over, so maps that were just reskins were my training to what they were based on.
When I first got the game it had just been released on Mac, I had a Macbook and had never played an online FPS before. I spent the first week in training mode on Dustbowl to familiarise myself with the game before playing online matches.
Love the video!
I did back when the orange box was released and only played 2 fort so I could practice engie and I loved how there was 3 different routes to take so it made me have to thing better on sentry placement and learned of the weakness of certain locations when using a level 3. I found some people popping in and out and some just shooting the missile launcher or tips of the barrels. It’s was a thrill racking my brain for “better” positions and learning how to respond to scenarios to better help myself or my gear survive.
Used to only play dustbowl in my first few months as well. Was my first map, knew all the locations, not only for health and ammo, but also sentry and other building spots, because I was too scared to play engineer (my favorite class since the beginning) on any other map
i used to play on it alone aswell, now i don't..
but now since u mentioned that it's a good map for learning the basics i think i will give it a shot
For a while when I was new to the game, I used to play on only trade servers, specifically a minecraft trade server that played a specific map 24/7 had an exit to the left that led to an outdoor DM area, and an area to the right that had a large open indoor DM area with a smaller hat room to the left of that if you so desired to go there, and later I think they added an underground spot that was just a Heavy boxing arena, that is where I spent the most time in TF2 during the beginning mainly because I knew the people, and it was a nice DM server where I could just casually hang out.
I went through a similar route, I used to play 2fort A LOT! (As in before when you could cap the intel and people wouldn't get mad at you for it. *god, I miss those days*) although I played other game modes too, I mainly played on 2fort! It was a really fun map for me to play on and it used to be my favorite map, but later on I kinda started to move on to other maps since 2fort is filled with friendlies and I'm just one of those "if there's an objective, I'm gonna do it" sorta players. Now I'm more into Payload since I rarely play on CTF a lot now, but I still think 2fort is a really good map, but it'll be rare that I ever play it compared to the maps I play on now
rocket man fran from youtube
I did tge exact same thing but at Lakeside. The wide open nature of the map and having to constanly deal with bombers, spies and snipers really helped me build up my sense of danger.
I used to play exclusively against bots on a single Hightower x10 server, eventually I got bored of that and transitioned to payload maps in casual, but that took quite a while
Back when I started playing TF2 close to after the F2P update, I had a pretty bad laptop, and Dustbowl was one of the few maps I could play without large frame drops, Combo that with the fact that it's the tutorial, and I played only dustbowl for probably my first 250-500 hours of my 1.5K career in TF2.
I can still enjoy the map from time to time, but Boy trying to defend for 20 minutes on phase three still gives me nightmares.
I used to only play CTF maps (didn't matter which one - I loved them all) and before that I played on dm_mariokart_b3 with jetpack and ctf_minefort with 100% crits and moveable sentries. You can see why I had to relearn much of the game years later.
I loved thunder mountain, probabluy still do, for a new soldier trying out rocket jumps, the final stage was the perfect way to familiarize myself with angles.
-"I used to play only dustbowl"
Me, who used to play only trade_minecraft_realms: pathetic
Dustbowl was my first real map I played in TF2, it felt like a decent beginner map.
It’s linear layout made it easy to navigate and traverse without getting lost as easily. It also made learning soldier, engineer and demo easy in learning corners, traps, and nests. With at least 2/3 paths to each control point area, it was also decent to learn flanking as spy or scout.
My go-to map now is 5gorge for the reason that it allows all classes to have some use in a situation.
I always messed around on custom community maps based on other series, like this one minecraft map I remember some of my earliest games of tf2 being on. Pokemon goldenrod city still has a pretty special place in my heart.
dayum, long time no see this channel
I just queued up for normal games and eventually got the hang of it but now 2fort is one of my favorites since messing with snipers and memeing on intel are my favorite parts of the game
While not necessarily a single map, I did play almost exclusively Payload for the first few months I played the game (I joined during the scream fortress event the year the Merasmus boss was added) and played only Heavy for a LONG time, as it was a class I felt was easy to learn. It was months later when I finally picked up another class in the form of the Pyro. I slowly played with the other classes, with Demoman being the last one I picked up (and looking back it's funny how Demoman was my least favorite class to play, and now is one of my favorites).
Ooo almost 200k bro
i started playing TF2 in April of last year, and honestly, i freaking love dustbowl for some reason, that map makes me really comfortable on my skills as pretty much any class
Gosh, a lot of your own experiences here feel so familiar to my own in TF2 -- not just a fixation on one map or gamemode, but also even those specific hardware limitations and that level of being a newbie.
Starting out, having never played a FPS before and on a 2011 Mac, and eventually gravitating towards 24/7 CTF or Objectiveless Trade maps. It was comforting, and it was a safer place to build up at least some skills. The latter also had the added benefit of a community as well -- and honestly, silly though it may have been, I did wind up making some great friends thanks to sticking around on a micspam server for hours on end almost every day.
Given some time, I'd eventually branch out, get new hardware, and whatever else. But I always did enjoy coming back to those servers I was once a regular on.
When I started, I played SOLEY on Doomsday of all maps, was more of a TDM style gamemode than the rest of the other maps (started a bit after the Summer 2013 cosmetics dropped), and played it for roughly a year. Was a nice way to kind of learn who did what, gave me every kind of encounter I needed, and felt less sweaty than some of the other maps did.
Before the introduction of casual mode, I basically lived in Pipeline, for it was the first map I played in... But that is a long time ago. Nowadays it's way harder to get matched into a game hosting the map, but when I do, oh man does the nostalgy hit me hard. Quickplay - never forget.
Interesting story. Reminds me of when I started and me and my buddy would only play on a 24/7 harvest server. Of course, we had never heard of discord and were too young to figure out teamspeak, so we would call on landlines and play on our crappy laptops at a solid 30 fps. Some of the best memories I have and really speaks to the magic of TF2.
In the noob days of yor I used to live on attack and defend and payload maps. Frontier, Mountainlab, and Egypt were and still are some of my favorite maps to play on.
Wasn’t a map but was the game mode ctf. Double cross was easily my favorite map. I had no clue what a secondary was and didn’t know any other game mode existed. It was pre-tough break and I loved it.
I’ve played variety of maps but usually stuck to a select few of different gamemodes cuz I felt more comfortable with em early on, expanded to mostly play on any map, and now I’m somewhat back to the select few option, but mostly cuz I feel disinterest in some maps or feel like I’d need one that at least has an assured end so CTF and CP would often get ignored by me just cuz I’m willing to go in long matches but I don’t intend of potential “forever here” lengths.
Oddly enough though, I’ve primarily been playing dustbowl most of time in the recent year. Usually cuz I can rely on it have a decent amount of people populated in it at any hour of the day making matches actually more engaging, as well as it being a pretty good map to hone skills and knowledge on like combating choke points and the importance some classes can play and why they should be a must-have on the teams. When things aren’t steamrolly, I can count on dustbowl delivering on having a good match that can make ya feel like you did a lot, win or lose.
I've actually had quite similar story. It was my very first FPS game as well and first year I'd been playing on dustboul, 2fort and turbine and was literally afraid to try other maps and game modes because it felt too stressful. Kinda funny how it all changed with experience and now all the old legendary maps don't leave blacklist.
there was a specific cp_orange 100% crits server I used to play on that ran a custom version of the map that got updated constantly by the server owner. it was fun jumping on after he made some changes and exploring all the different nooks and crannies he had added, what paths he took out, and cover that got shifted around. from there I met someone who was apart of the group LowLagFrag and discovered the world of surf maps. I would bounce between theirs and Omega Arcade's combat surf servers, and let me tell you, there were some great people that frequented those servers. there also this one VSH server I would also frequent because they had a good map rotation of stock arena/koth maps with a few VSH maps sprinkled in.
all those servers are long gone by now, but damn does it hurt a bit to reminisce about them. roundcat, if you're out there somewhere, try and find a copy of your cp_orange map, would you?
I used to play on a 24/7 Gravelpit server for literally 12 hours a day back when I started in 2012-ish...
Fun times, honestly. It became very familiar and routine, as the bots were dumbed down and predictable, almost nobody ever played on the server either. It was just me and a friend or two playing around with silly ideas and finding out ourselves that you could detonator- or sentryjump, among many other things. Eventually we found a Kong King server, and then a Degroot Keep server from the same people. We had a blast just being silly on those 3 maps, but eventually found our way to MvM, where we had just as much fun smashing robot hordes in bootcamp.
My friends from back then don't play TF2 anymore, but I've come back to the game after a few years of abscense. Much seems to have changed, but I'm adapting.
I had a phase a few years ago where I'd only play on 2 community trading maps: Trade plaza 2 and that one Minecraft map with the 4 sectioned off biomes
I only played on 2fort for years and it will still be the first thing I go back to next time I download tf2. I think it's a really good map because I can always come up with a different plan for what to do in each match and it somehow never stops being fun for me coming up with new game plans and then seeing if my teammates will support the plan or the enemy team will stop it in its tracks. And it makes playing with a group of players for a long time rewarding because as you learn their patterns you get a great game sense and start doing better and better but at the same time you can't go too far with that or you get status checked by the random chance element of which path other players take across the map
This was me too but with a 24/7 2fort server in 2008/2009, same experiences with learning the characters , mostly as medic and also engineer. arguably the worst experience to learn more than the basics as Uncle Dane has pointed out in his 'why CTF is bad' video but for just messing around with friends and the regulars I got to know over several years it wasnt a bad time. I wouldnt go back and change it, good memories.
I used to play a ton back on the xbox 360 and I spent ages playing almost entirely on gravelpit back then. It was one of my favorite maps.
I remember when i started playing tf2 around 6 years ago i only played in the skial 24/7 harvest server
My first 200+ hours were spent only in that map and to this day it is my favorite
I think the reason i like it so much it's the design simplicity and how close everything is. It's just the perfect map
Despite how much hate the map gets, I used to only play on ctf_turbine because it felt like a deathmatch map.
I had a similar thing with Turbine (now I absolutely fucking hate that map)
It is a really simple map where pro players tend to get the heck out of there when they see they accidentally forgot to unselect it on the map selection menu, so I used to only fight against amateur players, which got me a chance of killing people and surviving a bit longer than what I'd do in a map like upward
Also, since the map was so simple, I never got lost, so yeah, it was a map I really liked as a nooby
I currently have a love/hate relationship with this map, I freaking HATE that a sentry in literally any part of the map stops the entire game, and that sniper is ridiculously broken, but at the same time, the map is kinda interesting to look at and to play whenever there's no sentries
When I first started I ONLY played 2Fort and sometimes Turbine. It gave me a relaxed environment where I could practice and have fun without worrying about an objective or a time limit.
dustbowl was probably the first map I ever played on.
at that time I was on an internet cafe,I only knew about tf2 from videos made in gmod and source film maker,I just got to the batle field with no idea about the goal of the game,I just picked heavy since he has a fucking minigun and is known for the pootis meme.
2 years later after I purchased a laptop I installed tf2,it was my first pc game(the games on miniclip don't count)
I went thru a Dustbowl phase. Practising sniper on the long sightlines or bouncing around corners as scout. It's not a great map, but it can be really fun.
I remember I played on viaduct a lot, simply because koth seemed like the least confusing game mode, you only really need to walk to half the map and the objective doesn't change places, you are both defending and attacking at the same time, and viaduct specifically because I didn't know how to change the maps on the map selection screen when playing against bots (I also only played with and against bots, I never really liked the idea of having a losing team, even if I won, EVEN IF it was just a casual match), so I played it again and again and again, it was funny when I discovered that you could change maps, I was so angry but at the same time so excited to try new maps like King or Lakeside (jesus I loved this map, the aesthetics were so cool, too bad Valve's bots are too stupid to swim out of water so sometimes there were like, 3 or 4 teammates (or enemies) just drowning in that small water area)
Dustbowl is iconic and fun, i personally go to the community page just to search for dustbowl, if im not doing that then I'm playing casual/competitive
I used to have a 2fort/hightower only phase. I think it was because of how much more casual those maps seemed. You didn't have to worry much about class balance and being good when everyone is just messing around.
Harvest is still my favorite map to this day. I have played hours on it. Both sides are identically laid out. There are several approaches to get to the objective at the center. Every class is useful. There is not any deadpoints in the map that people don't travel. Rounds don't carry on for long so you can complete around and leave with completion satisfaction.
I did play a lot goldrush and dust bowl back in the day. I loved the different map segments.
While it wasn't the only map i played, I have an obscene amount of hours on orange_x3 or variations of it. So many hours spent rocket jumping up that tower, creeping under the bridges as spy, dodging 53 snipers as scout...
Memories
For me, the only map I played for a long time was Lakeside. It was the first map I ever played online, and it holds a special place in my heart for me. I don't know why it was Lakeside and not one of the more popular KOTH maps like Harvest or Suijin, but all I do know is that I loved playing Lakeside and it was the only map I played for like 3 or 4 weeks.
Honestly, I only recently got my first Laptop, and man, I was shit TF2. My muscle memory was nonexistent. Before that, I was confined to mobile, the Wii/WiiU, and the Ds family of consoles.
I couldn't download TF2, because my setup runs on a MOBILE HOTSPOT.
I played a few other games first, such as Hitman, GTA V, Chronoshot, etc, and got used to aiming with a mouse, using wasd to move, figuring out that I can only play with more of the lower graphic settings.
But eventually, I got around to it, and downloaded tf2. I booted it up for the first time. The first song I heard was the one that plays during Meet the Demoman. I was ecstatic.
The first thing I did was complete all the training for the classes.
I screwed around in the settings for a bit, figured out that my function keys don't act as function keys without pressing fn (damn help button), found the contracker.
A half an hour later, I scrolled through the maps, said screw it, and selected all of the main gamemodes, and searched for a game.
Not 30 seconds later, and BAM! Game found. I cautiously hit the join button, praying my mobile hotspot could withstand the barrage of lag that comes from unusuals, projectiles, and 20 other players.
And... it did. That moment when I loaded into the game... it was perfect. I already knew what class I wanted to play, out of necessity, and picked Engie.
I fell in love with the class. I played it nonstop. I quickly used my free Christmas skin to aquire the rescue ranger, and immediately renamed it to "Long range wrench".
There was a problem though... I was f2p. I hadn't bought anything... I couldn't use chat, I couldn't call for help, to save me from the sapper happy spies.
The game ended, and I went and bought my first taunt, The Dueling Banjo. I almost bought the rancho relaxo, but I couldn't afford it at the time, as I'm currently held back by gift cards.
I got more funds, bought more taunts, bought the gunslinger, the holiday punch, the conch, the buff banner, and countless more items. I got drops, I asked for trades, people pitied me.
I explored community servers, found jump_academy, explored the endless custom maps, downloaded custom huds, downloaded even more custom maps.
I played as all the classes. I enjoyed all the friendlies, I became a friendly, I fought the bots, I tried the taunts, I completed contracts, I completed achievements, I earned items.
I played TF2. I'm not the best, I'm not the worst, but above all else, I had fun.
And that, is how I felt, and still feel, when I play TF2.
When I started playing, also in 2012 some time after MvM released, i literally ONLY played King of the Hill, no other game mode. Granted, when my best friend first showed me the game he took me to Harvest, making that the first map I ever played, and I just ended up sticking with only koth. My earliest TF2 memories mainly consist of Harvest, Lakeside and Nucleus, with a little bit of one of the custom Mario Kart maps that people would just hang out/DM on. It wouldn't be till I came back to the game for Gun Mettle that I would try other game modes, and honestly koth is still prolly my favourite game mode to this day
I had a vaguely similar experience growing up in TF2. I'd almost always play on this infinite round time casual mariokart themed map (not the one from Team Fabulous, it was called dm_mariokart2_b3 or something like that and had a gift collection Easter egg that unlocked a party room with a stage, minigames and the Horsemann). I have fond memories of building engine nests in corners of that map and just trying to occupy territory for as long as possible. Sadly I don't think there's any community servers running it anymore, but that was always more fun to me than any of the "legit" gamemodes
When I first got into the game all I played was 24/7 Fast Respawn Hightower. Good short video B)
I do like Dustbowl since it lets me practice Spy more often, but my personal favorite would be Swiftwater where i can also practice as Sniper and Pyro
I didn't necessarily play one map, but I played a shit ton of Turbine and Hightower back in the day. This was mainly because of really friendly people in 24/7 servers though. And for some reason when Tough Break came out, I played Vanguard for like a month straight.
I have suffered through playing on Dust bowl in recent years because the only server with class wars runs that map. I miss the good class wars server that had community maps and unique rtd.
What a weirdly relatable video. I started playing back on Orange box (meaning maps like 2fort and dustbowl was all you had) and I eventually moved on to playing TF2 on my parent's mac. I still almost only played on 2fort and as scout (just like I had in the past). 1000 hours later I've started playing medic instead and instead of 2fort I'm playing nothing but dustbowl.
First times booting up I only played Doublecross as that was the only server I found that was stable enough.to connect to. There was also a time were I played a community 5CP map, Warpath I think it was that went forever (from mid to second it was a big tunnel the only choke point, there was a smalle corridor too but it was easy to guard). Now I have to say I some (several) playing sessions only in a Skial 24/7 Turbine server, just as a wind down basically eternal deathmatch.
When it was available, I used to only ever play on Cactus Canyon because it was and still is my favorite map in the game. Other than that I've had spouts where I'd be really into one map and play it over and over, like Hightower, Highpass, and Pipeline.
I remember my first time playing the game was back in 2010 on a Fastlane only server, where neither team had much interest in actually capping the final point, rather pushing back and forth cap points for the fun of it. I went in - the very first time - as a spy, capped the enemy’s final point, and won the game. Didn’t read English well back then, so can only imagine that both teams didn’t very much like that, since the consensus seemingly revealed to me later, rather to just keep the rounds playing infinitely. Next round I stayed sniper for about four hours, and just went with the flow of the game, followed my team and gave them support fire. To this day Fastlane and the Sniper class holds a dear place in my heart, while Spy is the class I play the very least of.
Dustbowl might not be the peak of map development but it's fun af
I remember when I started all i played for like a year was arena cause i thought it would make me be much better in normal maps because of the higher stress and awareness you needed