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[Thiletonomics]

Everyone who plays TF2 has been playing forever.

The game has arguably the worst new player experience out of all video games ever created, no real community to speak of, gigantic unfixed glaring issues, and is basically dead. There's no fucking chance that new players are suddenly going to flock to TF2, leaving only the "old players" as the community.

How does the new player experience compare to Valve's other flagship game, DOTA 2? The skill floor in that game is a lot higher.

 

[GhostButt]

How does the new player experience compare to Valve's other flagship game, DOTA 2? The skill floor in that game is a lot higher.

I'd have to assume it's pretty rough since this generation doesn't really know rocket jumping at all.

 

[Beelzebub's Gate]

I've met a lot of new players in the community servers and they said they were drawn to the game because of the media that has been produced for it. Like the GMOD and SFM videos, no doubt they're likely kids but they're interested in having fun their own way. Which I think TF2 does really well with the plethora of gamemodes that are and are not vanilla. What I'm saying is you likely won't meet as many new players on the casual community or valve servers than you would on an achievement or trade server.

 

[iceteayo]

Anyone got any good regular servers? I have just wrote off playing creators.tf entirely since it’s full of faggots. I do not want to use matchmaking since it’s just so anti TF2 to me.

 

[ABE LINN COHN]

Anyone got any good regular servers? I have just wrote off playing creators.tf entirely since it’s full of faggots. I do not want to use matchmaking since it’s just so anti TF2 to me.

I've heard the furry pound is unironically good vanilla tf2

 

[HumanHive]

I played a matchmaking game with a work friend the other day and it was hot garbage. Proper TF2 to me is comfy 2fort, not “approach cart, get sniper instantly, respawn”. Just not fun, don’t know how anyone can stand it but tryhards.

 

[iceteayo]

I played a matchmaking game with a work friend the other day and it was hot garbage. Proper TF2 to me is comfy 2fort, not “approach cart, get sniper instantly, respawn”. Just not fun, don’t know how anyone can stand it but tryhards.

Thats my other problem even when I played TF2 classic gamers on average are just better nowadays so you will never "ever" get that classic feel since in 2008 being good a video game was nerd shit now its not so everyone and their mother wants to be a pubstomp god.

 

[fishercat]

I keep getting called slurs for having a face-melting phlog.

 

[Nauseated Courgi]

I keep getting called slurs for having a face-melting phlog.

Yeah, there this gay thing called "skill" that tf2 players value for some reason. According to them, phlog pyros are brainless skill-less heathens that do nothing but "w+m1". whatever that means.