I have played an unusual amount of matches where a good chunk of the players weren't even alive when the game was releasedWhat is attracting late zoomies to this boomer shooter
>free>runs on toasters (comparatively)>fapbait characters
>>738095217My zoomer gf likes it when I put on goggles and quote engineer in a bad southern accent
>be best multiplayer shooter on the market since its release>still be easily accessible and with an active playerbase in 2026
>>738095928quake 3 and ut2k4 are better, but casual accessibility and muh playercount is all people care about
>>738095217>The most fun you can have onlineDespite it's treatment the last decade it's impressive this still holds true
>>738095217Because It's genuinely an incredible game at its core that holds up even after the nearly 20 years it's been released. Not to mention that it's free?We just need Valve/Jill to finally get off their ass and revert the meet your match garbage and bring back quickplay. There will be a massive renaissance in terms of playercount, videos, servers, etc. when they do. It's gonna be so great when that happens.Can't believe I've been playing this game for close to 15 years now holy shit.
>>738095217The new player experience is so bad nowadays that I'm shocked that any of them stick around.
>>738095217>What is attracting late zoomies to this boomer shooter>Free>Runs on shitty Mac laptops even on max settings>Actually fun, well-balanced class shooter>Expert map design (no-one talks about how well-made TF2 maps are compared to other FPS games)>Server browser AND Matchmaking. >Chill enough you can just fuck around (most other online shooters/MOBAs now ban or suspend you for stepping out of line, having fun banter in chat or abandoning a match halfway through)>only cash shop stuff is hats you can get by just playing the game anyway (most other games fuck this up)
>>738098151It's not bad. It's same as it has been for 10+ years
>>738098396>TF2's matchmaking as a positiveIt's fucking atrocious and should've never been added
>>738098151why would new player experience be bad? You don't grind for perks or weapon unlocks in TF2 you just need to learn maps and basics of your class and you're good to go
>>738095217the FPS market is complete dogshit and TF2 is a free game made in 2007, so the barrier to entry is "own a computer"
>>738097912>It's gonna be so great when that happens.
>>738095464>fapbait charactersGay?
>>738098947pyro
Compared to like, Mario or whatever, how does the TF2 cast fare in the rankings of most memorable video game characters?I would think they'd have to be pretty high up there. If nothing else, at least just because of all those old Gmod videos people used to make.
>>738095217Because It's better than most of modern multiplayer FPS
>>738096175>uncslopkys
>>738098596I'm not saying its a positive, but zoomers and alphies playing it for the first time would come to expect it after coming from shit like Overwatch and Valorant. If you want a bigger audience you want both, not one or the other.
>>738098947Female mod isnt bad. Would smash female Scout from behind and hold onto her ponytail for stabilisation, no questions asked
>>738098520So fairly bad for 10+ years.>>738098597>you don't unlock weapons in tf2Ah yes, you instead have to get lucky with an arbitrary drop system instead.
>>738098151F2Ps can chat again but the weapon drops need to go, or at least give everyone the achievement weapons
>>738097131"it's treatment" like not constantly having nothing changes for parasite streamers to "report" on is mistreatment of a game.
>>738098597you get play against people with over 10k hours and not leave spawn
>>738099506weapon drop system is good. It makes it fun to play for a new player since he gets to unlock a new weapon every hour basically
>>738098597Only hard thing is knowing which maps/gamemodes are good really. People love to try and play CTF not knowing that no-one actually captures the flag in CTF in TF2. Payload is essentially the default game mode. Capture Point is shit except for Dustbowl, and the other mods may as well not exist.
>>738099625You know it's really sad to see that there's still people that complain about a game they don't actually play.New players just requeue because TF2 doesn't force you to stay in genuinely terrible matches like terrible modern multiplayer games.
>>738099750i join a new match and get more people with thousands of hours
>>738099825You already let people know you're spending your saturday talking about a game you don't play, we know.
>>738099861yeah i don't want to play against autists with thousands of hours
>>738098947Obviously referring to Touhou Fortress
>>738097912>Can't believe I've been playing this game for close to 15 years now holy shit.oh god
>>738099750First of all, how is someone coming from modern shooters even going to know they can just leave games? All modern games use the structure of expecting players to stick to the end.Secondly, that's already a bad first impression. How many requeues are you expecting them to have patience for?>>738099861There's zero reason to doubt him. I've already heard plenty of people say they can't get into tf2 for this very reason. If anything I'm more inclined to not listen to the person who likely doesn't know what it's like to be new to the game because he started way back during the early days.
>>738100069Yeah no, I'm not going to cave to someone who clearly doesn't play the game who's playing both experienced player and new player telling me that TF2's totally deadzors for reals guys you have to queue into a million games with bots.You have an agenda, you don't play the game, and that's why you're still ritual posting like you'll magically make nobody play TF2 again because you're not even satisfied with it having a lower player count because it launched 20 years ago and people irrationally avoid older games for no real reason.
>>738100018Haha look at this old man with a gold medal.AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH IM GETTING OLD ITS ALREADY BEEN 15 YEARS SINCE I STARTED I THOUGHT IT WAS ONLY LIKE 12 OR 13 FUCK
>>738095217With every passing day I hate the playerbase even moretried TF2C but thats even worse in a different way
>>738095217>What is attracting late zoomies to this boomer shooterIts not, games dead most players are bots
>>738099442>game needs to be le heckin unlocks like my cawll of doody and ubishit trashkys
>>738099691CTF matches would end within 35 minutes or so if it didn't always devolve into half the faggots on the server going friendly and doing the conga line. Friendlies are such cancer.
>>738100398TF2C itself is fun but the tranny retard devs killed it with the draconian server policies. It's even less popular now than before it was added to Steam.
>>7380952172fort 24/7 community servers with people camping on the sewers are basically a virtual third place
>>738100308Nice schizo meltdown.>>738100657Way to get it complete assbackwards dumbass. I'm saying the opposite. Give new players everything.
>>738100069>Press ESC>Press Leave Server>Not punished for it because it's not a tranny modern shooterNot that hard to figure out, zoomer-kun
Soldier best class don't @ me
>>738100347wish they'd have stopped giving these out at least 10 years agowhy do fresh installs in current year deserve the same badge as someone got in 2010?they deserve NOTHING
>>738100824>do thing you think you'll be punished for doingYou're not using your brain.
>>738100804Kinda hurts the point you're trying to make calling it a "schizo meltdown" like your some faggot fresh out of /vg/ shrieking at someone engaging in wrong think.
>>738100865he's always been the strongest
>>738100804>Give new players everything.Give everything of what? Hats? Weapons? Do you think this is a p2w modern tranny shooter newfag?Despite not being 100% balanced, there is no pointing in "giving players everything" as the custom weapons are just flavors of stock
>>738100727For real. I messed up an über and said " damn I fucked that up lol" and someone immediately goes "dude you can get banned for saying that"Thought he was joking but no. How the fuck do you get this geriatric, no fun allowed attitude thats worse than AAA matchmaking garbage in a fucking source mod?
>>738100929The anon lost it and was just ranting about assumptions made in his head. Calling it a schizo meltdown is very much on point.>>738100961Anything that impacts gameplay like weapons. You shouldn't need this explained to you. Plenty of other shooters, including every valve game since tf2 (not even valve agrees with doing what they did with tf2) has upheld this as a standard.
>>738101049Unironic tranny cuck slave playerbase
>>738097131It's the only online shooter where i can solve conflicts without violence. Whether that be by conga or revving my minigun and pressing z+3 at an incoming group of enemies and they indeed turn-tail and leave.
>>738100727>tfw hosted servers abusing the create a server and got 32 players in it>People were allowed to post porn sprays and say whatever>Had a lot of fun and freedom, even had Elvis presely come into the server and sing to us and tell us about Evil Elvis and how is lurking about.>Someone played LOTR music over mic during balloon race>This all changed with the tranny devs change in server policyfucking sucks man. I will be back somehow
>>738101538Wdym? You can't host a server unless you somehow agree to their rules?
>>738101629So tf2c carried over Valves "Create a server" option and if you tick public listing it will show up on the server browser. I would start the map in PL_UPWARD and people would funnel into the server. It gets laggy past 32 people tho
>>738101629TF2C has two different server browsers.One is running on proprietary tranny induced code that put trans right servers at the top that is still buggy as fuck. Another one is just unmodified Source server browser.
