Well, was playing the servers last night (having a great game) when I had to reboot....wondered why then realised it was the pyro update. Came back onto the servers and what a rubbish few games I had Basically, 8 people on the team were pyro's (and this is on 2 fort, not a very good map for them) and then onto Dustbowl, same happened again and could not defend the first map to safe our life's. Felt good been a demoman or engi and killing as many of the mindless bugger's as possible. Now don't get me wrong, I enjoy being a pyro, on certain maps where they are really good (ie Badlands imo) but I don't want to be one at the moment because people will think you are jumping on the bandwagon and also their is no team balance. But without other good combat characters on your team its pretty hard to get anywhere on a map. I know this is not the case for everyone because there are really good pyro's out there (ie [SpA]Suck@ge and [SpA]Pim), but it's like the medic pack, half of the time you got a really shit medic. My point of the rant being, Steam should really release them all at the same time because game/team balance is really effected. Whats your thoughts on this (when you have played on a pyro-filled map) or am I just being grumpy and no fun???

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You'll Feel A Little Prick

I wrote this in another topic already. It would be the best to release all updates at once, but I don't think that Valve will ever do such a thing, because it's just a huge, huge pile of work. And releasing it in small pieces is way better for the marketing.

For the madness: As I started on the last free weekend when the medic pack came out playing, I don't know how it was and I dunno if I can play before Sunday these days.... but overall I think it will be the same with every released pack: A big bunch of players will try the new stuff (aka the new class) and collect the achievements. In addition a bunch of n00bs (like me ^^) will play TF2 for the first time. So there are two things coming together, but this will flatten over the next week.

Best regards
Blackhawk - Pyro out of order now playing mah medic ^^

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SaintK: I'm completely lost

Ha ha, and you were one of the good pyro's

I think you should strike until you get your job back from all these wannabe's

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You'll Feel A Little Prick

Also, I bet you enjoyed burning all those Medic's when you first started that Medic weekend?? Now you can be Demoman or engi and just explode with stickys or Sentry guns all those Pyro's that are running around mindlessly and taking your job

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You'll Feel A Little Prick

Thanks! See me new signature for my motto.
If pyro vs pyro wouldn't be such an unhappy matchup.
I started as a soldier tbh and didn't even notice that there were a lot of medics around. I was more concerned not to run into the wrong direction as I even didn't know the maps (which finally got a little bit better, but I still run into the wrong direction on cp_well sometimes ). I hadn't played multiplayer fps for a while and needed some basic class which is similar to regular singleplayer protagonists... and that was the soldier.

But my total playtime for pyro exceeded the solider time yesterday (or the day before yesterday).
Hehe... yeah... good idea. I'm still missing the sentry gunner achievement.

Ah... perhaps I can spare an hour today to check the update...

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SaintK: I'm completely lost

but I still run into the wrong direction on cp_well sometimes

Haha, I still do when I come out of a teleport exit thats at the centre point

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You'll Feel A Little Prick

Yeah... that's excatly what I'm doing quite often. But most of the time you're encountering guys from your team shooting on you and then you know that you're running into the wrong direction. ^^

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SaintK: I'm completely lost

Its just a few days, then everything will get back to normal.

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We Shall Not Be Moved!

I just pissed off a bunch of people by declaring as a medic that I would only heal people that weren't pyros in an effort to get their numbers down.

Actually worked out quite well as me and the heavy I was healing went on to dominate half the opposing team and steamroll through all the caps in quick succession on Granary for almost 3 rounds solid(well, as quickly as a heavy can steamroll).

Yeah, I ubered up my Kritzkrieg and laughed as I ubered pyro's who went straight to a level 3 sentry to burn it, no success

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You'll Feel A Little Prick

Meh, pyro update means pyro fun!!!!

Like said - itll be over in a few days im just having fun abusing the air compression blast muhahaha

Pyro is awesome on 2fort tbh. You just need to know how to play him on it.

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Da boyz need themselves a Nob they do

It wasn't that bad. When Medic update came out it was a lot more annoying. You were seeing medics with their bonesaws out hunting each others or their needleguns hunting scouts, healing none (except heavies) etc

Yesterday I joined some other pubs to get achievements. Sure 8/10 of the teams where pyros. But at night at spa servers the game was fine and pretty normal under these circumstances

Fair enough, it was probably because the update had just that minute come out. tbh, it was fun killing them all, it was just annoying that we were not trying to win the map...we may as well just been in a big circle flaming each other...I just don't like losing hehe

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You'll Feel A Little Prick

all those pyros are lovely, they drop so easy when you're heavy

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M.A.S.K. , is the mighty power that can save the day

I'm having fun
I've been playing medic near 100% since the update and I LOVE how all the pyro's just drop dead <3
And pyro, in my opinion, is now way better to uber 0_0

I don't really have a big problem with the abundance of pyros running around. They make pretty easy sniper targets. I've got two of the unlockables myself, and I might go for the axe when the craze dies down a little.

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'Belgium, a country with many homos also have a pedophile party as far as i know.' - Violetblood

the pyro madness it almost finished , i played today on spa on 3 maps and there were only 3 pyro's

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u (medic) + me (pyro) = ~swarms~ ... today was awesome imho! (:

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I agree with Bucky, it's damn fun to reap down bunch of pyro's with minigun.

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Dear God(if you even exist), I am willing to trade Justin Bieber, all 3 Jonases and Miley Cyrus to get Paul Gray, Ronnie James Dio, Pete Steele, Dimebag Darrell and Chuck Schuldiner back.

Madness? This. Is. Mmmmmmmrrrrrrrpppghhh!

I just played TF2 first time after that pyro update, and all that i got to say is that this game is now absolutely ruined, so bye bye public playing... Thx Valve, why you always have to fuck up every fucking game

lol y exactly? O.o

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All hope is not gone. I'm sure they will release an update to rebalance the game.

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No more spying for me until it all dies down.
Though the backburner is fucking overpowered, extra hp and crits from behind, I don't give a shit about no air blast, I didn't need that.

+1

the backburner is awesome especially with the axtinguisher in combination <3

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Oh well, have to play on servers which have blocked those pyro toys from now on... Todays game on our servers was just a pure nightmare