Thread: Why do you play your main class?

Am I the only one here who mains Scout? I like Scout for being fast and powerful. He's the closest class to playing Quake.

I also play Soldier for rocket jumping and generally being good (and harder to fuck up than scout), and sniper because once in awhile I have a good day. If the team is notably missing a class, I will usually fill in though.

Originally Posted by Derek

Am I the only one here who mains Scout? I like Scout for being fast and powerful. He's the closest class to playing Quake.

definitely not, though for some reason most of the old scout players that are elite don't play scout that much anymore. STill there are some good scout yet on tpg out there for sure, Mr. Guns comes to mind, and several regulars can pick up the class and be very effective with it. I find most people that snipe end up being equally proficient at scout since the aiming mechanic seems comparable, whereas missiles/pills involve a wider 'flick' range which feels very different than the scouts.

Closest to quake maybe in movement speed for sure, but not really gameplay wise. I'd say closet to quake is still the soldier, though the missile shoots so slow that's why I never liked soldier, but I'm much happier playing that class now that the liberty launcher is available.

I know there are good scouts on the server, but apparently none of them are posting here, because after three pages I was the first to say that I main Scout.

I find the Soldier and his rockets to be too slow to really give that Quake vibe.

I don't play scout on TPG because of the player count, but it is one of my favorite classes.

The TF2 tournies I have played in (included one I won) I have run scout for my team though. He is extremely powerful in low player count games and can destroy a team just by picking off the medics. In 12v12 there is just too much spam and engies to really get good flanking going on. Possible, yes... generally not as productive though.

Originally Posted by Derek

This is true. When games get too spammy (or if it's on an A/D map at all) I won't play Scout. He's still my main though.

Well, unfortunately we play a lot of payload and 2 point cp maps, so it's fairly rare to see Scouts here.

Unless it's one of them MF! or Klutch dudes, then I just get mad.

Originally Posted by insanegammer109

Except 5cp maps are usually the maps scout works best on.

Originally Posted by Watsyurdeal?

Well, unfortunately we play a lot of payload and 2 point cp maps, so it's fairly rare to see Scouts here.

Didn't say anything about 5 point cp, just saying why Scouts are rare. We usually play more payload and attack/defend maps like Goldrush and Dustbowl.

What more can I say?
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