ozfortress - team fortress 2 in australia

After 4 years in the making/lost on people's HDD's a semi finished vR* avi has finally been released. In 2006 we set about recording our plays for a soon to be released avi. We got as far as meisteh making a rough avi of the plays to see what would make the cut. The quality was kept low, the angles were non existent, the communication of the plays was minimal. Unfortunately this was as far as the avi ever got as TFC died and TF2 replaced it (about a 6 month gap) meisteh lost interest and the project was never finished.

Recently I managed to get in contact with meisteh who found the rough avi and was able to upload a lossless version for my new pal noser to add names and music to. It will never be what we set out to achieve but it is at least something for the vR* guys to download, watch and reminece - as well as anyone else who played attack/defend in TFC.

Nowadays ozfortress.com is a TF2 community, with probably 99% of you with zero TFC game time. The few of you that did play it, probably didn't even play the attack/defend game type outside of public dustbowl servers - A/D was a minority gametime and never really took off in Australia/New Zealand until TFC was on it's final legs.

So what? Well most, if not all of these plays won't make sense! The closest way to describe attack/defend in TFC is to relate it to TF2, except instead of using guys standing on the cp to cap the point, you just got to get the flag there. On public servers this was a matter of grinding it there inch by inch, in competitive A/D it was all about the massive jumps and trying to get over the defense, rather than through it (should take 10+ minutes to cap each point, these jumps try to catch the defense off guard and if successful can save massive chunks of time). This avi shows some of the jumps we practiced and pulled off in matches, as well as some big flag returns (no enemy touches).

Some key tactics used in attack/defend was holding your grenade and timing your jump so you could use it to propel yourself large distances through the air. The timing was hard to do, because if you botched it, you would just go vertical. Another one was using a team mate's weapon to propel you - sticky pipes/sniper shot/rockets, compared to TF2 where these don't affect you.

Alot of these plays were done on 200+ ping, as we vs'd Europe (on USA servers), and USA (on Japanese servers), at ridiculous times (euro games were at 1am, usa matches were at 10 in the morning). At one point we joined the USA A/D league in both 5v5 and 8v8, which was alot of fun even if we were 250+ ping vs their 80-100 (west coast usa server).

Anyway, big ups to noser for his help on this! Most of you won't understand the palys or even give a shit, so it would have been hard for him to motivate himself to finish it (small target audience). Thanks again bud

tldr; noser is the man, and this avi is 4 years too late to be appreciated

A/D was defiantly the better form of TFC imo, as you can see from all the shit going on in the avi it was pretty intense and fast paced.

Thanks to meisteh for being sexy and his early attempts on the avi, and thanks to noser for finishing it up, and thanks to valk for holding down such a tight ship .

Btw all middies and grenade launcher kills are about 10x harder in tfc

That was awesome i never played tfc, but was awesome to watch, good work noser

any streaming links ?
and u should totally front page this

im uploading to viddler coz its 53 seconds too big for youtube rofl
will post stream link when there is one

if anyone remembers the broken tf2 patch where demo pipes would go through most of the model, that was an improved version of the tfc hitbox D: (combined with 200+ pings, pretty nuts)

how is it bearable to play with 300 ping all the time... How do u aim etc

also that isnt order of appearance, milky oxide didnt play tfc afaik

that was just all past/present vR* members by order of joining the clan

i carried tfc vr too fyi

more like carried the bucket

looking forward to seeing an evolution of vR vid phasing from tfc footage to the current vR tf2 team end of this owl

loved it, good times

aiming is the easy part. the hard part is rockets - skimming was extremely hard, and stopping the jumps @ the cap point as demoman is hard enough let alone having to det a full second earlier to compensate for lag.

for prac for the overseas games, we used to play local teams with sv_cheats 1 on and we would give us fakelag of 200+ ping (just for our team, the local team would have ping 30-50). it wasnt the same, but it was pretty close to the real thing, helped alot

milky_

A/D offense and defense was each split into 2 categories:

Offense:
The Flag Carrier and Assistants - The people who accomplished the jumps from jump points.
Usually consisting of: Medic or Scout, Sniper or Demo.

The Damage Dealers - The people who secured the jump points and jumped into enemy backlines to kill the enemy backline defense.
Usually consisting of: 3-4 Soldiers, Sniper, Spy, Heavy mixed in.

Defense:
Frontline Defense: Make sure the enemy cannot secure their jump point and hampering their damage dealers.
Usually consisting of: 2 Heavies, 1 Sol

Backline Defense: Killing any jumpers and protecting the cap point.
Usually consisting of: 2 engies, 2 demos, 1 sniper.

Great format of tfc to play if all your members know where to be at what time.

wish I knew wtf was going on

Nice video.
Remembrance of the good old TFC days.

Makes me want to play TFC again.

he wasnt kidding!

Nice work!

I only played it briefly many years ago. This era of online gaming is no comparison to today. dial-up gaming was the most fun I had, all the great times wont ever be forgotten

stream now up @ http://www.viddler.com/explore/vividreprisal/videos/1/

what was that uphill church map that was featured in this video a couple of times? was my fav map in tfc, along with dustbowl

used to play this game all the time but i never rememberd the names of any of the maps for some reason

avanti

enjoyed that, brings back memories.

just like old times... hatzor always one below me

nice avi

It's nice to see avi's for TFC still being made. I was thoroughly entertained

I got lost......barely playing it (and not underdstanding how to play it) doesnt help but never the less was good

pldx mirror http://www.pldx.com/movie/1209/vividReprisal/

God TFC was a shit game. QWTF > TFC.