STORY OF TEAM FORTRESS CLASSIC PC

* 'Hinkfo' is IGN.PC slang for information, as any regular visitant to our Letters Page can attest. Meanwhile, take a look at all the tasty new screenshots at the bottom of the page. And as we find out more about Team Fortess 2, we'll return again with more hinkfo*. As we get more people in our offices hooked up with the game and solid squads employing actual teamwork (as well as some more advanced beta builds with further gameplay options), we'll revisit this preview. Rounding out the player's choices are the Medic, who can heal other players, the Spy, who can disguise himself as a member of the opposing faction, and the Engineer, who assembles turrets to solidify your side's positions.Īnd that in a nutshell has been our experiences with Team Fortress Classic to date. Combined with the zooming affect of the binoculars, he can be deadly indeed. The Sniper is another dangerous character, since his sniper shot is one of the few 'instant kill' weapons available in the game. He can also-like all the characters-use the grenades strung upon his bandoleer straps. You can have up to four rounds loaded at one time, and so you'll find yourself often ducking back behind a corner and hitting the 'R' key, which makes him reload all four shots. The Soldier is also a good choice for characters-he has a good mix of speed, defenses and offensive power, his primary weapon being a fairly slow-firing rocket launcher.

One thing we didn't see though, is that when you shoot the Flamethrower Man, targeting his pack of volatile chemicals, he doesn't immediately explode into a horrendous ball of flame. The best thing to do if you find yourself on fire is to jump into a handy pool of water. When you target someone with your flamethrower, he gets hit with a burst of flame and will stay lit on fire, taking more damage. So there are some drawbacks to choosing to suit up as this tank.īesides the Heavy Weapons Guy, we also enjoyed playing the Pyro (or Flamethrower Man as we like to call him) who runs about with a deadly fire-breathing apparatus that causes a lot of damage. So in that sense, we weren't really getting the full-on Team Fortress experience, which is all about having a full-blown squad of guys on each side going after each other full-bore.Īn interesting note about the Heavy Weapons Guy-he's pretty slow, and when he's shooting his heavy machine gun (which takes a few seconds to warm up and begin firing in earnest), he's even slower still, barely able to move at all.

STORY OF TEAM FORTRESS CLASSIC PC

However you also need to keep in mind that when we were playing it, it was generally two against one (featuring Tal, Trent and Jason), and we also got into a couple games of two on two with somebody from PC Accelerator. The TF characters have more in common with the superhuman deathmatch characters of previous Quake fragfests than real world military combat, despite the weapons and uniforms. Obviously, while Team Fortress for Half-Life has a lot of realistic elements, it's not the kind of ultra-realism seen in say Rainbow Six. I mean, you can slap a rocket in his face and he'll keep on trucking. The Heavy Weapons guy, for example, is likely to be a popular class, since he can dish out and take a lot of damage. TFC installed without a hitch, and after a few reboots (as much the fault of our sloppy systems as the beta itself), we were up and running around some preliminary maps in Capture-the-Flag mode (the only mode working in our beta).Ī couple things we noticed right off-some classes are better than others (though obviously final play-balancing is not in). Each class has its own strengths and disadvantages, and TFC is a multiplayer-only mod. Players take on the roles of different character classes-soldier, medic, demolitions expert-and work together to defeat the opposition. Basically, Team Fortess Classic is a revisit to Quake's Team Fortress mod.

Story of team fortress classic