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So what you're saying is... These fires were set by some pyro to check for spies?

In full disclosure, I did buy a pair of keys to open some Mann Co. crates I found while playing. For 5 bucks, I got extra weapons I already had (later gifted to a friend) and color-dyed my pyro's vintage merryweather helmet.

I felt like it was kind of a rip-off, but if you see a pyro with a purple helmet coming your way, you better run.

I'm trying to remember the last time I saw someone (besides me) walking up an escalator. They are there for convenience, after all, not for helping you get somewhere faster.

Funny you should say that actually, since I'm trying to remember the last time I saw someone (besides me) standing still on an escalator. Mind you in Australia we're all on our way to meet Saxton Hale and his endless supply of Australium, so we have little time to waste.

I'm trying to remember the last time I saw someone (besides me) walking up an escalator. They are there for convenience, after all, not for helping you get somewhere faster.

Funny you should say that actually, since I'm trying to remember the last time I saw someone (besides me) standing still on an escalator. Mind you in Australia we're all on our way to meet Saxton Hale and his endless supply of Australium, so we have little time to waste.

Do not rocket jump if you have low HP.

Unless you have the Gunboats.

If you're going to get into this, I'm going to point out that the PC version of Team Fortress 2 has:

- 1960s Evil Genius motif (including Intelligence Briefcases as CTF flags)
- Witty banter (each of the 9 classes has their own unique personality and voice clips)
- The Announcer. No, seriously, the announcer is hilarious. Then again, it's Ellen McLain, who also voiced GLaDOS.
- Critical hits
- Domination (5 kills on an enemy who hasn't killed you) voice clips (ex. "May I borrow your ear piece? 'This is Scout, rainbows make me cry, over!'" -- TF2 Spy domination over Scout, one of several)
- Revenge (Kill someone dominating you) voice clips (ex. "I'm back, dummy!" -- TF2 Scout getting a revenge kill)
- Animated Taunts with voice clips
- Death Freezecams to make the animated taunts even more humiliating
- Animated Taunt-kills (for that extra-special humiliation) for 7 of the 9 classes (Engineer hasn't had his update yet, and Medic has a taunt-self-heal instead of a taunt-kill)
- Payload game type. Basically, a variation on the capture the point style map. A slow-moving object must be pushed down a track past control points to capture them. Also comes in the two-cart (Payload Race) variety.

Class specific:
- Achievement-unlockable items (except the Soldier Gunboats and all (27? 29?) Hats)
- Scout's double-jump. No other class is gonna do that!
- Scout's double-effectiveness at capturing points/moving the bomb cart.
- Scout's The Sandman baseball bat. Its baseball disorients enemies it hits (they can move around, but not use weapons/items), or stuns them completely from max distance.
- Scout's Bonk Energy Drink, which makes you invulnerable for 10 seconds, but slows you down for an additional 10 when it wears off.
- Soldier's Gunboats, which makes rocket-jumps do less damage.
- Soldier's Buff Banner, which gives nearby allies mini-crits with their weapons.
- Soldier's Equalizer pick-axe that makes you run faster and hit harder the less health you have.
- Soldier's Direct Hit rocket launcher. Does critical damage to enemies in the air.
- Pyro's Flamethrowers. The normal Flamethrower sets people on fire and has an airblast that can reflect rockets, reflect arrows, reflect baseballs, reflect jars of piss, and put out burning teammates. The Backburner sets people on fire and always does critical hits from behind.
- Pyro's Flare gun, to set enemies on fire from a distance.
- Pyro's Axtinguisher, an ax that does extra damage to enemies that are on fire.
- Demoman's Pipe Bombs. With the Sticky Bomb Launcher, you can set 8 bombs and explode them all at once. With the Scottish Resistance, you can set up to 14 bombs and detonate whichever group you're currently looking towards.
- Demoman's Chargin' Targe shield, which lets you charge at enemies. Also reduces the damage you take from fire and blast damage.
- Demoman's cursed sword, the Eyelander, which gives you more health and speed the more people you decapitate with it. Any kill with this weapon decapitates.
- Heavy's Minigun (Sascha). Does damage continuously in a cone in front of you.
- Heavy's Natascha Minigun. Similar to Sascha, but it does 25% less damage and slows enemies by 50%.
- Heavy's Sandvich. Heals you back to full health, or you can throw it out for someone else to eat. Grabbing a medkit while at full health gives you your Sandvich back.
- Heavy's Killer Gloves of Boxing (KGB). Does critical hits for 5 seconds after you kill someone with it.
- Engineer's upgradeable Teleporters
- Engineer's upgradeable Sentry Guns
- Engineer's upgradeable ammo/health Dispenser
- Engineer's Wrench. Normal Wrench allows you to strike friendly structures to build them faster, repair them, or upgrade them. The PDQ Wrench (Coming soon) builds structures at twice the speed, but can't repair or upgrade them.
Poor Engineer hasn't had his update yet, so his other two new items aren't yet known.
- Medic's Healing

Ahem.

http://tf2wiki.net/wiki/Medic
http://quakewarswiki.net/wiki/Medic

Plenty more where those came from...

So by "of course" you mean, "of course i don't really know anything about the subject, but I'm going to run my yapper anyways."

Oh right, slashdot...

Spies do it from behind, pretending to be someone else!