I'm bad at Team Fortress 2.

[I AM BUGMAN]

Introduction/Disclaimer

Hello, those of you who were curious enough to click on this discussion. Now, I would like to start out by saying one simple thing: I suck at TF2. No matter how many hours I spend practicing, no matter what I do, I simply am not good at all at TF2. This is mainly a vent, but I'm also asking about anything I can do about it, or other things I can do.

Sucking at Scout

I'm bad at Scout. He's a difficult class to learn, sure, but even the new players seem to play better as him than me. Everybody predicts my movements, I'm double jumping everywhere, and I'm being juggled around by rockets, bullets, airblasts, you name it. And the worst part is, I can't hit anything. I can't help my team. I throw mad milk, and everybody simply walks away for a split second and continues what they were doing. I'm useless to my team as Scout.

Sucking at Soldier

Although I played Medic first, Soldier was my second choice. I played the basic training, and even there I died twice. I still do, to this day, die because of bots that stand perfectly still. My rocket jumping skills are not good. Sure, I can wall jump, but right afterwards I'm sniped or caught on fire or shot or shot by another rocket or backstabbed. Most of the time, when I kill an opponent, I kill myself in the process because they were too close to me. I can never gain my Buff Banner or Battalion's Backup so I can use it. I'm useless to my team as Soldier.

Sucking at Pyro

Out of all classes, most would think I'd be good at Pyro. I'm not. I'm usually killed by every other class. Especially other Pyros. Oh, and Medics. I can never successfully perform a Flaregreaser combo or Axtinguisher crit on an enemy because I'm constantly dying. I can't ambush enemies, because when I do, they kill me before I can even begin to damage them. I'm useless to my team as Pyro.

Sucking at Demoman

I'm very bad at Demo. My pipe bombs never hit my target unless they're right there in front of me, running forward. My stickies never hit the sentries I'm trying to hit (or any other target), and even with the Ullapool Caber I'm crap at doing damage. I'm bad at using shields (even the Tide Turner), and I can never time my swing right. I'm pretty much useless as Demo.

Sucking at Heavy

I know that Heavies are beefy targets, but I've seen tons of Heavies blast through damage like nothing. But yet, here I am, being backstabbed, sniped, attacked by a Demoknight, shot, caught on fire, etc. I try, and try, and try, but I fail. I can't get to the front lines because I always die either when I'm there or on my way there. I'm a useless asset to my team when I play Heavy.

Sucking at Engineer

I see people hold down one position with their sentry guns, which nobody was able to successfully destroy it without an Uber. And even then, they were destroyed. I try, and I'm killed, my sentry is destroyed with me. Place a tele, and somebody comes along and destroys both the exit and entrance. Dispensers? Same thing. I'm dea, all of my buildings are destroyed with me. I try to think logically, but there's always somebody there to destroy all of my stuff whenever I place one down. There's no use in my being Engie.

Sucking at Medic

Oh, the pains of being a Medic. This was my first class, but I have not been good at it at all. Constantly dying at different Ubercharge levels. Trying to hit an ally (or enemy) with the Crossbow. Fail. Ubersaw? Also a fail. My Ubercharges are always wrongly timed or wasted whenever somebody attacks me. I can't heal half of my targets because I can't get my medigun's beam on them. And even then, I always die. I'm useless at a Medic. Don't expect good heals from me.

Sucking at Sniper

However I try, I always fail at Sniper. I can't even bodyshot enemies, let alone headshot. But many people are just great Snipers. So great that I can't get past them as any other class. I die as quick as light travels, and I don't do crap for the team - since I can't. I can't headshot the Medics, I can't headshot the Heavies, I can't be a Sniper. Not even while using the Huntsman. I'm bad at Sniper.

Sucking at Spy

I get it, Spy is a difficult class to learn. But people are still tons better than I am! I can never get a backstab on the Medic, nor any other target, and I'm always dying - even with the Dead Ringer. I try, and try, and try, but I fail, and fail, and fail. I can't even hit the broad side of a barn with the revolvers. Becoming a Spy is futile.

Trading

I'm even bad at trading. I don't have service on my phone, so my Steam Guard Mobile Auth isn't on, so I have to wait a painful 15 days for one trade to go through. I have no high-selling items (the highest-selling item I have is a Dayjogger, worth $2.30), no unusuals, nothing that looks good. All the while, I see so many people with unusuals, and I wonder why I haven't gotten one myself. I have only three strange items. So I can't trade worth crap.

Conclusion

So, that's all. I suck at every class in the game, even after tons of practice. I keep trying, but every time I get killed, or I lose a round (I've lost like 90% of my games, and the ones I've won were because of everybody else), I lose self-esteem. I lose self-confidence. Heck, I can't even fight against bots in offline practice or servers that run with bots. I don't know if there's somewhere I belong, if there are servers where people like me can vent or hole out there, where there isn't the voice "YOU FAILED!" that makes me cry when I hear it. Is there any place in TF2 where I can fit in?


Thank you for reading,
DepressedManSucksAtEverything (a.k.a. BlacksmithGames)


TL;DR: I suck at everything no matter what I do, and I want to find a place where losing is either fine or doesn't end in a "Winning team go kill the losing team" phase. A place where I belong.

[pepsi enjoyer]

pubs. Just keep playing and you will naturally and gradually get better

[I AM BUGMAN]

Originally posted by kaj:

pubs. Just keep playing and you will naturally and gradually get better

Yeah, but people are very mean on pubs. They would rather let the teams be "all bad players vs. all good players" rather than scrambling the teams. They also taunt after every time they kill me.

[S1r T3chn0]

Take a chill pill

[m'boy are you fat]

Unless you're asking for help, I don't really see a point to this thread.

[I AM BUGMAN]

Originally posted by The Most Smooth:

Unless you're asking for help, I don't really see a point to this thread.

Originally posted by DepressedManSucksAtEverything:

This is mainly a vent, but I'm also asking about anything I can do about it, or other things I can do.

Originally posted by S1r T3chn0:

Take a chill pill

Not too sure about that...I get stoked about playing, and then I quit in either a rage or self-contempt.

[Slightly Intelligent Cat]

For Demoman, Aim to the Right of your crosshair mate, Also Strafe Right when firing it, Adding on, The Stick Bomb laucnher is another Primary, so use that aggresively, Follow the M1, M2 Patteren and be Aggresive with it, Just Don't det them before they hit the ground. Just Some Demo Tips from a Demo Main :3

[m'boy are you fat]

Maybe it's a problem with your system settings.

Turn your sensitivity and your graphics settings down, and your volume up. Try to max performance and learn situational awareness.

[I AM BUGMAN]

Originally posted by DuckSwagington:

For Demoman, Aim to the Right of your crosshair mate, Also Strafe Right when firing it, Adding on, The Stick Bomb laucnher is another Primary, so use that aggresively, Follow the M1, M2 Patteren and be Aggresive with it, Just Don't det them before they hit the ground. Just Some Demo Tips from a Demo Main :3

I didn't know about the straging right when firing thing. I know about the sticky bomb attacks, though.

Originally posted by God Bless the U.S. Media:

Maybe it's a problem with your system settings.

Turn your sensitivity and your graphics settings down, and your volume up. Try to max performance and learn situational awareness.

I'm usually running with the lowest possible video settings, but with my normal screen size, although I change it to 4:3 ratio sometimes. My sensitivity is made so I make a 360 when I go from one side of my mousepad to the other. I don't have mouse acceleration on, I do have raw input on, my FOV is 90 and my viewmodel FOV is 70.

[Pakaku]

https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Strategy

Apart from reading guides and things like that, it helps to focus on a few classes instead of spreading yourself across all nine. Don't even bother learning Spy yet if you don't feel confident with a few of the other classes. He's very situational and is very advanced.

General awareness is important and you should be making a habit to check behind you often.

Playing on community servers can help since you're more likely to be on a team with more competent players. The other team might also be more competent, but you'll never improve if you only play against players of your own skill level or lower

Then there's the possibility you might just not be good at FPS games at all. In that case you might end up trying to main Engineer or Medic, since they rely less on combat and more on passive or indirect forms of fighting, and they're the most important when it comes to team support.

[Jesa]

I could help you with some class if you want . Add me

[ToastySpaghetti]

Originally posted by Microsoft Powerpoint:

Dont worry, Once you get 1000 hours and keep playing. U will be good

im almost 1.5k in hours and im just as bad as this guy stated

[ToastySpaghetti]

i feel you, im just like you except the trading. i dont have anything tradeable besides uncraft guns

[hanq1016]

Okay so you are pretty much me right now the trick is, if you lose, run away and try to taunt kill its really satisfying to do. Go on private servers, even if the people are mostly good at the game some are nice enough to help you out

[vale]

can you suck my ♥♥♥♥ too ?

[ToastySpaghetti]

Originally posted by i swear im not obt:

can you suck my ♥♥♥♥ too ?

you again o ♥♥♥♥