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What I got out of that page was that Miss Pauling is in serious need of a hug.

Is it your only YER? If so, you then have to consider what you prefer for your Spy.Do you like having silent kills and instantaneous disguising at the cost of your disguise kit or would you prefer temporary Pyro immunity at the cost of backstabbing and leaving cute statues everywhere?Both are very useful knives and make for some interesting Spy gameplay. I'm more keen to use the Spy-cicle since I like the ability to disguise whenever, but I always fumble around with my weapons when a Pyro appears and I end up dead anyway. So I just use my Black Rose. It's pretty.Or was this more about how you now have 1 refined and want to save it for something other than weapons?In other news, the second Manniversary is upon us! Prices reduced for a lot of things! Including the wedding rings! NOTIFICATIONS EVERY 30 SECONDS!!!

Mann vs Machine update today!New tours!New Botkillers!New Bots!New maps! New matchmaking stuff!I've only played a couple missions of the easier ones, but I've already encountered Scorch Shot Pyros, giant Huo Long Heater Heavies, and perma-boosted Concheror Soldiers. I've also heard tell that the Pyros are ligthing the Bowmen's arrows now. The new Botkillers look pretty tight, too. I'm excited for MvM's future!

I'm a fan of the Diamondback myself, but I can think of a few reasons why people don't use it.1. Its upside requires the enemy team to be using a certain class. Until that class is present, you're wielding a weaker Revolver.2. Said upside requires the successful sabotage of that class, something that isn't always easy to pull off, especially if they're wary.3. If people wanted to shoot crits as Spy, they'd use the Ambassador. It has less reliance on who the enemy is playing as and can crit whenever. They just need to aim.4. If people just wanted to shoot everything as Spy, they'd use the Enforcer. It has minimal prerequisites to use a damage bonus that ticked people off for almost a year.It's a nice revolver and certainly has its uses, but it's outshined by its alternatives.

Dunno if you've checked already, but none of the current crates have Strange Degreasers. If you still have a #31, you might get it.Who else is excited for the Saxxies this year? While the award ceremony lacked presentation, I did enjoy getting to see some of the creativity in the community. With SFM thrown in the mix, I expect lots of great stuff from the participants.

Yes, the Botkiller weapons are given to people who complete a Tour of Duty (currently all available missions) in Mann Up mode.

Oh, wait, you can't get a strange as a F2Per? That explains a lot... oops. Oh well, I guess Valve is going to be getting some of my money.

Well, I haven't yet confirmed it, but in my 110 hours of playing so far, I haven't yet seen a Strange, and I believe it's a Premium-only drop, maybe even only from Crates. =/

This is indeed the case. Strange weapons are a crate only thing. The only stranges not in crates are the Spirit of Giving badge and the Botkiller weapons from MvM.

The Boston Basher's self-inflicted damage can also be used to increase your jump height. Swing the Basher and jump before it hits you; repeatedly swinging and using your double jump can make you reach rocket-jumping heights (note you usually can't swing more than three times without dying). You know the area in Well outside spawn with two floors open above you? A Basher-jumping Scout can reach the top floor with the two medkits.Granted, you'll lose a lot of health by doing this so it's not the most practical application of the weapon, especially as an escape tool. It's nice to consider being able to hop over DeGroot Keep's walls, though. Be aware of where medkits are on the map and pair it with Bonk! or Mad Milk to minimize the bleed damage.

If you haven't heard about this game, you're missing out on a rather unique experience. Tell me, what games have you played that let you play as a disgruntled Leonardo da Vinci, wrestle giant chickens, eat bacon, and punch giant robots in the face? That's this game. Welcome to Super Monday Night Combat, a Free to Play MOBA based third-person shooter.Now, before you get all excited to shoot things up in the arena, there's a few things you should know:

1. Kill the robots first. You may come into this game planning to shoot up the enemy team, but that won't always win you games. Sure, killing enemy players helps the cause, but you need to kill the bots to succeed.
2. Collect coins. If you've been killing the bots, get their money. This will help you level up faster and lets you purchase various things across the map. Don't get caught penniless.
3. Kill robots
4. Defend the Annihilator. The Annihilator is a lovely device found in the middle of the map. It becomes charged around every 5 minutes. It also destroys every enemy bot on the field. Don't let the other team take it without a fight.
5. KILL ROBOTS

If you have any more questions, feel free to ask them here. I don't profess to be the best at this game, but I'll help out as much as I can. I hope to see you guys in the arena!

Wow, this game has been keeping me from posting on BZPower. That's how fun it is.But today I come to you guys with a question, which Secondary should I use as a Scout? I've got quite a few, Crit-a-Cola, the Pretty Boy's Pocket Pistol, Mad Milk, and the Flying Guillotine.Oh yeah, and as for Melee Scout weapons, should I use the Sandman or Fan O'War?

Depends on what you like to do as Scout. Personally, I'd choose the Mad Milk or the Pretty Boy's Pocket Pistol as they increase your survivability. Crit-a-Cola's new speed boost is a welcome adjustment but if you want to spit out mini-crits, you could just use the Soda Popper (unless you prefer Scout's other primaries). And if you're good at throwing projectiles, the Flying Guillotine is a handy replacement for the stock Pistol, especially when coupled with the Sandman.Between the Sandman and the Fan O'War, I'd pick the Sandman. Sure, marking people for death is a neat way to help your team nail targets, but if you're already in melee range of the enemy, you're probably better off meatshotting them. In the time you mark someone for death and then switch to your primary, you could've already killed them.

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GaliGee! I hadn't realized she was still around here! Loved her stories so much. It was a sad day when her escapades with Makuta came to a close.Congratulations, madam! You deserve it.

I like to go Demoknight when I think the other team isn't doing so well or I just want an excuse to flaunt my Unusual Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker. It's all fun until a bunch of Heavies and Engies start showing up.Getting two heads off of one Spy is immensely satisfying.

How many times has this happened to you guys?-As an engineer, guarding your buildings, an oncoming spy kills you and then your sentry immediately kills said spy. Or rather, the spy saps your buildings, so you knock off the sapper but as you do so, the spy tries to stab you, but your sentry reactivates and kills the spy before he can successfully stab you.

My experiences as of late have been more like this-Set up sentry nest. Deny offending team any progress. Suddenly, Spies everywhere. They rush your little nest with the Red-Tape Recorder. You manage to successfully kill them and attempt to restore your sentry to level 3. The Spies then uncloak from their Dead Ringers and rush you again. Their team then rounds the corner and blows everything to high heaven.I was not a happy camper that day. That said, there's been enough silly Spies attempting to stab my buildings to death that it offsets the pain.

The Pain Train is also a good weapon. Despite the bullet vulnerability, having the extra cap speed os super handy. With it equipped, you capture control points as fast as a Scout.

Pain Train needs more love. I just don't equip it enough because it's a downgrade in certain modes and I'm too busy whacking Heavies with the Disciplinary Action to change.Love me some Disciplinary Action. Except when I hear the whip but don't get any boost. Which is all too often.

The Dalokoh's Bar sounds good on paper, but it's mostly useless. In order to use it, you must eat it right before combat, and preferably have a Medic overheal you too.

That is a negative. Eating the Dalokohs Bar doesn't increase how much overheal you get, rendering it entirely useless if you have a Medic on you.The only time you might consider using the Dalokohs Bar is if you find yourself in a defensive position without a Medic and even then the Sandvich would probably help you better.

why even talk about this its just some TF2 knockoffbtw TF2 IS FREE TO PLAY TOO

I am highly amused that the first post in this topic after ten days of waiting is just a hate comment. I encourage you to try the game out or at least watch some gameplay before writing it off as a TF2 knockoff. I'm sure you will find that the two games aren't that similar at all. And, hey, if you play to level 20 you get hats for TF2 so there's that.It's worth noting, however, that your reaction towards the game sadly seems to be shared by many people. For this reason, I attempted to make this topic in one of the few communities I still lurk around to try and inform these people of what the game truly is. I sincerely hope you reconsider and give this game a chance.

Love this game, but it's super diffcult at first.

This is another thing that I'm afraid is turning people away. The game lacks a solid tutorial mode for new players to get acquainted with the game. Thus, they get dropped into a match with no clue how everything and get immensely frustrated when they get creamed by someone with a better grasp of the game than they. I was forunate enough to have some experience with MNC but I still had a bit of trouble getting used to things. While I'm not terribly good at the game myself, I promise things will get better if you hang in there.Now that I know this topic isn't entirely dead, I'm gonna update the first post a bit to be more attractive.

Have any of you heard of this awesome game? I feel it needs more love than it’s getting.For those that don’t know what Super Monday Night Combat is (which I’m assuming is most of you), let me try my best to fill you in.Imagine a world where two teams of hardened combatants fight to the death for people’s amusement. These gladiatorial fights are a spectacle for all to see and always result in a vicious bloodbath. Even the fear of death doesn’t deter these poor souls placed into the arena; cloning technology permits these fights to last for as long as desired. Bitter hatred for the other team fuels these warriors’ very existence.Now, throw out all the serious business and replace it with a gorilla toting a tommy-gun, Leonardo da Vinci’s apathetic clone, the Rocketeer wielding a Lightsaber, and copious amounts of bacon. This is Super Monday Night Combat.For those of you familiar with DOTA-type games (MOBA or whatever), fuse that gameplay with a third-person shooter. The point of the game is to lead your team’s bots to the enemy’s Moneyball. On your way to the Moneyball, you’ll encounter enemy bots, turrets, and other players. Bots are the only things that can take down the shields of Moneyballs and turrets, so be sure to help them along the way. Shooting enemy bots prevents them from advancing and thus protecting your base.You, the player, take the role of one of 16 different Pros (Champions, if you prefer). Each Pro has unique stats, skills, and weapons. All Pros come with three skills, two weapons, and a grapple or two. Pros will fall into one of five distinct categories:

• Strikers- The go-getters. They specialize in burst-damage and general usefulness.
• Enforcers- High health and powerful weaponry; these Pros are more suited for frontline combat.
• Defenders- The healers of the team. Defenders are more for holding ground than for pushing, not that you can’t kick some tail with one anyway.
• Commandos- Sneaky, squishy Pros. Each is equipped with a powerful melee weapon and specializes in taking advantage of a Pro’s mistakes.
• Sharpshooters- Snipers. Long-range harassment with deadly accurate weaponry.

Needless to say, you should use these Pros to kill bots. Upon killing bots, you’ll see them drop different items.

• The most common are Coins, with which you can purchase things around the map.
• The second thing you’ll notice are little Juice Boxes which fill up your juice bar; upon getting a full juice bar, you can activate the juice for a temporary boost in damage and health regeneration.
• Occasionally, bots will drop Armor which lets you take more damage.
• More rarely, bots will drop Churros which restore health and skills.
• Even more rarely are Sprintz, which look like Hermes lost his shoes; these give speed boosts.
• Most rarely – as in, only a few bots drop it sometimes – you’ll come across the legendary BACON. Bacon gives the lucky Pro who eats it +1500 restored health, +750 armor, +25% Skill recovery, +50 speed, and +25% damage.

Maps will be divided into two bot lanes guarded by turrets. Above (or sometimes below) the bot lanes will be another floor called the Jungle. The Jungle is where the neutral bots spawn and attack any Pro that they come across. The Jungle is also where you’ll find the Mascots. Mascots are NPCs that give special bonuses when you engage them.

• Bullseye, the pudgy green mascot will drop money and juice boxes when you shoot him. Don’t worry about hurting him; he volunteered for this.
• The Juice Bot will occasionally replace Bullseye. Juice Bot will drop lots of fruit upon being shot; these function the same as juice boxes.
• Chickey Cantor will spawn now and then (complete with stellar theme music). Chickey Cantor is a giant robo-chicken that drops a golden egg when killed. This golden egg will grant your team a Bacon-like buff. The only problem is that Chickey has tons of health and won’t go down without a fight. Try to grapple Chickey when he stuns himself to deal massive damage.

Also in the Jungle is the lethal Annihilator. When activated, the Annihilator will obliterate the other team’s bots and severely damage their Pros. Its deadly nature requires it to only become available every five minutes and you can bet that it will be heavily contested by the opposing team. As you play, the announcers will try to bring the recharged Annihilator and Mascot spawns to your attention.Before a match, you can also customize the Pros you have with Endorsements and Products. Endorsements are little boosts to your Pros stats that have varying degrees of effectiveness; as you level up by playing, you’ll be able to equip more Endorsements. Products are bonus effects that activate upon certain triggers in the game, i.e., leveling up gives you more health, juicing makes you run faster, drop a bomb upon death, etc. . New players are provided with four Products to begin with.But what makes this game so special is the humor. Perhaps you've played Team Fortress 2 with its crazy cast of characters; Super Monday Night Combat is like that and more. Along with the gorilla and da Vinci, there's a masochistic fanboy, a French cannibal, an Italian who speaks in on sequiturs, and so on. Every Pro has a taunt to use to either make friends or enrage your enemies. Your Pro can disco, rock out to metal, not look at explosions, and much more. I've also mentioned in passing the announcers, their names being GG Stack and Chip Valvano. These two, along with the Pros themselves, will add enough amusing chatter that it's almost hard to get mad when things are going south. Turret going down? Chip will probably go off on a tangent about elephants. Pushing bots? GG will occasionally have an emotional breakdown about his love life. What happened to Bullseye? He's in Wascot's trunk.A couple of caveats, however:

• While there are training and practice modes, they’re rather lackluster and don’t tell new players all they should. I encourage you to use them to get a feel for certain Pros but the most learning you’ll get is by playing matches.
• As stated before, this game is a MOBA fused with a third-person shooter. Expect to see the worst from both worlds.

Before I forget, allow me to mention that this game is FREE TO PLAY. That's right, you get to ride on a chicken with a suspiciously robot-looking human for FREE.And there you have it, combat fans! I hope to see you on the field of battle one day. Good luck, have fun, eat bacon!

Dawww, I remember Ninjo. I've never interacted with him much but he seemed like a cool guy. I never really understood if he was supposed to be a ninja-pirate or not.I love how even though most of the people in this topic weren't around for him but they stopped to appreciate anyway. Y'all get all my hugs.(gah, these names bring me back to the days of mfuss and Polo X and GaliGee and everyone )