For team-building - Play games other than TF2 helps in my previous experience. L4D2/Starcraft 2/League of Lol/Minecraft/Hide the sausage. Y'know, the usual.

[...] PROTIP: bind everymovement key to also spam a voicebind, guaranteed to piss everyone in your team off, and probably vaguely irritate the other team. .

Any tips and ideas for teambuilding? Making them friends instead of just teammates?

[...] PROTIP: bind everymovement key to also spam a voicebind, guaranteed to piss everyone in your team off, and probably vaguely irritate the other team. Seriously though, I don't get why some people still mask their ubers, it has become so predicatable what kind of sounds are used to mask charge, the only time it could be used is if you use your cover to fake a kritz, while still actually having uber or some clever stuff like that. Otherwise it can easily just be read as the same sound as the fully charged thing. People should just use the fully charged thing as their cover, and spam it, so unless they time it the other team can't tell if you have uber because you are constantly shouting I am fully charged.

[...] Binding a key to fakeuber and constantly spamming it works better than you think. I had a discussion with the math genius skeej once about fakeubers after we played a pcw against eachother and we both agree; spamming fakeubers/fake calls/call it whatever you want DO inflict a bit of unsafety on the other medic/team. Its also annoying and you get pissed at the other medic :d "do you really think you can fool me with THAT?". It must be something unexplainable but it certainly helps. Sometimes you see medics using fakecharges when they are around 80% to lure the other team, respect to them for using mindgames, but keeping constant voice spam up works better, for me at least Another thing if were talking about medic: raise your ingame volume, you can hear the other teams ubercharge if its ready, from the "fffzzz" idle 100% charge sound. You can hear it as any class so if you lost the track or miscalculated, it can save your ass if you get an early call about their uber. Dont rely on it too much tho.

But then again I also don't use voice commands to fake uber or cover the "uber ready" sound effect or whatever it is cool kids do nowadays. To sum it up: I'm shit.

I'm scout. I'm capping enemy Spire. We have players down, say both our sollies and the 2nd scout. Our Medic/Demo are in Trash/StoneBridge and get attacked by a Solly/Scout. Do I sit on the cap and pewpewpistol down and get our team forward respawn, or do I give up the cap and save our medic/demo?

[...] thanks, good fix. Have to agree with that. You are shit if you think spamming sound effects fools anyone into thinking that you have, or dont have, uber. Deploying edited safeties: : D :D

[...] Fixed, and yes you're shit )) Also +1111111111111 to the few posts above

[...] You're completely right about the fundamentals... I didn't expect it to turn into a lengthy discussion tbh. Completely agree on the seconds vs % btw.

Wow. Congrats, really. That's exactly why new medics fail so much at it, because THIS is the explanation they get. Some arithmetic bullshit instead of "check match time when med spawns, substract 40 seconds... This is why I think it'd be great if Fish could put something similar on Vanilla or maybe he has a better way of keeping track, in which case I'm excited to find out.