I remember my friend showing it to me and we switched off every life to play. We were playing spy and probably got 1 backstab every 10-15 minutes.

pl_badwater as Medic on a Valve Server. Need I say more?

Gpit as soldier back in good old 2007. Had just pre ordered the orange box on steam, I only really cared about ep2 and portal, but the original tf2 beta was going on at the time so I figured I'd try it out even though I never really got into TFC when it was still relevant.

Long before I played seasons of comp., I actually played the Xbox 360 version (heh). But for PC, the first map I played was 2_fort. I forget the exact name of the server/community, but I remember I joined the community and the tags were like <T^2G>

2010 arena_lumberyard spy. Since I have an annoying habit of reading through game manuals and wikis before a game is installed, I knew that disguising and cloaking were things. All I remember is trying to chase scouts for a very, very long time.

Scout on 2fort. I was following the signs that said "intelligence," ended up in the sewers, and got lost down there for like 5 minutes there because I didn't realize that the BLU signs pointed to RED intel and RED signs pointed to BLU intel. I just kept turning around and swimming to the other side, seeing a sign that appeared to be saying I was going to wrong way, turning around, etc.

Finally I was fortunate enough to be killed. I stayed above ground and eventually figured out how to play. I never went back to the sewers until I knew the rest of the map.

Came from maining sniper in War Rock. Friend stole me a copy of the Orange Box when it first came out and told me to play tf2. Joined a server on hydro and tried sniper. Got wrecked. Tried soldier. EVERYTHING DIED

Heavy on badwater.

My sens was so high that i was getting frustrated by good scouts with their double jumps killing me.

Then i started playing scout. (500 hours now on it)

Way back in early 2008 my first tf2 experience was playing scout, but instead of really playing scout i'd just wander around and look at the terrain, eventually I started shooting people

huntsman sniper at my friend's house. Thought I was the shit headshotting bots.

I ran around on 2fort and cp_orange with the cloak and dagger
I didnt know anyone could see me when i ran and i was baffled when people killed me

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I thought I was this shit on a night team server when all of my rockets on sawmill hit because of the donator trial you get when you first join. I used to think you could curl rockets and call medics hackers. Good times

About 2? years ago when I had a really bad laptop, all I did was trading. I met some cool people who actually were good at the game that way. Played a ton of badwater with them, usually spy. Always the best hats, bottom of the scoreboard. Eventually sold enough hats to buy a nice pc :D

I was at a friend's house aand he didn't know what to play, we were bored and were looking for free games. After watching the meet the team videos I decided to go spy. It was a mariokart server and I still remember getting really mad after backstabbing a sentry and wondering why it didn't die...

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My friend got into playing TF2 after he bought the orange box for the PS3 because he wanted to play HL2 as he'd played it a long time ago when he was younger on his dad's computer. He got into TF2 after trying it out and then persuaded me to play it as well, my first map was thunder mountain and I just ran around being some useless as shit sniper for a while before I got better at the game. My friend stopped playing TF2 now but I'm still going.

oh god i've been playing too long

cp_dustbowl... Spy... :/

when i first got the game after it came out all i did was play orange x3 or surf maps

im still on that level

Jesus, reading some of these posts reminds me how long its been.

I think my first games of TF2 were on 2fort and Hydro. I remember playing demoman, medic, and engineer. I think I had a long run with some guy with a Gunslinger Girls avatar and we went from server to server as demo/medic.

Oh god, my first experience of tf2 was embarrassing. It was on the orange box console in 2011. My first pub i joined was a pub 2fort pub. I remember going spy first cause the concept of it seemed cool at first. but everytime i went into the tunnels on their side this scout just kept batting me and killing me. I eventually raged to pyro to kill him. From then on all i tried to do was build a sentry in their intel as engi.

A Valve server on cp_dustbowl. I initially tried Sniper, as that is the closest feeling to my old FPS game since, you have a sniper rifle and an SMG. Scoped in, bodyshot a soldier, he didn't die and I thought the game was completely stupid because "sniper shots are supposed to one shot kill!"

A friend bought it for me to help get me away from CS. I had thousands and thousands of CS hours (before Steam logged them), and everyone I knew switched too TF2, so they converted me too. I believe my first map was Goldrush not a few days after it was released. I started off playing sniper and my CS skills carried over very well and I laid waste. Stuck with it since then.

Funny enough, after playing so much of all the other classes, my sniper is now mediocre at best and I rarely if ever touch CS.

Lots and lots of spy in arena. My god I played arena so much.

hence: what? a ninja?! -> ninja -> nja

I played on the PS3, thought everything was omg so sick. Medic seemed easier than aiming with the other shit (analog stick + Scout = kill me), and I spent the next hour on 2Fort healing a Heavy and walking back and forth with the intelligence.

I used my brother's account and played Saharan spy on plr_pipeline.

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Back in January 2008. (When Demo was still overpowered). I'd never played a PC FPS before.

Dustbowl server. "Why are these demomen top of the scoreboard, you can't even hit people with the pipes?".

Then I discovered you had more than 1 weapon.

I picked it up the day after it went f2p. Entered a Turbine server as sniper, died, got a huntsman drop and immediately got a headshot on a jumping scout.

Good times.

I tried various classes and decided sniper SMG was the best weapon in the game. Used it exclusively for a few days until I learnt better.