I'll give the same speech here as I do in noobie mixes.

The idea of passive and aggressive scout *does* exist to a degree in the game, but the problem is with the words, at the risk of sounding like a Wittgenstein fan boy, its the fact that the words passive and aggressive mean different things to different people, hence the danger in their use. Passive scout to any number of scout players may have numerous different connotations as to what that sort of behavior would actually be.

Instead here are some different terms I have invented with the intention for them to apply mostly to mid and stack pushes (although scouts are interchangeable post-mid).

Passive Momma' Bear scout. He protects the demo at mid, but he doesn't avoid damage - he spams a few chip shots, and watches his cute little cubby (the demoman) do his spam thing. But, as soon as somebody attempts to harm the demo in any way shape or form, the momma bear scout transforms from a gentle giant who likes fruits and nuts, into a godless, soulless, killing machine - who then tears out the throat of the nearest opposing player. The momma bear will also tend to be the scout that gets pulled into the combo on pushes, and has to basher build (just for consistency and because they're already acclimated to playing near the combo). But post mid-fight that's not as important.

Then you have, at mid, the aggressive social services scout. If it's found that the opposition has a dead-beat momma bear scout that isn't guarding her wittle cubby, he will take possession of the opposing teams demoman, by turning him into a nice sandwich. If it turns out that they do have an active momma bear, then the social services scout will simply interview their momma bear for a time (ALL A CLEVER DISTRACTION FOR YOUR ROAMER to have some space) and then return to your medic to rejoin your model family near your medic for heals.

Post pushing scout roles are virtually interchangeable and are really a matter of convenience and personal taste/habit or catered to skill sets.

https://www.youtube.com/user/MediMarx I've got some general guides for some of the maps and will be releasing more soon. Blank, Cyzer, and RR have demo reviews on their streams those are great to watch as well. Also old casts will help too :D

and the MGE archive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIxJCkSHqBU&playnext=1&list=PLD098F81F2CA74F00&feature=results_main Although some of the info on this is dated.

If you're super new, try and find an open player or a UGC plat player who would be willing to mentor you a bit, and talk things over.

Also pyyyour's stream VODs, or any of the mix^ players stream vods are really good to watch (along with the other streamers I already named).

Don't get a cali server - the furthest west that's acceptable is Denver in most peoples' cases, it's best to go with texas or chicago as everybody has already said.

Also have 1-2 back ups lined up, because a few weeks into everybody's first sixes experience several people are going to quit or flake out.

EU play has a lot more reliance on off classing than US play does just in general, you might see a sniper (if one team has an exceptional sniper) come out 1-2 times outside of last pushing/holding, but it'll only be 1-2 times not the constant sniper to 2 that you see in the EU on process and snakewater. Because sniper is bad just in general assuming the other team knows what to do and is aggressively minded.

That moment when you're like "ok bros let's get a scrim" and you find a good team to play against, and then you hit "play" on tf2, and you see that friendly little box appear which reads "Validation:"

I think what you're looking for is known as a "shutter" script - it's not really worth it for what it does, just click on people, and use the adv. option to not have to hold down m1.

The forward spawn script works because I use it pretty regularly (lazy).

For uber masking, a lot of the time if it's really tense and you're desperately trying to mask (kritz switch) sometimes hitting the key a bunch of times in rapid succession will cause the medic to just say nothing at all.

I would discourage you from using really loud masks like "medic!" etc, because it also lets anybody with surround sound know basically exactly where you are - and that's really never good news. Just browse around the voice menu and pick a nice quiet set.

People put a lot into masking/faking calling, but I'd not put a lot of time and effort into doing it - most people who are any good at this game know more or less exactly when you'll have uber or kritz anyways and no amount of fake calling or masking is going to prevent them from knowing. A lot of new medics feel the need to constantly spam voice binds and end up doing that instead of all the other things they need to do that don't involve pushing voice bind keys lol.

I'd also suggest a text bind somewhere saying that you've made a switch to kritz - because I can't tell you how many hundreds of times I've said "I'm going kritz" loudly and clearly in mumble, and then when I'm all harassing my team to get ready to attack I pop kritz and somebody invariably will say "I didn't know we were on kritz" so just have a bind and hit it the requisite number of times that way they know for sure.

As for huds I really like gmang: http://code.google.com/p/gmang-tf2hud/

And Garm3n Hud (many of the different iterations are fine for med): http://www.sdx-gaming.eu/?page_id=4097

Also for sheer handiness, go into advanced options and bind a key for the item quick switch menu - some people don't know about this, and it saves you some time if you're switching between kritz and uber a lot, or want to switch your primary a bunch for some reason.

I was a young olympic baseball player with a promising future in baseball, I even had D 1 scouts showing up to my games as a FRESHMAN (given I had some connections most people don't), but then we went down to Florida and I pitched in the Youth Olympics and... well look at that I tore my rotator cuff. It was so badly torn that I had to change my whole delivery style and even then things just weren't right. The new delivery actually caused bone spurs (which isn't that big of a deal but still really bad to see in somebody under 18!).

I refocused my life. Although I did consider trying to teach myself how to throw with my left hand lol. I got into reading and gaming hardcore. Now I'm a nerd stuck in an abnormally athletic body lol. OF course other physical ailments are the reason I play this game so much anyways (ty factory work). Lots of guys I worked with had carpel tunnel at one point or another (the work was very wrist intensive! lol) several of them had the big long scars you get as a result of the aforementioned surgery.

Some people get carpel tunnel etc - it's not a big deal, although it's expensive. I assume you work on a computer? Probably the cause there I suppose.

I'd be pretty upset, although my cousin plays tf2 in pubs fairly often and his left hand doesn't work (withered left arm - birth defect) and he just has a sweet MMO gaming mouse that makes it such that he only has to use his good hand - while he uses his left to press the spacebar (which he uses as mouse 1).

The printer press on deals aren't very expensive - you could just make a series of promo press ons with instructions on how to print them out maybe so people could wear their support anyways since they seem to like them without costing the fundraiser anything beyond the time of whoever it is that will figure out if they actually print out correctly.

Great videos btws :p

Well the books are quite a bit different from the show - they'll get on major plot points but they've still written out several characters and added a few that don't exist in the books.

Snipers don't occupy space roody.

A normal person will look through a choke and say "oh... a scout is there" and then proceed not to go through that door.

Running a sniper - you notice they have a sniper, and then just approach from some other angle and you've effectively created a 5v6.

Snipers don't occupy space. You're just hoping that the other team is stupid, and that you are lucky.

I do go over sniping on last pushes with the noobies - since that's a pretty solid tactic, but I pretty much forbid it the rest of the time.

You don't really have to do too much, mainly what Phrakture and I were trying to get across is that sometimes, out of a desire to get mixes going faster, people who are unqualified to coach do so, and ultimately end up teaching bad things to people - this happens almost every night, especially when the mixes start because you've got 90+ people and few coaches.

It's just that noona et al aren't super engrossed in the scene so, especially when it comes to open players, they've got no idea who they're dealing with (and I assume that'd be true of most people). The best option is for people who *know* they're unqualified to coach to stop showing up and attempting to coach, or for novice players to stop showing up "off classing" and then volunteering to coach lol.

The organization was good for the pugs over all and you guys stuck around to see it to the end, so a nice first go at things, but we need to be more stringent about enforcing the coaching rules - a few folks got in that had absolutely no business telling other people how to play. Not trying to be an asshole here or call anybody bad - but you have to be careful with the coaches because our noobie friends don't know any better and will (should) presume the coach knows what he/she is talking about - and they will tell it to their friends, etc.

I understand sometimes the supply of coaches is a little low and so we can bend the rules here and there - but not too far or you're going to end up with extremely unqualified coaches telling people ridiculous things and/or providing an over all unpleasant experience in general.

Interestingly enough, in my capacity as UGC admin, we've started to get more and more PRC residents inquiring about their ability to play TF2.

I imagine what happened to final combat, in a land of piracy and boot legging software, valve going F2p pretty much annihilated any opportunity for Final Combat (a rip off of 2 different games) to make any money. Not to mention that it looked awful besides the art style and the meet the videos lol.

Is there going to be a spinning wheel graphic, a la "wheel of fortune" which will guess which team gets absolutely destroyed by ddosing?

That would add yet another thing to your repertoire t00l ;)

Mambo is from the same Pub that I came from. I played with this guy for years in that capacity - super nice guy.

You should've told me you were looking into 6s mambo! I'll help you out with whatever you need :0)

Here I'd expect you to still be playing demo ;)