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When is a control point contested vs being captured?
When is a capture point being contested and when is being captured in Team Fortress 2? Whenever the announcer announces that a control point is being threatened by the other team, how is the ...
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What is the difference between "public" games and "competitive" games? How are these "competitive" games located?
Me: Is Rocket Jumper + Bison + Zatoichi a valid Soldier play style?
Anon_Player: Anything's valid in pubs.
After a while of playing TF2 and listening to the voice/text chats I've noticed that there ...
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What is the difference between a (re)skin and a texture?
When searching through mods for TF2, I came across some confusion.
Creators used the word "skin" to describe a remake of the default skin for objects, including adding sections (see LED Sentry skin).
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What's the difference between killstreak, specialized killstreak, and professional killstreak weapons?
I've been playing a fair bit of the new MVM tours, and have seen killstreak kits, specialized killstreak fabricators, and a couple professional killstreak fabricators.
Based on the update notes, ...
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What is a 'crab', and how does one perform/obtain one?
Ok, so there I was playing TF2, as a Spy (and doing quite well, at least by my low standards). When the other team begins with the usual friendly greetings, racial/sexual orientation slurs, as well as ...
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What is the difference between sharking and lowballing?
I've heard of these two terms, and I know they're both somewhat correlated with scamming.
What are differences between these two?
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What is a Strafe-n-Snap?
In this video, Stabby stabby (a very famous comp spy player in TF2) mentions a technique called the strafe and snap.
How do I execute this technique? Is there a diagram or video that can show me what ...
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What is a 'Pocket Medic'?
I've heard this term somewhere in TF2, and it is also sometimes used for other classes, such as 'Pocket Soldier', or 'Pocket scout', although most notably 'Pocket Medic'.
What does the "pocket" mean?
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POOTIS POW! But what is Pootis?
I always hear the word 'pootis' when someone is heavy. I know Heavy is of russian background, but is pootis even a real word? What is pootis supposed to mean?
It's so dang fun to say I would like ...
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What is a "Pally"?
Frequently, playing the Scout in TF2, I hear this phrase:
Thanks pally!
What does the pally in this sentence indicate? Is it his imaginary friend? A paladin? Is it a nickname for something?
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What does scrap banking mean?
I hear it all the time. They're looking for scrap? Crafting scrap? Trading scrap?
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What does "W+1" mean with respect to the Pyro?
There's a more or less subtle reference I'm missing in comics 79, 87 and 131 (pictured below) of Nerf Now!.
What is it about?
[...] There are moments w + 1 is very effective and I dare to say, fun. ...
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What does the server tag 'nodmgspread' mean in Team Fortress 2
When you search for TF2 games there are a variety of server tags, many of them simply announcing the name of the server. One I see that I can't figure out is 'nodmgspread'
I assume that 'nodmgspread'...
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In Team Fortress 2, what is "telefragging", and how is it done?
On my server stats page, there's a kill category that is called "telefrag". I don't have any. What is this, and how is it done?
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What is weapon spread as it relates to Team Fortress 2?
"Weapon Spread" seems to be a term used ofter in regards to "vanilla" servers in Team Fortress 2. What does this term mean, and how does it relate to server settings and gameplay?
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