Author Topic: Heavy (Read 1158 times)

chrisinajar · « **on:** April 01, 2009, 01:47:11 pm »

I just gave him a try for the first time last weekend and I kind of like it... I was playing on the PoE server at a LAN party and was dominating everyone with him, due to PoE's lack of Drake, Smitty, band-aid, or bladeofwar...

Anyway, 4 hours of Heavy gameplay and a recently unlocked sandvich leads me to think he's pretty cool... What do you guize think?

Drake · « **Reply #1 on:** April 01, 2009, 02:53:25 pm »

Good in the right hands, I only have 5ish hours on him, compared to.. http://steamcommunity.com/id/jdrake/stats/TF2
(ignoring pyrostats)

When I do play him I do pretty well, I prefer natascha personally, although I think in the righthands sascha is better. Overall though heavy just doesnt suit my playstyle, unless we have a good forward teleporter!

Cheeseomlett · « **Reply #2 on:** April 01, 2009, 02:57:53 pm »

God drake, your 4th lowest play time is around the same as my highest.

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197971365650/stats/TF2

Drake · « **Reply #3 on:** April 01, 2009, 02:59:38 pm »

heh, 30 hr gap between your most and least played classes...

72 hrs for mine =X

Cheeseomlett · « **Reply #4 on:** April 01, 2009, 03:03:10 pm »

I am garbage spy so I dont even try to play one. Just gets all the other good spies killed.

Drake · « **Reply #5 on:** April 01, 2009, 03:07:09 pm »

Someone who finally understands!!!!

<3 cheesomelett

Which will bring me to a random story of when i was younger... Me and a friend were driving down to GA and stopped at this denny's near a truck stop at like 2am for some grub. Our server gets to our table... and its this 3-400 pound black woman. Her ass is literally as wide as our booth and lucky for us, she served the table across from us and god was she happy to bend over to grab glasses for refills. The kicker you ask? Her name was Omelette. no fucking lie. Needless to say, we didn't order breakfast... eggs seemed to lose their appeal for some reason.

Batman · « **Reply #6 on:** April 01, 2009, 03:36:52 pm »

Disreguard that I suck cocks...

Drake · « **Reply #7 on:** April 01, 2009, 09:25:48 pm »

http://www.break.com/pictures/crazy-guy-with-a-big-gun696139.html#

Bobby's Pipes · « **Reply #8 on:** April 04, 2009, 12:01:06 am »

Heavy is a good class for those who like the Mouse 1 aspect of Pyro, minus the W aspect. That being said, when paired with a competent Medic, I can throw down some Socialism with the fatman.

I personally think that the name book for African-Americans heavily favors the shwah sound.

Virally Yours · « **Reply #9 on:** April 16, 2009, 01:02:13 am »

I like him. His limitations make him quite the thinking man's class.

chrisinajar · « **Reply #10 on:** April 16, 2009, 08:25:30 am »

Quote from: Virally Yours on April 16, 2009, 01:02:13 am

I like him. His limitations make him quite the thinking man's class.

A good while after posting that original thing, I have now unlocked all weapons for the heavy and have played many many more hours of him. I've found that very little of the heavy's gameplay is actual skill, except for maybe trying to take down a scout jumping on your head. The huge thing that separates the good heavys from the bad heavys is knowing where to be, knowing when to retreat, thinking enough to catch people in choke points, angling yourself around corners so that you can kill them easier... so on and so forth...

I would completely agree that he be a thinking man's class, as even the most skilled heavy is only moderately better than a noob if he doesn't think out his actions and position himself properly... The same obviously goes for all classes, but I think more so for the heavy due to his ridiculous firepower and slow movement.

band-aid · « **Reply #11 on:** April 16, 2009, 10:10:53 am »

When I have a good medic that can time ubers/kritz well I can absolutely piss death as heavy weapons guy. I think the sandwich is a gimmick outside of arena play because the shotgun is so useful. I'd say I use it nearly as much as the minigun. Because of the heavies massive health you only have to semi-dodge making it easy to shotgun down soldiers and other things that try to snap shoot you around corners.

The other thing that helps a lot is spin-jumping around corners so you don't have to slow-boat around them and get owned by splash.

You also need to prioritize on classes when you come into a room that is loaded down. Always go for a heavy first because if he starts hitting you first, he has the damage advantage and you will not beat him. Then I go for pyro's because they piss me off. Then demomen because of sticky spam at your face. Unless a soldier is really good you usually don't have to worry about them because their limited clip size cannot overwhelm your health with any kind of speed and everything else is just fodder.

Drake · « **Reply #12 on:** April 16, 2009, 11:48:18 am »

If Virally wasnt a nub he'd post his l33t strats here. Unless there is a medic to focus on if I get into a group of people (and one isnt a heavy) i normally just aim for closest then go further back... simply on the basis I think more rounds will hit the closer target killing him quicker, allowing me time to arrange my next attack!

chrisinajar · « **Reply #13 on:** April 16, 2009, 01:50:15 pm »

I definitely agree, but I think the sandwich is a must unless you have a butt buddy medic. Heavys are too slow to get health packs before the coked up scouts take em all.

Virally Yours · « **Reply #14 on:** April 17, 2009, 12:12:33 am »

Quote from: Drake on April 16, 2009, 11:48:18 am

If Virally wasnt a nub he'd post his l33t strats here. Unless there is a medic to focus on if I get into a group of people (and one isnt a heavy) i normally just aim for closest then go further back... simply on the basis I think more rounds will hit the closer target killing him quicker, allowing me time to arrange my next attack!

I don't have any leet strats too much outside of what anyone here has mentioned. Just so many hours more my target priority and situational reactions sharpen a bit, as well as my tracking, which is much harder than anyone gives credit for in my opinion.

Virally Yours · « **Reply #15 on:** April 17, 2009, 05:58:16 am »

Well, on second thought, go ahead and ask me anything. I don't want to seem like a mysterious douche bag. Plain old douche bag works for me.

Drake · « **Reply #16 on:** April 17, 2009, 11:39:42 am »

Nice pshopped hat on SHLOMI!

Virally Yours · « **Reply #17 on:** April 17, 2009, 12:25:32 pm »

I did it myself too. ^^

Virally Yours · « **Reply #18 on:** June 27, 2009, 10:48:41 am »

I'm bumping this because the heavy is super cool, and only pros like me play him.

Trazgo · « **Reply #19 on:** June 27, 2009, 04:08:05 pm »

Key to Heavy success:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3ChNjSMoNI

Supernaut · « **Reply #20 on:** June 27, 2009, 11:30:46 pm »

Very True Trazgo that is how one should play heavy.

Rare Endangered Spy Crab · « **Reply #21 on:** June 28, 2009, 04:19:30 am »

Quote from: Virally Yours on June 27, 2009, 10:48:41 am

I'm bumping this because the heavy is super cool, and only pros like me play him.

Weegee is a surprisingly good heavy, me and him own it up with kritz we would have way more kills without FaN and Backburner pyros killing me all the time.

Weegee · « **Reply #22 on:** June 28, 2009, 05:36:11 am »

Yeah, the main reason I was playing heavy that night was because I got the shortbus helmet >_> Especially on pimpline, we just build up a kritz, sneak in through the alternate route and let 'er rip. One time got behind like 3 medics a soldier a heavy and a sniper, kritz'd all of them, then proceeded to spawn camp them for the rest of the match. Good times.

Trazgo · « **Reply #23 on:** June 28, 2009, 05:44:30 am »

Pipeline's a fun map, I like to build a sentry on the other team's sniper balcony on the first two stages outside of their spawn

Although a Kritzed Heavy would be easier to get there if the enemy is actually paying attention.

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Author Topic: Heavy (Read 1158 times)