An Interview with the TF2 Community

[@SolarLight]

In retrospect, given how lots of people were talking about Love and War... I probably should have also mentioned that the Love and War update, specifically the addition of the Tide Turner, is possibly my favourite moment. Before that point, I was rather upset, since I had been using charge turning bugs that were completely patched for a period of 2 months. TF2 without huge trimping isn't TF2, man!

[@jimbobjoe4777]

demoknight tf2 (real)??????

[@Brijinethemagician]

I can’t imagine, I’ve only had the game for about a year and a half and one of my favorite parts is the trimping. Also your gameplay has helped me become the better demoknight I strive to be.

[@Kaiserboo1871]

Your TF2 story is the exact same as mine. Getting involved in the 2011 - 2012, having a crappy computer which forced me to be an engineer as that was the only way to get kills. Then I got a better computer and suddenly I was doing great as every class except Pyro and Soldier strangely enough.

[@Berd]

true story dude

[@WeezyTF2]

This is one of the most wholesome tf2 videos I've seen, glad to see it come to fruition. Thanks for organizing this Dewill

[@ayan8136]

Look who's here

[@scrambledeggs2256]

@@ayan8136 who's joe?

[@ayan8136]

@@scrambledeggs2256 it's joein time

[@Toofty]

wow you used my li-le bri-ish voice for the last line, I feel honoured :)

[@TheWhatShow]

Great to see the results of #savetf2 accomplish more than I could dream of. Thanks for helping EVERYONE who participated. I'd give each of ya a big ol' smooch on the cheek.

[@CptDoot]

But where's the CHUCKLENUTS? THAT'S WHAT I'M HERE FOR

[@Fatmagic]

Sad I wasn't able to get my recording in time for this. Great video!

[@DEWILL]

Still, thank you for trying to send me yours! If I would do this kind of thing again in the future, hope you’ll be able to join that time

[@thechairthetable3772]

Man I wish I couldve heard your wholesome laugh in this video.

[@NotASpyReally]

Oooh I'm so sad about this, wish you were on this.

[@BrickiestBrick]

Incredibly well put together video! It's honestly crazy to think of how one great game can bring so many people together

[@RAKESH-xw9xm]

Brick Please help us Ask Lazypurple when will How it feels to play medic be released

[@KritzKast]

That hits hard. I remember seeing the question about "your favourite moment" and just thinking... all of it, every last moment.

[@Peterscraps]

13:13 I remember running into swipes a few times on european VSH servers, mans would get the 'over 9000' event sound to play like half the matches

[@RocketManFran]

thank you so much for having me on DEWILL, this was a powerful and inspiring video you could have ever done! :) #SaveTF2

[@tfJumper]

the amount the work for the all the peoples effort in this video is absolutely insane #SaveTF2

[@J_peg]

I had absolutely no idea this project would turn out this amazing. well done DEWILL and everyone who participated in this :D

[@Im_Sav]

I miss ya videos man, you motivated me to play scout, hope ya doing good!

[@Kanteike]

Never yo forget taht its the most friendly community ive encountered ever, ive seen whole servers gather around to teach this one new guy who doesnt even know how to build as engineer, and were all giving him advice and some people even gave him some weapons. Ive never seen a community so into their game and their playerbase, and i am proud of being a part of this community with you all, there are some bad apples, but what truly matters us that we are even more good apples

[@popcultureprogrammer2171]

probably because the bad apples begin to build notoriety, like Lemonbomber and get kicked quite often

[@mrchoochooguy4045]

Recently on altitude me and a more experienced player gave a newbie seeming guy some tips 'Spy is one of the harder classes' 'Try stay further away as sniper and aim for the head' 'Backstab people with your knife as spy for an instant kill' I'll be honest when a person is clearly in their first ever game of TF2, people should do their best to support them

[@Sydney_Angelyt]

it's far from the most friendly

[@nikki-zeero3122]

Idk man ive seen lots of sexist and transphobic weirdos in their fandom not the kindest if you ask me

[@therealsnip]

I get attacked for speaking I’m vc

[@fluxcptndavey4378]

Don't mind me I'm just crying over how one game can bring so many people together.

[@alexszulczynski5546]

Me 2 i met my 1 frends in live cuv i was allwej use to by bulied i my hole live in shool and never have tru frends cuz i was difend From oders i have From birv ADHS then iwas 1 year ego i was diagnose with Aspeger/autizm in tf2 men nice and frendli People der thanks TF2 4 GIVING ME FRENDS

[@redrubberband3616]

I got goosebumps watching this, thank you dewill and everyone who took part, it was genuinely an amazing idea and I am proud to be apart of the tf2 community #savetf2

[@IInferno]

Awesome to see everyones stories finally, thank you for making this Dewill!

[@BaconBlitzz]

Gorgeous stuff. Genuinely teary eyed.

[@joebert_]

this is one of the best tf2 related videos i think i have seen in my entire life, i mean that whole heartedly and genuinely

[@awakened_fjord]

i had the biggest smile just watching this and getting reminded that tf2 changed so many lives and it's just really mind blowing for a game this old

[@DutchTF2]

Incredible stuff man, so nice to see everyone's stories finally come together!

[@Jaden_K]

Tf2 is literally my everything. Or like this wacky game actually changed my freakin life. I found out what I wanted to do with my life with the help of this stupid fun game. Through a series of thinking about my future career, I eventually decided to work my ass off to become a med student BECAUSE OF TF2. Idk HOW I decided to go into medicine from this game, but I settled on this goal early on in my childhood and I'm still currently in uni studying to get there. And I have freaking TF2 of all things to thank for that and I wouldn't change my decision to be in this community for the world.

[@MainDotLua]

It was incredible to see all these amazing stories compiled so neatly. Amazing video and thanks for letting me participate! #saveTF2

[@ProbablyTilly]

Really awesome to see everyone come together for this video. This is very special and you've done a great job. Thanks for making this video :)

[@happyjay9168]

Thank you for sharing this! And I really appreciate every single content creator voice actor and everyone who took a part in this movement. Thank you so much and I hope this "Timeless Masterpiece" will be saved.

[@leopard_123_atl]

Man, this crap is really emotional to me, even if you are not a youtuber, a sfm creator, or a competitive analysor you can really feel the pasion and care that the youtube comunity put into this game, for me is really cool seein how a lot of ppl including me just sit down and enjoy some tf2, having some fun only, not competitive shit, just fun and relax, the fact that i just learned english to have a better tf2 experience tells a lot of the love me and a lot of people have for this game #savetf2

[@bluny8392]

What a great video, thank you so much for making this

[@icyyChill]

This game is honestly got to be one of the best games ever created. It has brought so many people together and will forever be in our hearts, no matter what happens to it. I remember the first time I played it (back in like 2019) a few of my friends had introduced me to it. I was playing scout on Yukon with absolutely no clue what was going on, and they all went medic and just pocketed me so there was just 3 medics healing a default f2p scout trying to figure out how to run and aim at the same time.

[@MicJeff]

Every man in this video have brought some people in TF2, the online we're having right now is because of active community, funny tf2 gameplay compilations, memes, incredible SFM animations, highlights from advanced players... Every TF2 KZbinr, Streamer, Professional player, even average player on Frontier has something special in him. The class that he mains, the hats that he wears, the taunts that he uses.

[@bansse1697]

TF2 forever!!! Agro is god damn right. After all these years with multiple games played, stuff happening irl. I just can't stop coming back to the best game ever!

[@deadmeme6433]

Ahh my heart man this was great to watch, even have a tear in my eye

[@Thisthatwarrwby]

That was one of the greatest tf2 videos I’ve ever watched

[@SnooterSFM]

Thank you for this, genuinely really touching video :’)

[@mattwooly4273]

I do have to say, this video really helped show my age. I'm also a first time TF2 player back on the OrangeBox well before my parents could afford to buy me a laptop. But what struck me were a lot of the testimonials here. Hearing about updates that I have almost long forgot and remembering the nights that ensued after each one really got me nostalgic. I almost forgot about the conga lines, the tf2 economy where bill's hat and keys were the prime currency. Thank you everyone who came together to make this video. It really has made me remember the good old days. Maybe we'll never get another major content update in the future like the Heavy Update. But I know that the players of this game, new and old, will keep it alive.

[@Teathling]

As a player from 2011 and content creator myself this really hit home thank you for making this.

[@MarioAnime07]

Man everyone had their own memories about tf2. I started knowing about tf2 in 2016. And started playing in 2018. So There's not a lot of things to talk about. But until this day I still remember when I had a shitty laptop and picked an engineer and camped in the intel room. That was my first casual game. Man oh man I could never experience the new event since like I am late for jungle Inferno update in 2017. All I can say is the same as everyone who plays tf2. It's fun. It felt different from other fps games I ever played. The unique qualities Valve apply on their games makes most of their games memorable and enjoyable.

[@jellybeans1238]

This was such a wholesome video that it brought to tears.Just seeing how influential this game is to so many people just is so amazing.

[@davidmacdonald1855]

this video is perfect. Thank you for putting it together and thank you every one that contributed a story:)

[@Whomobile]

That was great to see, TF2 is such an old game it has spanned into different communities and seeing most of them here was really good. Also thank you for the visual demonstration of what I did the first time I played, was pretty much spot on (I also taunted to open the respawn room doors because I didn't know they were automatic lol)

[@redpeng1]

This is actually impressive how many people you got on here, this is really amazing

[@MIM0727]

아니 해외 유투버들 인터뷰 실화냐??? 웅장이 가슴해진다 ㄹㅇ 조크고 디월님 영어로 이렇게 까지 채널 성장 시킨 거 ㄹㅇ 대단하십니다. 언젠가 밸브가 정신차리고 업데이트 해줄때까지! 계속 열심히 활동해주세요! 저도 영상 자주 챙겨봅니다 ㅋㅋ

[@Hun-Gary]

I still can't believe that tf2 has such a loving community, and when I started playing it just two years ago, it honestly just blow my mind. I love this game and it's community. Valve made a masterpiece… and I think we can all agree. :)

[@elbowremovalservice]

The game is so good that even widespread cheating and bots for 2 years couldn't even dent the community.

[@RealRaido]

Ok, in all honesty this video was straight up amazing, good job.

[@TableCroissants]

absolutely a top-class video expressing the love for this game

[@beewaare]

I can’t wait for soundsmith to say something about funny shovel

[@simpsitandmore2908]

Probably one of the best tf2 videos ever made, it was wonderful seeing so many tf2 tubers come out and talk about their experiences with the game :).

[@noucard5484]

We would never leave game even if the most difficult moment comes after us

[@khall_archives]

I imagined big chungus saying that idk why

[@Alxium]

Thank you for your hard work Dewill. It took a lot of work, but it turned out amazing!

[@snikeys2005]

Man never Thought anything related to Team Fortress 2 would genuinely make me cry. This is very amazing, i love seeing communities coming together like this. TF2 community is really something isn’t it

[@Proctato]

Awesome video, glad to hear all the positive experiences people have had with my favorite game

[@IanTheAwsm]

I'm glad I have been a part of this community for as long as I have, I wish I had brought up similar subjects to flow with everyone else. Still a wholesome video to see be put together and glad I was a part of it! Great job Dewill! :D

[@SoulOfPower]

This was beyond amazing DeWill! Definitely reminds me of a lot of why I keep playing tf2

[@elsibas5977]

I know a little English language and man ... Listen this opinions for tf2, is make me cry, is fantastic this comunnity #savetf2

[@java1945]

Spikeymikey's introduction to TF2 is almost exactly the same as mine. My brother and I watched the yogscast together at the time (when they had their Minecraft television-esque series and other shenanigans) and we would watch the "Meet The Team" afterwards in 2011, plus it was one of the few games we could run on the family computer so it was all I played. My most memorable/nostalgic moment was when my brother bought the Triboniophorus Tyrannus, and I was like 6 or 7 years old at the time (I'm 17 now) and I was so happy with the cosmetic and I would show it off on a prop hunt server I would always play and there's this other player (I forgot his name but still remember his voice) and I barely know how to spell and I would always try to type "do you like my green squishy hat?". His response? "yes I do like it a lot". Team Fortress 2 literally built my childhood For those who are new to the community: "Even though you were late to the party, you were still the life of it."

[@FloridianMenace]

9:23 It's my boy utterneer! Hell yeah my guy!

[@nitumaki3817]

I just finished watching the video and honestly I got all tear eyed just listening to how big of a part TF2 is to everyone in the community. It makes me laugh too to see how many people played the game with a shitty pc at first too. Super heartwarming. Thank you for making this DEWILL.

[@NotSoProfessionalGuy]

Damn that was a really good video, my only complaints that I have with it is that there should've been more people to interview with like Ceno0, Zesty Jesus, Zentih, Buddy303, Uncle Dane, SoundSmith, etc. I know that you can't get everyone but it'd be nice to see a part 2 of this, maybe even a part 3 (like a trilogy or something).

[@shadowman_44]

My first "exposure" to TF2 wasn't TF2 itself, it was a Lego stopmotion video where a Stormtrooper was riding on a cart and they used Scout's "BONK!" line, this was like 2008 too so it just goes to show that TF2 had always been relevant in meme culture since it's first days.

[@paulper]

Thank you for including all of us! This was an amazing group interview! #SaveTF2

[@vanillafromnekopara]

Why did this make me emotional

[@tsbiggles]

Really beautiful video. Thank you

[@ye8118]

Beautiful...

[@1maxster1]

This is the best TF2 video of the year, hands down!

[@YupKup]

dont make me cry now

[@Weskerdize]

Man, I still remember that moment when I first joined a community server and oh boy, it was chaos, it was pure insanity for me, and it was probably the best (Still bit sad since first starting the game only to be chat locked 2 days later)

[@27mosquitoes]

I only joined this game's community late-ish 2021. Seeing all the archives, forums of the update drops--- crazy! Seeing all those people so excited about just--- A videogame update! I've never seen a community that celebratory

[@t29hotrod75]

If only blu or old muselk were here

[@guyclegg]

Someones gotta do this with the Quake community next.

[@VerbDoesStuff]

Wow, I can't believe you got an interview with the entire tf2 community! Great job!

[@NotASpyReally]

Nobody cares because I'm just a random, but I'm gonna leave this comment here anyways: I started playing TF2 around 2012. My first memory was a friend recommending me to play Spy and I tried really hard going invisible but I couldn't get any kills. I think my friend was a troll because Spy is the most difficult class in the game lol. After a few days, I tried the game again, this time playing Medic. I'm still a medic main to this day. Three moments I will never forget was: 1. Playing Sniper and headshooting a soldier that was rocket-jumping at me, thinking it was absolutely amazing. 2. The day they introduced the conga I watched a heavy leaving spawn dancing, that was the best day ever for TF2 imo. 3. Playing Sniper on MVM and the engineer giving me the Hitman's Heatmaker. It was a unique weapon, literally nothing special about it, but it was a gift. I could not believe someone would simply give me that for free, just like that. I still have it, and I still use it. Nostalgia for me is watching old SFM videos. I think the first thing I ever watched from TF2 was a video where a heavy is going to execute a scout in the snow and the scout starts singing and the heavy joins singing the "mana mana" song and in the end the heavy kills the scout anyways. TF2 for me, is home. It's where I go when I'm sad or angry, and it _always_ makes me laugh. It brightens my day.

[@zathara6921]

This is dope as a recent player this makes me feel good being a newbie especially at spy. It's good to know I'm being welcomed in warmly and not getting curb stomped into the dirt

[@Killstreak_Ghost]

I feel like Im sitting beside the campfire listening stories, remembering memories its just so wholesome.

[@fuzzenstein]

There’s something endearing about this video. It’s perfect. #SaveTF2

[@ZaTrapu]

"What's this game?" *a few moments later after playing it* "I love tf2"

[@mariusjosefsson3176]

6:49 I WAS THE HEAVY!!! I was in a very goofy mood and i just went around servers messing around with people, i used a headset mic to make my voice extremely fucking distorted. It was amazing, i was cackling behind my push to talk. I am happy that Mittens thought that was funny enough to include in the interview, #savetf2

[@elemangell2981]

My favorite TF2 memory was when me and 4 of my friends were playing on a private server one of them hosts when we just wanna mess around with just our group. We were playing the community map pl_shoreleave and I was going on an absolute tear with my australium frontier justice, with me saying "Frontier Justice, baby!" every time I got a kill for some stupid reason. I was doing so well that I was actually able to get one friend of mine to ragequit, which he almost never does. The next day I renamed my frontier justice with that stupid quote as well as the exact time of my friend's ragequit to commemorate that moment. Dumb, hilarious, intimate moments like that are why I play TF2.

[@Snax6900]

This is absolutely epic, thank you dewill

[@FlufflePuffyPop]

This video is great. I love seeing all the passionate statements from various figures within the TF2 community. However, when I watched through this, I got a little envious. I installed this game in Febuary of 2019, and I only started really getting into this game in November 2020. When the bots were rampant and the only thing I could do was join random community servers and hope they don't have a plugin that checks for low ping. There were so many things I missed out on just for the fact that I hadn't learned about the game before hand, and there is so much I wish I could experience. New weapons, mechanics, and maps were something I really couldn't experience in their entirety because Valve had long since jumped ship to greater waters. And still, despite all of this, Team Fortress 2 remains to be one of my favorite games of all time. There's still so much life left in this community, and I'd love to see where it can take us next.

[@Maj_Problem]

God this community is awesome, and thank you so much for making this video, hearing all the different experiences resonated with me so much, hearing about Ballon race, the vs Saxton hale and the friends you make on those servers brings a tear to my eye

[@Kaptain8964]

It makes me feel good that I've been with this community for a long time. I'm really trying to be noticed in the community, but times are hard. These amazing guys improve my well being to continue going forward! Love you guys! Love you DEWILL

[@uhohstanky1028]

i've only been playing for 2 years now but i still feel like i can connect with these people. i remember tf2 was the first thing i downloaded whenever i finally saved up enough to buy a laptop. i had been hooked by LazyPurple's "how it feels" series and all the goofy SoundSmith videos. I will always remember my first memory being sticky trapping the door to the sniper balcony on hightower and constantly blowing up a toxic trolldier who constantly called me every slur in the book. i love this wacky game and its community

[@Toopys]

You did a wonderful job making this!

[@Infinitytacos]

The nostalgic memories of tf2 and everyone sharing stories about community servers really got me. I remember this one weird low-gravity idle trading castle server that I spent literal hundreds of hours on with a bunch of people who were regulars on the server. Almost like a tiny community. Too bad that server randomly just disappeared from my favorites list one day. Or that one time where I spent 5 hours straight in a community server. All the ways from 8 to 1 in the morning.

[@userNULL]

When I was a young kid I found the Meet the Team series and fell in love. The cartoony art style and the funny comedy of it all drew me in, but I didn't have a PC. I would wait another 5 or so years until I finally got a computer that could run the game in December of 2020. I haven't been in the community too long, but its still everything I could have hoped for and more. TF2 is an amazing game and I hope I get to experience future major updates and get hyped over new content like you guys did :)

[@billions1must1fry]

i miss when i used to play everyday without stopping i cant even play a hour without watching youtube or somthing

[@dragoncristal01]

Gosh, this video is just filled with emotions. Watching this brought back old memories... I wish that I could play with my old TF2 friend groups again and just enjouy the game as we did once before - I still remember back when one wouldn't run into a bot/cheater/toxic person in most of the matches, you could find something hilarious happening around each corner, whether it was random shenanigans with friends or alone, interactions with other players or even watching others while waiting to spawn, perhaps even having a hilarious moment in the text/voice chat. TF2 was a life-changer for many of us, I might overestimate it but I feel like as if TF2 and it's community have saved many lifes without knowing, heck perhaps it saved me too, who knows? I miss those old days but I'm glad that I was part of them or at least was a witness of such, hehehe. Maybe one day we would be able to experience such joy of playing this game once more? And I can't do much than to thank each and every one of you who make this game a better place and experience for all of us by creating great content or just playing the game and having fun, perhaps even goofing around here and there or even being serious while also inclusive of everyone despite the difference in knowledge and skills. To me, TF2 is kinda like a family and I wish for it to stay this way - I want to see it and everyone else in it to grow and to be happy. Thanks for making this video yah all.

[@Raadicality]

This community is the best video game community ever No other communities can best this

[@someoneelse7062]

Great effort on getting such a broad sample of thoughts/opinions from the creators we all love

[@SnacksDeCarGuy]

Tf2 is a timeless classic, everyone at some point has seen or played tf2 at one point. We all have amazing memories of this one of a kind game. This video and the recent patch updates that is solving the bot problem and fixing casual. Made me remind myself how I actually met one of my best friends. I will never forget the time when I realized my newfound friend was addicted to tf2 like I was at the time. We still play to this day. Thank you tf2 and your community to everything you have done. #Savetf2

[@kbashley720]

This was needed.

[@Krazy_Karlo]

This was amazing I'm so glad to be a part of this community

[@bingus702]

As someone who has joined TF2 in it's dark era I feel sad knowing I couldn't experience the absolute hype of love and war the meet the team video's or any of the new content drops but even still tf2 holds a special place in my heart and i'm glad we have an amazing community to keep this game alive.

[@MercySewerPyro]

Honestly, this made me cry. TF2 was my childhood too, and it's brought me and others together so, so many times. I will never put down this game. It taught me things about myself, some good some bad, and honestly despite bad times I would not be the person I am today because of this game. This game is HOME. #savetf2 because I want to keep returning home for years to come.

[@thazmatz]

Man, I'm tearing up over this... I love this community and all the people who have made it awesome, like everyone who took part in this video. I truly hope that TF2 will live through this mess, because life just isn't the same without TF2. Thanks for making this video and making such an amazing community. #SaveTF2

[@fuego2633]

A nostalgic memory I have of tf2 is a Gmod machinima called “Scouts caps”. I remember watching that all the time along with old Vanossgaming, Dantdm, skydoesminecraft, etc. And I would randomly get recommended random old videos that I watched to this very day. I want to be 7-8 again, those were the good times #savetf2

[@bumpermanthesecond615]

Team fortress 2 shaped the world and ourselves. We always love team fortress 2. It really worth the wait. btw swipez sounds the most emotional, ever

[@boowson]

I remember my irl friend from school convinced me to play with him and we joined some empty community server with probably hydro map. We picked opposing teams and I went Heavy. He told me through game chat to meet him and imagine my surprised face when I saw myself before me. The friend was obviously a spy disguised as me, but then it blew my mind. He dropped the disguise, typed "watch this" in the game chat and stabbed my back instantly killing me. Fun times.

[@Ayo090]

this is amazing

[@Ela-vk2ld]

This game mean a lot for all of us, we started playing this game in a different time period but we all going to always love one thing about this game. It's a community, what making this game different from the other games. ofc it's not the only thing what makes this game awesome but it is rather the most important thing For all games to have community what makes your favorite game even better.

[@Lydaa800]

while watching this movie, I felt for a moment or rather forgot what samples the tf2 works with, I don't know why eh... BTW this a really good wideo ♥️

[@addiebuss9060]

I have some that I'd like to share. I discovered the game through a Slender Fortress video back in 2015 and wanted to play it. I downloaded Steam, waited a couple months for some reason, then got into a game. It wasn't at all what I was expecting, but I still had a lot of fun. I'm left handed and was playing on a laptop at the time, so my setup was touchpad for aiming and arrow keys for movement. After 7 years, I still have so much to learn and improve on. This game is a true treasure trove of intricate mechanics, goofy moments, and so much more. It's my favourite game of all time, and there's none other quite like it.