Reacting to How It Feels To Play Soldier || Team Fortress 2 Group Reaction

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Reacting to How It Feels To Play Soldier || Team Fortress 2 Group Reaction
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[@ChucktheSpicyChicken]

Soilder is the most played class in tf2 because he's the most forgiving class to play, he has great mobilty, good damage, and the most weapones of all classes.

[@wingedbluj1674]

I thought engie was the most played.

[@ChucktheSpicyChicken]

@@wingedbluj1674 unless were talking 2fort then you could not be more wrong

[@mysticboar1237]

And decent weapons and health

[@ImTheGuy]

@Damsen I mean sniper is probably the most played if you included all the bots.

[@Kamenari37]

Pyro actually beats out soldier in the number of unique weapons available to use if you do not count the reskins (i.e. the Original is not its own weapon aside from the viewmodel in game) And that is even with Soldier having a small cheat in that the Equalizer and Escape Plan got split into two weapons when it originally began as the same item. Despite also being able to remove sappers like the Homewrecker, the Neon Annihilator counts as its own unique weapon due to the fact it also gets guaranteed crits in water, making it more than just a reskin.

[@DJsquare3]

Lazypruple has also done a video called "TF2 is a Timeless Masterpiece" I highly recomend you dont skip it. It some ways it serves as the pilot for the how it feels to play series.

[@DigitalLemon69]

this.

[@Ramesh_002]

this

[@dingolerab5619]

yeah fr

[@flashfire2906]

agreed

[@yoshicraft6470]

TF1 does exist. It's a mod for the og quake. It was later ported to goldsrc (The same engine Half Life 1 is built on) which was named Team Fortress Classic.

[@DJsquare3]

TF2 came out in 2007 and it has been Free to play since 2011. Thats when I started to play and while I have taken breaks, I still go back to it all the time and always have a blast. I am curretnly sitting at 4254 hours on the game and while the game has issues, it is still honestly the best FPS experience I have ever had even after playing it for over a decade.

[@Kamenari37]

If you're wanting to play Engineer because it'd be "Like Torb..." You are in for a rude surprise. Engineer is one of the most involved classes to play. You will have to place your turret, and build it up while also building a dispenser both for yourself and your team, while also making a teleporter entrance and exit. Each building can be upgraded two times to reach its fullest potential, and all the while the enemy team is going to hate you, and focus your buildings destruction until they are gone, and then you will have to fall back and build them all, over, again. People will literally look away from the Heavy Medic combo currently about to massacre them just to shoot at you if they even think you're about to put down a sentry gun. You will constantly be hunted by spies looking to catch you in a moment of vulnerability as you swing your wrench to upgrade so as to backstab you and quickly sap all your buildings in an instant while you sit and wait to respawn, all the while hearing the distress calls of your creations as they slowly crumble and break. People will tell you what to do constantly in regards to what to build, where to build it, and what to build first, all while taking your metal and ammo packs and making the process even slower. Playing engineer is like learning how to fight two teams at once, yours and the enemy, which is why some engineers get so good at the class they break the mold and become monsters in their own right. That, or they just go insane with rage and start building teleporter exits on the edge of cliffs and let nature take its course... Been playing the game pretty much since it launched. Have been off and on over the years, and have over 3000 hours. I will tell you this right now though. Lazy's videos are excellent, but, they do not cover even the slightest bit in terms of the nuance that comes with playing the game and going from class to class. The physics engine of TF2 and the diversity between the classes allows for a nearly limitless amount of playstyles for every individual, and Lazy is primarily focused on the feel of competitive play, wherein you typically have only 1 of every class in a lobby with one exception of scout, and both teams are actually solely focused on playing the objective. Casual play is what the overwhelming majority of players in-game partake in, and each lobby is its own unique little world of mayhem. You never know what you will get in terms of a fight, but a day may come when you know true fear and see a singular heavy walk out of the enemy spawn, with eight medics attached to him, alternating their uber charges as an indestructible octo-russian mows down your team.

[@pabloc8808]

I was gonna reply with a serious analysis of which classes are the most complex in terms of gamesense and dm/mechanical skill but the "indestructible octo-russian" at the end of your comment sucker-punched me, that was funny

[@Kamenari37]

@@pabloc8808 Hehe well more or less the point I was trying to get across was that if you are looking at TF2 from the mindset of "This is how I am supposed to play the game." You are just handicapping yourself. The possibilities allotted by the source engine and the tools at each classes disposal make such thinking two-dimensional, and unfortunately, that mindset sticks with a lot of new players discovering the game, and only gets broken when they finally get gibbed by some lunatic doing some ridiculous tactic on the fringe of the map. There's nothing that prepares you for the spy who sneaks all the way across the map to your teams spawn, saps your teleporter entrance and then presumes to stand on it, waiting for the hapless engineer to return to his exit so he can knock it off only to be immediately telefragged because he was standing too close as the spy turned his own tools against him. No matter how long you play, how many guides to classes you read, or hours you accumulate, you're always going to run into that situation where somebody who is just dickin' around in game is going to own you and leave you going "wtf..." But that's part of what makes the game great. The potential for new experiences and ways of doing things is near limitless and has given it so much longevity. If only Valve still cared about it.

[@pabloc8808]

@@Kamenari37 Yup. I remember when I started playing Engineer and I sucked at it. Then I watched loads of Uncle Dane (because of course, it's always Uncle Dane). I was now fully prepared to commit and become an Engi main, terrorizing pushes and Spies alike. Then I got trounced again, because I knew how things worked on paper, but not in practice. The thing about TF2 is, you just don't get TF2 if you don't sink in the hours to understand what each class can do and the general mindset of a person playing the class. If you're playing Sniper you can't just think like a Sniper, you gotta think about how every class on the enemy team is going to react to your existence in that situation. Who's gonna flank, who's gonna jump, who's gonna hide, who's gonna pepper, what route is the Spy taking to get to you, where's the enemy Sniper gonna peek from to cheapshot you. It's like Lazypurple says in How It Feels To Play Scout, it feels like there's no skill cap, there's always something new to learn or a skill to hone

[@Kamenari37]

@@pabloc8808 Hehe well there was no Uncle Dane when I was learning to play years ago. Just a lot of 2 fort, playing on a custom map in a server that was really more of a glorified TDM. The mods would even change the intel cap to 99 sometimes just to get the point across and turned off crits on cap. It allowed for a lot of interaction and learning, and was the place I really honed my sniper skills as there were several people there who simply stood on the battlements all day sniping against one another. Nowadays unfortunately with the removal of spectator and team switching on Valve run servers, playing sniper is a gamble for me. It's sad but, I can easily wind up defeating myself by getting vote kicked as a hacker just because I am actually able to consistently land headshots, especially on unaware players. I can usually dispel people's bot accusations by doing the simple trick of talking in voice chat but sometimes you just get slapped with the "You have been kicked" plaque and just gotta move onto the next server. It's something I'm glad Lazy actually talked about in his Sniper video.

[@KJtheEverblack]

Speaking of which, if you're interested in trolldier and the direct hit, lazy purple has already posted a video over a decade ago titled "It's precipitating adult males" for a montage, and another dude named elmaxo has made a video summarizing the sheer power of the best melee weapon in the game. On a side note, once you've gotten to the sniper, pyro and demo episodes, be sure to check out the extras video for each of those as it is just as entertaining as the regular videos themselves. Once you've completed the how it feels to play series, you can check out soundsmith's "A Mann's guide" series. It's only three videos in, but each has huge differences in levels of quality. The big earner is the most recent and best one of them all. Soundsmith himself also happens to be an excellent trolldier player. Enjoy yourselves:D

[@CrocandCo.]

3:15 Yes the hats do add to the humor of TF2 and, it makes it more iconic. There are other TFtubers(TF2 KZbinrs) who are iconic by combining certain cosmetics, color, and unusual effects. No matter what era TF2 was in even the current (dark) one you can have a blast playing it with the right server and the right people. Copying from a different video the comment goes: "Overwatch is a game you play with your friends "TF2 is where you make them" I have never played a single minute of TF2 in my life only playing the Roblox "Rip-off" with over 460 hours on it. And I have indulged in the official trailers the SFM animations and tutorials for years always coming back for more. I don't really believe people when they say things that put games on a high pedestal; I do however believe they are right when they say that TF2 is a "Timeless masterpiece"

[@prestongarvey2599]

there's a reason it still gets big player count numbers even to this day

[@der9759]

nothing really compares to this feeling of seeing people consume and react to things you know and love for the first time, love these reactions :) can't wait for you guys to try the game out!

[@crawlinggoose]

So to explain, during the "Raining Men" section, Lazy is abusing a playstyle called "Trolldier," which is a joke loadout that uses a rocket launcher that does no damage, a shovel which crits while airborne, and a pair of boots which increase damage dealt when falling on or hitting someone in the air. The aim is to launch into the air and then bonk a random person, usually a Medic or Sniper, on the head and kill them in one hit.

[@alegz8293]

Always get super excited when ya'll make a new one. Thank for reacting to this incredible series

[@literatemax]

0:56 Lazy is proof that once a Homestuck nerd, always a Homestuck nerd.

[@blustickman0285]

Yeah, and that king of the hill theme song reference in mmx style just sounds dope

[@Blade2145]

Playing as Soldier, more so Trolldier, is really fun to play as! Though it will take some time to learn how to rocket jump.😅 A little fun fact for those that don't know: TF2's Soldier is voiced by the great, and yet sadly deceased, Rick May. The same voice of Starfox's Peppy, amongst other characters.

[@christopherthompson8398]

rip rick may

[@LucarioDoT]

That "It's Raining Men" bit is a reference to an old video he made called "It's Precipitating Adult Males". I believe it got taken down due to copyright.

[@SylvaGardenia]

The timeline of thr Team Fortress games goes like this: 1996 - Team Fortress (Quake/QuakeWorld mod) 1999 - Team Fortress Classic (Half-Life mod) 2003 - Team Fortress Classic (standalone) 2007 - Team Fortress 2 It took some time to develop TF2 (it was first announced in 1998) and it went through a couple phases. One that focused on being a more realistic military combat game slowly turned into a premise of having an alien invasion going on. Ultimately, they decided on the more cartoony look and feel we have today, and I can't really imagine a world without it. TF2 will seemingly stand eternal, especially with how dedicated its players can be.

[@stasluzgin3212]

TF Classic existed. Also there were modification for old game(quake if I am not mistaken) which technically was tf beta

[@lancecurry7538]

2:31 - _(drunken mumbling)_ "SOLDIER!"

[@DJsquare3]

If you guys want more TF2 content you should also check out some of the Best SFM animations that the comunity has produced. The Winners of the Valve hosted Saxy awards are always a good Start. "Little guardian Pyro", "Turbulance" and "The Pybro" are some of the first to come to mind for me but there are so many others as well. Is also worth checking out some TF2's best creators such as Soundsmith and his Manns Guide series if you want more videos like what Lazypurple does and The Winglet if you want to see some of the best Animation the community has to offer. I would also recomend you watch "OVERWATCH vs TF2, but explained with food" by DougDoug as that is another fantastic video that gives some really good insight into what makes TF2 so special.

[@Eques_Umbra]

If you want to keep the TF2 reactions rolling past LazyPurple, I might have a few suggestions: - DoctorLalve has a series of gmod videos for each of the classes, that look like they were made by by an adhd addled brain on some "questionable" substances, as well as the Spook Fortress series. - The Mann vs Machine, and Jungle Inferno Trailers by Valve. - I forget his name, but one TF2ber has an entire series devoted to stereotypes based on cosmetics. Have fun!

[@skits_3d824]

For Rick May SAAAAALUTE MAGGOT!😢 Basically the voice actor passed away 2 years ago cause of Covid

[@DydexdaRobit]

Hi guys, nice video!😂

[@bushlord1519]

the video has been out for literally 2 minutes

[@sakori_the_peach8816]

Everyone already said 2007 and I started watching content for it in 2016, finally playing it in 2018.

[@joelharp8390]

Btw if you guys ever decide to play soldier and want to know how to rocket jump and/or play trolldier then I would recommend the video soundsmith how to trolldier and his other trolldier videos. Because even if you guys don't want to learn how to trolldier you will learn how to rocket jump (in the video). Plus if watch the other how to trolldier extended videos you will know what are good secondaries for trolldier/soldier and how to counter said trolldier. And again I would recommend his mann's guide videos they are really fun to watch. And thanks for the fun videos God bless you guys and have a great day :)

[@JustPierre-01]

10:00 with the amounts of sfm animations, nope you guys will never be low on content in tf2 and it will be so much enjoyable if you guys actually play the game. Maybe do a "trying out tf2 for the first time" type video. People will love that

[@itsturniptime3699]

Fun Fact According to TF2 lore Abraham Lincoln invented staircases so that the common man or woman would no longer be required to rocket jump to the next level of a building

[@kartoffelbiene]

TF2 came out in 2007 and I've been playing it since like August 2012!

[@Pingu_-_]

There is a fanmade animation called of tf2 "end of the line" valve make an update of that animation, you shall give it a try fellas.

[@RazakelKairo1994]

As someone who came from Team Fortress Classic after years of playing that game, TF2 was a sure-buy the moment it got available. So I've been playing since releaes pretty much.

[@PuregoldSTF]

TF2 is amazing fun, you can play non stop for years, and even if you stop playing you somehow always come back to it eventually. I started playing in 2017 myself, and have around 2600 hours on steam

[@plumebrise4801]

Yup ,the only thing that can stop people from coming back to the game is ... well dying IRL

[@Yacovo]

Thanks for the video.

[@iminumst7827]

I'm excited to see yall do some first time gameplay of TF2.

[@venom_spy_chaosgod]

10:47 There's Team Fortress mode for Quake and Team Foreress Classic.

[@Issengan]

I remember the only time ive ever managed a market garden. Also on a medic. Did the medic just get 100 percent? Yes. Did it prolong the loss of the match for about 30 seconds? Yes. Did we still lose? *Y e s*

[@King_DedeDEAD]

You guys should check the TF2 guides from Doctor Valve too, very informative, lotsa memes and they even have references from the comics and moar. Good stuff. 😎👍

[@MeiGoat]

I got TF2 a month before it became free to play, A MONTH! And well I've played it for over a 1,000 hours and have most time as pyro but lately have been trying to get used to other classes I haven't played much like soldier and spy, mostly sniper

[@pallokone199]

Ive played TF2 since Sunday 10th of Aprill 2011, 1:39:08 GMT And have 9211.9 hours in the game(though this includes a good amount of leaving game open time)

[@wolfmajor1]

RECONFIRMING for H-man so he's not getting it wrong for yall xD Yes it was released in 2006. I've been playing it for about 13 years, and i've got 10,349.8 hrs as of now. I main medic and cannot wait for lazy to release the "How it feels to play Medic" video.

[@tbotalpha8133]

TF2 was released in 2007, alongside Half Life 2: Episode 2 and the original Portal. I've been playing the game since the beta, though I don't play it now anywhere near as much as I did back when it first released.

[@lassesjolundeskildsen9360]

Pootis engaged and pootis extreme by ceno0 is WORTH the Watch!

[@DigitalLemon69]

TF2 Came out 10 october 2007, as part of the orange box, alongside portal and half life 2 There were a lot of team fortresses before TF2, the first one was a mod for quake, then VALVe hired the 2 developers and made Team Fortress Classic, after that, 9 years in development, they finally got a good idea about the game and released it. 15 years later and it's still one of the most played and balanced game ever.

[@CptZargon]

TF 1 is called Team fortress Classic, and it was a MUCH different game than tf2. Imagine if tf2 had csgo graphics and slightly more realistic weapons than current tf2, that's tfc.

[@KaikeCGR]

I WANT TO THEM PLAYING THE GAME! I WANT TO SEE NOW!

[@ShahggTF2]

Tf2 came out on October 10th 2007, has been free to play since 2011. I first downloaded the game in 2017, but didn't actually start playing the game very much until 2019, I don't play for very long when I do as it's a game I have to be 'In the mood' for. I currently have 1,098 hours which is not very much compared to most players. One more thing is that I would highly recommend against playing spy for a while if you do pick up the game. Spy is by far the hardest class in the game to play effectively even for experienced players and a bad spy is nothing but a detriment to the team. I would recommend Soldier, Heavy or Scout as easy to pick up classes for new players.

[@maththrive]

I know not many know what this is anymore but if you react to Red vs Blue, you wont regret it. There is comedy but also a story that unfolds over time that’s deeper than what is seen.

[@AngelaRose-420]

next up will be engineer and you will see how much different he is from trob

[@sqidwrdd]

I've been waiting for a mob psycho reaction video for 2 months

[@fireblast133]

I don’t recall when I first started tf2. But I currently have a little over 5400 collective hours in the game.

[@yoda2824]

Please watch Overwatch vs TF2 but Explained with Food by a channel called DougDoug. It still holds up even with modern Overwatch changes

[@DJsquare3]

Yes Please do this. That video is fantastic!

[@_Flippy]

Just rewatched that the other day. Would love to see them react to it too!

[@prime_s132]

i play tf2 for exactly 1460 days and 884,3 hours

[@HybridHenderson]

Epic, MORE!

[@demoman5864]

I’ve spent 1.2k hours playing this amazing game

[@spectrickx1678]

Soldier is one of the Americans of all time.

[@Slaptop.]

ive been playing since march 2020 and in have about 1000 hours in game

[@Grimbear13]

Team Fortress Classic was a Half-Life 1 mod my friends and I played when in middle school. We'd go over my one friends house who had multpile computers and find lobbies and all join and this was before there were voip things to talk to one another so we would just all shout at eachother throughout the house (usually when his parents weren't home lol). And yeah TF2 is like 15 years or so older than Overwatch haha.

[@LuigIan2000]

Been playing since 2011. I have around 3000 hours. And I’m still not very good at it…

[@narzrook3302]

Personaly, i have on tf2 2k hours, i played it for a while

[@BlueShellshock]

Anything is possible when you can jump with rockets!

[@iron_pirate76]

you guys should react to Overwatch vs Team Fortress 2 by The Winglet or nerf team fortress 2 by corridor

[@robloxboi6933]

3120 hours played here

[@mateusv.6331]

if you guys play it please record it

[@goudacheese7491]

Can yall react to end of the line

[@Poncholie]

You got to watch some uncle dane

[@murasakino9173]

Solider's voice actor died!

[@purps1741]

been playing since 2011 and have 5758 hours. :) Do I regret any of those hours? Not really

[@Mays_McMuffin]

4,053.5 hours on a span of 10 years which is nothing compared to some people I've seen

[@butWhyDad]

Can u do sniper next plz

[@DJsquare3]

They are watching the videos in order, so it looks like Engi will be next and then Sniper.

[@vaulted4239]

WHAT THE FUCK IS A 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🦅 🦅 KILOMETERRRRR 🦅 🦅 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

[@kourtneyjay2679]

😂😂

[@QuetzdoesArt]

Bro you gotta react to TheParryGod videos they're so cool

[@DrGandW]

🙌

[@AB-vj3xk]

Can you please react react to smii7y prediction compilation part 1 through 5 video it’s amazing

[@JOYBOY5657]

Day 2 of ask reaction trollhunters

[@andrevinicius7575]

Up

[@erickmoczulski1582]

TF2 came out in 2007.

[@mtndew145]

Watch Emesis Blue

[@ladbotz]

React to tf2 is a timeless masterpiece

[@Coolyo420]

You guys even gonna play the game? it's free give it a try

[@Pulvelizator10]

Rick May🫡

[@bcn1gh7h4wk]

MEN! This are the facts as I understand them! One! This video is L337! Two! You shall give it a like and subscribe to this channel until I can see my face reflected on their gold plaques! DISMISSED!

[@nicodemusmaxwell1624]

Please react to team neighborhood

[@georgedevries3992]

It might be me but so far, people who have watched Tf2 content while being COMPLETE strangers to the game (like the quartet over here), their reactions weren't... genuine. Because they don't know what the fuck they're watching and don't understand the in-game innuendos because of this. Heck, sometimes it seems they don't understand the more generic internet memes Lazy has put in. Not to mention how fucking annoying it is to have every single new TF2 reactor, compare an Overwatch character with that of TF2. Why? Because it's the more popular game out of the two? It's almost like it has become a mandatory requirement in order for TF2 outsiders and/or newcomers to understand how TF2 and its characters work. Fucking ridiculous.