The Ultimate Team Fortress 2 Guide

Written by |CBW|Spive | Wed, Oct 10th, 7:32 pm | Game Guides

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Team Fortress 2, after years of waiting and a few detours along the way, it's finally here. Here at CBWGaming.com, we're hoping to assemble the ultimate TF2 guide and keep it updated with the latest information, tips and strategies. At this point we've broken our guide into 3 parts:

• The Ultimate TF2 Guide
• TF2 Classes: Part I
• TF2 Classes: Part II

Guide Last Updated: Nov 15/07

The Game

TF2 is a online only multiplayer game developed and published by Valve
Corporation. The game is team-based and currently has two game modes,
Capture the Flag and Control Point. In Capture The Flag, each team tries
to capture the other team's "Intelligence" which is in the form of a
briefcase full of documents. The intelligence can be captured and score a
point for their team by moving their player over the intelligence and
running back to your own team's intelligence room. If the player dies with
the intelligence, it lies on the ground for 1 to 2 minutes before being
returned to it's original location. If your team's intelligence is lying
out in the open, protect it from being picked up again by the other team -
if they touch it again before being killed, the 1-2 minute clock starts all
over again and you'll need to protect your intelligence that much longer
before it is returned to it's home. Control Point gametype has teams
trying to capture and hold 3 to 5 control points on the map - control them
all and your team scores a point. Each gametype has an overtime mode where
if the team score is tied after the game time runs out, it's sudden death.
Players don't respawn during this period and the way to win for your team
is to either eliminate all the enemy players or complete the map objectives
before your opponents or the sudden death time runs out.


The whole gang

What do I need to play TF2?
Can your PC play TF2? Valve's recommended specs are...

Minimum: 1.7 GHz Processor, 512MB RAM, DirectX? 8 level Graphics Card, Windows® Vista/XP/2000, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

Recommended: Pentium 4 processor (3.0GHz, or better), 1GB RAM, DirectX® 9 level Graphics Card, Windows® Vista/XP/2000, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

If your PC meets the minimum requirements, then you need to pick up a copy of Team Fortress 2. (You can also get Orange Box for the XBox 360 now and for PS3 later in 2007) You can get it a couple of ways right now. First is via Valve's online store on their Steam platform. The standalone game is $29.95 or you can get it in their Orange Box package which contains Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Portal and Team Fortress 2. Orange Box costs about $50. Either way, you will need to install the Steam application which manages all the games you've purchased from Valve. Steam can automatically keep your games patched up to the latest version without you have to go searching around the internet for update files. Once your Steam account is setup and TF2 is installed, now you need to get online...


Heavy Weapons Guy vs a Scout

How do I play TF2 online? Easy - fire up Steam, click on your Games tab at the top and double click on Team Fortress 2. Once the game loads, you see you have an option to "Find Servers" - click on that. On the "Internet" tab, click on Refresh button and wait until the server lists loads. You can click on any server that looks good to you - maybe one that is currently running the map you like or more importantly one that has low latency (ping).

CBWGaming.com runs some excellent servers that are well administered and low latency to most gamers in North America. You can find a list of these servers here. You can find those servers in your Internet tab if you sort alphabetically and scroll down to CBWGAMING.COM or in the Favorites tab, enter their IP:Port information directly.

This should give you a basic guide to the game and how you can get up and running. Next we'll move onto the player classes and how to play them.

• TF2 Classes: Part I
• TF2 Classes: Part II



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