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Wanna kill a sniper?  On 2FORT, dash the bridge and enter the enemy base, directly below the sniper you saw.  Stop,  Prime your grenade, and then backpedal outside.  Hurl your grenade upwards, and let'em have it!  Remember this works best if you go inside the fort a little bit, because being inside will block out the noise of the grenade being primed, leaving mr.sniper off-guard.

If you like to snipe (and who doesn't) you need a better crosshair than the standard TFC one.  There are probably many out there; I recommend this one. It is a simple black cricle with a small red dot in the middle.  Once you download it, unzip the file into your tfc/sprites directory (there is a good chance you won't have a sprites folder; CREATE it).     

Be a spy and disguise yourself as the enemy team.  Get close to a medic, and yell MEDIC!  As the enemy medic comes toward you, shoot him with your tranquilizer gun.  Then circle-strafe around him, thrusting your knife into him.  Gibbs, anybody?  This  maneuver woks best in a narrow hallway, because it is easier to shoot the medic if you know he is coming towards you in a straight line. 

How many times have you ran from your side of WELL to the other, hit the yellow door button, ran inside and get mowed down by some sentry gun in the corner of the room?  This happens quite often; to make it worse, many a time there will be enemy demomen setting pipebomb traps at the door.  So how do you take out the sentry???  Be an engineer.  Go right up to the enemy's main entrance and open the door.  Try to peak inside and see where the sentry is.  Doesn't matter if you get killed- just get a good view of the sentry.  Then, back up outside, and find the spot the sentry would be IF you could see through the wall.  Back up once more, and then toss some EMPs' The EMP blasts will detonate the sentry through the wall.  "SG DOWN!!!"

You are in the enemy basement of 2FORT, you have the flag, but you have NO grenades left and you are bad on health.  To make things worse, you know that the enemy soldier that u just killed is waiting on the ramp up FOR U!  Well, you have two options, ask your team for help (what a foreign concept in TEAM Fortress) or, you can play a little spy game.  Position yourself in the corner of the basement room, so you are RIGHT next to the base of the ramp.  Wait till someone on your team dies, and quickly throw the flag in front of you.  Chances are the enemy soldier will come down.  When he enters the basement, he will walk right pass you.  Snap the flag and GET OUT, you can out run him! 

Here is a tip if you build a sentry gun in the basement of 2FORT (outside the flag room).  Drop a couple of ammo bags near the entrance of the room.  This way, if an enemy is waiting at the entrance, toss an EMP his way, and the ammo bags will provide a sure-fire kill.  Brilliant!

On Hunted, sometimes there is a soldier who always gets to the assassins faster than anybody else.  What this soldier does (most likley) is to rocket jump into that little vent by the bodyguard's respawn area, and then rocket jump out of it- he will arrive at the base of the big ramp on the right of the escape doors.  If you respawn near this big ramp, go to the hole inside that leads to where he body guards are.  Dont jump down it- just crouch by it and charge up.  When that soldier trys to rocket jump, release the button and WHAP! 

In the HUNTED alleyway, there is an opening that leads to the RUINS.  As you enter this opening, you will see boxes lining the right side of the room.  One of the boxes is short; you can jump onto it and behind the others.  From this box, you re shadowed very well and can snipe- fat bastards and soldiers won't know where that nine-milli ever came from! 

I hate lag.  It really screws up the game.  So, using some, uh, console manipulation, we can cure the problem.  I don't always do this, but after a long game it is fun to toy with (the minds of) other players.  DO NOT do this a lot!  You can have fun with it, but don't be a punk.  Click here to find out how this works.  Remember, in the end, all you are doing is compensating for lag  :) 

One of the best places to build a Sentry Gun in ROCK2 is in the main respawn, facing the hallway.  This is pretty effective for the defense, and can be hard to take out.  But it has a weakness.  Enter the enemy yard.  For medics/scouts, concussion jump onto the yard deck.  For soldiers, rocket jump up.  The deck has four corners, and an exit at each one.  Go to the one in the top left corner (from a birds-eye view) and hop down the ladder.  You will find yourself behind the sentry gun in the enemy respwan!  Now, take out the sentry at your leisure.  (nailgun/grenade prefered) 

Want to add a little, uh, spice to TFC?  I modified the titles.txt in the TFC folder.  This file has all the text titles that are displayed in the game.  I suggest you use mine, if you like the concept, modify the titles yourself and send it to me to post!  To intsall, click here, highlight all text, and copy the text.Then, open up the titles document, delete all the original text, and paste in the new one. 

Many people build sentry guns in the corner of the first room outside the main respwan in 2FORT.  To destroy these guns, simply enter the enemy base and stop under the semi-open grate.  Be a demoman/soldier/hw guy and chuck your special grenades above the grate and into the right hand corner.  It will probably kill the gun and the attendent engineer as well!

Were you annoyed by the fact that THE WELL has no grenade bags in the main respawns?  I was sure as hell was.  But, if you are a scout, medic, pyro, hw guy, or soldier, you can beat this obstacle.  Walk outside the respawn doors and position yourself under the hole in the attic.  Prime your grenade (concuss. ideally) and jump at the last second before the explosion.  This will send you flying upwards; drift left or right in the air and you are walking in the attic!  This is made much easier with a grenade timer.

Is one of your favorite classes medic or scout? If so, I got 2 words for ya:  CONCUSSION JUMPING.  Concussion jumping is when you use the blast of a concussion grenade to jump realy far (try roof to roof on THE WELL).  This is truly one of the skillz of TFC: you can always get better at it.  I got some tips for ya and i can help you find the grenade timer (see paragraph to the left of this one)  but the rest of it is up to you!

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