What's the dumbest you've felt while playing?

y2bd · 3 months

One time I spent a minute backstabbing a heavy and his medic before I realized we were on the same team.

isodef · 3 months

I had an amazing sentry set up at my base in Badlands. It was in perfect alignment! No Demos could harm it! I didn't see the giant pane of glass directly in front of me. Being the only defense on my team, we lost the round.

Jeff_Drake · 3 months

Every single time I drop Uber it makes me want to quit playing in shame.

xSKASx · 3 months

I was in a lobby when a medic with full uber appears. He also had a spy from my team right behind him. Without thinking, I flame & airblast and try to flare (which missed) right before the spy could backstab the medic. The heavy the medic was pocketing killed us both. They ended up winning that round.

It was sad day. It was also the day stabby stabby yelled at me.

natemckn · 3 months

After realizing I got my tele entrance and exit backwards. A teammate asks "uhh... Nate, why is your exit at spawn?". I changed class out of embarrassment.

TheColorMan · 3 months

I fell for a stair-stab. That is all.

jobosno · 3 months

I spent a whole minute not paying attention to who I was healing, thus failing to realise that I was healing a heavy with my own username...then he backstabbed a friendly soldier...that must have been one happy spy.

just_defy · 3 months

I think the most common thing is when I get team switched and don't realise, then start shooting at team mates.

SunSlayer11 · 3 months

I'm on a ledge that is trapped with my own sticky bombs. I'm pipe spamming the other team and a teammate comes up from behind. When I see him, think "spy check," and promptly blow myself to little bits with the stickies.

AJM69 · 3 months

As an Engy on 2fort, I was using my Widowmaker to spy-check and found a Spy. I chased him across the map until I ran out of ammo and was in the enemy base. The Spy got away and I was down to my pistol. Desperate to get back to my nest and angry at myself for chasing a Spy that far, I started to run back to my base only to be eradicated by a Heavy. While I was waiting for respawn, the very Spy that I was chasing went back to my nest and sapped my shit before I could get to it. Oh yeah, then the Spy continued to C&D camp where my nest originally was and stab me each time I tried to rebuild. Trust me, it did absolute wonders for my self-esteem.

Zidijan · 3 months

Every time I try to play pyro in Highlander matches. I almost always feel like everyone sees me as a W+M1 noob

dupuiwi · 3 months

When the sticky-jumper came out, i tried using it as a weapon that does damage... someone had to tell me, it did not feel good

esssssss · 3 months

Pretty much always.

hobbaloo · 3 months

This one time, I was attacking as Pyro on Barnblitz, and we were trying to get the final cap. I get sent in with an uber, and then proceed to kill many players, but as soon as it runs out I get owned by a sentry that I didn't see in time. The funny thing is that this happened twice in the same round in the same place >.>

CuriositySphere · 3 months

Stab sentry, sap heavy.

I actually didn't feel that dumb, because it was a muscle memory issue and not a miscalculation or anything, but it's still an embarrassing mistake to make.

Rtbush12 · 3 months

2nd stage Dustbowl at the one way gate. I'm defending as a solly watching the gate, ready to unleash fury on anyone who opens it to let my rockets in. Another soldier appears and trys to snap shoot me a bit by opening and closing the gate. This continues for an awkward 30 secs or so. Feeling equally matched, we stand there. Then he taunts and I hit the g key in response and immediately realize I am fucked

TheSkai · 3 months

I used to think a player named "replay" was stalking me to every server

Gorgoleon · 3 months

Waaayy back in the day I can remember playing on Red team on the 1st stage of Goldrush. I waited at the gates outside of red spawn for the match to begin so I could run out there and own everyone, only to be told by a teammate that those gates don't actually open.

nightfan · 3 months

I ubered a spy. I felt like shit.

EDIT: I meant an enemy spy. Sucks.

Swayhaven · 3 months

When I used to play a LOT of Engineer on 2fort when I first started playing, a DR Spy tried to destroy my sentry setup. I shot at him with my pistol, he cloaked, he came back, this happened again. And he was disguised differently everytime making my brain hurt even more. I was like "I.. uh, I think this spy, maybe, MIGHT, be hacking, um, can we like votekick him or something?" lol I was such a noob. At least I wasn't yelling "OEHGE HAX GET OUT" lol, but my brain was to broken.

ClownFundamentals · 3 months

Accidentally hit the chat key in a fight
Wonder why I'm not moving
See the chat box fill up with "sssssssdsddddsssss"
Die

Atheistical · 3 months

Sucessfully dodging a Sniper and then missing all 6 shots when I get up to his face.

Worst feeling ever.

obeliskos · 3 months

In recent memory? I blew myself up shooting a bonk scout at point blank. :|

whatofit · 3 months

I forget. But in the last few days, it's a tossup between my saw evasion and misclicking sandvich.

uncleMonteh · 3 months

Today

Playing red soldier on Dustbowl stage 1 cap 2. Saw an Engineer on point. "Cool, he got this. Wait, why isn't he buil"-Backstab

Lost the point.

zevz · 3 months

I am a rare player in the fact that my secondary button (right mouse button, used for cloaking etc) is fixed on the space key. This causes big mistakes at times. For example, if i wrangle my sentry and want to shoot rockets, sometimes i accidentally pick up the sentry instead, and the enemy just rush me.

Same with spy, especially if i quickswitch, it's a bug in tf2 where mouse2 is permanently bound to cloaking if you quickswitch.

FieldsOfPlough · 3 months

Dropping Uber to a 8 sticky trap.

yummycoffee · 3 months

Spy checking the spawn room. D'oh.

greenbot · 3 months

I disguised as an enemy soldier on 2fort, then got confused and hit my rocketjump macro under the enemy's grate. The nearby sentry filled me with lead.

GrantSolar · 3 months

Whenever I take a teleporter then spend 5 minutes stealthily infiltrating the wrong base

Lurcho · 3 months

I once reversed my teleporter placement with the exit at the spawn and the entrance elsewhere. Derp.

Cupcaketf2 · 3 months

Nothing makes me feel more red in the face stupid then...

Missing the jump through the grate on 2fort as soldier.

I always look around to make sure no one saw that.

JohhnyTopside · 3 months

Ubering in the spawn room...during setup..

cozeffect2 · 3 months

I was derping around as a demoman on payload defense, and had the half zatoichi equipped because I was low on health. A medic saw me, and started healing me. There was a sentry ahead so he popped his uber on me. All I could do was flail aimlessly at the sentry while the medic was yelling over his mic to "kill it, what the hell are you doing?"

WarrenY · 3 months

Every time ever.

Xplayer · 3 months

I will never feel more idiotic and humiliated as a proud pyro than being backstabbed by the spy I just set on fire and tried to axe.

sputnix · 3 months

my dumbest moment was when I was auto balanced to the other team and I didn't register it in my brain, so while playing pyro and saw teammates on fire, instead of puffing them out, I switched to my Axtinguisher and started hitting them with it, and when they died I thought I killed them. It wasn't until a couple of deaths later I finally figured out colour my team was yeah not my proudest moment

Super_Inuit · 3 months

I ran at a spy as a W M1 Pyro thinking "I'm a pyro, I got this."

He revolvered me to death. No random crits.

EDIT: From full health

Illusion13 · 3 months

I once tried to be a leet engi by setting up tele entrance right away, and then my nest, using the set up time. Wasnt by a minute or so after the match started that I realized I had built the exit instead by our spawn. I proceeed to announce that I am a fucking idiot and then rage quit.

saioke · 3 months

Trying to airblast another pyro off a platform in capture point, but the point had this roof above that didn't allow for proper airblasts. I forget the name of the map. Ended up getting our medic killed in the process; which caused the medic to complain that I sucked. I did suck, I don't know what I was thinking, but that's the worst moment I ever had in the game.

IAMWastingMyTime · 3 months

Well once I had installed mumble and made the push-to-talk key the same as my screenshot key. Went on like that for a week before realizing it.

DeltaEks · 3 months

On koth_harvest; I have über; I see a heavy calling for medic; I über him; He just walks around and does nothing for 5 seconds; turns out it was a spy...

pofoman456 · 3 months

I uber'd an enemy spy

tehInvader · 3 months

reflected a sticky tramp to a friendly medic... who had the uber ready :(

Fremen13 · 3 months

I was in a scrim with my team last night and I fucking popped by mistake. I didn't press M2 on purpose, it just kind of happened as my finger twitched from weapon switch over to M2....but I was kinda high so I'm going to use that as an excuse.

ObservingOwl · 3 months

It's usually when I'm playing pyro. I've just started really practicing it, but I've gotten really good at airblasting rockets, and can have volleys on dodgeball servers at over 200 mph and what not. For some reason, though, when I'm just pubbing about to practice, I miss three fucking rockets in a fucking row and that stupid soldier kills me and I only ever set him on fire with a flare. Sigh. TT

davis8282 · 3 months

The other day as medic I just got full ubercharge and the heavy I was pocketing just died. As I made my way towards re spawn, I saw a funny message in chat and attempt to reply to it, accidentally pressing o which I have bound to kill. So frustrating...

Obj_solid · 3 months

playing as a battle medic whenever I charge at a pyro with the saw, or a pyro is charging at me while I'm shooting needles at him, I expect him never to airblast and I'd almost always come out victor, but more and more I just get air-blasted against the wall burning then shot with a shotgun like an idiot, I miss ignorant pyros.

Jimmy · 3 months

Every time a sentry kills me while I'm trying to blow it up. Makes me feel like a failure of a demo. :(

Canadiandynamite · 3 months

Sometimes I'll shoot at players on the same team as me. No, not because I'm spychecking. But because I haven't realized I got switched! It still happens sometimes when I'm not paying attention or afk.

Pengn · 3 months

I once sat around as Soldier mindlessly building Uber while a Pyro came around and fried my Medic. I somehow failed to notice this, despite him telling me about it over voice chat.

I departed the server in shame.

AggieDem · 3 months

Every time I'm on a 5 CP and I forget which team I'm on.

fireinthesky7 · 3 months

Early on in my demoman days, I had more than a few instances of trying to shoot my sticky bombs over a wall, not noticing that they weren't quite making it. I blew myself up a lot. I'll still have moments when I miss one or two with the Scottish Resistance and forget that I'm standing on them when I hit M2.

jetricx · 3 months

Building a teleporter exit instead of an entrance at the beginning of a round...and only realizing til I try to build the exit later.

robhol · 3 months

I have a bad tendency to keep cloaking under the worst possible conditions. Not sure why, I just panic.

Fire? Welp, better cloak. Jarate? Clooaaak... and then, half a second later... wtf, brain?!

nottinoob · 3 months

As a medic, -Falling for obvious matador stab, -Kritzing an enemy spy which was disguised as a demo(which then kritz enforcer shot me to death) and -Overhealing an enemy spy which then stabs you when you later on.

MeldingPlague · 3 months

Pretty much any time I become Hale in the Saxton Hale mod. It becomes a feeding frenzy when the other team realizes that Hale has no idea what he is doing. I'm okay with it, though. I think it's uplifting for the whole team to mercilessly dominate Hale every once in awhile. I like to think I fill the gap between getting trounced by veteran Hale players who know how to trounce 31 adversaries with ease.

TheCodexx · 3 months

I've played so much Minecraft that I often press "Q" to drop my Sandvich because it's the same basic idea as throwing blocks/items and it even has a similar look and feel to it.

So naturally I swap to the Minigun and sometimes I don't realize I didn't throw the Sandvich, just switched back to my main hand weapon.

funkyb · 3 months

Last night I was playing DH soldier on Hoodo stage 1. I was defending the doorway to the final cap and saw a nemesis sign hanging above someone I couldn't see down the wooden tunnel on the ledge just outside where I was. I was hopping and sending (useless) DH rockets over his head Nd trying to see who it was. Turns out it was a sniper and he caught on to my hopping. POW, right in the kisser.

rannos · 3 months

One time I followed an enemy spy around for a minute or so healing him thinking it was my friend that I was playing with. Turns out my friend was just trolling me and telling me the spy was him. I had a good laugh when the spy got the "FYI i'm a Spy" achievement.

PastaNinja · 3 months

I posted this before, but trying to sticky jump with the Grenade Launcher.

gilmore606 · 3 months

Getting lost on my way to A while defending Steel. With a medic in tow. And a couple other teammates following. We didn't get there until it was already capped.

The worst part is that I've probably played Steel a hundred times.

miss_j_bean · 3 months

There are a few maps my brain just can't properly store and there have been a few times when I've wandered completely lost. Once there was another player who kept following me as I wandered in circles. I kept trying to tell him I was lost, too, but he either didn't understand or didn't care. We never found the "Action" and the round ended.

Also, when playing on nucleus, I'd venture that at least 70% of my deaths are my own fault. When I play on my laptop it's hard to time where I think I am with where I actually am (blow myself up a lot on the lappy, too).

Junipero · 3 months

As a medic,

Whenever I get lured away from the group into a 1-on-1 (or worse, into the oncoming enemy team). I let this happen to me 3 lives in a row once.
When I can't find any single one of my teammates and I'm just running around like a jackass in an empty part of the map (this happens less now, after getting used to most of the maps).

the_comedian666 · 3 months

Chasing a spy up the stairs...only to have him stair stab me.

Medibro · 3 months

During my first game, I thought Spy was the best class in the game because he could instantly kill enemies with the Knife. I didn't realise you had to backstab them and I didn't even know how to disguise or cloak. I ran around in plain sight trying to melee enemies for like three rounds, even Pyros. I facepalm whenever I look back at this moment.

BubbaWoop · 3 months

plr_hightower, at the enemies' barn, with heavy at full über, walk backwards off the cliff

turtle_logo · 3 months

not scouting a 6-pool

HypocriteOpportunist · 3 months

I hate to admit this, but one time, I ubered a Heavy with the intention of him running up and taking out the sentry. When we ran in there ubered, he stood in front of the sentry just taunting and I got mad and started yelling on the mic, "Why aren't you taking out the sentry!?" Then I realized I ubered a spy and felt like an idiot. Ugh...

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