{"id":70,"date":"2008-08-04T18:53:33","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T23:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/?p=70"},"modified":"2013-10-08T14:04:52","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T19:04:52","slug":"flame-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Flame On!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/gallery3\/var\/albums\/post\/2008_08_fo_header.jpg?m=1289759922\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" \/>Seyon and I enjoy Team Fortress 2 <em>a lot<\/em>. So much that we go beyond playing the game and begin to explore the realm of Screwing Around. Empty servers become playgrounds where we test oddities in game mechanics, rocket-jumping, Engineer buildings, ubers, Spy abilities, Scout accesses, achievements, etc. Yesterday we were messing around with our friends, Domino and Taco, on our <a href=\"http:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/?p=71\">own private fake LAN<\/a> and came across a few neato facts:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"list4\">\n<li>The Pyro&#8217;s Backburner (available after Pyro Milestone 2 with sixteen unlocked achievements) has a <a rel=\"lightbox-fo\" href=\"http:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/gallery3\/var\/albums\/gamess\/tf2\/pl_dustbowl_b30001.jpg?m=1290090850\" title=\"The Pyro's Backburner has a considerably longer reach than basic flamethrower.\">considerably longer reach<\/a> than basic flamethrower. The animation&#8217;s draw distance for both weapons looks exactly the same and is not a reliable tell of fire range.*<\/li>\n<li>One of the newest additions to the Pyro&#8217;s arsenal, the air compressor, has the ability to blow back Pyro <a rel=\"lightbox-fo\" href=\"http:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/gallery3\/var\/albums\/gamess\/tf2\/ctf_mach40008.jpg?m=1290090856\" title=\"The air compressor has the ability to blow back Pyro flares.\">flares<\/a>, Soldier <a rel=\"lightbox-fo\" href=\"http:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/gallery3\/var\/albums\/gamess\/tf2\/ctf_2fort0005.jpg?m=1290090855\" title=\"The air compressor has the ability to blow back Soldier rockets.\">rockets<\/a>, Demo <a rel=\"lightbox-fo\" href=\"http:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/gallery3\/var\/albums\/gamess\/tf2\/ctf_mach40009.jpg?m=1290090857\" title=\"The air compressor has the ability to blow back Demo grenades.\">grenades<\/a>, Demo <a rel=\"lightbox-fo\" href=\"http:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/gallery3\/var\/albums\/gamess\/tf2\/ctf_mach40022.jpg?m=1290090860\" title=\"The air compressor has the ability to blow back Demo stickies.\">stickies<\/a>, and sentry gun <a rel=\"lightbox-fo\" href=\"http:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/gallery3\/var\/albums\/gamess\/tf2\/ctf_mach40013.jpg?m=1290090858\" title=\"The air compressor has the ability to blow back sentry gun rockets.\">rockets<\/a> in mid-air. Each of these projectiles has its own associated kill icon, though you may have to squint to see them.<\/li>\n<li>Catching a flare within the compressor&#8217;s AoE is particularly difficult to time as it is a tiny target and rather fast. If you successfully reflect it, the flare will <a rel=\"lightbox-fo\" href=\"http:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/gallery3\/var\/albums\/gamess\/tf2\/flare_in_air01.jpg?m=1290090851\" title=\"The flare will change to the color of your team.\">change to the color of your team<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Demo stickies will not change color if blown away but <em>will <\/em>still show the reflected kill icon if he dies by them even some time later.<\/li>\n<li>The flare does little damage to the Pyro (~20 hp), so try aiming it back at one of his highly flammable teammates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>* Kudos to our buddy, Scrub, for informing me about this ninja update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seyon and I enjoy Team Fortress 2 a lot. So much that we go beyond playing the game and begin to explore the realm of Screwing Around. Empty servers become playgrounds where we test oddities in game mechanics, rocket-jumping, Engineer buildings, ubers, Spy abilities, Scout accesses, achievements, etc. Yesterday we were messing around with our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[156,15],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-games","tag-team-fortress-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5866,"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/5866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}