Talk:Getting Started

Content to be summarised

Getting started

• http://atf2l.org/getting_started/
• http://www.cadred.org/News/Article/157101/
• 6v6 Newcomer Guide ETF2L
• AsiaFortress Getting Started

Game customisation

• AsiaFortress
• atf2l

Other

• n00b's guide to finding competitive teams

How this page should look

this is a wiki, so feel free to improve it if you wish. Maxim (talk) 12:24, 14 December 2013 (WET)

<insert highlight reel/inspirational video>

What is competitive TF2

• 6v6 is 2 scouts, 2 soldiers, 1 demoman, 1 medic
  • <imagery/videos of each?>
  • why this combination of classes in 6v6?
  • roles of each class, briefly -> direct to class pages
• 9v9 is one of every class
  • roles of each class -> direct to class pages

How a competitive game is played

<video here pls> (maybe this one eXtv: Intro to Competitive TF2)

• logistics
  • map types
    • (the Push/KOTH/AD pages better explain what the common strategies for each mode are)
  • types of scoring
• how to play the game
  • rollouts
  • midfights

I can already see the above area becoming too involved
 for a getting started guide, we'd need to move this to the 
[[6v6]] page? though it also applies to 9v9... HELP -maxim

• how to think about the game
  • advantages/disadvantages
  • decision making
  • <insert framed quotes from the many forum posts that have been written on this topic>
    • perhaps see bowt or yuki

maybe thinking about the game can be moved to under a 
[[metagame]] page, so we can keep this section brief? -maxim

Game optimisation

• performance
  • see asia fortress guide & atf2l guide
• custom huds (a cursory mention)
• prec

Where to?

• pugs
  • describe them as your entry point, and delegate to PUGs page?
• newbie mixes
  • an NA thing i think...
• leagues
  • list them
  • what is a whitelist/why?
• finding a team
  • tips/don't be an idiot/expectations
• media
  • where to find more content about comp tf2
    • casting/forums/fragvids/essays

some kind words here

Common questions

• FAQ here

Preliminary thoughts

This page should eventually become a getting started guide for competitive tf2. Not sure if we need original content, as there are a few getting started guides already out there.

Best to continue to collate them here, before an Editor summarises it all.

• http://atf2l.org/getting_started/
• http://www.cadred.org/News/Article/157101/
• http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2610054
• http://etf2l.org/help/new/

Not sure whether the scope of this page should be

• Intro. to the gamemodes
• your future tf2 career, from team to team, pugging, mixes. pubs -> lobby -> pugs? -> team
• technical requirements

theres a lot of content to be covered...

-Maxim (talk) 15:58, 3 July 2013 (WEST)

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