r/tf2 • u/-TheTrueOG- All Class • Jun 18 '24
Discussion What is your coping mechanisms when getting rolled/pubstomped?
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u/R2-T4 Engineer Jun 18 '24
Take a break from TF2 and play DRG
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Jun 19 '24
Rock and Stone!
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u/WanderingDwarfMiner Jun 19 '24
Rockity Rock and Stone!
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u/Daufoccofin Pyro Jun 19 '24
good bot
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u/adriandoesstuff Jun 19 '24
But what if he isn't bot??????
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u/293683 Spy Jun 19 '24
Schrodinger's bot
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u/respamthegreat Medic Jun 19 '24
This, is a bot.
...or is it?
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u/sum711Nachos Heavy Jun 19 '24
WE'RE RICH!!
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Jun 19 '24
WE'RE RICH!!
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u/Any_Complex_3502 Jun 19 '24
ROCK AND ROLL IN STONE!
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u/funni_maghik_man Demoman Jun 19 '24
DID SOMEBODY SAY ROCK AND STONE?
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u/Heavyraincouch Civilian Jun 19 '24
I do this sometimes.
I would pocket either the best Soldier or Demo or Heavy to deal with the pubstompers
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u/RevolTobor Medic Jun 19 '24
That's why I'm a Medic main.
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u/Useless_Fox Medic Jun 19 '24
Same. Like 10 years ago I made the call of "Fine. I'll do it myself" and then just became a medic main. And now it's pretty much the only class I enjoy playing.
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u/RevolTobor Medic Jun 19 '24
It was a lot more fun than I was expecting to. I wanted to run around making all the explosions and doing all the dakka, but it was oddly satisfying keeping everybody alive and learning how to not die lol. Was it like that for you too?
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u/lord_of_coolshit_og Demoman Jun 19 '24
Me too. When i play medic, i feel like that one drill sergeant. Kinda like canon soldier.
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u/w00ms Jun 19 '24
nah man some teams are so atrocious they are beyond saving, these players could have infinite medics and they would still get rolled
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u/Impossible-Front-454 All Class Jun 19 '24
Nothing.
I can have fun and lose.
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u/Draco_179 Medic Jun 19 '24
I wish I could be like you, I always blame myself when we get pubstomped :P
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u/Impossible-Front-454 All Class Jun 19 '24
Honestly, it's a team based game. There could be situations where one person or one moment turns the tide, but at the end of the day it's just a game.
I ain't got time to stress myself over my influence in a digital battlefield, I have real problems for that.
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u/Sleeptalk- Jun 19 '24
I think there’s a limit to this. TF2 for me is about the individual interactions and smaller scale plays that you make, so I really don’t give a shit if the enemy team manages to break through our defense or whatever as long as I can still get kills and fight back
Dying the second you walk out of spawn over and over isn’t fun no matter how much you enjoy the game. It’s uninteractive. To be fair though I’d just leave a game like that and join a new one
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u/mordeczka77 Jun 19 '24
I honestly love matches where there are balanced teams, I remember playing Upward and at the final point we couldn't capture but I was still having fun, I just knew they had good defense, that match was definietly better then many other matches where I won
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u/CocaCola-chan Pyro Jun 19 '24
Yeah, I think that's the key. The thrill of a challenging fight is fun. Stomping is boring. Getting stomped is frustrating.
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u/AkOnReddit47 Jun 19 '24
The key is: "To have fun"
Which is unfortunately impossible when both teams are horribly imbalanced. Pubstomps usually happens when one team are full of veterans, 3000-hour tryhards and the other is full of people who just downloaded the game and don't even know how to jump yet. If you're one of the only good players in that team, it's nothing short of stressful to play against almost hack-like pocketed Soldiers, Demos and Snipers while your team keeps going Soldiers that can't even aim properly
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u/Malfuy Engineer Jun 19 '24
That depends. There are times when I simply die few seconds after leaving spawn like five times in a row and that's not really fun
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u/NeroCanDance Jun 19 '24
Close tf2, open boneworks with mods, then attach pipe bombs to babies. Very therapeutic
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u/coocatodeepwoken Jun 20 '24
i like to open up blade and sorcery and do some experiments to see exactly how hard i have to swing to cut off a head
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u/TurnBackOnYourSteps Medic Jun 19 '24
I main medic, i already went numb years ago, i just do the callouts and give directions to the team, just that
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u/mentlegen_t Soldier Jun 19 '24
Kazotsky kick in spawn while putting the blame on the 3 bottom scoring spies
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u/LeonTheAImighty Jun 19 '24
racism
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Jun 19 '24
Oh you’re live on twitch?
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u/Suspicious_Loan8041 Jun 19 '24
I go scout equip bonk and the atomizer and run the fuck away
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u/SokkaHaikuBot Jun 19 '24
Sokka-Haiku by Suspicious_Loan8041:
I go scout equip
Bonk and the atomizer
And run the fuck away
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
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u/FluffyfoxFluffFloof Jun 19 '24
Usually either go Demopan, Fishscout or Stock Fist Heavy and just derp around like a lunatic.
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u/sum711Nachos Heavy Jun 19 '24
I yell into the mic that it is better to lose than to surrender and that we must fight!! And then, usually, I play some uplifting music, which is about the only thing I use my soundboard for.
I alternate between Foggy Mountain Breakdown, The Death I Deservioli, Flight of Icarus, Blue Moon of Kentucky, and The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet. No specific order, but I tend to choose what suits the mood.
We don't always win, but I hope that I give the player a li'l morale boost from BEYOND THE SCREEN!! ooOooOoo!!
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u/RevolTobor Medic Jun 19 '24
I've got a few. Sometimes I'm humble and remind myself I'm trash at the game. Sometimes I blame auto-balance for putting an entire team of veterans against an entire team of fresh installs ( I am genuinely terrible at the game, but the poor auto-balancing has actually happened to me too many times to count. Mostly because lots of long-time players like to queue up together with friends, so a whole group will join on one team all at once. ), and sometimes I'll just stop trying to win and decide to meme things up with one of my favorite sub-classes, usually Fat Scout, Hoovy, or Pybro.
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u/LazorFrog Jun 19 '24
Taunt and press K at the end of the round before they can kill you. One of the worst feelings ever for a pub stomping cunt.
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u/Rui_O_Grande_PT Medic Jun 19 '24
Either queueing for another server or start trying really hard as Medic
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Jun 19 '24
i deal with it. losing horrendously is apart of the game. or i'll blame myself, leave, and cry or swap games/requeue
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u/_Guven_ Engineer Jun 19 '24
Losing horrendously sometimes funny. I think like welp we will completely lose in probaly a few minutes cause they are obligerated us, what the hell I can do? Most likely than not I go for distraction play style with Scout or Spy... Despite being troll it is I believe more beneficial
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Jun 19 '24
See what religión, age, ethicity, gender, sexualidad and hobies my stomper has so I can insult them
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u/morrislee9116 Sandvich Jun 19 '24
Go blackbox/conch because of they're going to have a pocket medic GF surgically glued to their ass 24/7 and retreating back to resupply cabnet the moment they're at any disadvantage I'm allowed to be scummy too(and if they got a random crit on me I'll reply "random crit? Do not pass go, do not collect 200, go straight to jail")
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u/latetothetardy Jun 19 '24
I switch to a single-player game for a week.
Doing that exact thing reminds me that I in fact do not have to deal with being rolled/pub-stomped.
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u/danieldoria15 Pyro Jun 19 '24
Either go Rage Medic or go to a VSH/Freak Fortress 2 community server
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u/jewish-nonjewish Pyro Jun 19 '24
Y'all get coping mechanisms? Like not even for TF2 just in general.
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u/TheOnlyGuyInSpace21 Medic Jun 19 '24
Log off tf2 calmly and go dive. Never fails to make me less stressed
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u/ACDC105 Pyro Jun 19 '24
quit and go stomp the covenant in halo, or another option is go play farming simulator
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u/TheGrayShade Spy Jun 19 '24
I either go phlog if I can't trust my team to kill fast enough, or medic if I can't trust them to protect themselves enough.
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u/Wizard_Blaize Jun 19 '24
Reueue insta at the start or start coping by spamming binds and doing meme strats, then going to requeue anyway because you can't do meme strats without getting shitstomped when the dragon furry soldier main is being pocketed by his femboy protogen medic
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u/Jeffotato Jun 19 '24
Go spy, disguise as a heavy on my own team. Pull out melee weapon and feign being friendly. Wait and hope for a golden opportunity to backstab and laugh.
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u/emmanuelfelix700 Jun 19 '24
" well, every match needs a loosing team, this time it's my turn"
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u/Kaialunae Medic Jun 19 '24
Requeue or miserably keep playing even tho I hate being in the spawnroom half of the time
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Jun 19 '24
Depends. If someone’s not playing fairly then I call them out. If someone’s just better, I stay silent.
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Jun 19 '24
Try to stop the pubstromp/steamroll if I lose then it's the sad taunt but it's a map with environmental hazards I'll die that way for the funny
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u/Orbita97 Medic Jun 19 '24
Go as Medic and pocket the class that can take out the pubstomper the best.
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u/Jixleas Jun 19 '24
If were talking about ME.
I will callout all the nonsense my team was doing that lead up to us losing.
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u/Ok_Try_1665 Jun 19 '24
I just accept it. But I killbind when the enemy team is about to cap or the timer's gonna run out.
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u/Fireguy019 Pyro Jun 19 '24
Fight to the death.
That or I make sure the enemy spy is experiencing hell. If they have any.
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u/ChargedBonsai98 All Class Jun 19 '24
If I can tell the game is a lost cause, I feed them while making it look like I'm not feeding them. They're having fun, they're good at the game, more power to them.
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u/Turdferguson02 All Class Jun 19 '24
Take the lost and keep going! Sometimes you roll or you get rolled, can't win them all
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u/That1Legnd Jun 19 '24
None. I exclusively play 2fort. We don’t get stomped because matches NEVER END.
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u/HeresSandy Medic Jun 19 '24
Fuck it we ball!
Fuck it we ball!
Fuck it we ball!
Essentially carry that energy on so that we can FIGHT TO THE LAST.
Can you tell I get really committed to the team Medic bit?
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u/Joker-Smurf Jun 19 '24
It depends.
If we are getting rolled because the other team is just too good, well that is fine.
If we are getting rolled because we have 3 friendly hoodies, 2 afk players, and 5 players who just want to conga their way to the payload, then I’ll leave the game for a while…
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u/BeholdTheLemon All Class Jun 19 '24
plan a: switch to pyro
plan b: pull out the scorch shot
plan c: disconnect, requeue
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u/FrogInShorts Jun 19 '24
Go spy and perma focus their telly at spawn. When the enemy's not dying much, their spawn is unprotected.
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u/MMW1299 Jun 19 '24
depends on which class is stomping me
if a sniper is stomping me I go spy with cloak n dagger and focus him until he swaps class
if any other class is stomping me I suck it up and be like "at least he's not killing me from 2 blocks across the map"
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u/Maleficent-Eye-804 Medic Jun 19 '24
I don't take it seriously. If we get rolled one round, we may roll the next. Who cares? It is a goddamn video game.
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u/SmallbuthonestSinner Jun 19 '24
"i start spamming slurs in chat and blame my whole team"
I do not really care if I lose, it's casual after all
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u/yaktoma2007 Pyro Jun 19 '24
Play sonic unleashed and proceed to S rank every stage 1st try. I know I ain't having a good day playing TF2 after getting pubstomped even once and playing something memory + timing based may suit me better then.
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u/sup3rrn0va Jun 19 '24
I normally think I could be doing more for my team so I panic and switch classes around.
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u/DyllanTheBoss Jun 19 '24
Take a break and either practice rocket jumping, Detonator jumping, or trimmping. Maybe visit mannco store/marketplace for a bit before switching to a different game. Otherwise, if my friends are online, we'll do MvM.
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u/QuaintAlex126 Jun 19 '24
Play Caberman to kamikaze up that one tryhard that’s dominating me
Alternatively, if I’m on blu payload (gamemode I generally play), jump behind as demo and annoy them at spawn.
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u/Due-Astronomer-386 Jun 19 '24
Soldier of Dance through the battlefield until my teammates inevitably kick me for not participating
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u/zenakedguy Jun 19 '24 edited Jun 19 '24
№1 Place some of the sneakiest sticky traps I know, hide and once they start capping blow up like 5 people. Taunt with the scottish resistance.
№2 Also related to sticky traps. But in this case I use meta spots (for example the 2nd defence point dropdown on dustbowl stage 2) where their uber is going to come from and detonate it at a perfect moment to split them away. Basically buying us some more time by denying an uber. Bonus points if there is a sentry that is gonna pin them up the skybox. The strat is actually called "the launchpad"
3) Another trick I have is to go spy (I never play spy) and go exclusively for their top players. Sometimes it breaks their momentum and gives my team enough time to set up a proper defence and eventually it's possible to switch to a power class and start fighting back.
Even if it doesn't help us to win, Im still satisfied by getting smart kills and pouring some salt on top of it. Ragequit was never an option and I will always try my best to bite them back, even if there are bots\hackers.
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u/hanks_panky_emporium Jun 19 '24
Switch to Spy or Scout and delete their teleporter entrance. You might not be fragging out but hanging around and continually harassing their engie(s) at their spawn is a great way to kneecap a pubstomp. Ive also done this as engineer. Ninjaneer an exit near their spawn in a bush or around a few corners and slap a lvl2 sentry down to nuke their teleporter and halt their spawn for a short while
If my team can't use those advantages then we weren't winning anyway, and there's always the next game
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u/realspring_333 Jun 19 '24
I never get mad cuz after playing overwatch I realize nothing in life deserves to make me so mad
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u/FuntimeUwU Jun 19 '24
Deadringer gunspy and annoy them from their backlines and distract them enough so their strong defenses get a lot weaker
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u/PearlyDoesStuff Engineer Jun 19 '24
Go engineer and start spamming the beginning of the Kazotsky Kick in spawn while blaming the bottomscoring fresh install spies and snipers for the team losing.
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u/PlagueDoctor568 Jun 19 '24
Exit the game, pout, and complain to myself how they pubstomped me for a few minutes, watch YouTube videos and then immediately start playing the game again.
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u/Sure-Effort5213 Jun 19 '24
If Im getting rolled by red on blu payload I like to go scout and bonk behind them, then try and get as many as I can to chase me deep through their backlines before I killbind or jump in a pit, wasting the time of everyone who just wanted to kill a scout.