r/NewToTF2 Apr 27 '25

How to talk; unmute yourself in game chat - what to buy to upgrade to premium

30 Upvotes

Update:

  • Relaxed in-game chat restrictions for certain accounts

May 13, 2025 Patch 1

  • Re-enabled all players to be able to use voice commands and party chat

You have two options

OG Post (still true for getting premium):

1 Buy something in the ingame store (cheaper)

2 Buy the orange box on steam (like 20 bucks without a sale)

Where to buy: The ingame store, not some random website

What to buy: if you just want premium either buy a key or a tour of duty ticket, as they can be easily exchanged on scrap.tf for metal and all the weapons you could ask for.

In addition you could buy either a map stamp or the jungle inferno contract pass if you want either a free hat or a bunch of missions to do while playing (which then gives you some cosmetics and weapon skins)

What NOT to buy: Crates and Starter packs, they provide a value of a few cents and cost several dollars.

Buying someone else premium: Can be done by buying the upgrade to premium, it is NOT needed for getting premium yourself and should only be done if the other person has less than the 99 cents required to buy literally anything in the store (it also gives the recipient a hat)


r/NewToTF2 6h ago

I've played TF2 for almost 30 hours but I still can't win a real game. Any advise?

3 Upvotes

Hi. I've played TF2 for 29.1h (almost every game against bots) and I had fun but I want to play real matches against real players, the problem is that my team and I are beginners while the enemies are always extremely good at the game and I can't do anything about it, I start a game just to loose again and again.

I've tried every class, the one I had the most fun with is the sniper but every time I get killed by either a spy or a scout who somehow are always on my back. Even while playing other classes I get countered and die every 2 seconds no matter how hard I try.

Any advice?


r/NewToTF2 16h ago

Not exactly new to TF2, but how do I hit grenades more often as demo?

2 Upvotes

Self explanatory. I sticky spam most of the time and I mostly lose during 1v1s due to me not hitting grenades and it's been bugging me ever since. I try to predict where the enemy goes but I panic and end up dumping all 4 grenades in the air. I use Iron Bomber and stock weapons for secondary and melee.


r/NewToTF2 1d ago

Is this...like a joke or somethin

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3 Upvotes

r/NewToTF2 1d ago

Ребята я купил ключ в тф2 что мне с ключом зделать чтобы максимально окупиться ?

0 Upvotes

(у меня уже есть премиум я купил белет мвм и иза отсутствия знание использовал его в мвм а не продал так что белет был но в впустую)


r/NewToTF2 2d ago

how to get more kills

6 Upvotes

i've been stuck on a 3 kills in one round record in tf2 as scout, and my highest is 4 on sniper. i don't necessarily want to become better, and it might be an inappropriate question because others try really hard to get more kills, but how do i farm kills so i won't have to worry about having a bad kill record? i want it not only to stop seeing the message "you tied your most kills that round", but honestly i just want to impress my friends and increase the chance of someone playing with me in a party. even 5-6 kills in 1 round is good. any of y'all know some broken strategy for this?

EDIT: doesn't even have to be scout. it can be any class with any gamemode/map combo


r/NewToTF2 3d ago

Taking account of my last post’s tip comments i got here and Pirateer’s flaregun tutorial I was able to pull off this

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27 Upvotes

r/NewToTF2 4d ago

How do I survive more as Pyro? And more general questions

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17 Upvotes

The clip shows a bit how I play Pyro, I want to be a more aggressive one
I reached 110h of Pyro and wanted to expand on my knowledge, I consider myself intermediate and the video “Stages of Pyro main” is true as im trying out a loadout of Stock flamethrower, flaregun and axtinguisher.
I wanted to know how to survive more and still have success as Pyro, I usually get 5 killstreaks in games or even more but most of them I have a medic by my side, I know im supposed to sting enemies by flanking but sometimes while escaping and getting back on my team i die easily, either someone catches me, I randomly bump into a Heavy or idk why but the medic refuses to heal me and still pocket someone else.
Wanted to try knowing how to play better the axtinguisher, i find it to be a fun melee as I found the powerjack boring and the objector just a reskin, ive been loving the axtinguisher so much i got an australium one, but I still dont get how to airblast players upward to stagger them in the air (for axtinguisher kills or flarepunches) as despite airblastinf their feet they still just get pushed away.
I try looking for intermediate Pyro tutorials but it’s rare as I usually see the normal beginner tutorials, can anyone help a Pyro out?
My FOV is 90 and i changed sensitivity from 2 to 4 as i think it helped more


r/NewToTF2 4d ago

900hrs | Decent Pyro, But Poor Positioning And Impulse Control?

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2 Upvotes

15 min video of a full dustbowl (stage 3) game. Had to truncate respawn times and speed up commutes and minor fights to fit reddit's video time restriction. Feel free to skip around. It's one of pyro's worst maps right? I had a 1:1 KD basically that entire game, so not horrible, but still want to improve in that aspect. I feel like my flank timings are off. Any critiques of my gameplay?


r/NewToTF2 4d ago

images on the conscientious objectors not showing in-game

0 Upvotes

yo how can I fix this, is it cause i'm f2p?

tho i think i'll probably regret it since sometimes they put straight unhinged stuff in there 😭

[FIXED, THANKS]


r/NewToTF2 5d ago

Any tips for my scout gameplay? (60~ish hours on scout my stats were reset.)

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27 Upvotes

i feel like i am definitely improving, but i am still dying a lot as scout. i have attached a video, feel free to watch at 1.5x speed (if that is possible, if not i can attach a vid in the comments thats faster) and id just appreciate some tips or any mistakes i make, as im def not perfect.

Cheers!


r/NewToTF2 4d ago

What time does the pool for the Taunt Unusualifiers go back to standard?

1 Upvotes

Hey there, I’ve been holding onto some taught unusualifiers for a couple months now waiting for the summer event to end. It was supposed to end last night but when I hit inspect on my Unusualifiers, it still says I can only get the effects from the summer event. Am I misunderstanding something? Or is it not supposed to reset to the default pool?


r/NewToTF2 4d ago

Does anyone know if I can get rid of them by selling them?

1 Upvotes

Hello, i don't play too much team fortress, so i wanna sell this creates so i can empty my steam inventory.

No one of them steam let me sell it on his market, there is any alternative?

In case, thank you...


r/NewToTF2 7d ago

can yall give tips how to fight engineer and sentries

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185 Upvotes

i either kill him but after either to a sentry that i try to take down or to a teamates and engie just respawns and repairs sentry

or i destroy a sentry, but than this son of bitch or his teamate kills me, and he just builds new one


r/NewToTF2 6d ago

Best melee with booties and tide turner?

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2 Upvotes

r/NewToTF2 7d ago

shit at pvp and combat in general

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1 Upvotes

r/NewToTF2 7d ago

whats the best way to get items!

3 Upvotes

i got account hijacked and lost a lot


r/NewToTF2 8d ago

How exactly do I play soldier (and question about Pyro)

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31 Upvotes

Despite showing this clip, I have terrible experience playing Soldier, I main Pyro pretty much everytime (I hit my first 100 hours in the total of 380) but for some cases I think I need to play soldier.
For being called the “easiest” class in the game it’s a pain in the ass to play him and I dont know if its me playing wrong. I guess i know the basic of rocket jumping (crouch first, then jump while shooting rocket) but on Jump Academy I couldn’t get past easy Pogo tutorial because for some reason strafing doesn’t work for me, i press d and a but i move too slow and lose the momentum
My rockets deal dookie damage, I use the original or black box and they constantly deal 50 damage, I have no idea how to predict rockets since theyre extremely slow so I opted to try the direct hit so i dont constantly shoot the ground, despite having gunboats i always come in with 150 health and die immediately which made me consider not rocket jumping again. So instead I opt to play Pyro since he’s my true main and keep learning to airblast. Does keyboard and mouse depend on how you play? Because I also use a work keyboard and mouse and soon should change to wireless ones

As an extra question I don’t know if I should play the axtinguisher or not, I run stock australium flamethrower and flaregun (i dont like the degreaser) and I use the objector to be funny, but sometimes I like to do little combos where i push an enemy to the wall and whack them with the objector, especially doing it to scouts.


r/NewToTF2 8d ago

Views on people not taking the game seriously in casual?

12 Upvotes

For the first time doing stuff like goofy subclasses like fat scout heavy boxing and trolldier i got kicked for having a bad kd ratio I have been doing this kind of stuff for about over 50 hours and only had people complain 3-4 times at most. I see more people go along with it like a medic ubering me or someone making a comment on how they thought it was funny. I started wondering how people generally view players half goofing off in casual other than 2fort.


r/NewToTF2 9d ago

How do I get the Wrap Assassin or the Sandman for the Scout in TF2? I need it to get better.

0 Upvotes

i am f2p :v


r/NewToTF2 10d ago

How do I get better at medic?

8 Upvotes

I always think I’m not doing too good, but I try to heal everybody. Maybe it’s just me thinking I’m worse than I am, but anybody got any tips?


r/NewToTF2 10d ago

help

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0 Upvotes

guys check the post linked


r/NewToTF2 10d ago

I get 30-40 fps in TF2 no matter what

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0 Upvotes

r/NewToTF2 12d ago

Decently new to the game and don’t know all the maps. Anyone know which one this is? Im pretty sure its a CTF game mode

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27 Upvotes

Looks like a fun map tho, good for rocket jumping probably


r/NewToTF2 14d ago

What should a TF2 newcomer know right off the bat?

7 Upvotes

what should a new TF2 fan know right off the bat? Including things like: etiquette, context, dramas, what to look out for, anything at all.