My Experiences in Arena Mode.

After playing Arena Mode for little under an hour, I have to say I am a little disappointed. When I first joined the server, I was really excited. But when I got in, it said I had to wait for the next round. I was chill with that at first. But when I got in, I died in less then a minute. My team lost and it booted me out again. This happened to me multiple times. In pubs, one team always has better communication or better players, so the other team gets worked everytime. I was stuck in that cycle. My team got worked over and over, making me sit out. I realized on an average of ten minutes, I was actually playing only 3 minutes. Why does the server even have slots for people to just sit and wait to play? Isn't that what spectator is for? Not to hate on the new update, but this experience will keep me away from Arena Mode in pubs. What are your thoughts?

I think we should wait until the TF2F servers are running Arena before we judge. On the servers there's an unparalleled amount of communication and teamwork that I hope will carry over into Arena. Hopefully we'll have a better experience. I think it will definitely be great in pugs and comp play.

That is exactly it. It is not too fun in pubs if you are always on the losing team.

From what I can tell from playing for a couple of hours of arena, the Engineer doesn't have a role. There's only one CP, so he can't build defense behind the lines. There isn't really any time to get anything other than a level 1 set up before you're in the thick of things. I don't understand why they would create a game mode that completely negates one class. One of the beautiful things about the game is the balance and how every class has a unique role to fill. Now there is a huge hole where the Engineer is not in the least competitive.

kinda reverse for me. I tough I would hate it but its not too bad actually.

I thought this was extremely like css where you die you have to like wait 1~2 minutes to respawn and continue killing.

Must be nice to actually be able to experience it!

I rather liked it, its fun to play on a team with less than 12 people. Crits kind of ruin the mood though, especially when one guy starts doing exceptionally well in a round.

explodeder, I agree completely. I didn't even bother trying to play engi, because my teams engi, no matter what level sentry they had up, would always die. Really, me biggest concern is sitting out. Its extremely stupid and wastes peoples time. Only one person should sit out, while they wait for another player to join to make the teams even again.

I like it, but spies are overpowered in it.