Picture the scene: I've just respawned and some kindly engineer has built a teleporter. Fantastic! I no longer have to walk to battles. I step on the teleporter, which is still recharging. Lo and behold, someone else on my team pushes their way onto the teleporter. At this point the teleporter becomes confused, and since it can only teleport one person at a time, a battle occurs in which the two of you fight for the ability to teleport first. I have found that I have about a 30% success rate in these conflicts, which I would like to increase. In short, how can I win teleporter battles? Is my success determined by where I stand, or else by who is more towards the centre of the teleporter? Or is it instead determined by something entirely different?
How to win teleporter battles
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Valve used to show some statistic of Team Fortress 2 map at this page. But unfortunately they have recently removed maps statistic in favor of leaderboards and achievements only.
Another good source of TF2 data stats is TF2Stats.net, but at the moment it shows only the popular maps and map saturation history. Could be that in future they will add more info.
UPDATE: I found a link to official Valve's Team Fortress 2 Stats via Google: here. It doesn't contain custom maps stats, but only official maps.
As a Soldier, you shouldn't have much trouble with mini-sentries. Direct Hit shots can 1-shot an un-Wrangled mini-sentry, and all the other rocket launchers can 2-shot un-Wrangled mini-sentries.
No, the real problem is usually the Engineer who is taking pot-shots at you with his (if he's smart) Pistol while you deal with his mini-sentry.
In other words, kill the Engineer first if he's around.
The classes mini-sentries are particularly effective against are:
- Scouts
- Pyros
- Demo-Jumpers (Demoman with Sticky Jumper + Ullapool Caber)
- Identity Thieves (Spies with Your Eternal Reward) who have yet to get a kill
- Snipers dumb enough not to avoid them
Mini-sentries are nearly useless against:
- Demomen
- Heavy
- Snipers who are smart enough to avoid them
- Spies who have their disguise kit.
They're moderately useful against everyone else.
Side Note:
Mini-sentries are good to put near you if you know the other team has YER spies. However, keep in mind that YER Spies will stop be shot by the gun if they backstab someone. This is different from Spies with the disguise kit who will continue being shot if they disguise after the sentry starts firing.
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According to my brother who is almost at the magical 10.000 hours required for mastery in TF2, the distance between the center of the teleporter and the center of the character play an important role. This means if one is crouching, he will have better chances. He also noted that taunting might help too.
Disclaimer: These are not my observations and may lack any scientific rigour. Confirmation bias could also be present. Without the source code or input from a developer, it would take lots of experimentation.
As a developer myself, I would implement it by either distance (the closer you are the more likely you will be chosen), sequence (the first person to step onto it will be chosen), some internal ID (the character who joined sooner / later to the server will be chosen) or random (self explaining).