A few weeks ago (the Friday before Melissa’s Wedding, as a matter of fact), I joined a few of the guys in my office in a friendly little game of TF2 against a team from Bethesda. We won a battle here and there, but lost the war overall.. heh.. but we had a fantastic time playing.

The guys at Bethesda put together a snazzy little video documenting the encounter. I’m embedding it here for your viewing pleasure:

There’s also a very nice write up on their blog:

We’re quite comfortable on Dustbowl, having played it on nearly every encounter, and we have established roles for every player on our massive roster. Every player knowing what their role is, and what is expected of them…but Mythic wasn’t here to play, they were here to win! Mythic pushed hard, and staggering ubers, managed to beat back our front line. Forced back almost immediately, Snobfrog, Villain and Mr. B Natural held off the forces as long as they could. Huddled inside the shack where the point awaited capture, Iplasma heard what we thought would buy us the time we need to reestablish our defensive perimeter. “I am fully charged,” he instinctively rushed at me calling for medic and leading me out from the cap point almost immediately.

One of the highlights of the game, for me, was on The Gravel Pit map (where one team controls three points, and the other team has to capture all three points to win). We had captured point A, and were having a devil of a time getting point B. Bethesda was doing a great job at defense. There was 2 seconds on the clock, and a few of our guys rushed Point B. Since we had a man on the point when the timer hit zero, the game went into overtime. We managed to not only take point B, but rush and take the final point as well, winning the game in overtime. I don’t think I’ve ever cheered that much. That was a fantastic round. In their words…

the fighting at B was intense, and it was held onto until the last 5 seconds of the match. Somehow our defenses had slipped, and with literally 2 seconds remaining in the match, Mythic had half of their force on the point. Everyone raced from the spawn point to push them from B and end the round in overtime, but it was not to be. A crafty engineer from Mythic had set a sentry gun up on top of C, which picked us off one by one, forcing to watch in desperation as we lost both points in overtime.

If you haven’t gotten into TF2 yet, you don’t know what you’re missing. Especially with a group of friends, it’s such a fun game to play. We had a great time that night, and look forward to a rematch soon