Coaching

Coaching is a new feature added in the March 18, 2011 Patch (Beta) for the Team Fortress 2 Beta. In this patch along with the replay and Voting Systems came Coaching, Coaching gives the ability for a player to call (by pressing the whistle in the Escape menu) for a volunteer to help them in the battlefield. You can volunteer by pressing the headset button on the main menu, once pressed you will be in a queue to be matched with a "student". Once the game has found you a "student" it will ask if you would like to coach them, upon pressing "Yes" you will join the server the "student" is in and will commence Coaching.

Commands

What the coach sees once issued the attack command.

When the coach uses MOUSE1 by default on something a trumpet will sound and a arrow and text will say attack here/him/this depending on what you clicked, this is visible to the coach and the "student" only. MOUSE2 by default works the same as MOUSE1 but instead of attack here/him/this it will be defend here/him/this again depending on what you clicked this is followed by some drums. This works the same with all the commands. 1 by default is Go Here witch plays a whistle sound and 2 by default is look here witch plays the sound of a human whistle. If you click on a moving object or person the note will follow them in 3D space.

The outline the coach sees around his "student".

View

The Coach has the choice of a first person, a third person or a free camera view. His "Student" will glow much like the Payload carts.

The color of the glow will change depending on the "Students" health, Green to Red or Healthy to Near Death.

Update history

March 18, 2011 Patch (Beta)

• Coaching:
  • The coach can no longer see stealthed Spies or see through the disguise of Spies on the opposite team of their student
  • The coach can no longer see the classes of enemy players in the scoreboard
  • Fixed various exploits and bugs

March 11, 2011 Patch (Beta)

• Coaching:
  • The coach is now tethered to the student, so that they cannot get too far
  • Added the distance to student in coach GUI
  • Coach now has the same PVS as the student
  • When the student respawns, the coach warps back to student
  • Added an option to "like" coach by pressing F9.

March 10, 2011 Patch (Beta)

• Coaching
  • Fix issue where player loses student status, which prevented them from kicking a coach
  • Rate limit coach commands to once per second
  • Do not show coaching annotations if they are attached to an object that is NOT the same team as the student, unless the object is in view.
  • Fix glow around former students
  • Notify coach when their student has died

March 9, 2011 Patch (Beta)

• Added in-game Coaching system

Gallery

<gallery> File:CoachingGlitch_01.jpg| A Gitch where you can still see the outline when playing normaly </gallery