Try Team Fortress 2 and you get better.

What.

Considering like, 3/4 of the community for that game are now people who have been playing less than a month and a half...

Well I learned a lot from this, thanks. 

I'll still be better. So just give up

Well I learned a lot from this, thanks. 

I've tried it, but I haven't gotten better...

The best way to get better is to play Medic for a bit because you help the team just by staying alive and healing them and can observe what roles the other classes play.

Get better by realizing that the game isn't about just getting kills. A selfless player who plays for the better of the team can literally make the difference between a win and a loss.

@SSully said:

Get better by realizing that the game isn't about just getting kills. A selfless player who plays for the better of the team can literally make the difference between a win and a loss.

Take crockets to the face to protect the medics. Throw on a bonk energy drink and start distracting a turret. Backstab an engineer even if it gets you blown up. Stuff like that can make all the difference.

Get a time machine, play marathons of Team Fortress Classic, grow up playing it, then finally play TF2. You will be pretty good at the game.

Demoman.
 
Chargin' Targe, Eyelander,
 
Have fun.

Demoman.
 
Chargin' Targe, Eyelander,
 
Have fun.

Can we close this I had posted some thoughts about my experience two years ago, one year ago, then this year and realized I was being one of those assholes who bragged how good they are. And I hate those kind of people. I will say though my favorite current thing about TF2 is leveling up the rank on my Strange Natascha.

Considering like, 3/4 of the community for that game are now people who have been playing less than a month and a half...

Find a class you like.
 
Scout:

• Learn how to shoot people in the face. Obvious, yes, but more than necessary. Turn your sensitivity down if you have to-you want to get those big shots in. A lot of people recommend playing games like Quake III to get better with Scout.
• Learn to keep moving. This is hard in tandem with the first point, but eventually you'll realise that moving around like a madman results in you getting hurt less most of the time.
• Realise it's not about you. If you're playing Scout, get ready to fly into waves of opponents on your own just to give your teammates a few more seconds to get closer to the point or what have you. You will die more times than you will kill a lot of the time.

• Take down those turrets: Key for winning games. Those turrets can obliterate pushes onto points, and, as one of the characters who can destroy turrets, take them out!
• Provide support: Pretty much every single Soldier set of weapons (barring the Direct Hit) can help the team in some way. Rockets aimed behind points where teammates will go might give them that 20 damage extra that they need. Spanking them with the Disciplinary Action may be the sole thing that results in capturing that one point. Things like that win games-most of the time, killing that demoman won't help as much.
• Learm your stuff: A lot of soldier play revolves around particuiar choke points and how to get there. You have to learn your navigation routes to play soldier at the best levels.

• Protect and Serve: Pyro compression blasts deflect rockets and grenades and minicrits them back at the direction you shoot it. This means that Pyro is fantastic at protecting other classes (i.e MEDICS) from heavy fire. Use it and abuse it.
• Don't forget your team: As the Pyro is a close-range class, you'll often want to move ahead of your team to try and get those kills in. The Pyro cannot kill turrets. The Pyro cannot beat most classes in a fair fight 1 on 1, let alone groups. You running into them is not the best thing to do. Have a Pyro buddy or something.
• SPY CHECK. The most vital role for a Pyro is randomly spurting out fire at teammates or at empty space-if it's alight, it's probably an enemy spy. Watch your teammates backs.

• Watch what people are doing: You want to set up your sticky bomb traps in an area where not only enemies will come through, but also where your teammates will want kept in their position and possibly even as a last resort teammate retreat (after all, having your teammate sorely wounded is better than having him a mile away from the place he needs to be). Set up obvious sticky bomb traps to keep your opponents having to take a less desirable route.
• Get that trajectory right: If you're playing Demoman, you have one of the strongest weapons in the game in the grenade launcher. If you get direct hits with it you average around 110 damage. Two hits with that should kill almost every class and most overhealed. So learn how the thing moves-to get maximum damage, you need it to hit them directly.
• Plan ahead: The Demoman is unique as the main indirect combat character in the game. With that comes responsibility-thus, talk with your teammates as to what you'll be doing, and aid them in that way. Know that your teammates are going to lose the first point? Sticky trap an entrance for the enemy's next one. Know that your Medic needs some time to get his Ubercharge finished or a worthy teammate to Ubercharge upon? Set up a haven for him.

• Sponge those bullets: As a heavy, you have by far the most health, and prime Medic buddy. You can take more than a few hits, especially for the Medic. If you see Soldier bullets coming your way and your Medic is behind you, don't get out of the way so your Medic can be hit.
• Rev up before getting directly into the fray: Revving up takes time, and that time can easily result in 150 or 200 damage losses. Rev up beforehand so you can instantly dish out death.
• Get a Pocket Medic. (I don't play much Heavy)

• Build what the team needs: I've often seen Engineer build Sentries with teammates shouting out for Medic. Remember that Dispensers provide health and ammo for your teammates as well as your own scrap, so try and put them in places where teammates can readily access them. Get a Teleporter entrance going, and build Teleporter Exits on the fly at choke points, so you can win the distance battle to the point.
• Get Shooting. Don't be afraid to take out your shotgun and your pistol and shoot guys in the face. The Engineer is not hopeless at fighting at all-he can take out Pyros quite easily on his own, for example. Just know when you can win your fights with him as well-it's better to maintain your gadgets than kill yourself fighting a soldier.
• Inform your team: There are times when you've built a teleporter exit to the point, but your teammates aren't taking it because they don't know it's there. Make sure you tell your teammates.

• Play the Leader: Your teammates need you the most out of anybody. Get your headset on and tell them what you guys have to do to win this. You are the most valuable. Make sure your teammates respect that and come to protect you.
• Stay out of sight: When you can, try and stay close to walls away from your opponents attacking you, whilst healing your teammates. If a Heavy wants to go across the bridge in 2Fort, tell him that the underwater tunnel underneath doesn't have 4 soldiers and a Sniper waiting for you.
• Keep healing. Often you'll want to do your job by shooting down your opponents. Often, however, it isn't worth it. Leave the shooting to your buddies and get your healing done.
• A fourth point?: Make sure you keep a constant eye on your Ubercharging. If you're confident you can make the breakthrough at 95%, be ready to use it. There is nothing that causes more despair than seeing your friendly Soldier die a second after you got Ubercharge. Ubercharges save lives.

• Get your aim right. Non charged headshots do 150 damage. Charged Headshots do 450 damage. Charged bodyshots normally do 150 damage. You need to learn to shoot their face if you are playing Sniper, and there are plenty of servers that can help you out-bots running from one side to another can help you out a fair deal, for example.
• Learn who to shoot when. By keeping charge into account and knowing how much health set people have, you can tell who'll die when you shoot them in the face and whether it's important. Shoot the Medic helping the enemy push and you probably just saved your team losing a point. Shoot the Scout in the head with an uncharged shot instead of the Soldier and you probably just stopped 15 seconds or pest control for your team.
• Find good spots: By finding good spots that help your team, keep you hidden, and give you bad guys to shoot you will do a lot more than camping at your spawn, hoping that that one pyro you killed will come again.

• You're still in a team: Due to the more stealthy approach the Spy often has to take, people often forget they're in a team when playing Spy. But thing is, the Spy plays far better helping the team for score anyway. Your opponents won't be seeing the backstab if your teammates are shooting him from the opposite side. You get less people looking around for a disguised teammate, and at the same time, you help teammates kill unwanted players via a quick backstab.
• Don't forget your revolver: Your gun is still very good as a weapon, so don't forget if you need to chip off that bit more damage, or if you can't get to that Scout or Pyro, just shoot him.
• Sap sap sap. Those turrets won't disable themselves, you know. Not just turrets though-disable everything you can.
  

I've found the more i play the more i enjoy swapping classes to whatever my team is lacking. That doesn't mean we always win but it has definitely broken the other team's defenses more than once and led to a victory.

@dbz1995 said: 

• Charged bodyshots normally do less than 200 damage.

• If you're playing Scout, get ready to fly into waves of opponents on your own just to give your teammates a few more seconds to get closer to the point or what have you. You will die more times than you will kill a lot of the time.

spend more money.

@TaliciaDragonsong

Demoman.
 
Chargin' Targe, Eyelander,
 
Have fun.

He said better, not useless.

Use more skill.

@Tim_the_Corsair said:

@TaliciaDragonsong

Demoman.
 
Chargin' Targe, Eyelander,
 
Have fun.

He said better, not useless.

I can't help it if you suck with it, if you know what you're doing and you build up some HP with the collected heads you can be quite the killer.

@TaliciaDragonsong

@Tim_the_Corsair said:

@TaliciaDragonsong

Demoman.
 
Chargin' Targe, Eyelander,
 
Have fun.

He said better, not useless.

I can't help it if you suck with it, if you know what you're doing and you build up some HP with the collected heads you can be quite the killer.

Or you could use the armaments that make the class a demolition man, and actually be useful to your team instead. Demoknight is a bit of a laugh, no question, and I do fine with it as that (cheers though), but it is inferior to the actual guns on offer in every single way.

Disagree regarding the melee, but I guess I get where you are coming from.

Personally, I recommend Medic > Heavy > Soldier > Demoman > Engineer > Sniper > Scout > Pyro > Spy as the order you should learn, based partially on difficulty but also on dependence on understanding other aspects of the game and the maps (Pyro is low not for difficulty, but for lack of reward for mastering the class).

Demoman indirect fire weapons really aren't that hard to learn and be effective with, especially the sticky launcher. Melee may be simple, but you're also gimping your growth potential.