TF2 MERASMUS! (Scream Fortress)

All snipers with huntsman/It is a good way

Get both teams picking Huntsmen and heavies, did it on the first night of the event, we all agreed that no one should harm anyone from the other team, and got turns so we could cap the point and make Merasmus respawn, it was a fun night.
Beated him four times so far.

Soldier with DH isn't bad either.
Quickly switch to shotgun when your out of ammo and run in on him.
If possible wait till he is stunned by a bomb to do crit damage.

I had more luck on a 32 server with no respawn time.

There may still be idiots that continue PVP, but eventually the boss will go down ;)

Off Topic: can anyone tell me where the gifts spawn on this map? So far I found nothing on the web and people on the servers could/would not tell me.

Edit: found the map

find a server with godmode

He's next to impossible thanks to his "hiding" techniques. It's pretty infuriating to have both teams friendly and then one nab from the opposing team decides to get all the spy achievements and starts backstabbing the shit out of you, but I had the opportunity to jooin a server where we played together; even waited for him to appear with taking positions, etc. Still, it's hard to take him down because when he hides you'll lose precious seconds.

We have defeated him once when we all teamed up. It was a lucky server I suppose, but it is very possible :)

Try this server. 85.131.229.204:27015
Best server to kill the bosses.
Gifts are also there. ;)

NO HEAVIES. Seriously. They only do 240 DPS (~75% damage reduction) against Merasmus, and they're so slow that they'll be useless during the Prop hunt. Even the Spy does more damage (240 per revolver shot and 360 per knife hit). Pyros do even less damage the heavy and Demoman grenades do half damage. The best classes are Huntsman Sniper, Spy, or DH Soldier.

Sunday 4 hour killed him. Entire server joined to the murder. So much abuse in the chat I have not seen) Merasmus big troll. And then we killed him. Came to the island. And some idiot jumped per cell. And the cell ceases to fall! All killed flame or something. Again need to kill Merasmus (

best of all snipers with bow and several engineers on for dispenser.

I can't remember the IP, but there is a server actually dedicated to it, and you can't actually blame people for keep killing, since isn't that actually the point of the game? to kill the opposite team? :p

the best way is to use huntsmans and teamwork which most people dont help at all so ye its still hard with a whole team of huntsmans

Does anyone defeated him?

You can find servers with nice people if you look at reddit.com/r/tf2, I got it from a server mentioned there as well (with a bunch of archer snipers). Main thing is, unlike the common belief, the merasmus spawning has nothing to do with the control point, so its actually pointless to capture it.

Though yesterday I also saw a server where they removed the ingame balancing feature so all people joined blu and killed together without worries of death from the opposing team. :)

I did this on some French server. Took a lot of effort to finally convince the players to team up to kill him, and even then there were still a couple of uncooperative idiots, like a spy backstabbing everyone during the fight.

We ended up killing him twice.

Well, since everyone is suggesting the huntsman I will give you some other advice ;) (how nice of me!)

Teaming up CAN be possible on public servers, the trick is to find a few people willing to and the rest will come.
Make sure you have at least 5 persons on each team willing to kill the boss (switch servers, find friends etc.)
Publicly state that you want to kill the boss and not to kill eachother. Do not try to give in with "we'll stop killing once the boss is here!" since that will fail. New players must be able to see you're a peaceful bunch not killing, not just a bunch of people murdering eachother while claiming "this is for the boss!"

Next, there will be people who keep killing. Just have your peaceful people go to the middle, do nothing (have a melee weapon active, dance a bit...) and keep telling people not to kill.
After a while, some people will stop, some will continue. Votekicking does wonders for the ignorant (this is why you want at least 5 persons on each team willing to kill the boss, since this way you almost have a sure kick)
Each time a new player joins, explain to them that you aren't killing and only go for the boss. Give him a few chances before kicking him as I've seen people switch from killing to peaceful ;)

Now, after a while (this can take a serious while, sadly) you should have 2 teams willing to work with eachother with the occasional new guy killing people. The new guy can just be explained and kicked if he doesn't listen.
At this point we used to keep switching the control point around, more then once we started the boss with everyone crit boosted or ubercharged by the wheel! Plus it gives something to do other then tauntkilling everyone for the achievements.

NOTE:
Some people will think you are a bunch of assholes for kicking people since the gamemode is king of the hill and insert more excuses here
The fact remains that the only kills I've ever made on him were using this tactic. I never even once killed him when people kill freely and then "stop when the boss arrives" since some people will just continue then and others will be dead (quite a bit of damage missed there if 75% of the people are dead!)

I've only tried public servers, so it's definitely possible there if you have a bit of luck with the people around.

tl;dr
Find some people willing to kill boss
state you are going for it
votekick all people off the server who do kill players on purpose