https://i.imgur.com/gCwGoCQ.png

tarkov is stuck in late wipe boring no consequence meta right now, cant play that until august
burnt myself out on FFXIV, will probably play it again eventually but cant be fucked right now
call of duty is 70 dollars, warzone is just a stupid mess
apex legends is overloaded with random garbage now

what do i do bros...

you guys seriously need to remove the 10 lobbies requirement for medic

also lol

https://i.imgur.com/faXsovZ.png

edit: thank you fac :)

im happy to chat and mingle with new people, but with how long pugs take to get started and also like you said most people just deafen until the pug starts anyway, i'd prefer to just talk to my non-tf2 playing friends until the pug starts

the fact TF2CC doesnt have this implemented since yesterday is nuts

i cannot speak for the rest of the NA community especially higher level players but i absolutely would play on it if it was formatted the same way as the EU one is. i would volunteer to admin too if it was needed

ATTENTION: PLEASE DISREGARD ANY AND ALL ZESTY JESUS POSTS!
THAT GUY IS A SUPER TURBO RACIST AND AN ANNOYING LOSER! DO NOT REPOST HIS SHIT OPINIONS!

maybe we all (me included) need to stop coping and realize this is possibly just the passage of time and the waning interest in competitive tf2, but on the other hand i do feel like there's plenty of lower level players to play the game.

i think the problem is that pugs are too cumbersome in NA. i have more fun playing tf2pickup.eu as a burger and getting shit on and playing with 120 ping than really any other form of pugs because you can actually play on demand without the threat of being fatkidded every pug like RGL pugs do to anyone whos not part of the in-crowd on that site already.

even other avenues like TF2CC discord pugs, its too much work. what if im hanging out with my friends in another discord, i now have to go and add up to another discord channel just to wait for everybody to add up? and then you get the knock-on effect because of that where people dont add up until theres only a few people left needed to pug, and it just makes things take too long. and ESPECIALLY after all that, what if you were the first person added up and it takes half an hour or even longer to finally get 12 in the VC queue channel, you're so excited to finally practice scout and then you get random rolled onto medic, play a shit pug, and then pugs die. its just not worth it

RGL open pugs seem like the perfect solution, because it's like tf2pickup.eu but i think explicitly because captain pugs are offered as an alternative, a big chunk of people who are already too nestled into that system and prefer it for whatever reason would rather stay there, which creates a herd mentality "oh all the best players are playing those pugs, i need to go add up there since the other one is dead anyway." in an ideal world we'd get all the lower level players playing RGL open pick pugs, but i think people just give up hope when they see all the people added to captain pugs and see 0/12 on the open section

also the elo system is a terroism super plague on pugs, even for the captain pugs. people care about that gay little number too much and it creates this insulated ecosystem where everyone is trying to pick the best pug possible so they can gain elo when in reality i think a lot of invite players need to seriously wake up to the fact that this game (comparatively to most games that exist) is like, STARVING for players. we already had a thread from an invite player complaining about how there's no medics, but then all the replies were about how insufferable it is to play with invite players as a medic player if you're not meeting their expectations and how the tryhard elo-desiring environment creates this atmosphere that makes you never wanna add up for medic again. invite players need to take a note out of the FGCs book. pick new players! who cares if you lose the pug, get some random on scout and teach them to play! allow them to fail, let them learn. it'd be easier to do this if there were no elo

the loch n load shouldnt be banned because it breaks engineer sentries, it should be banned because its gay and for noobs

okay i just watched this whole video. maybe im a dumb burger but what was the point of the video? he doesn't like that lower div players aren't represented in votes over the whitelist and map pool, but by his own words, multiple weapons that are banned are stupid weapons anyway

i played a good amount of this game in the beta and thought it was relatively enjoyable but the problem of how strong having extra HP on the ghost recon guys is + most of the guns doing no damage still exists

genuinely zero reason to pick any class but the 120 hp guy

when i was 10 years old i bought the orange box for PS3 a month after it came out with my christmas money. i got grounded to play just 30 minutes of more heavy on controller. i am 27 and still play this game every day

and they have made this game instead

it's not that serious man

being the OP of this thread

when i was in high school, i had to walk home from school in junior and senior year. it was a couple miles away but my friend's house was halfway between the walk so i stayed at his house for a little bit one day because it was extremely cold out and i wanted a break from walking. his family invited me to eat dinner with them and made some really nice spaghetti. my dad didn't get home until late so i ate a lot of spaghetti because i didn't have any plans to make dinner myself and on the way home to finish the last half of my walk i could feel my stomach grumbling, it was too early to not be worried about it but too late to turn back around and go shit at their place. about halfway there i can feel my shit really starting to brew in my stomach now and i really pick up the pace. by the time i just barely arrive onto my block with my house all the way on the end, shit just unleashes down my leg and froze to the side of it before i made it back home finally so i could take a shower

coincidentally this might have happened to me maybe a month after this thread was even posted

looking to play scout in main
season 30 something open playoffs in esea is my only notable achievement
unless 3rd in amateur counts
i am most experienced with pocket scout but i can play flank as well

https://steamcommunity.com/id/messymezi/
or add my discord @heavyslash

no longer looking this season :3

https://github.com/TechnoSL/LackHUD

i want to use this hud but it turns off too many things, how can i turn on caps, koth/round timers, and the HP of my teammates when i look at them?