got no mates

good logic

https://i.imgflip.com/4mh0t6.jpg

I hope Dallas isn't the sole server location in the future....

To me this is the absolute perfect link between casual and competitive. Game is only like 10% different from a pub server (and a good 10%, nospread etc), and the rank/elo incentive is huge for making casual players realize that tryharding this game is super super fun.

I'm not 100% convinced on the faceit point incentive or the rewards but because they are pushing it so hard, I assume it worked well in CSGO, and I can imagine it will work on the casual playerbase (but tbh I am out of touch with what they are like these days)

this effort makes much more sense than the previous 6s one. It seems much more aware I wonder which tf2 insider gave them advice or if its just faceit_mikey or whatever.

Isn’t it only 5 per party?

I think they recycled their CS UI, you can have 6, you just need to invite them through the friends list rather than the funny + button.

https://imgur.com/a/ZHwW1ks
pain

does faceit ever fucking text you man lmfao they want a verification code and i just wont get a text from them

nobody would text you lol

there needs to be an actual incentive behind winning. ive had games where id rather just let them full hold me so that i can get my 9 points and scram to the next game since i have no reason to waste effort or time on a game where their team has 8 engies, medics, and heavies. itd be nice if i had some kind of incentive behind playing well. when i havent been worrying about getting points though ive really liked these pubs, i havent gotten this experience of competitiveness in pubs since around 2013.

I see where you're coming from but I feel like giving too much incentive for winning may lead to good players stacking up and dunking on everyone which would scare the casual player base away, something Faceit definitely doesnt want.

There is not a class with enough bullets to kill 8 heavies.

1 sniper

is there still supposed to be a blogpost about 6v6 today? i dont see the march 18th date or any mention of 6v6 in that original article

The section saying there would be has been removed from the other blogpost

lmao

yo does anyone else get really bad ping to these servers only?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vo19y2T8Cc

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I sent faceit_mikey a message about it and this was his response:

https://i.imgur.com/QdKLCbu.jpg

i could finnally get into highlander if faceit highlander becomes a thing, and i just got into the beta and its just better pubs which is to be apreciated

https://blog.faceit.com/the-calm-before-the-storm-a-few-notes-from-the-tf2-closed-beta-and-a-big-arrivederci-to-4c6eb4631a9c

6s PUGs early Q2 looks like

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

Screencap of the relevant section in case it goes walkabout

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Vfq93tyxeJpp11TUUcal41nRhbuYzUTZdI7wEwUVj-k/viewform?edit_requested=true

there's also this little form buried deep inside. apparently if you're a community leader (they mention discords, content creators, schools, that sort of thing) you should apply and see if they want you to help them out

The only problem I have with the new FACEIT servers is that they limit client side settings. They force the updaterate/cmdrate to 66 and as a 128 tickrate server, this is always a bad idea; Just set the maximum updaterate/cmdrate to 128 and leave the other limiting cvars alone (sv_minrate, sv_maxrate, sv_minupdaterate, sv_mincmdrate, sv_client_min_interp_ratio, and sv_client_max_interp_ratio). They enforce a minimum rate (or bandwidth) of 128 Kilobytes (or 1 Megabit), which is way too high! Can someone tell the server operators to remove these limits (by setting sv_minupdaterate and sv_minrate to 0)?

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/240693342248239104/822567126439165952/unknown.png

Does anyone know if bannys going to support faceit pugs or rgl pugs(assuming they come out and don't merge with faceit or something)

This is a misconception, these servers are not running at 128 tick. 128 tick actually causes several bugs in TF2, from what I remember.

Do not begin a technical argument with AimIsADick. Just ignore him before the essay and massive quote posts start rolling in.