I am so impressed with the majority of the buffs and nerfs

Instead of buffing shit to the moon or making things worthless, they seem to have made an effort to bring everything closer to the baseline. I am very impressed.

Also record all ur demos now or prepare to have shitty viewmodel glitches ^_^^ updates sure are fun times

Balance changes seem like a good step. There's still quite a few that could be looked at though.

That would make no sense. It seems to me like they are trying to balance weapons for the matchmaking. Still a few of the weapons need to be nerfed/buffed a little more if this will work without being frustrating as fuck.

EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED.

oh ffs :(

everything changes BEFORE lan apparently

I can't even imagine how shitty everything will look for those playing with highframes/maxframes configs.

Spy: Changing to a new disguise while already under a disguise takes 0.5 seconds instead of the normal disguise time of 2 seconds.

YES that makes life much easier.

so does the thing with picking up weapons mean that a roamer could bomb a soldier, kill them, use all their rockets, and then pick up the other rocket launcher and keep using it?

it's definitely a nice effort.

this rules

Dead Ringer also got nerfed - no more picking up ammo while feigned - what a big change.

to everyone who hates these skins: you realize that some of the money used to buy the passes will be distributed to community mappers, right? it's a plus for all of us. the skins look rad.

"A portion of the sales from Campaign Passes will go towards our hardworking TF2 community mapmakers."

also the weapon balances are so much to take in, it's incredible

Picking up dead players weapons sounds really interesting. I wonder if mediguns keep their percentage when they drop and what happens to a weapons clip when you pick it up. it would be pretty nuts if all of the weapons you pick up have a full clip.

But why don't they turn off random crits by default? If they release the matchmaking and random crits are enabled I will be upset. Imagine the grand finals being decided by a random crit sticky onto 5 players.

baby steps, there are still pubbers on spuf that will argue for random crits

let's just totally change the dynamics of an ancient game!

for the better!

Wait so does the weapon pickup change only apply in that gamemode, because that seems kinda dumb for regular modes.

This is pretty cool I guess

CSS and later CSGO changed lots of CS dynamics and the game has never been bigger.

Wait to see the results, it's great to see they are still keeping the game alive, and by those patchnotes they are doing it thinking about the matchmaking.

Something like this before matchmaking is definitely what the game needs to get/keep people interested. This means the game will actually have a 'good economy' like CS:GO's, meaning even more pubbers are like fuq ye skins boiz.

Really happy with a lot of balancing (apart from reduced damage while cloaked da fuq), and the default CVAR's are definitely good QOL changes for newer players.

nice work, Valve.

Well they can leave them on in pubs so the 12 year olds who can only get kills by getting unfair crits won't start crying. Though if valve are still planning competitive matchmaking then they should really be turned off for fairness.

These skins are gonna be huge for saloon too, I expect a huge spike in just general economic activity and betting after this comes out.

play the game with fk-hud made by collycat and now you got csgo with tf2 taste

In CSGO, casual (pubs) and matchmaking have different cvars, like the money you get when the round ends, in casual you already start with a kevlar + helmet and defuse (if ct), you can't buy 2 flashbangs... They might do it for TF2 matchmaking, like disabling random criticals.

no airblast change :(

Oh shit, maybe competitive team skins in the future???