tf2 got skins and contracts

https://j.gifs.com/mGg6lZ.gif

well i wouldn't say u missed to much, especially for this year. there have been only some shitty game modes added, that were only played for the first week. also the unsual/skinned weapons. basically the cs:go stuff was copy/pasted into tf2. then everybody put TF:GO after their steam name for a week. pretty much all that happened.

Hope all is well, and WELCOME BACK<3

mm got confirmed

competitive matchmaking has been confirmed by valve, and everyone is hyped.

tf2 is doing good, the player base is growing and within consideration that tf2 is on par with the early underground smashbros melee league, its making lots of improvements.

1. Official competitive matchmaking confirmed, probably early-mid 2016
   
2. "Contracts" that give you missions/quests to complete in-game, the Gun Mettle campaign is over now (first series of contracts) but a new one will start soon, plus there's a mini one for halloween right now
   
3. Weapon skins, stat-trak, and inspect animations, we TF:GO now. Also unusual weapons, purely cosmetic but they have a few neat effects.
   
4. Weapons can be picked up after being dropped on death, and equipped by their respective classes. This means you can change loadouts mid-life. Medium ammo packs also drop to compensate. Medi-guns retain their uber when dropped (usually), because of this weapon pickups are currently banned in all competitive leagues.
   
5. Huge weapon rebalances, check here for more info. Most shitty weapons were fixed and most overpowered ones were rebalanced, almost everything is a vast improvement.

Performance is also shit for most people now thanks to skins, but Valve has been trying to improve performance patch by patch, so that's nice. Couple of new maps too, and a few new game modes - one is kind of like soccer, one involves grappling hooks and powerups, and another combines CP with CTF, involves killing robots in space and stealing points, kind of neat.

did i miss anything

overwatch is officially in beta and looks fun as hell
meanwhile valve is stalling on putting out matchmaking still
rip game

http://i.imgur.com/vbO63KV.png

They also updated the hidden Competitive MM menu

http://i.imgur.com/DDS3cx9.jpg

I feel they should add Overwatch to the stream list. It's more similar to TF2 than Dota 2, thats for sure

I can no longer count the number of games that were supposedly going to kill tf2 on both hands.

It's fucking Blizzard though and it's actually a good game.

I don't know if it'll kill TF2 but it WILL be successful unlike all the rest.

they are never going to give exposure to tf2 streamers if they keep promoting overwatch (not blaming the people that do)

We have been asking for mm since forever ago and they haven't given it us or even confirmed it until now. Theres been literally thousands of man hours and a shit tonne of money donated from the community just to support TF2 events and get teams places. Yet they barely gave us exposure. Can't be saying that they're not giving exposure because they're playing overwatch, that's just ridiculous.

i55 happened. Possibly the best LAN TF2 we've seen yet

The 3 most interesting ETF2L seasons ever, matchmaking confirmed, i55, dreamhack winter to come