I wouldnt even care about a config if the game ran as well as it did a few years ago. I used to be able to run this game at over 100 FPS on my old athlon 64 x2 6000+. They need to get to work on some optimization.

They should add an overwatch system like in CS:GO

Basically if you don't know what it is, any qualified and experienced competitive player in competitive can review STV demos of hackers that have been reported by players and they can say if they were cheating or not.

It removes all names, all text chat, and all voice chat so that it's focused solely on the suspects actions.

http://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/overwatch/

It's only beta and who cares

You don't care about cheaters? Also this is for when it actually releases

i'd like matchmaking to work during eu stress tests 4Head

nice one euros breaking mm

That went well

Cheaters will most likely be in low rank games on alts
If cheaters is really the problem they should make VAC work

This is the list of changes I emailed to Valve. Sometimes they listen, sometimes they don't. The recent crossbow hitsound change was in an email I sent a while back, so maybe there's hope.
Make TF2 great again.

IIRC old builds run worse: http://www.teamfortress.tv/21291/2007-team-fortress-2-aka-orange-box-client-serve#24

- finish viewmodels so the animation doesn't cut off after viewmodel_fov 75, up to 90 would be a good compromise
- modifying viewmodel positioning via x and y axis would be neat
- an option for non-animated viewmodels, they don't move no matter what (just like in quake)
- allow the important factors in fps configs that help improve performance

Yuck, yuck, yuck yuck

Even CS:GO FFA isn't supported by Valve lol

I sure want a pub pyro main to review a prem sniper demo..
EDIT: even in CS all you need to have is atleast 200 wins (correct me) and no specific rank.. So you can be a silver and determine should a certain player ever play CS on this account again

In CS:GO you need to be higher than nova 1 to start overwatch, also nova 1 can only receive cases reported by nova 1 to nova 4 (iirc) so a nova 1 won't be able to overwatch a DMG

Welp, but still you can be nova 1 and "ban" people that are not cheating

it's 150

You get a rank based on how accurate you are compared to other people, it's fairly safe to assume that people who are wrong a lot won't really have a say compared to people who are more accurate. Plus, since the rank shift nova 1s have to be slightly more competent at the game than before (pre rank-shift nova 1 equates to silver 1 or 2 now).

some things might have already been said

-remove the painting thing at the end
-soap dm till match starts (doubt they will do it since its not even in cs)
-classlimits
-instead of the locked spawn doors i would prefer freezetime explosive jumping and what #61 suggested with classes getting assigned to spawnlocations
-also to final win conditions, i think the eu system with 30 mins and 5 round mercy rule is better than first to 5 or similar because playtimes are way more consistent and players know exactly how long they are going to play
-make medals dependent on x per min and not total x

Additionally something I wanted to suggest to the existing comp scene (esea, etf2l etc) is lowering the ingame clock from 10 minutes to something like 5 or so. So that e.g. if team A won the mid and capped second aswell but didnt kill Team B's med so they would have to make an uber v uber last push. Instead of the usual parking the bus on second and waiting for a sac or sniper to get picks and push last; the 5 min clock would bring the attacking team on a timer to make the push and if failed force them to just go to another midfight. Personally I think its fine how it is now with 10 mins after each cap but I can imgaine this preventing some stalemate positions (since the team with more capped points is forced to do something). It also might lead to teams turtling up on last and just waiting 5mins till next midfight. Some thoughts on this are appreciated.

b/c I'm a big doofus and didn't see this post before:

yeah, both new and old players would absolutely benefit from the HUD showing their medic's uber percent and who has crit heals. teammate status on the top would be nice, too.
however the voicelines might be hard to do because valve would have to get the voice actors back which for some reason is always a hassle.

This post has been minus fragged into oblivion but no one has made any comments about it. I assume this is due to the utterly ridiculous quick fix rework, which I won't touch. The section that I have quoted consists of many undeniably good changes that I haven't seen anybody else suggest.

It's a simple question really: Why should a player in matchmaking ever have to press tab? We've all become so used to it that I've personally never even considered it. In a pub it is necessary to have player/score/etc information on a toggle because of the variability and number of players in a server, but in 6v6 game all critical information (death state, ally spawn times and health, medigun type and uber percentage) can embedded in the HUD without clutter. Currently all of this information must be gathered with an obtrusive scoreboard and comms when it could just be displayed on screen at all times.

The current design presents such a needless detriment to new and veteran players alike. Making this basic information constantly visible can only enhance the flow of the game since its so critical in decision making. For example, new players would have instant feedback as to why their bomb/initiation failed after glancing at their ally information and seeing their teammates are all in the red. They would quickly learn to coordinate plays with the readiness of their team. Similarly an uber element of the HUD would spur them into pushing when a full advantage is advertised. All of this information is readily, but clumsily, available right now, so it can't be argued this change would coddle players or dumb down the game.

Add a hard level scout bot when a player leaves and if they don't re-connect have the mm system find a replacement (have a "join game in progress" option like mvm). I have had too many 5v6 games (despite winning half f them despite the man disadvantage).

valve just needs to make a new hud for tf2, tbh

but somehow make it so custom huds still work?

also, the easiest way to get close to HUD crosshair functionality in-game should just be a command that allows you to use a custom .svg file, and have it automatically center for you, something like

cl_crosshair_custom 1
cl_crosshair_customfile "penis.svg"
cl_crosshair_customsize 20

because TF2's crosshairs are highly unlike CSGO's, since TF2's most viable weapon spreads vary heavily from weapon to weapon, so CSGO crosshairs wouldn't really work very well

My other quickfix had some serious problems. It had too many affixes. How about this trimmed down, simple version with the same ethics in mind:

Quick Fix
+150% heal rate when target is full hp
+Mirror speed/Mirror blast jumps
+Passive 8 hp/s regen to nearby teammates (this is less than dispensers, maybe a soft regen sound as you're near the med, heal radius is 2 player units from medic)
-no ubercharge

My idea behind this still is to teach new players how to play the ubercharge meta. e.g. It's the gun you're going to use when they have more than 40-50% uber advantage. The gun itself is going to teach new players what you should be doing when you have a huge disadvantage: staying alive, staying healthy, gaining positioning, and ultimately sending someone out for a force play.

My logic behind this weapon change is that we have 2 staples in our inventory to use in very specific situations: Medigun most of the time or Kritzkrieg if you have a sizeable advantage or same medic spawns. My Quick Fix fills the 3rd scenario: when you have a sizeable DISadvantage. I think most new players will probably either lose the round completely or just feed their entire team if they had sizeable disadvantage. Using this gun will not only give them a last chance but teach them what they should be doing in this scenario.

My vision is predicated on removing the stored ubercharge on dropped mediguns altogether. The way this is going to work is when your medic dies early, giving the other team a huge advantage in uber, you'll switch to quick fix to sort of rally your team. You'll use the crossbow to get your teammates up to 100% hp and the quickfix's semi crit heal overheals (150% is the equivalent of 60 hp/s, a full crit heal is 72 hp/s) to send your roamer or a scout to make a quick force/play on their medic or to just get picks for retaining a numbers advantage. When your team is able to rally and kill their med, you'll pick up his medigun and reset (you'll be at 0% when you pick it up like I said). I also decided to keep the mirror speed/blast jumps mechanic in because it'll be a more engaging way of using it to escape or go all in for the huge play.

There is no reason to cap viewmodel_fov so slow.

Well the reason is the viewmodels break and the arms look funny when you move above 75, valve is just trying to make the game look nice.

If they cared about how the game looked then we wouldnt have pink and lime green max's heads our unusuals. They could at least cap it at something reasonable like 90.

there is a difference between aesthetic design and believable design. things can be painted lime green in the real world. but you never see disembodied partially see-through arms floating in front of you.

Proceeds to not optimize dx9

Pretty certain if i rocket jumped in the real world our set my hat on fire i would die.
Realism has NEVER been a concern with TF2. Gameplay is. Viewmodels blocking my view affect gameplay more than slightly glitched viewmodels. And if they really cared about that they can get to work on all the broken clipping in the game. http://i.imgur.com/CZShNxv.png