There's no way he can be serious about this...

keep in mind he mains med. he has an obsession with taking 1 on 1s. a friend of mine who used to heavy with him in pubs told me a lot about it.

someone make a frag movie of him making stupid plays with quotes from him overlayed on top

so i have some stories about robtheawsm that might be a little hard to believe; they're nothing crazy or really very interesting but i thought i'd share some of my personal experiences; 'jesseburn' / squishbucket can vouch for some of these, he was a co-team leader of this team at the time

so 40 years ago in my introductory days to playing comp tf2 i signed up for a ugc steel team and met squishbucket (who you can see in the killfeed of this screenshot along with robtheawsm, who was part of the team we were scrimming against in my tryout) and i also met someone else who's name i'm gonna censor for privacy's sake, who i'm just gonna call G (not the starting letter of his alias) through squish (who i'll just call jesse because that's easier for me)

robtheawsm ending up mentoring the team, through a series of events that started with G knowing rob and talking to jesse about him being really good and available for mentoring; so eventually rob started mentoring our steel team while he was the medic for a steel team he later got kicked off of for being shit, and then started being backup for another team for the remainder of the season

at the time i had no competitive experience so i didn't know what i was being fed was horseshit and for some reason jesse nor anyone else on the team objected to anything that he said during map reviews (which is all i learned from him; jesse and the other co-leader of this team were apparently mentored farther), and even then during the map reviews he would string out his sentences and sprinkle them with buzzwords so it sounds like he knew what he was talking about but never actually taught us anything? it's really bizarre to describe but you understand we learned nothing from this man

the season ends, i think we score negatively or 4-4 and i stopped talking to him (i never really did) but i kept him added; sometimes he would come into our mumble, and for some reason we started playing mvm together for like a week (maybe that one time tickets were half-off? there's dates on the screenshot you'll see later)

once we're both out of tickets on the final wave on that hard ass mission on mannhattan, he literally tells me "you won't get an australium though" and i agree with him because he was probably right, and then once the wave is over i get this drop (ignore the cringy caption, i was like 14 and thought montage parodies were funny) and he gets nothing

after i start messaging all my friends, i get in the mumble channels and we start talking, and once everyone's kind of calmed down, rob messages me something like "see you in a month" (????) and removes me and i never see him again

fast-forward to recently, rob apparently has a "flourishing" youtube and twitch community and makes some laughably bad content and jesse and i kind of put the pieces together and think of him as an idiot in secrecy (until now) once we start remembering how he would act and what he'd say

and one more thing; on the mannrobics taunt promotional video released on the official tf2 youtube channel, when it was first released, i found him in the comments section making some stupid meme about how epic taunts are and i posted a picture of an australium knife, and i remember he deleted/reported my reply and one jesse made too once i showed him; i don't know what he did but i remember the replies disappeared

god bless that stupid french canadian

All he told me was he was trying to fix this and he still believes his info and is just repeating what miss moth told him, and he thanked me for not being all against him like most. I asked if listing his testers would make the best and worst video less hated but he said they're unknown to most in the community.

On a possibly related note his stream name for tomorrow is already set on twitch- "A Heart Felt Apology and Explanation - 6pm EST 6/17/2016"

how can you explain having such awful opinions about the game and its balance though

Whatever it is, it's likely more about his supposed info on the update he's given so far, not his balance opinions.

sorry but no two shitties missions are hard

Who still plays that tour anyway?

people who dont know you can get aussies from different tours

One of the Mannhattan waves (the one with the giant Black Box soldiers) used to have like five times the giant Black Box soldiers, it was super annoying and impossible when it first came out (which is when I assume the stuff in his post happened).

Got to the party late but I'll be sure to get banned from his chat whenever I see him stream next.

Even then it wasn't that difficult. They healed more but all you had to do was use med shields or the Short Circuit. I guess there are just different levels to MvM that some people aren't used to. Even Expert isn't that tough, you can easily 4-man most of Decoy. The only actually hard MvM missions are custom ones like on Normandy.

this might be right but i think the reason was because of the bonk super scouts at the very end of wave 5 or 6 that would pick up the bomb and just run to the hatch while invincible; if you didn't have a sentry blocking the bridge or a kritz demo you were boned

Please don't turn this into a mvm thread

What if Valve was just trolling this streamer by pretending he was important enough to be told stuf like this?
Soldier nerf? suuuuuuuuuuuure

even with those all you had to do was mark them as they run over a sticky trap, or get a pyro, or wall with a heavy, or anything like that. there are a lot of creative solutions to these things that a lot of people didn't think of. soldiers were also very strong because explosive expert (or whatever it's called) would stun them in place even if they were bonked back then.

anyway let's not make this an mvm thread

He just posted a long apology under his stream saying that all but the pass time stuff (which he and rapid learned from a pass time dev in a mumble chat after the playtest, rapid made a video on that info), he says the rest was rumors from friends and speculation which he's sorry if people fully believed. He also said he'll be more in depth in the apology stream.

I feel he was bit more definitive in statements than he claims (when I pushed him on that towards the end of a steam chat about it he said "yeah well" "sorry alright" "i'll quit youtube" "god" "gn".)

But hey, he's making progress by at least admitting to being in the wrong.

so there are gonna be pass time hats?

that would be cool to tie in jerseys with pass time and get some of the top tf2 teams' brands on them

you see none of those sources mean shit:
He said he is part of the pillar of the community that knows stuff about this update. [He SAID]
Friends of him, and 2 mappers one of which worked on snowplow and the other one worked on many maps played by youtubers. (spies) [What how does that prove anything]
Aparently many people know about this such as B4nny ,Uncle Dane ,ValveNewsNetwork they don't tell about because they arn't allowed to say everything. [Like that doesn't mean shit lol what the fuck is he tyring to prove]

As if b4nny would allow it

looked at his twitch profile, he posted this whole apology and says he feels bad etc. deleted his vod from today

move on i guess

when he actually got 100 viewers he sort of seemed like "oh shit what have i gotten myself into" with his pauses as if to draw his bullshit from thin air and cover it with humble "wow"s

On it. You may see it sometime in the future over in http://www.teamfortress.tv/12911/worst-tf2-frag-videos

this must be a troll.

or a ploy to get viewers fuck

Read his twitch bio. Explains why he did it.

the obvious bait tbh

A lot of people here won't remember this, but back around s6, s7 and maybe s8 of ugc highlander, there was a player named garmuth and he claimed that he was IM and plat after one season of steel, and tried talking like he knew everything about tf2, and eventually he became a meme and he left the community i guess i havent seen him in forever, but this guy reminds me alot about garmuth.

This is some Quad-pistol tier logic. "Why shoot twice and do 80 when you can pistol and theoretically do 120 over 3 seconds".

The fact someone might actually take this kid seriously is depressing and a sign of how desperate the community is for an update.

It seems a lot like a "I heard stuff but I don't want to accidentally leak anything any more" non-apology to me, but if he shuts up about it all I guess it works. Having annoyed him a lot yesterday I have no desire to hound him day after day.