KENSHIRO HOLDING THE POCKET MEXIBEAM

Other than just being a snarky asshole tonight, I figured I'd try and at least be a little helpful and explain why this quick fix thing has been detrimental to play. There's going to be bandwagoning retards in every direction because this is tf.tv but I'm going to try and keep my opinion out of this (or limited to parentheticals) for the most part and stick to exposition here.

The quick fix as it is now is clearly the go-to option for most teams right now and there's a number of reasons why. Perhaps the most important is that the quick fix offers something no other (legal) medigun does by providing a discernible advantage to any team that runs it to mid. Other than the stock medic buffs, no other medigun can do something that the quick fix can't. Whether it's getting your team/medic to mid faster, getting better positioning, making your medic impossible to bomb, or the potentiality for getting a quick fix uber before the mid is really over, the quick fix has a discernible advantage over every other medigun. As a result (of this and that going to mid is generally a good idea) most teams will run the quick fix because going to mid using another medigun is pretty much asking to lose. Perhaps a symptom of our map pool, but losing mid against a quick fix is pretty much as devastating as wiping to any other medigun as the faster heals and guaranteed uber presence means the other team is free to snowball onto your second.

The stalemates here aren't necessarily the quick fix's fault, but moreso from over-arching gameplay imbalances (let's be honest here, defensive classes in this game are way more powerful than the offensive capabilities of anything else) that when combined with the quick fix can make the game pretty painful to play and spectate. Heavy is as jarring for flow as ever and without any option to get close to the heavy without taking damage it will pretty much stalemate any last hold in the game by virtue of its (brain-dead) damage output and health. Because the quick fix is fastest charging and quickest to get any sort of buff out to your team, it also makes sense to respawn with the quick fix if you do lose mid and are looking to hold. The defensive power of a quick-fixed heavy is pretty much going to shut down any quick fix offensive and the resulting game will stalemate at last as the other team doesn't want to go in without a pick knowing that their quick fix push is doomed to fail against stickies/heavy/sentry. The one time you see any sort of swapping to the regular uber is on these stalemates after the defending team recognizes that the other team is pretty much consigned to praying for picks and you are given all the time in the world to build a charge. (I would posit that because of charge timing differences switching to reg. uber on offense during the stalemate is just asking to get crushed since quick fix uber > regular buffs.)

External to this, the quick fix med leash has made the roamer more or less a crap shoot in any outdoor situation as you are able to jump your medic away (think shades of MGE's gayest strats) and easily clean up the bomb. It certainly makes off-classing more viable, but only because it made bombing less so. (I think it also looks like a joke and reflects poorly on a game trying to be taken seriously as genuinely competitive, but this is purely my opinion.)

Ultimately, the quick fix is not purely responsible for slowing the game down, but its interaction with other aspects of the game is certainly detrimental from a spectator and player POV. Does it need nerfs? I'd say yes as there's really no situation in 6s that it really gets outshone by any other medigun. (I mean this to be read as a realistic situation, sure it's better to have 100% uber advantage rolling onto another team's last but unless there's a serious skill discrepancy between the teams it is unlikely that this situation would arise as the QF is generally the better option for mids.)

Opinion: Honestly I think it's best to refrain from sounding exceptionally bored and critical of the game when casting the LAN finals for a few thousand people, but I wouldn't ever seriously blame blank or slin for their reaction because I doubt anyone in this community could cast a 30+ minute stalemate without a loaded glock17 to their temple.

Honestly I'd like to see you cast a 30 minute gullywash round and not make a comment about how this is fucking stupid

I'm gonna be honest here, you really don't

we've brought up banning heavy plenty of times, it's usually shot-down by people who think that banning classes entirely is ridiculous and just distances us further from pub players

not my opinion but that's usually how the discussion goes

at least you're dedicated

uber out of last because the other team went kritz to counter your QF but with kritz they can't push a sentry+heavy+sticks, comedy gold

you have to buy his freedom by going all in on anime 24/7

Onslaught v. Perfect storm was like the most amazing thing ever, tourney should be hilarious

Fucking credit to you for that

Edit: fuck it I'm going all the way there

Shout-outs to Hellbent, bsc, defy, admirable, marxist, tagg, b4nny, and everyone else holding it down out there

The world's first 50 minute round

I know there's more than a few out of there who already are on the saltybet train but for anyone out in the cold here you go

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Randomly generated MUGEN ai matches and you can bet saltybux on them at saltybet.com. Pretty much always has a few thousand people watching and is equal parts hilarious/entertaining/hype.

Tips for new people: ALWAYS BET DBZ
ALWAYS BET ANIME
ALWAYS BET TOUHOU
ALWAYS DON'T NEVER NOT BET MEXICAN DBZ
ALWAYS BET PRIMAL RAGE
and NEVER BET MSPAINT

And for reference, Bridget is a guy

BET TOUHOU ALL

No but seriously this is like painfully boring, bombs are a joke now since a pocket can just rocket jump and all of a sudden you're getting the MGE special of counter jumping by a fucking medic. QF is objectively the best mid roll-out but the innate class imbalances in TF2 making defensive classes busted just grinds the game to a halt at every turn.

we beat europe at i46

then became europe?

I just watched a heavy in yard attempt to track a medic and soldier flying through the air together at winner's finals of the esea lan

all is lost