MOTDs cause a lot of performance drops. Just disable them.

Frame rate drops on community servers can also stem from unoptimized and/or having too many sourcemod plugins. When there are only a few plugins and they are optimized this usually doesn't matter, but in servers like Skial with their free weapon system, you'll likely get more frame drops overall.

There are misconfigured servers too. Some set a way-too-low rate, updaterate, and cmdrate limit, or Just force the client's interp to worse values. Just dodge these servers, they probably aren't that good anyway.

Still more useful than the above replies.

Correction on the Dragon's Fury crosshair: The red square approximates where the fireball would be fired from, since they fire to the lower right of the crosshair.

I was showcasing my crosshairs since the OP didn't get an actually useful reply.

Yeah don't expect too much help from TF.TV. Experts do hang out here, but you'll mostly get meme replies.

For the dragon's fury, I use a light green hollow square that has a red hollow square in the lower right. The red square is supposed to approximate where the centrepunch hitbox would be relative to the centre of the crosshair, and it does a pretty good job of that. Thanks to this crosshair I've been able to improve my DF aim a bit and hit centrepunches more consistently.

For the Gas Passer, Jarate, Mad Milk, and Huntsmans, I have a pretty bad rendition of an artillery crosshair. They really need improvement, but I'm not sure where else to go with them, aside from abusing material proxies.

Other weapons use a green circle.

My custom crosshairs can be downloaded here.

Tate no Yuusha, Youjo Senki, and Dr. Stone. Konosuba is close but not quite there.

Is there a full video or a full list that encompasses all videos that use the Jungle Inferno leak to analyze the further? I'm enjoying this stuff more than I should.

Should we have one thread for Mann Vs. Machine?

Thanks then. I posted an issue on the github page for discussion.

Is mastercomfig going to optimize bots (through the tf_bot cvars), or will it just leave bots alone?

There is a special option that automatically records demos. It's called ds_enable (aka Demo Support).

My pleasure mate.

(Post is meant only for nav mesh developers.)

(READ THIS BEFORE CONTINUING IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY!)

SNIPER_SPOT and SENTRY_SPOT

The SNIPER_SPOT and SENTRY_SPOT Nav Area attributes set through tf_mark don't do anything in release TF2. As searching through the Jungle Inferno leak (revealed in 2020) of TF2 reveals, those attributes only work in the scrapped raid mode. (Both are referenced for game logic only once in tf_raid_logic.cpp:CRaidLogic::OnRoundStart( void ), the other references to them are merely for filters and their visibility.)

To make a proper sniper spot, you need to make an area of hiding spots. (A hiding spot is a tile that is not connected to any other tile and has at least one free corner,) If the game doesn't recognize some of those tiles as hiding spots, then run nav_analyze and that should do the trick.

There is no way to make a designated sentry spot as far as I know, but I could be wrong seeing as how I'm still unfamiliar with nav meshes.

func_tfbot_hint

By proxy the func_tfbot_hint entity is useless for SENTRY_SPOTs, as it really just marks a nav area with SENTRY_SPOT. However the game does use this entity internally to keep track of good sniper spots for lurking sniper bots, just not through SNIPER_SPOT.

TL;DR

The SNIPER_SPOT and SENTRY_SPOT nav area attributes don't do anything at the moment, so stop using them unless if you're marking stuff.

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Finally another user of frame times! Anyway what is your environment (mods, OS, hardware, settings, etc.)? Have you tried a clean install? I'm guessing that some particles are unoptimized and is causing frame drops. In that case you can try out CarlZalph's Particle limiter.

EDIT: Used the incorrect link to some player's config. The particle limiter should be linked properly now...

Dispenser range is the most overrated upgrade in MvM. Like what's the point of getting it when just going to the dispenser during downtime and conserving ammo does the trick?