I know that but most of the time, you'll be healing your teammates which gives 6hp/s regen already. Also how exactly is the taunt useless?

Is your team supposed to surround you at all times? I'd like to know your opinion on the Amputator here.

Because I have to say what gamemode the Amputator works well in and what doesn't?

How exactly?

Well no duh sherlock! I forgot to mention it here, but yeah the Amputator is useless in 6s due to having only 2 people near you at most. I say that all the time in other posts; I just forgot to mention it here.

whoops did not mean to send that.

Clutches rarely ever happen though. Besides just because a weapon can clutch you a win, doesn't mean the weapon is good. Most of the time the enemy is just going to stay out of melee range, which is not that hard, and is easier to do than most people think. Even if they couldn't they could use their gun or just killbind.

The scout must be a fucking idiot then. Just stay away from the medic's melee range and you'll be fine.

That might be a placebo effect because of the players you are playing with, and not necessarily due to the circumstances of common events.

How exactly is this weapon "far worse"? In competitive I agree there due to the lack of players nearby. The only use the taunt has is in HL while capping a point to reheal your team quicker. In casual though? Taunt healing 4 players is going to be faster than Crossbow-Medigun healing them, even if they are all scouts. Actually that statement seems quite opinionated without any basis. Let's do some math for actual evidence:

Crossbow-Medigun health output formula: (medigun healing rate * (crossbow reload time * amount of shots)) + (crossbow heal on hit * amount of shots) = (total healing output)

We can solve for the amount of shots, which in turn can get us how long it takes to output the healing output. Lets say that you needed to heal 4 scouts all from 1hp to full health. The medigun healing rate is 72/s (aka the crit heal rate), the Crossbow will heal the max at 150hp all the time, and the Crossbow reload rate is 1.6 seconds. We can solve for the amount of shots. using this information.

x = amount of shots

(72hp * (1.6s * x)) + (150hp * x) = 500hp
115.2x + 150x = 500hp
265.2x = 500hp

x = 1.88

Now if we multiply x by the Crossbow reload rate, we get that it would take 3 seconds to fully heal the scouts which is faster than the Amputator taunt. That of course is assuming you always have crit heals and that the Crossbow always healed 150hp, which is unrealistic. Doing this again but in a more realistic fashion with the noncrit heal rate of the medigun and the mean heal rate of the Crossbow, we get:

(24hp * (1.6s * x)) + (112.5 * x) = 500hp
38.4x + 112.5 = 500hp
150.9x = 500hp
x = 3.31

3.31 * 1.6s (the Crossbow reload rate) = 5.3 seconds

Now the Amputator heals for a total of 105hp by default and 315hp with crit heals. Remember though that the Amputator heals all players in its radius simultaneously, so it actually heals the 4 scouts faster than the Crossbow-Medigun combo. All of that math of course is discounting the weapon switch speed and the slowness of the human medic player. That is also assuming that the medic is using the stock medigun.

Crossbow Info
Medigun Info
Amputator Info
(I might have messed up the formula. Please tell me if I did!)

Übersaw may not be trash from a reasonable perspective, but it is definitely overrated imo. Just look at the reddit posts on r/tf2 and r/truetf2 about it saying that "It NeeDs tO geT NeRfEd" when A it doesn't, and B most of the presented changes are fucking terrible. The Übersaw is more like the actual default melee for the medic, than it is the "BeSt mEleE of ALl TiMe!"

Vitasaw isn't banned in any whitelist.

(Yes ik I thrashed the Übersaw on countless other platforms, but shut up you cant tell me what to do!)

The extreme risk when using the Übersaw far outweighs the redundant reward. Meleeing as a medic is always a bad idea and you should never do it, regardless if you can or not. If someone ambushes you, fallback to your teammates, pocket someone, and then go after the ambusher. This is far safer as you are no longer putting yourself at direct risk of losing your team the game, but rather an indirect risk that can be controlled far more than if you were to do melee combat. The only exception to this rule is if a cloaked spy bumps into you, but he'll likely be disguised anyways so you won't get the über from the Übersaw if you do hit him, but you will get organs from the Vita-saw since it ignores the disguise.

Meanwhile the über-on-hit is worthless. You already generate über fast enough as a medic with the stock medigun alone, and rest of the mediguns have a boosted über rate. So having the über-on-hit attribute is redundant, especially when you consider how much risk you have to put yourself. And this is assuming that it'll even make a difference in the first place. Look even if you did get 100% über from the übersaw, you won't always be able to use it right away. You could have to actually get to the frontlines, there could be a sentry, or a sniper. By the time you do finally push, you usually would have gotten to 100% über just from your medigun anyways.

By contrast the Amputator and Solemn Vow are far more useful. Increased regen, AoE healing, and/or getting enemy health/über is extremely useful. Amputator is useful when you need to reheal ≥3 players, since that is the threshold when the Crossbow-medigun combo begins to become slower than the Amputator's AoE healing. Yes your teammates can go after health packs, but those aren't reliable healing sources. They are usually far away from the player, take a while to respawn, and don't heal much health unless if you get a full health kit, but that is very rare to find. People bitch that "you die easily while you are taunting because you are still and can get rolled" but it's not that hard to prevent that. Just taunt in good positions and use your gamesense to know when to taunt and you'll be fine. Here's a guide on the Amputator that covers this well. (YouTube link if you like getting tracked.) By the way the Amputator taunt gives über as well, and it can be a lot depending on how many people you heal through the taunt.

As for the Solemn Vow, I'd argue that it's the best medic melee. Being able to see enemy health/über allows you to make informed decisions that won't fail unexpectedly as much as if you guessed the enemy info and made decisions off of that. Approximations of health/über are not perfect, as there is a chance of interference from Crossbow shots, health kits, regen, etc. Even if they were perfect, it's extremely hard to track the health/über of all enemies, let alone one enemy, so having an item that takes the load off health/über tracking is useful. This of course is mainly useful in comp, but it still can be useful in Casual.

Both the Amputator and Solemn Vow's abilities are extremely useful and all they need is just some player interaction through right clicking or looking at an enemy. Uncertain about Vita-saw as I haven't used that weapon enough, but from what I can gather it still has some use if you ever get constantly rolled and you can get melee hits commonly through cloaked spies. By contrast the Übersaw requires environmental factors that are out of your control and require you to put yourself at extreme risk, just to use an ability that is honestly pretty redundant. The Übersaw taunt isn't that useful either, as it's easy to spot just from the medic's voiceline alone. While that can be masked, the enemy can still easily kill you, since it's a taunt. It doesn't help that the melee hit detection in TF2 is fucking awful, and your accuracy will never be 100%. The passive benefits from the Amputator and Solemn Vow are far more useful than the passive benefits from the Übersaw and Vita-saw, just as how the common need for the Amputator and Solemn Vow outperforms the rare need for the Übersaw and Vita-saw.

This is just my opinion though. You can use whatever medic melee you want.

Übersaw is an overrated trash melee in my opinion. It requires you to put yourself at risk (even when using it as a backup weapon) for a reward that barely makes any difference. You already build über through the medigun fast enough, why bother to try and build it even faster via putting yourself at an unnecessary risk? In general you should never melee as a medic! If you ever get ambushed, retreat to your team, get a pocket, then go after the ambusher. Let the pocket deal the damage, while you focus on surviving. This is far safer as you are no longer putting yourself at direct risk of losing your team the game, but rather an indirect risk that is far easier to control.

How is firefox "no better"? FF is at least actually performant and doesn't try to insert trashy features (*cough* WebUSB *cough*), unlike Chrome.

I hate hearing my own voice. Tried to get into TF2Center, so I installed Mumble. I had to listen to my voice, and I still cringed at it. Ended up uninstalling Mumble immediately afterwards. How the fuck do people tolerate this aside from prolonged exposure?

I'm uncertain if the memory leak still exists, but it should be patched by now. Either way you are rarely ever going to keep a computer on for 6+ hours straight, so this is a minor issue.

You seem to have fixed the issue by turning on Caret Browsing, but I highly doubt that was the issue. I'd start by reinstalling your browser, if that doesn't work then I'd revert to an older version as it's probably a bug.

P.S Chrome is trash spyware and Google/Alphabet is the same. Just use Firefox instead.

Ultimately if I want to narrow down the issue further, it looks like I'll have to spend cash. (That is if I put my laziness aside and actually get an ethernet-USB converter.) I found a server (called "The Lazy Pub") where I barely felt the rubber-banding issue much, so I'll try to hunt down those servers.

Then what could it be specifically? It's very possible that it's just the limitation of wireless networks coming into play, but I still think it's something else that I haven't checked yet.

My router is an XB7-T if that helps.