Book 5 Spoilers Below, Friends:

But apparently the group of fearless armored soldiers groomed and trained in warfare since childhood were not. They had shields and ranged weaponry. To get buthchered by knive wielders in bathrobes is ridiculous. Phalanx formation, and everyone (including the most badass character in the story) would still be alive.

Let me spin you a yarn about the Vaccinator.

After not playing TF2 for ages I decided to do my favorite thing in the world which as everyone knows is mindless pub sniping—the only thing I was ever any good at. After doing well, I came across a medic/sniper combo with a weird bullet icon on their heads. I headshot the sniper. He killed me. Enraged, I mustered my resolve and vowed that dirty goon would not kill me again.

I found the combo (because the med thought it was fun to troll by creating a permanant invincible sniper) and put the moves to work. I head shot him not once, not twice, but six times without missing a shot. He stood there, mockingly. The medic showed her head and with the 7th consecutive shot I put a fat 150 damage bullet into her eye socket. She also stood there. They all stood there. Panting and in disbelief I typed out, "WHY?" and was quickly answered with a headshot that sent me back to the respawn room.

This went on, and when the round at last ended, I lashed out again saying, "I wonder how so and so would play without a pocket vaccinator med." He replied "LOL MGE me." This was the first time anyone had ever said that to me unironically, thus I replied, "LOL okay. Pick a server."

A server was picked and to my surprise the player said, "not sniper though." "Ha!" I thought. "Time to put those ex invite skills to work for justice." We joined badlands mid as scouts and the battle commensed.

Quickly I was down 11-6. My months of fighting monsters on the planet Shear in Evolve had left me ill equipped for scout movement and out of shape using my TF2 sensitivity (also there was no telling what interp to use). But I would not go so quietly. I tied up the game. I would go on streaks, he would go on streaks. Down 19-15, I dug down deep, giving it my all and bringing the score back to 19-19. Stakes were high, but there is only one god, the god of death; and what do we say to him? "Not today, damnit. NOT TODAY."

We charged. He killed me. I lost.

We went soldier twice after, and I lost again with increasing margins of embarassment. After the 3rd round he stopped and said, "oh, are you bloodsire?." I admitted I was, and he told me I used to be one of his favorites. Turns out he was a nice guy, now he's on my friends list.

But fuck the Vaccinator.

awesome, I've been thinking about loading up the stream again but have been bouncing around different tutorials, these seem like they can help, thanks

Nice writeup, great read. Should be an interesting season.

Smashed forehead into keyboard

name it, "My Gaming Edge" :D

good luck with the project, there are a lot of solid people in this community that might be able to help

While any suggestion of this is just theory crafting, as we haven't seen a whole lot of it, I am a huge proponent of 5v5, for that very reason of supporting the pure cookie cutter meta while ensuring an off class wheel of checks and balances. It may boil down to snipers as 5th, at first maybe, but teams who run a heavy will have major damage advantage. The choice for a team to try and counter that heavy with sniper, or counter his productivity with another heavy starts spinning the off class wheel, and might spice up the game immensely. Heavies might produce counter snipers or spies (of which become much more viable in a land where there is 1 less player to get around, and exact class lineups arent as set in stone—which would make disguises more convincing), spies might produce pyros which might produce engineers, all of which might spurr a 2nd soldier instead, which might cause for a 2nd scout, which might then produce a heavy and you start all over.

It could very well just be 5v5 with 2 scouts all day, but I think having the lower team build creates a very interesting meta for certain players involved. Seeing players switch from soldier to scout to sniper, or soldier to heavy to scout, would expand the meta and thought process that went into each play. It would give spectators a more exciting experience as they see how teams both react to dealing with an unexpected class, and use the off class to sway a fight/push/stalemate. It would also create hype for situations where a player who normaly plays soldier or scout, switches to an off class they are particularly good at, like when someone who doesnt awp much in CS but is great with it, has the weapon in their hands.

5 player teams also make more teams, and gives everyone the perfect opportunity to cut that player on the roster they secretly can't stand. So win win really.

But I doubt after all the parades it would turn out that valve implements a comp format no one is really used to.

IBP did one too. Said their writer was super handsome too, not sure why that's applicable...

http://blog.ibuypower.com/blog/2015/05/01/saving-team-fortress-valve-confirms-competitive-match-making-headed-to-beloved-title/

I read this on my mobile and always read the response before names, and I was like "WHO THE F..." And then I saw it was your silly ass.

You're telling me 5 of you had a sit down with the men in charge and a grand total of NONE of you even mentioned The Classic?

These 13 pages are a waste. Game's still dead...

I didn't just stop writing. There had been no updates, no meetings, no communication for some time. When I did finally speak with someone it was clear they weren't going to be supporting the coverage anymore.

IF ONLY

2 mins long, watch it before takedown

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/batman-v-superman-trailer-leaks-online-1201474431/

https://vid.me/zvQk

Shot you a PM concerning the management of public relations.