It's a proprietary technology, but I'm willing to sell for for $$$ . . . hit me up.

I think Smaka's point is that expanding the meta is great, just not during matches. Unless of course maybe we want to use CEVO as a sandbox for unlocks . . . but that is something else.

When I played competitively I couldn't play without this, I couldn't play very well with it either, but that is neither here nor there...

pourin' out a 40 for my homie, cozy camper

Squinting, I see Bill Gates...

Is anyone else watching this? I had no desire to watch it, caught the first episode, and have been hooked ever since. Each week I'm blown away.

Tonight's episode (5th) was incredible. If you are a fan of The Wire, Breaking Bad, Se7en, metaphysics, nihilism, philosophy, etc... you owe it to yourself to invest in this series. What they are doing with the narrative is masterful storytelling. Seriously, check it out...

Brace yourselves.

Viaduct scrims are coming...

For the love of all that is paying me money to write articles, please play in ESEA. Seriously . . . I am not kidding. You do this to me and I WILL have to sneak into your house at 3AM and steal your cheerios and milk. Gotta eat somehow.

#savebloodsire

like a ninja

I want it. Daddy, buy it for me.

I think the raised mid is better—but that is just from thinking about how it will play, I haven't actually played on it yet. At first I liked the lowered mid because of reduced visual clutter and the appearance of more room, but jumping around as a scout I couldn't really imagine how a mid-fight would play out without more geometry to work around.

That is a good point about Mainline, in addition to the updated version I posted above, the version we played that season (rc5) is here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8583xypkkqy5egq/cp_mainline_rc5.7z

EDIT: though from just looking at the two myself I would say rc6 is better

We were, (prowell/prowl) I was headlining the project with Swaty, but then 9 million people convinced him to make this change/that change and it became a Frankenstein map . . . I'll link you the last version he worked on before leaving the community.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/v5n7iviby3dzx7q/cp_prowell_b4.7z
Changes:
Last:
- Removed Clipping on Railings
- Reworked geometry of ceilings heading into last from bottom left and right
- Consolidated Top entrance from level (3) at 2nd into 1 flat level
2nd:* Major Changes*
- Consolidated Attic with Level 2 via Ramps
- Raised Ceilings all over the area
- Locked forward Respawn
- Added Health and Ammo to accommodate defense
- Expanded left (defense) fighting area leading from previous "well room" into main CP room
- Greatly Reworked right (defense) fight area: Raising ceiling drastically, adding ramp, incorporating window rooms
- Clipped All Windows on level 2. (think this was fraggas idea, but in junction with the ceiling on the right, it makes for really awesome skip jumps from forward spawn to middle— making a previous difficulty for soldier to move around on the map null)
- Well Room altered to be a hub for offense/defense
- Rethought Water Routes: Pool located in main ramp room is enterable/exitable leading to river in yard
Yard/Middle:
- Route from river to Middle REMOVED. The River only leads into 2nd, but a player cannot swim from Mid to river anymore, preventing annoying sharking and backcaps.
- Pool added under Middle battlements to retain that entry into middle.
- Medium Amm0 added to train car in yard
- Geometry added to allow all classes to climb onto battlements for opening Mid Fight.
- All clipping removed around middle: Light fixtures in battlements, wires around point
- Train bed removed from under point to encourage a more fluid fighting area/Medium HP + Medium Ammo repositioned here
- Small HPss put on both sides between doors
-Small ammos underneath cap on either teams side (in effort to solve maps ammo issues)

This only ever made it to beta4, and could stand for some more editing. For instance I imagine the altered water pools in/out of mid are superfluous, and the major changes to 2nd likely needs playtesting and it's accompanying tweaking. But if anyone wants to take a look at it and maybe edit it, go right ahead.

Also, most people never played or saw the "fixed" version of Mainline that was whipped up to address many of the concerns voiced during the season. I'll post that too for the hell of it: https://www.dropbox.com/s/unslnnfynjlu8k4/cp_mainline_rc6.7z

The pug was almost as bad as the song

I'd prefer crits always be off. The pub I play on most happens to have crits on. There have been times when I was a soldier that I shot a crit rocket when I was surely dead and killed 2-3 people. Those times always make me laugh histerically. However, the times in which I was sure to frag a player, only to have him random crit and kill me, far outweighs that experience. It is always annoying.

That is the inherent flaw with crits. At any moment the players on the other team (particularly in a full server) have a better chance of critting you than you have critting one of the players.