On his main account? To the gallows . . .

that tease!

daylight savings . . . I shall murder thee

When I play MGE I just hold W into the other guy since in pugs/scrims/matches all I ever did was hold W. You have to replicate your play-style, not play MGE to win MGE. The greatest thing you can learn from MGE is aim consistency, if you find you are moving different in and out of MGE, you should immediately try and fix that. Either break-down what movement/positioning makes you successful at MGE and try to always put yourself in those types of situations in scrims, or figure out what movement/positioning is a weak point for you in scrims and try to replicate those scenarios in MGE 1v1's.

Winning an MGE 1v1 is far over-hyped. I believe many invite players or well known players play MGE on aliases for the simple reason that they want to practice, not be pressured to try and win.

One last thing to pay attention to is that MGE puts you at a buff at the start of nearly every 1v1, this is certainly not going to be the case in a 6v6 setting, so you need to play accordingly.

it wasn't easy being green

They also updated the Rocket Launcher. If you hold right click for 2.5 seconds, a "ground-locator" is activated and the entire floor of a map is highlighted in a transparent yellow. VERY useful...

I predict a 4-4 tie that explodes the universe and heralds the return of Reptile

I bet if you polled the invite community the majority of the players would not care.

MW3 was the last I bought after telling myself I wouldn't ever by a COD game again unless it had dedicated servers and fixed the cheating issue.

I think one helps solve the other, but after the cheating experiences of MW2 and MW3 I will not buy another CoD game. If this one actually has dedicated servers, then I suppose we could actually do something about cheaters (admins/mods banning them) but in the past games there was nothing you could do, and it was so rampant.

I don't disagree with you. I think what he did was stupid. Maybe I've just been around gaming for too long, but I think this "offense" is menial. If he came on after this post and said, "It was me, I cheated in that lobby for the giggles." I'd see it as the dick-move that it was and care just about as much as I do now.

I differentiate between lobby and the other competitive formats not to belittle lobby (it gets along just fine without my help), I only mean to make aware the various levels of removal this is from something that is more relevant to our scene. I.E. not his main account, not his main-class, not our competition.

I'm saying, I personally draw a definitive line between cheating with the account you intent to compete with, and intending to cheat with an account that you use to mess around with.

Until there is proof that he cheated in a more relevant setting (i.e. in a scrim, or a pug, or a match) I will continue to be unmoved. I just don't see the big deal. The very fact that he signed on an alt and joined a lobby to do these things kind of shows me he was just being a clown. His MGE antics on the account back that up.

Lastly, do the lobby stats log IP? I'm not running with the shared account theory, but I don't know enough of how lobby logs information. We can see the stats fine, but other than finding his IP through MGE to expose the alt, how are we certain it was his IP hacking in the lobby?
I'm not doubting it wasn't, just as far as I can see, we're assuming it is.

I guess I'm of the crazy mindset that he is innocent until proven guilty, and while we can basically prove an alt of his cheated, we can't say one way or the other whether:

1) It was or was not a shared account that many people used to up their MGE score, where one of the users then decided to test some cheats on.
2) It was his account alone and a way to be dumb and troll TF2 lobbies in his downtime with cheats.
3) A test run to gauge his freshly minted cheats he planned to use on every account.
4) Something else entirely.

I don't buy the third option because I don't think anyone who had 1 account VAC banned for cheating

I used that terminology because people share accounts. How many people had access to [OTR]ice? I did, and I know at least 3 others did. I'm not trying to defend the act of cheating. I'm trying to defend banning a player who has no other cause to be suspected of cheating based off what happened on his alt account. An alt is an alt for a reason.

For my money, he doesn't cheat as "Phrakture" on the Phrakture account. Until that time where we have cause to suspect he might be, I think banning him from pugs, and scorning his name based off the hard evidence that he hasn't "said anything" is bogus and jumping the gun.

But I get it, the devil's in the rafters, etc, etc...

I saw the IP link, and I saw the lobby hack. I did not see where those two were linked. Unless the lobby stats log IP (do they? I honestly might be mistaken if they do, I'm completely ignorant to what the stats log and I admit it) then saying it was him hacking in that lobby is conjecture. In fact, saying he hacked that lobby is itself conjecture. It's circumstantial. Looks bad, and I would say that player was cheating myself, but none of us KNOW.

I'm also not at all impressed by anyone's alt getting banned. Even if they came in and said "I used to cheat on an alt account in lobbies." I wouldn't care. Once it becomes a trend, once there is suspicion tied to the player, once his primary account is VACCed, all this stuff has meaning.

As of right now I see no relevance. Guy cheats on an alt. Bothers me not.

I think you all jumped the gun. If Phrakture had an account that he played on during scrims or matches and then got VAC banned, spurring him to create a new account to play on (the phrakture account), then there might be something to go off of to suggest his intentions are bad. Since, as far as I understand, the guy simply has the PW to an account that was once VACCed