Let's talk about the real incentive here. Get your schedules right, and you greatly increase your chances to have me mispronounce your name live on stream.

the real struggle

first the classic, now this, I can't take anymore of this heartbreak

Some of the new materials on 2fort are beautiful though. I'd like to sde some of those/the color scheme in customs. Adds a cool sci-fi feel.

there is no emote in ios, andriod, twitch, or all the realms of men to explain my sorrow

y'all think that new sniper is a re-skin of a buffed classic?

bruh, bullets can't even break glass in TF2 . . . the walls are industrial Mann co. strength or some shit, nothing is gretting through those babies.

The Waters of Mars, anyone? Dr. Who fans?

No matter the finer points, if it's a fun game, with a buzzing interest, and has competitive support (major tounaments), it will be successful. As far as I can see it will be all these things; but that doesn't mean it has to be the death of TF2 as well.

Great news. However, as Seagull was apt to point out, the wording does suggest MM might not be out until next year.

I disagree that the game slows to a crawl. Snipers do not make that happen. I think that is associated with sniper because we are used to seeing it in either 9v9 where the game is a crawl to begin with (and the sniper v sniper actually lends a layer of dynamism, helping to break that crawl), or we see it during stalemates in 6v6, usually on last, where the game is already on a crawl and a sniper is needed to "uncrawl" it. It has been my experience that in 6v6 a team speeds up their play to pressure the sniper. If they cannot, they'll counter snipe; and it has also been my experience that sniper v sniper is always a hype-able event when it shows up on stream. Headshots are sexy—lauded over in all FPS games that have them—and in comp TF2 we've gone to measures to make sure the maps where they happen most go to the waste-bin.

It's not like Yukon demanded a sniper. It worked perfectly well as a cookie cutter map. But there was just room for sniping to have a sizable impact in the hands of the right player. When it did, it forced teams to reconcile that impact, not wait for the odds of map's style to bail them out. Process is the last map with real room for sniping. I don't think people realize that process is probably just as good a sniper map, with better sight-lines spread out over the map. Process just has a more favorable mid, and I think the sniper "issue" gets rolled into people's general distaste of other aspects of the map.

i had them too, 1 invis on yomies, 4...FOUR invis on Ascent. I cast in 3rd person so I guessed what was happening based on where the medic was :/

So what that it's a good sniper map? That might make it a bit more interesting if a team with a sniper like Flippy had a Yukon as an option to pick in bo3's. A criticism of 6's is how we isolated the other classes; and a criticism of this statement is that cookie cutter classes are actually just the best. Mostly true, but a lot of people forget the map pool has been pruned and fabricated (literally: see pro_viaduct) to suit what is best for the traditional class lineup. Take a look at i55. Even the most mundane head-shot creates so much hype on stream. It's a shame we gravitated away from maps that let other classes shine.

Sincerely,
- Totally not a Sniper main

bruh, how froyo gonna keep a talent like me on the bench?

I could see it working on rollouts, if it was times right to catch the bulk of a team. Might add a bit of hype to each mid too.