better airshots

What did Bethesda show? No Fallout 4, from what I hear.

Just show a trailer for Arkham Origins and a teaser for the next Fallout and I'll be happy.

That's fair, the timeline was completely arbitrary. My point was that ESEA has its own flaws and it currently is the only viable league for competitive TF2 players who want to make money. I think diversification will only help the community.

I disagree with Killing.

First of all, why worry about a rift in the competitive community? There's already a rift between 6v6 and Highlander, and it isn't killing the game.

Second, how about a different fatalistic point of view: Six months from now, viewers are fed up with ESEA's limitations, especially server-wise, and the players themselves are frustrated with their relative irrelevance to TF2 and tired of seeing the same two teams win invite with the same strategies. ESEA's sponsorship of TF2 dies and competitive 6v6 dies with it.

Competitive TF2 needs to draw a larger portion of the community. Rather than saying Valve's ideas will never work, point out what needs to change and see what Valve does. For example, the main reason nobody runs a pyro to mid is that he is too slow. What if Valve gave pyro a mobility-enhancing weapon? He may still be a useless class, but Valve could fix that, too.

I think the best example of stagnant playstyles in our community is the Spy class. Nobody ever plays spy seriously in a 6v6 match. He has no 1v1 potential, no mobility, and his ability to get picks depends almost entirely on the stupidity of the other team. However, Valve partially fixed these problems ages ago with a godsend called the Enforcer, which allows a spy with good aim to actually do damage with his primary weapon. Rather than realizing that a useless class now had a means of contributing to the game, every league immediately banned the Enforcer because it was better than the default. That seems like close-mindedness to me.

I think people forget that Robin also wanted to see weapon bans and statistics from those bans. The real question is: Would Demoman still be overpowered without the default sticky launcher? As an "OP" weapon, it would see bans for a couple months, during which demomen would use the Scottish Resistance - a much less powerful weapon on a still dangerous class.

After seeing the sticky launcher banned consistently, Valve would nerf it and you would have fewer problems with the demo class.

Having started Dota 3 months ago and gradually worked my way up from shit-tier to the tier with the angry Latin Americans (whichever that is), I've got a couple tips for you:

-You don't really need people to tell you which heroes to start with. Pick one that you like and play him until you're good enough to win games, then pick another and do the same. With someone like Invoker, if you are worried about not knowing how to use him in a public game, give it a test run in a bot game.

-Use the steam community item builds and read the explanations on the items and skills. This will make you seem like you know which items to pick even when you don't. Browse through the guides when you're looking for new heroes so that you start to understand the overall theme of the items.

I'll join the TF2 stack sometime.

http://www.twitch.tv/aimzatchu/videos

This chick is playing 2007scape* and she's worse than I was when I actually played Runescape in 2007. She has 5000 followers. Tf.tv has 3600.

I think we know what the tf.tv stream needs to be popular.

*Actually she might just have the graphics turned to 1999-mode. Can't be dropping frames from those intense turn-based battles.

No Country for Old Men

Top Guns picked up Carnage? I thought Pyyyour was the original person who criticized Carnage's playstyle

Yeah, especially with the chat contributing to the shittalking it is detrimental to the team, but I think it's cool of him to be open about his failures. While it may be in poor taste, drama gets viewers and people like to see the inner workings of a team.

Mad props to Slin for continuing streaming through it, and for not deleting the vod afterwards.

Reading the chat in the corner, it's pretty obvious why invite players feel uncomfortable streaming scrims.

We finally know what killed the dinosaurs

http://i.imgur.com/Awx1VcS.jpg

I play solo queueue at low levels and I find it infinitely better than playing against bots. The secret is to understand that while your teammates may suck, you also suck, and the other team sucks too, so it all evens out. The biggest mistake I see people making is pretending they know what they're talking about just because it looks like their teammates don't.

I've actually found a couple times it's worse to be playing with friends. It's harder to tell a friend he doesn't know what he's talking about and it sucks to be in that situation where you're playing a farm-heavy hero in the jungle and your team takes a terrible teamfight. You get blamed for the feeding, but you can't point out that they have no understanding of Faceless Void or whichever hero without being a dick.