Don't know if the cost of the VR kit is the biggest concern when you think about the minimum requirements needed for the game.

https://i.imgur.com/zAgv02T.png

Pretty sure plenty of people don't even have a CPU/GPU that has been released in the past 3 years or so, myself included because I simply haven't had a need to upgrade yet.

I can honestly see where people are coming with the comments about VR being a gimmick since from what I've tried myself the current games offered have felt like tech demos more than actual titles like this one would be now that will be built entirely around it based on the experiences developers have learned from and it will (try to) be the best showing of what VR can do, if it can't deliver what people are expecting after having heard that VR will be "the future of the gaming" then I suppose it's just unfortunate in most cases then.

Still I don't think I'd be spending my money on VR tech just for this title alone at any point soon, but at least I know that people are guaranteed to start working on a HL2 mod of this as soon as it launches.

Stop this bullying I would never say that word nor even speak at all other than to apologize

Menty and Ignis

Pretty sure having a secondary small HL tournament with a very small prize or nothing at all could still be possible, similar to what got organized for i49 and i52.

I personally wouldn't plan on playing in it myself if it gets made but even having something like that organized for fun to be played on the non-group stage day(s) would seem doable on paper, assuming that the schedule would be similar from the past couple events where the main group stage had all matches played on Thursday.

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Couple years back when ETF2L did a MGE cup people had the majority of the class votes go for soldier since that's the obvious choice that comes to mind when people want to play MGE, it's the most popular one for it so why not. However immediately after announcing the cup we got so many people asking that why did we make a soldier MGE cup because of the varying playstyles people have and then got asked why did we not make a scout cup instead.

Feel free to take any advice from that if you will, after that cup people immediately asked for a scout MGE cup right away to get themselves reminded about a scout 1v1 cup done couple years prior and continued requesting for it for the next year I think only to never receive it since not that many, myself included, would've wanted to bother with making another 1v1 cup like that soon afterwards, even if we should've since it obviously was a wanted community request.

I like the matches taking around 30 minutes per map like in ETF2L, but I also like the way how ESEA scored points to make the amount of rounds scored matter at least slightly. Of course winning the actual match is the most important thing, but keeping count on the rounds won and lost is the easiest way how to deal with tiebreakers instead of the way how ETF2L has a secondary solution to it with the Sonneborn-Berger tiebreaker score for the lower tiers. Thankfully the primary solution for that is simple and fair which is just the head-to-head result, assuming that there's any because sometimes the playoff teams don't even play against each other in Swiss system.

To be fair while you all just have a pretty fucked up timing altogether with the timezone variance, making any match start after 10:30 PM ET is another problem here that doesn't help. Even in Europe I live on the eastern timezone (EET/EEST) and very few times I've had to play a BO3 that has still been undecided at around 1 AM in my own time.

Look at it this way, you won't know what sort of 18yo girl you'd get apart from knowing the age and the "stunningly attractive looks" but with the anime girl you'll also have a very wide selection of personalities as well, so I'd say it's a fair increase in cost of points for that

Just go to the top of this page and re-read Stark's post every time you're planning on posting in this thread, that'd be a lot more healthy than constantly bashing on yourself even mid-match of a streamed game

I like my anime ladies aged and developed and not in school anymore

That's cool and all but what toppings did you have on your pizza

Discord link seems to be dead again

I'd wish that at least Valve would be able to make general improvements to Gullywash to fix out the issues the map has had for years now and either make some hiding spots people have figured out more blatant or remove them, whichever they would see better fit to do. Of course I would expect that it's not something they could be able to do without the permission of the original map maker, but it's just a wish of mine since it is my favourite map of the whole game.

However I would also hate for anyone to even make a "pro version" of Gullywash because not only would everybody in TF2 be unable to come to any agreement on what should be fixed and what shouldn't, but also it would make us depend on yet another map on our own life support for few small improvements which we can live without as well. If we ever would come to a spot where we'd need to make a new pro version of a map then we're just better off getting an entirely new, polished map instead that could still have a future ahead instead of a fond past.

Are you asking for the TFTV community to do it or why aren't you going on ETF2L to ask the people who did make the map pool for your answer