if sdogg ever hacked everyone would know instantly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWhsZAhfyqc

Looks good except it's kinda hard to see people outside on high settings atm.

Old school arena shooter based on power weapons though = yes :D!

e: Has mod support and I think it's using dedicated servers. So yay.

clearly it's a pubs-who-hate-comp illuminati that is trying to make it look like there is an invite illuminati to kill competitive tf2 from the inside out.

genius.

AFAIK, they would move through that area as if they had noclip sort of?

I remember watching a Yukon demo after the layout change on mid, and the demo still treated the point as if it was on the ground and actually capped from there fine, people would just noclip through the mound that was added.

Right, but if you know you are going to get VAC'd ahead of time, you can trade the items away, then cheat, then not lose your items cause they are on a different account.

Ye, original Golden Wrench #1 (Mr Kaori), Drunkenfool, and some dude I forget the name of who was abusing an old SourceMod exploit in the same server as a Valve developer have all been manual banned. They pretty much only reserve those for extraordinary cases or for people who dudes at Valve blatantly catch cheating.

I doubt OpenPlugin caused it, mind, but there's a lot of things that can set VAC off so it's hard to say.

Nah, OpenPlugin is not allowed in UGC either, just it's kinda really difficult to find out who is using it given the nature of the league.

I dunno, given how it is loaded (in an unintended way that uses a loophole pretty much), and what it does, I wouldn't be surprised if VAC bans happened. It lets you get around restrictions that Valve has gone out of their way to maintain as restrictions.

Also that post was spread to several competitive sites last year, and I think a Valve employee warning about these types of plugins on a Valve owned forum is pretty official enough.

Though it still hasn't been proven that this plugin is responsible for bans yet (or that Moose is actually clean etc). That's the thing about VAC, it's really difficult to find out what actually got someone banned.

Just because you've only now just seen that forum post (and imo, it coming from a Valve employee makes it official) doesn't mean there was no warning about it. It's been known for awhile now that Valve doesn't really like these transparent viewmodel plugins or FOV changing plugins, and that VAC bans could take place due to the nature of how they work. This is a big part of why no leagues in North America allow them.

Normally I'd be like "haha nice excuse" or something, but Valve has warned about using plugins like these in the past and that they might throw VAC bans for it, and considering it's Moose, I kinda doubt he cheated.

Didn't really see it on the poster (forgive me if I missed it, wee bit tired), is this going to be streamed on tf.tv? Considering how these events pull quite a bit of viewers, it seems like a great way to promote tf.tv (and the Newbie Mixes!) and get people to check it out. Be even better if the guide up top was done and out by this, but I don't know if that's likely.

r5 got dis in the bag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT4djadSy4g

It's an hour long but pretty great. Epic gets called out pretty hard and there's a lot of cool history stuff in here, goes all the way back to 1987.

related:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfKsljCuu8s&list=UUXlsAWCylmY21mex_da0M-Q&index=8

It still uses Elo, they just hide it behind Divisions now. (is the tl;dr, it's slightly more complicated than that)

Unless if Valve changed something, someone can get your IP just by sending the invite to a Steam call, doesn't matter if you do nothing or not.