I was going to say the same thing.

Improvement feels manageable compared to some other competitive games like Street Fighter, Quake, DOTA, or Counter Strike. You can go from Amateur to Advanced in a year if you get the right mentoring and practice consistently. It's hard to do that with some of those other games I listed because the skill gap is so big across ranks and the gap gets larger and larger the higher the rank, it can feel like you get stuck in Intermediate Hell for a long time, and it's not abnormal to be stuck there.

Catching up with higher skilled players in TF2 doesn't feel impossible, and yet, the skill ceiling is really, really high. It's a nice balance.

aim > aimes

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Holy fuck, TF2 is becoming a horror game.

A toon killed his brother. Dropped a fridge on his head.

Post or type it out. Include achievements if you want.

https://i.imgur.com/V48F0TM.png

How did Gullywash get anything higher than Neutral.

I didn't even notice the first time I watched it and now that you pointed it out and I kept an eye out, it's even funnier.

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

I think it's because Discord is not the best format to use if you want to run pugs. The best thing they have going for them is that anyone can start it: It's an easy program to learn how to use, you don't need to pay for a server, sharing information is as easy as generating a link, and you don't need any plugins/mods/bots/etc if you just want to run a small pug group with in-house friends.

The downside is that mods are doing more than just running pugs, compared to a Mumble-based pug. They have to care when someone spams general or when players are in some e-argument. They have to individually vet and approve people, compared to a website-based pug that lets you connect to your Steam. Then you have pug running which can be incredibly tedious to do (Locking the channel, remembering who played med, rolling the dice and counting whose been picked, dealing with other runners tripping you up like dragging in that one guy in general spamming "LET ME IN" mid-picks). The PugBot made it as easy as a 20-second task, but nobody wants to learn how to use it.

It sometimes feels like people are trying to make pugs work in spite of Discord's format as a band-aid solution while people pass around the keys being in charge until they wait for that one big platform to take it from them and generate whatever new website-based pug group everyone is waiting for, whether it's gonna be RGL or FACEIT.

Does this track mean that no matter which path I choose, 4 players are going to die?

https://i.imgur.com/SZB7A1E.png

How did Habib lose track of recordings demos twice within a month of each other? Did he get a new computer and forget to throw back in P-REC or something?

b4nny was brought on by RGL to do testing, suggestions, and promote the upcoming RGL pug system for awhile. I don't know how far his input goes, though.

What happened to, "RGL will not hand out warnings for conversations in private discords/DMs"?

What was the moment that made you go, "I think I want to take a break from TF2"? It can be a break from the entire game, or just you wanting to break from competitive TF2. How long did the break last, or is it still going?

Show me the animals.