At this point, I'd rather see prolander 6s official than I would seeing them seemingly drag their heels with a half baked never finished matchmaking system.

The issue is that, in valves eyes, they really are doing a fine and timely job. They made matchmaking. It was functional after only a few weeks post release. Everybody has been eating up their community content holiday updates. They NEVER openly stated that they would be aiming to take 6s in a more generalized direction, and while anybody could catch onto that looking at the updates, the fact we couldn't even get confirmation of it until gabe did an ama and the community had to plead for answers just shows that valve really is 80% politician talk.

Oh well. I hope the pyro update is a banger. Or we'll just see more snail slow progress. like we always do

Why is it that the only people who hate tftv posters and consistently insult the contents of the website are also always the #1 people who most crave the attention of tftv posters?

sounds like something an ENTITLED op would say

Well yeah, if your team doesn't have any dummies then it's a self sustaining system. I just imagine the large quantity of low open LFT's are people who fall within the 14-18 socially developing status. Seasoned LFT players don't have much excuse to not try setting up a team if they haven't before and are still searching.

Very flexible and eager to do well. Fun to talk to and very committed to knowing what he's doing. Played with him a full season in 21 and briefly in 23, he also built my current PC. If you want someone that's in it for the long haul and able to handle whatever you throw at him, then pick him up

don't know why you're being downvoted, there's a lot of responsibility with leading a team that can take a toll on someone who isn't prepared. If players have an argument, it's your job to fix it. If the team isn't doing good enough, it's your job to push everybody to improve. It's your job to convince everybody to demo review and be timely for scrims. It's your job to calm people down when they're tilting or making trouble. Depending on if you have a scheduler it's probably your job to schedule scrims and matches too.

Yes, leading a team provides amazing player experience and teaches you a lot about being the rope that ties a team together. It also makes you much closer to your teammates because when they think of the team they think of you. And if you're passionate about the game then leading a team can be very rewarding and fun. But just remember that there will be a lot of dumb shit to deal with, and don't let it get the best of you if you do it.

we should have a war to decide if he gets it oh wait

Are your recieve/transmit sliders ingame maxed out?
And when you tried clearing your autoexec, did you launch with -autoconfig and then boot normally?

Also, this belongs in Q&A section.

Just because certain individuals chose to devolve the conversation into attacks on others character doesn't mean there wasn't any substance to the point of the original posts.

The fact you think entitlement goes hand in hand with having even the slightest disagreement with how updates or communication are handled just shows how disconnected you really are from reality.

In my post where I admit that you have legitimate credibility to your logic, you interpreted it as an entitled remark about demanding more content. When I was clearly saying that I feel I have been patient with valve and that patience has paid off with nothing but heartbreak. I didn't say I deserve more, I didn't say valve is obliged to give me more, I said that for what we've seen over the course of the past year, majority of people have not felt like they did all that they could. If you're going to make a human shield out of my post, at least make a logical one.

tbh hidden path would still do better even if that's the case...

If anybody's impeding the progress of the game, I would sooner point my finger at the company who needs to borrow statistics from a community league because they can't get people to play their own matchmaking system.

The fact that your completely fair and logical conclusion with reasonable weight to its merit is still perceived as optimistic at best and not actually feasible just shows how great of a job valve has done at keeping the communities trust

I'm willing to believe that doing this all would pay off in half a year (oh nevermind even more haha) but the fact that there's no transparency of what actually has impact on updates unless we have a middleman explain it (as you seem to be doing) just shows how seemingly disconnected valve is from the competitive community as a whole, which can make being open to change as the ones slin suggests extremely difficult because it's banking on putting all your trust into a company that has let me down so many times in the past year, and I imagine many other people feel the same way.

I don't think merging community-run 6s with Valve's current open ended system is the "way" to creating a starting point for us to work with them. Valve has shown that they have negligible (if any) real interest in improving their matchmaking in a timely manner, and from the public perspective they haven't taken anything out of seeing us apply global whitelists and less restrictive bannings.

If we removed white/blacklists, we won't see valve implementing changes based on UGC/ESEA statistics. We'll see them working the same way they already do, all the while the community will struggle to enjoy their own 6s variant because it now includes various weapons that slow down or change the game in bad ways and aren't being rebalanced by valve any time soon.

As much as I agree that it would be a fantastic idea if we could constantly churn out statistics for valve to review and accordingly balance with, it's been shown five times over that they will not do that. Not if we sent them a heartfelt letter, and certainly not if we tried to adjust our system to be more like theirs. All these things have been tried and while we've seen SLIGHT improvement from valve given these things, we've also seen them completely revert to not caring a single bit every time too.

TL;DR: Great in theory, if your game's developer would actually use that information. Ours won't.