I FUCKING HATE MILKY

I hate the pyro class but the more I think about it the more I realize how underpowered the flamethrower in itself really was before. After trying the class out myself I find myself having...

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+mobility and cheeky traps
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low qual selfie

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/267662162246238208/399257117258678279/cest_moi.png

There is no way he would've been able to hide such a dramatic shift in his life without his massive audience finding out one way or another. He may as well be the one that breaks the news, though I do agree it should be a private thing.

Seems to me like he felt guilty as fuck and admitted on stream so that he could get the backlash he now thinks he deserves. It's not about being self-righteous, it's accepting the punishment and becoming a pariah in the name of cleansing his spirit.

I can only speculate as to what drove him to cheat and it's entirely possible that he acted on impulse and has been feeling terrible regret over it ever since. The sad thing is that it's still very hard to forgive cheaters because if they've done it once before then odds are they'll do it again.

From what little I know I don't think he had evil intention, but let this be a precautionary tale. Don't do it.

This one by Pete
https://youtu.be/LiZNA5cJhqs?t=27s

This one from Scofield
https://youtu.be/CrxUsx_y6Lo?t=47s

Me
https://youtu.be/Ql_OiiM-JmA

Randa
https://youtu.be/PPvN0sIedPE?t=49s

Konfy+Ipz
https://youtu.be/CxKrqpkxCBY?t=1m4s
https://youtu.be/CxKrqpkxCBY?t=3m41s

Quik
https://youtu.be/IqZL09ZwKGs?t=1m25s

Also just for the meme you should end the video with this legendary Reptile clip:
https://youtu.be/mws5qO_dPlA

whoever considers that dumb is obviously not a fine connoisseur

unless u play rs3 in which case die

my man

No shit. At the very least I'd like to know the thought process behind their asinine decisions but their communication abilities have historically been worse than a mute amputee.

You could always easily avoid puff-n-sting with a decent enough awareness of your surroundings and of positioning. The reserve shooter minicrits has always been OP though, yeah.

Still the point is that the class should have a more general and diverse viable skillset, which it did until the new meta has returned to what it was 10 years ago: wave your flamethrower around like a spastic and get kills.

edit: I am also not a fan of nerfing unlocks to the point where they become so dogshit that picking them is a mistake 100% of the time.

It's so very bizarre for me to see how Pyro has evolved over the years. W+M1 used to be such a big problem and Valve had listened to the community by making the class more diverse with the addition of airblast minicrits, reducing the metal needed for airblast, adding the flaregun and introducing the Axtinguisher for a puff-n-sting approach. Pyros that could airblast were praised as a breath of fresh air over the brainless and frustrating W+M1; Puff-n-Sting was a sign of a pyro that used more of the class' tools. The Degreaser and its rapid switch speed was added precisely as incentive for pyros to switch between different weapons mid combat.

Yet somehow somewhere down the line this attitude changed. The Axtinguisher got nerfed and is now utterly useless. Airblast had its mechanics tampered with. Flames got tremendously buffed. My question is: why? Why did the class degenerate to a more offensive version of what it used to be? Why the regression of mentality? Its unlocks weren't OP. Airblast wasn't OP. Why was this necessary?

God, the ESEA page is so fucking ugly.

Suppose it's 2007 and TF2 is freshly released. Competitive mode is being setup and you're tinkering around with your mates to see what exactly is the best team composition. After a few tweaks by Valve and some restrictions by competitive leagues, the meta of 2 Scouts, 2 Soldiers, 1 Demoman and 1 Medic is adopted. But how did they reach such a conclusion? And better yet, why did it work so well?

The answer is that they had tried different combinations and experimented. There was no preconceived notion of what they ought to do, they developed it through intuition and genuine understanding of the game.

Following this new players did not have to do the experimenting anymore, it was all laid out for them. All that they had to do was mimic the pros and were berated if they didn't. Naturally the meta works, it is efficient, but this discouragement from experimenting meant that they didn't develop the same sense of intuition as those who built the meta. This wouldn't be a problem if at least we allowed the meta to evolve freely, but we don't. People are conditioned to be 1-trick ponies and then get stumped when something unexpected happens.

You mean like SE7EN strats? get out of here