I heard all of those stories about how awful Hydro was, but I'd still like to have it in the rotation, at least for testing. Also because I, and probably many others, was too late to the party to witness it.

Careful here. From my experience, Pubs with people actually trying never work out. It just ends up in a demo/soldier spamfest with three medics. Coordinated pubs are horrendous. The beauty in pubs, at least for me, is that you can just hop in and out and play casually as well as playing with friends from the community. Due to this, I think enabling alltalk (as well as gravetalk, obviously) would be a good idea.

No, blame the shitty community servers like Saigns that made Valve server quickplay necessary.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/3y7cwt/wrap_assasin_is_now_so_op_that_it_should_be/

DAE competitive players afraid of change?! XDD

Ah, I misunderstood part of the post then. Thank you!

Hm, I do get decent FPS, but isn't it a bit hard to compare because -default prevents you from increasing your FoV as well as removing view models, both of which would decrease FPS?

Can't wait, this is going to be great! Little sad so many of these courses are overlapping, but at least they'll later be available on YouTube.

Goddamnit Slin, you beat me to it. Very much looking forward for the first actual gameplay video we're getting. The theory crafting based on abilities and staged gameplay videos alone is getting old.

There is? Which one would that be?

Hm... Overwatch, for me, will probably replace pub server TF2. It just looks a lot more fun and diverse.

Competitive, not so much.

My main concerns about the game so far is that Blizzard has been really, really good at making characters fun to play, but not very fun to play against. Limiting your opponents' movement in an FPS really is not a good idea. And not only does McCree have a flashbang (aka an insta-win-button), they also continued that philosophy in Roadhog and Junkrat with their grapple hook and bear trap.

Movement in general seems very limited- which is not a bad thing, just not my thing.

Finally, only Payload and A/D CP maps. Nope, nope, nope. Really not interested in that since it always seems to turn into a tedious attrition grindfest instead of 5CP's tug of war I love.

Thoughts?

(edit) Also, I dislike how Blizzard won't be allowing the community a lot of customization. No community servers (or so I heard), no weapon bans, no character bans etc. So we'll be forced to stick with what Blizz throws us. I don't know how that is in CS:GO, LoL or DotA 2 though, might not be as big of a downside as I'm thinking.