Part 2 of suggestions

• Base jumper can only be deployed once while in the air. A recharge timer will begin once the player has touched the ground
  
• Disciplinary action injures teammates after a certain number of whips. Maybe further reduce the speed boost duration that's given on hit?
  
• Cow mangler charge shot now grants health back to player on hit, slightly more health received on kill. (maybe) Add more health taken when blast jumping?
  
• Overdose speed boost begins to kick in earlier. Gain a small percentage of ubercharge on kill. Also possibly change 15% damage penalty back to 10%
  
• Beggars bazooka rocket damage is reduced with each rocket loaded. First rocket does normal damage, next one does 15(?) percent less, and the next one 20(?) percent less damage
  
• Equalizer comes with slight base speed increase while out. Damage ramps up with lower health
  
• Make the wrangler be "battery powered" and only usable for a certain amount of time. As the wrangler approaches half/lower charge levels, the firing speed of a sentry gun decreases. Level 3 sentry gun rockets also have a slower time deploying.

Weapons that I honestly have no idea what to do with:

• Soda Popper
  
• Atomizer
  
• Vita-saw
  
• Short circuit
  
• Rescue Ranger
  
• The reserve shooter
  
• GRU

Incoming list of suggestions

• Change lunchbox items (any consumable/drinkable item) to only be used once. The item can then only be restored by touching a resupply cabinet, similar to how the razorback works. Will work similarly with sandman and wrap assassin given that the player does not retrieve their ball. Also applies to jarate, mad milk, and cleaver
  
• Darwin's Danger Shield protects from explosive damage, or at least reduces flinch from explosives. Health addition removed (?)
  
• Change phlog to have similar properties to the lightning gun from quake. No significant afterburn exists, other than maybe a 1/2-1 second
  
• ACTUALLY make the LnL a 2 barreled weapon. Also reduce the amount of damage to players, but keep the damage dealt to buildings the same as it is currently
  
• Remove the destroy enemy stickies attribute on quickiebomb launcher (my mind will forever be blown why they would buff this in the first place)
  
• Change the pomson mechanic to be a health drain/health regain on hit. Remove lost ubercharge from medics and lost cloak from spies. Maybe add a reload speed penalty(?)
  
• Machina penetration only applies when a fully charged headshot is achieved. Every next target hit has (maybe?) a 30-50 percent damage reduction from the initial headshot amount. Overall damage can also be reduced so that a fully charged headshot does not do 450 damage, but enough to where it's not a complete piece of trash.

Part 2 coming later

It looks like the overheal part doesn't span the entirety of your screen. From a glance it looks like it's just in your hudplayerhealth panel. To change this you would most likely have to make your hudplayerhealth panel be the width and length of your screen

Are you going to do a review on it?

Emphasis more or less. Also I feel like the points you made really helped show what people could be doing if we want to get more (potential?) stability and growth that we haven't had in a long time.

Maybe have a vote that can be taken as to whether or not the people want a captain system?

scout sensitivity

sensitivity for all other classes

I've been watching him work on this many nights when he would stream and I'd for some reason still be awake. He's put a lot of work into it. Congrats on finishing it!!

how does this look?

event CompetitiveGame_RestoreChatWindow
{
	Animate HudChat Position ypos "395" Linear 0.0 0.00001
}

event CompetitiveGame_LowerChatWindow
{
	Animate HudChat Position xpos "105" Linear 0.0 0.00001

}

ask in this thread

So should I code it like this:

event CompetitiveGame_LowerChatWindow
{
Animate HudChat Position xpos "105"	//what should I put after this as the start time and duration values?
Animate HudChat Position ypos "395" 
}

I'm honestly not sure what to put in the event CompetitiveGame_RestoreChatWindow. Just the same thing as above?

From a side-by-side comparison it's not change. You're correct on that. But the big change factor comes once we get more people playing. If ESEA dies and we're supporting faceit, they just might help us GIVEN that we're supporting them. I mean there's already been a hefty discussion about the reality of the matter, so it's not like we'd be planning for a fallout that would be happening in 4-5 seasons. IM might not exist after this season, which could basically be the beginning of the end.

Okay. Let's go back to what you diagnosed as the benefits of a good pug system

Assuming this is the problem that you had mentioned that would be addressed, I'll disregard this

This can be easily fixed with an elo/ranking system

Is this really much of a hard thing to code into a pug system?

Also, it may just be me, but if the only times that I can play tf2 for a serious amount of time are in the evenings, after my scrims/matches are over, and I'm trying to get better faster, it doesn't leave the best thoughts in my mind when only the invite/high IM/known friends of invite players get picked in pugchamp, where arguably the highest level of tf2 is played outside of scrims and matches. This community wasrenowned for its hard work at the first international tf2 lan tournament and can do much better than resist change but also desire change more than anything. It just doesn't make sense from the outside, but seeing both sides of the coin reveals a lot more about everything than you could see from just the inside looking out, or even just the outside looking in.

for purposes of keeping this thread organized, I feel like using this thread for distribution of beta passes would be much easier for future reference

Your lack of enthusiasm for change is one of the reasons why we're not getting big growth. B4nny went over it in a decent amount of detail in the first TF2esports podcast. He mentions how people in our scene aren't very susceptible to change. Even Tagg further emphasized this

so using what tagg had mentioned, if we started a massive drive for people to queue up and play faceit pugs, then over the long run, better things would come from it.

Some of these things are SO EASY for a 3rd party source to code. I mean faceit already has ladders for multiple games right? So simply ctrl + c and ctrl + v with a few modifications and things will get better. But that's the initial tough period that we would have to experience before we would start getting bigger and better things.

This is arguably the hardest part about getting this thing to potentially work. If we can get the basically lifelong dedicated pugchamp people to switch over to what could be a great thing for our scene, then we are going to be able to go places.

We as a community need to set the example first then. Because once everyone sees people adding up to faceit pugs instead of tf2center/pugchamp/mixchamp/other lobby sites, more casual players are going to be more interested in learning how the competitive game is, further increasing the playerbase and publicity of competitive tf2.

This is just my personal thoughts, but maybe one random tournament (maybe making this playable for non-premiums and not the top % of the ladder) could encourage a lot of people to play, given that the tournament is done through a client for obvious anti-cheat purposes

if we have a hope with something like this as the end goal, maybe something like this is worth the drive to get more people to play this new platform that has been more than generous to invest their time and resources into our game.