I've played in a fair number of pickup games where atomisk was on the same team as me

he has attitude problems, would not recommend

not die

try not to die

Will there be an option sometime to add team coloring somewhere near the health/ammo?

The spy disguise panel is also mia

great job with this hud btw, I'm impressed by the level of features put into it.

What mechanics does this hud use to make transparent viewmodels?

I'm interested in using it but iirc the last modification for them on sv_pure (openplugin) causes vac bans.

A group of psychologists started with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, they hung a banana on a string with a set of stairs placed under it. Before long, a monkey went to the stairs and started to climb towards the banana. As soon as he started up the stairs, the psychologists sprayed all of the other monkeys with ice cold water. After a while, another monkey made an attempt to obtain the banana. As soon as his foot touched the stairs, all of the other monkeys were sprayed with ice cold water. It wasn't long before all of the other monkeys would physically prevent any monkey from climbing the stairs.

Now, the psychologists shut off the cold water, removed one monkey from the cage and replaced it with a new one. The new monkey saw the banana and started to climb the stairs. To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys attacked him. After another attempt and attack, he discovered that if he tried to climb the stairs, he would be assaulted. Next they removed another of the original five monkeys and replaced it with a new one. The newcomer went to the stairs and was attacked. The previous newcomer took part in the punishment with enthusiasm!

Likewise, they replaced a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey tried to climb the stairs, he was attacked. The monkeys had no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they were beating any monkey that tried. After replacing all the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys had ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approached the stairs to try for the banana. Why not? Because as far as they know that's the way it's always been around here.

I don't feel like having original thoughts at the moment so I'll just send you a tidbit from another doom and gloom thread. UGC is at its low water mark since 2011.

EDIT:

But honestly, it is getting more and more obvious that we need to create a decent, free NA 6s league and doing this will be the only way to save TF2. The reason so few new players are entering open is because there isn't a good way for to step up to it from a lower div. UGC is in disrepair for the reasons flatline talked about above, and there are no other options right now.

Nobody sane will shell out $50+ in league fees until they are much more confident in their skills than the high-ugc players that people in the CEVO happenings thread are talking about somehow converting; making that idea attractive to lowish players is a pipe dream.

:(

http://i.imgur.com/YvU9lsS.jpg

This is a wild guess but maybe it's a stability issue. Try turning off the multithreading cvars in your fps config. (or get an fps config if you don't have one already)

Saying that the experience for newer players doesn't matter as long as there are lots joining is a very short-sighted view to take. Players will leave after one low-level 6s season because they didn't enjoy their comp matches, even though they obviously enjoy tf2 itself if they were interested in comp to begin with. Those people will tell their friends that they shouldn't bother with comp tf2 either, and that removes a lot of uncounted people that might otherwise try and do well in 6s if their friends had a more positive review of it.

The reality is that right now, entry level NA 6s is very poorly run. That thread gives tons of reasons for this--IM/invite players on their mains in steel and silver, gold and plat teams that have no business being placed that high, the fucking quick fix being whitelisted, and much more.

About a month ago I was asked by a friend to ring for his iron 6s team. It was a bizarre experience because most of the people on the team had several seasons of experience in Open and they were all playing on alts. They were trying to play seriously because it was a match between them, the 2nd place team in Iron at the time, and the first place team, which they said was also made of sandbagger alts and that they wanted to play seriously in that specific game. I seriously doubt any actual new players on any of the teams they played against that season still want to play comp tf2.

Many people will reply to this with "ugc is shit lol just play open instead", but that really isn't a solution for these people. Despite the title, ESEA Open is not an entry-level division, simply because nobody will want to fork over $50 and lots of time to go 0-16.

I don't have exact statistics for this, but the turnover rate for ETF2L probably generates much fewer "dream graveyards" since the divisions are organized d1-d6 in a way that actually makes sense.

UGC probably won't be the solution to this, because the people who think it's a bad league simply aren't wrong. I think CEVO should introduce their Free division, which was very successful for them in CS:GO, added to TF2 as a tier below Open. Having a free-to-play league somewhere that isn't mismanaged (isn't this one of the reasons why so many of us want Valve ranked matchmaking too?) would be incredibly useful for growing the comp scene because players starting out will be more likely to actually have fun with the game.

I've only played in a few scrims with/against him but from what I've seen he's really good

I forgot to mention, bear is also bad just because comp tf2 has like 5 different people named bear and they're too easy to confuse

fathom, YouMustMike, cAPS, and Dr. Richard Longshaft are all S+ tier names.

the worst I've seen probably has to be kiler4fun, I was surprised when it was his actual name and not an ironic meme alias

I saw this as a response to that once:

Blizzard's interns are just professional sharpshooters and have a deeper understanding of the tools of the trade. Like inflatable asses.

https://i.imgur.com/DIMNpuf.gif

hi

sure go ahead dude tiny balls are cute