good cat

Hopefully not too late to find a team, bump

Don't forget to blame hit-reg

I'm paid and unrostered right now if a team needs help getting 6 paid members.

This is pretty much why I never play tournaments.

But on the other hand, you can't really police jump shotgun. Is it a matter of how close I am? What If I'm jumping from your side of the court and shotgunning you in the back because you got past me? What if I know you're like 10 hp and I just spawned, so I jump forward, and shotgun you at half court to take the intel from you?

It's a nice idea, but it can't realistically be stopped. Not to mention it's just as easy to bodyblock and use rockets.

Suppose that you're really bad at engineer. Somehow you flail your cursor all over the place, and can only deal 50 damage every 3 shots. Lets also say the enemy got uber faster than we thought and pushed while you were only at 150 metal. -2 complete whiffs, down to 90. Did 50-some damage, up to 110. Whiffed twice more, down to 50. Another solid hit, up to 70. But you're still shooting and missing, you're now out of ammo, and have to use your pistol.

That was 8 shots with someone who seemingly can't hit with their shotgun. 8 shots without reloading once. While starting 75% loaded for your fight. That makes engie pretty damn formidable on last holds in theory. I don't see why anyone would ever run non-widowmaker in a 6s last hold setting. I suppose maybe if you were at advantage and just wanted to park the bus gully-last style, it would be better to separate ammo from metal.

That said, I don't think it's going to cripple the game or anything because the widowmaker exists. I don't think engie is getting run to mid because he doesn't have to reload. All its doing is making pushing last harder. Now I'm not invite, so I'm definitely not a bastion of knowledge and experience, but pushing into a prepared last hold is tough enough as it is, without unlocking direct upgrades to some of these classes.

Widowmaker isn't really overpowered in most situations because you usually don't keep your engie out after the sentry goes down. But in a situation where you need to keep your engie in the field because you don't have time to swap, it's pretty much a straight upgrade in most hands. It still has 6 shots (worth of metal). You only need to hit 30 damage to pay for that shot. Even missing half your shots and hitting for 60 on subsequent shots will keep you at infinite ammo without reloading. Once you get to a skill level where people are good enough to hit ~1/3rd of their shots, it is just crazy good.

I agree with your other points though. Cow mangler is questionable. The slower reload is only on the first rocket. If you reload multiple, then that 'downside' is less effected. Would be worse in an extended firefight, but better in more spammy scenarios. Maybe just don't run it to mid then equip after?

There are a lot of items though that are banned that are just bad and wouldn't matter anyway: Eureka, Dalokohs, etc. that could probably be unbanned.

Inept or willfully ignorant. Either way they don't seem to give too much of a shit.

Since we like real sports comparisons:

Why does baseball restrict batting inside the foul lines? I'm really good at hitting it just outside of the foul line, so please make your game cater to me. This is what your heavy argument is.

For the same reason they restrict the range in width, we restrict classes or weapon unlocks. It just makes for a better game.

Sounds fun, but has a lot of the same problems as 6s. Different from pub play, restrictive unlocks/classes etc. It wouldn't get support just like 6s wouldn't get support. It doesn't really solve anything, it's "just another game mode".

Date: 12/30/2014, one day before ESEA deadline, given roster password and paid up, then told I've been cut.

So now I've paid for ESEA and LFT again Scout/Roamer preferred.

I regret my decision.

It's pretty heavy but I found the opposite, it's too easy to accidentally scroll, as well as carries its momentum. It'll keep spinning for a bit even when its locked. Free scroll just takes away any tactile feedback from it. It's a really nice wheel for browsing the internet, or sifting through documents or whatever, but it just felt bad for gaming. Going up then down in succession (Bhop, etc.) just didn't feel good.

It's also very large, and raised pretty high up. The material it's made out of I'm also not much of a fan of. Most other wheels I've used have more of a grippy type of texture whereas the g502 is just plastic, and your finger doesn't sit on it as well.

I don't really use mouse3 for anything, so I can't really comment too much on that, but just feeling it in my hand atm feels like I'd hit the mouse tilt actuation a lot.

That aside, the wheel isn't the only thing I disliked. The weight tray on the bottom has a bit of plastic that sticks out the left side, and the 'focus button' stopped my thumb from sitting comfortably, but I'd say those were personal gripes rather than objectively bads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sOkeC7L1lY took me longer to type that than make this

I love my g502s but had to swap because the scroll wheel is atrocius. Definitely a consideration if you use it for gaming.

http://i.imgur.com/CxqCXkD.png

Also blocks access from IE, Tor, Steam browser, and whatever other browser you may like to use outside of chrome/firefox.

I wonder how many new players are going to even bother when they see this.

Pls help.