buff banners not even remotely comparable to jarate lol. Its much less consistent, you lose gunboats, and you spend five seconds announcing it to the other team whenever you plan to use it.

I wouldnt even call it poorly designed unlike pretty much every other source of minicrits. If it was stronger/built faster then it could be a viable choice for breaking stalemates which is something tf2 could probably use more of if the whitelist were to get looser.

and here i thought the wallhack guy was gonna be op

no but its very unlikely theyll do that because valve probably wants to retain some established identity for classes/weapons.

airblasts stun is just one of the countless things that make pyro trivially easy to use, which is a huge problem because it means they cant adequately buff him without making pubs hell for low level players.

interestingly enough, the ability to pickup weapons off of bodies could've been great for the kritz since it wouldn't force people to stick with it to maintain as good of an uber advantage. its a shame they fucked up the initial implementation.

oh yeah im seeing that now. the window for the pipe delay is definitely a lot tighter than it is for melee it seems. the fact it makes a difference is even more absurd though.

there may be some other settings that impact this. I just tested the same things as in the video and didn't experience a delay when switching from stickies to pipes.

i got the same results for switching to and swinging a melee weapon (as well as a clear increase in overall arm time when mashing right click while switching to melee), but unlike the video, I had no excess delay when switching to pipes while detonating stickies.

yeah it probably wouldnt be particularly overpowered, its just that for most people heavy isnt very fun and allowing the sandwich makes the most stalematey part of tf2 even more stalematey by buffing the defenders more.

Well another way to approach the accuracy of the weapon would be to increase projectile speed but reduce projectile lifetime, so that theres less room for error when aiming

making both more aim intensive would be a plus. tighter spread comes with a naturally higher DPS at all ranges and increased skill reqs which they really need if valve wants to buff them without making pubs a hellhole for the normies. pyro in particular really deserved more reliable damage output but his low skill floor makes him hard to buff without reprocussions.

id really like to see the knockback reduced on aerial targets with the heavys minigun. GRU should have a passive downside instead of an active one. natascha should be reworked, but if they insist on a slowdown effect then it should at least have a minimum damage requirement before applying it. sandwich alt fire should be nerfed.

pyros airblast stun is dumb. a more accurate flamethrower with better range and more reliable damage would be great. reserve shooter should be reworked (really minicrits probably deserve a nerf in their own right). buff det jumping.

i stopped playing after one last night and the last one didn't show up in history until a couple minutes after it had ended.

for anyone who wants a temporary fix for the time being:

first, make a file in the HUD's main folder (for me it's broeselhud_blue-master) titled info.vdf, and inside write

(change broeselhud_blue-master to whatever your hud folder is if need be)

then delete resource/gamemenu, resource/ui/mainmenuoverride, resource/ui/streamlistpanel, and resource/ui/streampanel

this should make the hud functional with the exception of using the default main menu. so far ive had no issues in either community servers or competitive MM.

they had total control over who got the gunboats because of the art contest so it was probably solly's from the beginning.

on one hand heavy has a bigger impact in a whitelist-free meta, but hes not really broken at his core and could pretty easily be fine with some unlock tweaks.

on the other, pyros only huge problem is the reserve shooter. and hes pretty much straight garbage for anything but being a pest and stalling ubers otherwise. im pretty okay with him being trash, but hes in this unfortunate spot of being both underpowered and really annoying; and if valve wants to insist on improving the viability of the underused classes before really supporting the comp scene then id prefer pyro got a serious rework before they got started on that.

current meta could easily be preserved with a whitelist/class limits so i dont think people should worry too much about how it may affect 6s right now.

There are basically two interpolation values. One is cl_interp and the other is cl_interp_ratio/cl_updaterate. The game always uses whichever is bigger.

yeah but if moving to no whitelist is valve's end goal for competitive, and valve has any intention to support the competitive scene, then its prudent to at least entertain their ideas in the short term.

like if valve hosted a few tournaments with a decent prize pot and a shitty ass ruleset, and players abused the shit out of certain unlocks or a lack of class limits and demonstrated the problems in actual matches, then there'd be far more support for changes towards what we expect for 6s anyway.