Doesn't this also correlate with the launch of comp MM? More Invite and IM players are playing comp MM than ever before.

That's so weird that you got rank 13 at 1862 MMR. I'm at rank 10 with 1760 MMR...

I can't say whether banning crossbow will nerf the medic a lot or a little, but think of it like this: crossbow increases the medic's maximum potential healing per second. Therefore, banning it will nerf the maximum hps potential of the medic.

Again, I recommend staying away from theorycrafting in this thread as that isn't within our direct control. Modifying the crossbow's stats would require us to either a) develop a promod (a bad idea) or b) influence Valve (hard to do). Thus, we only have two choices:

• Accept the crossbow as-is
  
• Ban it

I think it's also important to consider that nerfing the crossbow also nerfs Medics. Food for thought.

Also, let's not consider modifying crossbow stats since that's out of our control and thus irrelevant for this conversation of ban/no ban.

Crossbow increases the Medic's effective healing range. He can stand far away and just fire arrows which can help his team win the fight. On the one hand it takes skill but on the other hand it feels cheap. When you lose a 1v1 to someone who just got crossbowed from across the map you feel cheated out of winning a DM fight.

You guys know I like unbanning things but for this one, I'm in favor of banning.

It was so much better tonight, queues were actually reasonable and I see more people getting ranks now.

Can't believe you watched the VOD, haha.

I liked comp performance but I didn't like seeing the blocks on the environment. Ended up going with comp quality plus modules for shadows and such.

Thanks for posting this! I finally got around to installing it properly (as opposed to appending the commands to my autoexec) and the vpks + module system works really smoothly.

One piece of feedback that I have is that the list of VPKs is super intimidating to a newcomer, and I had to have a couple folks on my stream walk me through selecting the right one. Once I had the right one selected, I couldn't quickly figure out how to install it. I know you have instructions posted with a header that says "Download and Install", but it'd be great if you called out explicitly that the VPKs literally run themselves and that you don't have to add anything do your autoexec to make it work.

In conjunction with my first piece of feedback, it wasn't easy to tell that the VPKs were working. When I removed my custom.cfg, I'd see the mastercomfig echo in console on game start. When I added my custom.cfg back to my /tf/custom/slincustomstuff/cfg folder, the mastercomfig echo would disappear (and I checked my autoexec for a "clear" command). I'm still not even sure if the mastercomfig echo is supposed to disappear when I add a custom.cfg -- it'd be great if I saw the echo whether I ran a custom.cfg or not, and since I know you're reading the thread it'd be great if I got your confirmation here as well!

Again I know how much work went into making this as easy and seamless as possible, and it works swimmingly. Thanks again for doing this!

Budget?

So nice! Really enthusiastic about learning, hope he finds a great home :)

That's pretty cool that it shows your mmr

i only got into 1 game on day 1, and then couldn't get any queues to pop on day 2 or 3.

today i got queued into 6 games, with only 1 abandoner :o but i noticed the queue times getting longer with each win.

Can someone who already did the work post the pastebin please? :)

I agree with others that there's a way to promote a new game mode without having to put down others. You don't see 6s tournaments announcing how shitty 4s is on their opening post.

Even if that was okay, you should read the room and realize it starts us out on a bit of a hostile relationship.

I nominate rocketking