evil bong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYWlWxOUJWc

"I admit my mistake of posting the cryptic tweet. I did it out of excitement literally a few hours after I left Valve's offices. Yep, bad move. I should have either just been clear about what I saw (like my follow-up clarifications) or just kept my mouth shut. And for not making those choices, I apologize.

Since we're approaching the event horizon of the 9/6 update officially being over, I might as well be extremely clear about what I saw, nothing left out. This information does not reflect my opinion or any speculation of mine.

When we were walking through the doorway that leads into where the TF Team has all of their desks, Eric took us past a rectangular shaped board room with a glass wall, so you could see inside of the entire thing from the hallway. We stopped in front of it and he explained to us what it's used for (it's used for meetings, to no one's surprise). Inside the board room was three things: a television on the far left wall, a long board room table and chairs in the middle, and a whiteboard on the far right wall.

I remembered seeing this room through the glass wall during my first visit in January. When I saw it the first time, I remember the whiteboard being basically full of random writings, none of which was clearly visible. This time, the entire whiteboard was blank except for a few things in the bottom left corner, clearly visible (for the most part) through the glass wall. I stared at it for a good long while during Eric's explanation of the room's purpose, and saw that it was exactly the following:

The words "September 6th". Below that, a time of day. This was considerably smaller than the date, so I couldn't see exactly what it said, but it was clear to me that it was a time of day. It looked a little bit like 11:30am or something, but I couldn't be sure. So I have always left that information out, since I don't know what it said. Then, underneath that - a very simplistic doodle that was very obviously a jungle. There were a few tropical looking trees and bushes all sitting on a bit of land. Looked more like a small island than anything, but it was obvious to me that it was a very small doodle of a jungle.

That was the only thing written on the whiteboard. Past that, I have no other information from my discussions with the four Valve employees we spoke with for a few hours over lunch and in their office. I've said it before in other places, but 90% of the time, we spoke to them about what we think is good, what we think needs improvement. They listened, we talked. It was not an official meeting by any means, I only wanted to visit again because I genuinely enjoy the atmosphere of Valve, the TF Team is very friendly and down-to-earth, and I love their game and respect their passion for the game. I was in town, so I wanted to stop by and catch up. I didn't go to just press them about Pyro Update news, or interview them like Tyler did.

Sure, I would have loved to have gotten some sort of hint directly from the team, but they love their surprises, so the lack of new info wasn't... surprising. And if the TF Team would have told me anything in confidence, I wouldn't talk about it publically. In fact, there are still things I learned during my first visit that I haven't spoken to anyone about, and I don't plan to - simply because it was told to me in confidence.

The difference between leaking the date I saw on the board, and leaking something the TF Team told me directly comes down to the fact that I have no idea what it meant. My mistake was that I implied it was "official" via loosely cryptic tweet. The only reason I've had faith in the date being real is because...

1) The implication is pretty damn strong. I mean, it's a date and time over a doodle of a jungle. What else could that possibly mean? I thought it was obvious.
2) It's in their board room, which is used for meetings. I imagine it went down like this: They call a meeting intended to decide the launch date. While everyone goes around confirming that their individual projects are completed, someone doodles a jungle on the board to pass the time. Once they all confirm when they think it will be done, a date is written, along with a time. Meeting adjourned, nothing else to discuss. Back to work.
3) The NINESIX meme has been bumpin' for 4 days. If a launch date decision wasn't the reason for this date being written on the whiteboard, you'd think that someone from the TF Team (like Jill) would publicly debunk it. It would take a second, and it would prevent all the disappointment from happening very easily. It would take 10 seconds. I know Valve employees don't like to speak up or clarify things, but I would imagine that an assumption this popular would warrant at least a "nope, lol" from someone. This is the main reason I was expecting it today, to be honest.

This post is getting really fucking long, so I'll just call it here. Once again, sorry for the bamboozle. I was excited, I made a mistake in the way that I brought the speculation to the public. Thanks for being a tad more understanding than the Reddit, guys. I know the Uncle Dane Hunting Memes are mostly in good fun, but do know that I actually feel bad about the way it's gone down and the only thing I can do now is wait and hope just like everyone else."

- Uncle Dane

https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1577839&p=52655875&viewfull=1#post52655875

yeah the meta has changed

https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/August_2,_2017_Patch

https://i.imgur.com/64UQNrG.jpg

https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/6xjeod/dane_knows_nothing/dmghnun/

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Clawz, a 19 year old player just won both Duel and Sacrifice 1st prizes, which mean 175k dollars total (4 members in team mode)

https://www.eslgaming.com/sites/default/files/QuakeChamp_ChampionshipsMoneyBreakdown.jpg

really don't know what to say, all the Quake legends got kicked out like nothing, wtf

so does it mean that Valve hasn't done anything (except the original team) for HL3 since 2007? holy sh

*In Duel, mostly base on map, except some champions (note: personal opinion)

-Top tiers: Nyx, Ranger, Sorlag, Anarki

-Good tiers: Slash, Galena, Scalebearer

-Hmm tiers: Clutch, Visor, BJ

-Doom slayer is just added so no info

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*Some explanation:

-Nyx: lowest HP, but smallest hitbox, fastest speed, can wall jump, have Ghostwalk (similar to cloaking, but completely disappear from the map) https://youtu.be/hitiPsobMT4
Very annoying champ

-Ranger: medium champ, fast speed, -20% self-damage (rocket, nail, tri-botl jump), can throw an Orb (deals 100dmg on direct hit, can teleport to its location => can telefrag) https://youtu.be/TGJpyi9Pxr0
Very strong champ

-Sorlag: tank, super stack, can bunny hopping and strafe jumping, spit acid (5 "blop", 30dmg on direct hit; has afterburn effect, 40dmg can't be extinguish) https://youtu.be/AFPoVPsNu7E
OP champ, not know if she will got nerfed, fuck Sorlag

-Anarki: light champ, small hitbox, CPM physics (bunny hopping and strafe jumping, but different and faster than Sorlag), has Health injection (full health regeneration, speed boost, +1 max health increase each use) https://youtu.be/vq72QxMDk80
Another annoying champ

-Slash: light champ, small hitbox, can Crouch slide (pretty much turn you into a race car, hard but pretty amazing to see), has plasma trail https://youtu.be/gQFeX76e8z8
Good champ, very fast, but she doesn't have "escape" ability like Nyx or Anarki

-Galena: medium champ, nothing special, except the Totems, similar to landmine, can heal yourself 50HP, deal 75DMG to anyone touching it, can place max 5 of them (can be destroy, but the totem itself also has 50HP) https://youtu.be/2d8l391u9nU
Situational champ, mostly effective on small maps, you can spam totems everywhere for free DMG and distracting the enemy

-Scalebearer: tank, but a bit smaller than Sorlag or Clutch, has Bull rush https://youtu.be/uNZsaQgcJ0g, 50% damage resistance, increase moving speed, deal at least 75dmg on hit and even more, base on how much speed can you get
Nothing much to say, good champ, you can escape or get some free kill with the charge

-Clutch: he's a weird tank, has biggest hitbox, but can use Dodge ability to move around the map super fast. His ultimate is Barrier, pretty much a shield that can block all the damage coming from the front (when attacking, the shield will down for a short time). Press F again (default ability button) the shield will be replaced by Mining Drill, a LG with no range limit (just forget about this one, it's useless) https://youtu.be/87T9cijePYk
Player preference, his massive hitbox is the problem, but he's still a flying tank with shield

-BJ: medium champ, lower hp than others, 25HP regenerate passive ability, Dual weapon active ability. https://youtu.be/gyCHUJj7fEw
He's pretty OP at first (because of the double firing rate) but after the nerf (down to 1.5), he's pretty much a no no champ

-Visor: medium champ, no speed limit (up to 1600u), have wallhack ability, 5s duration, 45s cooldown https://youtu.be/yq9nbHkJcFA
Not as you think, the wallhack is so quick that it just doesn't help you much, beside, it means that Visor doesn't have Escape ability or Damage ability, so in a direct fight, this ability is pretty much useless

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Overall the balancing is somewhat good, except Nyx and Sorlag, no champion is completely dominating the others.

Edit: Clutch's HP in the clip is wrong, he's changed to 100/150

how many people thinking Pyro update gonna hit at TF2's birthday? lol

quakecon 2017 is up now guys

https://www.twitch.tv/quakechampions

admit that Duel is pretty lame to play, but they said that (in the latest stream) they gonna replacing CTF with SAC if the mode is popular enough. So i'm still hoping that they gonna change this mode later on

The champion with ability thingy is actually kinda fun to play, worth messing around
also the game is gonna be f2p anyway, so just try it

damn,i just keep f up

i mean the "beta" players have been playing the game before this update will continue to play
while new players want to play the game have to buy the Early Access pack

Early Access Update - Patch notes
https://bethesda.net/community/topic/86315/early-access-update-patch-notes

5AM ET maintenance
11AM ET update

Old beta players will continue to play
New players will have to buy the EA pack to play

Abort the Valve hype train, jump on this one instead