no troll, I've been using loadout swapping since like 2014 to take forward spawns. Saw it on a sigafoo video or stream or something cause he would use it to drop tele, then get 200 ammo right away. I just tried to find it but if it was on his youtube it's gone

https://puu.sh/D00kM/d4b8312752.png

https://i.imgur.com/Zei0mk9.gif

Okay you're actually so confusing as an individual.

Why in the world would this ban need a reevaluation? If I'm successful in my goal to get the exploit patched, suddenly what I did that you consider wrong is no longer relevant? What if I post other exploits in hopes of getting those patched as well? Am I only banned between the times of posting and patching?

I even get it if you're like "hey this guy clearly knows how to do this exploit, what if he's using it in our league?"
That at least makes sense. But also, I've streamed (publically) literally every second of every pug, pub, or match I've played in the last month.

The only way this ban makes sense is if you don't like me as a person. Totally cool with that, w/e, not here to please everyone. But at least make the ban message just like "fuck you" or something funny cause this is just annoying

https://twitter.com/Pete_tf2/status/1106257473554575362

https://i.imgur.com/KA5GaEv.jpg

Busy week but sent an email:

https://i.imgur.com/JBb5dpR.png

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/mcc-pc-halo-reach
e: better link

LFT

Unforgivably egotistical and unwilling to accept critique

I'm just bad enough that high invite players don't want to play with me

I'm just good enough that I get irritated easily playing with IM teams

Plus I made that spy thread so people hate me

Plus I'm running out of time left to play this game

Also like tojo said NA pugs have sucked ever since faceit died

e: Also totally forgot, my sleep is absofruitly FUCKED where I can't get to sleep or stay asleep. Trying new meds and my boss on campus seems to be intentionally not understanding and getting mad when I struggle making it to my morning shift

I had to drive to my doctor's office this morning but on my drive I thought of a possible solution for leagues. Will edit this post once I have tested

Sorry to everyone that's mad at me

Aelkyr
Pubs are on pure 2, pure 1 is literally "pure 2 but you can choose to add your own stuff"

Stop acting like valve have just been too gosh darn busy to fix a class-breaking bug. It took me less than 1/5 of a single work week to diagnose and provide a possible solution to the problem, having no CS background or ever working with this type of problem in the past. Also not being a valve employee.

A lot of people that are giving counter points to what I did have very valid reasons until #38 and #39. I questioned if exposing this was the right thing to do, until it was actually so easy to come up with a solution to. If they've been emailed about this for years and done nothing about it clearly the priority needed to be raised.

One is an exploit involving tweaking your GPU settings (NOT DEVELOPED BY VALVE)
One is a file edit that is literally supposed to be blocked by sv_pure 2 and isn't (DEVELOPED BY VALVE)

They're very different.

E: Also you listed off stuff like the explosion script like they're equal. You know they aren't. Imo none of this shit should even work, but TF2 isn't locked down at all properly. It's just ridiculous to ban for things as minor as that so we let them slide in leagues.

That's his ConTracker giving him a notification lol

btw this shit used to be an issue with items.txt (https://www.teamfortress.tv/post/341960/more-dumb-stuff-you-can-do-with-the-item-schema) Valve fixed it in 2015.

As of the October 15, 2014 Patch, items_game.txt is protected by a digital signature and neither the client nor the server will start up if it has been modified.

They can (and have been able to) do the exact same thing with these files. Absolutely no reason for people to be able to edit these files.

Just to add to what skeez is saying kinda..

I've just spent the last ~3 hours trying to get sv_pure to work properly. It's actually just fucking broken.

The game_sounds files are in the blacklist for sv_pure 2. They're there properly to be blocked by pure, and re-extracted from the Valve signed vpk to be default. But there are a few issues.

1. After the sv_pure 2 checking finds one file that isn't correct, it stops checking the other files. If you join a server with sv_pure 2 these files are checked:

	sound\...                            trusted_source
	models\...                           trusted_source
	materials\...                        trusted_source
	particles\...                        trusted_source
	scripts\game_sounds.txt              trusted_source
	scripts\game_sounds_manifest.txt	 trusted_source
	scripts\game_sounds_player.txt       trusted_source
	scripts\game_sounds_vo.txt           trusted_source
	scripts\game_sounds_vo_handmade.txt  trusted_source
	scripts\game_sounds_weapons.txt      trusted_source
	scripts\soundmixers.txt              trusted_source

But if you join with multiple game_sounds files you will get this error:

Reloading sound file 'scripts\game_sounds.txt' due to pure settings.

... and that's it. It stops there. In order to get the game_sounds_weapons.txt file to be properly checked by sv_pure, I had to remove all the individual file checks besides that one.

2. The fuckin check doesn't even work man lmfao. My suspicion is that the custom folder was added and sv_pure was never adjusted accordingly. So when sv_pure tries to give tf2 a new file to use, it never messes with the one stored in custom. So it makes some weird zombie shit happen where sometimes it uses the overpowered shit, but it also 100% of the time plays the spy cloak sound. Video example:

https://youtu.be/GM-qV-XMjKs

I get why you guys are frustrated but it's so STUPID that so many people are saying "I already tried to tell Valve about this" while also saying "You shouldn't give this more publicity". If you told them, and they didn't fix it, then they decided it was irrelevant. It's fucking not when people are already using it in comp.

I already talked to league admins. Everyone that says they've got buddies @Valve link them this. I spent the last 4 hours doing more troubleshooting on this issue than anyone at Valve has I'm sure.

Now someone help me w/ my networking project that I should've been working on instead