This is a question for more experienced HL players:

When i played HL on low level teams, it seemed like so much depended on the demo for pushing. There are just so many bodies and so much hp around that my team NEEDED to have a demo present to have any sort of successful push, despite whatever kinds of picks we got (save for something like a medic pick). However, on defense, a heavy/engie/demo/whatever pick doesnt necessarily mean a lost hold.

So my question is, does this hold true for higher level teams? If so, how do you deal with it?

Do you see this as a problem in HL gameplay, or do you think its an okay metagame dynamic?

Direct Hit is certainly the flashiest rocket launcher.

When they are a div or two above you, but still let you call them shit.

Well you're certainly a free thinker.

#6: Seems like the the only interesting frags in that video are the long distance railgun shots. Doesnt seem very cool to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WckekUdMKY

My point was that Lotus would get better advertisement through providing servers. If Lotus shows that they care about comp tf2, you can expect attitudes amongst competitive players to change towards lotus servers. And with the competitive community having more presence than pretty much any other tf2 community, you can imagine the influence they can have.

Of course, their current level of commitment cant really hurt them. If this test run goes okay, they might consider more serious sponsorship in the future.

The sponsorship thing is interesting, but it seems kind of pointless. If lotus actually paid for servers and mumble, it would be much better for branding (and would cost them very little).

Whats the point in playing with east/west coast ping if match servers are central?

Because the admins wanted at least one CTF map in the map pool, and everyone hates turbine.

I didnt -frag you. I didnt look for examples, so i didnt respond.

I lot of people do lay out the reasons why they think HL is inferior very respectfully. But there are also a lot of people very eager to make jokes not just about the format, but about the players.

To a person who is taking HL seriously, and trying to improve at it, do you think there is a difference?

Everytime you go out of your way to shit on HL, you create another Infinite.

For Jarate, replace tea with beer. It actually tastes pretty amazing.

Interested to see how they actually rank players, since a number of people think its impossible to rank players using numbers alone.