I'll probably do it, twitch chat will be terrible though. Tons of OW players wondering we're calling them classes instead of heroes and shit

I wouldn't really compare their performances directly like that. lansky put up insane numbers without being the focus of the team and dealing with banny on scout who was basically in on every uber and was effectively part of the combo. I think lansky's numbers are much more impressive in that context. Not to say banny's performance is bad (he's obviously having a really good tournament) but try to keep that in mind when comparing an older roster to a newer one.

I don't think there's a way to protect the season's integrity when they made sweeping balances changes to a ton of weapons that are still allowed. That ship has sailed, unless UGC intends on utilizing server-side plugins to revert the balance changes.

On another note, UGC needs to start addressing how they intend to handle future balance patches which may influence the gameplay even more than this patch did, as well as how they intend to handle the future matchmaking update. I don't see how leagues expect to stay in their bubbles forever.

If weapons stay up as long as they do now, this change is pretty bad in some cases, and only marginally speeds up the game in others. I think it'll add some really silly situations into the game, depending on how long weapons stay up and how it works in general:

If my team wins mid, can I "juggle" the enemy team's medigun to their 2 while my team caps, so my team can have a full uber for pushing last, and a second +60%~ uber to pick up later if the push goes bad and I have to leave? This would depend on how fast someone can juggle and how small the map is

If a team off-uber pushes and trades with maybe one player left alive total, can a medic run back and pick it up before it expires?

These are just two situations off the top of my head, I'm sure there are many more. I can see a lot more kritz being used now.

However, I think this change brings up more important issues. I don't think people are really looking at the big picture. The competitive community (both 6's and HL) needs to be prepared for a lot of dramatic shifts. Valve is going to start balancing TF2 and it absolutely will impact the core gameplay that our community is based on, for better or worse. Their balance changes are aimed at their own Valve matchmaking format (whatever that may be), and the community needs to start preparing for how to handle that.

That's also completely correct. There are multiple ways to change your interp. That's how I used to adjust my interp back in 2005-2006 when bad server admins would restrict interp_ratio but not updaterate. I'd be forced to run an updaterate of 45-50 to counter my own jitter because I couldn't change my ratio.

Nowadays though you can just keep updaterate at 66 and change cl_interp to whatever useful value you want (as long as it's not bounded by cl_interp_ratio), so I recommend that method instead. Note that cmdrate shouldn't change from the server's tickrate, it doesn't really have anything to do with interp iirc (been a while).

If you're bothering to change your cl_interp manually you should always keep the cl_interp_ratio at 1 so you don't have to worry about it whatsoever. cl_interp_ratio is a leftover from old versions of the Source engine where they removed the ability to set cl_interp manually and you could only change your interp by changing your updaterate (or messing with the ratio). The server-side restrictions actually used to be perfect but they never added any more after giving back the ability to change cl_interp manually again.

The reason why soldiers use low interp is because your client-side projectiles are delayed by your interp amount (ex: cl_interp 0.3 would delay your rocket graphic coming out by 300ms). If you use high interp values as as soldier, your client-side rockets will not exactly match where they actually are. I'm not 100% sure on this though (haven't checked into it since 2009).

The way I approach my network settings is as follows:

cl_cmdrate and cl_updaterate should always be set to the server's tickrate. (66 for TF2)
rate should be set to whatever your connection can handle (50k+ is typical these days)

If you want a truly optimal interp for your own specific connection, then go play a few games in your usual environment (favorite pub server/the usual server you play 6v6 or HL at the usual times), record them locally with OBS or whatever other software and leave net_graph open the entire time. Go through your games afterwards and watch your net_graph's packets/second and look for the lowest amount you get (typically in big fights). Set your interp based on that value.

example: Bob had a night of games with his team, skimmed through it at triple speed and found that the lowest packets/sec he got all night was 44, and he had no packet loss. Therefore he would set his interp at 23ms.

The other network settings (ex: smooth) don't really matter that much for 99% of people so I wouldn't worry about it.

is TF2 67.5? I assumed it was 75, which might make the comparisons inaccurate

Soldiers running direct hit while scouts run around dominating... was hoping to see this taken a little more seriously. :/

Hopefully we can see more of these without class limits.

Really hoping you all remove the class limits entirely. It makes it much more interesting for spectators (at least for me personally), and it allows teams to change up their class composition depending on the type of strategy they want to run. I also think it might be hard to determine overall unlock balance when some of it could be innately overpowered in a 6v6 class limit format. Either way, I can't wait to watch :)

Lost my flash drive on my way home at some point. No POVs, sorry. :(

If you're screaming at the top of your lungs next to me for over 10 minutes, accidentally bump someone into covering my screen, and when I pause and ask you to move because I'm in an important game, get in my face, respond with a no, tell me to "sit the fuck down and say please", you're not an innocent bystander, you're an asshole.

I'll be sorting my demos when I get home (Wednesday) and I'll post them as soon as possible. I might be missing some though.

my teammates are retarded, locked

Epsilon vs mix^ game has been delayed (3.5~ hours from this post or so)

POST EM

https://mega.co.nz/#!pFIXEDwK!d4uchfVY6UiEVqxCc2JzegQvAXnVRQ_3Po3ZgOU9_dg