Speaking as a med student, don't bother. You'll struggle with some of the terminology for a month or two but you'll get used to it easily. You don't need to know Latin, youll only be using a few dozen terms anyway (facies - face, paries - wall, radix - root, anterior - front, posterior - back, caput - head etc) and if you're American you won't even need those, as most of the terms are anglicized (for example the latin term would be ligamentum cruciatum anterius but the term that american doctors use would be anterior cruciate ligament). So yeah no worries you'll get the hang of it quickly without needing any knowledge of latin

You can't really disagree with that though. Would you scrim against a team that runs a permaspy or a permapyro? People wanna play 6s, not get stomped by some bored 8000h guy playing permapyro. There's a constructive way of losing, and there's losing to a team with 3 offclasses just because they're better than you in every way. Just because someone is new and not as good as you, it doesn't give you the right to humiliate them and toy with them. If you think you're too good to play a 6s class in a 6s lobby, then don't play lobbies. Don't ruin the experience for other people.

That being said, I don't think permasnipers should be banned if they're doing work since the past few seasons of prem have shown that sniper is a viable class in almost any situation, and it's something you have a good chance of encountering in serious games/officials so you should learn how to deal with it.

Shit like pyro or spy to mid is just aids though.

I play tf2 with decent frames (80-120) on an i3 laptop with an integrated GPU.

So you shouldn't be worried about running games like Isaac. You can play them on pretty much anything

It's fine it worked. I was testing it on a pub and it didnt work there. Its fine on tournament servers though :) thanks a lot

I tried this fix but my hud is so old that it doesnt even have a hudmatchstatus.res file. I made one and i pasted the element from hudobjectivestatus but it doesnt work. Halp?

EDIT nvm fixed it

I'm a scout main and I can't even play sniper :c

I completely agree with everything that you said. Pocket is the easiest position to get amazing stats on in low level games. Speaking as a person that doesnt main solly and therefore has absolutely no jumping skills and no DM on soldier, when I'm playing pocket against open dudes, all you have to do is shoot the ground in front of you and you get 400 dpm.

Another problem that I've noticed, in europe at least, is the fact that roamers in low levels essentially play pocket #2. 20% heals, stand in choke with the med, spam, ez 300 dpm.

Idunno, I guess medics in lower levels are just really biased towards healing soldiers (doesn't matter if it's the pocket or the roamer) and as long as those soldiers keep getting amazing stats, they'll think that they're great and that they don't need to change anything about their playstyle.

I've been using the same cfg and network configs for about a year now, I haven't changed anything recently

Also yeah, net graph doesn't show any choke or packet loss, it's just abnormally high ping... I guess I'll try calling my ISP. Thanks for your help

For the past 2 weeks or so, I've had massive ping issues on tf2. Normally, I have around 50-70 ping on EU servers but right now it's really unstable, constantly bouncing between 70 and 400ms. The game is literally unplayable.

My download and upload speed are fine (tested with speedtest.net, I get exactly what I'm paying for, I can watch streams in source quality with no loading etc).

My ping, measured with pingtest.net is also fine (50-ish to german servers, 60-ish to UK servers with only 2-3ms jitter).

Net_graph ingame shows no packet loss or anything like that (I can provide a screenshot if needed).

I'm not playing on WiFi, I'm using an ethernet cable directly connected to the modem.

I have unstable ping both on serveme.tf servers (not just 1 host, pretty much on every one of their hosts) and on pubs.

So what the hell is the problem? Please help me before I shoot myself...

EDIT: Ban appeal was accepted, got my ban reduced. Tbh, the majority of the tf2c staff are good people

Let's see the funniest/most bizarre bans you've gotten on TF2 related websites. I'll start, pasting my tf2center unban request

Do you have a link? I tried looking for it on youtube but i cant find it

It's alright, i wasn't trying to be aggressive either, it's just that neutral statements can sometimes come across as passive aggressive in text :)

Anyway another thing I forgot to add was, the reason I think sideshow and gecks work amazingly together is because they complement each other's style. Gecks focuses on present events, calling out frags and other events, whereas Sideshow offers a more analytical retrospective input (explaining why a push failed, calling out bad positioning or overextension from certain players that hurts their team etc). I think that, for important games at least such as finals or LAN games the organizers should strive to have 2 casters with complementing styles like that. One calling out the current flow of the game and another (an top player) offering a more in depth analysis of what's happening. It really works magically.

I was talking about the actual phrasing "they win the round, nerdrage do" instead of simply "nerdrage win the round".
Anyway I'll stop talking about this since it's a very minor thing and having a huge discussion over it is pointless

Gecks you're probably my No2 favorite caster in the history of TF2, watching you and Sideshow cast together at i55 was amazing.

That being said, I've noticed that you often use contorted phrases like "he caps the point, stark does" or something along those lines (i cant remember the exact type of phrasing since it's been months since I've seen you cast, but it's something similar to the example i provided and you use it relatively often). It's not a big deal, I'm just pointing it out since you mentioned that you wanted to iron out your flaws.

I see this happen with a lot of new roamers, where you get a ton of heals and top frag/dmg. That's not the point of roamer though, you need to be helping your scout hold the flank. If you're sitting with the combo and soaking up a ton of heals, sure you'll have great stats but your scout is going to have a hell of a time alone on the flanks. And if he gets picked off (which can easily happen, as you're essentially forcing him into a 2v1 position), that leaves your team wide open for flanking sollies/scouts.

So yeah as a lot of people have said, the points dont matter. You need to be playing your role

edit: Another thing you should be doing is jumping in on mids or in teamfights, to create space, do damage or just draw attention to yourself. This isn't a glorified role since it'll often lead to your death, but it gives your team a huge advantage. Those few seconds where everyone on the enemy team is looking at you and trying to pick you off are seconds your team can use to move forward and crush some nerds