I liked Tagg's idea about diversifying the game modes played in competitive sixes. Or at least having a look at it and seeing if it can be done.

As he said, payload lends itself to various defence points in which it's more possible to use the offclasses.

This communication problem with Valve is the stumbling block to everything. Maybe we need some sort of collective effort from the well-known figures and high level players, to try and really push and get through to Valve in order to establish future communication, a bit like the Barons Revolt and Magna Carta...

Great...

Dunno if this section is intended for higher level players and not noob scrubs, but I'm looking for a team. I have about 600 hours, so I'm far from experienced, and have played only a few comp (HL) games. I'm looking to play with people a bit better or even who are looking to develop too.

I'm not a bad player. DM is okay ish ( usually a hugely impressive 3 k/d against invite level pubbers), but gamesense is developing (albeit not bad for my hours). Oh, and I'm 24 so would prefer a team of 18 or ideally 20 plusses. Decent ping and own a mic.

Mainly looking to play Highlander as a gateway to sixes in the long term. I'd even sell my soul and play pyro if it meant getting on a team.

In the unlikely event that the above floats your boat, hit me up.

Could always Airbnb somewhere and all sleep in the one place.

Longshot I know.

I still haven't found the perfect sens for me, tbf. I alternate between 15.1 ad everything up to 15.7, depending on whether im struggling to keep up or whether it feels too quick.

Don't most scouts play on maybe 9-15 inches though? I think Shrugger's is like 13, Yomps about 15 something and I think I read that Ruwin and Starkie play/ed on something like 17 or more, though I may be wrong.

If I have a high sens I tend to be more erratic with my aim because of the speed of it all, whereas on a lower one I tend to more guide my mouse onto enemies. I recently spent a long time trying to find the perfect sens after having about 12 inches, and I changed to 15.1 and immediately hit so many more of my shots. The downside is that if a quick enemy is close to me and running past, it's sometimes tough to turn and keep my crosshair on them, or, at least, they may find it easier if they have a higher sens.

Why would it be a problem?

15.7 inches per 360 btw.

Ha, my scout sens is like 15.7.

I tend to lose focus and go on a mad m1 spree where I hit fuck all. Usually against a slippery medic or sniper. Very embarrassing.

Twitch memes are very lame and childish.

I reinstalled the game instead of faffing.

Crosshair switchers have been a ballache from start to finish really

Thanks for your advice.

weirdly I don't seem to have an auto exec, so i'm just looking for shit randomly.

For ages I was trying to get Broesel's crosshair switcher to work, and I eventually gave up and installed this CrosshairSwitcher thing that works as like a separate program where you choose your crosshairs for each class and then it implements the changes to your TF2 folder.

Unfortunately the default crosshair I use for scout is too small on this switcher and I want to remove the whole thing. Like an idiot I just deleted the CrosshairSwitcher program on my desktop and it hasn't removed everything.

How do I get rid of all the program's effects please? Any help appreciated.

Maybe it would be better if it just stopped people coming further towards you, but didn''t actually push them anywhere. That way it could still deny ubers, albeit a nerf.

IDK, I hate it but others may not.

Quite possibly.

That said, if you really want to know how to bring new players to comp you should ask the new players, or run it through their perspective. They're the ones who will really know what brings in new players, right?

Imo there's also no substitute for Valve integration/communication; so, information on comp/getting to comp located in the actual game, maybe a bit like the twitch streams on the homepage.

With regards to hackers and also people who just leave games, maybe you could display how often players abandon or have been reported. Show this before games and so the other players can see and leave safely before the round starts.

Maybe not a perfect solution in that it doesn't punish abandoners or hackers (other than they maybe find it difficult to get games), but at least it safeguards other players and puts them in a position where they can choose to play it out or not if they see somebody flagged as risky.