Perfect Dark! That was pretty much my favorite n64 game outside of smash bros.

I'll be getting new hardware for streaming in about a week or two, so this is awesome. Thanks a bunch!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbsRrmdRYNA

I mostly called as medic in ESEA season 6, but I really wouldn't suggest it for the reason that you stated: you can't see what everyone on your team sees because you're playing your angles properly so you don't take unneeded damage. It's still a feasible thing to do if you're the best at calling, but you need to make sure everyone comms what they see so you can call the play.

This is actually a really good idea for towel's trouble voicing his comms. Good stuff.

They tried doing that with Quake 4. They went into Quake 4 with the mindset of "Okay, Quake 2 had a great campaign, and Quake 3 had great multiplayer. Let's build ideas from what made those aspects awesome." Quake 4 was okay, but everyone hated the engine and the game just felt kind of sluggish aside from crouch sliding. The game flopped pretty hard only about three or four months after it came out, right after winter CPL.

I'm not sure if there is more of a community for games like QuakeLive other than QuakeLive itself right now -- which is not saying much at all. I'm not sure how alive Warsow is anymore, and I do know that Shootmania is the newest competitive FPS at major events, but I'm not sure how well that community is doing. Plus, Shootmania is strictly like a 1v3 clan arena, so I'm not sure if that's your thing.

To be honest, I'm not sure why QuakeLive gets so much flak for being "bad" when people begged and pleaded to have Quake 3 revived when Quake 4 started to die out. It's a more balanced and polished game than Quake 3 which actually has updates, more maps, more gametypes, and an ELO ranking system. Yeah, it's not as popular as it used to be, but I don't know if you're going to find a more active community than what QuakeLive has right now. A lot of really good duelers still play, and you can always find competitive pickup games on IRC.

Honestly, the only mandatory things you should be communicating as a medic is where you currently are and if you're being attacked. If you cannot do that, then you absolutely cannot play medic to the point where it wouldn't greatly affect your team. Other good things that you should communicate but aren't absolutely mandatory is calling when you just used uber (though you can just have the bind where it says in team chat that you ubered, but this isn't always accurate if you're trying to uber at 95% while you're under attack), what your uber percentage is, and keeping track of who has uber advantage (and by how much). The reason those aren't mandatory is that someone else could communicate all of that just fine without it being a problem. Also, if you see someone hurt who is getting out of a fight, just tell them you're in back of them and don't assume that they remember where you said you were 10 seconds ago. Depending on the situation, I might call a push when I see a great opportunity, saying something like "go in now, they are all bunched up in their yard and they are very weak." However, that's just through my intuition playing TF2 and that's not a necessity for inexperienced or newer medics.

When I think about it, it's hard to talk too much as medic. Start implementing the things above to start out. If you find it hard to remember these things, try to remind yourself or write yourself a note. Eventually, you'll get the hang of it and it'll become normal for you.

I don't wanna sound like a dick, but you didn't really mention too much about why it isn't abused more often. If its most viable use is denying the uber push until it's dead or useless (and that is a great, viable use), why isn't it abused way more often? I'm guessing because it doesn't work that often? In my opinion, when something works some of the time that ends up working really well when it does actually work, I don't really consider it broken. Honestly, I think a 450 heavy is more annoying than a degreaser pyro, and I also think that a 450 heavy has more of an effective success rate than a degreaser pyro (I will say that this is situational, but heavy is more versatile than pyro).

I was mostly comparing the fact that heavy is used for the same scenarios that pyro is used for (and more), but heavy does a better job. On top of that, Natascha heavy was abused in so many situations where heavy wasn't normally used, and it was abused to the point where it was considered a problem and overpowered. For pyro being used in roughly the same scenarios (a bit different for gravelpit C, but gravelpit C nonetheless), no one has abused the pyro degreaser enough for it to be seen as an overpowered, unfair advantage.

For the record, I'm not saying that you're absolutely wrong. The reason why I defend the issue of weapon balance and game balance is that I play fighting games competitively as well, which is dominated by the topic of balance. The reason why Akuma is banned in Super Street Fighter II Turbo in tournament play is because he had tactics that could completely lock you down and make you lose if you knew how to do them (and they weren't very difficult to perform). It got to the point where an average player could beat a professional due to his broken tactics. However, on the topic of things that are generally balanced, newer players usually say "wow, you're so cheap spamming fireballs all day" like it's an unbeatable strategy. The reason why they think it's an unbeatable or at least an unfair strategy is that they don't know how to deal with it and give up instead of learning what to do.

In my experience, dealing with degreaser pyro (or pyro in general), mostly consists of sniping pre-uber. However, ubering in a scout against the pyro and flashing a soldier to make them pop in uber vs uber situations forces it so they must split their ubers a lot -- otherwise, pyros will get focused by hitscan or a ridiculous amount of spam, which pretty much means they will get instagibbed unless flashed. Even when ubers aren't happening, degreaser pyros can be threatening and annoying, but definitely aren't a large problem or unbeatable.

/book

Unfortunately, I won't be able to make this because Winter Brawl 7 is on the same weekend. Maybe next time though, but have fun.

I'll ammomod with you zigs :3

Also, spy made CTF incredibly annoying. Did you bring the enemy flag out of their base a decent amount? No problem bro, just go spy and touch it the flag to reset the return timer. Do that about five times and eventually your team will take it home.

To be fair, I believe spies couldn't pick up the flag while cloaked (I believe it was possible at one point but it got patched). Still, pretty much the only point of spy in CTF is to reset the return timer. Regardless, I think every single class except scout and soldier make CTF annoying.

as TLR mentioned in one of these threads before, there's no movement gimmick in this game to make CTF interesting. In Quake, you had strafejumping. In TFC, you had conc jumping (sick conc jumps at that). Above all of this, ubers, sentries, sticky traps, and heavies, it makes CTF pretty boring and annoying honestly.

We've tried CTF in multiple seasons, and I don't think too many people had a good time.

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was hoping the same

Just playing devil's advocate here, but if it's so broken, why isn't it used and abused more often? The only time I ever consider it incredibly annoying is gullywash last, and even then it's still beatable.

Natascha heavy was stupid shit, and you pretty much only saw it while defending last and gravelpit C. People abused the fuck out of that until it got banned.

I don't have a problem with the degreaser, but if something is really broken or op about it, no one has done anything to abuse it to the point where it's unfair.