https://clips.twitch.tv/ExquisiteSleepyWasabiPanicBasket

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTes8qRvfNc

Changes to weapon txt files (and VMT files?) require a restart

Changes to the VTFs can be reloaded with "mat_reloadmaterial thumbnails", though it only updates the image, not the VTF flags attached to the image (it will keep the ones from the VTF you had loaded before). Updating VTF flags requires a restart afaik
edit: after some experimentation I've come to the conclusion it should also update VTF flags

Requires sv_cheats 1. if you're playing TF2 and you're like "oh wow this one SUCKS I want to change it" just go in an offline server (or stay on the main menu), sv_cheats 1, replace the VTF with the one you want by removing the current one and renaming another, "mat_reloadmaterial thumbnails"
(example: crosshair1.vtf sucks. rename crosshair1 to crosshair1_old, rename CoolNewCrosshair.vtf to crosshair1.vtf, mat_reloadmaterial thumbnails)

his youtube channel

Found it recently because he posted a comment on one of my videos. I've been blessed by His presence

higher than I expected

23

Small intro first:
I'd always played console growing up. I got a laptop when i turned 18 and went to college. 6 years of console CoD didn't prepare me. Even for being new to M+KB and TF2 I was beyond atrocious. The following story happened probably within my first 50 hours.

After going through the first days of "backburner fun to play" and "wow scout way too hard" I decided to get used to playing demoman. I'd only played it very little so far but I didn't have any class one day and decided to grind some community servers to improve. Obviously it went terrible and I was getting very discouraged.
I left whatever 247 server I was on, gathered my courage once more and started looking for one final server before I was going to stop TF2 for the day.

Demo once again. Barnblitz defense. Round hadn't started. The perfect practise.
I took things slowly. Just looked for good trap spots along the tracks, played around a med that for some reason was eager to heal this gibus demoman with a dream whenever i'd call for med.
Enemies were kind of oblivious I noticed (just running to cart, crouching behind it and dying) so I was getting easy kills just trapping the cart. Some pyro was trying to burn me from across the map

I eventually took my first death and looked at the scoreboard. 10-1, not bad! I kept playing the way I did but eventually they capped the first point after a couple of unfortunate events. I press tab: 25-2! wow!
I was finally figuring things out. The enemies were somehow worse than me but to me it was a victory nevertheless.
The medic at this point just had a medigun up my ass and heavies and pyros just kept running into my trap on the cart. I was so happy. 42-3. Finally I was seeing improvement in my gameplay.
I was excited and steam messaged a friend, telling him what was happening and how happy I was.

Soon after something caught my attention. A soldier just running at the cart I hadn't trapped, standing behind it basically unmoving, spamming rockets at my from across the map. That one pyro did the same. Still trying to burn me from across the map. A heavy and medic soon joined them.
I knew what it meant but was hoping I was wrong. I gathered my courage, and pressed tab once more.
The scoreboard looked great. I was soon closing in on those 50 kills and they hadn't even gotten to 3rd point yet. A kill count to be proud of. But my eyes were fixated on something else. the words BOT written all over the scoreboard in the ping section. No human on the server other than me. I released tab and did a 180, staring right into the face of my pocket medic. A soulless stare met my gaze. One I will never forget.

I'd never felt so humiliated in a videogame.
I left the server, hoping to be done with TF2 for the foreseeable future.
A notification popped up: "DO YOU WANT TO ADD THIS SERVER TO YOUR FAVORITES"
no.
"DO YOU WANT TO BLACKLIST THIS SERVER"
yes.

i did not play TF2 for a week after that

Ah, my bad. Must've skipped that part. Sorry! :)

I'm really glad about the transparency and such, but I wish better methods were being used to go about the restricting. Right now it just seems like admins go through some of the players manually which takes too much time so there's very obvious cases that are being missed (as have been pointed out in this thread already)

I totally understand admins already have enough work and going through every single player's history would take way too long, but if the system currently in place allows for some players to be overlooked through sheer luck things need to be handled differently. Had they not have been pointed out in this thread, many wouldn't have been restricted all season.

Like league admin Proky having played prem sniper but being allowed to snipe in mid. AlesKee, his teammate, manages the class restriction thread. Not trying to accuse them of knowingly ignoring it but dear god that's such an oversight and shouldn't happen if the system in place was actually functioning the way it should

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198078108849

https://clips.twitch.tv/TrustworthyOnerousChinchillaMVGame

https://clips.twitch.tv/DrabLazyAppleSoonerLater

condition: everyone thinks you're a weeb

superpower: The ability to create temporary (safe, but empty) dimensions which you can travel to and from

https://clips.twitch.tv/SmokyImportantCakeHotPokket
https://clips.twitch.tv/SaltySillyTubersKreygasm

bonus https://clips.twitch.tv/StrongPlacidLEDMcaT

Are we just posting the highlights as comments? I'm alright with that because then less people visit their website
tl;dr dude played scout, heavy and pyro for a couple hours and decided heavy was best and pyro most fun.

"TF2's character designs haven't held up either. Playable characters look monotonous compared with those standards set by more recent games. Overwatch's heroes, for example, are distinct, vivid, and visually compelling."

Couldn't pick classes. The class pref system took a while and when it arrived it didn't do anything at first. Probably discouraged a lot of players

Couldn't get subs. Deal breaker, though I understand why faceit didn't want such a feature with a ladder system and money involved.

Everything else was fine tbh. I enjoyed it for the first week or so, but once the playerbase started dropping you'd often be playing with/against the same players. And it just so happened that I really did not enjoy playing with some of those players. I was already mixing daily with the Dutch circlejerk and I'd occasionally get picked on pugchamp (which generally had more keen and surprisingly more enjoyable people playing). So I stopped queueing faceit