LMFAO what a joke...

Silentes outdoing Lupus by very far, and then Lupus rage quitting the team

4-25? more like 9-27

Please listen to these people. I agree with the above points.

Far too confusing in my opinion Cherry.

Any news on the server coming back ?

I haven't been able to use Saloon.tf since last night. I keep getting the 500 Internal Server error. Is it just on my side ? Any ideas when it will be solved ?

I might be confused, but i thought Classic Mixup were making a come back for this season ?

I feel that at this point Valve has to take a look in the mirror and see what they have become. They have far too much in their plate. For a service that has millions of users, there is still no reliable Customer Service, if you ever have an issue, you send a support ticket and wait up to a month for a response that might not even be the desired one.

Valve has delved in to far too many projects, Steam Home Streaming, Steam Music, Steam Workshop. Unfortunately they don't seem ready as a company to take on the responsabilities of opening so many services. At this point Valve has become the number 1 service for gaming on PC, so people have expectations to similar services such as Google Play, iTunes and so on.

For example, EA as a company is pretty despicable but at least they have a 24 refund window for any game you buy, no matter how many hours you play, as long as you ask for the refund within the first 24 hours of buying it.

Edit: Let's not even talk that the above applies to TF2, Valve has gotten their hands so full, they don't even know what to do with TF2

On one hand it's a decent solution for a massive problem that Steam has had for a long long time, but on the other hand, projects like Saloon.tf take a hit. ETF2L and other leagues might also have a problem as new players will struggle to add opponents/admins and so on.

I can't think of a different solution that Valve could had gone with though..

Limited User Accounts

This seems like a decent solution to me, in a perfect world, the ability to add friends and join groups and so on wouldn't cost a dime, but as far as i can understand it's the best solution to the massive problem that Steam has had for a while. Hopefully no more Bots adding everyone to scam.

I have seen plenty of people in other forums argue that they don't use Steam for anything but the free to play games including Dota 2 and that they have close to 300-600 hours and now they have to spend money to add friends. The way i see it, if you have spent such amount of hours, you should be more than willing to spend 5 bucks. Even the most basic meal or coffee with a snack ends up costing that.

What are your thoughts ?

If anyone wants to watch the three matches at the same time, using Multitwitch seems to be the best way.

http://multitwitch.tv/teamfortresstv/teamfortresstv2/teamfortresstv3

Link to the first picture: https://photos-1.dropbox.com/t/1/AABvuS7qZ8-FLgACnM6s9i1wvYmnJPW1HZfR-K0r-r8Taw/12/148569922/png/1024x768/3/1416531600/0/2/ss%2B%282014-11-20%2Bat%2B11.35.25%29.png/fteZgkeJ-RdE4cAlpSBGmtNdVciiypOfjwwcYO5L764

During the last update a whole bunch of new data was found regarding both the Engi vs Spy update and the Matchmaking system, both seem to be completely unrelated to each other. Found it on Facepunch, will quote the relevant bits.

From my understanding the TF2 team has also met with a few TF2Maps admins to discuss the implementation of the TF2 Map Workshop, and how to compensate the mappers (currently, the mappers only get the value Valve offers to buy the rights for the map, and a percentage of the stamps sales, both are quite low values compared to the Mics/Hats)

Seems like the TF2 team is working on a lot of stuff, should be great to see the next few months of updates.

Exciting times ahead everyone, let's hope it's what we all wanted :)

Someone on the Facepunch forums who has leaked multiple updates so far (and has always been right so far) has leaked a couple of things:

I got no confirmation on any of the information, i just read it on Facepunch myself, hopefully it will be true, if not, here is so conspiracy

First, the following was added on yesterdays update:

"competitive_victory"
{
}

"competitive_skillrating_update"
{
"index" "short" // entindex of the player
"rating" "short" // skillrating
"delta" "short" // skillrating adjustment
}

(from resource/modevents.res)

Second, he said that the following is happening:

Competitive mode
New matchmaking and ranking

I honestly thought the whole Bump Cars a missed opportunity, i wish they had recreated Mario Kart/Sonic All Star Racing in the TF2 world. The cars control very poorly, and by just changing how they control, the whole mini game would be so much more enjoyable.

Hopefully someone will be able to tweak the mechanics of the Bump Cars and make a few racing maps for fun.

Please do, i will be doing it myself. I don't have any issues with people having the option, but don't demand players to get used to a different TargetID after 7 years of getting used to the one they liked. A simple command would be great.