i can respect valve just assuming people would know they'd give the bare minimum but it looks like some of us got too excited and now they've quietly clarified "holiday-sized" i.e clicking a green check on some workshop cosmetics & maps and maybe some minor fixes

mge is already a solved gamemode

there was an open letter sent that asked for valve to add maps outside of just halloween and smissmas, and suggested adding full-time rotation maps in a summer update
looks like valve is just gonna do that and I'm expecting bare minimum, although some new pub maps will be nice to have

https://clips.twitch.tv/ScaryShortPheasantSeemsGood-R8qPq8qCZBQBOdCS

i think this kind of goes unspoken for good reason. it's not that people are forgetting this but we're literally never getting anything better so why not focus on what can actually be changed?

This is an important distinction because half the battle is getting someone in the server, and I'm a believer that you cant even begin to teach people what advantages are, pushing vs holding, even the most basic of things if they aren't even comfortable in a server comming with 6 people on 6s classes. Newbie mixes and tf2cc seem great as not only a really easy place for people to do that but also serve as a kind of monolithic place you can just tell a pubber to go to and the rest is taken care of.

The learning past that, when you actually start to pick up on the intricacies of 6s, seems to be severely lacking with a bunch of random guides in random places. So, unlike the case with completely new players where you can just send them to tf2cc or newbie.tf, they have to already know about a certain guide or video, in which case they'd paradoxically already know the contents.
I think just a basic aggregate site with some limited searchable tags that compiles all this hidden wealth of info into a more approachable collection would do wonders instead of needing to know a guy who knows a video. Some of the vids posted here are ones that I didn't even know existed even as an established player so even though the info they have is way better than anything I could've passed off to a beginner myself, I couldn't have even recommended them, let alone learn from them myself.

totally agree that that's really important and i wish i couldve mentioned that (outside of the crouch det damage point) without losing focus on the scope of what i was trying to say
I wouldve also liked to have included something about how going deeper is not a strictly good thing and to be mindful about positioning yourself for reflashes in uber situations etc. but ultimately i just wanted to kinda pinpoint this is why jumping is good in a very direct, in-game jumps kind of way that misses some nuances

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJOwe0PuX4U

I made a video, thoughts?

https://comp.tf/wiki/Obscure
the floating health pack abover mid is such a cool idea i wish another map had it

current froyo roster :3

one of those threads where every person gets downfragged except one or two who get randomly upfragged

https://youtu.be/zQ1v8v_eXbM

theres probably a better way to get your point across here

situational, sometimes a med needs to die first other times you can ignore him, same for snipers soldiers etc to varying degrees

who's cuter?