That's your experience. This may be surprising to you but everyone is different and reacts differently to different things. For a lot of people it just saps the fun out of it.

If you want a scene that only caters to people who like hurling abuse at each other, that's gonna severely limit who can and can't participate.

I don't think people inside the scene realise the reputation Competitive TF2 has, thanks to attitudes like Pred's and the (seemingly) overwhelming acceptance of it by the rest of the scene.

When (to outsiders) your scene is defined by racism and toxicity, the only people you're gonna be able to convince to join it are people who share those attitudes, people who tolerate them, or people who somehow avoided learning of the reputation.

If the scene starts making permanent changes like these, toward trying to stamp out those attitudes, it will become much easier to convince new players to get involved.

It's a shame it took multiple high-profile cases for people to reconsider how the competitive scene deals with its behaviour problems, but I'm glad its finally happening and hope that there's real, permanent change as a result.

All the efforts made to get new players involved in competitive are wasted until the scene can shed its reputation of being the most vile, toxic part of the TF2 community, and I wish you all good luck in doing that.

"so what we should just ban everyone who says the n-word now?"

yes please, learn to act like fucking adults

you've genuinely been deluded by the internet if you don't think there's a difference between calling someone bad at video games and throwing slurs around.

I actually asked jill about letting community servers enforce this a while back, he said he'd look into it but that it probably wouldnt work as intended

A while ago I made one of these for my own map and decided to make some for the rest of the maps.

The idea was to cut out all non-playable area and to mark capzones, spawns, and anywhere with more than one layer.

They arent perfect, I didnt get to metalworks or reckoner, and I probably wont ever do more, but I figured I'd post them anyway in case people wanted to use them for smth.

Apologies for the thin vertical ones, some maps are just oriented that way and the process for making these woulda been way more complicated if I rotated them or tried to stitch them together from closer zoom levels.

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yea they werent shown shit but VNN was hounding them for info so they just phrased everything ambiguously and he took the bait

VNN keeps citing the saxxy winners having seen the new map but they legit just played thundermountain and decided to fuck with him

it actually was solid colour briefly but people wanted the words back lol

put a timer on crosshairs

a gimmick weapon has to be worse than the base weapon when not being used for the gimmick but the RS is still just a shotgun

if it was weaker than the stock outside of the minicrits then even in pyro's situation if youre outside of airblast range the pyro just forfeit its ranged weapon being any good to try combo-ing you

Kill 6 Billion Demons is aesthetic as shit

please play my round bread map

Download: ctf_exsmol_rc1

- Statistically most popular gamemode in TF2
- Permadeath like in CSGO to make it more competitive
- Anti-stalemate features
- Small map size to make things easy for spectators/casters

Intended for 6v6, HL, Sigafoo 7v7, and Oasis mod.

http://i.imgur.com/n9ZH5mC.png

Waste had a version that worked like that too