At lower levels this is definitely true, having a medic who's in the right position and survives can singlehandedly win rounds even if the rest of the team is worse (e.g., I rang for a friend's main team and the other team forced me to medic and despite every player on our team being heavily outdamaged and having more deaths than their whole team we still managed to win two rounds because I micro'd everyone and survived: http://logs.tf/2607314#76561198059645150).

Not sure what 'baseline potential' means exactly but I will agree that in close matches medics' performances are some of the most important because it's so easy to drop players or drop uber or get caught out and lose rounds, but I would say that corresponds to the fact that medic is very easy to fuck up on. Not playing poorly does help your team but I wouldn't even say that's really carrying, if both medics are playing well it doesn't really make sense to say they are both carrying. And if one medic messes up and has a bad game and the other doesn't, it seems more fair to say the one who played poorly was holding their team back than the other medic particularly carrying.

That said, if your medic has crazy mechanics and simply doesn't die to bombers and has crazy surfs and stuff that would definitely count as carrying in my book. Strictly speaking, medic definitely has a huge skill ceiling and there is room to play optimally and never get caught out and have perfect games and arrow the enemy med and stuff like that, but I'm not sure how that compares to the carry abilities of other classes. It feels like on medic even if you are having your best game ever there simply isn't *that* much you can do so long as the other medic is playing decently, your teammates kind of have to step up and actually kill stuff even if you constantly give them uber ad pushes.

I gotta say 7s core of kaidus, raymon and thalash (starkie as well but wasn't on every iteration) has gotta be one of my favorites because it was awesome to see one core group of players reform every year and play so we'll together that they actually gave b4nny a run for his money every time. The other teams like nerdrage and full tilt were perhaps more fun to watch because they played so aggressively but I don't think any team stuck together as long or had such a definitive playstyle (albeit a tad slower than my personal liking, it won games). Epsilon was sort of before my time but I'm sure that core group of players had a similar appeal. I think 7 have a special place in my heart though just seeing them at all the iseries lans as well as the two rewinds, their grand finals were some of the craziest games I've seen and watching raymon and thalash play together is definitely a big inspiration to me. The old core of shade, blaze and b4nny was also obviously a huge inspiration as well but I feel like 7 probably takes the cake for 'favorite' just cause they were always the underdogs.

I really enjoyed playing with my boys on velocity and I feel like we kept a good core of people and improved together, but ultimately never really were able to break the 4th place curse which was a shame. Trip, sigh and I have stuck together from the Ford iterations to this season on MAL so that's been nice, always good to keep the calling and playstyles that you've developed and have them carry over without having to start over from scratch with a brand new team.

Sorry was confused I guess, when I looked into it a lot of the intel 10th gen cpu's said they were pre-order only and weren't available but that probably is more to do with bad availability rather than a set new release date. And good call I'll try to clean it out and see if I can get it stable at 4.2. I know in the past I had it running at 4.2 but it was crashing, I probably just didn't test enough settings and it needed more voltage or something. Will test that out and then see how it goes, been a few years since I properly cleaned everything out when I got a new GPU.

My 4770k I have at 4.1 ghz I believe right now and when streaming with NVENC my frames are mostly inconsistent and will go anywhere from 120-240+, will drop down on midfights and be pretty inconsistent which is annoying. I think I had it at 4.2 previously and it was definitely better FPS wise and stuff but it would crash occasionally so I turned it down. I think I'll keep with GPU encoding because TF2 isn't even much GPU strain anyways so I feel like that makes more sense. And are AMD releasing new GPU's around the same time as well or is 7/7 just Intel? Also, how much of a deal is hyper threading because it says that now the i5's have it in the 10th gen which seems pretty nice, would that be a big difference when compared to the 3600X which is also 6 core?

Westside Gunn just dropped a new project Flygod Is An Awesome God 2 (dumb name but solid music if ur into the darker/more grimey type of stuff he does, definitely reminds me of the "only build 4 cuban linx" wu tang album)

rkt is such a good sport thats the same reason he goes into the other channel after every pug he wins and says gg

also who let this kid keep changing his name smh people aren't gonna legitimately call u anything other than rocket

Wait so is lan actually happening still? Cause i feel like even if everyone wears masks (im sure the regular non tf2 degenerates from PA probably won't) it's still a pretty big risk but maybe people are willing to take it to play ViDeOgAeM

I mostly agree but I think a tank demo can carry harder than flank scout (see: habib) and single handedly win games. Even though it is WAY harder to carry on roamer a good roamer makes such a huge difference I'd say it's still above med (a good med can carry very hard as well it's just the potential for a roamer to make crazy plays every life is a lot more of a game changer than a medic simply survives and hits some clutch arrows maybe). I would even go as far as to say that in terms of actual potential roamer is slightly higher than pocket just because of all the flank plays and med picks and back caps that can be made, I would say mike and blaze did more work on roamer than they would have if they were confined to pocket (mike raped on pocket too though so hard to say). In the current meta pocket is so rarely tanked and is most useful as a buffed up player to bomb in and distract and then kill players who are caught out, with shotgun it's arguable that pocket should be higher but with current meta that's just not as good as gunboats and sinking heals into demo and combo scout. With promod though pocket 100% higher shotgun pocket has insane carry potential.

Anyways with current meta my order would be: combo scout > demo > flank scout > roamer > pocket > med

eL cLaSsIcO and Six Apes are some of my favorite team names (honorable mention to Ice Road Terror HD Remix)

Thanks for all the help Setsul. It seems like the 10th gen stuff isn't quite yet available, does that go along with new releases from AMD as well in the near future? Guess it makes sense to wait until then. In terms of overclocking I'm probably not that interested in anything too crazy but I would definitely like to get more than 240fps in tf2 while streaming ideally. Not sure how much of a performance increase there is from overclocking with these newer CPUs, but my current setup I got a hyper 212 and overclocked my 4770k a bit but didn't want to go too far and have it be unstable and prone to crash. The marketing stuff for these 10th gen intel cpus says that the turbo boost turns the clock speeds up to like 4.5 or 4.8 or whatever, which seems like a smarter idea than constantly running super high clock speed and using more energy and potentially overheating. If the performance gain from overclocking isn't too drastic (in the past I remember people said overclocking your cpu speed was like the #1 way to increase tf2 performance) I would probably just leave it stock and not have to hassle with it or deal with crashes or anything.

Are there any different considerations for streaming or for running multiple monitors? You mentioned TF2 likes fast RAM, is that a big difference? I don't currently do much video editing from being busy with school and work but in the future I would probably like to be able to do it again so maybe getting AMD for the cheaper motherboard and already supporting fast RAM and better multi-threaded performance (which is important for streaming, right? I guess GPU encoding means that's a factor too). Budget wise I won't hard limit it too tight but probably would like to spend no more than $1200 on the whole set up. Would like to get a good GPU for VR stuff in the future but not a huge consideration, think CPU and RAM and stuff matters more for TF2.

this aged poorly

Fear.

edit: not sure if this is a thing anymore but in the past teams have disabled demo auto uploading in attempt to prevent the other teams from watching demos of all their scrims and countering mids but it never really made much sense or was effective because nobody even cares enough to do that lmao

most invite teams seem to just use serveme these days, does that not have demos.tf auto upload on by default?

im confused what happened i see the rgl page says ur banned but doesn't give a reason, did u just get banned for using an alt? is that a legitimate reason to ban someone lol esea used to not care so long as u weren't on two teams at once

unless u joined an amateur team and were the biggest carry in the world and farmed everyone and ur intent was to maliciously sandbag i dont really understand what the issue is but im probably missing something

edit: nevermind the ban reason shows when you scroll down to disciplinary history lying to admins and trying to have two accounts actively playing is fair enough reason for RGL to be mad at u lol

Not a new problem just got a 240hz and now notice it a lot more. I have 16gb ram from my old pc but I'm thinking I'll probably just build an entirely new PC and keep the old one working. Not sure how much PC's cost these days, back in 2014 or whenever I bought my old one you could get a good setup for $1000 but maybe things have gotten cheaper (or more expensive?). In the past I know intel was better for single core (which tf2 is effectively) and gaming, is that still the case? Also, I'm thinking I would like to get a VR setup in the future, I assume that would mean getting a pretty decent GPU right?

casting was on point but please for the love of god dolphin can you just stop doing the 3rd person views they're so bad

even if you don't accidentally go to the wrong last it's so much less satisfying than watching the player who gets the sick med pick or caps or whatever