It does that for me anytime i try to launch the game and there is a pending update. But it launches without telling me there is an update. Sometimes I have to close the game and wait a minute or two then it will start updating and say there is an update.

Or another idea would be any items that are not easy to liquidate (non keys, metal, craft hats, TOD tickets etc) are valued at 20-30% less than standard trading prices (like backpack.tf). Then trusted traders or sites like scrap.tf liquidate these items at a sale price in order to convert them into keys/metal which can more easily be dispersed to the winners.

38 would be nice to know what the average is...

It's funny you mention freedompop. I have 2 phones on freedompop and a WiFi thethering device. My nexus 5 also has tethering. It really depends on your area, but for me I get about 30 ping more than with my homes cable connection. The ping is steady about 90% of the time, but sometimes i could have some massive random 400 ping spikes (im usually only a couple bars of service).

Freedompop had a promotion recently where I upgraded my 2 phones to 2.5GB of 4G LTE data 100% free every month. But its on the sprint network, and again I don't get the best coverage in my area, but I've used it many times for when my Charter internet goes out which is about once every month or two.

I think for events like this though if you have a friend or family member that can loan you their phone with 4G LTE (good reception) and tethering it might be a good backup option.

Oh and just for the record TF2 uses about 100MB of data per hour, so thats plenty to use every now and then. I've played probably 10-20 hours over the last couple years of TF2 through my phone when the internet was down lol

The big question is how can this be prevented? Dynamic IP from ISP that you can reset in the event of being DDOS'ed?

Alternate internet connection, or a 200 foot cable from a neighbors house? Tethered 4G LTE connection? There has got to be a viable workaround for these kinds of events. Oh and #BringBackLAN

ISP's love to change routing randomly. I've had the same issue on and off with several sever locations.

Dallas used to ping 70-80 normally then for a couple months I was at 110-120.
Phoenix I used to ping 40-50 to and I was getting 100+ for a while on the FirePowered servers
Chicago I've had times where I'd ping 80-90 then a month on and off where I am at 120-130.

It's such nonsense and the ISP is usually clueless and unable to do anything about it.

If you are a hardcore esporter it's probably not a bad idea to run 2 connections so you can switch on and off. Run a cable/fiber connection as your main and a secondary DSL connection or something.

If you thought 120 or 144Hz was enough, well think again. Nvidia has a 1700Hz display prototype which reduces display latency to almost zero. http://hexus.net/tech/news/graphics/91943-nvidia-demonstrates-1700hz-refresh-zero-latency-display/

And here is the play of the game: https://www.twitch.tv/teamfortresstv/v/59242664?t=01h34m20s

Go to a community college your first 2 years. It will probably save you a bundle and you can always transfer to a 4 year university later.

University of Hard Knocks

lol bunnymonster

Twitch doesn't care that he was a hack dev or promoter of hacks. As long as he is not blatantly still hacking there is nothing we can do to "get him off twitch." Probably best to just let it go. Threads like this give him more attention than he deserves.

Why would you do such a thing...

LOL. It's projectile silent aimbot. You can only assume lag compensation if his cross hair at one point or another was pointed at the player. But when you have rockets coming out at 30-40 degree angles and he didn't move his crosshair to that player in the second prior or second after the rocket, its pretty easy to detect and understand that its a silent projectile hack. He has the aimbot fov cranked very high so it look blatant.

I've found a name tag and hat in the past couple weeks. Before that it was like a year since I've found anything other than a shitty weapon.