the problem with this is the same problem of "intention" in the court of law. how do you prove someone KNEW that someone was cheating? unless you literally have video evidence of them saying "my name is X and i know for a fact that Y is cheating but i will continue to play with them", which, even then, could just be called off as being sarcastic or whatever.

i do agree that people playing with cheaters should be punished, but i think just outright wiping the entire team's record and revoking all pending medal/payment/etc is punishment enough, AGAIN, unless you somehow can prove without a doubt that these people are playing together knowing the other one is cheating. The easiest way to get suspicious of a player is if you're fighting against them, there could have been cheaters on my teams in the past that I never knew about because I never bothered to sit there for hours on end analyzing their demos tick by tick... but if you're fighting against someone that you're pretty certain is cheating, you're way more likely to just start analyzing the fuck out of everything they do, sending demos to the anticheat team with ticks showing when they cheated, what types of cheats you suspect them of using, extraneous evidence like something they may have said on discord regarding cheating, or them definitively cheating in another game, etc....

imo, if you get caught cheating and are banned for it (like, there is proof BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT that you are cheating, IE aimbotting, wallhacking, NOSPREAD and other really easy to detect cheats, or if a player is just straight up spinbotting in playoffs or something... etc etc you get the point) you should just be permanently banned from rgl. rgl should go as far as to tell other leagues about the bans and convince them to ban these players too. We can talk about the AC team and how rgl doesn't have enough funding and all of these people are basically volunteering w/e all we want, but i think it is beyond evident at this point that there are just not enough people being banned despite cheating, and most of the people that seem to get banned need to be witch hunted to death before anything even happens to them -- entire divisions boycott because of how bad some of the cheating becomes. To that end, if you are cheating in tf2 so egregiously that actions are actually taken against you to prevent you from cheating any further, you should never be allowed to play the game competitively again. I don't care if player numbers are down or if doing this is too controversial or whatever... cheaters are fucking foul and they shouldn't be allowed in any game, anywhere. It's so, SO weird to me that people can get BANNED FOR CHEATING and be back playing the game in a few years. YOU CHEATED!!!!! you have no moral compass anymore, you are not a good person. who the fuck is going to trust you? don't worry coach i may have crippled my opponents and shot their knees out before our big football game, but that was like a year or two ago so that doesn't really apply anymore and i definitely won't do it again! Trust me! fuck you

sorry if this is rambly i'm drunk

whenever i re-open this thread i imagine this guy making an informational video essay about the subject with a furry avatar that smugly crosses its arms and pushes up its glasses at every opportunity

i still don't know if habib ever found that yoga girl in the video

is this you lol

https://imgur.com/a/49GCuzV

6 seconds is all it takes into the first video to realize what is going on. if you somehow don't understand it by then you should have your brain extricated from your skull so that scientists can put it on a table and study it for generations to come. if you even attempt to defend anything in the sampha video you should literally be euthanized.

also guys i've found a fascinating new clip! i can't tell if he's cheating or not because it's just so subtle, i think he might have just had a little too much caffeine or something if you know what i mean lol! Hashtag Kovaaks Bronze Players Unite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqB4SB14EDw

i don't tend to multi-post the obvious here but if you watch the first yen heavy clip in slow mo and you don't immediately realize he is cheating, you legit have something wrong with you. like your parents must have dribbled your head against the concrete for the first 6 years of your life if you don't see him vibrating his finger over his toggle key. it is SERIOUSLY baffling to me that there is any discussion here at all or that any research needs to be done. hold on guys i found another suspicious player but idk if he's cheating he might just be super cracked dudes!!! maybe he's just hyper active lol!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phx1pM3sU9A

what? no... you cannot cheat in tf2... this is a sacred game and the anticheat is flawless and all cheaters get banned immediately! any time you see these dudes dropping 50% pistol accuracy in games it's because they uhm uhm they practiced kovaaks sometimes and played mge every now and then. you guys just don't get it! haters! /s

i know that the rgl team has to deal with a metric shit ton of reports and they go very underappreciated, but seeing shit like this (and confirming everything youngblood said up there ^) is really funny from the outside looking in. i know there are no other games quite like tf2 and nothing has scratched the itch since i left, but i can't imagine seeing dudes like these every season (never getting banned, to make things worse) and somehow still taking the game seriously year after year

i understand your desire to play tf2 competitively but you have to understand just how important security is here... if you wish to prove your innocence please send rgl 3 urine samples across 3 weeks, provide blood samples to your doctor and get a full report that you can send to rgl staff, submit your social security number, full bank account information, proof of home ownership, phone number, state ID, and forfeiture of personal liberties so that the rgl wada representatives can test you for PEDs at least twice a week. if you pass these pre-registration tests you will be placed on a 6 month trial period where you can participate in seasonal matches for a chance to win playdoh and lincoln logs. if your results remain clean after the trial period you will finally be able to play tf2 for the grand prize of 25 US dollars. Game on!

fine tune your ram timings and get a better cpu, i know it's silly but if you want good performance on this awful game you need to seriously boost your single thread performance as much as possible, 6700 is probably enough for a good chunk of games even today, but for tf2 it just doesn't cut it if you're expecting very high fps. as for dipping to 30 fps, idk some seasonal maps are ridiculously poorly optimized but if that's a decent chunk of the maps (and not one or two that perform really terribly) then maybe your cpu is overheating and throttling itself like others said. starting on a clean install of windows is nice and you can debloat the fuck out of your OS if you want to, process lasso to mess with priorities, etc etc etc., but all of the little tweaks in the world won't help bottlenecked hardware. only other things i can suggest are headsfeet/no hats, dx81, and maybe monitoring your hardware temps as you're playing the game to make sure they aren't getting too hot

https://clips.twitch.tv/ClearAntediluvianHerdLeeroyJenkins-I24-N5I0EvAmqksH

the seal update caused everyone on my friends list, me included, to take nearly 3x as long to load into servers. it's genuinely insane that so few other people seem to have noticed it. for people with fast computers, 3-4 second load times are now easily 10+ seconds, but for people with slower computers like some of my friends, their old 15-20 second load times are now sometimes so long that they literally cannot join the server before it times them out. i know i don't have a solution for this but just wanted to throw my 2 cents in and say that this is, from what i understand, a universal issue caused by the latest update

a fringe overwatch player that played support for a team that barely made playoffs uses his expert divining skill to tell you what games require skill and which ones don't in regards to two characters he never played, vs two characters he also never played

OUGH

where do these people keep coming from

you don't need to have your sens be the same for every game you play, just use whatever is comfortable for you in tf2 and use what is comfortable in valorant