Where do you get an engi in 6s? You might as well swap out your heavy for another one of these bad boys to ensure that both combos stare at each other while scouts fly off into the sunset

i can play usually and ive never been on a team that's made it through a season

open preferably will play CEVO or UGC or whatever

/id/_elliott

I don't think it's as much of an attempt to buff engi, as much as reduce the effectiveness of Demo/Soldier. The two are some of the most powerful pub classes, and tons of noncomp players resent that. This entire update kind of felt like a bunch of indirect nerfs or paradigm shifts for soldier. Gunboats are less effective in pubs because you can get neutered by the SC, shotgun is a lot more attractive because flying scouts, and the buffs to the banners make them look a lot more attractive for players who want to be supportive. If their goal is to make certain classes more effective for full time running, which fits their whole HL positive agenda, this buff is a solid attempt.

The SC itself isn't that powerful as an assault tool, so it's hard to pass judgement on it before it's used in some HL matches. Wrangler is still offensively powerful, and raw tanking + better DPS might still be better than hard denial to projectiles, especially with classes like heavy and spy being fairly common occurrences in HL. Valve is apparently terrified of changing core mechanics of classes 7 years in, so they have to band aid unlocks in an attempt to make classes that are otherwise ineffective (pyro) or so skill less as to be out classes by other classes in high level games (heavy, engi). The actual goal isn't bad, but I'm fairly sure valve don't know enough about HL/6s to actually approach it correctly

it's really funny to play against scouts using it

it's like trying to airshot a soldier who has air accelerate at 1000 and is strafing massively

The difference is the diamond back isn't a new strategy. It's literally getting a reward for what you were going to do anyway. If scout got a weapon that made him insta kill after getting a meatshot, it wouldn't change scout strategy, it'd just be a scout doing his job and getting a buff for doing what he was already going to do. There's better ways to buff spy, giving him a babymode ambassador isn't one.

it's banned isn't it

also where is the gunslinger + wrangler nerf

where

I wish I hadn't failed spanish II :(

so this is a prolander KotH tournament ?

pretty sure you can
DX8
mat_filterlightmaps and mat_filtertextures 1 in autoexec
set them to 0 in all class configs

that's mat_picmip 2

all of that's with stuff at min in game, higher picmip needs cheats on. Unless you actually mean LOD which I don't think because 90% of the items in TF2 have no LODs so forcing higher wouldn't actually do anything

mat_filterlightmaps 0/1 is weird. I can only get it to work if I change it while the server is already loaded. Just remove it from autoexec and put 0/1 in your class configs if you want it.

happy hanukkah :)

I'm sure there's some positive benefit to eliminating the minimum wage somewhere

video games are a pretty shitty medium for artistic expression, and the structure doesn't exist for them to be judged critically or in any way that goes beyond newspaper movie reviews.

On top of that, the way people try to make video games art is by making them movies with interactive portion. Celebrating the artistry and craftsmanship of a video game is perfectly possible, but that skill isn't shown through a movie script. Games like Journey actually tried to be art by utilizing things that were unique to video games to achieve it's purpose. Something like morrowind is great, but I wouldn't call it an example of video games as art since it's pretty shitty in the video games part. Mario 64 could be art, since it's incredibly well put together, and could not exist in it's form in any other medium. It doesn't rely extensively on cut-scenes or text to create the tension and drama of the story. It relies on well crafted game mechanics to build up to the end of the game.

You'd have worse performance using the skin

If I give you $100, do I get a ring?