tf2cc runs pugs for new players, newbie cups where you are assigned a team and a coach and get to play with and against other new players as well as a ton of other resources for getting into 6s. There is a ton of great stuff there, join the discord it is exactly what you're looking for.

newbie.tf also runs mixes every friday night where you can play some pick up games under the supervision of an experienced coach.

edit: oh you're EU. I think tf2cc is the only one of these two that has EU stuff going on.

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Those sunshine textures are just like that. IIRC the texture files themselves are missing some attribute that allows the flat textures to work properly. I have since reinstalled my OS and no longer have it, but my solution for a long time was to simply exclude the affected textures from the mod and have them be normal rather than a grainy mess.

game is a hobby man

what a crazy set of priorities

My middle school language arts teacher would regularly go on rants about how pearl harbor was an inside job. Not even that they let it happen to join the war, she was convinced that the US masterminded it and ordered the attack. She would regularly get sidetracked while teaching us about To Kill a Mockingbird and rant about it.

She did fervently believe however that 9/11 had no such fuckery going on.

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I think you're setting players up for failure in newbie spaces if you aren't strictly enforcing meta play. In my mind you have to crawl before you can run. The goal of these spaces is to set new players up for success in the 6s community and one way that's done is by restricting the amount of situations that they're going to see early. Being brand new to 6s is very daunting and there is a ton to learn before you can start getting dubs (the fun part). Most new players I have worked with have trouble with the idea of a soldier bomb, or a flank, or holding a door, or even using voice comms. They need a place to get reps in so that they can start to understand the nuances of these simple interactions that better players take for granted. Throwing pyros in the mix is just too much.

Once they have an understanding of the basic concepts in meta 6s, they can start being exposed to the more niche ones. Offclass play is weird, and trying to get the average newbie pug player to adapt to a heavy or whatever in a push is just going to be frustrating.

That said, its obviously not immediately frustrating for that heavy player. They get the cool dopamine hit off the kills/ W/ successful push/ whatever. They however are not learning the absolute basics and will be completely lost when thrown into a more standard game of 6s. These are the players that join tf2center and are immediately mad when the other team just rotates away from them on heavy. It will hinder their ability to find a team, it will stunt their improvement, and make them worse in the long term. It is unfun to be bad.

Off-meta play is super cool and something that I like seeing in league play, but its only ever really fun when both teams understand the implications of what is happening and have the tools that they need to make adjustments. Most new players do not yet have the tools to make on the fly adjustments at that level and will just get stomped by a heavy/ pyro/ sniper for 30 minutes and learn nothing. They leave frustrated and nobody wins.

Game is just super different and the pubbers complaining are far less invested than you would think. Its mostly kids who are having a laugh and being wrong on the internet without thinking about it very hard.

It is annoying to see someone be really ignorant about something you care about, and getting kicked from a late night pub for having a badge/ going positive is frustrating but the stakes are overall pretty low.

If effort is to be expended addressing this whole thing it should just be done in places like tf2cc, newbie mixes or tf2center. Make the environment welcoming and fun.

A huge number of players are getting filtered anyways, try and think about when you first got into 6s. You are probably still playing despite your initial experience. The game is super niche and involves a lot of getting stomped and roasted. The players that stick around are ones that are actively seeking out a faster, more skillful experience and weirdos like zestyjesus are probably helping push people to the scene in that regard. A pubber watching one of these videos is going to have 1 of 2 reactions. They will either jump on the bandwagon and mindlessly shit on 6s because they don't care and wouldn't care anyways, or they'll be intrigued by these mythical comp players that are supposedly so good they're ruining pubs and making youtubers cry and want to be one.