https://www.dropbox.com/s/2xdfsyhncoupbye/Maps%20for%2010-5-2013.rar

ESEA-O with some legitimate experience in it is what I like to advertise as the lowest skill range.

It's that time of the week again. 10pm EST as usual.

Tonight's entertainment comes in the form of:

We could do replays of koth_waste and old Sunshine before Phi releases the new version of Sunshine, I kind of want to give waste another playthrough.

My team was half my shitty open team and half IM+ people Munch and I know (because our pocket bailed even though we told him we were gonna be starting at 9), and we got Street Hoops as our match. It was cool to play against a team obviously better than half of us but as it wore on, the thrill of being on some sort of even footing against better players wore off hard.

I know that I'd like to play again, but I don't think we'd fare as well as we did tonight since we can't exactly summon 3 good dudes EVERY Friday we want to play so we don't get completely shitslapped if we get another team clearly miles above our coordination/DM level.

For any of you that actually have Bioshock 2:

http://store.steampowered.com/news/11567/

Basically 2K Games made some apparently massive repairs to the multiplayer (which was apparently abysmal because even with controllers you felt like you were aiming on a grid - quote from a friend of mine who actually played the MP) and unlocked all the single and multiplayer DLC content to all owners on Steam. Kinda reminds me of what old DICE did for 2142 by making the Northern Strike expansion permanently free for all remaining users on the very last update for the game.

That's legitimately really cool in this day and age. With the LIVE Marketplace shut down and GFWL on the way to shutdown this July, I wonder if any other games are going to get this kind of treatment besides Dark Souls (which is confirmed to be moving to Steamworks). Although the only other games that I can think of that run on GFWL are DoW2 and GTA4.

That's a pretty low bar to set regardless of how bad the movie is.

Some people don't play with music because they'd rather focus more on comms. Background noise can be pretty distracting whether you're aware of it or not.

Europe is the bastion of tolerance in comparison to the US.

We're looking for some backup mans to pad the roster a bit.

Someone who can be on hand to play scout, soldier, or demo would rock. Someone who can do all that and a bag of chips aka playing medic would be incredible.

Talk to me or Munch

Don't

Just don't

That's pretty much what you said.

I don't have to be angry to say that you made a baseless assumption and it's ridiculous that you assumed it was simply because people legitimately thought that Highlander is THE CHANGE THAT'S COMIN' and all 6s players who don't like it just can't appreciate it.

Why are you allowed to be a public face of TF2? This entire thread after the immediate post of "because pyro is the devil" has been thought out reasons about why people don't like Highlander and your immediate response to the thread was "DRR 6z PLAYRS R JUS JELLY AND HATIN' THAT HIGHLANDER IS DA NEW HOTNEZZ AND 6z IS OLD AND BEATEN". You just said yourself that the people who bash HL without good reason are a complete minority. You weren't minus fragged because people honestly think that 6s players are "afraid" of Highlander, you were minus fragged because you made a completely baseless assumption and said that people who didn't like HL were "haters" who couldn't appreciate the communication needed for HL. It was completely uncalled for.

Yeah I don't think there's anything else I can really do except make those image edits of what I was asking for on B and if C could be raised a floor like Kaptain suggested, it would be aight.

12:37 AM - Spirit of Massachusetts: can you gather and write me some feedback on my thread?
12:37 AM - Spirit of Massachusetts: for waste
12:37 AM - greatstalin: sure thing
12:37 AM - greatstalin: i also have the stv for it

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hivdkcnd711xwtd/20130928-2318-cp_highlands_a6b.dem

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One of the main complaints we were having was that even though we now face forward, it's still jarring to leave spawn if you're not going right. That doesn't really matter much in the face of the fact that there isn't much jumping needed to get to mid on this map in the first place (for instance all I had to do was make one jump and I was a-ok on health going right).

Other complaints were that the doors on the left side were too close together to actually differentiate as a third way to get to mid other than going through the sewers. Going through the sewers as anything except a scout or a spy completely defeated the purpose of a third route because it was painfully easy to retain height advantage.

As someone who doesn't really play roamer and someone who is just plain bad at rocket jumping, even I didn't feel like that there were enough spots for big jumps to happen. I saw Benroads do the same starting jump over and over and over again because there just wasn't anything else to do.

Everything still feels really cramped (this alludes to the ability to walk from spawn to mid and still be on time for an even fight) on mid to the point where demoman can shoot from one side of mid to the other with a slightly charged sticky/arced rollers from the cover area AND the double door area.

The fence at the holding area is a good addition, but there's just that one place to hold. There isn't anywhere else that's somewhat safe besides at spawn. The area to the left of spawn where the cannon from hydro is goes totally unused for a majority of the game from the last time we played the map AND this PUG tonight. No spy plays were used for it, no engie plays, nothing. Even forward democamping didn't really take place near there. I think that area needs to be utilized for something else, quite possibly even another flank route to mid. If that gets used and spawn is moved a little to the left, it might take more than one jump and walking to get to mid. Shwan was surprised that equalizing as soldier was completely unnecessary because a single rocket jump got him to where he needed to be with great health.

Server is back up, apparently NFO was having some datacenter trouble in chicago