I happen to enjoy both 6's and HL. If someone wants to organize a night of payload with 2 rounds (one with wrangler, one without), I wonder what the time difference would be? For certain teams, the wrangler doesn't slow them down, others its a great factor.

UGC is here for the populace to play and have fun. Some take it extremely serious. I had a guy asking me what he should do about 6's and I told him to start out with UGC, since its free, get a team together that played a lot. And once he was able to get top 3 in UGC Plat 6's, then they should consider bumping up to ESEA-Open. This is a known fact that the players in UGC 6's are new to the game. I dont think that is something they should feel ashamed for. Its a natural progression to me. pub->lobby->pug->UGC 6's low->UGC 6's high->paid. Otherwise its just a waste of money.

When you start bringing Highlander into it, you are talking about a different mode of play. Its like watching invite players that are just now getting into MVM. They are enjoying themselves, having a shit ton of fun, but they really dont get it....until they play more. Such is the same with Highlander. A lot of invites are joining in HL and are enjoying it. Lets not belittle what we have. Very few are, but some are pointing fingers as if its a disgrace. Just let people have their fun. Highlander can be extremely competitive, if you dont play it then you probably dont understand. My team, the syndicate, is pretty solid and we generally practice maybe twice a week. This week its much higher because of the SNSD show match (#1 Eu HL team). So yea there is a lot of stress and pressure on it to show up and do well. If your HL team prepares and has a strong caller, it can be like a well oiled machine. It'll never be the same as 6's, but if you watch the top teams on 5cp, you can see that a lot of the same concepts are used.

Just enjoy it for what it is.

Nice video

Hmmm I guess I missed it :( Sign anyways haha

Heyo. There are a lot of people that play tf2 that are colorblind, or fully only see black and white (monocrhomatic bunny, crow, etc.). We've started up a petition that is gaining some steam. It's been up for 3 days now and already has over 400 signed up.

Generally we'd just do a black/white skin, which are easily used in pubs, but in matches with sv_pure 2 blocked it tends to stop that. So we are going to get as many signatures as possible, and then send it off to the tf2 team at valve to see if they can integrate it more fully. Currently it is only the jarate icon over the head.....which doesnt help too much.

So please sign up and give your thoughts. The more the support the better. We'll see how much they still care about glorious team fortress 2.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/562/201/339/colorblind-options-in-team-fortress-2/

Thats for sure. Scouts are used to just running around and shooting everything. So its good to have some teamwork going. Soldier with pain train can chill on the cart at times. Its never fun to get shoved into a boring role. :(

The people you play with can make or break an experience. Having someone that rages nonstop is really tough to play with and will make even a win feel like a loss.

You should check out Quakeworld Team Fortress. The original team fortress. We had bunnyhopping, grenades, multiple weapons for each class (not just 2 and a melee). Every class was viable and one person could rape the other team by themselves instead of relying on a team effort. It was incredibly fast paced and very enjoyable.

There was a map called shoop that would have on average 50 caps. The "shoop" was a thing you'd run through that would shoot you either high and far, or low and fast into their base. And then learn bunnyhopping patterns could pull flags out insanely fast. It was really fun to watch and play.

Good stuff! Keep up the good work

Teams are sometimes asked by admins and extv casters to do their matches on Sunday or Tuesday. But it tends to end up that most players have to play Monday because of school/work/esea.

I think it'd be great to get them played on Sunday/Tuesday, both teams just really want all their starters there though.

I'm dropping this in general because it can pertain to both 6's and HL.

I've heard quite a bit of people asking to hear how we do comms for The Syndicate as well as people wanting to hear the invite level comms. Streaming matches is amazing, but it only allows you to see the person streaming. I know its possible to delay streams, would it be possible to delay it 90 seconds? I ask this because STV is delayed 90 seconds (as far as I know) and then people with STV could tune in to a match and watch whoever they wanted as well as listen to comms. Or just free float.

Watching lange's stream of their first highlander match might have been the most entertaining thing I've watched in a while. sean laughing. b4nny in serious concentration. and cbear saying he wasn't sure what to do. It was just hilarious. Then the round went on and they steadily learned what to do more and more and it became easier. It would have been cool to watch from other perspectives. Lange did great as Sniper, but I'd love to see some of the funny other things that were happening.

Would anyone be willing to do the delay?

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I just finished a book a few months ago called Ready Player One. Its based in the near future where everyone is hooked into VR machines to get away from the desolation of the world. A billionaire that founded the company left easter eggs in the virtual world and whoever found them won the company.

It's FULL of gaming references, 80's trivia, etc. It was an incredibly fast read and the characters were all pretty great.
http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/030788743X?tag=teamfortresst-20

As djc has said in the past, he is one of the most negative people in the community. Put him casting a match, or talking about theory crafting and you can see his love for it. The negativity probably comes from the sadness of it "at some point" coming to an end. It just came out a little bit raw for some people that dont play in it day to day. I still think he's the man.

Best way to keep tf2 alive? Play tf2 and stop worrying about when it dies. Enjoy it while it lasts and then move on. Or be a br0 and play Modern Duty Call of Battlefield 34 and go to lans and scream like a child haha.

As the old saying goes: If you want to be the best, you have to beat the best.

Practicing on lotusclan servers all day will not really help skill. You will peak after so long. But you throw that same person into pugs and MGE, they will quickly start seeing new techniques, practice them, and proceed onto a higher plateau.

I learned this in grade school with ping pong, and finally in college I was playing a one time Romanian national champ. He was incredible and hardly missed shots. But the more I played him, the more consistent I got. It works in TF2 just the same. I would say I'm a decent Soldier and hold my own. If I MGE'd vs Ruwin or Platinum or TLR constantly for a while it would change my performance much more than if I played random pubbies in MGE.

hahah I might have to look into it. Just odd

One series I've let people borrow (about 10 times now) is Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. Everyone reads the first one and always reads the second and third books. Its pretty intense. http://www.amazon.com/The-Final-Empire-Mistborn-Book/dp/076531178X?tag=teamfortresst-20

Its set in a world where Ash falls, and certain people can "burn" metals they swallow to give them certain powers (pushing metal, pulling metal, effecting emotions, etc). Sanderson is said to be the Kung-Fu of Sci Fi because all his fighting scenes are incredibly well done. You can see it in your minds eye and it all plays out perfectly. His characters are all well rounded and you will care for each of them. Unlike other books (game of thrones) where you are happy when some die (basically everyone except *SPOILER LLOLO jk*). Its a solid series.

Some other really good series:
Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan (finished off by Brandon Sanderson)
The Hobbit (classic, but a great read) followed by LOTR