I could totally report this guy to RGL anticheat and wait for them. I could also make a post and convince everyone not to play with him because it literally isn't fair to play with him.

It is crazy right now that not only is Still added to pugs, but so is the guy that this thread was posted about.

Really cool!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDAAplx-h9E
You can explain away some of this but I have no idea how or why he can track and flick someone at the same time. You can watch the demo too and find that he literally is clueless on how to play the game. He just happens to make his crosshair hit his target, except for when he is so off he doesn't even try to move his crosshair back. You will find very few braincells in this gameplay.

Also he is literally friends and played on the same team as this guy. He is literally in the video too.

Edit: here is the demo, but you can probably choose any demo and find some cool stuff

https://youtu.be/kiujDuGeWSY

Very powerful player. Grinds and practices before every game.

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https://steamcommunity.com/id/minaaj

This player is either cheating, or clearly an alt. I say this because they only have 1 year of history of playing competitive TF2, yet have a strange start. At the beginning of their log history you can clearly see they are either not new, or are extremely good at aiming. They have a whole host of logs that raise some questions, such as:

12/13/23 https://logs.tf/3546387#76561198403965385
12/13/23 https://logs.tf/3546398#76561198403965385
12/13/23 https://logs.tf/3546404#76561198403965385

This player started playing on this same day, and dropped these logs. They are playing against mostly newcomer/players with no experience. However, even still they are hitting above 70% acc on scattergun. Maybe they are a once in a lifetime prodigy, but I find that not very convincing.

If you look through their STEAMIDUK profile, you will find a very interesting trend. You will find that a large number of this accounts oldest friends are all vac or game banned, as you will see here:

https://i.imgur.com/w0tSvDu.png

Just by clicking through many of their friends, you will find that many of them share groups with minaaj, and who knows, maybe some are alts of minaaj. Looking at one of their friends you can even find that they share this group:

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/7KlNGS

What is very interesting about this group is that literally everyone in this group is game or VAC banned. This is very suspicious to me.
Now I am not proving anything by just raising these red flags. Looking at their demos and pointing out things that look suspicious is kinda useless unless we have their POV demos. I am just saying here that this person is very likely cheating or could be an alt of someone else.

Looking through their steam history shows that this account has been seemingly active for a while before getting into comp tf2, so is unlikely to be an alt IMO. Their own steam profile even has tons of comments calling them out for cheating.

I would encourage RGL Admins to look at the report I sent and maybe prompt some demo requests that the community can look through, as a normal player does not have all of these red flags. Maybe I am wrong that they are cheating, but it is still a big deal that an alt account was able to play the divisions they played.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HxGVzgNWxE

As a player that experienced low level pugs and climbed my way out of them, I can say that the reason why it was a good thing to not have offclasses full time is that they are just worse classes. A team trying to push with a pyro and a sniper into last with uber advantage can be very difficult. Even missing 1 scout or 1 soldier can make it much more difficult to push doors, especially into last. It becomes apparent very quickly that its literally trolling to keep offclassing like that, but low level players may know that its very cringe instinctively. I bet if you took a team that rolled out to process mid on sniper, pyro, heavy against an advanced team, they could just cap the point in your face nearly every time because these classes lack mobility or range.

Obviously no one cares about offclassing on last, but offclassing on second and mid is just worse almost all of the time. The only exceptions are sniper and spy. Obviously low-level pug snipers aren't going to be very effective, and if people play spy all the time, it is no longer effective, therefore it generally goes back to cookiecutter being the standard.

Low level players don't often know how to exploit the disadvantages of having these classes, but you can still bet that the team with the cookie cutter classes will win mid more often than the offclass team. If they can win mid more, they will generally win more. It is not a question why they teach them cookie cutter. It is because it will win them games. TF2 isn't really a game of class counters on 5CP. You play the most damaging, fastest, and highest ranged characters if you want to win and press your advantages.
If you are at a disadvantage, then the offclasses can be used effectively in very clear criteria. The offclasses themselves other than sniper don't really require any skill to be used effectively. A heavy or engineer setting up on last, a pyro airblasting the uber on maps like gullywash, a spy backstabbing a medic, or even a sniper sitting in spawn watching an angle, these all don't require much teaching or learning to be effective.

It isn't like I or most players still playing today discovered that this class composition is very effective. TF2 players from the stone age of competitive realized that it is powerful and fun to play, because soldier, demo, and scout are actually very full of skill expression, and very good at killing enemy players without also blowing up.

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I would like my twitch link changed to twitch.tv/shiningstar_tf

It was previously twitch.tv/shining_hellstar

I don't understand what you mean by "what needs to be done" or by adapt. We can't stop extremely toxic and horrible people from saying things over the internet. RGL does ban the people who are that extremely toxic, but that doesn't stop them from continuing to say those things and to harass ROL in various ways. I don't know what the "real issue at heart" is supposed to be.

Obviously ROL needs help, but what is the community as a whole supposed to do to help, or even prevent this? Mental illness does not excuse threatening others with death. We are not babysitters, and most of us are not friends or even close to ROL in the first place. We already try to exclude people that are horrible toxic and not good for the community.

Most of what I have experienced and heard about regarding ROL's pleas for help, is that they are mostly about being banned from RGL. It could be possible I am completely mistaken but, that is my experience, and with that information I obviously chose to do nothing because what was I supposed to do?
99.9% of players in this community are not like ROL, and would not threaten RGL staff members because they got banned from RGL.

A sad reality of some mental illnesses is that they don't get better with time. Sometimes they become worse and become more difficult to treat. Someone who was coping well a few years ago may struggle more in the present. It can happen regardless of what a person's life situation is like.

I don't think ROL would have threatened RGL staff and b4nny if she never got banned from RGL, but that isn't an acceptable response to a situation she put herself by her own free will. I don't think RGL can do anything. The only community leader we have other than RGL is b4nny, and I don't think he is at fault for ROL's behavior. Is b4nny supposed to have done something to prevent/stop ROL from snapping like this?

I don't think the response to ROL's posts/threats is to unban her because she will kill herself. That is very self-explanatory I hope.

Ultimately all we can do is hope she gets treatment that can help her, and for those who are actually close to ROL to support her. I don't think our community can help her by bending the rules and putting others in possible danger.

*edit - I removed parts that said ROL threatened b4nny. I don't think ROL has ever threatened b4nny with any violence. She was banned from RGL for supposedly threatening to harm RGL staff, but I have no evidence for what threatened means, and the specific staff may have actually had a vendetta against ROL. I am sorry for that.

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https://youtu.be/kqqa8fEDBgs?si=xe3lxbB-FssM7x6J&t=105

Not to derail, but I was also really sus of claps for a while, but he stopped playing so it didn't matter. I looked an older demo of his (might be worse at hiding cheats back then) and found a couple interesting things. I don't want to comment on his aim on this STV demo, but I will comment on possible walling.
https://logs.tf/2895918
https://demos.tf/621180

Video 1 - I think claps clearly sees the scout, and doubles back and looks at him through the wall. He then continues to go forward, but still looks back to see him. He shouldn't have been able to see the scout, and it could not have been called because nobody could have had vision of him from where they were looking and standing. Even if one of them saw, it doesn't explain why he looked at the scout through the wall like that.

Video 2 - Claps was fighting long enough on mid that there is no way for him to know the soldier was in valley, I did not show it in the clip, but the soldier came from spawn and hid in valley in the middle of the fight claps was taking. He did not even react until he saw him on his screen walking into 2nd point. Once he notices him, he checks valley in the weirdest possible way. I think it is safe to assume he knew the soldier was there, but it is a total mystery how he could have known. It clearly wasn't known by the rest of the team.

Video 3 - This one is just odd to me, it isn't that he is walling in this clip, it is that he should know that the demo is in cafe, and obviously is around the corner. He puts his crosshair on the wall, which a normal person would do when they are going to shoot someone that is around the corner.
For some reason though, he decides that he shouldn't put his crosshair on the wall that the demo is standing directly behind. He wants to look to the left? I'm not sure what that accomplishes, or what possible reason you would do that. There is no way he was looking for stickies. My possible explanation is that he didn't want to put his crosshair through the wall straight onto the demo.
This clip is largely speculation, and it is not really possible to find out what he was thinking from such an old demo.

I also would really like to know if Claps had an account he was playing on before this current account. That would explain a lot and would be a good defense as to how he could be so good as soon as he started playing.
Lastly, if anyone really wants to try to find something weird with his aim, either he needs to give us POV demos or someone can watch one of his stream vods.

https://www.twitch.tv/shining_hellstar

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