On the plus side, the majority of the people there seem not to be wearing rose-coloured Blizzard fanboy glasses.

Which is more than I can say for a lot of media outlets I've seen reporting on Overwatch.

In other news:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.882932-No-Private-Dedicated-Servers-For-Overwatch?page=1

ffs, why does my internet always act up when there's a good tournament going on?

Reflex is very playable. It just doesn't have as many art assets as a finished game would. I'm disappointed they changed the art style though.

My point on that was referring to someone or some people's comment saying competitive TF2 players unsure about Overwatch being as fun/skill-based can join up early to influence the devs to make the game something more enjoyable for the average comp TF2 player.

The pellet scatter on certain hitscan weapons really doesn't look very fun to play with, and the game seems like it often becomes a clusterfuck of effects(a much worse clusterfuck of effects than TF2).

As for the point about TF2 players giving Blizzard feedback in order to "Mould the game into something playable by comp TF2 standards", I find that to be a little naive. The way I see it there's likely going to be as many MOBA and traditional FPS players giving "feedback" with their own agendas in mind, and for all you know they may even far outnumber the amount of TF2 players who switch to Overwatch. This of course is assuming Blizzard even takes community feedback in any meaningful sense for the purposes of balance and gameplay.

Skeej to be surrounded by mongrol men once again?

Well, 2 is more than enough if you're attempting to use crouch to throw someone's aim off. I don't think most jumps in actual games cover enough distance to warrant more than 2 airshot attempts.

When I saw the thread title I was reminded of that one line from the 'Meet the Demoman' video.

Damnit, ninja'd

I started off playing CS 1.6 with a little Q3 on the side, then Dota, then TF2, but at this point I have to say I can no longer play games that don't feature innate skill-based movement mechanics and twitch aim with the same amount of enjoyment I used to. I get that Overwatch has some of these things, but most of them seem to be push-button abilities that take no skill beyond targeting the ability.

As an aside, what the actual fuck at the guy who kills people with...sound? And I thought some of the cosmetics in TF2 were ridiculous.

Forgot to add; I really like their level design and setting, though I don't think some of their character design is that great.

I don't really recall the last major performance update being any good, so I'm not particularly excited about them mentioning it.

This is really great. I remember there was the idea being thrown around to add informative clips/mini-tutorials to casts in place of some of the SFM animations; have you considered using these pro-tips for that purpose?

Good old VTF2

Adidas(specifically their adipure line), and more of a preference: my bare damn feet.

Yes, I read 'Born to Run'.

Knoxxx, numlocked, mike, shocky, flippy, tek. At least that's what it was last I checked.