They're only the face of etf2l if the etf2l staff chooses them to be. There is no reason to think ETF2L is in any way responsible for what its players say outside of it.

Because that's what leagues are for. Competition and good players succeeding.

No, but when you're bad you stay in open like a loser. Isn't that shame punishment enough?

You can do a pr stunt like that without directly affecting the competition and other players. Could just give them both warnings and cut just Pred's winnings. Comp TF2 is dying fast enough as it is, no need to make it faster by banning two prem players and punishing 5 people hardly related to the incident monetarily.

Also stop conflating namecalling with racism.

But that's exactly the same message isn't it? And It's a really bad one if you ask me.

This disgrace makes me embarassed to play in ETF2L. This isn't just about prem, banning people for calling someone a gook puts the entire EU comp community in a bad light. The message this sends is that the biggest tf2 league in europe cares more about what people say than how well they play.

IMO the gamemode is really to blame much more than the maps. It provides no pressure for either team to commit to a push into/out of last, other than "it's 30 seconds left, we should push now or we get stalemated" for the winning team. As 5cp is now, pushing last without a huge advantage is a very big risk. Taking such a huge risk while you're already ahead just isn't strategically viable (minimising risk is always the best course of action for a team that's ahead) so the long process of sieging & trying to get an advantage to push with begins. On the other hand, while the losing team technically should be taking risks to try and get back in the game, they don't need to, because the game mode allows them to sit on their ass and do nothing, since after 10 minutes they'll just get stalemated and it's a better scenario for them than trying to make a play and lose last in the process. Sure, the maps may be choky and hard to rotate around, lasts may be bunkers, pushing out of lasts may be suicide, but making those things easier won't really change the fact that the gamemode itself is designed in a way that promotes passive playstyle.

In this regard, KOTH is a model example of how push dynamics should work, forcing the losing team to commit to a push and allowing the winning team to play safely around the point.

More likely get the mid or the enemy 2nd, put a sentry and a sniper on it, watch the enemy fail a push, get the next point because 4 of them died, repeat until last is capped. It's basically what happens on lasts in the current meta, but with roles reversed and less downtime.

It also does a thing where perfect coordination & aggressive playstyle would be rewarded, either on the midfight or for a team than can push back from 2nd or last.

I'm currently working on a gamemode that would reduce stalemates by forcing losers to push out of last. Here's a quick overview of what it does.

Each control point your team owns generates 1 "influence point" per second. Additionally your team generates 1 influence per second passively. At 1200 influence, your team wins. Capturing last also wins the game immediately as before.

This means that if your team has less caps than the enemy, you want to remedy that ASAP, because if you just park the bus, you'll lose. Of course, this in turn means that the team that's ahead can park the bus, but this isn't as unhealthy because they've earned it by winning mid/taking 2nd, and the losers are far more motivated to push out without stalling than the winners would be to push into last in the current meta (they want to play it safe, so you see those long sieges and waiting for crucial picks before pushes).

And yes, I know pushing out of last onto spire is suicidal, but the whole idea for this gamemode is based on the assumption that if you've lost mid and 2nd, you'd better pull some miracle off if you still want to win.

It's still WIP, but you can download the badlands implementation here (it's completely contained within the .bsp, no plugins needed):
http://fakkelbrigade.eu/maps/5cp_badlands_a0.bsp
I'll make a prefab and post it to workshop soon enough, so if someone wants to put it in their map, they will be able to.

This is probably redundant to what #609 said but eh

https://faceit.uservoice.com/forums/317529-platform-feedback/suggestions/20155717-the-current-ladder-system-at-least-for-tf2-does

It's not even funny anymore.

Still works for me if I do this:
map itemtest
sv_pure 2
changelevel itemtest

and then queue up for comp. TBH I'm pretty sure all the steps aren't even necessary, lmao, I just figured it out when checking if it still works.

Mechanical tweaks is what's most important to me, like make the airblast box more accurate etc
But as far as fantasy pyro gun goes:
I'd absolutely love to see phlog become quake lg with half its range (continuous straight hitscan beam) and possibly penetration to be consistent with other flamethrowers. Additionally, instead of the silly "run in with kritz and die" alt fire, magnetic blast, being a variation of airblast that only affects projectiles.
Just imagine, a pyro primary, not useless, not cancer, heavily skill based with a huge emphasis on tracking.
https://youtu.be/5rVhUdCYA1w?t=31

Fix the ft range bugs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BFm82SFsYs

I haven't seen it. Do show, please.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BFm82SFsYs
An in-depth analysis of pyro's flamethrower mechanics and bugs.

Will do.