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nas played since the games release on xbox so he doesnt count

So many people in this community play for the sake of playing or spectating live intercontinental LANs and the chance of seeing different regions clash. So yes I think most people deem it important.

Ok so after playing a few weeks of scrims on this plugin as medic here are my thoughts on how it affects the gameplay and the scene (making sure that im making distinguishes between these two):

I definitely have a fresh perspective coming into this because I never mained med whilst the speed buff was being used, apart from the occasional pug or so but the impression ive gotten from the lack of scout speed is that while yes, running away from mids is harder but soldiers saccing onto medics heads hasnt changed at all, in fact most of the game hasnt changed except that if you’re rolling a team 5-0, it will be slower because your medic is running after the team trying to get onto people during transitions.

This also leads into pushing on equal ubers when you get 1-2 picks; what we experienced against alot of teams was our team putting up loads of pressure on teams to the point where id have no one to heal and we ”accidentally” would find ourselves having disadd and push into ubers because wed force the enemy medic into a more passive position with a scout to build. So playing passive definitely gets somewhat rewarded if the other team isnt that well adjusted to the new pace, which is slower.

The pace of the game is slower. That’s just a matter of fact. When a medic force would usually take you from your second to their last, now it usually rewards you on average 1 or sometimes 2 CPs. To summarize me and my teammates thoughts on this; The change didn’t seem to add much more ”fun” to the game and the reward of scouts getting nerfed comes with the cost of the overall pace of the game being slower.

Going into how this affects the scene, I don’t think it’s healthy to isolate rulesets so that they differ even more between regions. Like we already have people complain about maps like Reckoner or Metalworks being less played in their respective regions. I know people might be getting less hopeful about LANs because of corona but I definitely wouldnt want to risk an NA, AU or AS team dodging an EU LAN because theyd have to bootcamp a completely different way the game is played for a month beforehand.

If I were to predict the future I’d assume that they would reinstate the original ruleset for the next EU LAN so this kind of feels like a worthless experimental season but the changes werent controversial enough for anyone to bother making another thread begging admins to change their minds. Games just slower and it affects the international scene negatively imo.

you can acknowledge that an electorates social democratic base is growing while at the same time being aware that the majority of voting democrats are more moderate. Pretending that Bernie got the rug pulled from under his feet with his solid 30% majority is the funniest shit to hear. And don't get me wrong, I think Bernie would've been more beneficial in general because he'd probably push the democrats further left than anyone else, but I can still want Bernie to get the nomination while also acknowledging that the bigger part of the democratic electorate isn't nearly as progressive as the online political space makes it out to be.

Surprised you didn't say that "Bernie would go through with all of his promises without any form of compromise!!" in the same breath as that sentence.

Also from a european standpoint, being hyper-focused on the political record of 1 candidate while refusing to acknowledge any form of progressive evolution of said candidate's party is just being willfully ignorant. Even when talking about Biden, he literally refused to support same-sex marriage during the 2008-election, which today, is one of the democratic party's policy-cornerstones.

What kind of LARPing world do you live in where you literally call a party that's actively enabling an authoritarian President-, and a party who's electorate becomes more socially democratic every election season, -the same thing. Holy shit.

im assuming you havent read any of biden policies at all OR you’re just privileged enough that any policy driven through by either party isn’t going to have any greater effect on your life whatsoever.

Any progress is beneficial for somebody, no matter how slow it is.

just use the plugin already so the wannabe mike-mains will realize the speed buff has nothing to do with them being mechanically disabled

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I shall take you to court if you ban my friend!

are you trying to gatekeep a game that came out when you were 5?

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