Uncle Noid's Nine Iron Nigger Knocker.

I had this crazy idea one day of using a driving wheel's accelerator pedal to talk. Since I'm poor and don't own one, I plugged in an old ps2 controller adapter and used joy2key to make the analog sticks configurable in mumble. So I press my foot down on the stick basically (that's on the floor!) and it toggles my ptt in mumble. Another, albeit crazy, option for you :D

I have a server with "new" mge maps. It's basically old ammomod maps I added mge spawns to. Pretty refreshing - there's a rtv in there too to rotate maps around. Oasis is actually pretty fun with mge because there's this small bit of water at the bottom you can use to super rocketjump to the moon.

If you wanna check it out, here ya go:
connect 173.243.127.205:27015

Make love to me.

also wtb spire2ez mge arena. holy heck that is pure funsies.

Tired of beta4b? I know I am.
Are there any mappers willing to start a brand new mge map with current competitive map arenas? I also have some other ideas for possible mge arenas/modes in addition to updating them.

holla atcha noid

amazing. please make more!

also, holy shit @ this surf/dodge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrTGkmJvrf4&feature=youtu.be&t=118

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex4SEAevXQQ

Based off Flame's mini scoreboard and Mannterface style - added a fresh respawn indicator/timer. Basically keeps track of anyone that has just spawned 9 seconds ago.

I can't connect to mumble. Pretty sure I hosed up my certificates because I thought that long string it gives you was an access token, so I put that in and now I'm getting the wrong certificate or password error. I did all the common resolutions to fix this and it's the only mumble I can't connect to. Is there an admin that can remove my access token from the server itself? Should be "thenoid".

My other quickfix had some serious problems. It had too many affixes. How about this trimmed down, simple version with the same ethics in mind:

Quick Fix
+150% heal rate when target is full hp
+Mirror speed/Mirror blast jumps
+Passive 8 hp/s regen to nearby teammates (this is less than dispensers, maybe a soft regen sound as you're near the med, heal radius is 2 player units from medic)
-no ubercharge

My idea behind this still is to teach new players how to play the ubercharge meta. e.g. It's the gun you're going to use when they have more than 40-50% uber advantage. The gun itself is going to teach new players what you should be doing when you have a huge disadvantage: staying alive, staying healthy, gaining positioning, and ultimately sending someone out for a force play.

My logic behind this weapon change is that we have 2 staples in our inventory to use in very specific situations: Medigun most of the time or Kritzkrieg if you have a sizeable advantage or same medic spawns. My Quick Fix fills the 3rd scenario: when you have a sizeable DISadvantage. I think most new players will probably either lose the round completely or just feed their entire team if they had sizeable disadvantage. Using this gun will not only give them a last chance but teach them what they should be doing in this scenario.

My vision is predicated on removing the stored ubercharge on dropped mediguns altogether. The way this is going to work is when your medic dies early, giving the other team a huge advantage in uber, you'll switch to quick fix to sort of rally your team. You'll use the crossbow to get your teammates up to 100% hp and the quickfix's semi crit heal overheals (150% is the equivalent of 60 hp/s, a full crit heal is 72 hp/s) to send your roamer or a scout to make a quick force/play on their medic or to just get picks for retaining a numbers advantage. When your team is able to rally and kill their med, you'll pick up his medigun and reset (you'll be at 0% when you pick it up like I said). I also decided to keep the mirror speed/blast jumps mechanic in because it'll be a more engaging way of using it to escape or go all in for the huge play.

This is the list of changes I emailed to Valve. Sometimes they listen, sometimes they don't. The recent crossbow hitsound change was in an email I sent a while back, so maybe there's hope.
Make TF2 great again.

Ah, I didn't think about that - the kritz surprise. I guess it needs a bigger downside then. How bout the downside is if they run kritz, it makes your uber charge SLIGHTLY slower OR the solemn vow simply doesn't track a kritz unless one has been deployed previously. So you still keep the tactics in tact (tm) and retain all of the usefulness of tracking them.

Well I think at least in my iteration, it has more of a direct purpose. Instead of seeing all their targetid's, you just know the medic's uber. It would be like training wheels for lower skilled players and increase the pacing of the game itself for higher skilled players.
I think it's probably less op and more of that it alienates the skill cap. It's a pretty hefty change if implemented in this way, which is why I wanted to get all the feedback.

That's why I'm making a post because I don't necessarily feel like it's balanced. But I think the addition of this reworked Solemn Vow could lead to better and more fast paced games for all levels of skill. How do you think it should be balanced then?

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