r - primary
2- secondary
q- melee

no irony intended, i'm sure

that's the loudest "silent aimbot" i've ever seen lol

never change, setsul

i cant answer the last question on the first page properly because the issue with the specialists is that they're too strong situationally and garbage the rest of the time

they did clarify when the problems were specific to competitive play

most of the ones they listed are universal though, do you really think the dds hasn't always been cancerous in pubs as well? is critacola fun and balanced in pubs too? lol

demoknight is a garbage concept to begin with so reworking how our whitelists etc work just so you can play it is a massive waste of time

Mentioning equip rates and introducing more rng to the game both trigger me but on the whole these changes have a bunch of potential. I like how valve are basically officially telling us that the eviction notice is the baby gru -- while it's a bit lame to have two unlocks that do basically the same thing just to a different extent, this game has so many weapons that it doesn't really matter at this point. Some of these new mechanics are really cool ideas as well.

That said, the gru changes as I understand them will do nothing for their main issue, which is running heavy to mid. As long as you're aware of how long it takes for your health to regenerate and ensure you don't die before that time you can still use them to bring cancer to otherwise arguably the most fun fight of every round. The crit-a-cola changes are also potentially not a harsh enough nerf but it's still better than any of the previous iterations I can recall.

If these balance changes get released with hopefully a few tweaks along with proper matchmaking fixes this game might actually not be dead quite yet.

K so I know a lot of ppl arent going to see this but I just wanted to day that since I play spy and engine the most, this balance changes suck. First of all, I run YER(your eternal reward) with the dead ringer. Might seem like a wierd combo but it works for me, a lot. Disguising with the yer is nice more since you get to skip the pain of getting the first backstabbing but the cloak reduction is ridiculous. The dead ringer already has a reduction plus this is going to mean ur a dead man with no cloak. Like wtf is 2 seconds of cloak gonna do for u. The ltranger is the only primary that might save this load out but I have a strange prof kl diamond back dude. So yea. The nerf for dead ringer sucks even more. Now when my cloak gets TR triggered I'm gonna be running to a metal source only to realise that that's not how it works anymore out of habit and then to a wm1 pyro. Shit.

going by the thread title I thought this was another sigafoo-esque cancer idea... thank goodness

yeah yeah it's 6s players fault for telling people their garbage gamemode with garbage classes is garbage and not the idiots who go around spouting shit about how good engineer is for the game

no one goes to over.gg to find people to queue with and if they do it's gm+ players

i hope you're fucking kidding
the team fortress series is incredibly original -- there were no other games even slightly like it until last year

don't forget that the biggest selling fps of 2016 is a direct descendant of tf2; sure quake's older and has inspired more stuff but tf2 was original, amazingly good for 10 years plus and has the potential to end up with an even greater legacy than quake

this is always a terrible idea but even more so when multiple regions still don't have servers