Are there any good launch options to make the Steam client itself less bloated?

just learnt that steam supported win98 at some point during TF2's life

its crazy that it could even launch TF2 lol, those netbooks were underpowered when they came out already
One thing i remember playing in craptops is you'd get awful stutter because the FPS would drop below your tickrate, so you'd have to set a lower tickrate to avoid it

https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/849345464519735582/7567C8F00C156EA035639166E3A62CC5224D67E0/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

What's the worst PC you managed to get modern TF2 running on?

I recently was given a 2008 PC with some Intel Quad Q8300 and after putting an old graphics card on it it could actually run TF2 from linux, even with just 2GB of DDR2 RAM !
Even before installing a fps config it rarely dropped below 100 fps on Legacy OpenGL... crazy.

https://i.imgur.com/JeVnSv2.jpeg

https://youtu.be/llqP2XcxArU

cant we just have a website agregator showing all the different pug communities and sites that exist? and how active they are... (daily pugs, weekly pugs, inactive, etc)

ive never heard of this one before for instance

We verify and ban people with serious offences in the newbie pugs server
We learnt the hard way after a few cheaters got in using the identity of random ETF2L players

after a few months of inactivity we're reviving the group!

we will now have a weekly scheduled pug

• PuG Every Saturday
  
• ⏰ 20:30 CET (19:30 UTC)

there can still be pugs outside that timeframe as long as theres a runner available

https://discord.gg/XVdhGWDY9T

this is sick! good job guys

have you tried resetting your Bios to defaults just in case?

you will need tf2 installed to play this right? whats the mod size so far?

kinda crazy to ban people for who gets to play in scrims, which are not official league matches at all. Its not like RGL is setting up these scrims or hosting them themselves right?

did any of the maps get any playtests before being picked by valve?

I'm sure Valve would've added classlimits and proper anti cheat, if only we played comp MM with cheaters for a few more years. Shame on us

You will have those moments sometimes, but the most statistically likely thing to happen will be that the winning keeps winning, so you're just delaying the resolution. It can have cool moments but at the end of the day its just kinda making matches longer and delaying the resolution of a match. You can have a comeback within the 30 minute timelimit just the same as you can have it during overtime, its as if we went "but what if we had a 60 minute timelimit" because sometimes teams manage a comeback on those extra 30 minutes.

You probably noticed that many servers spoof/fake their ping on the server browser to get more visibility. It used to be just UGC and Skial but now theres tons of others too, even shounic's server does it. If you sort by ping, you will find dozens, maybe even a hundred servers or so that fake their ping for the TF2 server browser somehow in order to get shown at the top when sorting by ping, and also evading ping filters.

Other servers (Fastpath EU) even create fake servers posing as different communities completelly unrelated to each other, which all redirect to the same server. And theres also the issue of having fake players by giving bots more convincing loadouts, ping, etc.

Why is this so rampant? is there no TF2 ToS on like, not lying to players through these kind of scummy tactics on the server browser?

At this point the only decent way to browse tf2 servers are third party sites like serverbrowser.tf or mastercoms' qucikplay but the majority of players wont know about these and will either be fooled by the fake pings or dismiss the browser as pretty much unusable, hurting the legit pub servers out there...